WEBVTT - #216 - Da Boy Dame 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:02.840 Yo, what up? This is the boy Dame representing Play 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.200 too Much CMG. Hey, man, check me out on Bootleg 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:13.680 cav podcast. Yep, it's the Bootlet CAV Show Special guests 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.439 in here from the Bay. My guy, I finally made it, Dame, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.640 the boy Dame is here, man, I made it. People 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.799 who don't know, Uh, what do you do? Because I 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.120 feel like you DJ, you A and R and you're 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.000 putting out records. What do you got a record label? Yeah? Man, 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.520 my my employment title is I'm the I'm the head 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.040 an R over at CMG with Gotti right for my 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.280 own stuff. Man, I got my own label, Play too Much, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:46.960 and I'm an artist over at Devon. So how did 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.159 you start off in the band, because you obviously have 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.239 roots in the Bay and from what I understand, the 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.000 Yogotti shit popped off because you put them on the 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.440 plow ship right. Yeah. Yeah, that was my first an 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.280 R record. Man. I started as an intern like with 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.600 you we go miss shout out to Chewy the legend, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.680 that's my legend, like my big homie Chewy. And then 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.160 from being at the station running around with Vine and 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.040 my emotion, then they talked. They forced me out of 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.680 DJ you know what I'm saying. I used to just 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.560 kind of play around on people stuff after the shows. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.679 My emotion was like, bro, don't disrespect our culture like that, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.080 like go practice how to blend and match the VPM 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.960 and stuff like that. So just getting into that, and 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.640 I started picking out local records that end up becoming 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.800 something in the Bay. So I guess they started believing 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.680 in my musical talent or records. Rod I can't stand 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.520 you the R and B record and I was picking 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.960 a bunch of B side records like plies, I'm really 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.840 from the hood. Uh, just that type of stuff to 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.280 where Vine and then was like he kind of know 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:48.720 what he talking about. They ain't give me the food, 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.320 you know what I'm saying, And uh, I realized Radio man, 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.280 them dudes, it's like it's only four spots, you know 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.840 what I'm Yeah, So I knew they was making a 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.720 lot of money. I knew them dudes wasn't about to 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.520 quit or retiring tho time soon. So I had to 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.840 make a transition. And I was also like the little 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.320 go get it dude at the station, like go get 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.840 some coffee, other go get it, like street go get it, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.080 Like we need some bitches. We artists, and yeah, we 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.400 needed something to hold us down, that type of stuff. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.440 So I was building that relationship with a bunch of 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.200 the artists and gott he was one of the artists 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.120 that I went to build a relationship with. I don't 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.320 know he took a liking be men. His cousin took 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.000 a liking it to me. They invited me to the studio. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.000 Radio was already like dying out for me, and uh ship, 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:38.920 I was in Oakland. They hit me up, sent me 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.760 the address, but the studios in Burbank. You know, everybody 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.720 think California is close. It's crazy. Yeah, so I'm like, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.919 fuck it. I just got in the car and drove 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.000 out here. Then I went to the studio, had to 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.360 go walk through a bunch of Memphis niggas, and you know, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.160 they was like, play some beats, and it's when the 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:01.360 mustard was cracking, right, I'm different was out everybody one 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.600 of them. Yeah yeah, and uh so I started playing 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.480 a bunch of beats. But Bro was like he kind 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.960 of was like he wasn't feeling them. He's like, man, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.200 you got one more record. And then I called Pelow. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.920 I'm like, please send me a beat. And it ended 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.160 up being act right. Well, it's a little joke though. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.040 I think he was kind of dissing this though still 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.880 because he said, I'm going going back to the bay, recip. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.239 I think he was sending me back to the bay 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.800 like you're catching as like sending us back to the bay. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.560 But he said it in the whole room, was like, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.480 you know what I'm saying, like A and RS in there. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:32.919 I don't even know what the an R was. Back 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.720 then they all went crazy for it. So what is that? 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:39.680 Like you said you didn't know what the an R was, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:41.760 a lot of people don't know what an R was. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.760 It is the easiest way to lie and say you're 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.880 in the industry. That sounds about right, But what exactly 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.000 does an an R do? Like what is like what 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.640 is the title entail in twenty twenty two? Well, staying 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:57.240 for artists and repertoire and uh, it's different A and 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.680 RS though you got your lifestyle A and RS. What's 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.080 that me? Those are people are gonna make sure you 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.360 at all the right parties, they can get them pictures. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.160 They're gonna make you look like a sounds like a 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.920 publicist to me. It could be you know that's an 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.520 A and R. You got your creatives who like in 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.360 the studio, picking the beat, helping you with the song, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.640 getting the feature for you. That's what I'm more on, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.520 the creative an R. And then you got your ad 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.080 man's making sure you following that budget, know how to 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.719 close out your album and all that stuff. So so 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.039 like if you need to get like a side agreement 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.360 with an artist that hopped on some ship or yeah, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.040 they making sure the producer agreement is done, credits and 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.080 the lyrics. Yeah. Yeah, So it's a few different ones, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.159 but there's a few different Those are ones who actually 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.200 get salaries. Yeah. Now the ones where people be hustling, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.760 you know, they're full of ship. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.560 the easiest job to lie about through the homies. You 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.560 just entourage. I think that some perception of what an 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:04.359 an R is that maybe inaccurate, is a liaison to 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.000 get artists signed to a major label. Like if you're 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.080 in A and R somewhere, you got the power to 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.479 sign somebody. I mean, if you had a real job, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.240 you do okay, if you get it, if you had 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.640 a real like you know, I was at Motown before 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.680 I'm at CMG. Now, so like I signed artists. I 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.440 guess it's how much power you got at the label. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.480 But that's your job to help find or sign someone 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.479 to c MG. Yeah. I just did the Mazi deal. Oh, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.320 shout out to MOSEI. Yeah, MII my boy so free Mazi. Yeah. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.640 By the way, shout out to Dave and his team 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.359 because his instagram is like you never went crack. I 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.919 just saw he did a fucking promo plug for the 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:46.320 past company. I said, oh, they was working, but you 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.640 know I did Mazi. I brought a few people to 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.320 CMG that just didn't work out, but they still are 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.120 people any other West Coast folks. Uh brought ke Maaya 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.320 early really yeah yeah yeah, pre pre four hundred, yeah, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.920 pre four hundred. This was I was probably like one 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.880 of the people early people at the crib for the 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.239 for the How does it feel? You know what I'm saying, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.039 Like we broke super slept On. She's incredible, you know, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.719 she wanted the dopeest. I brought Days Loaf early. Wow, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.600 I'm talking about twelve hundred followers. Somehow, she's like one 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.880 of the most influential female rappers. Now when you hear 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.920 all these when you hear all these new girls, I'm like, damn, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.320 this sounds like a fake as day Loaf is my 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.720 heart thought. I talked to Loaf all the time, So yeah, 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.760 she's dope. She should be back at it soon. Who 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.039 else we brought over there? You know, me and God. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:33.920 He got this thing when people get hot, we check 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.520 our dms to see if they hit us got you 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.520 The majority of the times like they reached out, They 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.680 reached out. We might have just missed it or just 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.120 like we had the convo but it didn't turn into 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.680 nothing right right? Well, God, he's also doing these deals 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.080 where he's just like fucking on Instagram handing some of 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:55.960 like a million dollars got a different time, Christ, Yeah, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.480 I want to know it's all that cash recoupable? That's yo, Gotti. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.279 Question that like I just handed you three hundred thousand 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.240 dollars in cash, not not a wire, not a check. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.200 Does this go over? Is this part of our ballance? 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.280 But you know, if Bro believe in you, he all 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.920 that stuff handled later, right Like I had the time? 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.120 Got he doing stuff with people before they even signed 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.760 So yeah, no, I mean I know, like the last 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.160 time I was in the studio with him, he just 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.680 had like a SoundCloud playlist. He was just new ship. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.680 He was fucking like undiscovered people. Yeah nah, he owned it. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.560 Man our our A and R team is it ain't big, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.600 but it's it's we We solidified like it's me CMG 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.960 Breezy CMGB. And then even like little Bella over an interscope, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.760 like our little sit, she'd be on her ship too, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.760 uh for you like uh obviously being a West Coast 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.800 guy coming into such a dope position, a prominent position 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.360 with us. I guess the Southern label if you would 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.600 call it, how important you think that is, because I 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.680 do feel like at times, really especially the Bay, the 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.200 Bay's like its own world, and sometimes it's hard to 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.000 be an artist from the Bay and penetrate the rest 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.760 of the country. Yeah, people will take the Bay sound 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.640 and make it that, make it national, you know, make 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.440 it big, you know. But in terms of like just 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:24.920 artists in the Bay area that you know, obviously, it 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.320 feels like sometimes the ceiling is is not as high 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.760 as if someone's from Memphis or someone's from Atlanta, you 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.720 know what I mean. But now that that you have 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.720 very representation and one of the hardest, you know, crews 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.439 in the game, I mean for the Bay. You know 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.000 what I'm saying, Like, sometimes it's just the artist that 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.640 we probably champion as not on because we got national artists. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.160 Yeah you got kaelin gz Go. Yeah, he's got what 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.720 I'm saying, people making it. I just think it's the 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.640 ones we champion not making it because we've seen them 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.680 like grow. You know what I'm saying. I think like 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.040 with your twenty four K, like it might look like 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:00.920 he just popped out, but like I hosted the Talent 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.440 Show with him, I didn't even pick him in the 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.760 Talent Show. They told me. Wow. You know what I'm saying. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.280 I wish I did because I probably would have been 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.559 locked in with him. But you know, it's different artists 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:13.120 who like we just seen them work a lot, you 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:14.720 know what I'm saying, Like simb but we've seen something. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.640 He was probably like our first bait when we did 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.960 the Bear your freshman list, I think he was on 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.000 that list, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, sim has 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.160 been acting for a very long Yeah. So I think 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.960 it's just you know, sometimes it's not the ones that 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.720 we all picked that actually get the shot. But you know, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.040 people who work hard, like symbol, like they still get 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.600 their shot and they got the support from the crib. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.280 That's what I say. I said, like a lot of 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.040 times people use that excuse, like lack of support from 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.280 where they're from, as like an excuse why they're not bigger, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.360 as opposed to just looking in the mirror and saying 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.440 I got to get to work, I gotta work harder. Yeah, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.840 that's the biggest It's always a reason, like I don't 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.800 got no like issues outside at the crib, like when 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.000 on some outside shit street shit. My only issues come 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.120 from artists who all who like it's my fault, it's 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.040 your fault, Like, yo, why didn't you sign me bro? Right? 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.480 That shit's crazy? That's the only big idea. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:12.120 what inspired you to start dropping records? I kind of wanted. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.000 I wanted my credit for some stuff that I was doing. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.800 And you know, when you're behind the scenes, like ain't 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.080 too many people reading credits on albums on Spotify, right, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.640 and like when you like on some NR shit like 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.880 only like industry people may know, like you might look 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.480 like you're not doing ship to the world, right, So 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.920 like I figured, like man I started doing some records, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.360 it made people start being like damn, that's bro who 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:37.880 did this or that's who you know what I'm saying. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.559 I use it as my resume technically, And then when 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.840 I looked up, I had like twelve thirteen records with 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.760 some of the hottest people. So gott he encouraged me, like, bro, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.720 you should start putting out some records. Yeah why not? Yeah? 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.319 So you were just putt because you had put together 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.440 another record. Uh two or three years ago that was 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.920 like g was on it. Who oh yeah days they 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.200 Love God in GZ. Yeah that was when I was 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.760 at Motown. Okay, okay, yeah yeah yeah yeah. So this 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.640 is like your second go round with this, Yeah, this 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.760 is my second deal. What happened? How did you get? 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.600 Like with obviously shout out to Death Jam Death Jam 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.600 doesn't have the craziest, like huge roster. It seems like 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.640 it's a very small roster. You know, take a big sean, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.199 a white g. Yeah, I'm forgetting a bunch of We 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.480 got some big But in terms of like you linking 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.800 up with them, what was what was there? Like, Like 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.480 how was that process? Uh? So I was fresh out 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:35.959 of my deal with Motown, right and man, I kind 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.520 of was trying to figure out like we was ready 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.880 to go at Motown like the songs, was ready to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.000 go the features like, and then it just got shut down. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.480 So I just went back to A and R Heavy 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.920 with Gotti and one of my boys, Halleen A and 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.440 R already Death Jam. We probably talk every day anyway, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.160 and he was like, Broll, you got too many records, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.040 like I'm over here at death Jam like they need. Yeah, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.840 you represent the street like you're music is on some 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.960 street shit like Bedjam is still a street label. So 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.480 he was like, let's see if we could do something, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.480 and TUNGEI and all them was heading over there. So 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.760 it worked out. It panned out. We got to stop 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.920 the interview real quick to tell you about our folks 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.000 at my bookie ladies and gentlemen. Motherfucking NFL season is approaching. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.760 It's my favorite time of the year, goddamn it. Good 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.440 times and the Rams versus the Bills is happening, kicking 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.000 off the whole regular season, and there's no way to 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.440 get ready for that regular season, like getting ready for 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.520 that winning season. 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It's gonna be funny that, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.400 Like now you're working with the same people. But I 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.000 think they got to run it back again. Yeah he 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.560 did what he again? Zo. I was like some people, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.240 I feel like a major label holds him back. Yeah. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.680 So like with VEZ when I first went to Motown, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.400 I was like, okay, y'all Detroit label, I mean still 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.560 motowns from Detroit. I'm like, yeah, ain't well, he ain't 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.720 got no rappers, you know, being Oakland in Detroit, Like 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.000 I know, they cracking, Yeah, Detroit, and they kind of 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.840 wasn't familiar. I'm like, Veso was just coming home, which 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.720 is like the best promo you can ever have, its 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:49.800 coming home from jail, unfortunately. But now Ethiopie was like, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.560 go get them. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, yo, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.520 they about to go up. This was before Doug, you 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.200 know what I'm saying. I think right at that moment, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.080 it's like twenty eighteen, nineteen eighteen. Yeah, yep. So he 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.480 came on from jail, signed him out the Halfway House. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.920 It was an experience for both of them. My first label, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.320 his first time being on a major. So I think 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:09.960 we were just still trying to figure it all out 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.720 together and you know, a little couple of restraints. But 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.240 when he went off on his own, he got cracking 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.400 and he went up. Yeah, yeah, they I think it's dope. Though. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.320 When he when he called me about it and he 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.760 asked me my opinion, I said, well, you know, the personnel, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.120 like I already to manage it. You already kind of 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.880 know the deal over there. So yeah, so now you 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.280 got the insight on how you should move. But now 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.320 the OPIU support her artists though, so and now got 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.800 qc co signed. Yeah know he's hard him and Kode 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:45.200 actually crazy too, super crazy rich Off pines three out 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:49.640 now shout out to my boy Viz. When it comes 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:54.680 to putting out records, everybody's always very like you know, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.680 when we think of a guy like DJ Khaled, Yeah, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.760 like does he have to pay for the features? Do 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.600 you have to pay an artist to be on a 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.040 record or is it more of like I fuck with you, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.320 here's the verse if I don't know them or if 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.800 they're not aware of my stuff, of course, like that's 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.000 just business. But like my project is damn near CMG 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.760 album time like part two? Really yeah, like I'm still CMG. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.000 Like you know what I'm saying. You got everybody on there, 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:23.640 the whole roster on there. Bad Glowrilla is TG gott 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.560 he got it, I think gott He on there twice, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.200 Doug on there twice. Yeah, the whole team on there. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.600 So will it have the CMG logo on the back 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.240 next to the deaf GM logo or is it just 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.960 deaf jam play too much? I'm always conclude CMG like 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.080 got the executive producing my album, so I mean, if 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.400 he wanted the logo on there, I'm saying CMG on 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.760 have the songs anyway, So that's I mean, shit, why not? Yeah? 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.960 But features though, now you gotta like my first record 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.920 was with Ross and G Right, I got Ross off 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.000 of DM, like, I just sent him a DM. He 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.240 did the verse, so I took care of him. I 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.600 think they still giving me like a crazy discount just 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.880 because of my affiliation with though. So you had to pay, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.280 but it wasn't like what everyone else has to pay. Yeah, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.520 I ain't paying with what they saying in the songs. Nah. Yeah. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.840 I feel like when an artist quotes what they're charging somebody, 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.960 that is like if they don't know who the fuck 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.199 you are, right right right, and you somehow got the 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.479 verse and they know you got a bag. Like if 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.719 a K pop by the way, shout out my guy, Gucci, Man, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.640 Gucci got a fucking crazy bag off a K pop 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.760 group a few years ago, shout out Spencer. But like, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.640 if it's some shit like that, it's like, oh no, yeah, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.680 let's go high, Let's go high. But for the most part, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.760 it's like it was respectable enough to me to still 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.080 shake their hand and have convo and you know what 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.440 I'm saying, lock in with them. But I only had 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.440 to pay like maybe three artists and I got seventeen songs. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.240 That's great. Yeah, yeah, I worked in my favorite the artist. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.000 You don't pay you, you cut them in a little 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.440 more on the side because you know, I still producing 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.639 A and R so you know, but like CMG is family, 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.800 we don't keep pointing, we don't keep tabs on favors 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.320 and stuff like that. So pretty much was good. And 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.840 then the rest of them is an artist from the crib, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.480 from off the base on your project. So I got 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.560 my artists on there. Uh that I about say Day's 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:15.359 Little Little Pairs. It's a female rapper. She on like 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.080 two songs, crazy songs like she on the Cipher song 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:22.199 with Simba forty and Chippers. Oh shit, I think she 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.160 could out wrap anybody. So she dope. She got sung 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.159 on there with Jack Queeze project Poppa who on my 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.720 new single with a guy in Jeezy He on there. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.080 And then I got an R and B singer, Nick k. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.200 She got a song with forty two. You're very I 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:42.120 mean it's dope that you're committed to making sure. Oh yeah, vacation. Yeah. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.200 The boy on there, he's hard now he my faan. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.159 I tell him he like ice Q when n w 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.280 A broke up, just going crazy. Yeah, just keep going, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.280 you know what I'm saying. Who else on it from 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.960 the crib. It's a few people, but now the crib 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:56.439 on there, and I just mixed it in with like 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.760 some of the legends like Calid and Drama on there 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.440 because you know clearly right of course they the foundation 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.480 of what I'm really is DJ Clue, but Clue me 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.959 is not the guy and and call it like the 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.000 jay Z of this music. I remember the first motherfucker's 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.520 dropping albums was Clue and Flex Flex had. I was 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.600 like a young I was like a kidd, Flex had 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:24.160 some crazy ship. Clue had the professional Yeah, crazy shit 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.240 like Clue record is the jay Z and Mara one 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.960 technically right, I think that was on the Professional too. Yeah, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.520 I knew who they was, but I'm saying like, no, no, no, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.520 I mean listen, Klate and Drama are like I always say, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.040 dramas are great, I mean the most important greatest hip 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.919 hop DJ ever. I'm I'm not talking about scratching. I'm 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.679 talking about what he means to the culture, what he's contributed. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.200 I mean, this guy just hosted the best Rap album 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.960 of the Year that won a Grand Tyler. You know 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.080