WEBVTT - Episode 329 "Rapsody" 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.600 Work with me here. You know bt know how it goes. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:07.920 Shout O O C T no real color what we 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.280 see the whole game, read the book something. But you 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.400 can't stand on the host. See. I already know you 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.720 can't with me because with the squad of me they get. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:22.840 They called me. He love love her, I love her. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.480 Broadcasting lie from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.400 I go by the name of Ferrari Siming. I go 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.040 by the name you know bt C T. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:31.440 Of That. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:42.120 Sound was good, the Grammy nominated man the biggest Yeah imagine. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.760 Want to say thank you for this project, thank you 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.199 for your contribution to hip hop, and thank you for 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.640 staying with it because we need you. You know, the 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.960 culture is everything. Like you like to say, please don't cry, uh, 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.680 please don't cry. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.920 Looking at me like that, what's yeah, yeah yeah. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.480 Thank you for listening to play, for giving me a 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.679 platform to share more about it. I feel good, man. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.679 I'm just overwhelmed by the love. You know, it's so 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.360 much and I want to find a way to give 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.240 it back. And they telling me like you just got 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.080 to sit in and receive right now, shorty. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.240 So I just I feel really good. Like full of gratitude, you. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.440 Know, to being in this long, you know, to have 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.080 done so much and you know to still have the 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.959 opportunity to put out more and have it received in 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.399 a way it's being received right now. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:33.440 I'm just thankful. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.280 We was in our group chat and one of the 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.479 youngins I said, we had you on the schedule one 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.080 time for Big d Rode Nation and I was like, man, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.320 I believe she's the best female MC in the country. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.760 Because they were like, oh, man, who's rap City. I 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:55.600 was like, to me, she's the best female rapper in 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.640 the country now, and I feel rapper in general. But 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.640 if I'm if I'm describing you, I definitely said I 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.120 feel that way. I feel like the world man hip hop. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.320 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know if I'm kind of curating, 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.080 like to describe you to this young man, I was 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.040 just explaining to him like, yo, like I really don't 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.440 know anybody that could rap better than you. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.320 Oh, but let's take it back a little bit. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.000 Yeah, let's take it back, because if we can't assume 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.320 everybody know you know what I'm saying, Rahap City, But 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.920 can we take it back to Snowfall? 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:28.680 Is it? 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:29.200 What was it? 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.640 What's your where I'm from. Yeah, yeah, snow Hill. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.520 Snow Yeah, Snowfall. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.000 Yeah. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.639 I like that, though I don't know if it to 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.200 apply right right, snow Hill Man, take us bank. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.400 What was it like growing up and you know, North Kakilaki. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.399 I mean it was it was slow, you know, quiet. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.640 It's one of those you know, small towns where it 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.520 ain't nothing to do really if you're not in like 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:57.880 sports or your books, you in the streets sports or anything. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.280 Yeah. I played basketball. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.440 I played basketball from age seven until I graduated high school. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:09.480 And jumper still there, it's there a little bit, yeah, yeah, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.520 one and two, one and two two. Yeah, But I 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.680 mean it was just it was easy. I played outside 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.840 a lot. You know, we rolled a lot. We have 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.720 house parties at the community or parties at the community center. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:21.360 You know. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.119 It was just country, slow life. It wasn't too much 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.200 else to it. You know, everybody in the community connected, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:34.120 everybody know each other. And yeah, that's that was growing up. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:35.720 That's the best way I could describe it. I spent 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.240 a lot of time with my cousins, you know, just 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.880 having a good time pig pickings. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.120 And they kind of introduced you to hip hop. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:49.080 Right yeah, my older cousins Dion and Kennywood Jr. I 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.640 mean I first was introduced to it myself, to like TV, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:59.000 you know, your your MTV raps, the BT video shows, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.000 the radio, like I was just sitting watching tea videos. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.080 But you know, it was like right around my older cousins, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.640 I got exposed to albums, you know, like you watch 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.240 videos on TV, but listening to the whole albums and 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.200 listen to the B sides. That was like my little 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.080 younger self in the back of the track of like 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.800 my mama like you know, take her to so and 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.680 so house and you know, they playing nads or they 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.600 playing j or they playing. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.000 Tribe or you know whatever it was. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.279 And I'm getting to experienced albums, you know, and even 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.400 the style, like they were so hip hop. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.240 So I used to watch emulate how they dressed the. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.720 Boys, you know, like the tims with the photo down tongue, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.880 the nadi Ka jackets or like my Homegirl, my older 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.640 cousin Katanian, she's you know, where swim Trucks was in style. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.120 Like I was just into all of it. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.200 But then you went to college and then you know, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.400 how did you meet the ninth wonder? Because you know, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.000 you got you signed with him and stuff like that. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.040 I met him through a friend. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.000 Are you rapping at this particular moment? Not rapping at all? 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:02.240 Yeah. I always wanted to. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.960 Be a rapper since I was like five or six, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.360 but I didn't really I understand the process of how 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.279 to become a rapper being from where I was from. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.080 You know, you grew up in a big city LA Chicago, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.040 New York. Like you meet rappers in the street, you 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.919 watch them do videos their studios in your city, like 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.119 you know, there might be a cipher on the block. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.240 It wasn't like that for me. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.920 Growing up. Everything was on TV and radio. I ain't 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:26.520 know no rappers. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.240 I never saw nobody make a video, so it wasn't 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.680 anything that was like attainable to me. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.560 But it was still a dream that I had. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.720 So, you know, I remember one day Saturday morning, I 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.719 was cleaning and I took the vacuum holes and tried 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:39.279 to freestyle. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.920 My brother told me I was wax. I ain't never 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:41.640 tried again. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.640 I didn't do it, you know, brother, he kept in 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:51.280 frail I was at that time, So you know, I 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.520 was like, well, maybe I'm not a rapping them. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.240 Even though that's what I want to be. But I 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.400 started writing poetry. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.599 So when I got to college, I was still in poetry, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.039 but I was really getting to the spoken word form 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.960 of it by watching deaf poetry jam. I met some 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.360 of my closest friends working at foot Action and just 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.680 on campus. And you know, two degrees of separation. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:14.960 Which college were you at? 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.040 North Carolina State University and Raleigh, North Carolina go with 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.400 Pat I'm a duke fan of but yeah, that was 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.960 due fan since ninety one ain't two Grant Hill, Bobby 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.240 Hurley like that era gotcha. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:33.680 So I just couldn't afford to go to do so 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.920 we started a hip hop organization on campus. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.400 So you know, we was doing like rap battles and 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.120 I would host everything. I would never be anything, but 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.040 you know, just being around them, like soaking it up, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.279 learning because you know, they would go to studios and 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.640 that was my first opportunity to see people make music 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.719 in front of me, or they have us set up 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.080 in that dorm room. We're in the house that they 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.359 were wrinting. So I was getting exposed to it and 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:57.560 I was just watching. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.039 And soaking it in. I go home and do my 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.680 thing by myself. And shadows. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.760 But one of my closest friends was also in the organization. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.560 He knew what I was doing, and we was at 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.240 the studio one day and he was just like, yo, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.560 quit being scary, getting a boog, Like we just having fun. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:12.880 Ain't nobody here to judge you. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:14.080 So I started. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.240 I recorded my first two songs, and we did a 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.720 mixtape for the organization. But one of the guys in 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.920 the group was shadowing Knife at the time, learning how 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.080 to use fruity loops, and he asked Knife just to 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.480 come meet us all listen to our music. And that's 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.880 how I met him, and he saw something in me 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.960 that was like, you know, he thought was special. He 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.280 wanted to take time and invest in, and the relationship 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.400 just blossom from there. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:38.320 Yeah. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.000 Question, did you finish college? 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:41.680 I was? 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.720 And what were you studying? 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:43.480 Accounting? 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.120 Wow? Yeah, why I'm just saying no, them classes are classic. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:48.840 I know why. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.760 And I tell people that's like one of the like 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.680 things charity and philanthropy wise, I want to do is 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.720 go back to my school and like expose kids to 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.760 more options about you know, investing, like what they're passionate about. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.640 Because they pulled me in off and they were like, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.760 you're good at Mathew High scoring, you score high and 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:07.920 that you can be an accountant. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:09.960 So I just chose. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.560 I was like, all right, you know what I mean? 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.320 Did you finish? 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.880 So I'm one crewdit credit, shove, get my diploma. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.320 Come on, come on. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.320 Something like this, mad years. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:22.360 You're gonna go back and walk. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.440 Yeah, still playing like I walked everything. And when you 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.640 when you have like UNDERNIGN credits, they let you walk. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.160 So my family's there all the things. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.400 You got that diploma now? 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:31.880 Yeah. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.000 So I went back the next semester for the UH 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.360 for the class, and my dad gave me the tuition 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.720 to pay for that class, but I spent it on 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.360 something else, to deal with music, and so I had 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.199 to drop the class. And they still don't know what 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:51.240 you spend it on, smiling like stud something I don't know. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.720 I don't even your parents your parents now, I guess 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:56.319 it worked out. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:57.360 It worked out. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.360 I believed in myself. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.439 So a question when did you start? When did you create 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:03.000 your name? 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.200 Because I created it while I was doing spoken a word? 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.680 Okay, so why did you pick this particular name. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.320 I'm a huge jay Z fan and he has this 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.319 documentary out. It's about a reasonable doubt, And in a 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.960 documentary he talked about how he became so good with 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.640 words because he used to read the dictionary because he 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.800 wanted to have a full vocabulary for his raps. So 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.880 you know, I was like, bet, I'm going to do 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:28.520 the same thing. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.840 So for like two weeks. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.560 It would didn't last that long, but I would sit 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:32.920 up at night and read the dictionary. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.319 I just picked a letters. When I got to rhapsody, 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:36.880 I loved the definition of it. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.000 It was poetry spoken with great emotion, and I felt like, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.000 even though I was doing poetry, that's still. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.240 What rap was. And so I was just like, oh, 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.280 that's flying, run with it. Take the age out. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.120 She's so good man. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.160 We got rhraps City right here on the ball of 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.320 our show Man. We'd be right back with more, back 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:53.800 with more of the Brother of Law show. We got 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.280 rahps cdy in the building. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.840 Day Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. She didnt graduate college. She 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.920 spent all her money on on the studio. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.440 Time, come on out all. I was responsible for most 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:05.720 of it. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.679 But I mean it makes sense now why people are 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.440 kind of upset with like a lot of the rap, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.319 because I don't think a lot of these rappers now 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:13.959 they read. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.080 No know or did they pretending because it's the idea 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.760 that it's not cool to be smart. But I believe like, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.679 if you make it in this game, are you successful? 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.319 You got to have some type of knowledge on you. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.280 And a lot of the ones that you that sound 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.599 like they can't read, they be knowing a lot, you 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:32.280 know what I'm saying. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.560 So do you feel like it's just not any type 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.400 of representation for like the younger generation to look up 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.920 to as far as the artists like how you was 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.480 talking about you had mc light and jay Z and 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.640 these were people that you know, we're doing it on 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.280 a high level, but was also preaching you know, the 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:48.960 intelligent part of reading. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.440 It depends on where they're getting. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.720 You know, if you're only looking at mainstream, you know, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.680 you may be limited in the representation for that because 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.640 it's just it's a certain thing that they push into 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:02.040 the top. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.120 But I think, you know, if if you look outside. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.319 Of mainstream, there's a lot of examples of amazing rappers, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.400 and you can you know that they they're intelligent and 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:12.880 they're smart and they're proud of it. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:20.160 A soul Vince Staples Schoolboy Q Kendrick J Cole, Tierra 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.679 Wag It's it's a lot. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.240 Uh So, it's just where you're getting your music from, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.680 you know, that's that's the biggest thing. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.559 So to kind of reel back a little bit to 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:38.360 what we were talking about now, yeah, sign when you 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.520 signed with Knife wonder, correct, what is your next move 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.600 after this? Because you're I know, he's assisting with the 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.600 curation of creating songs and speaking to the masses. What's 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.040 going through your brain? What are you doing now? 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.360 I mean it's one of getting better as an MC, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:01.360 you know, starting to put my brand out there as 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:02.920 an artist. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:02.920 And how do you do that? 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:04.480 You gotta put music out there. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.439 You got to promote yourself, like figure out how to 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.200 do these music videos, you know, figure out how to 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.760 get into the PR space and get interviews. It's just 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.480 like how do I expose myself? And he told me before, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.600 like it's gonna be a long road. It's gonna be 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.120 a seven to ten year road before you ever kind 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.080 of peek your head into where you're trying to be 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:27.400 and to hear that. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.800 Can be like very intimidating. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:30.960 Or discouraging or discourage. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.440 Yeah, but it was something I wanted to see that happened. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.640 Were you discourage at any moment at this particular moment. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.640 Not discouraged, frustrated you know, you have any moments you 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.640 get frustrated along the journey, but never discouraged early in 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.040 the days, Like that's the best word I could He. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:48.880 Was just frustrating. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.520 But yeah, so I mean we're in the studio just rapping, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.920 and it was like, you know, proven how good you 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.720 are and that you've proven to yourself and to the people, 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.360 like it's my first time doing it, and just really 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:07.080 taking as much direction as I can and learning the business, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.520 you know, making connections with people. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.880 Like you're very connected. I would like to say that, like, you. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:14.959 Know, never left the studio. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.720 I was a studio rap Knife would come there and 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.800 TD would pop up, and sometimes I'd be out of 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.160 at the time, he probably had like twelve artists, I'd 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.239 be the only artist in there, you know. So it's important, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.120 Like if you're gonna do it, you gotta make it 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:29.640 your life. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:30.240 You know. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.600 If he called and said anybody was come to the studio, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.160 I was there just to meet people and connect and 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.600 watch them and learn. It's the cheeks came down when summer. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.559 I remember I stayed there all day all night, watching 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.480 and record and just learning and soaking it up. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.559 So that's what it was like. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.760 You know, if Knife went to New York, he would 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.040 always extend everybody, like if y'all want to come, come, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.520 Like I remember one time, me and Sundown, one of 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.640 the members of Actual Proof, got on the China bus 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.880 first and last time I ever took the China Bus. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.640 I went to New York like just to follow him 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.040 around and watch what he did. But every everywhere he'd go, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.400 he introduced people like, this is my artist Raps, this 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.400 is my artist Hollow, this is my artist whoever. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.160 You know what I mean. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.439 And that made a difference even though they know who 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.880 I was, Like you see people enough and then your 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.600 name starts to come out a little bit, like they 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:21.840 remember you. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.440 Know, were you living at home at this time? 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:26.080 Uh. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.480 There was a period where I was living with my sister, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.480 and then I got sick and I moved home to 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.160 snow Hill. But I would drive to Raleigh, and my 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.080 mama got tired of watching me drive because I was 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.320 I would sleep at the studio and then get up 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.000 and go find a friend house to go take a 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.440 shower at and she got tired of that. So this 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.400 is when, like I think it was like right before 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.080 Obama administration. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.880 Houses was mad cheap, like full clothes. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.520 So they found me like a really nice townhome for 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:58.120 a really cheap price, and I stayed in Raleigh, you know, Okay. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.040 Yeah, I'm just highlighting that, Ryan, You know what I'm saying, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.760 because you know, some people need jobs to survive as 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.040 they try to chase their dreams. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.000 Oh yeah, I definitely did you have a job. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:07.640 Where did you work? 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.400 I was pushing sneakers that foot action. Still, yeah, I 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:12.160 was still there for that. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.280 I quit a few times, that always went back. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.360 But at least you kept. You kept. You get the 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.280 thirty percent off, so I know you're getting there getting 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:21.640 the releases so you can stay fresh. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.320 And I worked at the outlet. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.040 What about your personal life though, because this doesn't sound 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.240 like you have a personal life. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:31.520 I didn't. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.440 No relationship. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.320 Later on, but at. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.080 This particular moment, no. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.080 No, but still I still put the music first. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.960 But no love interest at the time. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.200 Though early on, no no love interest. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.240 I mean you didn't have time to think about it. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.960 I dated, but nothing really lasted long. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.400 Okay, Like I might have dated one guy for like 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.480 seven months and I found out he had a girl 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.680 at another school. You know, I meant dating another guy 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.160 for like three months, like you know, and then I 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.840 got in a really long relationship that lasted nine years. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:05.600 Okay. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.720 So yeah, okay. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.280 So you pretty much it sounds like you done with love. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.120 Who now I'm really just getting started. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:13.760 Okay. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:15.000 The beautiful thing. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.760 You go through these relationships and you learn a lot 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.040 about yourself. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.840 And the last one I learned you hear it on 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.400 the album. I learned a whole lot about myself. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.920 And I think when you know who you are and 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.240 really what you want and you attract that, I expect 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.560 good things in the next one. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.720 Do you gotta do? You gotta like a check book? 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:38.000 Like what? 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.240 Okay, I got no checkbook. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.320 Yeah, I meet who I meant you see how it 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.400 is energy, See what their ambitions are, what their personality like, 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.840 if they funny, make me laugh? 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.200 Please? You know. I ain't got no check mark. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.400 Yeah, we got a check mark right here. We got 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.240 to hit that commercial check mark. We'll be right back 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.080 with Rhapsody right here on the Baller Alert Show. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.200 We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.880 You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.040 Yo, Yo, this is Rhapsody and I'm chilling with the 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.680 Baller Alert Show on revot Beck with more. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.320 Of the Butler Alert Show. We got Rahap City in 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:15.640 the bill. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.120 Yeah yeah, please don't cry. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.719 Yeah please, Because I have a question, Okay, go ahead. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.600 How accurate is this three AM record? Because this sounds 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.600 very one hundred percent? Like, yo, I'm there with you 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.600 because I go on YouTube to watch the video and 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.280 it's twenty minutes her talking to Eric Abadu that conversations here. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.320 I want to I want to see the video. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.679 We did an unofficial live performance video. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:50.879 Yes, yeah, but the fire I still. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:51.240 Want to do one. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.240 Like while we were making the record, she was like, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.960 what we're gonna do for the video and she gave 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.879 me an idea, so I don't want to rush it, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.840 like you know, she travels the record. 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:01.960 I watch the full twenty minutes. Did it was a 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.359 good conversation. I could definitely tell mental health is a 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.520 big deal and you guys both take it seriously. But 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.880 I can tell that this was very organic. I could 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.320 tell you guys, you were speaking truthfully. You know, sometimes 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.960 people script things. This correct me for wrong. This wasn't scripted. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.040 No, I went in. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.639 Everyone wasn't. Nothing was scripted, even the one with Sonihilatan Beautiful. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.480 The difference in there did different, but they're very much 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.880 honest and authentic, much like your album. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.480 Yeah, we were shooting a. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.639 Music video the same day I did the Sona joint, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.680 and you know, it was gonna start the video. So 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.280 she's just like, I'm going to approach it as like 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.720 Sydney a reporter. But everything she asked was still spot 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.400 on and my answers were just authentic. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.160 It wasn't rehearsing. I didn't even see the questions, so 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.000 what BADU? 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:56.119 You know? 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.840 It was just like that I'm a i'm a i'm 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.199 A lead the questions and I just sat there and 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.240 it was just like, whatever came off. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.520 My head I'm going to talk about with love? 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:06.639 Yeah? 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.480 Nothing. It was just really off the fly, dopey. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.359 So who came up with that? That conversation series? Is 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:13.800 it over? 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:14.280 I hope? 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:14.800 Not? Like? 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:15.840 Are you going to do more? 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.199 We want to do at least one more. They're kind 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.119 of in chapters, so so now I was unveiling. Erica 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.200 was unconditional about love so we want to do one 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.600 more about the heal chapter what healing looks like, so 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.920 we'll see, like we got to figure out who. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.040 That person is and the calendar works. But that was 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.359 my idea. That's so built team. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.960 Yeah, Like the whole idea of this was like to 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.760 connect with people and I wanted people to get to 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.000 know me more because I never really gave. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.000 I never really let people all the way in. I 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:49.360 was kind of protecting. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.000 Myself behind them words, not hiding. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:53.320 I was just protecting myself. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.159 It was kind of hard to I mean when I 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.320 say hidden, I mean it's kind of like hard to dissect. 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.159 Sometimes you got to really listen like ten times to 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.439 really understand. So it's like hitting messages when I mean. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:05.000 Now you're completely right. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.080 If you don't understand the lyrics and breaking them down, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.359 you're gonna miss a lot of things. And it wouldn't 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.119 necessarily I can't say. It might have been a little 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.200 intentional and subconscious. I was still trying to prove a 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.280 lot too lyrically. But this time is just like I 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:20.679 just want to connect with people and I want to 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.520 be more profound and trying to have like these crazy bars, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:24.879 even though that comes out naturally. 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.439 I don't think it's as hidden, you know what I'm saying. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.240 So, yeah, I mean that's I feel like that was 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.399 kind of brought to the forefront and today because with 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.800 Kendrick versus Drake, you know, it's like a lot of 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.120 people want to easy listen sometimes and they don't want 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.280 to have to like think or they just want to 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.080 just put it on. But with kendricking and your lyrics, 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:46.960 you know, you have to kind of like really pay 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.000 attention because there are several times even in this album, 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.040 I'm like, oh what I had to listen. 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:53.760 I'm gonna get to the song, but I was like, 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.280 let me run that back. What does she mean by that? 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:57.840 You know? 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:00.520 That's the beauty of heart form? 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.000 But please don't cry. 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.800 Where did this this title come from? I mean I 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.679 was I was heartbroken at the time, and I was 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.399 I was looking on Pinterests at poems. 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.560 Heartbroken from that from that last guy, the. 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.520 Longest relationship nine year, it was one after that, Yeah, 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.439 shorter one was like a year, but deeper. 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:23.720 What happened for him? 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.840 Hey, people fall out of love and they move on, 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.760 you know, and you got to learn to accept that. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:32.320 I had to learn to accept. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:33.359 It such a mature answer. 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:41.800 Yeah, it's a real one. You know, it's an evolved one. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:42.119 But I. 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.399 But I was looking for words to describe how it 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:48.679 feels because it was I was so in it I 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.400 couldn't even speak for myself. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.000 And I came across this poem and said, please don't cry. 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.920 You won't always feel so broken, and please don't cry 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:58.240 shit out to me, because I was like, I have 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.240 been so hidden and I haven't allowed. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.960 People to see me just be human. So it felt. 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.520 Perfect instead of query and shield right there and type 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:08.159 of teams. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.440 I do feel like I definitely know you more based 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:13.040 off this project because when we do our little deep 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.000 dive I'm listening, I'm driving, I was like, yeah, I 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:16.760 like this, And I say you tricked me because when 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:20.239 I went to the YouTube to catch the video and 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.840 I saw the twenty minute conversation, I was like, oh wow, 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:25.560 this is a very open. I think a lot of 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:29.000 artists should try at least to have something similar or 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.520 do their own version of it, not to try to copy. 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.240 But I think that what you did connected me with 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.480 your music. But I think I feel like I know 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.800 you a lot more. Yeah, I didn't feel that way before. Yeah, yeah, 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:42.720 so this this was a great job. So I don't 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.440 know you and your team, shout out to y'all because 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.439 this is a great job in executing what you were 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.520 trying to purvey, because I got it. 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:55.520 Yeah. No, we were super intentional, even like the artwork 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:56.160 was crazy. 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:56.640 Yeah. 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:57.040 Yeah. 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:58.720 Who who I did was that. 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:01.040 This artist I've been. 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:04.200 Working with since twenty fifteens from Bulgaria's name is Passo. 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.680 He worked with me through the whole process from twenty 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.760 twenty till we finished it and put it out like 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.080 he was with me the whole four and a half years. 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:20.200 My manager came in like the last year. Who's your manager, Chantel? Yeah, 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:22.639 but yeah, we were just super intentional, even like in 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.480 the beginning, they had an idea, you know, based on 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:27.760 what were stream good, what were people like like let's 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.600 put the Wayne joint out, Let's put the back of 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.720 my bag out. And I sat with it during the holidays. 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:36.040 I was like, it's it don't feel right. So I 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.600 called Sherry and I was like, you know, I want 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.120 to just talk through this. I'm not saying it has 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:42.560 to be my way, but I just want to share 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:44.119 how I feel. And I was like, people know I 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:48.040 can rap, so leading with the rapping joints is nothing different. 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:50.840 I said, we got to give them something different this time, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:52.800 and they got to get to know me. And that's 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.040 why we changed the order of the songs that came out. 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:57.679 And while we were so intentional about it being like 0:23:57.840 --> 0:23:59.240 having a connection. 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:03.119 With people, anybody that you reached out to that you 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:04.760 want to know. The album that didn't make. 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:09.040 It, Yeah, Jill Scott. I wanted her on a ballot 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:11.240 of Homegirls as well as Oh. 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:12.480 My Gosh, I love that song. 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:15.680 Sorry, but I love Baby Tait too. 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:19.639 Now, No, by God, I wanted I wanted to be 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:23.080 like a home Girls plural like okay, you know, I 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:26.919 wanted it Jill Scott's Summer Walker, Ari Lennox and Baby Tape, 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:28.919 you know, just like a joint. I don't know how 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:30.560 that would have worked were in the All Stars, but 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:35.120 that would been good though. Yeah, uh who else old 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:35.920 black pop star? 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:38.280 I had a few ideas. 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:40.720 I hit up Little Sims, but she was on vacation 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:43.840 and I didn't want to interrupt that. I hit up 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:48.520 Tierra Wax, she was finishing her album. 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:49.920 I want to say. 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:52.560 I sent that to Andre three thousand and two, but 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:55.919 you know what space he was in, so uh, that 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:58.760 was really an incomplete song that I hope to finish. 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:02.199 I've landed on miss though, so I really hope we 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:04.600 can do a remix to Black Popstar and get Missy. 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:07.720 But those that's it. Everybody else, you know, we kind 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:08.040 of got. 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:11.560 Oh my gosh, man, I really want to get into 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:13.400 these songs when I'm scared because we have a commercial 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:17.160 in like two minutes, so we'll just break real quick. 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:20.960 Let's come back with more rapidy after this. Please don't cry. 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.640 First off, how did you get Felicia Rashad on there? 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.800 She's all throughout the album, beginning, middle, and end. 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:30.520 Man, Thank god, I really really really wanted her. 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:32.480 I've been a big fan of her since I was young, 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:34.919 Like people asked like, who are the people inspired you? 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:36.280 And she's always on my list. 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:39.600 I got to give that up to my manager, like wow, 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:41.159 I told her I wanted her, and she was like, 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:43.399 I thought it was like really far fetched because I 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:46.080 dreamed big. So I was like, this is what I want, 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:48.280 but we can't get her. Boom boom boom boom. She 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:51.480 was like, we're gonna get her, and she found her manager. 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:55.040 She reached out and they say yes, wow, Like I 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:59.160 was shocked and really grateful that, you know, she wanted 0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:00.960 to lend her her gifts and her. 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:02.080 Voice to the project. 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:02.920 Did you meet her? 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:06.640 I still haven't met her. Oh yeah, okay, yeah. 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:09.639 She did that part parts on a voice. 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:11.240 Memo and send it to me and I arranged it 0:26:11.800 --> 0:26:14.040 and fill in with my own voice to make the 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:15.000 story complete. 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:18.000 So that intro, what was that exactly. 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.080 Is me walking into a hair salon, a hair salon and. 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:23.760 Barbershops as well in the black community, or a safe space, 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.120 you know, it's where we go and have conversations in here. 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.159 At the time though, doing the project, I was watching 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:32.440 The Matrix a lot, and I was really really intrigued 0:26:32.440 --> 0:26:35.399 by the relationship with the Oracle and Neo, and I 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:37.679 felt like I was on my own journey, you know, 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:40.600 like Neo trying to get him to the reality and 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:43.399 escape from the matrix of what this is. And so 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:46.399 I wanted Felicia to serve as my oracle, but I 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:48.399 wanted to make it black and wanted to make it 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:51.880 human and what we all experienced, like you know, going 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.280 to the hair salon and bearing our soul and getting 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:57.560 the guys and you know, the advice that we need 0:26:57.680 --> 0:26:59.879 to walk the path, and so she give me. She 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:03.280 asked me the questions and you know, it's like pills 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:04.679 and the apple sauce and I got to go out 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:06.960 in the world and really apply it and. 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:07.640 Find my way. 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:10.760 Now I feel like, you know, it was and then 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:13.000 you know the album is riding. But I feel like 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.320 when we get to stand tall, that's like when we 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:20.119 start getting to like the meat of like the vulnerability. 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:22.240 Is just I mean, anytime you're doing an album, like 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:25.920 the sequencing, it's a trial and error process, like how 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.679 you got all these songs and it's like, Okay, how 0:27:28.680 --> 0:27:29.040 were we going to. 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:29.639 Tell the story? 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:32.480 So it goes through a process like nine pitched in 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:35.639 his thoughts, but I decided to do it myself because 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:38.840 I was really intentional about how I wanted the story. 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:40.480 It's different. It's no rules. 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:44.160 Some people sequence albums based on like the first four songs, 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:46.399 one of the best songs, that's gonna keep people, and 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:47.640 then we'll just figure out the rest. 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:51.520 I wanted to tell a story, and that's how our 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:52.159 sequence it. 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.520 So the first part half part of the project is 0:27:54.600 --> 0:27:58.280 like introspective, like I'm looking at myself. I'm looking at 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:00.440 myself as an artist, in the industry, in the world. 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:03.440 I'm asking these questions. Then the middle part is the heart, 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:05.600 where you get to stand tall and at one time 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:07.639 at three am and loose frocks, and you get to know, 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:11.000 like the emotional side of me what love looks like. 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:13.960 And in the end, it's like you go through all 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.080 this thought and then this healing, and you sit in 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:18.120 the fire and let yourself burn and then you heal. 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:19.840 And so that's where you get the back of my 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:22.600 bag and raw, and it's just like I found myself again. 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:26.199 Yeah, uh, that one time? What was that? Can you 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:29.000 break that down with that? Exactly what was about? Because 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:32.119 it's like so many different definitions in my head, but 0:28:32.160 --> 0:28:34.360 I just don't really clearly know. 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:35.840 What did you take from? 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:39.560 Was it two different scenarios or like two different things 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:40.200 that happened. 0:28:40.680 --> 0:28:41.680 It was one main one. 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:45.040 I just I spoke on another one with right, Like 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:47.480 I'm talking about one experience I had with a woman. 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:50.600 I've dated men all my life and I had one 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:52.560 experience with a woman and it kind of changed my 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:54.160 whole life, Like it was really deep. 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:58.640 But in that I talk about the married man. 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:03.360 Yeah, okay, right, and it's just like that was one 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:05.360 thing I said I would never do. But it's like, 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:07.200 how did you get here? And how did you get 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:10.800 in that predicament? And you know, it was really taking 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:16.440 accountability and looking in the mirror, you know, and you know, 0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:18.640 just being at one with like, yo, what's up with you? 0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:22.280 And you know, it just takes me back to the 0:29:22.320 --> 0:29:26.400 conversation you had with Sanai when you're talking about, you know, 0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:30.640 the accountability thing, and like everybody's going through something similar 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:33.800 to that. People are dealing with that every day. So 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:36.600 I thought that was super super dope. How you broke 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:37.080 that down? 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:42.400 I like your name number two, Yeah that's number two. 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:45.480 Yeah, but it's the first song, the second track. 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:47.680 Yeah, you're speaking to yourself. 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:51.680 Yeah, so self reflection and then. 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:55.080 You got Loose Rocks where your grandmother's going through Alzheimer's. 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:57.640 I mean it was your aunt. Okay, I'm sorry. 0:29:58.560 --> 0:30:02.080 How was that, like, you know, having to deal with 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:04.840 that in real life and then translating it into music 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:05.560 like you did. 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:09.600 Like this album was just me like really documenting in 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:12.920 real time everything I was feeling and experiencing, and so 0:30:13.080 --> 0:30:15.240 like that was a big thing, like she's a big 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:17.280 part of my life. I love her just as deeply 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.360 as I love my mother, like they wanted the same 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:21.880 to me, so, you know, having to deal with her 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:27.080 diagnosis and just seeing it take its course. My therapy 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.200 is through writing and music, and I thought it was 0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:31.080 important because I knew I wasn't the only one dealing 0:30:31.080 --> 0:30:33.160 with it, and it was just a way for me 0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:36.240 to pour out. I'm a way better writer than I 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:40.120 am like a communicator. I'm still getting better. But I 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:44.120 remember too, like I was in Dallas at s One's 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:47.600 house when I did that record, and I call her 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.760 that's what it is. As they ended up joint a 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:53.560 conversation with us, and I just remember, like if you 0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:56.560 listen hard enough, you can hear me, like my voice crack, 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:58.680 but I was crying all through that when she was 0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:01.600 talking to me. It just hit me are so you know, 0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:03.560 it was just it was just honest, and it was 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:06.840 just I feel like albums should be a reflection. 0:31:06.560 --> 0:31:08.640 Of your life, and that's just what was going on 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:09.280 in my life. 0:31:09.560 --> 0:31:12.080 And I documented it and I love the song, so 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:15.960 you know, I ain't got nothing, you know, deeper than that. 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:18.800 It's just that's how you. 0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:23.560 Just said that your communication is like not as good 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:27.760 as your writing. How are you helping that today? Like, 0:31:27.800 --> 0:31:31.280 how do you how do you practice better communication. 0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:32.840 When I say like I'm not as good. 0:31:32.920 --> 0:31:35.240 I'm still a good communicator, but I'm a way better 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:39.040 writer because you know, I get to take time with 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:42.600 my words and really be intentional and think through what 0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:44.360 I want to say and how I want to say. 0:31:44.200 --> 0:31:46.680 It and how I want to set it up. 0:31:46.760 --> 0:31:48.800 So you get it, you know, so your texts are 0:31:48.800 --> 0:31:49.880 better than your. 0:31:51.240 --> 0:31:56.960 Yeah, though I know some people that don't talk on 0:31:57.000 --> 0:31:57.640 the phone at all. 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:03.240 Okay, Yeah, just what you said expressing expressing your feelings 0:32:03.240 --> 0:32:05.120 and your emotions. 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:07.680 Like some people be like no, I get it. 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:10.240 But to me, like when I'm talking sometimes my brain 0:32:10.280 --> 0:32:13.320 moves so fast I feel like it comes out jumbled. 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:15.240 That's how I feel sometimes. 0:32:15.320 --> 0:32:18.320 How does someone get your attention? If are you looking 0:32:18.360 --> 0:32:19.680 for love or relationship? 0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:21.720 I'm not. 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:26.400 I'm just focusing on me, Okay, you know, Like if 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:28.960 it come and come, if it don't, don't, do. 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.640 You check your DMS? Like is there is there any 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:36.200 way that a guy can or whoever can contact you? 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:39.200 Like what is there? Only? I mean, you know, what's 0:32:39.240 --> 0:32:43.160 what's the options? Like how can someone you forget the. 0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:47.200 Options or the options? You know if you want toss 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:47.640 right there. 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:49.160 If you don't live here, you don't know me. 0:32:49.440 --> 0:32:52.400 I check my DMS, but don't I don't see everything, 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:55.320 like I can't. I mean, but then there's some people 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:57.959 I got pushed up on two weeks ago when I 0:32:57.960 --> 0:32:58.520 was in New York. 0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:00.320 I hadn't done it. I hadn't been pushed up on 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:00.640 like that. 0:33:01.480 --> 0:33:03.240 Somebody approached It was very. 0:33:02.960 --> 0:33:06.400 Yeah, and now that I appreciated his approach, Like he 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:08.520 came in and first he was like, yo, I'm a 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:10.760 real big fan, you know. I was like, thank you. 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:13.680 And he was like, I got a little crush on 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:16.600 Rhapsody and the Homies. My Homies was there. They was like, oh, 0:33:16.600 --> 0:33:18.440 you just got a little crush on Rhapsody. 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:21.360 That's crazy. You should have a big crush, right and 0:33:21.480 --> 0:33:24.160 he and he leaned in to it so he was 0:33:24.240 --> 0:33:25.880 got in my face. He was like, I mean, I 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:27.440 love to take you out Saturday. 0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:33.239 I was like, okay, Like I appreciate that. Said no, 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:34.880 I said, okay, I gave him my number. 0:33:35.240 --> 0:33:35.480 Yeah. 0:33:35.720 --> 0:33:37.840 I liked his energy. It was respectful, but at the 0:33:37.840 --> 0:33:38.400 same time. 0:33:38.480 --> 0:33:40.040 It was like he wasn't scared. 0:33:40.120 --> 0:33:40.960 It was just direct. 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:42.280 Did you'll go out Saturday? 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:47.440 I have an album released week. It wasn't. I had intentions, 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:48.160 but if my. 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:50.640 Schedule was just too crazy, and I told him, you know, 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:52.680 I don't want to come sit with you for thirty minutes, 0:33:53.360 --> 0:33:55.840 so you know, next time I'm in New York, but 0:33:55.880 --> 0:33:57.760 text me, get to know me, called me. 0:33:58.360 --> 0:33:58.760 Call me. 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:00.920 Okay, that's what it was. Don't like yo, what's your 0:34:01.000 --> 0:34:04.240 damn it was. It was just real direct, and I appreciated. 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:06.080 That, you know, some grown up type ish. 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:09.520 Yeah, I come from that generation. You know, I don't. 0:34:09.920 --> 0:34:12.759 I don't know about the dating apps getting a. 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:15.120 D I see a lot of celebrities are starting to 0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:17.600 use dating apps, but they're not having any success. 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:19.640 I would I would never. 0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:22.640 You would never do a date to. 0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:25.880 Never, never get on dating ap. 0:34:26.719 --> 0:34:29.400 Those swipe never left right never You just like an 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:30.240 old school approach. 0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:32.520 Yeah, me too. 0:34:33.360 --> 0:34:33.959 Mad DM. 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:35.320 But just like the old school. 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:38.000 Yeah, well technically you just want them to say, you know, 0:34:38.239 --> 0:34:38.880 just approach me. 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:40.319 You just approached me. 0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:42.440 Now a lot of people gonna be approaching you now 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:46.080 watching this interview. Fault. 0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:48.800 I'm a cool person. 0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:54.960 I got to respectfully reproach or break. So uh, let's 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:58.040 get right back with more Rhapsody. 0:34:58.200 --> 0:35:01.000 We'll be right back. Stay tuned more of The Baller 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:05.799 Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of The 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:06.680 Baller Alert Show. 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:08.880 Yo, Yo, this is Rhapsody and I'm chilling with the 0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:10.600 Baller Alert Show on Revolt. 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:12.520 Back with more of the Brother Alert Show. We got 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:15.680 RHP City in the building. Yeah, yes, please don't cry 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:17.560 to enable the album. Man, we're still talking about it. 0:35:17.600 --> 0:35:21.399 One of my favorite records is raw Ulawayne Man. When 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:25.040 I say you snapped on that, man, you can't correct. 0:35:25.400 --> 0:35:26.960 Thank you man. How long did it take you to 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:28.200 write that? I was really. 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:30.839 Experimenting, you know, and I was like, yo, again, I'm 0:35:30.840 --> 0:35:32.880 trying to be more profound. So I approach it like 0:35:32.960 --> 0:35:34.799 I just want to do something fun. Ain't trying to 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:38.520 be like super lyrical. And he sent his verse with 0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:42.759 different beat. We had a hook a big okay. And 0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:44.600 when he sent it back, I was so inspired. 0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:47.360 I was like, oh, you rewrote yours. 0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:52.480 I absolutely did, and I had no issue that. 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:52.920 Yeah. 0:35:53.120 --> 0:35:55.520 Most people be like, no, yes, I think it more 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:58.319 than once. Okay, I was joking. I was I wrote 0:35:58.320 --> 0:36:00.480 it like twenty seven times, and hip hop has made 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.000 it the headline. I was like, guys, not being that literal. 0:36:03.239 --> 0:36:05.560 I probably wrote it like maybe six or seven times. 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.319 But I do a lot of songs, and you do write, right, 0:36:08.360 --> 0:36:10.080 Because some artists I see, they go in and they 0:36:10.200 --> 0:36:12.080 don't write. They kind of just punish that. 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:12.799 For like a month. 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:17.000 It's not my thing. I really write. I mean some 0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:17.719 people just get that. 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:19.919 You're in there and you're reading off of what you wrote, 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:22.160 or do you memorize it and then going down times? 0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:24.560 Sometimes I just I write it and I said a 0:36:24.560 --> 0:36:26.239 few times, and then I go in the booth and 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:28.239 sometimes I'll sit with it and memorize it and. 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:31.319 Then because I know everybody, Yeah, But most of. 0:36:31.320 --> 0:36:33.000 The time, I just write it and sit with it 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:34.880 and learn it enough where I can read it and 0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:35.560 still perform it. 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:37.879 Does it take you a long time or it. 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:39.680 Depends on to day. Some things you can write in 0:36:39.680 --> 0:36:40.240 twenty minutes. 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:43.399 Some days I spend a month on You know, there's 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:47.279 no writer wrong answer, it's just really what where you 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:48.640 at that in that space? 0:36:48.840 --> 0:36:50.640 But you was in a good space on this record, 0:36:51.600 --> 0:36:51.959 you were. 0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:54.560 Yeah, A lot of these a lot of these were quick. 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:57.759 You know it's there a few things like the raw, 0:36:57.880 --> 0:37:00.719 like my raw verse. I really took time on and 0:37:00.960 --> 0:37:02.760 I wrote a lot of things I like, but nothing 0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:07.360 felt like it, Like it still didn't match his level because. 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:08.239 I wasn't trying to out wrap him. 0:37:08.280 --> 0:37:10.840 I was you got to hold your own. No, you 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:11.520 was doing that. 0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:12.880 It wouldn't even I just wanted to. 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:15.240 I was so inspired. I wanted to match his level 0:37:15.280 --> 0:37:17.319 of how he approached it. I took his flow. I 0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:18.960 just used my own word facts. 0:37:19.160 --> 0:37:21.520 But you but you, you held your own because sometimes 0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:23.120 you know, when you're dealing with a goat like that. 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:25.160 You know what I'm saying, your got within your your 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:28.919 by yourself. But you know, when you're dealing with that level, 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:30.879 you can't let nobody just kill you on your own song. 0:37:31.440 --> 0:37:32.439 You held your own. 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:35.200 Sometimes you can't. 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:37.680 I mean, no, you can't do that Rhap City, you can't. 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:41.080 I mean I knew I could write something better, That's 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:41.800 all I'm saying. 0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:44.000 Like, now you did that. You so humble, But you 0:37:44.080 --> 0:37:44.400 did that. 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:47.239 Yeah, we're not gonna I'm not gonna be humble about you. 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:50.799 Right after that song, you got Lonely Woman, And when 0:37:50.840 --> 0:37:53.600 I heard that record, I'm like, what in thea Jenet Jackson, 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:55.719 would you mind it is going on? 0:37:57.560 --> 0:37:58.640 That is so funny. 0:37:58.640 --> 0:38:03.200 I was like, well, I was like, okay, I'm just driving, 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:03.680 all right. 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:07.400 I was showing people every every piece of me that 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:11.360 was human. Okay, yeah, like that was especially. That was 0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:15.640 a big section of my life then. So it was 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:17.360 like we just we just recorded it. 0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:19.720 But to people who don't know, that's a very self 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:21.439 loving record right there. 0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:26.520 Yeah, I love yourself, That's what I'm saying. Deeper than 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:30.319 what you think. But but to it, like I would 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:33.879 see conversations of like raps, you don't talk about sex sex, 0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:37.120 And it's just an example of you can talk about 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:39.719 sex in so many different ways. Some of it's gonna 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:41.920 be ratchy and raunchy and right in your face, and 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:44.080 some things are gonna be creative and some things are 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:44.960 gonna be poetic. 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:46.480 And it's like, you know. 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:50.600 Man, the way that you wrap that record, it was 0:38:50.680 --> 0:38:54.839 just so creative, Like I've never heard nobody do that 0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:55.319 like that. 0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:58.279 Yeah, I mean I like to get people an experience. 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:01.200 You know, that's an experience. You know, I'm on a quarius. 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:03.399 So we never liked we like to go left where 0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:06.520 everybody else here, like we like to be as creative 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:12.720 as possible. Black Odyssey produced that because originally that song 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:15.120 as One produced it and it was it was more 0:39:15.160 --> 0:39:17.680 of like a fun bop joint and it wasn't so 0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:19.920 erotic and. 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:20.560 That's Erotic City. 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:20.919 Yeah. 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:22.280 When Black Odyssey. 0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:24.040 Heard it, they were like, yo, can we like try 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:28.240 like just a different version because it's so erotic erotic, 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:30.239 but we want we want people to really feel it 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:31.880 and we want them to be in the room with you. 0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:34.279 And I was like, all right, let's do it room. Yeah, 0:39:34.320 --> 0:39:36.000 Like they like, yo, we need to put like. 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:40.320 Shower in the background, like and steam and we got it. 0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:41.880 Like they made it a whole movie. 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:45.320 Yeah, wow, very visual. 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:47.800 You got any favorites on the album? 0:39:48.880 --> 0:39:52.160 Yeah, Three Am is probably my favorite song, and it's 0:39:52.200 --> 0:39:54.200 not just I love the song, but because it was 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:58.319 an experience in creating with Eric Abadu, So that's for 0:39:58.400 --> 0:39:59.360 multiple reasons. 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:00.839 Loose Rocks is another one. 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:04.680 A ballot for the Homegirls so lid though. 0:40:04.760 --> 0:40:05.239 Man, it's hall. 0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:07.160 I love all the records. They all my babies. 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:10.799 That's Grammy music, man, for real white you could listen 0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:13.520 to the whole project with like zero skips I feel 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:15.680 like when you can do something like that, that's like 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:16.600 Grammy music to me. 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:17.799 Damn, thank you. 0:40:18.200 --> 0:40:19.200 Yeah, I agree with that. 0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:21.600 I told people I just had I ain't have no expectations. 0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:24.600 I just I made an album for me this time, 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:26.680 and I was like, you know, people either like it 0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:28.680 or not. You know, I just wanted to give them 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:31.160 something that was honest, unapologetic. 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:32.120 Yeah, great job. 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:34.799 So you got the tour? Yeah, we announced tour. 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:41.719 Tour kicks off in Europe, first four dates London, Paris, Berlin. 0:40:41.440 --> 0:40:45.400 And Amsterdam. And then you excited. I'm super excited. I 0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:47.200 haven't been on tour since twenty. 0:40:47.040 --> 0:40:49.560 Nineteen before the pandemic. 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:49.919 Yeah. 0:40:50.239 --> 0:40:53.320 My last show was canceled because we were on Lockdown 0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:55.279 two days later, so I didn't even get to have 0:40:55.320 --> 0:41:01.560 my homecoming show. And I'm excited to see the experience 0:41:01.640 --> 0:41:04.000 and how the music connects with people in the flesh. 0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:07.360 Like that's I'm super excited about that. So I can't wait. 0:41:07.840 --> 0:41:11.280 But we're doing North America too, So it's eighteen dates. 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:14.279 Oh, just a couple more songs I want to highlight. 0:41:13.960 --> 0:41:19.239 From the album never Enough. At the end of the song, 0:41:19.320 --> 0:41:22.239 you say my purpose ain't for purchase, is that right? 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:24.560 You say, my purpose ain't for purchase. 0:41:24.680 --> 0:41:28.520 Love me or love me not? Now I know what 0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:30.200 worth is me? 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:32.120 Right? 0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:34.520 How did you come to that conclusion? 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:38.719 I think just again sitting with myself and really, like 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:43.200 I said, I'm plugging from the matrix. Like, yo, you 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:45.879 don't want to sell yourself short because you're not gonna 0:41:45.920 --> 0:41:48.240 be happy at the end of the day. So stop 0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:51.239 worrying about all these false measurements. And you have to 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:55.839 validate yourself and find value in yourself. And that's just 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:59.120 what it is. So it's like, you know, my authentic self, 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:01.080 my soul, my spirit is knock a purchase and I 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:04.120 can't sell that because I want a nice car or I. 0:42:04.080 --> 0:42:07.719 Want to be number one on the radio, like you 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:09.080 gotta do music. 0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:13.880 That's the real currency, is peace of mind and happiness. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:17.400 Are you ever does Rhapsody ever think about having a family? 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:19.239 One day, I thought about it. 0:42:19.440 --> 0:42:21.240 I used to it as in past present. 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:24.720 Yeah, so want to have kids like two maybe three. 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:28.360 But I'm I'm at the stage of life where I was, 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:32.280 you know, I'm like, I'm kind of I'm I'm okay 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:35.120 if it happens, it happens. But now I'm just like, 0:42:35.239 --> 0:42:37.479 I really like my time. I really like my piece. 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:40.600 I got six pieces and nephews, and I'm like, I'm 0:42:40.640 --> 0:42:43.680 like super auntie, and i'd be I love them, but 0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:45.480 i'd be like, I'm ready to go to sleep. 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:48.040 So you're a rich auntie. You're a rich auntie that 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:48.640 come over. 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:52.399 Drop it, back off, and do everything that their parents 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:54.880 asked me not to do. 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:57.600 Yeah, I told you not to do that. 0:42:58.040 --> 0:43:00.520 I'll be like, I can't help it. So I'm okay, 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:03.080 it's what I'm saying. If it happens, it happens. But 0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:05.440 I'm not like I need a family. 0:43:05.520 --> 0:43:08.279 I'm sad like you seem like a loner. You seem 0:43:08.360 --> 0:43:10.560 like you like being alone. You like your peace. 0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:13.080 I have a great balance. I don't think I'm an 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:16.399 introvert at all. I love people. I love hanging out, 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.279 but I like chilling. Like I'm not a club girl. 0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:19.399 I'm a house party girl. 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:20.160 You know. 0:43:20.160 --> 0:43:23.319 I'm a kickback girl. Like I really like people and 0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:24.200 I love hanging out. 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:26.920 Man Rhapsody, I'm so proud of you, man, thank you 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:29.319 so humble. But I'm just so happy for you. 0:43:29.320 --> 0:43:34.920 You want me to talk my ship, Yeah, every man, 0:43:35.120 --> 0:43:37.360 I'm just so happy. Thank you all for seeing me 0:43:37.440 --> 0:43:38.680 important to me for. 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:42.239 Sure, Thanks for coming they reporting to us with your 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:45.239 with your albums. Man, like, for real, you changed a 0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:46.800 lot of people. That's why I was asking the questions 0:43:46.800 --> 0:43:48.319 I asked because you know, you got so many people 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:49.480 who are lost today. 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:50.239 You know what I'm saying. 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:53.600 They looking online just to find an identity, and you 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:56.759 know that it's really within You got to put that 0:43:56.840 --> 0:43:57.920 work in on yourself. 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.600 If people ask me my intention for this myself, I 0:44:00.600 --> 0:44:02.800 wanted to be a lighthouse for people to find it 0:44:02.880 --> 0:44:03.840 way back to themselves. 0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:05.040 Yeah. I like that. 0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:07.560 You can feel it for real for sure. 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:10.960 Please don't cry available right now. Look for Rhapsody on 0:44:10.960 --> 0:44:14.200 the tour. I guess you're gonna post the schedule. Uh yeah, 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:15.320 we posted it today. 0:44:15.600 --> 0:44:19.160 But w W dot I M rhapsody dot com, I 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:21.399 A M R A P S O d y dot 0:44:21.400 --> 0:44:25.880 com and socials at Rhapsody on all things are. 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:27.399 Don't put no H in my name now. 0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:28.000 Wasn't that? 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:28.120 That? 0:44:28.360 --> 0:44:31.440 Wasn't that the website the download music? What was it? 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:32.360 It's a music site. 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:34.319 It was the music website, remember the. 0:44:34.719 --> 0:44:38.600 One with the H rhapsody. Yeah, joke on me about that. 0:44:38.800 --> 0:44:41.560 You name yourself at the music service like shut up, hold. 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:47.800 Only acknowledge is the world right here right there in season? 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:50.279 Baby, you gotta you got called New York back? Right, 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:53.239 I gotta who called New York back? I gotta who 0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:54.840 you go to New York spost be going on to 0:44:54.880 --> 0:44:55.359 day right. 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:05.120 Because my friends got ahold of the nickname. 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:11.200 I'm not telling you know what it's gonna be. 0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:15.000 My friends call him Hancho because they say he looked like. 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:16.480 Oh my gosh, man. 0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:18.360 Before we get out of here, we do have a 0:45:18.400 --> 0:45:20.879 pep talk, yo, yo, what's up? This is Rahap City. 0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:22.239 Look, I just can't even tell you. 0:45:22.760 --> 0:45:25.279 Don't be stressing over the things you gotta let go 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:29.080 in life, whether it be love, friendship and security. 0:45:29.160 --> 0:45:30.320 You gotta let go. 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:34.680 And find yourself, find your peace, find your happiness and 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:38.640 work from within. You are enough. You are special, own 0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:41.160 that love yourself. You really like that? 0:45:41.640 --> 0:45:41.960 All right? 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:42.600 Peace? 0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:46.480 You can't get enough of baller Alert. Follow us on 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:50.040 all social media platforms at baller Alerts, going to baller 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:51.080 alert dot com