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Speaker 1: Bootlet Cav podcast Boutlet keV show my brother. He's got

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Speaker 1: a new album coming out, Labor of Love.

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Speaker 2: Labor of Love six twelve. Man we out, Yes, that's

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Speaker 2: next weekend, next week, next week, next Friday.

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Speaker 1: Last is in the building?

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir boo Let Cav. What's up? Man?

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Speaker 1: So, man, I haven't seen you in a minute. Last time,

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Speaker 1: I think we did something together. We were at my

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Speaker 1: pizza restaurant. This was like when you drop the debut album,

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Speaker 1: which feels even weird to say now because it felt

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Speaker 1: like you're like third album. But it's fine.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you know, it get political when they say debut

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Speaker 2: because I feel the same way you feel.

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Speaker 1: But hey, so that was like you've you've come a

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Speaker 1: long way. That was about it almost two years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that.

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Speaker 2: Was the last time dropped.

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Speaker 1: That is crazy. A lot has happened since then. You

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Speaker 1: Red Bull Records is no longer a thing period, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So you had a great run with him, by the

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Speaker 1: way I did. Now you're with Empire, who tried to

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Speaker 1: get you in the first place, yep, back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling, man, how are you feeling in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Man, I feel like I'm back to square one. It's

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Speaker 2: a lot of highs and lows that I've been going

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Speaker 2: through since twenty twenty four. But in a nutshell, I

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Speaker 2: would say I feel like I'm in control, Like I'm

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Speaker 2: back to the roots, back to the basics, And that's

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Speaker 2: what Labor of Love represents. Yeah, doing it for the

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Speaker 2: love of the game.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like because I feel like you have

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Speaker 1: had so many quote unquote hit records and had so

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Speaker 1: much success, like immediately and then like you kind of

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Speaker 1: like got boxed in where people will be like every

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Speaker 1: blast song sounds the same, but then your debut album

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Speaker 1: comes out and you dibbled and dabbled sonically a lot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it seemed like people didn't like fuck with it.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was great.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy that you say that, because I just had

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Speaker 2: this converseation last night, like people say your shit sound

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Speaker 2: insane and you do something different and they like it

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Speaker 2: don't even exist, bro, Like.

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Speaker 1: Did you not hear the first album song? Like I

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Speaker 1: feel like it didn't sound like you were like trying hard.

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Speaker 1: You just made some different experiments, Like there was some

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Speaker 1: shit on that album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you that was executive produced by sound Wave too.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was tapped in with different cultures. You know,

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Speaker 2: when you first get in the game, it's like you're

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Speaker 2: doing what you do and then you start meeting other producers,

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Speaker 2: then get signed and it's like you should work with

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Speaker 2: this person. So I went through the ringer of working

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Speaker 2: with different people. But yeah, I had fun making that album.

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Speaker 2: It was It was my most experimental album. You know.

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Speaker 2: It was after I was traveling the world, so I

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Speaker 2: fade on there. The fade Man shout.

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Speaker 1: Out brought to a whole new audience exactly.

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Speaker 2: He brought me out all the way in Colombia too

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Speaker 2: to do that song. I brought him out at Coachella too.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're back to me fully producing it.

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Speaker 1: How was the initial response to the album or maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe not the album, like having like a chosen on it,

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Speaker 1: or having the success that like maybe you thought it

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Speaker 1: might have had, because I do I remember when you

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Speaker 1: had the crazy performance? It was fucking a movie dog

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Speaker 1: la or it was la Okay? Yeah, but did did that?

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Speaker 1: Like I feel like being an artist has to be

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Speaker 1: like a roller coaster experience because like anything you put

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Speaker 1: out is like an artistic you know, it's an artistic

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Speaker 1: representation of where you are at the time. You care

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Speaker 1: guess lack of like popping or doing as well as

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Speaker 2: Did it?

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Speaker 1: Did it make you question anything to throw you off

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Speaker 2: Did he throw me off track? Yeah? I mean I

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Speaker 2: think it kind of make you self reflect because you

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Speaker 2: especially when you come in a game on fire, you know,

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Speaker 2: you back to back of like just scorching, just scorching everything.

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Speaker 2: I had double Excel, Freshmen tours, multiple Grammy nominations, Kendrick features. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 2: and then I dropped my debut album quote unquote, and

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Speaker 2: yeah it was. It was a weird time honestly too,

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Speaker 2: because a lot of other ship was going on in

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Speaker 2: my real life, right you know. So twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: is when I started managing myself. I haven't had a

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Speaker 1: I was learning you're having to deal with that all

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Speaker 1: of the shit on your own.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so you know, it was it was a

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Speaker 2: lot of ups and downs that kind of affect the creativity.

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Speaker 2: I love the music, but as far as like the

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Speaker 2: aesthetic outside of it. I dyed my hair blond and

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Speaker 2: all kind of crazy shit. Yeah, you know, and I

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Speaker 2: felt like I was, like, looking back, I was kind

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Speaker 1: I thought it was also conceptually dope, like you like,

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Speaker 1: it was like a quadruple disc format. Everything kind of

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Speaker 2: Yes, And I had to uh the short film with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I even like when you did the rollout,

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Speaker 1: you're running around and you ended up doing something what

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Speaker 1: It felt it was it was. It was crazy. But

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed the album a lot. But I always wonder

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Speaker 1: when that happens to an artist, like where you just

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Speaker 1: didn't miss for so long and then like that album

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Speaker 1: does that? Like, like where how do you regroup artistically

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Speaker 1: imagine like if you you can let that noise get to.

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Speaker 2: You, right, I think you gotta just stick to what

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Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, on that album, it was a lot

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Speaker 2: But I think looking back, you just gotta reflect on

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Speaker 1: Right. So do you think this new album, Labor of

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Speaker 1: Love is more back to the roots of I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously this stuff we've heard from the album to me,

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Speaker 1: like some classic blast Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what was your question now?

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Speaker 1: I was just say, do you feel like with this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say for me, like this album, I

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Speaker 1: The other thing, I feel like when you came in,

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Speaker 1: artwork too. You're mixing, your mastering, you're producing everything, so

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Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I think you you, like I said, you

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Speaker 1: this album. Can you talk to me? About what was

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Speaker 1: did you have like a labor of love breakdown? Like

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Speaker 2: Labor of love is enjoying the process of it, you know,

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Speaker 1: Man, what uh what features can you talk about on

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Speaker 1: That that you I mean obviously uh, big sads on

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Speaker 2: So this album is real tight Kit, It's just big

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Speaker 1: Shout out to our brother's a hard Dean man OTTs family.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they've been sponsoring the podcast for years now.

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Speaker 1: You've been seeing the mic flag for years now. Want

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Speaker 1: him on Instagram Harding Underscore, Las Vegas. Sorry, let's get

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Speaker 2: I did some shit with Buster to run.

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Speaker 1: or yo, we need something that's gonna be commercially successful.

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00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,280
Speaker 1: It's got to be kind of like it's gotta feel

438
00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 1: good to be like Bust. The rhymes reached out, NAS

439
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 1: reached out like was there a feature that you did

440
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 1: that just like meant the most you. That was just

441
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: kind of crazy to obviously. Besides I think Kendrick we

442
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:32,600
Speaker 1: could put.

443
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 2: I think NAS was like the one, yeah, you know,

444
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,479
Speaker 2: like it's because I've got uncles and shit that like

445
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 2: looked up to each East Coast rat of course, so

446
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,879
Speaker 2: that one was just like okay, I'm here now, like

447
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 2: you can't tell me nothing, Like no, if NAS stamped me,

448
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 2: what can you really tell me? As far as like

449
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,120
Speaker 2: hip hop and yeah, that was one of the ones.

450
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 1: That was Was that something you guys did in person together?

451
00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually did that was at a hip.

452
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,439
Speaker 1: Hooist hit studio. Yeah, is that was that childie?

453
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:02,680
Speaker 2: Yeah?

454
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's crazy because like I don't

455
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: think a lot of people understand like NAS was doing

456
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,240
Speaker 1: all that ship there, so it'd be like how does

457
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,640
Speaker 1: Dom Kennedy end up on the Knas album? Be like, well,

458
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: it's because he's fucking in LA and hit boys calling

459
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 1: everybody to pull up exactly.

460
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 2: They had a crazy culture over there. I think I

461
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 2: don't even know if hit Boy got that spot. I

462
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 2: think Bro moved to Miami or some crazy.

463
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 1: Well hit moved to the fab Factory in North Hollywood,

464
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 1: which is Hella deep in the valley. But then he

465
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 1: got robbed. He posted, Yeah, I saw that, So then

466
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 1: he moved out and now my friend does merch out

467
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,640
Speaker 1: of his old studio, which is random. They have machines

468
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: and ship so I don't know where it went to,

469
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 1: but yeah, but that spot in particular was a very

470
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 1: interesting place to have a studio because Yeah, when he

471
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: got robbed, I was like, bro, you had They were

472
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: doing those Neon streams with the streamer dude Neon, and

473
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,400
Speaker 1: I went over there was just like fucking just the most.

474
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 1: It's like a party. I'm like, dude, all these people

475
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 1: now know how to get in the back of the studio.

476
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: But shout out to Hit, who's been on fire? You

477
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: and Hit would kind of go crazy if you just

478
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 1: like project with him and let him just be like, look, dude,

479
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to handle any of the production. Let's

480
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 1: let's just cook. I'm gonna do what I do. You

481
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: do what you do? That'd be crazy. What has been something?

482
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 2: You know?

483
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: I always talk about how dope Empire is and Nima

484
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,160
Speaker 1: and Ghazi those guys. You've been around some incredible minds

485
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 1: in the music industry, but is there anything dope You've

486
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 1: been able to kind of take away from being being

487
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 1: over there and working closely with uh what I'd like

488
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 1: to call the gruesome twosome Gazi and Nima. I mean

489
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 1: that a positive way.

490
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 2: I think I just got my foot in the door

491
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 2: over there, so you know, I'm still learning in the

492
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 2: ropes only put out a couple songs so far. Luckily

493
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 2: we made it to the point where we can put

494
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 2: out a full body of work. But my experience there

495
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 2: has been nothing but amazing so far. I've been working

496
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 2: real close with Jada and Gentry as far as the album,

497
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 2: you know, putting it out, and they've been helping me

498
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 2: with different activations like I'm more about the like fan

499
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 2: engagement for sure.

500
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 1: How can we always done?

501
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 2: Yeah? How can we you know, tap into the community

502
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 2: and the fans. So we've been able to do some

503
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 2: cool stuff like for Mother's Day we did the Lamart

504
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: Park Mothers Giveaway. I saw that, you know, stuff like that.

505
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 2: I'm finna do something for my elementary school in LA

506
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 2: and then some for my high school and the Ie Fire.

507
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's been some cool activations going on.

508
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: Where do you feel like West Coast Music what's West

509
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: Coast aside? LA music is right now because we had

510
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: this like huge moment with Kendrick and the pop out

511
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: and Sisson Kendrick tour in the super Bowl, and I

512
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: feel like, uh, Shoreline has done a really good job

513
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: of kind of like stepping up to the plate and

514
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: like delivering records and delivering you know, some tour stuff.

515
00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: But I feel like, as in a totality like LA music,

516
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if it fully took advantage of.

517
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 2: Like the catch at that moment you're talking about, like

518
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 2: the album or just.

519
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: I mean just like the music that came off of it.

520
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: Like I felt like like it was the time for

521
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: everybody to like come super correct with like records, and

522
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: I just felt like only a few people kind of did. Yeah,

523
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: But I wonder what your thoughts are just on where

524
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: LA hip hop is now, because Bro, look, I mean

525
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: you've kind of been the face of it, like you

526
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: and Roddy, I think are the two guys that kind

527
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: of carried the city on the radio outside of Kida

528
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: for the last six years.

529
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say this. I think it's all perception

530
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 2: of what you feel LA is because sometimes we kind

531
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 2: of contract contradict ourselves and hyper focus on one segment

532
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 2: of what LA is like, we still got other people

533
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 2: going crazy and have been going crazy during the whole.

534
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: Tyler the creator exactly.

535
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 2: I gotta say, Tyler, Tyler dojah kat, You're right Tiger still.

536
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: That because I like, literally just fucking Tiger. No ship Tiger,

537
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: but Tyler exactly.

538
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 2: Even Shortline Mafia they doing arenas and ship like that.

539
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 1: So going crazy.

540
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 2: So when you hyper focus on one little underground, you

541
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 2: know obviously it's gonna be trials and tribulations because it's

542
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 2: a big gap between a Kendrick Tyler versus was bubbling

543
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 2: in the streets of LA. But I think like more

544
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 2: collaborations like what Kendrick did. I think that helps out

545
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 2: a lot. You see a z Chik Finna go crazy.

546
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 1: Just waiting for needs to just drop. I heard his

547
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: album is fucking crazy. I think it's done.

548
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 2: Man, I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for Roddy to

549
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 2: drop again.

550
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: The Navy album. Please, yes, please, have you heard any

551
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: of it? No?

552
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 2: Not at all, man, They top secret over there, shout

553
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 2: out Kifa.

554
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Uh you know what one of my

555
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: what's the the hand of God record you had God with,

556
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: it's one of your best. I think that might be

557
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: my favorite song.

558
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 2: Heres, bro, that song is so fucking cold. Bro. Shout

559
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 2: out Ramble too. Niggas gotta pop out side. That's what

560
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

561
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: It's like like Ramble did the pop out.

562
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna lie. Sometimes I'd be like I'd be feeling

563
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: like I'm the only one, because I do feel like

564
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 2: part of the success got to be when other people

565
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: going crazy at the same time when you going crazy,

566
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 2: because that helps the momentum.

567
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: I feel like you've done such a great job of

568
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: doing music that aesthetically is true to LA but also

569
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: it's commercially viable nationwide, and I think Roddy did a

570
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: good job of that. Obviously Kendrick has done a good

571
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: job of that. But I think it's like I feel

572
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: like a lot of I think YG has done a

573
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: good job of that throughout the years. But I think

574
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: it's like being self conscious of like you could do

575
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: the West Coast Chitlin circuit, which is like all the

576
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: way up to Seattle and then probably the Texas, New Mexico,

577
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: obviously Phoenix, Denver. But it's like, how do you do,

578
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: like New York sell it out? How do you do,

579
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: Dayton Ohio? I want sell it out in Miami, you

580
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I remember you guys did that

581
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: that Red Bull event in Miami Rolling Loud weekend, like

582
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Yeapy, that shit was a movie though.

583
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 2: Bro I sold out in London. I think it was

584
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 2: like a two thousand venue before and that was around

585
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: the time when I only did the Roxy out here.

586
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

587
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: So it's like moments like that I attribute to like

588
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 2: Roddy Rich going crazy as well, because it's in the

589
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: same eCos same with Beano or Kalin, Like that wave

590
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: when we was all pushing at the same time, even

591
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 2: if we wasn't directly collaborating, it was just a momentum

592
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 2: wave that was also.

593
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: Like very similar like Vibe where everybody's melodic, everybody can sing,

594
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, great songwriting, you know what

595
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: I'm saying?

596
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 2: Yeah?

597
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: Would you and you know, have you guys talked about

598
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: doing another six tape?

599
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: Oh for sure?

600
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he's got prolific. Got to put out

601
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: with Nipsey.

602
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's at the top of my list. You know,

603
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 2: we just got to get on the same accord. But

604
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: I want to do fifty six, says I want to

605
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: work on six tap fifty one because I felt like

606
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: that's kind of a barrier. We gotta push instead of

607
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 2: just doing three, four or five tapes, like how many?

608
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: How long can we go?

609
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: I feel like you guys need to do the next one,

610
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: and then when you do it, do like a like

611
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: a little sixth city run do fucking Yeah, do La,

612
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: do Phoenix, do fucking Vegas, do the brooklye Vegas, do

613
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: the Bay.

614
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 2: We actually did that for six tap three, did you. Yeah?

615
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 2: We went on small little I think it was only

616
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: like four dates. Seattle, Vegas, La, Seattle, be going up

617
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 2: dog Yeah, Seattle. I love Seattle. I always, not always,

618
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: but my first tour. I started there when I first

619
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 2: ever toured, and the energy just was contagious.

620
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: So Fade brings you out. You go to Columbia. How

621
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: is Columbia? I heard it as a movie.

622
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy, but I was only out there

623
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 2: for like maybe twenty four hours.

624
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: Match so you went in and did what you do,

625
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: got the funk out?

626
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean but it was fun though different world.

627
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: It was a different world. It was hell of traffic.

628
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 2: I feel like I didn't get the full experience stuff

629
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 2: because we just was sitting in traffic, went to soundcheck,

630
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 2: went back to the room, and going back to the

631
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: room took like three hours just sitting in traffic. Then

632
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: we went back to the venue. Was it.

633
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: No that the beaches?

634
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 2: I think right, Yeah, it was beautiful out there.

635
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: What besides Columbia or has there been a what's the

636
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: craziest place your music is taking you?

637
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 2: I would say places like Amsterdam, Paris, Australia. I would

638
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 2: say Australia was the funniest show. Melbourne, Sydney. I did

639
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 2: a show in Gold Coasts and these was all my

640
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 2: personal tours.

641
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: They're like eighteen hours ahead or some ship.

642
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just crazy.

643
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: They're like living in tomorrow day time.

644
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, ahead of time.

645
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: It's like an up side down America. That's what I heard.

646
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 2: I said that when you flush the toilets that go backward, Yeah.

647
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: Because they're like it's like an americanized ass place from

648
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: what I hear.

649
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, they tapped. They love LA culture too, like more

650
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: than any other I don't know what it is, but

651
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: Australia they like super tapped in to like underground LA shit.

652
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got the wildest animals there. Man, I'll be

653
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: found all these YouTubers and beyond. They're out there. They

654
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: just be fucking catching, fucking sharks and steam raising ship.

655
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: My only thing I ain't see one kangaroo out there.

656
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,440
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657
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Speaker 1: see we need to hit this whatever they call the Safari.

658
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Speaker 1: I need a kangaroo. They got koala bears out there.

659
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660
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666
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667
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681
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682
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683
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Speaker 1: We were just hanging out. Man shot, look shout out

684
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685
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688
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the podcast. Have you done the

689
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: Tokyo run yet?

690
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 2: No?

691
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: Really?

692
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: Yes?

693
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, we gotta make that happen. I got the

694
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: homies out there of the Bookie Yeah, connect me Tokyo

695
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: is a movie, bro.

696
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: I've been trying to get out there since it's twenty twenty.

697
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: It is a movie out there. Yeah, what if you

698
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: weren't doing music full time and you were forced to

699
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: explore other professions? What do you think you gon up doing?

700
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: Probably be like a director or more so like an editor,

701
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: or like a graphic designer. I like the tedious work

702
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 2: of putting the project together, so something like creative like

703
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 2: that probably be making not as much money as I

704
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 2: am now.

705
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: Doing helping creative direction. Or do you feel like AI

706
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: is kind of fucking up the game a little? Because

707
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: man is it's crazy.

708
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: Is definitely a gift that a curse, but you know

709
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: it depends on how you you can use it or

710
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: abuse it. So the ones who abusing it is definitely

711
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: fucking up the culture.

712
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I'll see, like I do these

713
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: new music streams or people senmit music and it's like

714
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: the amount of ar artwork that looks like it's just

715
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,239
Speaker 1: it's just fresh out of chat GPT. It's like the

716
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: same font, the same style.

717
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, like, but that's how to be doing

718
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: the flyers now, to throw it straight in chat.

719
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: GPT and it all looks the same exactly. It is diabole.

720
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: Do you think there is because even like suit.

721
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: Is it suno soon o?

722
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, soon as a trip soun.

723
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: No, it was tough though.

724
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: I like using sono, So how do you use it?

725
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 2: So I play this is the thing. Whatever I'm using

726
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: sono is like something that I actually played, but it'll

727
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: just be an interpolation like if I play it on

728
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 2: if I played a piano or something, right, I say,

729
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 2: turn this into electric guitar or something like that. Ah,

730
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 2: So you know I use it to my tool as

731
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: a convenience.

732
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I feel like it's the same thing with

733
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: like you know, even like like if you were to

734
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, I use Claude to like put together deck

735
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: sometimes m hm. But I like it's still like my idea.

736
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like putting together the graphic. I'm like,

737
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: all right, put this graphic. It's just like to organize

738
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: it as close to like. But I do feel like

739
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: there's like this stigma that if you use AI at

740
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: all in any of the recording process, people like will

741
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: frown upon you. But I think that like it's the

742
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: same things when like Serrato first came out and DJs

743
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: were like shitting on people who had laptops and that

744
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: weren't carrying crates anymore. It's like, well, look I can,

745
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: I could do this, but it's a lot easier for

746
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: me to do. Like what you just said, if I

747
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: play something, I could just dump it in and it'll

748
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: just give it to me the way I want it.

749
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: It's a tool, and it's just it's more efficient.

750
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 2: I come from the generation when auto tune was just

751
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 2: a regular thing too. Can't stop at sooner and not

752
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 2: talk about auto tune so much different. You know, computers,

753
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 2: technology is gonna happen the inevitable.

754
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think the AI thing is like you said,

755
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: it's a gift in a curse.

756
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 3: Man.

757
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: It's like, I think you can use it in ways

758
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: that can help me. I think even like I I

759
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe you would know this, But is there

760
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 1: AI mixing and mastering thing?

761
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think waves they got something to where you

762
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 2: could just upload a song and they give you three

763
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 2: different versions masters of which.

764
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: Some artists need that shit because some artists will be

765
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: dropping shit because and they I don't know who's mixing.

766
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: But I'm like, yo, fam, this shit, this shit sounds horrible.

767
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 2: Nah, you can. You can't just ai yo mixed though,

768
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 2: you still gotta no.

769
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: But if you're just like some random bruh like, listen,

770
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. We have these guys submitting songs once

771
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: a week at these streams, and the shits, the amount

772
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: of horrible mixes and masters that I hear where I'm like,

773
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: this is just unlistenable. Yeah, what are we doing here?

774
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: Get together?

775
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: Put it in ai Have you heard the new Phoenix

776
00:35:58,719 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: Flexing song that's gone viral?

777
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 2: No, I haven't heard it.

778
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: I need to get your reaction because this song is

779
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: it comes out tonight.

780
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 2: To get my reaction.

781
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: Man, it is the most viral song in Los Angeles,

782
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be surprised that this is Phoenix Flexing.

783
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: It's a fucking vibe. It's called rubbers.

784
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 2: Okay, set shipships. Let me look right, my bucket's getting bigger.

785
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: Watch this movie.

786
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: Flood lockets sleep through.

787
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 2: Can't sleep through? They can't. They got no rhythm? Hard

788
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: this the whole song.

789
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a preview.

790
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 2: But yeah, so when you start rapping, he don't rap.

791
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: It's an eighties fucking pop song.

792
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: Is that him singing?

793
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: It's Phoenix Flexing singing no Ai. No, he said no Ai.

794
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: I don't believe he. Look.

795
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: I saw him. I was backstage with him at the

796
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: show in uh Ontario. They sold out right at the

797
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: Hondason or whatever, and he's like Yo. He's like, I'm

798
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: doing a whole random project and he starts playing. So

799
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: he starts playing stuff and he's like, yo, let me

800
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: play some ship. He puts it up. You know, he's

801
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: got like ship like this, like some pop like rock ship.

802
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 2: I would say this, if that's really him, it's fire,

803
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 2: it's viral. If it's Ai, it's just Ai.

804
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: Don't it's not Ai.

805
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 2: But if he do a whole project like that and

806
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: he got to document the process, I.

807
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: Mean, listen, he says, it's not a I. It sounds

808
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: like him.

809
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: If you think about you know, he probably fooled you.

810
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: It comes out tonight on Empire Phoenix Flex gentry there.

811
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna think they're about to put a

812
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: real rocket ship behind this record. It's like the number

813
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: one song on Instagram. Don't think I got it. It's

814
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: going crazy. Phoenix Flex caught one Flexing is uh yeah,

815
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's it's gonna be It's called rubbers.

816
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: That's what's up, Phoenix flexing Rubbers. I think it's called rubbers. Yeah, rubbers. Yeah,

817
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: give me shooting videos and shit, it's been crazy. Are

818
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: you working on a tour all on the other side

819
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: of this?

820
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 3: So?

821
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely after the album come out. Definitely going

822
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 2: on tour, maybe like three months after yeah, having an announced yet,

823
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 2: so maybe even sooner than that.

824
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: Do you uh, do you feel like this album is

825
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: like a the most you've ever had a chip on

826
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: your shoulder for.

827
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 2: A project, chip on my shoulder, like I gotta remind

828
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 2: you motherfuckers what I do.

829
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't.

830
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily feel like chip on my shoulder. It's

831
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: more so like, let me continue to do me, continue

832
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: to do what people already love me for. You know,

833
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: I don't feel like I gotta like reintroduce myself. I'm

834
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: just reminding people. But it's not like what a chip

835
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 2: on my shoulder?

836
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: Are you still managing yourself?

837
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: Yes?

838
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: Is that because some artists probably need a manager? But

839
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: I feel like you handle so much work yourself anyway.

840
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: But do you feel like is that something you would

841
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: suggest other artists try to do? No.

842
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: I mean it's not something that I'm like, I manage

843
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 2: myself like you know, but the fact that I'm able

844
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,919
Speaker 2: to I do take with pride. But I do think

845
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 2: it's important to have a team if you that's something

846
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: that I would highly recommend, especially if you finish think

847
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 2: you're just managing yourself and it's just you the artist,

848
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 2: you still got to have a team, Like I couldn't

849
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: do nothing I'm doing alone.

850
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like it's like almost like if you're

851
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: an athlete. Like some athletes, it makes sense that they

852
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: decided not have an agent because they're pretty sharp and

853
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: figure it out. But then there's some guys where you're like, wait,

854
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: he don't got an agent. Like Ace Bailey came into

855
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: the league, and it's like uncle's homie was like agent

856
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: and it was like, so, yeah, I feel it's kind

857
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: of similar.

858
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 2: But it's just taking my time with it though. You know,

859
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 2: I saw the Michael Jackson movie and it was crazy

860
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: because he didn't even have a manager at one point,

861
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: right it was just him and his attorney. I would say,

862
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: you having a relationship with your attorney is more than

863
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: more important than you.

864
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: Having a good attorney is very important yes, yes, someone

865
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: you trust exactly. Well, listen, Labor of Love is coming

866
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: out June twelfth. It's next Friday, June twelth, Is that right? Yep, yeah,

867
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: next Friday tour following hopefully in the next few months. Yeah,

868
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: hopefully we get a new six tape. Is this going

869
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: to be the last of the new music you drop

870
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six? Do you think you got some

871
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: more in you? I mean, obviously we're halfway through the year,

872
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: so you take care.

873
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 2: You never know, We never know. I'm staying creative for sure,

874
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Speaker 2: but you know, I like to take my time at

875
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Speaker 2: this point. I ain't got nothing to prove. I want

876
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Speaker 2: to put out the best bodies of work, best music.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see.

878
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Speaker 3: We got to give you these socks for mom, socks

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Speaker 1: They're not for sale, They're just for you.

884
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Speaker 2: Where's my cut?

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Speaker 1: No, No, those socks are not They never sold those socks.

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Speaker 2: Hey, this ship is fired. I ain't lie. Yeah, socks, man.

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Speaker 1: They got the eagle pendent on there not an advertisement,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, no, no, yeah, of course they're not

889
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Speaker 1: selling them without ye. They just were like, yeah, we

890
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Speaker 1: made some socks for Blast. That's dope. There you go.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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