Speaker 1: Welcome inside the BA MGM Studio. All Right, Official Jet
Speaker 1: Podcast Week two. You can listen to us on New
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Speaker 1: leave us a review. Very special guest today, Levy on Bell,
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. We know you're good at football.
Speaker 1: We know you love rap, you love football. What fans
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but we know about you now.
Speaker 1: You're a dog lover dog and you have thirteen of
Speaker 1: them and they're all in Ohio, in Ohio, right now,
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, So where did the love of dogs
Speaker 1: start for me? Probably when I was about four. I
Speaker 1: remember we had this dog. His name was Lucky, and
Speaker 1: my mom had him and he was our first dog,
Speaker 1: her my first dog I seen. I was alive and
Speaker 1: I just live Lucky. He's just you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just playing around, And that's why I start I love
Speaker 1: it dogs. Really, when I was like four years old.
Speaker 1: Just what kind of dog was Lucky? Like you was
Speaker 1: a Golden Retriever. That's a good first dog. He used
Speaker 1: to I used to love someone because he's literally was
Speaker 1: so good at running with the football. So he was
Speaker 1: like he had these like we had these little nerfball,
Speaker 1: So you were chasing him, to chase him and nobody,
Speaker 1: Me and my little cousins, little brothers, as we got older.
Speaker 1: When Lucky got older, you know, we used to put
Speaker 1: him in the yard. He had a ball. Nobody can
Speaker 1: touch him. He wouldn't. He took riety and he would
Speaker 1: like tuck his button everything like he wouldn't let nobody touch.
Speaker 1: This sounds like air but to me, like the movies,
Speaker 1: for real, that's he's our first air bud. That's what
Speaker 1: he was. But he went this all perpose. He ain't
Speaker 1: play basketball and baseball. He was strictly football. It starts
Speaker 1: with Lucky. But now you as an adult, grown man,
Speaker 1: thirteen dogs? Why the number? Why do you keep on
Speaker 1: just going? Um? To be honest, probably because I walk
Speaker 1: into pet smart or something trying dog food and cut
Speaker 1: you know what. That's how literally how it starts like um.
Speaker 1: And then the Rocks had puppies, So then that's how
Speaker 1: we how I kind of got started. And we sold
Speaker 1: all the puppies and we kept one and then I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's how I started. That's so funny. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's how everyone wants to just keep collecting,
Speaker 1: like for me when I go to the grocery store,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know I want this, like for you,
Speaker 1: like you know you need dog food. I know I
Speaker 1: need chicken or whatever. Yeah, I've never had that. How
Speaker 1: do you go about the name? You don't have to
Speaker 1: go through all thirteen right now, otherwise their podcast will
Speaker 1: be over. But but how do you go about the
Speaker 1: selection of the name. So at first, we wanted to
Speaker 1: start with all bees. Um, so my mom, my mom
Speaker 1: had a dog. His name was Z. He just passed away,
Speaker 1: but he was our oldest dog. He was him in
Speaker 1: sixth grade, but Z right, So Z was our first dog.
Speaker 1: And after Z, I got beautiful, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: start all bees, right, So that's how I got started.
Speaker 1: Then bees and bees and beast going bees and bees,
Speaker 1: and then I couldn't think it's gonna be more be names.
Speaker 1: I can image, like look in the dictionary, like okay,
Speaker 1: maybe that, So then it started. Then we gotta we
Speaker 1: got a German chepd her name was Her name is
Speaker 1: Lady right, So then we wanted to have her and
Speaker 1: our other dogs sir. We got sir to made with
Speaker 1: her or whatever. Um, so we just thought of like
Speaker 1: lady and sir, Like, that's how it's gonna start, like ladies, sir.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: crazy how I don't know how we'll started coming both it.
Speaker 1: Then one of our dogs name, I would get interesting
Speaker 1: dog names. So then we gotta dog name five. Right.
Speaker 1: Do you don't know why her name is five? You
Speaker 1: have any idea? And I don't want to be wrong
Speaker 1: and guess wrong. I don't want to guess all right,
Speaker 1: So she literally are the fifth puppy like in her litter.
Speaker 1: So that's why I named her five. It was just
Speaker 1: literally that like, because I literally couldn't even think of
Speaker 1: at the time of name for because I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I wanted to her because she was the smallest dog
Speaker 1: in the letter to it. I just fell in love
Speaker 1: with her, you know what I'm saying. So um, she
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, all right, we're gonna name
Speaker 1: her five. That's what it was. It's stuck to her.
Speaker 1: It's stuck. So but it's gotta be tough for you
Speaker 1: up here in New Jersey and you don't have any
Speaker 1: dog around right now, right, Well, it's terrible myself. I
Speaker 1: only can play the game or write music or something
Speaker 1: like usually go home, I see beautiful and she just crazy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, so excited to see like,
Speaker 1: no matter like, no matter what, she's always happy to
Speaker 1: see me, no matter what. How like dogs, you could
Speaker 1: like lock them away and the kennel and they can
Speaker 1: be locked up all day. So we let him out
Speaker 1: the kindle all my gun. You let me have the
Speaker 1: kind on, you know what I'm saying. So it's like
Speaker 1: Xbox doesn't never never Xbox, girlfriend's mom's sisters, none of them,
Speaker 1: none of them treat So listen, I share this with you.
Speaker 1: I got my Reggie at home and he is everything.
Speaker 1: You know, no matter what happens during the day, they're
Speaker 1: always excited to see unconditional love. Man. But that's what
Speaker 1: it's all about. Um, when you're not writing music, what
Speaker 1: music are you listening to? Oh so I listened to?
Speaker 1: I mean I got a lot of variety, right, but
Speaker 1: my go to has lately been like Drake Young Thug Gonna,
Speaker 1: T Grizzy. You're like T Grizzy a lot, Travis Scott Losey.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people I listen to. What I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about. I'm just here. Her name of people. But
Speaker 1: it was like, like literally every day. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I like Little Keyed, Um, It's it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a variety of music I listened to. But you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to talk about me, like
Speaker 1: it depends on the move going out there, you're ready
Speaker 1: for a football game, I might listen to something different
Speaker 1: rather than when I'm just riding in the car, just
Speaker 1: about to drive home and I know I gotta drive
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes. So but like season open before the Buffalo,
Speaker 1: what were you listening to? Grizzy Grizzy Pray for this
Speaker 1: Drip that's my song? What if? What if I asked
Speaker 1: you who you'd want to collab with, Like whether it
Speaker 1: be a current artist, someone you listen to growing up,
Speaker 1: Who's somebody that you really want to do something with? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean I really wanted to I wanted to do
Speaker 1: something big with a little dirt, and I made that happen.
Speaker 1: You know, Dirk was um. He worked with me, and
Speaker 1: he's like one of the most humble people I've ever
Speaker 1: met in my life. Because it's crazy. You get a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of fame and a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, people draw attention to you, it's easy to
Speaker 1: kind of go in the shell a little bit. But
Speaker 1: little Dirk was a guy. He was just open minded
Speaker 1: and he worked with an athlete knowing Um, that was
Speaker 1: like huge for me. Um. That song will be dropping
Speaker 1: pretty soon. And uh, Drake is another one, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to work with Drake Um. And a girl
Speaker 1: like a girl want to work with two. Her name
Speaker 1: is Megan Stallion. Ok. Yeah she good too. Yeah. Like
Speaker 1: people don't know yet, but they will, Yeah, they will
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna make it happy. Man. I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it happen in some type of way and make it happen.
Speaker 1: So just leave me on. But I'll sleep because I yes,
Speaker 1: your moll Adams that as well. Because seriously, because anybody
Speaker 1: who gets an opportunity to meet you, your energy, bro.
Speaker 1: You're bringing it everything. You're bringing it on the field,
Speaker 1: you're bringing it on the practice field. You're bringing it
Speaker 1: when you go home and you write music. Do you sleep?
Speaker 1: I do sleep. Actually it was hard for me to
Speaker 1: sleep Saturday night. I went to sleep. Well, I went
Speaker 1: to bed and like I probably fell asleep. I went
Speaker 1: I laid down like eleven o'clock and I probably want
Speaker 1: to sleep probably eleven thirty and I woke up with
Speaker 1: like five am because I was so ready for the game.
Speaker 1: You have ready roll. I woke like five am. Isn't
Speaker 1: that unbelievable? Though, Like I literally couldn't sleep. I feel
Speaker 1: like I was get ready for Christmas. I was going
Speaker 1: to say that, Yeah, this is exactly. It's just like
Speaker 1: I'm just up. So I'm just sitting there just trying
Speaker 1: to watch highlights and like, let's get Are you watching
Speaker 1: highlights to yourself? Honestly no, I mean I've watched highlights
Speaker 1: of myself the night before, but that morning now I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I watched it with myself. So I watched
Speaker 1: say Kwan Barkley. Oh, I see what you're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched Klan Barkley. I watched the Barry Sanders, and
Speaker 1: I watched Ladenia Thomason. And are you on YouTube? Doing
Speaker 1: this on YouTube? It's just like one of us because
Speaker 1: you're all over YouTube right now. Why don't you tell
Speaker 1: people what you're doing on your page? Oh with the
Speaker 1: music or the video with everything YouTube? I mean on
Speaker 1: YouTube everything you're blowing up. We got the mic up.
Speaker 1: The mike up thing was huge, um because people I
Speaker 1: don't think people really get a sense of hi I
Speaker 1: am off the field, you know what I mean. People
Speaker 1: kind of see me playing football and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a good football player, and it's that another they
Speaker 1: hear about me in the media, you know, but don't
Speaker 1: really know my personality, like just on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: you know. Not think I'm gonna use my YouTube to
Speaker 1: kind of show people like, oh, yeah, this is me,
Speaker 1: like lady on, build a person, you know, not just
Speaker 1: the football player. Yeah, it's interesting that the guys that
Speaker 1: you took a watch at prior to your first game
Speaker 1: with the Jets, Barry Sanders, he he was always your guy, right,
Speaker 1: my favorit running back, My favorit running back. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I know he loved the Curtis Martin growing up. But
Speaker 1: what stood out to you about Barry Barry He's a
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't really understand. But it was
Speaker 1: his patience, right. It was like this draw play they
Speaker 1: was running with the Detroit lines. I have no idea
Speaker 1: how they were running it, but it was like the
Speaker 1: quarterback could dropped back. Barry Sandral really just wait back
Speaker 1: there they're handing the ball. Then it's like he can
Speaker 1: pick either way to go. And I feel like he
Speaker 1: just was never wrong, like on that draw play, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. He I think he
Speaker 1: he had the most ours loss in his career, right,
Speaker 1: but he was literally losing the yards and try to
Speaker 1: gain yards. That's that's literally what it was. It was
Speaker 1: like I respect that, like I he was going for
Speaker 1: the checkler everything. But he's like literally my favorite runner,
Speaker 1: you know, and um just about you know, he had
Speaker 1: patience that change the directions unbelievable. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how he was doing it. And um, and his balance,
Speaker 1: his balance was his balance and his vision was really
Speaker 1: uh I think underrated, you know, um, but that's what
Speaker 1: really made him who He was his balance, vision and
Speaker 1: obviously everybody knows about his change direction. And Barry Sanders
Speaker 1: really wasn't like the fastest guy, but he was fast
Speaker 1: enough to get you know, to break a long run.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't really the fastest guy. He didn't really
Speaker 1: depend on his speed. He changed he he depended on
Speaker 1: his change direction and his vision and his patience. Man,
Speaker 1: we talked about this before, but I go back and
Speaker 1: speaking about highlights. I look at you at Michigan State
Speaker 1: and well that's a big, bruising back. Two fifty. You're
Speaker 1: totally transformed, man. And every time I see you on
Speaker 1: the football field now, as we saw against the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills in the season opener, you're so explosive. When you
Speaker 1: look back at your metamorphosis as far as wherever you
Speaker 1: come from, believable, it's unbelievable. So were on Friday. We
Speaker 1: was in the team meeting or not the team in
Speaker 1: the running backs room. UM in the meeting, and we
Speaker 1: was watching my Michigan State highlights and all the running
Speaker 1: backs like, whoa, that's you. I was like, no, like,
Speaker 1: but it's crazy because my running style was the same.
Speaker 1: It's just I was a lot slower and I was stronger.
Speaker 1: Like I was obviously strong because I was bigger. So
Speaker 1: D'Antonio had you in the weight room. Yeah you're just crushing,
Speaker 1: but you're probably heavy heavy, squat, heavy bench every time,
Speaker 1: you know. And it was just crazy because when I
Speaker 1: look at it was like I still had the moves,
Speaker 1: you know. I was still spinning and you jump over
Speaker 1: people like not a breakout game. I was still doing
Speaker 1: all that. It was just now it's now I'm a
Speaker 1: lot more explosive. Now I'm a lot quicker. And I
Speaker 1: think this over the course of my person of my career,
Speaker 1: from my junior year to my rookie year to my
Speaker 1: second year in the league, I just understood, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I could be a better player if I just make
Speaker 1: me be a little quicker, a little more explosive, you know,
Speaker 1: not have to depend on just if it's a fire
Speaker 1: I run. But I could have been fifteen, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's the difference, you know, because you
Speaker 1: want to be explosive in this game, right everybody's not
Speaker 1: really looking for the big rules and back no more,
Speaker 1: you know. And I understood that. I knew I could
Speaker 1: catch passes out of the back field, I could run routes,
Speaker 1: but I knew people wouldn't really go look at me
Speaker 1: like that if I was to forty. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I know how to get down to um.
Speaker 1: Your Your story is unbelievably, it's unbelievable as far as
Speaker 1: the trajectory you were too star recruiters coming out of
Speaker 1: high school. You carry that chip to this day? Do
Speaker 1: I do? Just because of the fact that I know
Speaker 1: where I came from and I know you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people doubted me. I just remember in high
Speaker 1: school just walking around the hallways and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: my close friends and I was talking to They knew
Speaker 1: where my goal was and my dream was to go
Speaker 1: to NFL and stuff. But I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people would believed it, you know, um or believed
Speaker 1: I could do it, you know, even you know my
Speaker 1: high school coaches. You know, you got a couple of
Speaker 1: them who maybe I knew I could do it or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it's just like I remember, the only person who
Speaker 1: was really always in my corner with my like my mom.
Speaker 1: Like my mom was making sure like any camp that
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to, like if I wanted to
Speaker 1: go to Penn State camp or like Akriant Camp or
Speaker 1: Ohio camp or whatever, she made sure she saved up
Speaker 1: enough money, you know, so so we can travel and
Speaker 1: go to the camp, you know, and I can kind
Speaker 1: of showcase my talent and then try to get a scholarship.
Speaker 1: You know, my mom was like in my corner the
Speaker 1: whole time, pushing me. She still is. She means everything
Speaker 1: to everything, like literally everything, because she was here when
Speaker 1: you signed. I signed, yep, when I signed, like She's
Speaker 1: gonna be right there at the whole time, the whole time.
Speaker 1: Is it true that Ohio State in West Virginia recruited
Speaker 1: you to play safety? Yes, West Virginia and Michigan Virginia
Speaker 1: and Michigan Ohio State, it would recruit me for like
Speaker 1: both sides, Yeah, both sides. Um, they was gonna give
Speaker 1: me an opportunity at running back. But they didn't get
Speaker 1: an offer from none of those schools, like no scholarship
Speaker 1: from none of those schools. Do you remind Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: that they were coming after you to play safety? HEYT
Speaker 1: worried about that, worry about that. I did not want
Speaker 1: to place they Do you ever think about like for
Speaker 1: someone that's so go, go go, you always bring in
Speaker 1: the energy. You have so many things to do, whether
Speaker 1: it be music, video games, whatever it is. You ever
Speaker 1: take a second and think from even what was talking about,
Speaker 1: even when you were two forty five or a high
Speaker 1: school kid too, star, You ever take a thing or
Speaker 1: take a second to think about like where you are
Speaker 1: now and how different that is even though it's probably
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago. I do you know,
Speaker 1: and I mean it was born a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: One of those things it feels like yesterday, but it
Speaker 1: also feels like forever if it definitely flew by, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, It's like sometimes it'll
Speaker 1: take like me watching like on Friday, me watching the
Speaker 1: Mission State Highlight, and then I'll think about, like that
Speaker 1: is crazy. I was too forty and then I had
Speaker 1: to really transform my body, had to go on this diet.
Speaker 1: And ever since I went on that diet, you know,
Speaker 1: from my from my junior year, going into my training,
Speaker 1: going into my rookie year, ever since I started that diet,
Speaker 1: it changed my life because it's like that's my lifestyle now,
Speaker 1: Like I eat totally different now, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: just crazy, how like just from me like trying to
Speaker 1: change my mindset from my junior year going to the NFL,
Speaker 1: from my rookie year, my whole my whole mindset has
Speaker 1: changed on the way I eat or what I eat
Speaker 1: or what I drink and put it in my body,
Speaker 1: you know, and it may be literally who are person
Speaker 1: out in the day, you know, I'm glad that it happened.
Speaker 1: When it happened, I was a twenty year old kid
Speaker 1: who made the decision. Now I'm sitting here in twenty
Speaker 1: seven and it made me a person At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, did you feel like you were back
Speaker 1: home again when you put the pads on, you came
Speaker 1: out of that tunnel, you got the ovation, you got
Speaker 1: twenty three touches. I like the fact that you got
Speaker 1: twenty three touches. I think some of the great athletes
Speaker 1: we've ever seen, and you know, for me, it was
Speaker 1: always Michael Jordan's and I we talked about I'm Jay
Speaker 1: last week kind of hurt when I'm Jay went away
Speaker 1: from the game for a little bit and we didn't
Speaker 1: see him. But when he came back, you know, that
Speaker 1: was something else and you were back where you were
Speaker 1: meant to be on the field, and it felt and
Speaker 1: it felt good, you know, because I just know, I
Speaker 1: just remember waking up on that day, waking up yesterday
Speaker 1: and just getting on like my normal my phone, like
Speaker 1: a normal day is looking at my auto text messages
Speaker 1: I had going on Twitter, Instagram, just like so many
Speaker 1: people were just ready for that day, you know, and
Speaker 1: it felt it felt amazing to me. You know. I
Speaker 1: remember when I'm in the warm ups, I'm just thinking, like, man,
Speaker 1: we're almost there, and I'm just trying to stay calm.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like trying to stay calm, but it's like
Speaker 1: everything give me is like, bro, can we just play
Speaker 1: football already? Like you know what I'm saying. Like I
Speaker 1: was just already to play because it felt it has
Speaker 1: been a long time coming, you know, so um, I
Speaker 1: had to sit out all the preseason games and be
Speaker 1: out there with my guys and rout them all and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it just felt good to be out there with him,
Speaker 1: you know. And obviously not the outcome we wanted, you know,
Speaker 1: but we wanted to make I made sure that, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that I got out of the game healthy
Speaker 1: and I was actually able to play the game again,
Speaker 1: you know, and I had fun doing it. You know,
Speaker 1: that game was fun. It was a rivalry game, you know,
Speaker 1: guys out there having fun, you know, and uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get back to the drawing board and
Speaker 1: get everything right. But I'm just glad that, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually back in the midst of things. She getting
Speaker 1: my body when I woke up this morning, I was happy.
Speaker 1: I was sure. Yeah, I was like, oh yeah, hurt,
Speaker 1: I'm back. Was her favorite play, I mean the touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: Obviously you get back in that and so on and
Speaker 1: and that was a beautiful Brad. But you you had
Speaker 1: a couple of runs out there, including fourth, and gave
Speaker 1: your team a chance to still gain victory. I never
Speaker 1: run my favorite how about backed up? I mean those
Speaker 1: like one of my favorite runs, my favorite play. It
Speaker 1: was like a third and seven or something and we
Speaker 1: threw it the crowder, but I had a blitz pick up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're talking about, and dude trying
Speaker 1: to buy rush and I smack him so hard, like
Speaker 1: that was my favorit play because it's like people must
Speaker 1: have forgotten this, this is what I take prior to
Speaker 1: I take pride and you know, blocking like blitz pick
Speaker 1: up and people trying to buy rush me. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not happening. Yeah, you're about to do that, and
Speaker 1: you got praised for it on Hard Knocks. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's somethingbody lookally like more than like a tenure run.
Speaker 1: I take way more pride than like pick picking up
Speaker 1: a blitz, especially like a good rusher or something and
Speaker 1: blocking them because that's literally like me versus you. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like if I get a good run.
Speaker 1: I mean, it takes my read and stuff, but I
Speaker 1: depend on everybody up front. You gotta make sure Sam
Speaker 1: put me in the right play. The guys and I'll say,
Speaker 1: I gotta do their jobs, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's like a collected thing and it's like a good
Speaker 1: run that goes. But when it comes to blitz pick up,
Speaker 1: and I know it's it's me verse one, diy, it's
Speaker 1: me versus you, and I win that. That's just that's pride,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And a lot of guys
Speaker 1: don't really take that, you know, or that prideful about
Speaker 1: the bit pick up, you know. And that's what I
Speaker 1: think separates me from a lot of running backs because
Speaker 1: I'm not letting my quarterback get hit. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm not gonna happen. You have an infectious personality.
Speaker 1: Your teammates have gravitated towards you. I think you got
Speaker 1: miscast maybe because of people's misconceptions of what happened in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of love for a number of things.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, he loved playing football. Anybody who
Speaker 1: goes out there and watches you a practice. You don't.
Speaker 1: You have to have to be out there in game.
Speaker 1: You love the game, and uh, you're off to a
Speaker 1: good start. I know you guys didn't get the I'll
Speaker 1: come you want it, but you look like the vintage
Speaker 1: Levy on bout. I think good things are. I agree.
Speaker 1: I just want to know one thing before we wrap up.
Speaker 1: The defense got called out individually this past game, Like
Speaker 1: when in player introductions, if the offense does it and
Speaker 1: it's you, where's your hype level there? Yeah? I figured
Speaker 1: like undescribable. I think maybe that's why we got introduced first,
Speaker 1: because they noticed money night game. Okaying, all right, that's
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