Speaker 1: Real people. Celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning Everybody. It's DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Ye, Charlomine the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: special guests in the building. His albums out right Now, Wonderful,
Speaker 1: Action Bronson, We're here. Thank you guys, got the Alchemists
Speaker 1: with him. That's right, produced six Jordan There. What's up,
Speaker 1: sir Uth? What's up? And you look like you slimmed
Speaker 1: down a lot? I did? I lost? How did you
Speaker 1: do that so quick? I wasn't that quick. I was
Speaker 1: on the way when we met last time. But I've
Speaker 1: just been, you know, eating right and getting it together.
Speaker 1: What's eating right for you? What's what's eating right? Because
Speaker 1: I go I usually, you know, I eat a terrible times.
Speaker 1: So in the morning I start off with a banana
Speaker 1: shake with peanut butter and some raw coco. And I
Speaker 1: do that twice and twice the day, do you? But
Speaker 1: then I hit the ginger shot wheat grass, about two
Speaker 1: gallons of water a day, just walking around, just going in. Now,
Speaker 1: I saw you with the food truck. If myself I
Speaker 1: didn't look healthy though it was not healthy whatsoever. That
Speaker 1: was the one time, you know, I let it go
Speaker 1: a little bit down there. I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: ate a lot of beef, a lot of beef ribs.
Speaker 1: The brisket was out of control. The beef ribs was
Speaker 1: out of control. But the food that I was serving,
Speaker 1: the people loved it. Was like it's something that everyone
Speaker 1: could eat down there. So uh, fried potatoes with gravy,
Speaker 1: cheese and brisket. Everyone loved it. Did you cook the
Speaker 1: food yourself? I gave them the recipe and then the
Speaker 1: girls that were directed, Yes, I directed, I produced it.
Speaker 1: I produced a situation. Yeah. But the girls that were
Speaker 1: working on the truck, they killed it for me. They
Speaker 1: really knocked out about two thousand places, and I just
Speaker 1: gave them all away. It was great. Who comes up
Speaker 1: with those marketing plants? Because because as a chef, do
Speaker 1: you feel like that, Okay, that's stereotypical. You just go
Speaker 1: to make me throw out a food truck. No. I
Speaker 1: wanted to do that because I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: connected with the fans, especially through food. Is It's what
Speaker 1: I'm known for. Yeah, it makes sense, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: And down there it's it's a food truck heaven in Austin.
Speaker 1: It's like it's the biggest boom of food trucks in America.
Speaker 1: The best marketing plans, I think, are the ones that
Speaker 1: make sense for who you are exactly. And you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the ideas I come up with myself,
Speaker 1: but I can't execute it all the way. So we
Speaker 1: have the good people that are helping execute it, and
Speaker 1: that's just the way it goes. Or Now, I was
Speaker 1: listening to the mister Wonderful and they didn't see the
Speaker 1: production credit yet, so I'm assuming Alchemists did a lot
Speaker 1: of joints. He did three joints on the yep. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is because I had thought. Yeah, it confused me
Speaker 1: a little bit because some of the records weren't even
Speaker 1: wasn't a rap on them. Yeah, I know. I was
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm trying to do more of just
Speaker 1: like different pieces of music, not just only rap, because
Speaker 1: I gave out ten projects of straight ridiculous rapping, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, just NonStop. So now this time
Speaker 1: I just wanted to take take the time and just
Speaker 1: really like do the music I wanted to do. The
Speaker 1: Alchemists tell you should experiment a little, and he was
Speaker 1: iffy about those joints at first, honestly, but then he
Speaker 1: came back around. You know, it was like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know he needed I just felt like he's done so
Speaker 1: much already. But it was like, okay, now the major
Speaker 1: album on the label. You gotta take it one step.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, because I felt like he built. He
Speaker 1: sometimes gets put in the category that's like keep it
Speaker 1: real rapping, you know what I mean, backpacks, But he's
Speaker 1: not that. Yeah, he listens to saw some music, he
Speaker 1: listens to crazy, so I felt like he needed to
Speaker 1: show that too. He said that on the record Terry,
Speaker 1: he said, you do a remix with pit Bull? And
Speaker 1: like what Bronson do a remix with pit Bull. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you who the remix is gonna be for
Speaker 1: that song, me pit Bull and then Doom. You got
Speaker 1: it done already. I have the Doom verse. Oh, City
Speaker 1: Boy Blue. That sounded like a jam session. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was just like kind of like a light hook on there.
Speaker 1: That was just a better music man that that song
Speaker 1: right there was specifically, well City Boy Blues, A Light
Speaker 1: in the Attic and Baby Blue. It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: like a little mini musical in between the album, you know,
Speaker 1: so that starts it off. It's all about kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, relationship things that woes that I've gone through,
Speaker 1: and I just I just caught a bug. Eighty eight
Speaker 1: Keys produced that one right there with Party Supplies, and
Speaker 1: he just played it for me, and I just couldn't
Speaker 1: wrap to it. I couldn't catch a rhythm to wrap
Speaker 1: make it sound good at least. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm writing a song. I was listening to a lot
Speaker 1: of Billy Joel that day and I was like, YO,
Speaker 1: explain the light the Attic record. Yeah, exactly. It was
Speaker 1: a play on I'm the shel Silverstein book, A Lightening
Speaker 1: the Addict. A lighting Addict is uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's kind of heroiny, it's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: it's like dopey. It's like dope music. It's just party
Speaker 1: supplies and uh. And the dude who wrote it, Sean,
Speaker 1: they were sniffing dope at the time and taking a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, hallucinogens as well. And that's just
Speaker 1: you say in the Mountains that one's rap. But you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean that that that
Speaker 1: music made me feel like I was taking answer for
Speaker 1: ten days straight. That's what I meant. It's just like
Speaker 1: that Turkish funkadelic. Man, it's just some next level music.
Speaker 1: They just like the music from all over the world.
Speaker 1: Is this There's so much out there that you have
Speaker 1: that you have not heard. You just need to. Like
Speaker 1: al he goes all over these places and just gathers records,
Speaker 1: gathers records. We come back and we listen to him,
Speaker 1: and it's just like we can make beats from them more.
Speaker 1: I could just put them in my eye tunes and
Speaker 1: just listen all day long, bump them in the car.
Speaker 1: The name mister Wonderful, explain that. You know, mister Wonderful
Speaker 1: is just something my mother used to call me. It's
Speaker 1: kind of tongue in cheek, you know. She used to
Speaker 1: if you're like kind of like, you know, a mess up,
Speaker 1: or you do terrible things, or you act up all
Speaker 1: the time, mister wonderful over here. You know exactly what
Speaker 1: it's name as well. But you know he was also
Speaker 1: like a real jerk, so that's why it kind of
Speaker 1: played fun. You know, I'm not really a jerk, but
Speaker 1: sometimes I could be. Met I played one on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now let me ask you this. I was just talking
Speaker 1: about um, you know, just you trying to experiment with
Speaker 1: different things. Didn't make you nervous that your fans would
Speaker 1: be like, what the hell is he doing? Of course
Speaker 1: you don't want to. I mean, if they're real fans,
Speaker 1: they're gonna understand the growth and everything that needs to
Speaker 1: you know. Me, Me musically, I came into the into
Speaker 1: the music thing late, you know, so right now I'm
Speaker 1: really just getting my I'm getting my feet under me. Um.
Speaker 1: It's only been five or six years since I've been rapping,
Speaker 1: so I'm just really getting into music as a whole
Speaker 1: and understanding it more and being able to use different
Speaker 1: vocals and stuff like that. Because I was definitely scared
Speaker 1: or self conscious about singing. But then I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, all these other dudes can't sing for
Speaker 1: they stink. And I definitely could throw some effects that
Speaker 1: make me sound like Stevie ray Vaughan or something. I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure it out, like good thing, it's like Jim
Speaker 1: Morrison or something. It's like some seventies some vibe chick
Speaker 1: at you and your feelings on that it wasn't true.
Speaker 1: Oh that's true. Yeah, all that heartbreak like you bought
Speaker 1: a crib? Oh yeah, come on, how much the house.
Speaker 1: That's not that much nineteen hundred a month. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with that. But it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a lot of relationships that go
Speaker 1: wrong in general. You know, it's usually that's how it goes.
Speaker 1: That's actually the first time I've ever heard a chance
Speaker 1: to wrap a rap. He rapped and I told him.
Speaker 1: I told that last my mind, Like I never heard
Speaker 1: a verse from you, and but I liked. But I
Speaker 1: saw you guys came my Southwest together. Yeah, we did that. Well,
Speaker 1: I've seen Charlotta Magne over there. He was hosting U.
Speaker 1: The Woodis did a good job over there with Nessa.
Speaker 1: And now I have some questions for you. If you
Speaker 1: had to pick between two different things, some of these
Speaker 1: might be hard because Alchemist is right here, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Alchemists or Mark Ranson. I mean you know I have
Speaker 1: to go without Okay, after Queen's bya grew up on mob.
Speaker 1: That's that's just what it is. Bay, who Bay for?
Speaker 1: What are we referring to? What? Don't you worry about it?
Speaker 1: This is your first instinct? Nah? Nah, I guess Bay
Speaker 1: all right? Coachella or south By Southwest Coachella or South
Speaker 1: by Southwest, Um, south By coach Coachell is amazing as well.
Speaker 1: I'm doing Coachella this year, by the way, UM, it's
Speaker 1: amazing as well. But south By you get this concentration
Speaker 1: of everybody down there. It's just I feel's a good
Speaker 1: feeling down there, moving from place to place. Everyone's running
Speaker 1: to go see this person. Oh, I gotta leave it
Speaker 1: the last song. I gotta go run here and catch
Speaker 1: this person. It's just a cool feeling. It's like like
Speaker 1: a it's a conference. I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 1: In the food. The food, you gotta keep it there.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a good time. It was snowing up
Speaker 1: here and it was cold, so we were down there
Speaker 1: was sweating, all right, shrooms are Molly's shrooms. I've never
Speaker 1: done a Molly My. I don't know, all right, ja
Speaker 1: cold Kendrick Kendrick like you're honesty, keep on my headitate
Speaker 1: the only one you hesitated on with Hubby or Bay Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You wrapped a lot about drugs on
Speaker 1: the album. I didn't know if you're really in the drugs.
Speaker 1: There was just rap. I don't know, No, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I've definitely later on in my life. I started, I've
Speaker 1: used shrooms, you know, like I actually the first one
Speaker 1: of the first times I took shrooms is in Africa
Speaker 1: and we went in South Africa and I took these.
Speaker 1: This dude had these, um, these concentrated psilocybin drops, which
Speaker 1: is just pure extract. So I took one. We all
Speaker 1: wild out, went to Noble. I don't think for eight hours,
Speaker 1: just just the precursors of it. No bugging out, just laughing,
Speaker 1: uncontrolled eight hours. Yeah, so at least five in South
Speaker 1: Africa and Noble. It was crazy. Wow, the faces in there,
Speaker 1: it was just That's all I remember is these crazy faces. Man.
Speaker 1: That with most New York rappers. If if you look
Speaker 1: like you say mob Deep, they're known as a New
Speaker 1: York rapper, but you're not. You're just action bronzes. Does
Speaker 1: that bother you at all that people don't associate you
Speaker 1: necessarily from New York. Um? No, I mean nah, I
Speaker 1: just think they're uneducated, you know. Honestly, Um, you probably
Speaker 1: got more them on your passport than I mean. I
Speaker 1: had to get a new passport. I had to add
Speaker 1: thirty extra pages. Also, straight up, Um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a Queen's native thirty. There's no other place I'm from,
Speaker 1: you know, there's no other place that explains me. It's
Speaker 1: just straight queens. If you don't understand, where where could
Speaker 1: I be from? If you hear me talk, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not from Indiana, you know what. I might look it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not who It's some other artist that hit
Speaker 1: you up, like on the regular on your phone asking
Speaker 1: you to you know, just just say whatever. Vince Staples
Speaker 1: hits me up constantly. We always talk to each other.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, Ray, I mean raised the man he's He's
Speaker 1: always showed love since the beginning. Um yeah, I talked
Speaker 1: to Ray a lot. I talked to Prodigy. Um that's
Speaker 1: really it. You know, like a lot of younger dudes
Speaker 1: that are not really like that. Popp and I just
Speaker 1: I keep in contact with it. What a select few,
Speaker 1: not too many. I don't like to be fake with people,
Speaker 1: know what I mean? But what do we have to
Speaker 1: talk about other than you know, rap music or something
Speaker 1: like that. You know right now, Alchemist, you was one
Speaker 1: of the architects of that ninety sound. What makes you
Speaker 1: gravitate towards Bronson? I mean, you know, first when we
Speaker 1: met it was like, first just music. I dug his stuff,
Speaker 1: and then we kind of clicked because you know, when
Speaker 1: you make music, you end up in my travels, just
Speaker 1: like you make the best music with the people you're cool.
Speaker 1: So we just kind of clipped, like I liked. I
Speaker 1: don't remember what it was when we first met. I
Speaker 1: think he let me like, I've chasting him, hooked me
Speaker 1: up with some weed, and he just gave me an
Speaker 1: ounce and was like take that. I think it was
Speaker 1: that it was something like that. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's like one of the people I grew up.
Speaker 1: You know, not to say he's an old man, but
Speaker 1: you know he's not now, but you know that that
Speaker 1: was first, you know, it was the music. Then we
Speaker 1: linked and I was like this kids, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, this is somebody I could be, you know,
Speaker 1: friends with him. We kind of linked like that, and
Speaker 1: through time him coming out to LA, were working and
Speaker 1: we just built a relationship where it was like that's
Speaker 1: how we broke the ice to make more than just
Speaker 1: a joint here there. And I know I know what
Speaker 1: he's about now, and I know how to fit the
Speaker 1: right beats. So when we get up it's like a
Speaker 1: guarantee we're gonna make something anytime. Well, I take rap
Speaker 1: literally mass it's a few things off the album. I
Speaker 1: need to know. Can you really speak six languages and
Speaker 1: three voices? I can speak two languages and two and
Speaker 1: a half voices, but I just speak English and Spanish
Speaker 1: and I understand a little bit of Albanian, but I
Speaker 1: don't speak it fluently, which I'm embarrassed about not. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, be honest. Have you ever really been
Speaker 1: in first class with a heart because I thought one
Speaker 1: million percent, like coming back from Texas, I had a
Speaker 1: heart on and I was sitting random Or are you
Speaker 1: thinking a lot of times when you fly? I don't
Speaker 1: know something about had on coming back from Austin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a separation, fam You don't need to know that
Speaker 1: because you know daydreaming or is it just a random
Speaker 1: it's it's the pressure of something that only morning wards
Speaker 1: on first class exactly? Just you know, damn, I'm up here,
Speaker 1: I got all this room, might as well get comfortable.
Speaker 1: But if you guys both we wouldn't know, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be convers You wouldn't know about that. And you also
Speaker 1: said overseas you probably got mad kids you don't even
Speaker 1: know about. That could be a possibility. You gotta start
Speaker 1: winning condoms overseas. Listen. I never rappers think when they're
Speaker 1: overseas it doesn't count. They wear different outfits straight up.
Speaker 1: I know. I know dudes that only wear certain tight
Speaker 1: shirts and they will not wear that. In New York
Speaker 1: they paid homage to Lost Boys too. You said you'd
Speaker 1: resurrect Freaky Tie to do. I have to man that
Speaker 1: I grew up on that the LB family. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: he's just one of the best. You know, he's like,
Speaker 1: he's kind of like Megos are now he was he
Speaker 1: started that crazy ad stuff in the back. You know,
Speaker 1: do you feel like this is your debut album? Though
Speaker 1: it is my debut album because I put a lot
Speaker 1: more work into this than I did a lot of
Speaker 1: other projects, like the Blue Chips stuff. That's really like
Speaker 1: just having fun and going in. It's not really like
Speaker 1: taking time to listen to the EQ of the drum
Speaker 1: or the EQ of the base. On this project, I
Speaker 1: really really dug in and like was in the studio
Speaker 1: for of everything being done. Yes and no, yes, because
Speaker 1: you know you want to make you want to show
Speaker 1: that you know, you're on that level of artists where
Speaker 1: people dying to just buy your music. I've given a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff out for free, and I've made a
Speaker 1: lot of money on the road, So in that sense,
Speaker 1: I don't care. But now I'm not dealing with an
Speaker 1: independent situation. I'm dealing with people that are looking at
Speaker 1: me like, oh, they're only gonna, you know, do better
Speaker 1: for you when you're showing that you're moving for them.
Speaker 1: So me making numbers happen, It's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: more helpful for myself in my situation with the label,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna want to push me more and do
Speaker 1: more things possibly, you know what I mean. Did you
Speaker 1: think about things like what is my first single gonna be?
Speaker 1: Is it's a radio friendly song? Things that you never
Speaker 1: thought about before the rappers. Rappers think that every new
Speaker 1: song is their single. You know, the newest song that
Speaker 1: they just made is the single I thought mad songs
Speaker 1: on my single. I don't know what a single is,
Speaker 1: but baby Blue, the new one, is definitely my best shot. Right.
Speaker 1: I like that, and I think crazy. I hear that
Speaker 1: on the radio. It's on the radio a lot, but
Speaker 1: I would you know it? I don't know, I can't
Speaker 1: call it baby Blue is more of a musical Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's more of a musical piece. The other one is
Speaker 1: more of a it's like a street single. But that's
Speaker 1: good because then that keeps you, you know, it keeps
Speaker 1: me on both sides your core fan base without the
Speaker 1: one that's a little different for you. Listen. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know how these people think. Honestly, I just don't
Speaker 1: get it sometimes. But um, what are there like for
Speaker 1: you in a meeting when you have to sit down
Speaker 1: and like go over? I can't. Yeah, it's so crazy,
Speaker 1: It's it's ridiculous the breakdowns. I'm just sitting there like
Speaker 1: this because you know, I don't really like I don't
Speaker 1: like doing those types of things. But you have to.
Speaker 1: You have to be on top of your business and
Speaker 1: know exactly. You gotta know who your marketing persons. You
Speaker 1: gotta know who's doing this. You gotta know who's doing that.
Speaker 1: You gotta know who's doing this. You gotta have everybody
Speaker 1: under control, and you gotta show face and be like, listen,
Speaker 1: you know you guys are ready to work this and
Speaker 1: just talk to people and build relationships with people. And
Speaker 1: I feel like I've done that I feel like I
Speaker 1: know a lot of the people that are working on
Speaker 1: this project down from the lowest to the highest. And
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the way it is. Oh, I have
Speaker 1: a TV show for sure. We have the web series
Speaker 1: called That's Delicious right now out on Vice Munchie's and
Speaker 1: it will be coming to a cable network near you
Speaker 1: in the full can just close which network it is,
Speaker 1: it will be, it will it's it's a major move.
Speaker 1: It's better be MTV because they love you in that building. Well,
Speaker 1: I've helped me out. Man, let's go. I could do that.
Speaker 1: I'm not exclusive. This is a non exclusive thing. How
Speaker 1: hard is it to not wrap on records? Because I
Speaker 1: had to roll the new idea and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: a tough track with you don't wrap, Like, how hard
Speaker 1: is it to say, you know what, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: let that one rude up? You gotta I mean, I
Speaker 1: just I was like, you know, I gotta think out
Speaker 1: of the box on this and just let it go.
Speaker 1: I just I just let it go. Man. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: did less thinking and more from the gutch feeling just
Speaker 1: you know what, boom, let's do this. This feels good
Speaker 1: right here, This feels like a movie. I'm more trying
Speaker 1: to paint the scene and create a whole spectrum of
Speaker 1: sound other than hit people with your single songs. So
Speaker 1: with this album, I'd love it to be listening through
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole way, you know, so you could
Speaker 1: hear the transitions and the inter lose and for it
Speaker 1: to make sense. Having lost forty pounds recently, has that
Speaker 1: changed your sex life? No, my sex life was incredible
Speaker 1: before just New Moves, New Moves. I was just talking crazy.
Speaker 1: I was out of control. I didn't know what I
Speaker 1: was saying. Honestly, I looked at that and I was
Speaker 1: I was like what I was an It was like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like the seagull, the whole seagull I routed.
Speaker 1: You feel like this album tells your story? I think
Speaker 1: it does. I feel like this album tells you exactly
Speaker 1: who I am and what my influencers are, and where
Speaker 1: I am musically in my life and where I am
Speaker 1: in my life period. You know, I feel great. Um,
Speaker 1: my mind is clear, and I'm just you know, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to tackle everything that's put in my path. And
Speaker 1: not only that, I'm at my most creative at this point.
Speaker 1: I feel just you know, from just everything that's going on.
Speaker 1: Just ideas just pop up all the time, and it's
Speaker 1: not like anybody else's who would you love to work
Speaker 1: with that you have it with yet Carlos Santana, straight up,
Speaker 1: straight up, I love him. Like we were in South
Speaker 1: Africa and I saw him at breakfast. I couldn't even
Speaker 1: say a word to him. I was like, you didn't
Speaker 1: even speak. I couldn't. I couldn't because my eye go.
Speaker 1: I fanned out one of the first albums I've ever
Speaker 1: heard in my life. And my father's car back in
Speaker 1: the day driving a barren mountain and yeah, straight up
Speaker 1: we used to take those tips too, damn mountain man.
Speaker 1: Carlos Santana is just one person for sure. But we
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us this morning. Thank you guys for
Speaker 1: having me again. Any stores right now, thank Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club Action Bronson. Yes,