WEBVTT - #238 - RJmrLA 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.680 Boutleg Cap podcast special guest, one of my favorites, been 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.479 waiting on his album for a very long time, about 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.880 three and a half years twenty nineteen ish. Bet that 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:17.160 bet that RJ's here, mister La welcome man. How you 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.840 how you feeling now that you got this body of 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:21.639 work finally into the world. I know you've been working 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.639 on it for a long time. With it, I do, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:26.880 I think you know what's crazy? I feel like that 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.160 you're the most consistent outside of Kendrick because we got 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:32.800 to give it up to KTA, But I feel like 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.199 consistency when I know you drop. I just know that 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.360 there's a certain level of quality that comes with RJ. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.959 You think he's with I think Kendrick's fucking with everybody. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:43.440 So that's you know, just to be I mean, I'm 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.760 doing me a lot of you. I'm honesty. I just think, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:48.159 like when I think of like the City, I'm like, yo, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.519 I just know I'm getting quality of music from RJ, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.280 every fucking go, timeless music. And I think you're the 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.120 best performer. Uh, I think you're top five performer in 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.880 hip hop to be honest, hip hop. Yeah, when I 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.520 see you performed, bro, I saw you at the Real 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.720 Street Fest which is like twenty nineteen as well, when 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.959 we had our Real ninety two three festival you performed 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.920 at and I was just like in owe, bro, Yeah, 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.360 could you be fucking you be popping and locking and shitah, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.360 you got every movement that it reminded me of like 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.080 early Tech nine, Like when I used to see Tech 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:20.360 nine when I was a kid. Shout out to Tech 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.160 nine is another one of the greats. Tech would have 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.840 like a movement for every fucking like bar and I 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.800 feel like you're kind of similar you are you high 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.280 right now? No, it's really the beats that that tell 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.480 the story. Yeah, the other song of the movements, you know, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.679 the beats be so you know, like like you know 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.480 it like yeah, you know what I'm saying. My beats 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.560 really hit. How especially on stage, I was gonna say, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:54.400 how like you inspired your like performance game or did 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.760 you just figure that shit out on your own? I'm 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.200 a students another game? Yeamn. When I was coming know, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.080 we used to watch a lot of a lot of 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:08.560 artists perform. Yeah, one artists in particular was his Buster Rons. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:13.400 Of course, he made an announcement, you know, I said, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:19.240 artists need to start performing. Yep, and I took heat 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:24.280 and I started studying performers, and uh, I just developed 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.920 my own style. That's smart. And Bust is one of 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.920 those ones. Man him and Spliff Star. You've seen him 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:36.120 live in person for fucking fire. Yeah yeah, yeah, Busters 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.079 will go for sure. They just they just did. Uh 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.440 wheveryday at l A was a Hollywood ball with nas 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.280 was nas Buster Wu Tang clan. Yeah, shout out the bus, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.120 shout out kids though, because he spoke on him. He's 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.240 a great performance too, amazing. Yeah did you go to 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.440 the uh the the tour? I mean he had like 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.000 seven days in LA. It was good. It was dope. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.519 Kendrick is also one of those guys that can captivate 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.400 a crowd without, you know, I think some people mistake 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.280 screaming and jumping into a mosh pit and crowdsurfing and 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.399 like just doing wild shit on stage with like good 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.840 performing and like sure sometimes that goes over well, but 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.400 I think like your breath control, how you sound, like 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.840 how captivating you are without doing all the crazy antics 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.440 on stage, to me is like very more. It's more 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.760 important because like anybody can like throw shit and CrowdSurf 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:37.119 and yeah, I'll be looking at that like that's cool. Yeah, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.080 it's like cool. It's like cool if you can't perform 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.760 and you're like wrapping over your fucking track, all right, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.920 it's cool. Yeah, you're wrapping over your two track, but 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.680 you fucking jumped off of a speaker and you know, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.640 sprang your ankle, So everyone's like, Yo, you're a god bro, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.680 you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Yo, the album is dope, though, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.760 Man than you, I really I love the Tie record. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.040 OT record is just super flagrantly fucking disrespectful without love. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.840 It was like a classic You got just a classic 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.440 OT moment. Ye shout out my brother man OT shot out. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.240 What did he rhyme Vagina with on the song China, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:20.839 China and Vagina. Listen any song in which they rhyme 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:26.320 China with vagina? It's amazing. Pelo has a song too short. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.320 He was talking about how to make a girl make 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.919 money off of her pe hole, and I was like, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:36.279 I love that China Vagina. Love it? Yeah, you guys, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 it sucks. So it's crazy because like I feel like 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.720 somehow throughout the pandemic, I know the club scene is 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.640 popping in l A again, But I feel like we 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.920 kind of lost Like I kind of missed Playhouse. Does 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.039 that make sense? We gotta understand a lot of the 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.279 money left with the that pandemic. I just feel like, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.680 so it's not a lot of but I'm still like poppy. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.479 There's I feel like, you know, there's still spots like 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:06.200 the LA function is though, like obviously Penthouse, but I 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.520 just like I missed Playhouse. I feel like Playhouse was 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.080 like the spot where like you could go and like 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.559 you could really have a temperature on what LA sounds 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.080 like at the time. Well, like you know, one of 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.640 the people who's in charge of a playoffs is that Dragonfly. Now, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.880 so I haven't missed it. I still got shit going on. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.640 It's just relocated. Yeah. So I'm the type of person 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.320 since the pandemic, I've just decided I'm not going outside 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.880 unless I'm getting paid or unless it's some ship where 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.960 I'm like it's the homie, I gotta go support. I'll 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.039 be fucking tired, broke. I'm with the kids. I'm telling 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.719 you know what I'm saying. How many songs like did 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.920 you pull from for this project? Like, I know you've 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.640 been recording for three years now, you know so was there, like, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:58.000 how many songs didn't make the album? Steven? Was there? 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.920 I got a lot of songs, a lot, Yeah, it was, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:06.880 it was there. Okay, four songs from the entire like 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.320 three years, it's what I have, you know, that stayed 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.240 on the album. And then the rest we was in 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.920 this record plant for ten days. I think we recorded 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.880 like probably like seventy five of the project. Yeah, like 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.360 thirty songs or something like that. Shit. So there's four 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.080 records on here that are older in terms of just 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.040 the timeline of when you started recording in since the 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.800 last album. Yeah, everything else you knocked out in that 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.440 ten day period. Correct. Wow. Do you feel like you 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:43.680 ever become a victim of demo ititis? Where? Yeah, Because 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.000 like artists will have songs where everybody will hear them, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.479 they're like, Yo, that's a fucking hit. But you listen 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.400 to your own ship and your cruise, listening to your 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.680 own shit so much that you it gets played out 0:06:52.720 --> 0:07:00.320 to you. Well, not good songs are good songs, but 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:05.680 more so when the songs are being mastered, we get 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.400 demo artists and we could just be like, nah, it 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.320 needs to sound like the demo true, or if like 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.600 you the engineer, Like the engineer would be like, you know, 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.560 cleaning it up, making it clean. But we like the 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.160 rough We like the raw material. It happens a lot, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.800 you know what I'm saying. We like how it sound rough, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.240 but we just clean it up. Even if I give 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.200 away to much sauce. No, that's a lot of that's 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.920 real sauce right there. I mean, I have an artist 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.200 and we're just going through this album and there was 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.320 like some shit got moved around like and I was like, yeah, nah, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.240 that's that's not how I know it to be, you 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.120 know what I mean. Especially I think that should be 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.560 happening too, when like there's like a demo hook cut 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.720 on someone's record and you have the demo version for 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.800 so long, but so long, and then then the big 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.040 artist gets on it and you're like, man, I don't know, yeah, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.520 well the big artists that got on these records, well 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.600 all right. The Funny Ship we had a record that 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.760 we did. We had two records that we did with 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.280 tar in the same day, and we just picked. We 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.960 picked the one that we went with the special Delivery. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.080 That shit was like that shit was though both of 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.160 them is fire. So what happens to the other one. Man, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.400 It's just this goes in the vault. You guys are like, uh, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.720 you know what I'm saying. I'd be like, yo, I 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.560 want both. Yeah, if he wanted, he could have it, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.880 though I'm not stingy put it under the deluxe when 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.560 it comes to tar Are you gonna do it lux? 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.679 I don't know. Yeah, it's kind of like mundane to me. Yeah, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.400 everybody doing the Deluxes and shit like that. I'd rather 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.160 just do a whole other project. I love that. Just 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.520 don't make us wait three years. Nah, I'm back in 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.480 the in the bag now. I'm back in that emotion. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.480 So pretty much want to put out a lot of content. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.840 I don't want to oversaturate it, but I want to 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.960 put out a lot of great content because you know, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.520 tomorrow's my promise. So facts, how many music videos do 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.040 you have in the can right now? Mm hm? We 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.760 pretty much go with the flow videos. You kind of 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.440 just let the fans tell you which which joins to shoot. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.600 I respect that. That's smart. Obviously, you've had a great 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.160 relationship with Thug over time. Shout out to Young Doug 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.680 free Man, Free slim Man, Free Free Dope, Free, Slan, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.120 Freak Gunner, Freedom, gods Man, Free, I Sail for Real, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.440 for real. He was on the last album, right, Yeah, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.400 you guys shout the video and everything. He's somebody who 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:33.319 I feel like super tapped in with your movement. I 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.000 always hear just about how great of a guy he is, Like, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.280 he's very generous. How did you guys initially link up? 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:47.360 We I'll perform. He was like, who's at He already 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:48.920 knew who I was. He told me, he told me 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.200 he already knewho I was. Also, you opened up on 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.640 tour for him. Correct, it was you him and m 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.439 g K. Correct. That was before I met him. Just 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.640 after I met him, know right right right For people 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.880 who don't know your guys' full history. Yeah, I met 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.559 him at Le Jardon. He was at La Jardan. They 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.480 told me to pull up. I pulled up. I performed, Man, 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.520 you know what I'm saying. I blew everybody away, per usual, 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:18.240 and we you know, shook hands, turned up after that, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.000 and then it was cool after that, and then I 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:25.160 met him again, got reacquainted with Jomoses. I was, you know, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.800 sliding around with Jomoses, Jomoses the Future et cetera. And 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.800 you know that's the team Birder and all them that, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.880 you know what I mean with the Slanes boom. And 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.520 then as soon as I went to the studio, he 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.960 just like you trying to record and then that's history 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.559 and we just went from there and then put me 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.559 on the tour. I went crazy. Was the every conversation 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.199 that have you maybe come over to white self. Nah. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.880 He just always try to push my career forward, and 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.320 that advised me to do, you know, make proper steps 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.480 and proper moves and shit. Things that work for him, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.720 things that don't work, you know, and just you know, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.040 blessed niggas with gang, I respect that a lot of 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.560 our almost will only do that if they have the 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.480 motive of trying to get you under their label at 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:16.719 the end of the day, you know what I'm saying, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.719 the fact he does he did that like from a 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.640 selfless point of view. So so I'll pick up on 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.960 that too. Like I tell the people I'm with you 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.480 an gotta sign to me. 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I mean, I know 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.280 he has a song called Another that wa ain't gettingto 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.640 nothing too bad, ship like that. Like it's just typical 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.560 tour ship, right, getting sucked up, going to different city, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.320 going to different stage, you know, being on the road 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.240 and you know, and you know ship missing home things 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.520 like that. It's regular, you know, just turning up shit 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.520 just given our full energy, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.880 given one hundred and thirty two percent every city in 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.360 every state. So that's pretty much what it'd be like. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.760 Talk to me about who is on the label? Oh amo, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.840 who's under the ameo and bro see they off top. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:59.160 He's been here before, so uh precrder three card stuff recorder? 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:05.800 That your lady or my mother of my children baby mama? Okay, yeah, okay, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:11.240 mother of my children. You're you're a mother of your children? Yes, yes, okay, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:16.520 so she's she's on there. She was on the Jeezy 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:23.640 record too, right, correct, Mike Wayne Coppy Poppy Uh splack. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.520 We got another artist named Melody Melody Baby. Uh. He's 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.360 an Egyptian and he just type got a dope as voice, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:40.600 got producers. That's just under the umbrella, you know. Harry 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:47.200 j m hm uh uh, my boy man, we got 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:55.080 him eighty nine with us, my boy Freddie Ruger and 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.560 we just you know, we're just flooding. Is there anything 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.960 you learned because you had obviously league being under the 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.720 ten suming I want to shout out GFO to g 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.760 FO young Cat to shruy g for yeah, fuck you 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.640 know what I'm saying, that's just family. I'm just speaking 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.000 on people that just a lot of times I speak 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.640 on just family and knowing that I you know, I 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.280 want to, you know, share my platform. Why not you 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.880 feel me what you should do? Yeah, I'm not that 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.840 type of person where you just like, if you ain't 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.480 signing to me, I'm not fucking with you, no right 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.320 type shit. I was gonna say, what did you learn 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:31.080 from the ten summer situation that you're applying to AMEO? 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:36.200 Because Mustard obviously is a fucking boss. You know what 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.160 I'm saying. You guys put out some timeless music together. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.960 So was there anything you learned from that experience that 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.240 you're applying to your own imprint? Now? Yeah, for sure, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.440 I learned a lot from myself. I learned, you know, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.600 first hand, on how to deal with you know, situations, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.920 and you feel me even being involved with you know 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.760 what I'm saying, who you involved with? It's just like 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.280 you know always you know what I mean, do your 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.280 you know what I mean, keep your best foot forward. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.400 You know what I'm saying. I wouldn't be in the 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:12.080 game if it wasn't for usf me, he took a 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.720 he single handedly took me under his wing and you know, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.840 shine shine a lot of light on you know what 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.760 I'm saying, and learned like the business too. You feel 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.040 me being on your being on your boss standing on business. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.920 You know what I'm saying. Shit like that. It's real, dope. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.760 Oh a lot to him and every chance I give 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.200 you know, I speak to you. But you know what 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.640 I'm saying. That's why, you know, being independent, it's like 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.000 it's kind of like easy for me. Not easy because 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.640 it's a lot of weight on our shoulders and shit 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.720 like that. But you know, being independent, you know, we 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:55.120 try to like, you know, tackle certain certain mainstream tactics. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.640 You know what I'm saying, right, take certain mainstream tactics 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.720 and you know, go with the floor. You know, shit 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.520 like that, you know, because you know, being independent, like 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:10.040 you gotta do more of the work on the business work. Yeah, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.320 you know what I'm saying. It's a lot more work, 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.840 it's a lot more tedious, but it's a lot more rewarding. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.760 The payoff is worth it, yeah for sure. Because this 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:26.320 is your second album since I guess leaving the Innerscope ship, right, yes, yeah, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:32.879 Actually my first album was my first album period on 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.280 God was my first album period. I was when I 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.439 was signed. I was only signed for uh two mixtapes, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.280 which was to those two projects, which was Mister La 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.960 and the Ghetto. Everything else was ameo. Those were independent 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.680 early those are yeah, those are independent release records. Yeah, 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.919 you feel me, so those ameo records is what you know. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.240 We have titles too, that's amazing, which keeps us afloat 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.000 and keeps us going. I mean, you got some fucking classics, man, yea, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.560 some real classics. More well, a little bit above a float, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.879 but yes, that's fair. Uh. You know what I appreciate 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.720 about you is like one of the early things that 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.280 had happened in La when I first moved out here 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.919 was you and Grido did the first versus Correct, definitely, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.919 the first versus It was at the Novo Correct and 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.720 the Observers. I guess you guys did do too. The 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.680 first one was at the Novo though, right, the first 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.440 one was Observe. Oh see, the first one. They thought 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.000 everybody was gonna die. Yeah. I mean I remember talking 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.080 to Head and He's like, I'm not gonna be there, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.000 and I was like we should go, Like you know 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.320 what I'm gonna listen to anything LA related. I just 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.120 listened to head on. I'm like, you know what, you're right, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.800 head And it was a success. But it was so 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.080 dope because I remember y'all going back and forth online 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.680 and then you guys had this fucking incredible event where 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.520 everybody was on stage and it just felt like, wow, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.720 this is like, this is like history. Low key for sure, 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:08.080 it was basically like you know, it was what Gucci 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:12.120 and Jeezy did, but we did it because our ship 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.119 was more like in the in the in the in 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.040 the moment. It was in the moment. That's what made 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.679 it different for sure. And the fact that there was 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:25.800 no incidents is amazing. Yeah, for sure. Did you guys 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.320 talk like before it went down, like, was there like 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.600 a low meet up backstage? We will keep it respectful, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.399 we will make sure. No, we didn't know what was 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.359 gonna happen. What the fuck I was gonna whoop it ad? 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.399 It was just organized chaos. But then we just like 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.040 you know, kept it cool and I just playing. We 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.040 talked about it, Yeah, we talked about it on the 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.800 phone because it got out of hand. It got out 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.840 of hand on the like on the internet, the internet, 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.439 you know, always blows things over portion, and you know, 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.960 when you don't have communication, you know, it up the nation. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.880 So you know, we talked about we uh shout out, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.760 Well no oh nos is also an artist. My fault, 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.640 excuse my fault, my fault. Little enough that he's also 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.000 an artist for Ameo. But you know he's always been around, 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:15.800 you know know, but him and Mafia Horn they got involved, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.880 and you know they Mafia Horn talked to Grito Knows 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:22.680 to talk to me, and we got on the phone. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.119 And when we got on the phone, it was like, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.800 you know, it was it was like that, you know 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.960 what I'm saying. Initially, yeah, but you know, they talk 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.000 to us, talk some sense into us. And then you 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.240 know what I'm saying, we carry out the show and 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.640 kept it going because it's really bigger than us. Yeah, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.200 And sometimes, you know, being in the moment, you don't 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.640 understand that. Sometimes, being in the beef, you don't understand 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.880 that it's bigger than you. You got the focus right now, 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.080 people on you. Right now. They're perpetuating this beef, they 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.639 perpetuating it and making it blow up. But it's bigger 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.280 than you. You know, it's more about a whole you 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:03.359 feel me in what both of y'all represent, and it 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.280 could be detrimental. So like, sometimes you gotta rise above 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.320 yourself and rise above the situation and really like see 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.200 yourself above it and see the whole game and look 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.480 at yourself from a bird's off view, and you know, 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.280 then moved up, move accordingly. You know what I'm saying. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.240 So that's what we did. We just seen ourselves birds 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.200 off view and moved accordingly. And we made money off 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.760 that shit. That was like my first fifty thousand dollars show. Wow, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.119 no cap, get me fifty bands off the show? I 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:38.040 did shit. Shout out to you. What's a good fucking 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.879 day the show, that's a great day. What show was 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.600 at the Novo and we had two of them. Jesus 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.040 salute the show. Hey, we gotta stop the interview real 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.600 quick to tell you about our partners at odd Socks 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:55.119 are presenting sponsor here at the Bootleg Hit podcast. Listen, 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.000 Christmas times approaching faster than you think. I mean, we're 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.240 like fucking a month and a half away or some shit. Ever, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.480 get some odd socks for your folks. Go to odd 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.120 socksofficial dot com. 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