WEBVTT - #282 - Zoe Osama 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.560 Blue lay Cap Podcast special guests in here one of 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.800 the hottest in the city, Zoel Simons here. What is 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.800 the deal? Welcome man, I appreciate it, man. Of course 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.840 you've been doing your thing. Man, Man, I've been trying, 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.640 but yeah, day at the time, it's just I guess 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.400 it's starting to pay off. Congratulations on I see you 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.040 posting your numbers all the time and getting all these 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.680 huge playlists, replacements and what you would you say, because 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.239 I do feel like that is one of the biggest 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.600 uphill battles. It feels like for LA artists is to 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.639 kind of get the music industry is East Coast bias. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:33.640 A lot of the people who curate these playlists are 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.360 East Coast bias. Like, what do you think is kind 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.319 of the secret to your success so far? Promote your 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.120 music NonStop, not just a few times a week or 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.200 for a month and then go on to the next song. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.680 I think I promoted the song long enough to the 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.680 point that it was able to reach over there for 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.720 somebody to even put it on their platform, Because if 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.560 I just posted the shit a few times when it 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.080 came out, left alone, it wouldn't have touched no platforms 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.640 or playlist especially not organically right, you know. So, I 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.959 think a lot of artists coming up feel like if 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.920 the song don't take off in the first month, two 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.800 months top, that is a it's a dud. But that's 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.600 when they really be having it fucked up. If you're 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.640 an independent artist, are gonna probably least take you a 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.440 year or two to make one single move, if you know. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:24.040 And that's the difference between the major and do it yourself. Yeah. No, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.760 it's crazy because most people give up on hit records 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.679 before they become hits. I see it all the time. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.039 You'll hear a record like, Yo, this is a fucking 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.000 hit record, but because it did not take off in 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.119 the first thirty days of it being released, a new 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.720 song next week. Yeah. Like, there's a dude from the Bay. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.440 You probably heard of a stunner man who had a 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.280 big stepping record, and he's another that record every fucking day. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.680 He's a prime example of what can happen. You see. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.640 He got to the forty nine ers yep, and to 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.760 go to State Warriors. So that might be a song 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.480 he never have to work again off of, you know, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.600 if you do, if you make it with if you 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.720 follow his protocol, like some artists is doing him and 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.680 Lo Russell and people like that, You're gonna win. Bro, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:06.639 Do you pay attention to a guy like l Russell, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.920 who I feel like has kind of, you know, in 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.720 my opinion, helped kind of guide a whole new generation 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.440 of like what it means to be independent. I fuck 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.639 with Larussell. Heavyl Russell is the Bay Area Nipsey hustle 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.440 with businessing and marketing and do it yourself. So's he's imfluent. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.519 He's taking what Nipsey did and doing it and is 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.840 working for him. And he's showing you that with what 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.239 Nipsey was saying, he's proving to you guys, this ship's real. Yeah. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.760 So I fuck with Larussell heavy. And that's a that's 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.960 really like a method that I'm going off of, you know, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.800 and ship every day. We just we just keep on 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.200 pushing bro. That that's what it's all about. I just 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.200 really feel people be giving up too fast. What part 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.000 of LA are you from? I'm from South Central I'm 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.560 from I'm actually off the east side of South Central, Okay, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.919 like Forrestone District. That's what's up. Do you feel like LA? 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.079 Because I always say it's like it seems like nowadays, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.400 more than maybe like ten years ago, or even like 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.079 five or six years ago, a lot of the new 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:11.040 generation of LA artists, I wouldn't say put politics aside, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.440 but I feel like a lot more people are working 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.000 with each other, a lot more people are more open 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.040 to like supporting each other, you know what I mean. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.000 I mean, obviously there are examples of that not being 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.560 the case, but do you feel like there's more of 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.399 a unified front amongst the younger guys in LA right now? 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.960 It's getting better? I said, like, this is probably a 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.240 big reason is a lot of the you know, a 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.200 lot of them guys is either dead or in jail 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.680 right now, So you don't we really got generations of 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.440 people that's not really like that, so the politics don't 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.840 matter as much to them, And then you have people 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.520 like me that just didn't been around the shit that 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.440 the politics is shit bullshit, right, you know, to a 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.560 certain extent. So I think in a way it's getting better. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.360 But it's all carried off of how you carry yourself 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.880 as a man first, Because you can have the people 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.200 that's talking crazy that crazy things happen to or you 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.160 can have people like how Nip came in the game 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.240 that you know where you're from, staying on ten toes. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.440 At the same time, it's respectful, we'll take the piece, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.280 but we accept the war too, but we rather take 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.600 the piece because you're trying to get this bag. So 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.480 I just really think it's all all of the mentality 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.320 of how the person is and how the rapper is. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.760 How did you get the Osama in your name? Because 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:27.799 obviously a legendary terrorist, uh right, right, Michael Jordan a terrorist, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:33.599 but you see in the crazy thing about it, Michael 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.560 Jordan terrorists. The crazy thing about it is the name 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.400 on Simon means Lyon, Like yeah, I mean listen, right, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.480 so I felt right. I mean, Barack's name is Barack 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.480 wit no, Hussein Obama. I'm tripping. See that was fucking 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.960 it was who says Hussein was in the middle Another 0:04:53.360 --> 0:05:00.359 some might argue, legendary terrorists, You're a legend Baracks Cusain 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:06.440 Obama's a legend. Legendary terrors is crazy. But that's crazy, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.640 like like damn, Like that's crazy. But like you know, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.599 I mean, it's a great rap name, it's a great name, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.080 but like, what what made you, you know, stick with that? 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.080 It's like man, you're fucking blowing up these beats. But 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.640 every time you rap it is great actually in the way. Yeah, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.080 I guess if you put it like that, But I 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.560 just like I went for the the definition of you know, lying, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.560 Like I feel like that's how I stand. But you know, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.360 you've got other people using the same name for the 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.480 legendary terrors. You talk the guy from Chicago, right, well, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.560 yeah he's hard too about the fire, nice kid too, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.120 he go up. But you know a lot of people 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.360 it's from the streets, so they look at Osama as 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.320 a legendary terrorist. But the definition of the name is lying, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.680 like he gave a bad rep to the name. He yeah, yeah, 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.800 it's nothing. Yeah, it's like it's like no one ever 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.960 is gonna name their kid Adolph anymore. You won't know. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.279 It's crazy. Look, I try make a player in NBA 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.159 two K right, it put Osama, and they told me 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.480 that name was not allowed to be That's some bullshit, 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.760 because what if that you're real? Hey, that's what I 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.360 was on. I'm like, it's some Muslim person out there 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.279 name Osama for sure. And they scrimmaget that they would 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.400 they would watch go home and try to do that shit. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.200 Just play with it, go but like use another name, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.440 but it can't use that. I was like, that's crazy. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.080 How long have you been like rapping like and like 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.359 taking it serious? Where you were like all in on 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.080 this ship twenty eighteen, like December twenty eighteen when I 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.760 figured out what the fuck dishow Kid was and got 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.520 off a SoundCloud. Yeah, once I figured that, and I 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.240 made a song called gang Shit and get Easty featuring 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.040 my boy to pregrams. He's a hard rap out of 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.320 the long beat. You gotta get up with him. But man, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.080 we did the song years ago and it's still streaming 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.960 right now, like since when it started. And uh after 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.240 I seen you know how to give my music on 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.600 the platforms and people was actually fucking with it, I 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.760 was all gas from right there, Yeah, because like that's 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.320 I feel like it's crazy, like distro kid and like 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.680 tune core. For a long time, people were like it 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.320 was like the hardest thing to figure out, Well, how 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.960 do I get my shit on iTunes? I was googling 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.920 shit late at night, couldn't make in my head it shit, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.080 can figure out how the fuck to do it? And 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.000 then I stumbled across it. At first I stumbled across 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.400 the shit called CD Baby, Yeah, CD Baby, Yep. I 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.600 just couldn't afford. I was down bad. I couldn't even 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.880 afford to twenty dollars. So my brother had bought me 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.360 a description for dishow Kid for the twenty and I 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.760 just picked I just you know, any mini money, just 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.600 picked one. But now I'm used to dishow so I 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.960 just fuck with dishoshow Kid is great because you can 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.480 pay your producers, right, you can give everybody to give 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.600 them their split, your manager, I d everybody, and then 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.480 it's like from there. You know what I'm saying, sign 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.360 up for your own account, right is that to get 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.360 your money because other than that, you know, but yeah, 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.320 you can't even put the you can't even get video 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.520 creators credit. Now in your own disho kid you can 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.360 get and they got a whole for anybody that could 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.680 do anything, you can give them credit and then it 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.440 shows up on your Spotify and places. I'm assuming that 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.720 there has been a lot of discussions about maybe you 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.640 signing somewhere or got like maybe a bigger distribution situation, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.360 Like what for you? How important is it to keep 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.520 your independence as long as possible. Or are you even 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.240 would you even consider doing the major thing. Everything different 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.480 for everybody, and I'm gonna say it like this for 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.040 me personally, if the paperwork right, we can talk about it. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.000 That's the point. I don't care if it's an indie 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:25.160 you know, or major you know, or halfway indie you know. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.400 If the paperwork right and you can manage off of that, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:33.520 then it's negotiable. But I'm not all against signing with 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.960 a major. I'm just all against the crazy ass deals 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.760 that people take. What I was giving the paper to 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.199 the lawyer, right, so you know, that kind of leave 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.640 a sour taste in a lot of people mouth. But 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.240 when you start learning your business, you put that ship 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.920 to the side in its business. So I do feel 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.360 like labels need to start. If an artist does not 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.000 have a lawyer, I feel like it is malpracticed for 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.240 them to allow an artists to sign with them. I mean, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.800 I feel like they low key need to be like, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.080 so here's twenty five hundred dollars, go get a lawyer 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.400 for you to hire your own lawyer. We're not gonna 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.280 hire the lawyer for you because they work for us. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.240 But but that's like, that's like saying that's like the 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.960 police officers telling you after you get caught doors with shit, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.880 you can't we're gonna, we're gonna pay for your lawyers 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.000 before we interrogate you. Like they're not gonna they're not 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.800 about to help you. Well like a lot of right, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.079 because a lot of these labels they do get people 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.320 in like shitty predatory deals at the same time, like 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.240 people sign them. That's why you can't be mad at 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.640 what you signed. If you signed it, if you sign 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.520 it just for the money, then you just got the money. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.680 And then now don't get mad when the money goes. Yeah, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.840 you sign it, sign it if you you know, you 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.840 do some stupid shit, and and you know I didn't 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.839 see some crazy situations with people, you know, right, So 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.520 it's just like you now, I mean, we hear about 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.480 it all the time. People complain in like you'll hear 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.720 the biggest rappers with platinum records be like, I haven't 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.040 seen any money off my actions. They be signing these 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.079 crazy deals and they take the front in advance that 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.440 with this smile on their face, and they don't recoup 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.319 market budget. That's what all that shit costs money. And 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.800 it's gotta and then once you start doing the math 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.160 and you're like, okay, thirty nine hundred dollars for every 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:15.240 million streams times can't sound crazy, right, It's like, Okay, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.600 you probably didn't even recoop and you and you might 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.960 have went platinum. You you didn't recoup, you went plant them. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.640 It's time to drop another album. They gonna give you 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.680 another budget. On top of that, it's like, every time 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.400 you need more money, you got to drop a project. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.959 So you probably signed for a meal each project, and 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.120 you down to the fourth project and you ain't recouped 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.520 from the first one, but they keep giving you a ticket. Bro, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.520 you ain't you stuck? And then you're making albums for 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.559 paydays and not for like the artistic like integrity. That's 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.480 how shitty albums happen with a lot of these ros. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.320 But it depends on what kind of person you want 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.559 to be. You might want to be you might want 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:48.959 to be you might want to be an artist, or 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.120 you might want to be exact right it is. You know, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.040 sometimes the artist you know, paying somebody fifty thousand a 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.120 year every time you get ready to drop is probably 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.960 better than what they came up from. They probably came 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.160 up from food stamps and team, so they probably still 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.840 win it. And for some I always say this too, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.720 for some artists to take the advance because you're you're 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.720 you caught it a little shitty TikTok songwave. Take that 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.679 advance because it's probably as good as it's gonna get, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.439 and do something with it. Do something with it though, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.080 for sure. See, but that's what that's what people fuck up. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.800 You can take it, but Mike, go get an accounting. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.800 Some they give you a little change, Go go figure 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.520 out where you can, you know, move the shit around 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.160 that oh shit, go back to doing what you know 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.640 how to make it, make it happen. You do whatever 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.760 you gotta do, but don't get mad with everything gone 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.880 and start blaming the label for something you agree with. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.520 That's what probably I don't be like, it'd be crazy. Hey, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.439 we got to interrupt the interview. Man, Hey, shout out 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:39.760 to my bookie. 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Dodger hat. Oh 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.880 you are you about? Don't? Yeah, you wear it if 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.840 you want to, or the one I got. I'm only 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.920 wearing this in the valley. I don't wear it though. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.480 But you're the off of ble. But you know, if 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.440 you just a low bid and a citizen, hey you 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.560 just like you don't la la la la. Yeah, they're 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.880 certain hats, you know, like this, how this how I 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.760 gonna nigga can see this hap from down the block, right, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.360 It's just I don't know something about it. I was 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.920 wearing a Texas Rangers hat. Oh yeah, they' that's the 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.000 equivalent to this right to listen. So I was at 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.040 Barry's Pizza at like two thirty in the morning and 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.360 I get hit up by Big You, and uh, He's like, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.520 you know, I have a really good relationship with Big U, 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.800 like I've known for a long time. And he texts me. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.480 He's like, family, we gotta meet. I need to face 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.240 to face. And it's two thirty in the morning and 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.880 I'm with Brian Samson, who hopefully you'll never have to 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.440 meet in your life just because of that name that 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.920 sounds that sketchy. Well, we gotta get to that one. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:46.040 There's a round Filipino. So I'm like, yo, what's up you? 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.640 You know, it's like random to get a text for 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:48.920 Big You at the middle of the night, you know 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.440 what I mean. And like he's like, I need to 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.440 face to face. We family, We got to talk. And 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:58.240 I'm like, what's up, bro. He's like issues, and I'm like, well, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.040 he's like, pull up on me right now. That sound 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.720 like somebody getting the DP. So this is when I 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.280 lied and I was like, man, I'm all the way 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:10.040 in Valencia right now? What about tomorrow? And he's like, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.120 if you're all the way in Valencia, why you got 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.440 that hat on? And I'm like, and this motherfucker stood 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.320 up from the booth like three boots over it just 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.520 started dying like it's like, bro, and I ain't gonna 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.280 lie my bad bro. And that's like the first thing 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.880 you notice about to do when you see a dude 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.880 gotta hat on? What kind of hat is it? Yeah, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.800 that's like from that's like LA culture for sure. So 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.920 I would say, if it's not a basketball team or 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.440 a LA hat, what about the Arizona Diamondbacks. That's the 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.160 D hat, right, don't wear that hat? I mean you can't. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.560 It's about the A. What about the AH don't for 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.160 sure don't wear that hat. Okay. So just the dining 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.360 acts are out because everyone's always told me looking as 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:51.880 are kind of saying, no, that's what I'm saying. It's 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.040 kind of safe because it's not the Detroit hat, okay, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.840 so you know, but it's still the D You might 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.600 you might be from a certain place and just want 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.160 to wear the yeah because it go you know, you 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.040 get the dominic back and say that the Detroit. It's 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.640 not about the hat. It's about the let letter. The letter, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.119 the letter it might be. It might be an inn 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.600 white hat that's not a Yankee hat and it just 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.639 got n y on it. It's the n y what 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.000 you got that n y on folk. It's that type 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.120 of situation in l a black and white LA hat. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:20.679 You can do the blue and white to you can 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.639 do any now stand away from the when you have 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.320 a red l A hat on it look kind of sketchy. Yeah, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.160 like you are dom MoU for sure. These who buys 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.120 a LA the blue lad I heard is like that's 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.360 like the official south Side. That's like the Yeah, that's 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.400 the say half for sure. I mean, if you're black 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.240 and you wear you good to go, okay, that's you 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.000 feel me so or if you like Caucasian, that's good. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.080 So let's say I'm Caucasian. But you can you can 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.119 you can low key pass for Hispanic. Bro, Listen, you 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.040 can pass for Hispanic definitely. Like if you're in the 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.760 wrong area where like I get off, they're gonna get 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.280 on you. Let's say I gotta get off the one 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.560 ten right, I gotta get gas. Oh, someone comes up 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.040 to me and they're yo, where are you from nowhere? 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.320 What do I say nowhere at all? Or tell them 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.560 where you're actually from. Someone told me I need to 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.200 just start acting like super like angry, like I'm fighting 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.160 with my man. I'm dealing with this bitch. I don't 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.720 even know where I'm at. And I just called my 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.119 bitch cheating, Oh my mama, and nigga gonna hit you 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.320 so cause you you might, you might start at him, 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.639 you might eat my hold on. What's up with this nigga? No, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.400 but don't ever do that. Just start acting like you're 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.320 fighting with your girl in your lost But I see, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.439 I've seen this by I've seen this by experience. It 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.040 might be that I've seen it. It happened a lot, man, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.120 you know, it might be somewhere yohood, wherever the case 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.119 may be. Somebody might bang on somebody that don't be 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.679 from nowhere. But then he started trying to put his 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.480 foot down as a man like, bro, I'm just saying, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.159 now you're getting locked out. Now, now you're talking to 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.040 me crazy in my hood. Now I gotta get on you. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.480 That's how people think. It's fucked up man thinking. But 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.440 in situations with gang members just tell them you not 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.440 from nowhere. And if that go where you can see 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.080 you can see the bite language. Dude, you gotta do 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.160 to get up up the situation. I had a situation 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.920 where he was there. We were in a Vallejo which 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:10.000 the creston Vallejo, which is like a very uh legendary area, right. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.280 I was just out there and we were supposed to 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.840 be shooting with a rapper from Vallejo, not the Russell. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.280 And I guess like right before we got there, somebody 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.080