WEBVTT - Mario Interview 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:07.920 The real key, real celebrity, join the Breast morning. Everybody 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.840 is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scholamine the guy. We are 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.360 the Breakfast Club. Now we got a special guest. It 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.840 looks like he just came from the Empire's All white party. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.160 Oh yes, oh yes, what's good with it? What's going on? Baby? 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.480 What's up? What up? You know what I'm saying. Good 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.840 to see you. You're doing your independent thing now? Yeah, 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.880 fill it did get leagod like a week before, but 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.040 we are. We just put the new version out, you 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:36.800 know how to get it right for radio. That's what 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.000 I was drinking on my birthday. Fireball. Yeah, I had 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.040 a bunch of those at midnight as soon as turning 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.959 my birthday. Named after the liquor na. No, actually, it's 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:46.519 what I was drinking in the studio when I was 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.800 doing it. So the producer Parker walked in, you know, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.120 with the red cups. It was like, you know, four 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:53.760 or five of us in the studio chilling at the 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.200 cribout and I tasted it, and during the hook, I 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.400 was singing, We're spending all live Benjamin Man is to 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:01.920 night and that I tasted it. I put it in 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.120 a dream like what made you leave JA That was 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.520 your long standing label home and from day one, I mean, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.200 you know, that's FAM, always Fam, you know they. I 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.600 was blessed to have an opportunity to make it out 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.640 of bottomore and be able to label like that and 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.160 get signed by somebody who was a legend in the game, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.360 you know what I'm saying. But yeah, it was just 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.240 it was time for us to, you know, to part ways, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.560 just in terms of me growing up and wanted to 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.000 want more for myself as an artist, you know, And 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.920 I was blessing negotiate it out of the deal, and 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.200 instead of jumping right back into another deal, I did 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.560 some research and a few of men and my other 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.920 friends in the industry started this new company, car Rivers 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.399 Media Group, new digital distribution. But outside of distribution, we 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.160 also manage artists as well as publish writers and producers. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.760 Manage writers and producers as well, and a lot of 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.640 writers and producers do need some management, yeah, I mean 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.240 everybody does. Everybody needs you know, the right team. Team 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.480 is everything. Did you feel like the labeled labels just 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.560 can't do what they used to do for artists? Because 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:04.720 you were you, I mean you were you were at 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:09.079 the beginning when labels were good. Yeah, I mean really 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.440 but absolutely. I mean I remember spending you know, five 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.519 hundred six hundred thousand dollars in the video, you know 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.360 what I'm saying, and budgets was crazy, you know, you 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.600 know envy, But um, now was what was on the video? 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.160 I mean, you know, technology and you know a lot 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.280 of things, but I think it's about you and the 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.720 label being on the same page as far as your 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.040 brand as an artist and having an incredible team and 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.959 just you feeling like, you know, the support is there, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.840 you know. Um, for me, it was more about me 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.960 having a vision for myself that was bigger than just 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.600 the you know, niche audience that at the time, you know, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:48.040 my label was you know, pushing me to you know, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.480 and also the music that I want toute let me 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.120 let me ask you that you did the whole album 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.000 Rico Live. Yeah, we did a project together. Now, Um, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.960 so what's what's going on with that? Well, it's it's 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.160 technically owned by you know, another label. Okay, So it's 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.919 never We're never gonna na that's never gonna come out. Nah, nay, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.080 I got, I got, I got new music. You know. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.920 The whole prod the new project. I got a whole 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.840 new slew of music. You know what I'm saying, b 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.840 Rico to Homie. You know, So the music music, I mean, 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.840 it's good music. It's it's good records. You know. Again again, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.120 it's just it's just my direction and the type of 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.320 music that I want to make. It's just it's more uh, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.760 you know, it's more universal, and it's just it's just me. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.120 Like every record that you every record that you you're 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.400 gonna hear from my project, is I'm writing on every record, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.480 is you know what I'm saying, It's all me. So 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.120 it's like you just like even with Fireball, the way 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.080 we did Fireball, I was at the crib. You know, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.040 it was no like you know usually with yeah, usually 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.920 when you like um on a like you go to 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.880 these big studios, you spending twenty five day in the studio. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.240 It's like, you know, it's really unnecessary to a point 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.280 because it's not like we're making records with like streams 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.080 and like I am now, but like with like strings 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.800 and like um you know at the time, yeah, like 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.440 you know, we're just using pro tools, got an engineer, Mike, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.160 big speakers, so a lot of times just for entourages 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.680 or but you're wasting the money and I just felt 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.080 like being more of a businessman. Now it's like that's 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.240 not it's not really a direction I wanted to go 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.280 in a new direction or what's the new direction is it? 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.000 Is it more worldly? Like what direction does Marria want 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.440 to go in now? And what direction did they have 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.559 you in? Like for instance, um, like I said before, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:35.200 like it's just more me writing on most of my records. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.280 Like at the time, I don't think that the team 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.720 I was with believed in me as a writer. Now 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.680 it's like, you know, I'm writing more of my records 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.520 when I'm writing records that I could have written in 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.240 but the belief wasn't there, the trust and the you know, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.960 the vision for me as a writer. Don't get that 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.039 because I mean even like when Kanye came up here 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.479 talking about his sneakers, but that's your career. I can't 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.120 see it, Like on your career, how can somebody tell 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.720 you know you can't write, probably because you started so 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.680 young and it's hard for them. The did that look 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.640 at you as a little Mario, Yeah, And that's a 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.120 big part of it. I started with them when I 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.039 was fifteen years old, you know, and sometimes it's hard 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.280 for uh, you know, quote a parent to look at 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.640 their their child or something that they created or helped 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.000 to create and trust it off top. You know. It's 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:19.359 just you know, and it's it's just business. But you 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.520 did record the whole entire album and then at the 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.039 end of it, you just said, this just isn't me. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.600 And I guess you just you decided that you wanted 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.039 to be the one that was really writing and doing 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.600 more of that. Well, it wasn't a whole album. It 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.440 was like seven songs, okay, and um nah, it just 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.720 wasn't the direction that I wanted to go in. You know, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.320 it was great music, like Rigo's an amazing writer, but 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.880 it wasn't it wasn't a direction. Okay, you know the songs, 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.800 it's still dope song. Somebody could cut them. The dating. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.880 You know, it sound like you've been paying attention to 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.240 all these years. What you mean, like it's soaking up 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.760 the game. It's soaking up the business side of it, yo. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.880 You know, it's crazy, Like I travel a lot, you know, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.400 do a lot of stuff overseas and when you are 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.800 outside of because the industry is small and to us, 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.400 you know, to people in it, and when you're doing it, 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.960 like you feel like it's just everything you know, but 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.760 the industry is kind of small, and then you don't 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.520 realize that until you step outside of it and you 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:20.080 see you know, real money or you know, you go 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:21.839 overseas and you're sitting there like a lot of my 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.400 friends have their own businesses. They don't even know what's 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.400 going on in the music world. Billionaires one hundred million, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.520 like real money people, and you realize, like, you know, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.440 out as an artist, you you are, you are food 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:39.839 into believing that you are the ish like just it, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.400 you know what I'm saying all the time. And it's 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.320 like you got to realize, like real business is not 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.960 just being an artist. It's not just being you know, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.320 the person that people spending labeled. Real businesses is ownership, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.080 you know, real doing real business and having your own company, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.560 Like it's it's about building something that will create some 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.080 passive income for you. So for me, instead of jumping 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.000 back into another deal, it's like, yo, how can I 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.000 create a situation where I can really use all of 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.640 my gifts and when I'm done, when I don't want 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.640 to do music no more, I'm still eating or I'm 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.040 I'm becoming more of a part of the business side 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.360 of it than just you know the dude, who can 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.600 you know, get as many women as you want? Who 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.679 can go buy a Rolux and a Bentley and house 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.040 like nah, like I want more more for myself. Nothing 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:31.080 wrong with the Yeah, it's not practice. You didn't practice 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.000 accidents though for a period of time. Really are you? 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.040 Why did you? Yeah? I did? I did. Yeah that 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:40.480 you just told a girl that because you didn't want 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.800 to smash it the moment when you found out about this. Nah, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.520 I did though, and um, like a year, this was 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.200 like four years ago. This is it was a mental thing, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.560 spiritual thing. Yep, you right on point, mental thing and 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.880 spiritual thing. And the girl was seeing at the time, 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.600 was was doing that as well. The benefits um, like 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.000 you said, mental spiritual. And then you know, you learn 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.040 as a man that your sexual power is like it's 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.120 it's it's power, like you can use it, you know 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.160 what I'm saying. Your sexual energies. You know you can 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.440 use that. It's like why they tell like sports players 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.400 like don't don't have sex before you get like it's real. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.320 You know what I mean, because I've I've done that, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.960 like I, you know, be somewhere and then something before show, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.120 and it's like you don't you know, it just don't 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.040 feel the same. Is it okay for you to masturbate 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.200 or do things like that if that's what you're into 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.560 during that year? Okay of abstinence? What about are you 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.800 asking me if I masturbated? Yeah? You did? You are 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.160 I have before? You know? I meant during that yeah? Yeah, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:45.280 absolutely right now a straight question. We're very closely still friends. Yeah? 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.319 Did you ever get a chairce to hit? Um? I mean, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.880 you know, I don't put out there like that after 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.280 ye making you wait to hope? So all right? What 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.160 about oral sex? But you're allowed to do that during 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.880 that year? Maybe you said ask you questions. Maybe I'm 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.200 just saying no, I'm just wondering, like when people say 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.920 they practice absdence doesn't mean no sexual contact period, or 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.120 it doesn't mean like okay, we can kiss, but nothing 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.280 like naked or anything. He hasn't that sex and long? 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.000 She's asking, I mean, if you be real more comfortable. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.200 I've tried to suck my own penis. Hey, yo, that's 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.040 that's that's that that guy really crazy. I'm sticking with 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.520 this question over here. I'm sorry you put your legs up. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.840 I tried. It didn't work. What you was saying this 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.120 is this is a weird story, I know. And then 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.160 when you finished, she actually did it on his face 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.760 and you and we was sucked. Man, man, look man, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:43.000 I can't look man, we ain't. Oh yeah, let's talk 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:48.319 about defended. That's more money you got to pay on 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.160 the album course and all that cool with invested in yourself. Absolutely, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.120 I've been, like I've been kind of investing in myself 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.520 even when I was at the label, to a certain 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.880 costs that I had to, you know, but it's business. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.960 You invest in yourself, and um, you know, I've never 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.320 been like a super you know, spend on everything like 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.760 I I've seen so much, bro since I started like 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.160 in the game from other like and I learned so much. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.319 And then like I grew up in bottomore my like, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.319 you know, if you look at my lineage, like in Baltimore, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.480 like a lot of my family members were like like 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.520 real street dudes and like really making money industry. So 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.079 I've kind of seen how money works from a young 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.280 like not on them, you know, business level, but just 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.160 in terms of just how how to invest, how to 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.600 save your money, how to still be fly, but not 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.120 just yeah, like and then you're looking up. You know, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.040 all you got to show for it is is material, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.480 like you know. So for me, it's like when I start, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.320 when we started, like a lot of them, some of 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.240 the money that I've saved up I put towards you know, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.640 what we're doing. And then you know, how's your mom doing. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:58.199 She's good, man, she's good. It's you know, it's better. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.400 You know, I can't say strong, because I think that 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.520 takes time. But it's a lot better. Your mom is 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.840 cleaning everything, telling me she is. We we we see 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.160 each other every few months, like she'll come back and 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.559 forth from you know, Maryland to La or I'll go 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.760 to see her like so it's like, you know, we 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.600 were not as close as we were in terms of like, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.480 you know, seeing each other every day because I needed 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.880 time to really focus on myself and if I wanted 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.960 to do that, you know, I needed to, you know, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.120 let and let her grow and make her own decisions 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.160 instead of being like on a like father, like you 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.439 need to do this, you need to you know, sometimes 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.960 people got to grow up the point where you you 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.320 felt like you went so hard trying to get her 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.520 cleaned up that you may have lost a piece of yourself. Absolutely, absolutely, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.120 and that and that was like one of the hardest 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.960 times in my life because I didn't understand. I didn't 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.480 understand it from like a mother child point of view, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.720 just like you know, where is when when do I 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.160 get a chance to get that? You know? And I 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.400 think that had a lot to do it, Yeah, And 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.760 I think it had a lot to do how I 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:03.880 was with women too, and me looking for like the 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:09.000 nurturing side of a woman from different situations and you know, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.600 just making crazy decisions as far as that goes, too. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.720 But I had to learn from all of that, took 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.120 some time off to really get myself right, spiritually grinding myself, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.960 you know. And you know, now I understand, I'm able 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.920 to look back at those situations and look back at 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.719 my situation with my mom, understand and get to the 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.080 root of my issues and like how that affected me 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.920 and you know, make the best decision moving forward. I 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.720 even talk about it in some some of the new music. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.720 I feel, did you ever lose a girl? Because a 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.679 girl might have been like look, Marrow, I like you, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.080 I don't want to be your mom. No, it was 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.439 I never I had one girl tell me that, but 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.199 not I didn't lose it because of that. But I've 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.880 had a girl tell me like, yo, like you you know, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.600 I think that you you missed that side, and like 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.520 it's not so much just the nurturing side either. It's 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.640 more of the like you know, the non trust and 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.240 like you know, not wanting to commit all the way. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.920 You know what I'm saying. Because when I did trust 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.080 and commit to you know, loving and trusting my certain 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.360 things happened that I never thought what happened or never 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.400 thought like a mom would do, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:15.600 So it's like when it comes to world, I think 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.160 even the back of my mind, I was like, you know, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.520 I just would never give them all. You know what 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.760 I'm saying. So, but I'll tell you one thing, when 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.960 I do get it right, When I do get it right, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.040 that girl gonna be the happiest girl in the world. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.440 So you said you talk about this in the new 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.320 music as well, So how hard was that for you 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:38.560 to actually write those songs? It wasn't hard. And you know, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.000 it's crazy because subconsciously. I think I didn't realize it 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.600 until after I listened to the song, like, Yo, I'm 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.720 writing it, like because I got this song called Monster. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.240 And then the song I'm talking to the girl and 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.040 telling how I'm trying to protect it from a certain 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.120 type of dude. But I'm really talking about myself. And 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.560 I didn't realize that until after I listened to the 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.560 song like yo, Like subconsciously, I'm talking about myself, you know, 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.160 And um, you know it's just you called a lot 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.160 of girls heartbreak because you know they always hurt people, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.280 hurt people. I mean, I think I've I've had my 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:13.000 fasht for sure, just just just indirectly, you know, not directly. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.920 I've never really been like if I'm with you, on 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.000 with you, like you know what I'm saying. Yeah, So 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.000 it's music your vice? Like does that help you get 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.640 things off your chest? Absolutely? Do therapy, like what Absolutely, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.520 I've never done therapy before. This is my thirdy. I 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.360 think also having an organization working with kids and talking 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.360 to kids have been my therapy too. You know, when 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.640 I'm talking to kids that's from Baltimore and they telling me, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.360 you know, I had this young kid in one of 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.440 my groups. He was like twelve years old and he 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.520 took care both of his younger siblings. You know. He 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.560 would come to school late ten am, not eleven am 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.800 because he had to make sure they were straight, and uh, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.040 he was strong. Like. Look, I'm like yo, like and 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.640 I went through that too, and I was like around 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.040 his age. I remember my little brother, you know, at 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.320 one time I would come home and he would be 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.880 like on the floor crying, you know, because nobody was home, 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.200 no taking care of him. And I'll make sure you're straight, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.200 like you know, crazy stuff like that. So kids have 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.840 been my therapy when it comes to that. But now 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.560 it's like I get it. And growing up and maturing, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 you start to understand. And when you can look at 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:17.600 the things you've been through and don't not like dwelling 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.280 that moment, don't don't you know, not holding those things 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.680 making yourself feel guilty, you get you have to let 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.600 all of that go so that you can move forward. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.960 And that's where anything, you know, are you looking forward 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:33.160 to having kids? Also? Definitely? Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.560 You look, see this is the thing. Once you do that, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.120 you like, that's like you can't know coming back coming. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.640 You know what I'm saying. It's like for me, it's 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:51.040 it's it's um, it's about finding somebody who who who 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.680 who you know, who knows themselves, who who secure you know, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.160 and then me being ready to like you know, and um, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.680 trusting that person and it's being the right on the 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.880 right page with that person. Like this, I've never met 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.640 anybody where I'm like, yo, I see myself having a 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.000 child with this woman like you. You inspire me to 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.720 want to have a child. Are you scared to have 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.480 kids based off of what you've been through with a child? 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.560 Now I'm excited to have kids because I feel like 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.880 I know I'm gonna be a good father. You've also 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.640 been working on a buck right, Yeah, Like it's it's 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.960 as crazy because as I as I continue where I 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.320 just it's there's so many different directions from the health aspects, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.960 from the spiritual aspect, from the you know, the mental, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.840 the music aspects. So I'm just like working out, you know, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.200 what I want to do. But I wanted to get 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.040 this River Media's group thing up and moving and you know, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.320 take this year to really brand myself, you know, as 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:46.080 an artist, because I feel like I I did with 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.240 the label. But now it's like another level. It's like, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.640 you know, I got you know, designers. I'm working with 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.680 a new designer in a layer corps right now. She's 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.360 designing all my clothes for me for my promo, tour, everything. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.240 She's super dope and just like everything, just making sure 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.960 my fans know who I am outside of just music, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.760 and I think that that's like really important. You haven't 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.400 been that active on social media? Did you consciously say 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.440 you're gonna step back and not? I just now it's 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.480 like I'm I'm being more active now because I feel 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.960 like I got my team right, I feel like I 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.840 got my situation right. So now it's like I'm ready 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.480 to go for a fledge. So I feel like from 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:19.959 what I what I do from now on is who 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.280 accounts the most? Who are your friends in the industry? 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.920 Who do you speak to the industry If there's anybody, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.639 because like Neil used to write for you, I mean 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.159 what you mean, speak to me friend, somebody that you 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.040 consider a friend, that you could come to for advice 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.960 or that you call your home, or that you you'd 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.880 be like, hey on the Southeast, let's go Mario yo. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.640 I don't when you up there with you when you're down, 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.880 you don't got nobody calls your phone, stop fringing. I'm 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.800 just saying, like everybody ain't fake, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:56.000 But at the same time, I'm super like I like 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:01.280 organic things, you know, And it's like, you know, I 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.760 just I know people. I can call up anybody you know, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.159 but it's like you don't consider them friends. Yeah, Like 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.760 you know, you're not gonna bute them to your baby 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.320 shot when you had that baby if they like, Yeah, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.760 it's like, you know, friends is like it's a there's 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.600 people that you support because that's a crazy question their music, 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.440 but you might not necessarily consider them somebody that you're 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.760 gonna confide in. Yeah. Yeah, And that's pretty much what 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.480 it is. It's like, you know, in passing and there's 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.359 a lot of people respect music wise, but um, I 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.879 don't have too many like friend friends the best man, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.919 these industry dudes ain't friends. They know how to pretend. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.159 When you got the number one records and everybody calling 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.960 out some Mario when when things get a little cool, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:46.960 it's like nobody that you like seven Street a song, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.240 don't kill the friend She's dope, man. I love seven 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.119 like seven, Yes, she cool, she good peeps. Yeah, and 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.040 that's all right, I get it. She's good peeps. But 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.480 we appreciate you wrote with her before. I'm sure at 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.520 some point, um, we never really wrote together. Yeah, but 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:09.240 you know, and again it's like you know, you's seeing somebody, sir. Yeah, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.600 I know, but it's kind of a freak. Come on you, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:21.200 I main't through the music like conversation too. Yeah, seventh cool, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.920 but um, yeah, we're definitely gonna work together soon hopefully. Yeah. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.239 The other people that you want to put it out 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:27.760 there right now that you say these are the people 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.080 I want to work with now, I mean, yeah, put 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.000 it in an atmosphere like I just want to work 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.080 with people who you know, all types are, Like I 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.760 want to work with Kanye, you know. I feel like 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.639 Kanye is one of those artists like if you know, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.400 if there was any crew or anybody that in terms 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:49.200 of like musically and culturally that I would be with 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.760