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The State of Hip-Hop: B. Mitch, T.I. & Timeless Music · Building 341

• Caddey B: Yeah, and then just try to watch that camera if you can. Cause it also like when I go to edit and stuff and we go to do the the TikToks, all of a sudden you're down in the bottom corner and there's all this space of me because it moved you down. Like if you look like the one I posted today, you're down a little bit and it's like it's just hard for editing wise. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. ⁓ so it really is doing that. But everything is straight. Caddey B: ⁓ yeah, it it it messes up super bad all of a sudden. Like right now it's good. As long as it don't move and decide to go up, it'll be all right. But all of a sudden it'll just move and go up. DJ Rubbaban: Okay, he just hit tap. So I'ma just try to stay still. I'ma try to stay still. Caddey B: That's why I got me a big ass chair to I just sit in it and I'm DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, yeah. And you know I'm all over the place and moving. I gotta be still. Mm-hmm. Caddey B: That could be it too, it just kinda all of a sudden it sees your hand move and it's like 'cause that's how it it goes off that gesture thing, right? Like okay or whatever and it'll move. Yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. And I think that changes it too. I like some of that, some of that, yeah, some of that changes it too. So he'll come up, right? He'll just come up. Caddey B: There's gotta be a setting to turn off. Yeah, it should just pop up. It should as long as it does it while we're recording. I don't know. That's why I was kinda waiting in the lobby to wait. But it should pop up. DJ Rubbaban: It's moving now. Look, my thing is moving. Let me see. It's Caddey B: See? Get some duct tape and tape that bitch. DJ Rubbaban: Let me see, let me see, let me see. It should just come up, I'm quite sure it'll just come up. Caddey B: I'm sure. DJ Rubbaban: Now I know on the side and we just recording this, it says people. Caddey B: All of a sudden your all of a sudden your audio got super loud. DJ Rubbaban: It did? Caddey B: Yeah, like all of a sudden it got hella loud and it started clipping. DJ Rubbaban: Let me see, let me turn it down right here. Let me turn it down. One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two. Caddey B: Up a little bit. Up a little bit, just a little bit. DJ Rubbaban: One, two, one, two, here he comes. Caddey B: Okay. DJ Rubbaban: What's up? What's up? What's up? You can hear us? You can hear us? Man, man, I'm gonna give you an intro. Look, look, we just gonna look. We're gonna do two, three intros if it mess up. We're gonna edit it. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing one of the Bay's finests. He's been in the game for a minute. B. Mitch, out of the Bay Area. He's gonna tell us exactly where he's from, where he comes from. This is building 341. B Mitch: So fair. Yeah, I can hear you. DJ Rubbaban: We just gonna vibe, we gon chill, we're gonna talk about some songs, ⁓ talk about his movement, ⁓ and just kind of just have him give us his perspective of the Bay Area and what's coming next for him and just the Bay. Cause listening to him, I seen his grind for a minute. You know, I even me and him was at a function together and he walked in and ⁓ I was the biggest brother in the spot now. You know, he used to be right there with me. Now B Mitch: Thank DJ Rubbaban: He eating beets and berries and fruit and all that. I want to talk about his eating regiment, ⁓ TikTok, Instagram. ⁓ he pushing healthier living. Ladies and gentlemen, B Mitch. What's up, brother? I need I didn't even say Caddy B. This is my co-host, Caddy B. Say something, Caddy B. B Mitch: What's on, brother? How you doing? Caddey B: All good, all good. What's going on, brother? B Mitch: What's going on, Not much, DJ Rubbaban: So tell me about your movement. Tell me tell me your start. Give us your start. B Mitch: That start. That's like, yeah, no, it wasn't even that. It wasn't even that. Yeah, no, it wasn't even that serious, man. I feel like starting was as a young kid, maybe 10, I used to, songs I liked, used to write, listen to it and write it down and rehearse those songs over and over to the point where memorizing other people's songs was nothing to me. DJ Rubbaban: It can be it can it don't even have to be PGs. You could you was in a trap house and and somebody gave you a mic. Okay. B Mitch: It was a big joke. I said, you could memorize your homework like you memorized these songs, you'd be a straight-A student. So it went from that to storytelling, know, school, always writing stories, to the point where I started turning stories into music. storytelling music is kind of always what it's been. So I started turning stories into music. And then I had another friend of mine who was, when we were real young, probably by the age of... DJ Rubbaban: Okay. Caddey B: Mm mm. B Mitch: who was taking piano lessons. And his mom bought him his first Casio keyboard. And once we found out how to start recording, it was over. You know, just sitting there recording. He was, you know, on the keys. And at that age, we're making music people didn't even hear, because we're influenced by hip hop yet. He's learning how to play. So at this time, we're in Marin County, still the Bay Area, but we're in Marin County, 415. I had moved out there. DJ Rubbaban: Right. Now where were you living right then? Give me sprinkling. Okay. Okay. Who's in the influences? Who's the influences? B Mitch: Growing up, too short, Scarface, Gitto Boys, A-Ballin, JG. A lot of my influences are, I mean, this Spice one, a lot of the Baycast, but a lot of my influences are from the South. I really, I really click. So, and Tech N9ne is one of my all-time favorite artists. So, that's a lot of my influence came from that. Caddey B: Mm-hmm. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. I hear some Midwest. I hear some Midwest in your music too. Yeah, I hear some of that. Yeah. B Mitch: you know, coming up in the Bay, it's just we never, even as young kids, we were always being told we were ahead of our time. Ah, you know, that's cool. We're ahead of our time, you know? And I was feeling that. this, this, then another. The whole regional thing, as we got a little older, higher teens, and we started, you know, building groups, you know, groups of homies that, you know, could all flow and we're, you know, going to conventions and trying to, you know, rap in front of people. And they would tell us like, man, you guys are good, but you sound real regional. You sound like you're from the Bay area. You know what I mean? And we heard that a lot. DJ Rubbaban: Right. Right. Caddey B: Mm. DJ Rubbaban: And what's wrong with that? Like what's wrong with that though? B Mitch: But right, that's what we're thinking. And at this time, there's not a lot of people coming out. Then the streaming wasn't a thing and shit yet. So in order to get known, you literally had to put your face out there, man. Literally sell CDs out of the trunk of your fucking car, your backpack, which is... Yeah, we were too real to be gimmicky. At that age, it was all about who we really were. And a lot of our music, we didn't make party music. Like, literally, we were a bunch of... DJ Rubbaban: Right, right. Caddey B: Yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Or a gimmick or a movement. Yeah. Caddey B: Yeah, yeah. B Mitch: mixed kids growing up in white neighborhood at the time. DJ Rubbaban: But y'all but you seem like you got a lot of perk music though. Like B Mitch: Well, as we get older and we start experiencing more shit, you know what I mean? We start doing more stuff, things start happening. But coming up, we were like rebellious little kids who were lost in this white neighborhood, man. And we were just dealing with a lot of shit, real close circle, and dealing with what comes with going to schools with ignorant white kids and shit. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, mm-hmm. Now did the bay have a battle scene? I mean, I know it did from like sway and tech and all that, but did it did it really have a a local battle scene, not on a major, but like like say me coming up, we would go to different schools and battle people. B Mitch: I like. Right. Yeah, nah, I don't feel, at least not in my era, the kids, the group of people that we were around, it was more, I feel like nobody could support each other. So it wasn't battles as much, it was kind of just like ⁓ quiet beef, you know what I mean? people would quietly, yeah, ⁓ we dopertynam, we dopertynam, and we'll do shows and this and that, but nobody was throwing no battle raps. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. B Mitch: people were challenging people to, you we were real, got to a point where we were real like, couldn't nobody fuck with us anyway. So battle for what? Like we were ahead of our time. The fact that nobody else, our age group was recording music at the time when we were already recording music on the fucking tapes. You know what I mean? Drake High School. So that was, I went to Drake for a little bit and then it was continuation school shortly after the start of that. DJ Rubbaban: What high school did you go to? Okay. Anybody come from there? Caddey B: Yeah, yes. DJ Rubbaban: So you had a edge. So you did have a edge. B Mitch: But yeah, I mean, was always, like I said, we moved from Richmond, so I knew where I was supposed to be and was very unhappy with where I was at. So, know, the little edge came from that real, just, know, I'm not supposed to be here. But at the same time, you you kind of end up running situations like that. Everybody looks at you because you're the only fucking black kid around. So people are drawn to you in that sense. But, ⁓ DJ Rubbaban: Do you feel like people did do you feel like people tested you more so because of the mixed thing? Cause Caddy, like Caddy, you got a you got a quiet demeanor, but a killer, but you got a quiet demeanor and you being in the business, so to speak, did you encounter that too? And then you was even a bouncer. B Mitch: Like ⁓ there's. for sore. Caddey B: I've always got it from both sides, being that I'm mixed. So, you know, on one side you're not black enough, one side you're too black. You know, like I've always said, I always told my kids you wanna know what color you are, ask the police. 'Cause they're gonna let you know. No matter what. So you get tested all the time. That's part of being mixed, I think, you know, you constantly get tested, you're always not enough. B Mitch: All right. Thank you. DJ Rubbaban: You fe you guys feel like even as you get older you get tested too? B Mitch: I mean, I guess the situation is just a lot different. Now, sure, yeah, of course you get tested, you know what I mean? But people, like you said, you get to know it and you're talking to a guy that looked like me or him, you might think it before you say it. You know what mean? But. DJ Rubbaban: Right. Caddey B: Yeah, yeah. Definitely. So wh who first believed in your music? B Mitch: Um, mean, to be honest with you would have to be my friend's mom who allowed us to turn his bedroom into a studio and access it anytime we wanted to. So like, Lily, our, you know, our first, you know, we were in home self-sustained artists for, years and his mom was, uh, the only mom that was cool enough to open up her house to, you know, for a little rebellious little fucking, you know, boys who Caddey B: What's B Mitch: in and out of there doing what we do. But if it wasn't for her, we definitely wouldn't have started recording the way we did. Even at the time when we were still going and everybody else is hundreds of dollars for studio sessions, we got in-home studio and stuff we're making is sounding better than the stuff they're paying hundreds of dollars for. DJ Rubbaban: I noticed that about I noticed that about your music. Like you're consistent in recording and you sound different on different tracks, but it has this, like I see some Bay Area music in there too, with the late with the girls singing, but then I also hear some Midwest, you know, some Southern. I'm like, damn, B is really like stretching itself. So B Mitch: No, definitely I'm- So it's yeah, it's the music, it's whatever the beat's saying to me, you know what mean? It's the beat says country, swang, if I'm failing it, that's where it's gonna go. You know, if I get... DJ Rubbaban: Right. So when like so when you was working with ⁓ with Chris Galaxy and then and then and then you sent me the song, I was like, damn, I didn't know B was this hard. Damn, Chris, you didn't know he was this hard? And then I heard an and then I heard something else and I was like, ⁓ he got this vibe too. ⁓ okay, okay, okay. B Mitch: Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, we, well, that comes from being told we sound regional. So, right, I don't want to get, you know, boxed in one particular area. So now I'm sharpening my skillset for whatever may come, you know, especially when you're doing music with other people and they throwing stuff at you, you know, do a verse for this, you got to be ready to switch it up. And for me, I get bored quick, you know what I mean? And, yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. It makes sense. I feel I feel that in your music. I feel that in your music. Now, when it comes down to putting out a a album, 'cause is this industry right now really driven by an album, or is it just singles till you find a niche to where something clicks enough, or you just say, eff it, I'm gonna just put out an album and then another album? B Mitch: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I feel like if you're putting out an album, the artist is doing it for themselves. It's a project piece, right? A passion piece or something. I want to put out a project. You know, I'm getting ready to do the same next week, putting out a seven-song EP just because I want to. I haven't put out a project in a long time. It's just been singles. So yeah, it's more like, you know, keep throwing out singles till you get that hit. And, you know, and even then the streaming game is funny. If you're not in the street and you don't have a big street presence, you're really, I mean, to get a radio hit or somebody local, like it's tough. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. B Mitch: So the work you gotta put in is just consistency, know, basically. DJ Rubbaban: And you gotta pay. And and and this is a part like like speaking, speaking on this too. I I I would love your ⁓ opinion on this too. Like, like I'll say me. I don't I I can't judge you guys can say how y'all feel about this. My personality is an introvert, extrovert. So I could turn it on, I could be the wildest dude, but then I get drained and I want to leave me alone for a minute. And so Caddey B: Mm-mm. DJ Rubbaban: I've I've come up in this so I can be wild, I can do crazy stuff, but then people don't know I want to go home and chill. And so this industry, man, you gotta grind, you gotta kiss babies, you gotta pass out weed, you gotta man, you want to drink, you gotta favors, you can't mess with the wrong favors, the wrong drug dealers, you can't do this. And and I've had scenarios to where B Mitch: Mm-hmm. . DJ Rubbaban: I didn't want to do certain stuff, like work with certain people. And then people say, Here go a bag. I want you to go work with so-and-so. And it worked out. And so when I was younger, I would it was easier for me to take healthy risks like that. As I got older, I was like, Man, I don't even want to go on tour with them, man. Like, and then they want to pay me $3,000. And I'm like, $3,000 a week, a month? Like, I my bills at home is this, and I'm young. B Mitch: Right. Yeah. Yeah, nah. It's more than that, yeah. Yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, I'm young, right? And then I do it. So B, then I do it. And then I had the time of my life touring, but it's hard. And then I'm sleeping full of with in a room with a bunch of niggas and they fortune. And it's it's two girls and they all fighting for that one of them two girls. And you know, and and I'm thinking I'm the shit, right? I'm DJ Rubber, but I'm I'm basically lightweight A and R. And I'm like. B Mitch: Yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Pulling people to the side that ain't never toured, never went nowhere outside of their city. And I'm like, man, we all getting a per diem. Well, man, well, I wanna get and then they buy and drink. It's just, it's just a whole machine of that. And then and in the mix of that, you want your single to blossom and you wanna be, you know what I mean? You wanna be something and you wanna your project to go. B Mitch: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's what makes nowadays easier with the social media and streaming platforms that you really don't have to put in that type of footwork like we used to have to put in back in the days. mean, touring is, you know, touring is a must if you really want to make real money. The only place you don't make money is touring and merchandise streams. mean, that gets you known, gets you known well enough to sell some merchandise or, you know, sell the show out. But, you know, DJ Rubbaban: That's good. That's good. That's good. Right. But you still gotta make connections with, and I've noticed this in your music, you working with a lot of different artists. Like, you know, we in this we in this environment where people are antisocial. They like, man, I don't want nobody on my songs. I like my song like this. And so I noticed you mess with other people. How did you get how did you get to that to where you made relationships to feature people on your song or just get, you know, do what you do. B Mitch: to sport. I've always liked working with other people. I remember I started off in a group. So it was a group of two that grew to a group of three to a of four. And then when we all started having kids and having our own families, we all went solo because we all had our own bills and responsibilities. Nobody wanted to argue about splitting the $300 we made. You know what mean? So everybody, yeah, and it's tough. DJ Rubbaban: Yep, right. Right. Right. Mm-hmm. They don't know that part of the game. They don't know. B Mitch: we all end up going solo routes. So I did a few solo projects, but to me, working with other people is where, like you say, it's a sport. I like to play with other people. So to me, if I think you're good, I think you're going to compliment my style. I'm reaching out to anybody that's wanting to do it for a, at the same time, I'll always pay somebody for their time just because I feel like everybody's time's worth something. But I like to work with people that are willing to work with me, whether I got it or not. I mean, it's not just a... DJ Rubbaban: I like that. I like B, I like how you said that. Look, cause you know you was gonna get a lot of people that was gonna be like, I want a free bar, I want a free, I want, yeah, I want a I want a verse. Give me a verse, give me a verse. Caddey B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. B Mitch: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, even my boys, if I got a bag or a bag of tree or whatever, it's like, hey, this is what I got. I need you for a couple hours. Boom. Everybody's time is worth something. But at the same time, if you're just dealing with somebody who's just there to collect a paycheck, they do the song and say they got a name and then you go finish the song and you post it and you're tagging them and this person's not reposting or doing that. It's like, what'd you pay for the feature for if they're not even, they don't even like the song enough to repost it themselves. DJ Rubbaban: See, you're talking about the game. Yeah, see. See, that's right there. You're talking about the game, and that's what people need to know. Like Caddey B: They're not they're not invested, not invested enough in it. B Mitch: Yeah, they're not invested. Not that they even should be invested, that's totally their option. But if from an artist who's coming up, you're paying somebody, it's like, well, man, this is what I expect. So you almost have to have that in the clause before you get somebody to drop you a 16. It's like, I need you to drop 16, I'm paying for this and I'm paying for some reposts. You know what I mean? Caddey B: Yeah yeah. DJ Rubbaban: No, you do. Yeah. Yeah. Even right. Caddey B: Yeah, yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, or you gonna be in the video? Can I get you in the video? We can do your part separate if you don't wanna be, you know, in Vallejo or B Mitch: Right. Right, with a bunch of notes, yeah, for sure. Caddey B: Yeah, yeah. DJ Rubbaban: So what about female artists like right now coming up in the bay? Is it is it a such thing as female artists right now? Is it B Mitch: I mean, it seems to be. I just, my ear is not quite there yet. You know what I mean? Just in the quality of content, you know, and things of that nature. I'm not saying they're not killing it right now, but for, yeah, yeah. DJ Rubbaban: Okay, okay. Right, right. Right. I mean you did come up under too short. I mean, you did I'm quite sure somebody up there talking about Coochie, you know what I'm saying? B Mitch: Right. Yeah. You know what mean? It's like, like I get it and I respect it. I'm not knocking it at all. It's just, you know, for, for somebody like me who, you know, know, Scarface is one of my, my biggest influences. And with him, it's all word play, you know what I mean? It's, it's content and what you're saying and stories and, you know, something to listen to and, and, know, these notes, like I get it. It's good. It's great party music and it definitely gets the females turned up. You know what I mean? But it's not, you're not going to, you're not going to catch me. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. Caddey B: Stories and DJ Rubbaban: ⁓ yeah. I was B Mitch: popping it in my deck on purpose, you know what mean? DJ Rubbaban: No, but I and listening to some of your music, ⁓ I like I noticed the the earlier Bay Area stuff with the hook, you know what I mean? With the the not Kyrie, not with the Kyrie keyboards, but you know that Bay, I'm like, okay. But see, me, my generation, I was feeling that. And then the harder stuff, and then I was like, okay, I see the Midwest. Okay, he's featuring. What kind of album are you gonna put out this EP? Is it gonna be driven more towards lightweight perk music? Or is it gonna be ⁓ lyric? B Mitch: It's a... So it's themed. The name of the album is called Play a Weather. It's for gentlemen of our stature and our age. It's just like an ode to the, you know, good ride music. Something you could pop on, you know, drop the top, sundown, girl on the side, driving, smoking. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. Okay. B Mitch: and just enjoying it, you know, and it's groovy, it's mature, you know, it's something to listen to, the beats feel good, the words feel good, and it's that. DJ Rubbaban: ⁓ yeah. Caddey B: I was I was noticing that with ⁓ 'cause it's earlier when I got home, I just threw on like your YouTube and I was just letting it just play throughout all your different stuff. How ⁓ your writing has changed and grown. Is that just with age or also just the more you learn with the pen? DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. B Mitch: I mean it's... DJ Rubbaban: It's that energy. He kept saying it's what he's feeling. B Mitch: Yeah, it's, mean, it's, yeah, it's, I mean, of course it's growth, right? And just continue. I've never stopped. You know, like I said, sharpening my blade. Like I've always tried to, you know, the next one's gotta be the best one. And I like to, you know, if you notice a lot of my features, I don't really have many weak features. And those are guys that I've felt are doper than me. You know what mean? So that gives me something to work to, you know? If somebody can set the bar for me, I have no problem reaching the bar. DJ Rubbaban: That's what I'm saying. The features is dope. Yeah. B Mitch: You know what I mean? But it's fun for me to, for somebody else to set a bar here and go, okay, what you got? You know, and, it's always in the studio. It's always a thing you can never go back and redo. If I drop my verse first and you come in here and you kill me here, well, I'm stuck here. can't go back. And you know what I mean? It's, it's, like how we, it's how we do in the studios, commodity. But. DJ Rubbaban: No, and and I and I'm glad you said that because listening to some of your features, it seemed like you just go harder. Caddey B: There you go. DJ Rubbaban: And a good example is that is Ice Cube. Like Ice Cube seems to me a lot better in a gr one of my favorite artists. He goes harder whenever he's in a group. You know what I mean? He just goes extra, you know. And there's something about that in terms of just back and forth, you know. Like like songs like I was really feeling like ⁓ double overtime, third eye, lucky, ⁓ fitness journey, asshole, old school dope. Old school. I love that. I love that. ⁓ B Mitch: Right. Right. Yeah, that was, yeah. DJ Rubbaban: You know, it was just it was just not the same. and then Rich Tonight is an older song, huh? And that and look and see, cause I'm old school. I was feel I was like, okay, this is old school. B Mitch: Well, was, mean, yeah, it's a couple of years old, but the feel of it was supposed to even feel older, right? It's like 80s. It's supposed to give off kind of like a... DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. Like Lemonade was dope. Like it was ⁓ you got it was a lot of ⁓ I was just feeling and clicking and I was like, I'm wondering what kind of album he gonna put out. He he's putting out an E P. I'm wondering how this E P is gonna 'cause you know, we in this generation now where people just listen to singles and and I really ⁓ And then me and him have been going back and forth on T.I.'s new album and being a legacy artist. We expect so much, but we get mad when our legacy artists don't put out music and we hard on them. You know, we hard. It's been a lot of legacy artists putting out music. And me, and I tease him about Tiny, you know, and then we was going back and forth, and I'm like, damn, TI put out a good album. Like, damn. But I wanted to critique it. B Mitch: Yeah. ⁓ Caddey B: I think all of the legacy artists that have put out albums over the last three years have been good. That's just my opinion. DJ Rubbaban: Who you listening to? Who you listening to in terms of a legacy artist, if any? B Mitch: ⁓ Man, mean, it's when they finally pop out. like him. Like Ludacris is starting to pop back out. That's been interesting. He's got a couple new singles. DJ Rubbaban: ⁓ he is? Okay. Caddey B: ⁓ yeah, those those those couple ones that he dropped have been hard. DJ Rubbaban: He don't really get it he don't really get enough props for being a lyricist. Like Luda is dope. B Mitch: Right. Yeah, now Luda's super dope. Here's my thing with a lot of these legacy artists now is that social media has led us too much into their lives. So we've learned who these people are as people, more so than artists. So I'm not gonna lie, a lot of that stuff is, you know, like even with the whole TI situation, he's been through so much other stuff aside from music. It's like, So when I heard his new album, literally just yesterday, like I was a little critical, you know what I mean? Like at first, but then as it... DJ Rubbaban: But you see, you critical and see and you go into something else. Yeah, yeah. B Mitch: Yeah, and then as I listen all the way through and it built up, and okay, there's tip, yeah, that sounded cool, that's like some old school stuff, then, you know, but it makes me think, age, know, man, is he done? Does he really still got it like he had it? Is the people gonna, aside from people our age, are they gonna gravitate towards this? And I'm just not sure, but. DJ Rubbaban: Are they gonna really? Yeah, yeah. B Mitch: He's TIP at the same time. He's got a lot of other stuff going on that's going to keep him relevant regardless. DJ Rubbaban: And he has that machine behind him to pump that. And I think he's he went through Empire, right? He went through Empire at his own label. So Empire is basically an indie, but ⁓ really a major. You know what mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so they pushing it. So what about people like Two Short, who kinda has never played out? Like you think that's you think that's just luck? I mean, I know he's a good artist, and I'm not taking away from that like. B Mitch: Yeah. Caddey B: Yeah. B Mitch: Yeah, they've turned major. Gazi's doing a lot of work. Yeah. Caddey B: Well his last one was good too. B Mitch: He just, yeah, I just feel he stayed true to himself. He's been the same cat day one, social media or not. He's been who we've known is too short from start to finish. So I think in situations like that, you're good, you know what mean? You're able to coast and stay relevant. DJ Rubbaban: Like Right. Who else are you listening to? Who else are you listening to just just once in a while you have on you you you have in your ⁓ you you listening to. B Mitch: I mean, I'm right. I've been pretty this, I mean, I even said the last couple of years, I just turn on my Apple music and I'm just playing, know, playlists of what they got there, trying to find something. I'll be honest, I don't have something that I, I don't have a go to right now, except for my stuff. I mean, I listen to majority of my stuff, you know, as Kristen, that's all we here listen to is my shit. You know, especially, especially. DJ Rubbaban: That sounds like Caddy B. That's Caddy B. Yeah. Heard that. I heard that. Boy, you really an artist. She was like, nah, we listen to my shit. ⁓ Caddey B: We y so so you so you so you listen to Apple music, you gotta put a lot more of your stuff on Apple music. B Mitch: especially in album mode. Yeah, I've, you know, my stuff goes up and down, or whether I like how it happened, you know, how it took over the year. I just let it fade out. So this next album will be on all platforms for sure. It's just like my catalog, so like the stuff I put on TikTok. Caddey B: Okay, okay. 'C people that people are people are gonna people are gonna ask, they're gonna get in the comments, they're gonna ask, Okay, so where where can we find more of B Mish? Where can we find all of his music at? Where can we look at his old stuff, his new stuff, you know? DJ Rubbaban: So you can find a lot of his stuff on TikTok. You can find a lot of his stuff on what YouTube, ⁓ Instagram, ⁓ B Mitch: YouTube, Instagram, then yeah, my Spotify stuff is, everything on there is pretty much older stuff. I got a few new stuff on there, but I got a revamp on it. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, because we was doing a research. Yeah, we was doing and then look on your is it Instagram, you ⁓ you're getting your healthiness on, you lifting weights, you got your shirt open, ⁓ you know, you got the gold chain showing, you got the motivational speeches in the back. I was like, okay, okay, okay. Caddey B: Yeah. B Mitch: Hehehehehe ⁓ Well, I mean, yeah, it's, at this age, man, that's pretty much all that matters. So it's just trying to get trying to get healthy. So I got kids, I got a wife. Caddey B: Mm. DJ Rubbaban: I love hearing that. So tell us about what made you ⁓ make that transformation to just eating healthy and then making it a part of your regimen. Like was that hard? B Mitch: It was very hard. In all honesty, was health reasons. had, it was kind of, you know, I didn't really have much of a choice. Yeah. But it, it was, I mean, everything in moderation, but there's some things that I just don't touch anymore. But it's, mean, it's definitely hard. Every day's a, it's, you you can't let it slide. It's an everyday thing you gotta pay attention to. And. DJ Rubbaban: Yeah, without getting deep into it. Yeah, but you ⁓ so you ain't eating ham hocks no more, chicken, like Caddey B: Okay. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. So you don't go by that Popeye's chicken down the street from your house? You, you don't go no more. B Mitch: Who doesn't? Who doesn't? Yeah. No, I say everything in moderation, but you know, when you do those kinds of things, you feel guilty or you feel bad and that's how you kind of justify it. Well, I knew that wasn't right. So tomorrow I'll be back on tomorrow. So it's like anything else in life. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. Okay, okay. Now, now what one of the things that I want to do once the album gets ready to come out and you have a like a month or so, I want you to come back on. So just you know, just to get a feel, let the people know again. anybody have any questions, answers, ⁓ comments for B Mitch, hit us up, let us know. ⁓ it's number love. ⁓ this brother's doing it. What about some of the features on this new EP that's coming out? B Mitch: So on this new one, it's ⁓ entirely produced by my boy Vidal Garcia, who's a big producer right now in the industry. From here to the South, he's producing a lot of records for a lot of known artists, a good friend of mine. So he's done the full production on it. And the only feature I have on this album is by a guy named CJ Washington from up there in Sacramento. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. B Mitch: who's a singer, a very good singer. And ⁓ yeah, man, he's got, even if you were to look him up, CJ Washington, he's got a pretty good Spotify ⁓ presence and stuff. He plays a lot of little bars and stuff up there in Sacramento and Roseville, live. yeah, he plays guitar, live singer. Yeah, so that's the only feature artists that I have on this particular album. Like I said, cause it's just a, it's a matured album. It's fun. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. ⁓ we're gonna look him up. We're gonna look him up. Caddey B: Yeah. DJ Rubbaban: ⁓ okay, up this way. Okay. B Mitch: You know, it's themed, it's fun, but it's mature. Caddey B: You got a release date yet? B Mitch: Next Tuesday, Next Tuesday. I'll, when I get it together, I'll send you guys a link. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. Yeah, send us a link. I gotta ask you ⁓ look, I gotta ask you one more you know, I gotta ask you one more ghetto scenario. So so you on a ship, you on a ship and it crashes, you on an island and you crashes, and you can only take three CDs with you, or just say three albums with you. Which three albums would you take? You gotta listen to ⁓ for at least five years, because you know they ain't coming to get brothers right away off the island. Caddey B: Yeah, definitely, definitely. B Mitch: Uh-huh. DMX, it's hell is hot and it's dark, fuck. Scarface Untouchable and Technon Killer. DJ Rubbaban: Uh-huh. Okay. Caddey B: Uh-huh. DJ Rubbaban: Okay. You heard on Builder 341, y'all. Man. No Marvin Gaye. No ⁓ Peebo Bryson. We appreciate you, bit. We appreciate you, B. We appreciate you. Appreciate you. We're gonna be in touch. We're gonna let you know when everything is settled and we're gonna holler at you. Peace out. B Mitch: Not stranded on an island. Caddey B: I go some hunt some hunt music. B Mitch: Exactly. Appreciate you, man. Appreciate you guys. Caddey B: Good looking out. B Mitch: Most definitely. Peace out. Caddey B: Base. B Mitch: You guys hang out on I how to hang it up, brother DJ Rubbaban: I don't even know how to hang you up. Let me see.