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Episode 317 "310 BABII, Soak City" · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: Word with me here you know, BT know how it
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  Speaker 1: on their own sci I already know you can't bother
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  Speaker 1: with me because up with the squad of me. They
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  Speaker 1: get into that.
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  Speaker 2: They called me.
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  Speaker 4: go by the name of Ferrari Simmits c T with
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  Speaker 4: that three went by in the building, just walk you're
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  Speaker 4: just waking up, bro.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I just said, that's just that l A swag.
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  Speaker 5: Are you from l A?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: From okay? Three one know? Just so people don't know,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Like well obviously when people people in Atlanta were saying
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  Speaker 4: three ten baby, now.
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  Speaker 3: People say I mean out of town when people say that,
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  Speaker 3: not even just out of time. I think even in
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  Speaker 3: l A people say three.
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  Speaker 4: Ten okay, But it's like that is that like a
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  Speaker 4: pro or I.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't say it ain't that serious? Right if people know
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  Speaker 3: me in street and know me s three ten even
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  Speaker 3: though it is doing up, you know, what I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: if you were mispronounced artist names all the time, but
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's doing Yeah, I'm not. I mean if
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  Speaker 3: somebody keeps saying over and over I told them once,
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  Speaker 3: it's like bro.
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  Speaker 6: Now it's just like you know, four or four, you're
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  Speaker 6: just gonna automatically divide the numbers. Nobody's gonna say six
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  Speaker 6: seventy eight. They're going to say six seven eight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so three one oh yeah. Man, But we're glad to
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  Speaker 6: have you here on a Baller Alert show. Now you're
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  Speaker 6: from LA and Inglewood, Inglewood. Okay, how was it growing
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  Speaker 6: up in Inglewood?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It was cool, not me. Nice family,
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  Speaker 3: good family.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you come from a good family, like a two
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  Speaker 5: parent household. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: I used to watch music videos a lot. I mean
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  Speaker 3: they stopped, you know, people stop watching them on TV.
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  Speaker 3: That was when I was real young and then but
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  Speaker 3: that stopped. I don't remember a specific year, but I
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  Speaker 3: remember that stopped, like one on six in Park or
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  Speaker 3: like MTV time like MTV or BT, like they just
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  Speaker 3: used to have them all. I remember one on sixth
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  Speaker 3: in Park. I was a younger, but I remember like
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  Speaker 3: really watching I remember, like you would be on at times,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm saying in general, like I used to see
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  Speaker 3: music videos on just like BT or like MTV, and
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  Speaker 3: so early on. That's how I was, you know, really
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  Speaker 3: diving into music aside from like maybe radio. But even
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  Speaker 3: at that time, you know, when you're younger, when you're
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  Speaker 3: listening to radio, you really don't like pinpoint the artists
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  Speaker 3: like you just maybe like the song you don't really know.
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  Speaker 3: But I really didn't start diving into like artists I
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  Speaker 3: liked specifically until like twenty fifteen. And that's what SoundCloud.
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  Speaker 5: Who would you like? From SoundCloud?
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  Speaker 3: I was on migos like early and Chief Keith and
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  Speaker 3: Gucci Man. That was like my go to when I
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  Speaker 3: was And did.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't make you start writing? Did you say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I want to go to the studio or.
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I mean at that I was like
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  Speaker 3: ten maybe, so like I didn't write like that. I
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  Speaker 3: remember I used to write stuff down like thinking out something,
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  Speaker 3: but like it really like the rap stuff. Really didn't
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  Speaker 3: like okay, dang, I want to do this until like
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  Speaker 3: maybe eleve been twelve. Then I started like freestyling with
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  Speaker 3: my cousins and stuff, like they weren't wrapping, but like
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  Speaker 3: I would rap like when I'm with them and they
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  Speaker 3: like hype me up, and like we would play beats
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  Speaker 3: all day, Like that's all I would want to do
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  Speaker 3: because I'm the only child, So like getting around my cousins,
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  Speaker 3: that's when I would like freestyle or like play at
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  Speaker 3: a hundred beats for them and like tell.
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  Speaker 4: Show like somewhere you download YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: I just played different type beats and be like, oh
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  Speaker 3: I can rap on this type B too, and just
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  Speaker 3: it just turned me up. So like that's really the start.
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  Speaker 3: And then I would say, like thirteen fourteen, it's when
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  Speaker 3: I like had my first piece of equipment really like
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  Speaker 3: it was like a USB mic and like an older
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  Speaker 3: MacBook and then logic on there, okay, And I remember
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  Speaker 3: I tried to figure it out and it was hard.
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  Speaker 5: Bro it's kind of complicated to start there, not.
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  Speaker 3: Even just I mean I ended up even though I
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  Speaker 3: was young at that age. After a while, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of months, I learned how to use the program, but
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  Speaker 3: it was more of like I didn't have what I needed.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like it was so much stuff that I
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  Speaker 3: know about now that I didn't know about this.
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  Speaker 6: Like preamps, like a certain type of mic, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not having an interface, not having a mic
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  Speaker 3: like a real mic used to be my kids in
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  Speaker 3: high quality any one with XLR cable. So this is
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  Speaker 3: so much stuff I learned now that I wish I
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  Speaker 3: knew back then. B At the same time, I'm grateful
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  Speaker 3: for how I penned out because I would have never
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  Speaker 3: ended up going to band lab because I went to
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  Speaker 3: band Lab in twenty twenty. So around the age fifteen
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  Speaker 3: to sixteen. That's when I really got in my band lab.
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  Speaker 4: So you're still in school and this is something that
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  Speaker 4: are you still in school now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So like when do you graduate in gym? Wow? So wait,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to skip, but my bad. So you're
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  Speaker 4: around fifteen, and when did you write your first song
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  Speaker 4: and put it out?
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  Speaker 3: I did that in seventh grade, so I was like, how.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it's like thirteen thirteen fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: So that's like that was through the logic stuff, like
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  Speaker 3: I put out songs to there, like I made it
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  Speaker 3: on logic, I put it out on SoundCloud, and for
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  Speaker 3: you to.
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  Speaker 5: Start on logic because you were making the beats in
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  Speaker 5: logic too.
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  Speaker 6: And rapping or no, I never maye beats Okay, you
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  Speaker 6: never tried to maybe so YouTube them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would just get them off YouTube. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Usually people usually go to pro tools and just record
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  Speaker 6: themselves there.
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  Speaker 3: For me, I mean it was because that's what it
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  Speaker 3: was on the computer. It was no like fl was
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  Speaker 3: like a.
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  Speaker 5: Garage band usually come with with mac.
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  Speaker 3: Not I was on garage band at the time. I
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  Speaker 3: just said logic because that's that was like the newer version. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: So like I did both because logic wasn't always out
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  Speaker 3: like it was garage band. Then they did the logic,
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  Speaker 3: So I was on both at the time. That was
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  Speaker 3: the go to for me.
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  Speaker 4: So you're putting out records in seventh grade? Are you
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  Speaker 4: taking it serious? Because I know you still got to
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  Speaker 4: go to schools.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in my head, I'm taking this like I
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  Speaker 3: mean not.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, are you walking around saying are you three?
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  Speaker 3: One? No?
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  Speaker 4: Baby yet?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, no, no?
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  Speaker 4: Who are you?
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  Speaker 3: My name was like I don't even remember. I changed
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  Speaker 3: it like two three.
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  Speaker 5: Times, your real name. M You don't like it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's online.
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  Speaker 3: It's online. It's online. Okay, I don't think. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think like, I don't think. It's nothing. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like here like this is doing No
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  Speaker 3: Baby the business, like right now, it's just the business
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  Speaker 3: when we get into that. That's like when I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: big corporate and I don't know, like right now, it's
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  Speaker 3: just I kind.
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  Speaker 6: Of wanted to know who three well No Baby, how
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  Speaker 6: that came to be. That's why I was asking about
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  Speaker 6: your early life and how you grew up. You know,
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  Speaker 6: how did you grow into three you are now? But
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  Speaker 6: we can just you know, straight into business.
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  Speaker 5: That's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I mean doing No Baby it is to me, the
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  Speaker 3: name it really doesn't have men like a strong meaning
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of artists, they got their name from
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  Speaker 3: somebody or like somebody died and gave him this name
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  Speaker 3: or nicknamed him this me it was just doing No Baby,
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  Speaker 3: like that's where I'm from. I'm a product of not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily my environment, but my tribe, and my tribe is
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  Speaker 3: from La Inglewood, you know, to be exact. So like
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  Speaker 3: doing No Baby, that was it. That's at that time,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really overthink my name. I just did what's me.
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  Speaker 3: And that's even with my albums like nice and Weekends.
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  Speaker 3: My album maybe album just dropped It's Nice in weekends
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  Speaker 3: because I only could work at night and on the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So like a lot of my stuff even more and
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  Speaker 3: like down to my brand, it's always like authentic, Like
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to overthink because like the answer is
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  Speaker 3: usually right in front of me.
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  Speaker 4: How old are you?
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  Speaker 3: Eighteen?
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  Speaker 4: I don't really get that from an eighteen year old.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of get yeah, we're outside, we getting lit,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So you very very polished.
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  Speaker 4: Where does this come from?
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  Speaker 3: I would say the way I was raised and now
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  Speaker 3: who the people have around me.
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  Speaker 4: It's both because you came on time and you know,
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  Speaker 4: we had twelve thirty on there and you actually thirty
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  Speaker 4: minutes early, which again is telling me a lot about
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  Speaker 4: who you are and who's around you. And it's all business.
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  Speaker 4: Now back to what my co host a table was saying,
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  Speaker 4: does it ever get personal for you? Cause, yeah, you're
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  Speaker 4: in a business, but people gotta tap. People are eventually
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  Speaker 4: going to tap into past the hit records, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to pack, They're gonna tap into who you are as
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  Speaker 4: a person to stay with you.
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  Speaker 3: I think for people that want to like get to
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  Speaker 3: know me more, like more than just the music, and
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  Speaker 3: like get to know the artists, I feel like recently,
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  Speaker 3: if they want, like if they want a piece of me,
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  Speaker 3: like aside from music, they could tap in on like
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  Speaker 3: my TikTok maybe not my Instagram as much. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: I will say like I'm starting to do better with
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  Speaker 3: like having more stuff of just who I am as
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  Speaker 3: a person on my socials. So like I mean I start,
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  Speaker 3: I'm starting that now, Like this past week, I really
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  Speaker 3: like got into it like tiktoks and.
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  Speaker 4: So you didn't really care for it that much.
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  Speaker 3: Not that I didn't care, but before I blew up,
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  Speaker 3: I was already not really on social media. So I
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  Speaker 3: to like learn why I just I never really I
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  Speaker 3: just never was a social media person, I guess because
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  Speaker 3: for me, I didn't have a reason to post, like
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  Speaker 3: if I didn't have like I used to post just
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  Speaker 3: my music, but like that was it. I didn't really
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  Speaker 3: have like a reason. Like now it's like I know
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  Speaker 3: or maybe I didn't know the reason, Like I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know the reason why, Like dull you a post? Bro?
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  Speaker 3: Like do you a post yourself? Talking to people?
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  Speaker 4: So you're like you never post on your birthday like yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm seventeen, Happy birthday to me.
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  Speaker 3: No like videos no, people might posting I'll just repost
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  Speaker 3: what they say on their story. But like I just
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  Speaker 3: have to do like I know, I have to do better,
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  Speaker 3: like talking to people that like my supporters. It's like
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  Speaker 3: recently I've been like dming them, sending them videos like
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  Speaker 3: I'll do that, but overall, like I'm just learning.
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  Speaker 5: You know, would you say that you are more of
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  Speaker 5: an introvert.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's at times when I feel comfortable
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  Speaker 3: is when it changes to extrovert, but introvert, like maybe
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  Speaker 3: in general, I would say it just depends because I'm
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  Speaker 3: kind of people tell me I'm quiet. I don't feel
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  Speaker 3: like it. I feel like I'm more just I'm observant
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  Speaker 3: and then i speak and I like.
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  Speaker 6: Feeling out the room, the vibe, you know, see where
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  Speaker 6: your energy fits.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, does that come from how you grew up, the location,
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  Speaker 4: how you got to be smart in specific ways out
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  Speaker 4: in LA because LA is a different breed, Like it's
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  Speaker 4: not like you can just walk anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say, and I mean you're fair.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think that's kind of everywhere. I mean
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  Speaker 3: not I know what you're saying, though, I know what
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, but I wouldn't say it's because of where
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  Speaker 3: I'm from. I think more of just how I was raised.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I mean not even that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's just me. I think that's just me
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  Speaker 3: because it's it's people in my family that aren't like that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know so yeah, No, I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, because you're here, record is a party
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  Speaker 4: song bro that She's like, it's a vibe.
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  Speaker 3: I like having fun. I wouldn't say I like having fun.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna make I'm not gonna make a smile.
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  Speaker 3: I don't, okay, I like having fun. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm just not I'm the top to read the room first,
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  Speaker 3: then react like read okay, then I'm on that his
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  Speaker 3: real name.
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  Speaker 4: Towards the end of the interview, who are you all right?
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  Speaker 5: So? Uh is it true that you took like fifteen
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  Speaker 5: to twenty minutes to make So City?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I was like fifteen too. It was quick.
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  Speaker 5: What was the vibe? Like, you know, take us to
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  Speaker 5: that to that.
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  Speaker 6: Moment when you you know, made the record in that
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  Speaker 6: short amount of time.
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  Speaker 3: I was recording like I would in need it after
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  Speaker 3: school and.
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  Speaker 4: In your bedroom after school? You record that song after school?
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  Speaker 4: Where do you get to be?
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  Speaker 3: From YouTube? YouTube? And one thing I remember, honestly is
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  Speaker 3: I wanted like a party song. Like that was like
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of things I do is like everything's
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  Speaker 3: like intentional, right, Like I always have like the objectives
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  Speaker 3: like what do I want for today? Like what do
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  Speaker 3: I want this song to be? Or in general, before
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  Speaker 3: I even pick a beat or listen to a beat,
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  Speaker 3: that's like what do I want for today? Like what
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  Speaker 3: it is today going to be for me? And I
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  Speaker 3: wanted a party song, and that's what I did, Like
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  Speaker 3: that's what I was visualizing. I saw the party already,
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  Speaker 3: so all I have to do is say what I said.
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  Speaker 3: And it may have not been the most lyrical song, like,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what the kids want at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day. Kids my age want that. And we see
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  Speaker 3: now it's like, yeah, the kids wanted that, but now
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  Speaker 3: the world is starting to receive it as well on
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  Speaker 3: the universal level for sure, So I feel like that's
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  Speaker 3: a win. But even in general, like I've other records
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  Speaker 3: where it's like that's my thing, like the party records
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  Speaker 3: is my thing. I could do different types of records,
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  Speaker 3: which I have before, but right now it's like the
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  Speaker 3: party songs is my thing and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: aren't doing that everything right, And I was pretty like negative,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, And I'm bringing like a different taste
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  Speaker 3: to music right now, like I feel like we don't
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  Speaker 3: have as many party songs as we once did.
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  Speaker 4: Now again this is songs blowing up.
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  Speaker 3: So what happens the squabble, because that's what people across
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  Speaker 3: the nation knew was a squabble. It was a routine
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  Speaker 3: to my song in the summer that a girl named
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  Speaker 3: Beauty in La started. She started that just the routine.
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  Speaker 3: Now the squabble was already a dance, like the thing
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  Speaker 3: that everybody like the NFL like that dance people in
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  Speaker 3: La already knew about. This is just new to like
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  Speaker 3: the world to where that's why it's such a big deal,
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  Speaker 3: like and it's like catching people like it. People love
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  Speaker 3: new dances, so like it's new to you know, to
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  Speaker 3: people across the world. So that's like the last face,
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  Speaker 3: not the last phase, but the most recent phase of
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  Speaker 3: my song is like the squabble resurfacing and like being
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  Speaker 3: much bigger. That was it for that.
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  Speaker 6: But but to Rri's point about high school. You know
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  Speaker 6: you're going in there. You said you've been doing it
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  Speaker 6: since middle school, really because you said seventh grade for.
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  Speaker 3: A year consistently. But I have been making music since
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  Speaker 3: middle school. It's just that in middle school I was
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  Speaker 3: playing basketball a lot to wh I didn't really have
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  Speaker 3: too much time to a big thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we getting to know you. Okay, so you playing sports?
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  Speaker 2: Was you good?
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  Speaker 5: Was you a guard? Was you a point guard or
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  Speaker 5: shooting guard? Shooting guard? Okay, yeah that was my position. Okay, cool, Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 3: I could shoot, maybe not dribble as much. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I feel like I feel like knowing what you're
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  Speaker 3: good like you your strengths and your weaknesses is very important.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people think they could be MJ, but
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  Speaker 3: everybody ain't MJ. You know, you could work to try
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  Speaker 3: to be MJ. But I was. I just knew what
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  Speaker 3: I was good. I was a shooter.
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  Speaker 5: He was like Steph Curry.
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  Speaker 3: Now I would say Steph, I'd say more like a
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  Speaker 3: like a Ray Allen, Okay, because Ray Allen wasn't going
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  Speaker 3: to just take up the ball every time. Like he
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: wasn't taking the ball. He's probably gonna go sit in
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: the corner or like wait for a screen, off ball
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: and move around, run around.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: So we look forward to seeing you in some celebrity
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: basketball games, is what you're saying.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Man, tell them they're not ready for me, but that
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: you can dribble. No, I could shoot, then.
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: Get at the ball to me and then I could
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: do that. I can finish you.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: I can give them twenty no dribbles.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Spot.
• 14:18
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• 14:25
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• 14:26
  Speaker 3: It's good to do, no baby, and you are now
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: tuned in to the Baller Alert Show.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: Like, Bob, Now you're graduating in June. How are you
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: gonna go? Are you gonna walk? Oh? Graduation?
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so that's gonna be crazy though, Like yeah, no, no,
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: we're not.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: Like how y'all gonna pull that off? Like, how how
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: you're gonna pull this off?
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not I mean, I'm not the first. I don't
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: think I'm the first person to like graduate with like
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: people knowing them.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, in your school, I don't think so, Oh my
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: California talking about your school though, Like that's got to
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: be pandemonium a little.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Bit because it's normal. Now, Okay, school normal, not like
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: it's not too much going.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: To wait, you're still going to school.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty true, like people that say stuff, but
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: it's not like cameras in my face walking up like
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: it's so regular, like it regular. It's more like just
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: like say, take the musical my day. Day to day.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: School is like just a kid that's like I guess
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: popular just to pro in Atlanta. I think it's the
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: school I go to.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Okay, what kind of school do you go to? Is
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: it like a performing arts school?
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Or there are other big popular kids in your school,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: So you're the most popular kid in the school.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: I guess. I really don't like saying that, but yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: I guess you want to be regular so bad?
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: You're not, bro, you got the light on you.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: It's like sweet, It's like it's like it's very.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: It's a very select few people that have the light.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: You have the light, young brother. You have to accept
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: that do a.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: Lot of You get a lot of people just wanting
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: to be your friend for popularity or no.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I don't talk to people. Okay, I'm kind of like
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: the thing is like I'll talk to people like, but
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I got to see like it's a reason to talk
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: to Like I'm not just talking to everybody.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: It's hard to get people. It's hard for them to
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: get into your space. You're a little bubble.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah they could say something to me, but that's not
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: that doesn't get them in like the same rooms as mere,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: like the same friends you.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Grew up with.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that's how it's going to say.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: You're not switching up. Nobody knew no.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: But about the what about the girls at your school?
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: How do how do they react to you?
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I'm sure they they like what's going on?
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, do you get a lot of girls approaching
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: you a girl friend?
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Nobody? Nobody comes up to me?
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, do they go into your cat?
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: That's got to be I mean a little bit. My
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: damns aren't too crazy. I feel like they could be
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: worse than they are.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: What does that mean?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: What it like? It could be more? It could be,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: it could be it could be more. In my DM
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: th it is it's like, it's.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Like, is that like less than one hundred?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: They're a hundred plus. But I'm saying, I'm saying, like
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: it's not what people may think, like to SNY four,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: what you think an artists are like a young kid
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: that just had to hit song blow up? You think
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: it's way crazy, like tat you my DM is Okay,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I get it, but it's not.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: I mean that's a lot now, one hundred plus d ms.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, not not the quantity but
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: necessary it's what it is.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Oh like they're just saying nice song or.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah it's it's something crazy, but it's not as much
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: like it's not like little baby dms you little I'm
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: just assuming like I mean his little baby.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Did you have a girlfriend before the song blew up?
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Did you?
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I'll just be working, so you just be having friends.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just be working.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I can't appreciate. I can't appreciate that you're not letting
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: this get to your head because eighteen year old about
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: to graduate high school with the number one on radio
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Urban record Like I'm lit.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: It's like it's like okay, boom, Like what's the number
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: one that's out because then it's.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Like any any number one, it would be number one charts.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: It's up there. But you know TIK talk about to
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: go away allegedly, well yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Oh damn.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you, because you're you're a young guy,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: what do you think about that? Do you is going away?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Everybody your age to telling me that TikTok is and.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: It helped you a lot because the song blew up
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: on TikTok and everybody around the you know globe was
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: doing it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: TikTok has played a very important role with music within
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: the past like four years. Right, there's too much money
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: in TikTok, way too much money, which I think, like
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: that could be a scary part. So like I really
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: don't have too much of an opinion. I wanted to
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: stay like it would be nice if it stayed at
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: least into another like platform came around, because if not,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: we'd be naked. We'd have Instagram. But Instagram has been
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: off for a long time. I feel like we need
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: that new if we're going to get rid of it,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: we need that new.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: So for up and coming artists and you know artists
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: out there who are on TikTok. When you say there's
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: a lot of money to be made on TikTok.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, so like you have to think
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: there are people that are not maybe I wouldn't say rich, right,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: but on the way to being rich off of just
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: going live and just talking or like responding to comments.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And they're regular people, like they're not necessarily like celebrities,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: but eventually they could become a celebrity just off of
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: they're on TikTok. They're looking at commis, they're yelling out
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: people's names and saying thank you for donating to me,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: and that's going viral. There are people that are like
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: eating eggshells online, like selling candy. There's somebody right now
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: on live on a TikTok shop selling candy that you
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: can go to the store to get. It just looks
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: better on your phone, and they're gonna buy it. That's
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: so crazy to me. Over they're overpaying too, Like it's wow,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: it's just too much money. They are artists aside from
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the artist stuff, like we know, let's talk about artist stuff.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: People songs you could leak a snippet, it's gonna go
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: viral and them that's the next one you go with,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Like before you even have to test the waters with
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: dropping the song, TikTok is your first tester.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: I just acted as a black creator because a lot
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: of black creators had issues with TikTok and them, you know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: putting their their their art up and not getting compensated
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: like a white TikToker.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not familiar with that honestly, or that what
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: you're exactly what you're talking about. I haven't heard anything
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: about that. I feel like it's just there's issues within everything.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: There's never a time where everybody would be satisfied. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: think that's just the world, not even just the world
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: of business, but I think that's just life. Like there
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: will never be just this perfect Cinderella story with any platform,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: any business or anything like. There will be there always
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: will be a negative thing or negative story, but there
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: also will be positive things. I think it's just for
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: us to gauge what's best for us and maneuver throughout
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: this world the best way we can.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Wise words three wise eighteen year old younger.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Everyone know name mystery. So today, like I said, you
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: have Silk City that is like going crazy remix. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: the remix, And you said everybody reached out to you
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: via DM.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody just show love. Man. Everybody from the city
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: was just getting behind me. And I think that's just
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: that contributed to like.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Me blowing It was easier like that for sure, I
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: think that's the other way around. It's legalities and all
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: other stuff, but it's a more organic co sign.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Everybody just show love bro me, it's crazy. I think
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: that's what's needed. I think in rapids, when there's a
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: new artist, people out to back them, especially from their hometown,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: because I think if you have home, it's a lot
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: easier to go out and go to different markets, order
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: atlant and go to Texas. If you don't have home first,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I think it's like that, what do you have right? Like,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: you got to have home. You gotta have the routes
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: right for sure.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Question now, because you're still in school, when do you
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: perform on weekends?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Nice? Nice and weekends?
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: How does that affect you? Because you could be tired
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: going to school the next day.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I think being eighteen, you're not tired like maybe twenty
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: five year old, thirty year old.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: You know, it ain't hit you yet.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I think it's times I'm tired, but I'd rather be
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: out tired, moving around making money, networking, meeting people, connections,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: and being at home in my bed or on the game.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Now, when you travel, do your parents go with you
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: or no?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: No, so you don't have a Mama, your or dadager, No,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: you're you have this big record. Now the money is
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: rolling in. What are your parents saying?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Are you control of it? Are you in control of
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: your own money? Or does mom or dad say all right,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: look x y Z.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I mean I think not even I think. I mean
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: my mom doesn't really like have too much to say,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: like in regards to control of my life. Like I
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: don't see like anything I need for my mom, she's there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: So if I needed any assistance or anything, she's there.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But she doesn't. She wants She's down for me figuring
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: it out on my own because she knows that I'm
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: not going to make any dumbest decisions right or that
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: may not be my intentions. So yeah, like she trusts me.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: What about your dad?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Same thing? Trust me?
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Do they still work, go to work regular and just
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: live their life how they've been doing?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing really changed, but eventually it will potentially Okay,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: this day by day grounded, very grounded. Day by day
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: his businesses, it gets it gets crazy, you know what
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I'm saying.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: So day by day, So when you start making some
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: big money, you're gonna make a big purchase. Do you
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: have your eyes set on something.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I like a franchise, like maybe like a Chipotle.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Okay, you like Chipotle, Yeah, Chipotle.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Is good for sure. I think I do a franchise
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: first rather than like start my own, so I could learn.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: You know, if I have a Chipoli, Chipotle is already Chipotle.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I just got to drop it in a nice location.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Usually Chipolis Chapoli is usually gonna go wherever you put
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: it is Chippola. People always love Chipotlet. So I do that,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: learn that business, but like having a little bit more
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: security because it's not my own, so it's less liability.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: And after that, once that hits, then I start my
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: own whatever that may be within the next couple of years.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Okay, so you you are like an entrepreneur at heart.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Who instilled that in you? Was it a teacher? Was
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: it your mom?
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Was it your coach? Like who instilled that? I want to,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: you know, own something.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: When I was younger, like maybe like thirteen fourteen, it
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: was just weird to me, like waking up knowing that,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: like I can't get everything I want right now, like
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: not necessarily like everything in the world, because it's not
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I don't want everything in the world, but it's things
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I do want for myself that maybe right now at
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: this age I can't get because of lack a dollar
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: or lack of liquid, Like I don't have the money
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: to do it. But it's like how do I do it?
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: By working and learning certain things that people don't know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: because the thing is that the success, the success kicks
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: in once you know things that other people don't know
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: because the knowledge is the true like currency, really time
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: and time and knowledge is a true currency. Like the
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: dollar is cool, right, but you have to know certain
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: things to do with the dollar to make the dollar work.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Because the one hundred dollars bill is just one hundred
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: dollar bill, but you have to know what to do
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: with that tool to make it go. You know what
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. You can always turn one hundred to million,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: but you got to know where to put it in
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: place at the right time. So I think for me,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: that's that's it. It's just the knowledge and understanding that
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: time is money because people I remember people used to
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: tell me like, oh, you have time, you have time,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: But it's like bro, nah, like what do you mean? So,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: because then I'll be chilling, like I'll be on ice
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: for four to six years. So if I'm eighteen maybe
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: to like twenty four, but I just wasted six years
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: or nothing where that could have been six years of knowledge,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: maybe not necessarily like me putting work in, but just
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: learning things like me learning things to middle school to now.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's what got me here, as in
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: like the things I know, but it's so much more
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to know. So then at thirty, when it's like that
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: time where people be like, oh, like you had the time,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Now it's trying to lock in at thirty. By thirty,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: it's like, what do you mean where we already did
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: this at twenty, you know? So I just always don't.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I don't like that feeling of like not being able
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to do what I want, not being able to buy
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: my mom certain things or provide for my family in
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: the way I would like to. And I think it's
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: just having that balance, like people's attention shouldn't just be
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: on necessarily negative, ignorant things, like we should be trying
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: to like figure it out, because I think for so
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: long we've been behind, right, we haven't really been on
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: like the other side of the ball. We've been on
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: the side were like the cheat codes and like the
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: tricks in this world were like hidden from us, right,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: and a lot of times even when they're right in
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: front of us, we ignore them because we're not even
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: used to having like those tools available to us. So yeah,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I think I'm just gonna be taking advantage of every
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: opportunity that's presented. I feel like as an artist, I
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: maybe might not be the best when it comes to
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: like going viral or like having the most trendy moments
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: or being in the mix and messy, which I think
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: that's what makes artists go. I may not be that,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: but I feel like I'm achieving my goals. As in
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: financial freedom.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because you feeling with a lot of knowledge. Where
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: does that come from?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: It really just came from me trying to figure your
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: stuff out. Nobody Really, my mom didn't talk to me
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: necessarily like oh, you're gonna turn this age and you
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: need to learn this stuff by this age, Like it
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: was not really that. My mom gave me so much freedom,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And I think the freedom is what allowed me to
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: find this like who I am now at this age
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: because I could change tomorrow, right, especially in this business,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: like I could, you know, my head could. Ah. Now
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I'm on a whole different thing and it's all negative
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: and I'm not who I once was, right, But it's
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: really like my mom and the freedom shit a lot, and.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: I'm watching her go to work and all that is
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: what made you want to change things.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I would say, not not just that. I think that's
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: a part of it. I think that's for everybody, like
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: a part of it. You see, like your parents working hard,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I think it was to that. But then knowing that,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: like even with the hours put it in, like with
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: the work or like taking care of me, it's like
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: there's still a lot that may not be available. Still,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: no matter if it's six to eight hours of work in,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: it's still something that you can't have just because you.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Can't go on vacation where you want to.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can go on vacation after maybe a year
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: of saving up. So like just knowing that, but it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: like people in the world that are going whenever they
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: want them and it's not necessarily jealousy or chasing their
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: life or like trying to be them. That's not it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: It's just that, like I feel like it's so much
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: more to this than what a lot of people like have.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: So your motivation is financial freedom, being.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Able to do whatever I want whenever I want, I think,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I think, and then people are like, oh, well then
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: like once you have the money, then what meant then,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Like that's when you continue the journey because you.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Create opportunities for other people who think.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Like you, right, because the journey doesn't the journey never stops.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: People allow people people get in their head up and
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: like kind of create this like false reality like oh
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: the journey stopped. I made the money, and they get
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: stuck and they lose themselves. But I think that's when
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that's when like the emotional intelligence kicks in. You have
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: to know, you have to be aware of what's going on,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Like you can, you can make up twenty million dollars,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: but if you're not really aware of where you're at
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: at that time, that twenty million dollars can hurt you
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: more than it can help you. You know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: So it's like eighteen, that's a that's very wise logic.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Are your friends similar to her? Do you do you
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: strin yourself around people that have conversation like.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: This with them?
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I have conversations with people I think I can't really
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: like talk on like who those people are and say
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: like oh they think like this, they're like me, because
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I feel like we're two different people. But I've had
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: conversations with people like that, but usually, like like right now,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: like twenty twenty four, it's really been just like minded
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: like I because the thing is you can have friends,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: and a lot of your best friends may not be
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: the most like minded individuals, like in regards to how
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: you guys may think, but that doesn't make them lesser
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: and more of my friend. That just means it's like
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: a time and a place, you know, Like maybe we
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: could play the game twelve hours straight, but I can't
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: really talk to you all day about that because my
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: head is on like trying to get it in a
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: different way, you know. So I think it's just case
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: by case, Like I have friends that like might wake
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: up a da da da, like I just read this
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: on TikTok or this book, like tell me more about
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: this because they might think I know a little bit more.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Then it'll be that's how the conversation will start.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: So and I love this conversation because you're just putting
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: a lot of your peers and younger people on game
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: and older people too.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Is everybody don't get it?
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: What are a couple more things that people can do
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: and to be conscious of in their everyday life to
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: you know, move forward into.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: What their goals are for whatever they may be.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: The number one thing I feel like for is like
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: maybe young teens or like kids right now and well
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: my generation, I feel like right now what we need
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: is we just need clarity and like clearing the fog,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: because there's so much fog right now, right it's so
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: much negativity or not even just negativity, let's just say
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: like rarah in general that like maybe are just distractions
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: from what the bigger picture is. But me, I have
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: to understand that everybody is on their own journey, like
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: their own journey and their own path to where like
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: what I might think is right, Oh no, right now
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: at this age, you should know this. You should know this.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: There's never just a right time, Like it's never just
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: the right now. It's just everybody has their own time.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: So I feel like as long as they know what
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: they want for themselves, and that's the biggest thing. I
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: feel like everybody knows what they don't want, but nobody
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: know what they want. So I think, once you know
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: what you want and just get that, and it's so
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: many different ways to get it. I didn't have to, Like,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: if I wanted, I was already big business before the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: rap popped.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Big business.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's like if the if the if the
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: mind was already on big business. I didn't really need this.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: This was just the extra though, right, I don't. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: might not be the most turned up or the best
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: rapper for like maybe headlines or drama, but it's like
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: on the side that I love, I'm alright, you know
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So that ship whatever, whatever they want,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: they got to just get it. It's not too much
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: to it researching.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to doing, no baby, and you are
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: now tuned in to The Baller Alert Show, like Bob, do.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: You when you're doing when you're making your records like
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I saw, I remember when you brought that up. You
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: wanted to do you want it to be like a
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: little dancy that day or whatever? Do you do you
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: have a theme like every day, like oh, I'm gonna
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: be on this type of vibe today. Do you theme
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: it out each day and you decide how you make
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: your records that way, or you just kind of it's
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: basically however you're feeling.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Usually like when I listen to a beat, right, the
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: beat usually sets the tone.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, right, smart man.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: But it's it's times, especially with like the music business,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: not just making music, but the music business. It's times
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: where an artists may need this type of record toward
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: that might be the like maybe right now I need
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: a dancy record, so I'll be in that mindset of
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: like okay today aside, like I'm gonna look for the
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: beat that fits what I'm feeling, like what I know
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I need. Yeah, so I use It's not just one.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I think it's all strategic. Like sometimes the best is
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: like do maybe, okay, make make this like whatever the
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: beat tells you to make, like the tone or whatever
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: it gives off. Didn't do that? Cool, But that's more
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: like freelance, Like when it's the structure, the objectives are set,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: and you know what needs to be done, then it's like, Okay,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: right now, I could use this form my album, so
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna make this. So I think it's just.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Case by case when it comes to your album nights
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: and weekends, what is some of the reception that you've
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: been getting from your.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Album, appreciating the versatility. I think a lot of those
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: singles were already going up to whur like most of
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: them were maybe like fillers, like a lot of the
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: A lot of the songs and album were good songs,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: but like the key ones like Soilk City, back it
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: up another dance record going up five see through DDG
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: like those records. Is what did it like to make okay?
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Like to where I'm happy with the album because every
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: one to eleven or one to fourteen doesn't have to
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: hit really like it could be a good song, but
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: like the hit, as long as you got the two
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: or three, you're good. And I feel like that's what
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: people appreciate and people are saying, I want very smart.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: We were talking about the parties earlier. What is a
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: an Englewood party, Like.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Well, we could say la, it's like it's lit, like
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: it's shttle though, but it's like we that's what we love, right,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: But it's lit. I mean, it's people dancing, it's girls twerking.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Is it's a lot. You just got to know when
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: to leave, you know what I'm saying, or just not
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: going at all. It's crazy.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: If you leave too late, I don't know.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I always leave early.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: I don't know what he called the matrix he lead
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: too late?
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Man, I feel like, but my music is like kind
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: of like if you ain't been to LA Party, it's like,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: that's the LA party. So see is the LA party
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: and it's I love the fact that, like the world
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: can like vibe to that, you know, because that's that's it.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Who else are you listening to outside of yourself?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: A little Tyler Kanye. I'm listening to listen to any
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Kendrick or not recently. No, the last album he dropped,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: I did listen to it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: He kind of shaking up things right now with like
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: that on the Future record.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny they say West Coast is dead, but
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: then you got baby charting and go and go. Who
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: said that?
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Who said West Coast?
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: You say that? We say that at home? You don't
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: like the West Coast.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Dead my favorite artist?
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: And they say at home they say they be like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: oh we did, but it's like we got me, We
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: got Kendrick.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: I think sometimes that people get into their own bubble,
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: especially people who don't really travel outside of their city
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: or state.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Because your ship is in full rotation in Atlanta.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got we got got tired the creator, We
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: got a lot of people. I think we just looked
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: past that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: And and in Atlanta, we have four urban radio stations.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Usually in big cities is one or two. Yeah, we
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: have four. It's rotation in all four.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: You guys have legends like Snoop is forever, dre is forever,
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: like the West Coast will never die. I love hearing
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: this ever like that is beyond me. That statement is crazy.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I can't wait. I really can't wait to see this
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: graduation because I'm really gonna be Are you gonna like
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: put it on TikTok?
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be everywhere. Okay, they'll probably go virable without
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: me posting it. Probably we'll see, Yeah, we'll see. We'll
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: see what happens.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know that you're gonna walk across the stage.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Everything you're gonna do the dance walk across.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Got to be hilarious.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Huh. That was probably a viral.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we gotta do the dance right now.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not the best dancer. I ain't neither not the best.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: It's not an excuse. Whatever your name is, do you
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: want to she.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Still don't want to tell us your real name. We
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: can we could google it.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Though, yeah, now you can't necessarily, No, you can't google it.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: It's online up, but you can't google it yet. Okay,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: soon soon, I'm sure it'll be.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I said something, Yeah, because your Wikipedia.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Is not up because you know the ball this baller,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: So they're gonna clip this up. They're gonna put it
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: in the comments. His name is.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: What's his real name?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Not his It is hilarious. Yeah, I wouldn't be mad
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: at it though.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: We go viral for them all as dumbest shiit?
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: What's three? One old baby name? Nights the weekends available? Now, man,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: we appreciate you something about the yeah, every one old
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: baby the mystery. Did you feel a little comfortable or
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: with us now or yeah.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Just because you came to there, I got got the
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: you know, the West Coast nikes.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: For you. That's super West Coast.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: It's super West Coast out whoever?
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: We for sure, hey.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: Man, Before we get out of here, though, we do
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: have a pep talk with through one o baby.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yo, it's good as doing old baby words of advice
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: from me, I would just say, whatever is you want
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: to do, do it it could be cliche or something,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: but I feel like that's what I did. I just
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: I did what I wanted to do when it worked.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: But it only worked because I stayed consistent. I was
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: confident in myself not to rely on anybody else for
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: like the the like drive, Like nobody had to like
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: necessarily motivate me. The work was the motivation. The reward
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: from working was the motive. I don't really need anybody
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: to like sit behind me and tell me, oh no,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: do this, do this, do this or this. You got it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I always knew I had it, so I did it.
• 38:10
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