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#618 - Demrick Talks New Album, Working With B-Real & Xzibit, Sobriety & More · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And let's get into it. Man, it's the boutleg Kpodcast.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, who let keV here man. We got a
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  Speaker 3: special guest, my Dog Demrick, Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Back, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Brother. Yeah, it's been a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You got a new album out that you and Austin
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  Speaker 2: worked on together.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, shout out my boy Austin Sexton and Ot the Undefeated.
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  Speaker 4: They produced. The whole album is called.
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  Speaker 1: OHI Yeah, this guy Austin is like an alien. Huh
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  Speaker 1: could do it all man, kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know he had the bag that he
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  Speaker 3: went into on this one as far as like the production,
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  Speaker 3: like the sampling and all that. When you meet him
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  Speaker 3: and you know he could do pop records and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. Him seeing him on that kind of vibe
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  Speaker 3: is definitely a switch up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how many albums out do you have altogether?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: I counted, bro, it's like thirty thirty albums. Thirty albums
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  Speaker 3: when you're like.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's crazy too because you always like like you're
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  Speaker 1: obviously you've been independent pretty much your whole career.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I wonder like because I feel like some
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  Speaker 1: artists don't kind of understand, like catalog is like, really.
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  Speaker 4: What keeps the lights on exactly?
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  Speaker 1: If you got thirty albums, man, it's like all that
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  Speaker 1: shit adds up every month, right, it definitely does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hell yeah, you know, catalog I think even when
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  Speaker 3: I realized that that because before that, right, it was
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  Speaker 3: all blog era shit. Right, It's like it was just
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  Speaker 3: putting it out for free, trying to catch some some
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  Speaker 3: vibe and then a label might sign it, right uh,
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of people that were in that era
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  Speaker 3: didn't make it out of that era, you know. So
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  Speaker 3: the ability to you know, first put your shit on
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  Speaker 3: iTunes made a difference, and then when streaming happened, that's
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  Speaker 3: started to bring the hustle mentality out of.
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  Speaker 2: Me, right right?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Do you feel like because I feel like there
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  Speaker 1: is like a hustle to being an independent rapper. You
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  Speaker 1: have so many different like things You're part of you
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  Speaker 1: and dizzy you and h hop a y obviously the
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  Speaker 1: serial killer shit?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Like do you kind of have to have your hand
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  Speaker 1: in a bunch of different pots musically, like to really
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  Speaker 1: kind of like because I feel like there's so many
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  Speaker 1: independent artists or talented but just can't fucking make enough
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  Speaker 1: money to keep it.
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  Speaker 2: Going, just to keep it going.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think early on because you remember,
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  Speaker 3: like even when you met me the first time, like
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  Speaker 3: I was featured on b Reel's album, and I was
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  Speaker 3: hype manning, right, So I realized, I think the very
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  Speaker 3: first check I got in music or money wise from
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  Speaker 3: music was going out as a hype man, right, and
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  Speaker 3: then being featured on records and then a songwriter. And
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  Speaker 3: then you know, it was a while, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: before music was even being sold, during the time when
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  Speaker 3: I was really catching my opportunities as far as like
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  Speaker 3: the blog era is what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I did it all.
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  Speaker 3: I still do a lot of shit, Like when I
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  Speaker 3: seen that you could give money and like doing shit
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  Speaker 3: for TV and film and sync placements and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And I realized, like if I just kept feeding and
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  Speaker 3: my fans, they would be the ones that turn into
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  Speaker 3: they'll be promote for me.
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  Speaker 4: So just strengthen numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, what is it like working on the serial killer shit?
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  Speaker 1: Like, because that's got to be just I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: this is the fifth go go around with these guys,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean just being those are your friends. You've
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  Speaker 1: been on the road with these guys, you obviously shared
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  Speaker 1: the stage with them for over a decade each. What's
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  Speaker 1: it like just kind of getting in and like creatively
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  Speaker 1: locking in with two guys like that two Jedis.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's like every time, it's all it's
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  Speaker 3: just about upping it with them. You know, they're b
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  Speaker 3: Reel's pens still sharp. X is a fucking beast, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Kingmakers are crazy incredible and it's uh, you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: in with them. And then on this one we brought
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  Speaker 3: in Scoop Deville. He produced the whole shit oh shit,
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  Speaker 3: So we took it back to the very first record
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  Speaker 3: we ever did was Don't You Dare Laugh on b
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  Speaker 3: Reil Smoking Mirrors album. That's the first time me X
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  Speaker 3: and b Rail were on a song and it was
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  Speaker 3: reduced by Scoop, So we brought them in.
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  Speaker 4: He produced Old Ship.
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  Speaker 3: So just getting in the in the studio with with
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  Speaker 3: them and creating this album, you know, it's it's just
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  Speaker 3: always a great feeling to be working with people that
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  Speaker 3: like especially Exen like, I mean, come on, I was
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  Speaker 3: I was in high school freestyling over fucking the paparazzi instrumental.
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  Speaker 4: That's wild, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So to be five albums deep in a group with
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  Speaker 3: him toward the whole world so many times over is
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  Speaker 3: like a blessing.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously. Cyprus Hill legendary should be real as a master
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  Speaker 4: of this ship.
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  Speaker 1: If you were to, like, because you have so many
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  Speaker 1: series of projects, whether it's Stony Point or You and
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  Speaker 1: Dizzy or the Serial Killer stuff, which which one of
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  Speaker 1: those three ventures you think has the best discography quality?
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  Speaker 3: Pounding, Damn, damn, that's wow. That's that's a crazy question.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's hard for me.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard for me to do that because me and
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  Speaker 3: Hopa Shit is like special. Now this I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 3: I've about to give a long winded answer. I would
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  Speaker 3: say I would I would say, uh Mi and Hoppa
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  Speaker 3: shit is special because I started to catch like even
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  Speaker 3: though it's that's more of.
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  Speaker 4: A producer, rapper duo type thing.
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  Speaker 3: So that was special because that's a lot of my
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  Speaker 3: own that's like almost like my solo shit over a
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  Speaker 3: special like a special kind of production. So that holds
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  Speaker 3: a place in my heart because I was able to
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  Speaker 3: go out there and do Stony Point headlining tours. First
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  Speaker 3: time I ever went on my own tours where it
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  Speaker 3: was a line of fans coming to check out my
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  Speaker 3: music just solely for me was Stony Point. So that
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  Speaker 3: has a special place in my heart, you know, Blaze
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  Speaker 3: with a series with Dizzy. I felt like it was
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  Speaker 3: really important pushing the cannabis movement in such a special
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  Speaker 3: time in it, you know, twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen, kind
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  Speaker 3: of like the heyday of the legalization and kind of
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  Speaker 3: like what was happening in the in the era. So
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  Speaker 3: that shit is special. And me and him get booked
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  Speaker 3: time for time for to go do shows and we
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  Speaker 3: just do a bunch of Blaze with us material, So
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  Speaker 3: that's special. And then Serial Killers is special to me
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  Speaker 3: because I'm working with legendary icons and hip hop. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know which one's the best one, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: partial to the Stony Point stuff because it opened a
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  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of solo doors for me.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like because I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like not enough artists will like lock in with a
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  Speaker 1: producer for full projects. But you've done that a lot obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Mike and Keys and Yeah hop A, Austin Sex and ot.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like that's like an easier process when
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  Speaker 1: you're working on your shit because you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: Like I feel like when you just work with one producer,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to clear business, right and like.
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  Speaker 3: Way easier to clear business. And also I just I
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  Speaker 3: was in a group originally when I first started this
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  Speaker 3: music shit, and I always treated hip hop as a
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  Speaker 3: as like a team sport, and so to be able
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  Speaker 3: to rock with with somebody, uh and try to get
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  Speaker 3: to a goal, like even when I did the album
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  Speaker 3: with Tony Chopp, you know, it's like I like tapping
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  Speaker 3: in with a producer, seeing what kind of music they
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  Speaker 3: would make, where they see their vision and with my
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  Speaker 3: and how it how it lines up, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: and uh shout out DJ Mugs because he told me
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  Speaker 3: way early on. You know, find a producer to work
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  Speaker 3: with and and stick with that, you know, And that's
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  Speaker 3: why I even had two projects with Scoop Deville, Like
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  Speaker 3: I have so many different things where I where I've
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  Speaker 3: worked with one solid producer on projects.
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  Speaker 2: I say, is it for you?
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  Speaker 1: Like is there a chemistry that you I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably Hopper, right, you guys have so much music in
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  Speaker 1: terms of just like honing in with a producer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would definitely say I was. I'd definitely say
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  Speaker 3: DJ Hopper. I mean me and I feel like Championship
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  Speaker 3: Rounds and Championship Rounds two with me and Mikey Keys,
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  Speaker 3: like that's some sleep on music. And yeah they did
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  Speaker 3: Blaze with us three, Like the wave that with them
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  Speaker 3: is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean a lot of these producers, I always lean
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  Speaker 3: back to what working with Hopper because, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: like the doors that that opened, Like I remember when
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  Speaker 3: the first, uh the first A Stony Point album dropped
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  Speaker 3: and going and performing Clouds above Us with Dizzy at
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  Speaker 3: his shows and seeing five hundred people singing the fucking
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  Speaker 3: song with us, and I was like, yo, that that
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  Speaker 3: music started to take a life of his own and
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  Speaker 3: I could still go out at any one of my
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  Speaker 3: shows and play Stony Point music and people are gonna
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  Speaker 3: sing along with me.
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  Speaker 2: Which producer would you like to do an album but
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  Speaker 2: that you haven't yet?
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  Speaker 3: Damn h Alchemists, I mean, I mean, that's the whole
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  Speaker 3: world is gonna. I mean I've asked him multiple times,
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  Speaker 3: you know, how to you know, chopped it up with
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: him and uh, you know when the time is, when
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  Speaker 3: the time permiss out, let's run that, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of dope ass producers that
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  Speaker 3: I like to work with. I actually just got to
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  Speaker 3: work with I did the rock the Bell's Cruise, uh
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  Speaker 3: ship with with X last month or some shit like that.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to do a song with Manny Fresh
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  Speaker 3: oh Fire, So I got to that was cool. And
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  Speaker 3: there's just a lot of producers that I respect, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Havoc my deep would be crazy, you know, some production
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  Speaker 3: I love. I'd love to do a project with Battle Cat.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to obviously, you know, uh, just the Aftermath
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  Speaker 3: staff like over.
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  Speaker 4: There, any type of shit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there's there's so many dope people that
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  Speaker 3: I that I admire their work that I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: collaborate with is.
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  Speaker 1: The Rock the Bells Tour like what I picture the
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  Speaker 1: cruise or yeah, the cruise I mean like is I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like it'd be just like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: dusty old heads like me.
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  Speaker 2: Just it's it's it's it is.
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  Speaker 3: You want to know something, it's I don't would I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't consideringly say dusty old heads.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't be the words that I would use.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like forty five year old white dudes.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was all black. Really it was all black, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean straight up like.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of me and Spencer Breens on the tour,
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  Speaker 2: like on the cruise ship.
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  Speaker 3: And I would say, is it's definitely like thirty to
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  Speaker 3: like you know fifty type of age range and uh
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  Speaker 3: because it was right yeah ll but you know it's
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  Speaker 3: like people that want to go see like on on
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: the one that we did was uh juvenile with the
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  Speaker 3: with the band loop Loop a fiasco was there?
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  Speaker 4: The locks exhibit.
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  Speaker 3: Twists the whole time, Yeah, dog pound, you know it's
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: a long list, and then to like empty Light and
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  Speaker 3: Kji like I got to see bro. I never thought
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  Speaker 3: in my whole life that I would see get to
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  Speaker 3: watch Cougie rap perform. I thought, maybe I have missed
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  Speaker 3: my time to see that, and I want to go
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  Speaker 3: on this fucking cruise now, Yo, this this ship was
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  Speaker 3: food poisoning.
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  Speaker 4: Food was good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so I've never been I've never been on a cruise,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I have like a hard line in
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  Speaker 1: the sand where I'm like.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, You're like, I won't fuck with it.
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  Speaker 2: But that sounds fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's cool because it's it was hip hop the whole time,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, the Elevator music and all that ship
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  Speaker 3: might be. You know who tank wan ain't nothing to
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  Speaker 3: fuck with. You know, it's cool, It's great experience.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: For you man, Uh, it's been a pretty dope year
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  Speaker 1: and hip hop outside of your own music. What what
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  Speaker 1: would you put in the Album of the year.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Run besides oh, which I think is I'm just happy
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: that people were fucking with with lyrics. I like, uh,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: the Clips album obviously, I feel like that's a big
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  Speaker 3: time front runner that a lot of people are talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Kingmaker.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like X's album was extremely you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: I don't not slept on because I feel like people
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  Speaker 3: with it. But sometimes shit got to resonate for a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. You're gonna just kind of double back and
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  Speaker 3: be like, that's something something special. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of good music that that that came out this year.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious, what's your fact?
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  Speaker 2: Clips? The Clips?
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  Speaker 3: I just I like that they just popped out and
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  Speaker 3: people were hip hop's in a weird place though, too, right?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Ever, I never stopped listening to the Clips album, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I still listen to it.
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  Speaker 2: It's for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Clips are Alfredo too or my two for
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: the year, and then and then probably the Larry June
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  Speaker 1: now Shit with two Chains.
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  Speaker 4: Love that album.
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  Speaker 2: Life's beautiful. It's crazy, man. There's some great albums this
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  Speaker 2: year though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and people fucking with hip hop. But I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to ask you to like, do you what do you
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  Speaker 3: where do you think the state of hip hop is
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  Speaker 3: at right now?
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  Speaker 1: I love I think it's been the best year of
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  Speaker 1: hip hop in a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think the last time was this good was probably
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: like twenty twenty twenty. We had some good ship, but
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  Speaker 1: this year it's been I'm like trying to put together
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  Speaker 1: my year end list for the albums, and I'm like, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: so much good shit came out this year. It's like,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: is getting hurt.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: At getting left off to a lot.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Of good music that came out this year.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Man, Like it's but do you feel like this, let
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: me ask you this. You feel like the staying power
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: of music is like lasting as long. I don't know
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: why I felt like shit is dropping and came out.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: It's kind of been like that for a minute. I
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: feel like ever since we got to the point where
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: like it was so easy to release music, like you
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: just upload your own ship. I just feel like people's attentions.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: That's why it's like, if you, if you for me,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: if like I listened to an album more than a
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: month or.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Two, I'm like, it's a special piece of work.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: And there's a bunch of projects this year that I
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: was just like, I'm like, I just keep going back
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to so I love. Honestly, I feel like this is
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the even even though there's like all the Billboard narrative
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: ship that's out there that's a little lacking nuance because
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: they changed the rules, so a lot of stuff fell
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: off the chart. But I think it's I think hip
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: hop's in a good place because it's like the underground
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: ship's cracking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: You know, and even the big ship like Laboy cardis
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: technically kind of still an underground artist. Now, whether you
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: like him or not, it's one thing. But he has
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: like a very like his movement is very like underworld
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: type shit, you know what I'm saying. Like, Yeah, Playboy
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: cardis doing arenas while still kind of not being like
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  Speaker 1: like a pop culture.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like the Suicide Boys type shit or the
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  Speaker 3: Biggest version.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, similar, similar, yeah, similar in their own little I'd
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• 17:27
  Speaker 1: very similar. Suicide Boys are fucking doing arenas and nobody
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: like they're not household names, you know.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I feel like Christian hip hop popped off this year.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Miles Minnic had a good year.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lacraye, I don't know what else.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I just know Miles.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm an atheist, so the Christian hip hop doesn't
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: hit as well with me.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But Miles Minnic had a dope album.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm just really talking about I'm thinking more
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: of just like what's trend, Like it's just weird. I
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: feel like the landscape with hips so broad now it's
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• 18:06
  Speaker 3: they're all different.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: They're such different.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of subgenres of rap.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Now there we go.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely splintered, which is fine. Yeah, because it's
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: like that with rock.
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  Speaker 3: There's folk, there's fucking alternative, there's metal. There all the
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: same shit. It's actually better, right yeah, I think it's better. Yeah,
• 18:25
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna it's this thing of ours is gonna
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  Speaker 4: So it's cool.
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  Speaker 3: We dropped two singles now, s k Anthem was the
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• 20:26
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  Speaker 4: It's going crazy right now.
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  Speaker 3: Easy sample to you know, be real, spoke to uh,
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• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Record, right right, right, right right now. That's so all right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And for someone who's known for being such a big pothead,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you're not smoking weed anymore.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I'm so batter fulled. I ain't drink. I'm rob dogg
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: in life right now.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: How does it feel?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It's crazy, bro, Like, I feel great though, but I'm
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: trying to learn how to be social again.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Is it the news?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: So the alcohol, the weed the hardest thing to give
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: up for you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: You know, I was a big fan of the cross.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I might be one of those people that really loved
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the crossfade, you know what I mean.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: But obviously.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It's like if you're going we do them both.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, you usually see can be stoned and drunk,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: you know, but.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Uh, alcohol just is uh you know, it's I feel
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: like I was, all right, you go to the airport, you
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: rather get on the flight to go to the show.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: You have a couple of drinks, you land, you, you
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: go to soundcheck, have a drink after soundcheck, go get
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: dinner before the thing, have some drinks, go do the show,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: take a couple of shots through his stage, have some
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: celebratory shots out.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Then you then you're smashed before you know.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: It, before you know it, you're doney Sonny and uh
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: so I feel like I need to put more restraint,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: restraint on the drink.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Uh. And I'm happy that I did that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And I had partied Hella for a long time, so
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: it's cool to be able to say, all right, let
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: me do it like this now.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I wonder because it's like, I know so many homies
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of mine who's brand to their fans is like wrapped
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: up in weed. Yeah, and you're like one of those
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: guys yeah, I forget what I have. Like I think
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the old school merch I had of yours had like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was weed and money.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, money and weed.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: That's the old school yeah, one of my very Yeah.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And like so I mean obviously blaze with us and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the Stony Points ship all that is it? Like, is
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it hard for you to kind of like remove that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: part of your because it's so kind of wrapped up
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: in some of the music.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Great question, And I feel like it's okay to to say, hey,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not smoking right now?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Am I am?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I saying I'm never gonna smoke again. You know, it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: okay to evolve and grow in this music. Ship, And
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: like I done did the the Dave hits, the smoke boxes,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: the fucking bob rips, and ship I done did. I
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: don't the days a like proving that you're like can
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: go run? You know, I'll save that for the designated
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: people who want that to be their thing. My whole
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: ship is like, uh, this is actually something new. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: never tried sobriety, so let me give this a shot.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: And I feel like people will rock with me because
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: they they've been they've been along with me on this
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: whole journey. And then plus in the cannabis market, I
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: feel like we contributed with the stony point, with the
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: actual cannabis line. I've done a lot of things. Cool
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: shit in cannabis that's like doesn't always have to be
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: with how much can I smoke?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Even that, what was the strain you had with the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Asian brad.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Gaslado, you know, the gasco and that ship blew up
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: in the street. That ship that's shit really weak off.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: So it was cool to be able to say, like,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: you know, I've really contributed in that world on a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: on a couple of different levels. I don't think that
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: it's all attached with me smoking weed every day.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I just it's it's like, I don't you remember when
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Snoop like supposed to be quit. It was all this
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: outrage like quick we yeah, and I was like, damn,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I didn't last very long.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: It didn't.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: But I wonder if, like the like like when people revolt,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: if Wiz ever said I'm giving up weed, I think.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: People would be like what the fuck? Like why is he?
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: You know, they probably really want to know. But you know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: even for the for the serial killers, like they're like, oh,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do a smoke box for the for it,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: you know, on the to be real. Yeah, exactly, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I'll just sit in the smoke box and kick it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: It's not like, you know, I still love it, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I'm just not doing it. I'm just choosing not.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: To do it right now.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: You it's like more about the alcohol.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, And it's the one and the two, you know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the one the two. And I think once I get
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: things more leveled and really prove to myself that I
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: could do, you know, handle things and the way I
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: need to, then yeah, I'll address the situation.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Then, are you?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Uh because nowadays when you guys drop, you gotta kind
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of do content, right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: You gotta do fucking vertical stuff.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So much content is that something that is easier hard
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for you to kind of adjust to.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: What I used to say about me is that I
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: used to you know, I was really cool with the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: director of mad Alonzo, who was killing shit back in
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: the day, and uh so I was always shooting music videos.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: So to me, short form content is a very easy
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: thing to do, and I've always been doing it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: It's just you have to like up it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I have a hard time with shooting twenty pieces of
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: content of the same song and shit like that, right,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: because and because I have so much of a catalog too,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I'm like, let's do this. But sometimes it's that or not.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Sometimes a lot of times it's the concentrated effort into
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: one thing that can move the needle. So it's just
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the adjustment. I always been doing it. I think what
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I have a problem with, brother, is rapping in front
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: of the camera, freestyling and all that shit, Like that's
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: my specialty. That's what I've leaned into. That's opened a
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: lot of doors for me. Rapping has moved me forward,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: just the actual ability to rap, but showing my life
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: and all this other stuff that they're like, what else
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: is part.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Of your brand?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: And da da dah this and like showing all that stuff.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Maybe the weed was an easy thing for me to
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: show because I always was around with you know, Philly,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: you know, it was always a part of me since
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the beginning. So Demrick rapping, weed, hustler, like those were
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: my you know, So how do I show more of
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: my real life to create these these fans when or
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: to make the fans resonate with you more? When all
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I can really do is is rap, tell you my
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: life story through song and music and hope that it
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: catches you that way. So I think my hard thing
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: is like figuring out that other side of social media
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: and not wrapping in front of the camera short form content,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: just spinning the sixteen on the street like we was
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: doing that when we was sixteen years old.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Is it like when you got to pull X and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: be Real together to be like, hey guys, we got
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: to shoot some reels.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yo yo, and you see. I don't know if you've
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: seen that, but we've been dropping reels for that. So
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I'm really I'm really happy that we all, you know what,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: the company we're working with, we sat down and we
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: we devised the game plan and that's part of it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: And we if you take a look, they're working exceptionally well,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you know. And so I think, yeah, it's just the
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: way of the game. But in the beginning it's I
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: think for for them, it might have been like then,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: you know, be Real is really in the in this
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: media game.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: He's one of ojees. He's been doing b Real TV
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: forever bro.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: So he understands the he understands the power of it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: And I think that this project is really putting that
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: short form content shit in the forefront of his mind,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Like damn, I could pop off for real at at
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the studio and you know a million motherfuckers will we'll
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: see it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You just never know. You got to keep shooting shots
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: and algorithm.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Exactly bro, And uh yeah, I'm all with it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: It's the new rules.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, you can you can complain or you
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: gotta play by the rules, dog like it is what
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I'm just like trying to figure out that how to
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: show and I think actually popping back out and doing
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: more of this, Like people will be reminding me, like, Yo,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: you need to go do this. I've done the Boulet
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: keV show, right, I don't know you need to do
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: it again. You gotta do it, Sam, you gotta do
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: this shit every year, so you could clip it up
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: and show people your personality and really give that try
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: to drop some knowledge and connect with people in a
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: different way than just just wrapping.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You already got twenty twenty six lined up in terms
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of what you're going to be working on.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know, we know Serial Killers project coming
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: in April.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it's either gonna you know, me and
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Scoop Deville. We got a.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: We got a whole new album that we have. Uh
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: so it's either gonna be that or or UI too.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised you never dropped the project with berner Man.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: You know, me and Berner we we had conversations. Just
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: never uh it never, It never happened. You know, He's
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: featured me on a lot of.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Stuff, you know, big records.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, And he took me on tour a
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: bunch of times. And good dude, it's crazy. Me and
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Cosmo have a He produced the whole album for me
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that I just have sitting sitting, you know, somewhere. It's
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: on my laptop. I'm like, I'm like, when can I
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: find time to put this motherfucker out. It's it's dope
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: ass album. And shout out to those dudes really embraced
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: me in a cool way and and put me on
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: with their audience and ship like that. Burner, super solid dude.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Super solid man.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: We'll listen new album Mollie out Serial Killers album in April.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Stay locked in, dem. I appreciate you, brother, Thank you,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: brother bo
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Mhm