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#78 - Yung Bleu · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: on the podcast was about six months ago and this
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  Speaker 1: was prior to him having his big record with Drake.
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  Speaker 1: So now we're talking to him after he's had a
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  Speaker 1: number one song and man, just real dope. Young brilliant
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  Speaker 1: mind in the music game, incredible singer, incredible artist, incredible writer.
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  Speaker 1: Young Bloom Yo. It's the BOOTLEKEV Show blutle Cap Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Got my brother in here man, so Young Blue welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the last time we did an interview,
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  Speaker 1: you were getting ready to put your EP out, and
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  Speaker 1: this was right before. I feel like life changed for you. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you got this Drake feature, which I know you've
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  Speaker 1: talked about a million fucking times at this point, but
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  Speaker 1: you and I haven't seen each other since then. Like,
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  Speaker 1: how much has that feature? Because that record was number
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  Speaker 1: one at radio? I mean yeah, it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: songs that like, as a radio guy, like I'm Mike
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  Speaker 1: tired of, which is a good thing because it's played out,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it can't played too much.
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  Speaker 1: How that record change your life? Bro? Uh? Just I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of ways. I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was on lock on Lockdown. It came out like doing quarantine,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't really get the experience like every everything
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  Speaker 1: for real. But I think he's just kind of maybe
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  Speaker 1: more richer. You know what I'm saying, probably beat by it.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably like, you know, that helps biggest thing. You've
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  Speaker 1: been still doing shows though we were doing shows like
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  Speaker 1: I saw you was in my I saw you was
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  Speaker 1: in Tempee. You killed the Phoenix. That ship looked crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, well, I think I'm just thoughting about
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  Speaker 1: to not do as many shows as I what I
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  Speaker 1: was doing. But are you? Are you gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: like the solo headlining tour or yeah, That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing in August. So that's gonna be like the heart
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  Speaker 1: of you. Is that gonna be like your first like
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  Speaker 1: real hard ticket tours. I know you do our dates,
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  Speaker 1: you know, run around, get the bag and all that shit,
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  Speaker 1: but like this is like gonna be the first real tour. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my first one. Yeah. Yeah, that's exciting man, that's gotta
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  Speaker 1: be fun. Yeah. How's the entrepreneurial ventures going? I think
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  Speaker 1: the last time we talked, we were talking about how
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  Speaker 1: you ran out your tour bus. Yeah. I really ain't been.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't gonna lie, I really ain't been too much. Oh my, uh,
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  Speaker 1: like my other adventures besides music, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying right now, But it's just because I got so
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  Speaker 1: much with the music coming on, like with the album
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  Speaker 1: and just running around every well like trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just do everything for this album, so I ain't really
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  Speaker 1: just get to So have you been neglecting the restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: the food truck ship? Yeah, like I really I sold
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  Speaker 1: my food truck like at the COVID. I ain't really
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  Speaker 1: open my restaurant back up for really, I just ain't
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  Speaker 1: had time to just even miss with it for real
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  Speaker 1: like that. But you know, one of the things like
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  Speaker 1: I can always do, like I really right, right, right right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, really no theme for Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's like, you know, you're one of
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  Speaker 1: the few artists that I met that that's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: That's like I didn't really understands, like, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: to put your money in different places and and and
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  Speaker 1: to kind of be a little bit more responsible than
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  Speaker 1: most when it comes to, you know, not burning through
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  Speaker 1: your bread like that. Let me let me ask you
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  Speaker 1: this because I know, you know, you had experienced the
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  Speaker 1: Columbia shit and then fucking with Empire and then the
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  Speaker 1: Drake record happens, and then that goes over the Warner
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and I'm sure you know, at any
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  Speaker 1: given time, you could have signed with anybody. What made
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  Speaker 1: you want to stay independent? Stayed down with Ghazi and
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  Speaker 1: the team and Empire. I just had more freedom, Like
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  Speaker 1: I had just way more freedom. Like you know, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I was, you know, just running my own show,
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  Speaker 1: you feel me, And I was just doing what I
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  Speaker 1: knew work did. They was just fun and whatever I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do, you know what I'm saying. So I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I really ain't had no reasons to sign
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  Speaker 1: to a major because like they was, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: had I had like being oars with like other labels
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, like major labels. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Guys, you know was able was willing to
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, talk to them same numbers,
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  Speaker 1: but staying independent and I was getting mold. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Can you tell us who
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  Speaker 1: was like number two you were considering? Oh? I think
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  Speaker 1: it was it was It was it was hardball between
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  Speaker 1: like Republican or Republican. Y republic I mean, I mean
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  Speaker 1: Republican is like the Superstar label. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Was there ever any discussions about you going over to
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  Speaker 1: ovo at all or yeah we had. It was just
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  Speaker 1: it was discussions. It was it was discussions. It was
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  Speaker 1: like a theme for for a minute, something you were
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  Speaker 1: seriously considering. Yeah, yeah, yeah I was. I was considered it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it, it could have happened, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It was just like, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I just used When I used to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Drake about it, he was like he he ain't even
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  Speaker 1: really used the pressure, but he was like, man, I
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  Speaker 1: love you know what I'm saying, love to have you
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  Speaker 1: over here. He was just like, I just want you
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  Speaker 1: to uh you know a lot of stuff and they
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  Speaker 1: start opening up to you, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, basically just telling me he already
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  Speaker 1: know like all the lad was going to be coming
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  Speaker 1: at me and stuff like that, and to just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like just wait because you know me, I was
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  Speaker 1: fresh out there, like I'm gonna sign you know, you
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  Speaker 1: get a crazy advance with a crazy bag type. But
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  Speaker 1: I was able to, uh just do what was right
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  Speaker 1: for my career for real, like that children Drake like
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  Speaker 1: make an official offer. No, No, they never did. I
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  Speaker 1: never really After he said that, I never really like
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  Speaker 1: pressed on it for really you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I never really pressed on it, So it was like
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  Speaker 1: just a conversation of like quick conversation. Uh. His team
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  Speaker 1: was just like, you know what I'm saying. When you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, let us know for you side
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  Speaker 1: your deal, just like kind of communicate with us and
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  Speaker 1: just let us know so we can, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, have a chance to talk things over with you.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was kind of like just helpful, like
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  Speaker 1: just steer me, steer me, uh through the whole process
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  Speaker 1: right there. What I really just trying to make me
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  Speaker 1: side to them kind of give you some big hommy advice, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, him and his team or Morgan. I think
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  Speaker 1: Morgan over there for sure. Do you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: get enough credit when it comes to kind of like
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  Speaker 1: kicking off a lot of the ship is hot right now?
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  Speaker 1: Like I feel like you've been doing this, this this
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  Speaker 1: singing and love shit for before a lot of people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because people look at you as a new artist, but
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  Speaker 1: you're you're really not a new artist. You've been putting
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  Speaker 1: in work for like the last seven or eight years,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Do you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: get the flowers you deserve when it comes to kind
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  Speaker 1: of doing a lot of this ship before everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't feel like I get the you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, the the the flowers like through
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  Speaker 1: like the media and stuff like that. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it shows when you go out into the real world.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, when you go out in
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  Speaker 1: the real world, Like Internet don't matter, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying when it come to packing out a club,
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  Speaker 1: like none of this stuff matters, TikTok, don't matter that
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  Speaker 1: none of this stuff matters. It's about catalog and have
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  Speaker 1: you been through these trenches before, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So it kind of shows when I go out in
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  Speaker 1: person towards then you know what I'm saying on the
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  Speaker 1: internet for real? What about from your peers, because like
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  Speaker 1: I feel like obviously Meek tapped in early, Drake is
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  Speaker 1: tapped in. Like I think I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people within the industry at least who have been tapped
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  Speaker 1: in kind of know if you know, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even people like who just love music, who's just done
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  Speaker 1: their research on me. I feel like that's why I've
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  Speaker 1: been able to do like collab with more people that
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  Speaker 1: people probably just feel like it's too early in my
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  Speaker 1: career to collab with I feel like that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: know why because they see why, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: how far it came and just how far my roots
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  Speaker 1: go into music. You know what I'm saying. It make
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  Speaker 1: you want to work with me. So I feel like
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  Speaker 1: some of the people like that may work at like uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. The companies and stuff like
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  Speaker 1: that don't really know. But the people who tapped in
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  Speaker 1: the music industry, they really they really know. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're also tapping in with young artists like
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  Speaker 1: I know, I saw you tapping with the Honey from
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Taliban Duda. What is it like? First of all,
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: we talked about this last time, Like you come from
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: the school of boozy, so you are if you're in
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  Speaker 1: the city. I don't know anymore. But at the point
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  Speaker 1: in time, if you at your bag right, you could
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  Speaker 1: pull up on blue and get your get you get
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  Speaker 1: your get your issue. You know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to like you know, like when we
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  Speaker 1: see you on other people's records, like like is it
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  Speaker 1: something that you have to want to do at this point,
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  Speaker 1: or are you still like, hey, look if the price
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  Speaker 1: is right, I'm on that thing. Uh yeah, it's really
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  Speaker 1: somebody had to to do for like right now, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And then but it's still I
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  Speaker 1: still get the bag doing it. But it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd have been offered to be on a lot of
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  Speaker 1: records that I just passed on, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: just because it probably just makes sense for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not anything against the artists and nothing like that. It
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  Speaker 1: just it adn't really make sense what I have going on.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm really backed up on stuff right now,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm so backed up on features and it's stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I just don't want to over. Like I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about features from big artists, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: When you just had the Future come out with was
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  Speaker 1: it with her? Yeah? Yeah, which is fucking crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: saw that happen like on Twitter, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's dope to see like the fruit. Will you see
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  Speaker 1: that that happened? You reply? And then the song comes out? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Now for sure. I feel like everybody I ever hit
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  Speaker 1: up then hit me back like everybody ever, like tweet
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  Speaker 1: everybody that I went after, like you know, saying, then
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  Speaker 1: hit me bag and just got with me. Like I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that's why everything just be natural? Had everything
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  Speaker 1: with her go down? Did she just send you a
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  Speaker 1: record or was it something studio? So you guys actually
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  Speaker 1: got in together. Yeah, we made like four workers. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That's very rare nowadays. Yeah, for sure. Usually it's like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: here's the m P. Three is an open thing. Do
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  Speaker 1: what you do on and send the back. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: rather wait before do that because I just be like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I'm more of a creative
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  Speaker 1: special when it's the artist like that. I like to
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  Speaker 1: get in and like feel feel vibe and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys got four records. Yeah, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: all of them coming out though, I just know we
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  Speaker 1: cut We cut four records. She chose one for her
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  Speaker 1: album and I chose one for MA. So she's on
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  Speaker 1: the album. That's big man. What was her process like?
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  Speaker 1: And like, like, because I feel like you're do you
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  Speaker 1: do you do the melody first, then put you in
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  Speaker 1: the lyrics like like you know what I'm saying, I
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  Speaker 1: do I do I write the lyrics in the mirror?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I do the lyrics in the middle of
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: at the same time, I just don't know mic and
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: just go so with the Paradise song. Uh. It was
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: just more like I was already working on the idea
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: when she walked in the studio feeling and when she
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: walked in, all kind of was like, we're just finna
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  Speaker 1: just go to the next song, like we're on so first,
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  Speaker 1: but she was like, Oh, I liked I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Finish that. So I just started finishing and then we
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  Speaker 1: just got the collab and working on it. Who is
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: somebody who has tapped in with you that we might
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  Speaker 1: not expect because I feel like like musically you're in
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  Speaker 1: a different pocket than a lot of new, up and
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  Speaker 1: coming artists, So there might be some some interesting people
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  Speaker 1: reaching out. Man. I'm sure you might even have a
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  Speaker 1: feature on the way from from somebody we might not expect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: even a lot of even a lot of artis reaching out,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. There's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: artists that I reached out to. There's reaching bit, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, Uh, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: I was just uh bullshit. The other day just uh
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: on Twitter, just write NICKI. I just like, man, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I thought it was? Yeah. I was like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I fucked with you because I do with her? Of
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  Speaker 1: course she's yeah. I was like, I ain't just saying that.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't just saying that because we should do a record,
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  Speaker 1: even though we should have. And then like a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes later like she had liked it and followed
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  Speaker 1: me on I g yeah, she had hit me up.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, was like send me something so you know,
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  Speaker 1: so you guys have have had some d ms. You
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  Speaker 1: and Nikki. It was like, yeah, we said, did you
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  Speaker 1: send her a record? Uh? I sent her some ideas. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: She said she gonna She said she gonna get back
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  Speaker 1: with me. So I don't know if it's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: or not. Uh but I don't know. Kind of just
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  Speaker 1: me kind of just from the eyside looking in, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like she gonna do it because I don't even
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  Speaker 1: think she even waste her time, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: hitting back and she want to go. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like nik I don't feel like Nikki is hitting
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  Speaker 1: everybody back. Yeah, you feel I feel I know damn
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  Speaker 1: you and tell you to send you something. She don't
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  Speaker 1: fuck with you, bro. Yeah, so I'm hopefully hopefully that
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: the thing like either way, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: I mess with a tough So it's crazy you got
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  Speaker 1: such an ill tone, Like I feel like I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear you with Like I feel like I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear you on some like ship with would give
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  Speaker 1: it on or something like. I feel like you guys
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  Speaker 1: have like like yeah, a lot of things, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things and already like, oh, is that something that's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, it's just just I threw that
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  Speaker 1: out there. By the way, I had no idea you
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  Speaker 1: consider yourself more of an R and B artist or
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a hip hop artist. I feel like right now I'm
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: more over the orders right now, I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: just an artist overall. But I feel like right now
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  Speaker 1: I'm just playing that pocket like no Tiller when I
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: ever bunced back though, because I just you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I just do every type of music however
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  Speaker 1: I feel. But right now I'm kind of riding that
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: pocket right now for sure. So I know you're in
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: the bay. You linked with hit Maker, right he produced
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: baddest Chris Brown's on the Hook, which is, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: the most talented artist alive. Yeah. He can ball you
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  Speaker 1: up on the basketball court, he can paint a mirror
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  Speaker 1: on you on your fucking wall. He can act, he
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  Speaker 1: can sing, and and I'm pretty sure he can fight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But but how like, like like give me the process,
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  Speaker 1: Like how did how did Chris Brown end up coming
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  Speaker 1: together on the song? Uh? That was something just play
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  Speaker 1: hit make put together. You know what I'm saying. I
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: came in. The hook was already Uh, the hook was
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  Speaker 1: the want I already wrote. They do that. I wrote
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  Speaker 1: the hook while we was in the studio, and then
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  Speaker 1: I did the verses and then uh Berg sent it off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he sent it off and Bro got on it. But
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: after that, you know what I'm saying, we kind of
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: like he became cool. Yeah, how was the video shoot?
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  Speaker 1: I know you shot the videos like last week. It
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: was cool. It was cool. It was it was cool
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  Speaker 1: guy in person. Yeah, I supposed to be put it
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: up on the night. So you know what I'm saying,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: We just keep keeping the vib going, do some more records, man, Yeah,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: like just I already be like the press press the
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: music be like to start with the you know what
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, just the friendship relationships. I know the music
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: is gonna be easy that Yeah, if you guys are cool, Yeah,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: that's the easy sometimes just talking about ideas and just
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: talking about you know what I'm saying, Uh yeah, just
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: the creative space in general. You feel me. I feel
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: like the last time I saw you, you had to
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: rush home because you were having a newborn baby. Is
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? How's the baby? Oh? He good? He good?
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: He good? He good? Is a baby walking yet? Crawling? Nah?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: He he trying to cry? He like he wanted to cry,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: but he ain't really crying yet. Yeah, that's the worst.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: When they started crawling, and then about them bumming their
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: head on the coffee table, he rolling over out the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: bed and ship? Yeah, has he rolled off the bed yet? Yeah? Right,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you feel like he's gonna die. That's happened to me
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: with my baby. He rolled off the bed. I fucking
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I felt terrible. Yeah. I was like, they're gonna do
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: the baby gonna bump their head? I bump my ship?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Have you? I feel like at a certain point in time,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: most young artists ended up moving to l A. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: know you were in Mississippi kind of out the way, Like,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: have you gotten a spot out here? Like you're still
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: kind of out the way. I'm still I'm still out
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the way. I'm in Georgia. Nothing but yeah, I ain't
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: got a spell U. Yeah you're here a lot though. Yeah,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I've been here a lot recently just because I was
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: working on my album. Yeah, this is where it's at
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for sure. Give me your like R and B top three?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Who's your top three R and B artists all time?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Man like yours, not not who you think everyone else
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: will like, like your personal favorites. Uh hm, I feel
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. Just R Kelly. You
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Shout out to R Kelly. We
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: got hey, can we get it? We can? We can?
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: We just I just want to give R. Kelly flowers.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yes he is not a good human being, but he
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: fucking is the greatest of all time. Nobody wants it
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: in the versus nobody. You know what I'm saying. Let
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: me see uh I want can I say? Can I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: see them? Michael Michael Michael Jackson, R and B another
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: quite possibly not great human being, but great artists you
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So far we're two for three
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: on uh yeah, and on the Toxic Guys and uh
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: let me see, let me see R and B or
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: B or Michael Jackson's probably more popped out, to be fair,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I feel like who a
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: lot of people sleep on that really really joy is
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: part of next Door. Oh party is one of the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: best riders the last like twenty five years. Yeah, love
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: for sure? For sure? Yeah not. His penn game is ridiculous.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite? Say three though, say you know out there? Sure?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Uh for sure, Like yeah, it's it's it's it's a few.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite R. Kelly album? Double Up? Double Up?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah wait, double up? Yeah? Yeah yeah that Jungle. Feel
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: like I feel like the generic answer is always twelve Play. Yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I ain't. I don't think I never heard you never
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: heard twelve play? Oh? Man? What I just go through
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: on right now? I just know all these songs, but
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I ain't I ain't ever just the double album are yeah, man,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that's probably far as I go back. Yeah, man, half
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: on a Baby, Damn, that's crazy. What's something you've learned
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: man in the last like seven or eight months? Ever,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Like like since you've gotten the number one record, like
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: something you've learned about yourself or just maybe how to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: maneuver differently, Like what's because you, like I said, you're
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: not like a new artist, you've been through a lot,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: But like, what's something you've learned with the new found
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: fame and the new level of success. I don't feel
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. I really feel like
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I really feel like you know what
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's exactly how you know what I'm saying.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be. You know what I'm saying.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like I just I am trying to move different,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: trying to go a little different with my career. Uh,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Like I said, like I'm trying to be like a
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: touring artist, like a hard ticke. It's hard to pass
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: up those brown bags though. Yeah, you feel me, But
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that's why my situation is so good, because like I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: couldn't at first because I was made label not making
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. You feel me on our music,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But with them probably so
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I make a lot of money off just music. You
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: feel me, So I don't really have to do that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, so I can focus on
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Adam's focused on. I feel
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: like that's why I got uh, you know, just in
• 20:34
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• 21:36
  Speaker 1: with with with with with your situation? Yeah, hell yeah
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: yeah he's still He's still he's still eating, Yeah, still
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: getting his piece. Yeah. Yeah, I said I got three
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: more I got three more projects, like you know what
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And the boost it like people just keep
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: like just missing just so be so tired to just
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: explain it. But I have, uh like uh just stated
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: once before that you know, the situation is a custom situation,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Like I think you might have stated that here before. Yeah,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: like yeah, for real, It's like it's not like people
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: when people say you could still honor something and not
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: be because Okay, if I sit here and say that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the contract Boosy, me and the Boosting negotiated, he said,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sign I was finna sign a deal with Empire.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I was gonna go get you know what I'm saying,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a bigger bag. You feeling like that? And I said, okay,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: we had three more albums left in the contract. You
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So he still get those three albums.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, He still get those three albums.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Like I said, he still make money. You feel me?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I saw you just post like a compilation of funny
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Boosy moments. Yeah, Like Boosy is like the funniest motherfucker
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: like quite possibly in him pop history. What is like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the funniest ship you've ever like witness in person with Boosy?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Because it's just I've been around him and like I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: just feel like I feel like, I know he tried
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to do the reality TV show thing, and I thought
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it should have been a lot bigger, but like he
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: is probably the most entertaining person. Yeah, you don't even
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: really have no favorite favorite moment. Like you know what
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Boost is just fun and like people like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Boost are really like you know what I'm saying, or real, bro,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I just hate when people be like just taking my
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: words and like, for real, though people know so much lessens,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: people know so little about deals and stuff like that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that I just the easiest thing for me to say
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is yeah, I'm still signing a BOOST. You feel me?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Of course, because if I break it down for real,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you the person not even gonna understand what I'm even saying.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You feel they just be like, oh he trying to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: say he's signed a Boost. Yeah, I'm still signing Boost.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's always bad worried when you when
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you find out he got shot man because that was
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: rough man. I talked to him right after that, so
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I knew he was good. Like world, you know what
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I said, I'm close to Booster. So
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: when you see shit like that happen, because we've seen
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of people get hit, like recently, you know,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Benny the Butcher and you know a lot of people
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: if you know, fortunately, I feel like, you know, Jim
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Jones said this recently that being an artist is one
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Does that
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: kind of you know, I feel like you have to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: kind of take notes and like move differently, right, Yeah,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I feel I'm like, I ain't really never thought I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: have to be you know what I'm saying roller Like
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I'm rolling, But you know, you just it just come
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: with it, man, because some people just don't you know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: some people don't think logical, you feel me, They just
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: especially when they see an artist, it's like a button
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: just click. You just you know what I'm saying. So
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you just got to be protected men. Yeah, they can't
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: watch it. You can't watch everything all the time. You
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: think about like pop smoke like it wouldn't even know
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: it was like a kid you saw where he was
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that on Instagram, some kids from the hood, and they
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: rolled up on him and like that could happen to anybody. Yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: so you know that came in mind, and it came
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: up in my lbnb before it came while you were
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: there recently. Nope, I want that though. So just I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: had just left, like I had just left that morning,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and I just had left randomly too. I just like
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I had just got up cause I'll posted like two
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: more days. Well, uh, I had just left. When I
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: got up in the morning, I was like, I'm going
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to go home with my kids before I go to Africa.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to see my kids. I had just
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: got out that morning, just booked the flight and DIP
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and uh I had booked the flight of dip and uh.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So you left and then right after you left, some
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: people ran up in the airbnb you were at. Yeah,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: was anybody there, Yeah, my manager and my artist was there.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Did they get robbed or what. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: oh wow they're they're good though. Yeah, they're straight. It's great.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: That's great. Like that's crazy because you never know how
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: they could have found out you were there. Yeah, they
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: could you know what else too. We was just we
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was hot born. I ain't gonna lie. We was hoping.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: We was there for like weeks, you know what I'm saying,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: doing la have a house pulled ship like that, just
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: just just not maybe not moving the smartest, yeah, not
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: moving the smart but you know, we had security and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: stuff over there, but they came in like two of them.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: It don't matter, Yeah, it don't matter. Yeah, that's crazy.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So obviously you learn from that. Yeah, because I feel
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: like it's kind of been bad man. Yeah. I feel
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like if if I would, like, you know, shid knowing me,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I probably probably I wouldn't even say, like I'm just
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: rambowing them, but I already know like how I sleep,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you feel me. It probably would have been a shootout,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: but you never know, like who would have worn to shootout,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Because that was out here.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I feel so. Yeah, you know it's crazy
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: too with these airbnbs, is like everybody using the same
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: same ones, So all you got to see is one
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: little sliver on someone's story and if you know, you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: know where that one is. Because every rapper, every artist,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: there's only a certain amount of Airbnbs in the hills
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and like, yeah, man, be shipped. That's that's crazy. Thank
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: god you When I saw your kids, you know what
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Talk about your trip to Africa. I saw
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: you went out there with Gazi and Nima and it
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: looked crazy, man, I mean it looked I heard. Did
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you go with them? Nima told me the story about
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: how they went to the Nigerian Prince's house or like
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the king. Okay, yeah, he told me, like yo, we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: had to bow and like kiss the floor and ship.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I ain't go with them. But how was your trip
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to Africa? Man? It was good, It was good. But
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: their first time? Yeah that was my first time period.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: How would you describe it? Because like you know, we
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: always hear about going to Africa and they looked beautiful. Yeah,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: it's different. Like I said, it's uh, you know, they
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: got they you know what I'm saying. They bad spots,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: but they got some spots that looked you know what
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, just like America, you know what I'm saying,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: because you're like a big city, you know what I'm saying,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: got like two people. So it was good. It was
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a good experience. It was a way different experience than
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: being in America, of course. And they gonna run them
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: pockets when you get over there though, right right right
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: right in the pocket. They know you a tool, they
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: know you tipping or they yeah, they you got tip
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: do everything. Like you know what I'm saying. Going through
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the airport, right, I really don't even know if I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: would have made it over there without like just knowing
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: people there tell you like I don't get there. Yeah, no,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: just I'm just saying, like, just you gotta have like
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: you gotta know somebody who was in there, tell you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: what's going on, yeah, because it's like it's what was like, like,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: did you out there just to go out there to do?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I know you shot a video there, right yeah? Yeah,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I shot a video with Da Vito, And I was
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: just going to miss with like you know what I'm saying,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: pulling up on it, you know what I'm saying. The
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: video I heard that they out there they call him David.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Oh though but in the US, we like a king.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Oh he's that guy. Yeah, there's uh, what's the other
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: guy's name. I'm interviewing fireboy tomorrow. They start, uh, they
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: start when they see the Vito, they start clapping, like
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: did they know who you are? In Africa? Yeah? Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they knew, they knew. It was it was crazy, like
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I ain't even know they
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: was gonna really know me like that. Like it was.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: It was Is that the first time you've been out
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of the US and saw like you have fans all
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: over the world. Uh if if I'm not counting the Bahamas,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: because I've been to that was the only other place
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: out the country I went in that that everybody knew me,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So the Bahamas in Africa, Yeah,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Bahamas a vibe. Yeah yeah, Bahamas in Africa. But I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: ain't never been though, so they probably not know. I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: got a lot of fans from London. I got a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: lot of fans in Europe and the UK and stuff
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: like that. And now that because COVID shit is over,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you should be you should be able to get around
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. And like I said, I'm just
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: trying to tour like two times a year and do
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: a uh one international tour too. Would you would you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: be down? Like, I'm sure, hell the people have been
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: hitting you probably open up some of these bigger tours coming.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Have those conversations happen. Uh yeah, But I just wanted
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to do my own tour because I was like, you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I'm just ready to be about
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I'm just better to be of my own, my own
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: hard ticket history. You know what I'm saying. I got
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that's how you build up those hardcore fans. Yeah, you
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: feel I want to I want to go ahead and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: do that. No, that's that's I think that's the way. Then,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: like maybe next year or something, you maybe do like
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the Chris Brown or Drake tour. Yeah. Any other records
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: with anybody else on the album you could talk about?
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Oh I got uh I got a record with John Legend?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait, you got a record with John Legends? Yeah? Yeah, okay,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it's actually my intro. You got John Legend on the intro?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, how the fun did that happen? Who
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: reached out to who I reached out? I reached out
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to his team and they just did it? They just
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: did he hit you in your pockets for it? And
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: you do? I don't really know because I don't handle that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You're gonna find out when you see the statement. But
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I think you know another thing like that, I don't
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: really think it's about the money's like legend on the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: intro to your album? Yeah, did you talk to him
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: like like meet? I ain't never even talking I ain't
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: know you talked to him like that. I ain't never
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: even talking to Wow? All right, continue? Who else? Uh?
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: We've established hers on the album, Big Big Shaan's on
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the album obviously, Chris Brown, the Two Chains, Chris Brow,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: obviously Drake. Uh No, no, okay, I'm just I'm trying.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I'm fishing you see Floyd Bailey Okay? Uh the Veto Yeah,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that pretty I think they're pretty much it, working on
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: working on what's the name of the album? If you have?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Is that out yet? Uh? I ended up probably about time?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: When if you drop? When are you gonna tell next week? Like? Uh,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I ain't I want to announce it with the album
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I want all right, But I would say I've been
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: hitting it. I've been hitting at it for a long time,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: like just within my statuses and posts and stuff. I've
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: just been hitting that it's gonna be like investments part
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: whatever the fuck that's over. That came to a conclusion. Yeah,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: they came to a a conclusion. Yeah that's crazy, man. Well look,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: it's good to see you winning. Bro. I always tell
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: any time anybody asked me about you or you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Brian SAMs Is like, I'm working them like yo, Blue
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: is one of the smartest, nicest kids I've met in
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the game. Man, for sure. You know you already messed
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: with and you were grown ass man too. You you've
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: raised in your family the right way, and you know
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you you're handling your business the way you should, Bro.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And you know I think I think uh I and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you for staying independent too. Man, Yeah, for sure, I
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: got it. You know, I'm just trying to pay pave
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: out the way. You know what I'm saying, Just show
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: people like you know, don't believe that narrative that they
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: try to paint that you can't be this or that
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: without them, you know, without the machine, aout the machine,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you feel me, because we is the machine. You feel me,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: So the artist is the machine. Be clear, y'all have
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the leverage bro. Like, that's what I try to tell people,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Like you could take that advance all you want, you
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: got to pay it back at what rate? Yeah? You
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I feel like I feel like
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: just the game changing. I feel like I'm at the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: forefront of just showing people I feel like me my
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: situation I made. So many people see the independent side
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: as as like the thing to do. You know what
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, just because how I've been like maneuvering actually
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: come in handed, like being independent come in handed. Because
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of big artists, you know what I'm saying,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: that we want to deal with other big labels. You
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying if they already will you know
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying with a label, right, So being independent
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: is like you work with who you want. Yeah, like
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the like is less easy for them, like they could
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: just you know what I'm saying. I was gonna say.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: You said something earlier that was important that were kind
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of glossed over, and that was that you're not having
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: to go and grab all the bags that you used
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to have to grab at the you know, wherever city
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: we pull up and do the club and shit. But
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: at the time you're speaking from a perspective of somebody
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: who's really been through most situations in music. Because you
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: had a major type situation with Columbia, right, and like
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you were saying, you were seeing money off off of
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the music, right you had, And this is this is
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: somebody who has plaques. You have plaques. I had, like
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: multiple like gold. So that's what I'm saying. And so
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for people who don't understand, like most artists that you
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: see that signed of these major even getting nothing but
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of them one hundred and fifty thousand dollars advanced. Yeah,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and how did you not recoup that? Right? That's crazy
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: off off of how many gold records too? But that's
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: insane it's within that two years because I don't think
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think people understand like when you get that
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: you sign that record deal, you're gonna get that check, right,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: but like from you better make that last or you
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: better start to build your merch and you're touring and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: all this shit, because it's gonna be a while before
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you see money from your actual music. That's why a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: lot of people just be wondering, like damn, like you
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like how he doing this? Like
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, get this house, get this
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: called like. You know what I'm saying. He just got it,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: just got in the game, and this was just like
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: bro likes. It's just different, you feel me. A lot
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: of people, most of the people that know a record
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: major record deal is like wanting to get out. You
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. They hate it. Yeah, they hated
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: half so uh. I just I just feel like it's
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: just a different, like even even with the major labels thing,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I ain't even you know, I'm not shitting on that situation.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It's just how people structure they did, because you can
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: have an independuent type situation with a major you know
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. People don't. People don't know that. It's
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: it's all about leverage and lawyers and if you're smart, Yeah,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you feel me, and you're not thirsty to get the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: like because a lot of people see that front end
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: check and like, yeah, I ain't gonna lot like a
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: million dollars, don't need to be, but what your terms
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: look like? Yeah, I don't even get excited when I
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: see deals like two million dollars no more and stuff
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I mean you went through it like
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: you said you took a hundred and fifty thousan dollar advance,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you had two gold records, and we're getting thirty five
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: dollars checks. Yeah, that's crazy. That is crazy, but that
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: happens to a lot of people. Man. It's really that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you were smart enough to take your money, put it
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: into investments, and you still got the tour bus that
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you ran now yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm using it on
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: more tour I'm using them. I ain't even been ridden that.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think I never even rented it out. I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: just used to just I just used to be like
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a rind of that, of that, but it's just
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it's just be sitting now. So you tapping in with
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: any real estate or anything like that. I mean I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: just tab to right now, you know what I'm saying,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: working on music, Like I'm probably finna get like I'm
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: finna beill a new piece to my house, like another
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: off spent like another like one point two to build
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: me like an entertainment section of my house. Like oh,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: you're just gonna never have to leave home. Yeah you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: feel me, But I still leave socio. But that's gonna
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: probably be my first investment property. If I decide to move,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I'm really trying to build to get the person that
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: built that to bill me like, uh like over the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: next five year to build me like, because I feel
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: like everybody loved that. It's gonna be so easy to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: see it because when I posted my house, all the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: rappers was in my DM like, man, why will you
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: got this house? So I feel like if I take
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that same like full playing idea and just build like two, three,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: four of them houses, you know what I'm saying, I
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: can sell them easily. What made you want to, like
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: like get out of your hometown, like get out of Alabama?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Because you know Alabama. I do feel like we've noticed
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: like a lot of people like when they stay home
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: usually that's the most hated is you know, I just
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: wanted to, you know what I'm saying. I just wanted
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to see more, you know, see more you feel me,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: uh you know thing I beat there sometimes, but I
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: just wanted to, you know, also stuck somewhere like two years. Also,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: it sounds like you're from Miami, Like I'm assuming Alabama's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: not the most place. Yeah it's not. It's not. It's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: like I did I want to you know a lot
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: of things that my family, you know what I'm saying
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: wanted to do is we don't really have you know
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, and I stayed like by Atleanta,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: so anything I could think of Atlanta right to take
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: them to the Zoo, the Aquarium, six Flags, Disneyland, but
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I mean to say, just Disneyland and like a music
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: park stuff stuff like that. Anything I want to take
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: them to. Uh, I could, I could just do it
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: right there because it's just right there, you feel me, Yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: everything's right there. If you're like a two hour flight
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: to Orlando to go to Disney first case scenario. Yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: A lot of times I just like I really just
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: use my bus for like my family trips and stuff
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Like I just get all my siblings. We just get
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: on the bus and just go like to Disneyland or something.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Like, I feel like you're built
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: for longevity in this game with the way you're thinking. Shit,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: But is that something you consciously think of, like how
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: how can I be here in ten years? As opposed
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to like I do that. I do that. I feel like,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you know, just putting together. That's why I just put
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: together like this masterpiece project because I feel like once
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: this project drop, people just gonna realize, like how talented
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I am. And like I said, I write and I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm just got a you know what I'm saying,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a generational sound because I could do everything. Everybody whoever
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: encounted me. Every time I got on the phone with labels,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: they always say, like, you know what I'm saying, You're
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a generational artist. That people just been saying that ever
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: since I you know what I'm saying, they discovered me.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm gonna have you know what
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, a lot of longevity in the game just
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: because I'm just crazy. I'm just crazy with the pen
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: or you know, everybody feel like that, you know, you
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: can start writing for the artists. Uh, I've been. I've
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: been writing for the artist. I've been right for the artists,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: like I get in the studio and just check their
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: credentials to everyone. Yeah, So anything anything you can talk about,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I just like I can. But I just don't really
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: be going to because I feel like some art you
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: know something, it's scared. It's scared of some artists, you
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Just you know what I'm saying,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: talking about it and stuff like that, and me, I
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: always always believe it like collaborative. I've never been nobody
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: write for me, Like if you're in the studio with
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: someone in there and they give you like, of course,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: use your pride. Yeah, especially hooks. Like like I said,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I always do my own verses and stuff like that,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: but like for like hooks and just ideas and stuff
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: like that, or you're open to collaborate. Yeah, I'm open
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: to collaborate. Like I said the Chris Brown song, like
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: you ain't write none of that, Like the idea was
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: already up. But I swear on my verse you feel
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: me and it's a you know what I'm saying. It's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: a good song. He's going, yes, killing in the radio
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: right now. You guys had the first a nice first
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks of radio independently. Yeah, for sure that
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I would like. I was like, man, y'all, damn y'all
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: doing good. We got two we got two rcords on
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the radio. Yeah, good, both of them. Hey, that in
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: your mind still will not die. Yeah, that's what I
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: said when I'm telling you before when I made that Rooker,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: but I was gonna get ready to put out another
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: another rookerd You know what I was just telling my team.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I was just like, man, I just want a record
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: to just go survive, bro, Like, I just want to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: work ad this. I want to talk about something that
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: people gonna feel forever. And it sounds like nothing else
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: on the radio right now? Yeah, you feel me? So
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: it's like a whole different vibe. Bro. So, I knew
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: it was gonna stick once it I knew it was
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: gonna stick, like one time, once I made. I just
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: knew it was gonna stick because all my workers before
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: was always rookers that like stuck, like in the streets,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: like in the hearts of like the fans in the
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: underground world, you know what I'm saying. So I know
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I could do that on the mainscreen level. You feel me? So?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: You know who I think everybody would love to hear
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you work with. It would be someone like Rod Wave.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Is that somebody you would ever? Uh? I know? Rod
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Wave seems to be like a very emotional guy. You
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying a little erratic on Twitter at times,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: but I feel like I feel like fans would love
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: to see y'all do some shit. Yeah. I feel like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: we I mean we used to chop it up, like
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Since he, you know what
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, blowed up, we really chalked it doing like that.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: But like you know, Roy used to be, like, you
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, a real fan of mine, like
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: before he even blowed up, Like you could definitely hear
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: it for sure, Nah, for sure, Like he used to
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: be like a real fan of mine. So maybe one
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: day yeah, you know, you know, you know how it is, man,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't really but if you go back
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: to his like he's like his first video with that
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: heart on ice, like that was I first like met
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: him at this show. Uh he was over enough for me.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Uh and uh it's camera. Man was trying to get
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: a little drop for he was doing like a little
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: promo video, and he was like, man, Blue, do a
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: drop for artist? No, no, no no, you know what I'm saying.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I got on the camera, Like you know, I messed
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: with him bro hard stuff like that. So you know,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: it's just good to see, you know what I'm saying,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: It's just good to see like artists just blow up.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I saw so many artists blow up, you know what
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I just saw something of the artists blow up,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: like artists that I was messing with tapping it early,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: with tapping it early, with just blowing up. You know
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Some of them stay silent, some of
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: them like, you know what I'm saying, get on there,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I ain't never did nothing
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: to brout, you know what I'm saying. But yeah, sometimes
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: if it would be like sometimes there be other people
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: in they are like y'all, so you know what I'm saying,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: y'all sound saying you should. You know what I'm saying,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: some people be feeling like you know, you know, if
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: y'all in the same lane, he really don't want to
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: like work, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I think
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: that that's the thing that I would love to see,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: like like like you know, like you said, like unfortunately,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I remember he went online and said what he said
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: about other people singing shit. But it's like, yo, just
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: because you do this and we kind of are in
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: the same lane, they don't make us competition or you
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: know that's that weirdo shit. I feel like that should
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: be happening a lot with artists, and it's like, bro,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: like especially if it's people out the same city. You
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Obviously he's from Saint Pete, but
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: like you would just like think like that. Why not
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: share each other's fans, Why not, you know, collaborate, You
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, he'd be good like I like,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: I like natural stuff, though I like, of course I
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: like natural stuff. Like you know what I'm saying. I
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen in the in the in
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the future, but you know, I just like, I want
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: to work with everybody. I want to work with me.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying hundred percent. Man, You know
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, look, the album is coming soon.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Crazy features Uh. The song is on the radio. Go
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: go request that ship and UH and check out the
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: homie Young Blue Man just Get It Boom