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Vegas Rapper Entellekt on the Local Hip-Hop Scene | 362 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_04: Julie, we got a little somebody special here today.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_04: I'm pretty excited for this one.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Who is it?
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_04: It's somebody that I've been following.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_04: I found him on Instagram probably a little over a year ago.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_04: And coincidentally, he didn't even live in Vegas at the time.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_04: But then I found out that he moved to Vegas, and as soon as I saw that he was here, I had to have him on the show.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_04: His name's Intellect.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_04: He's a fucking incredible rapper.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_04: And we're gonna start we're gonna do start the show a little differently today.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna start with the performance.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_04: How do you feel about that?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: Get everybody hooked from the beginning.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, I like that.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_04: Alright, let's go.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_04: Hell yeah.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: Check it.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: Look.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: See all I gotta do is watch our move to know what not to do.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Hate is hate, cause on her list there ain't a lot to do.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_03: I'm the one, I am not the two.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_03: I got a vision, of course, a matter of winning.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: I wasn't born to lose.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_03: I work for myself, so I make the rules, paying dues, probably in Brooklyn, eating Jamaica food.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: Kick it with intellectuals, cause I can't label fools.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_03: I'm on a paper route.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: Me and mine's gonna make it out.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: Rapers celebrate in their streams, knowing they paid for clout.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: I fall back and make my ops think a safer route.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_03: Soon as they let their guard down, I'ma take them out.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_03: The hunger different, knowin' nothing in your bank account.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: See, we was moving baggies out of vacant house.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_03: With only one thing on her mind, and that was make it out.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_03: I used to dream about the paper that I'm getting now.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: People counting me out, but I don't think if they can count.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: This ain't a movie, but your ass projecting.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_03: If you got a bad spirit, we don't have connection.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: You a nobody, we don't have to mention.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_03: Forgot all that shit we did for her, you have dementia.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_03: We in a universe and you were not the center.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_03: These people never like me, they always been a hater.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_03: Give niggas a shirt off my back so they can sell if it's slapped on.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_03: I want my flowers while I can smell them.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_03: The ability to lie.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: You a liability.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'm bigger than niggas, they can't belittle me.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_03: Stop telling people you help me.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_03: You ain't do shit for me.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: You can't reach.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: I'm in the majors, you in the little league.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_03: I'm better than y'all figuratively.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_03: Literally, I've been nice and spun in the middle with little Italy.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_03: Vivid pictures I draw, but I stay like it was calligraphy.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: Best in the vicinity, lower mind like Kennedy, better than enemies, even when I'm gone off the hennes.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_03: In a telly, what hella amenities move like Genevieve's.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: Hip hop is sick and I'm the remedy.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_03: Go ahead and mouth off.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_03: I smack n like Bernie Mac and head of state.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_03: Make sure we ate, a take a shorts like the NBA.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_03: I keep two phones like I'm Kevin Gates.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_03: Far as rapping heavyweight.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_03: Smokin' blue, dream, get some lean, make the bevy shake.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_03: Dodge cops and the cat with the hemi yay.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_03: Hit the plug for the Zah, then we hell it straight.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_03: Dreaming a better day, still living in the ghetto.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: Sirens sound like guitarist playin' heavy metal.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_03: Soundtrack and dancing with the devil.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Boy you suffered in a rose petal.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not the bear you wanna poke.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_03: Give you so much smoke that everybody on your block choke.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_03: We still gettin' chicken like Roscoe's.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_03: Fans pay us every damn month like we Costco.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_03: If I was you, I wanna be hostile.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: You might have blood leaking all out of your nostrils.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_03: Laughing.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: I shouldn't have smoked right before that.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: I must run that breath like three, four times.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate that, man.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Let's cut the episode there.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_02: Let's yeah, we just did it.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, appreciate it.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks to the video.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to the strip.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: Nice meeting you.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_02: Nah, man.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad I'm here, man.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_04: God.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_04: Alright, let's take a quick break.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_04: Let's set this up.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_04: Because I want to get him over here because I gotta talk to him.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_04: Yep, that was good.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, man.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_04: This is the exact reason why I have a podcast.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_04: Because I can find people online that I really like, find out if they're local or not.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_04: And if they are, I have them on the show.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_04: And like I said, I have my own private show.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_04: That was fucking great, dude.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, you got me all amped up, man.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: I appreciate it.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: This setup is incredible, by the way.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, man.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the only thing I don't like about having musical performances on the show, especially if they perform prior to the end of the show, is then we have to wait while we readjust to discuss what we just witnessed.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, did it that 10-minute little delay?
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Readjusting the cameras, setting up an elect second mic.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I wanted to shit like talk about like, holy shit, that was amazing, but we had to wait until we were rolling again.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, listen, we'll we're we're not breakfast club status yet.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_04: We're working our way up there.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_04: We're getting there.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're we're bootlegging it for now.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_02: It takes people in like me that are really important to walk through those doors and up the production value.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm kidding, I'm literally not assholed.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_04: Matt, you are so good.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_04: You came from you're so you're you've just moved here to Vegas.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_04: You you were from Philly, right?
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm from Pennsylvania by way of Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: Shout outs to both them cities.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_02: And um uh I was before here, I was living in New York City.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: And that's that's where I met my girl over there in Abby Beats, my producer.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: She is good too.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she's from Staten Island.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um, shout outs to the homie Blur, everybody on I on the island.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_02: But um, yeah, we were there for a while, and um just got tired of the cold.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_02: And uh you get a lot more for your money here.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, for sure you do, especially from there.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_02: Apartments and everything is just so expensive in New York, it just doesn't make sense at all.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_02: I love New York, but don't let me.
• 5:04
  unknown: Not right not right now.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_04: Is it because I mean I want you to be honest with me, is it because LeBron came to the Sixers and you're like, I I don't like LeBron until you decide to come here?
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_04: Be honest, be real.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_04: It's okay.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_02: Nah, I'm actually low-key, I'm not even a Sixers fan, which people probably be pissed off about.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_02: But my whole my whole family, including my cousin Honeycomb, shouts to him.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: They're all from Massachusetts.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_02: So when I was growing up, everybody was a Celtics fan.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I like inherited that.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I got no problem with LeBron being on the side.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'd love to see the Sixers get another chip.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if LeBron will, at his age now, would be able to do it, but we'll see.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_04: Listen, there's I knew there's a reason I like you because I'm also from Massachusetts and I'm also a Celtics fan.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_04: So uh fuck LeBron.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_04: How about that?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_04: Because I don't like him.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_04: I've never liked him.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_04: Although if you ever joined the Celtics, I'd be like, that's a really strong opinion.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to have a lot of haters for saying fuck LeBron.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, what are you gonna do?
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's the caption when you post a video.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck me rapping.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's what we focus on.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_02: We're trying to get views here.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_04: Fuck LeBron featuring intellect.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_04: Where'd the name intellect come from?
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I had a cousin.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I have a cousin.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what to act like.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: But I have a I have a cousin named Cooper.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Coop.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out Cooper.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: And um he used to just say, I have like no common sense and shit.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_02: So but before he said that, I thought that I was smart.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I was looking up like rap names and shit.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_02: So I saw intellect and I thought it was pretty ill.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: But sort of because of what he said, and sort of because I just wanted it to be a little different, I changed the spelling from an I to an E.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I've been Intellect since 2007.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_04: Be honest, when you were trying to figure out your name, did you use the Wu-Tang clan generator, the name generator?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely not.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_02: That didn't exist.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm old, baby.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_04: What do you mean you're old?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_04: How old are you?
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_04: Get out of here.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_04: I'm shit.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_04: I'll be 38 this year.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_04: Old, he says.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_04: Julie looks at me.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_04: You feel old.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_04: Julie, Julie looks at me because she knows I'm older than you.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, my bad.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_02: My bad, play.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: No, keep saying it, actually.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_02: We love to remind you.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_02: It's honestly, I it was like this year that like I started to feel like my bones and shit.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, what the fuck is happening?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_02: Are you working out?
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_02: Are you stretching, or are you not?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: Haven't been lately, but I was on a tear for like up until like this year for real.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: I've just been on some lazy shit.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it sounds like the timelines are lining up.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: You started feeling old this year and you haven't been working out and stretching this year.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_04: So after this episode, I'm gonna show you my yoga routine, and you and I we're gonna do some yoga together.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_04: It's gonna be great.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_04: Can't wait for that.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_04: Um what do you what do you prefer to to title yourself as when you introduce yourself to people?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_04: Are you a rapper, performer, producer, artist?
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_04: Like what's what's your LinkedIn bios?
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to make it in life as far as now as my rat name.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_02: So I feel like I don't really tell people my real name and stuff.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_02: If I do, it's like a nickname.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like a lot of people call me Z and shit.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, I don't I'm like low-key, I'm a private person, but I do something where I have I'm forced to be super social.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_02: Good.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like I sort of separate the two where it's like, I don't know.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_02: Now I'm going off on a tangent because stones.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: We loved it.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: We're fine with tangents.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_02: And we're fine with being stones.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're pro we're pro being stones.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, um, yeah, I just feel like I don't know, I feel like that happened probably like around corona time.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_02: Whenever me and my cousin started touring more, um, and people be like, oh, what's your name?
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: I just immediately one year just started saying my rap name and not saying my real name.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: That's just the name you want to promote.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: If somebody's saying, Oh, I met this guy, you don't want to say your real name and then they have no idea who you know I mean.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: They don't know how to find you.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_04: Arthur Jenkins the third, and you're like, no, no, no, no, don't call me that.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_04: Call me intellect.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: But like you said, you've been making music for a while, and it might it might be further back than what I could find, but your first album was Green album in 2012, right?
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't even listen to that shit no more.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_02: If you do, I was about to say, I listened to it.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: I listened to it this week.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: I appreciate it.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um when you We appreciate your support.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: What did what did you want out of music when you started making it?
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: So when I was a teenager up until I was like 21, I just loved rhyming.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: The biggest thing, I tell her about it all the time, the biggest thing is the feeling I get when I write something dope to where after I say it out loud, I'm like, oh, and then I gotta write it down.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: That feeling right there made me really want to rhyme.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: And then just listening to awesome hip hop, you know, like Tribe Call Quest, fucking MF Doom, fucking, you know, all the really good shit.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Most F.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah, I just I've I just really fell in love with the whole culture.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: I used to do graffiti when I was younger.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_02: I used to try to break dance, but I'm like, I can't dance, low-key.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: I just I be vibing like when I perform, but I can't dance for shit.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_02: We'll see.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'll be the judge of that.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'll be the We'll see.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_04: What the fuck's he got in store?
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_04: I don't even know.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_04: We're just kind of waiting for it.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: See, he's obviously out of the way.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_04: Dance routine.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_04: Again, I don't think you understand how excited I am that you're here because I found you through Honeycomb's video.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna find this real quick because I want to.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of people find me through my cousin.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna beat around the bush.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_02: My cousin's lit.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_02: So he's more lit than me.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: Tell us about Honeycomb.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_04: Before we get into it, tell tell us about Honeycomb.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: My cousin is a perfect example of getting it from the mud.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_02: You allow me to explain.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, first of all, he does some shit where you're not supposed to be successful at it.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_02: He's a beatboxer.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, there's like three people ever in history who have taken that and like turned it into money.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like the guy who was in fucking police academy and the guy making the sound effect.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: And like Fiz Marquee the guy from Pentatonics, the Al Capella group.
• 10:45
  unknown: Right.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like there's like there's there's a yeah, like there's a whoa! But there's there's like a few that have been able to like be successful at that, but most of the time it's like a it's like a party trick or you know, something cool that you can do on a performing basis.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: But like, shout out to Rossell, who used to rock with the roots.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: But my cousin started beatboxing, but he's also a musician for real.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and he plays all different types of um instruments, and um at first he would go, he would pay money, the extra money, to get like the VIP passes and bug all the artists, like, hey, can I beatbox for you?
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: Can I beatbox for you?
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_02: And mind you, this is years ago.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: We talking like probably close to 20 years ago now, and um uh damn, I lost my train of thought.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_02: So, so yeah, he's he's beatboxing for all these people.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: So over time, these people got bigger to where they if they liked him, they were impressed, and they were able to open some doors for him.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: So then he started to get invited to um perform on stage, like big stages.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah and I feel like the first one he did was um with this DJ named 12th planet.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_02: I can't remember the music festival, but it was an insanely big crowd.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_02: And then it was like after that, he started beatboxing with mad um different artists, and then he started touring with this group called Moon Hoot.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_02: Shout outs to them, because the only reason I've been all over the country is uh from them and too many zoos, yeah, taking me and my cousin around when we first started touring and the Nissan Ultima.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: And um Yeah, so he started doing that, and then after a while, I feel like watching other people perform, he got inspired and realized like maybe I need to expand this.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_02: So then he started playing, he picked up playing piano, and um, he can play different horn instruments, all types of shit.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_02: He started making his own music, and then that's sort of when everything started to change.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: This is like pre-corona, and then uh it's crazy.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: I haven't thought of this whole like good time span thing of little walk down memories.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you just kind of live and then let things happen, but allow me to keep going before I lose my train of thought.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: So around Corona, everything shuts down.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: So prior to Corona, like I'm doing my own shows in uh Harrisburg, shoutouts to the HMAC that don't even exist no more.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: But I used to do my own hip-hop shows there, and like I made my own little Chitlin circuit.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: It would be like Pennsylvania, New York, yeah, Rhode Island, uh, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like I would do these cities and just do shows with different um artists open up for different um rappers, and I'd have to pay to do this just to get in front of people.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: And then around that time, that's when I started touring with um honeycomb and them.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm thinking my life's about to change because I went from being in the hood to North Philly and to to then going all over the country with him, and then out of nowhere, corona hits.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, all live shows stop, everything changes, and for him, he all of us stopped.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_02: We quit our jobs, all that because we thought like this is it, trajectory was crazy, we're about to be out of here.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: So, in that, like, I just went back to work doing my little side hustles, and he started doing beatboxing videos and stuff on Omegle.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_02: Those took the fuck off, and then it seemed like a couple months later, he went from like 6,000 followers to like 300,000, and now I think he's at like 700,000, 600,000.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_04: And one of it one of his videos is how I found you.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_04: We'll we'll we'll splice this in in post, but I want to play this for you guys real quick.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_04: I got this is so good.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_02: I meant to add that when he had the top box.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's when it that's when shit's crazy.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: This that no matter what I won't grab.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_04: I love how you slide it.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_04: You really did.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody's out, I'd say we have out.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like it's like the interaction between him and a stranger.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like that's why these guys, I mean, I'm not taking anything away from his talent.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: He's the most talented dude I know.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I'm just saying I feel like that's why those videos went crazy.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: Because it was at a time where nobody was really being social, and the whole premise of the video is him connecting with a complete stranger, definitely, which is you performing.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_04: You know, and it's it's something so rare, and so many pieces of the puzzle just come together, and it worked.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_04: And that's that's I love it when a plan comes together.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: It got so big that I I slowly watched him, I slowly watched all different types of people start copying my cousin, doing the same goddamn videos, the same thing.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh doing the talk box, doing everything.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they don't thank him, but they need to.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_02: My cousin is son, and a lot of people out this drawing.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all owe my cousin a check for stealing his whole style.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_02: I watched it, and I don't forget shit.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: Intellect doesn't forget shit.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_02: I don't.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously not, except for his train of thought.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: If I could quit weed, I'd really disappoint it.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_04: Let's let's not get ahead of ourselves there.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_04: Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_04: Um intellect's not himself when he does drugs.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: Look at him all on the couch, slumped.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_04: I want, I I I want I want the day-to-day intellect.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want sober, straight-edged intellect.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_04: I want I want this intellect.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_04: All right, cool.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_04: You got him.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_04: So you you mentioned a few people that were your influences in terms of you know your style of music that you create.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do a Mount Rushmore.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_04: I love Mount Rushmores.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I hate these.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_04: I know.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_04: Let's go.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_04: The fact that you hate it makes me love it even more.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_02: So give me a I think I can because I think it's like you do it, you do it in your head so many times that after a while the order changes up, or you replace someone.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like it depends on when someone asks me that question.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_02: Which is right.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: So is October 8th, 2026.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: 1206 in no particular order.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to say them in spots one three.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_04: So give me your it's it's four, right?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_04: Four?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yep, four.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: There are four people on the mountain.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_04: Look at me.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know shit.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: See?
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Well, hold on.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_02: Now I'm worried.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_02: Hold on.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: How many right?
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: How many people are on Mount?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think you're right.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: I think it is four.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's four.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_04: All right, let's do four.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_04: If we need to do five.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: The five was me adding myself to the mountains as you should.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: And I love that.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_04: And I love that.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh shit.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_02: Rappers?
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_02: Whether the all-time.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, is it is it who I think is the best, or is it who like influenced me the most?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: Or it's who influenced the game the most?
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Julie will decide on that.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_04: Julie, you you tell us.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: I want to know who influenced the game the most.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Because that's built that's built out the culture behind rap music.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because everyone, everyone has their opinions on who's the best.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I feel like if you're talking about who really developed the art form, people can kind of agree on that.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: Questions like that are less subjective to opinion, too.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_02: Because if it's just like, oh, who's the best?
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: It's like literally who they think is the five best.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: But if it's like who impacted the game, I mean, I'm not AI, but you could crunch the stats and probably literally pick that up.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's why I love that's why I love sports, because if you sh if you suck at basketball, you can't make it to the NBA.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like you I see time and time again, people that are not good at rhyming words together are making way more money than me.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: Funny how that works out.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: For example, you can say fuck LeBron, but you can't say that he didn't influence the game.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, for sure.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: Also, if he lines up against LeBron, he's getting trapped.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Dude, absolutely.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: I'm tearing both my knees.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I might win.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'll go right under his legs.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_04: I played at Venice Beach one time because I played pickup basketball, but I'm I'm and uh for for my age group and for the the style, the type of people that's an all-star.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, exactly.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_04: I feel that's that.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_04: That's how I always feel when I hop on Black Towers.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_04: But I I played at Venice Beach, I got violated to it to no extent.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_04: It was I felt so bad.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_04: I waited for like an hour just to play one game, and it was over within like 10 minutes, not even.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Venice Beach is out.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: You're more of like an LA fitness Tuesday night, 6 p.m.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, 40 and 40 speed.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but top four who influenced the game.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_02: Top four who influenced the game.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: Cool G Rap.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because before him, everybody was like, basketball is my favorite sport.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Let the wheel dribble up and down the cool.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: But after Cool G Rap and Rock M, people started rapping like them.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_02: Okay?
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: So that's one.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: Because when Ilmatic came out, literally half of the rappers in the game completely changed to rap like them.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: So what am I up to?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: Two or three now.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Solid.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: Halfway there.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, there's so many.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say Snoop Dogg because when he first came out, everyone started rapping like him.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: And DeBrat literally became the female Snoop Dogg when she came out.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_02: If you watch DeBrat's first videos, like functified, it's literally a Snoop Dogg video with a woman.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: A female version.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: Feel free to watch it on YouTube right now.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: Run the Visa.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_04: Run those Visa.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: Snoop.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: I mean DeBrat, you want me to check.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: So, um, okay, so that's three.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: Snoop called you rap Nas.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like it's I feel like it's M M because he opened the floodgates for white rappers.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_02: Because before him there was there was other white rappers, like the guy who signed Nas, who his n the name is fleeing me right now.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: That's all right.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: But MC Search.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: He's the guy who helped sign Nas.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_02: But um, yeah, I feel like like you don't have I feel like you don't have MGK and you don't have uh Yellow Wolf.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_02: You don't have a lot of these rappers without MM.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_02: Not only was he white, but he was nice as fuck.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: Like I put Eminem up against pretty much anybody of any color.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_04: It blows my mind of the the lyrical genius that he is.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_04: He can rhyme anything, and he does it so natural sounded.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_02: And it he can make well, he's really good at making words rhyme with other words that it's not supposed to do that.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: Like if you put those two words on a on a notepad, they don't and said them out loud regularly how they're spelled, you'll be like, this this doesn't rhyme.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_02: But he like changes the pronunciation.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_02: Kanye West is good at that too.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_04: What do you think goes on Eminem's mind day to day?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_04: Is he just always just in his mind thinking about lyrics and thinking about it?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think he likes rap more than anything on earth.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think he's one of those, I think he's just really super dedicated to his that's why he won't retire.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:36
  unknown: Yeah.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_02: I don't like a lot of his newer music, but he's still out rapping everyone.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's he's just older.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's sometimes with the voice changes and shit, it's just not my thing.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: I get it.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: Let's cut this out before.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: He might watch him.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_04: Listen, if all the way up.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_04: If Eminem's watching the Hey Big Head show, I'll I'm all about it.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_04: I'm all the arrogance that I have that he's watching me right now.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_04: Marshall, please.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_04: Marshall, it's me, Andrew.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_04: I love you.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_04: Do the thing where you'd sign the check.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_04: I love that.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_04: I think that's pretty good.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_04: Julie, do you want to do a quick Mount Rushmore of yours?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_04: Since I I know you love the game so much.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_04: Here's the thing.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_04: Oh boy.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: My Mount Rushmore would have to be my favorites because I don't I don't have the knowledge that you have.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: My uh hip-hop and rap IQ is lower than my basketball IQ.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: Impact again, or is this your favorite?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: These would be my favorites.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like if you go into my Spotify, who are you gonna find?
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna probably find Mac Miller.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Number one would be Mac Miller.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: You love Mac Miller.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: He has my heart forever.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: From Pennsylvania, shout out to him.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: I know, shout out Mac.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: If Mac, if you're watching still somehow.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: I would say Kendrick is on my list, Absol is on my list, and probably Snoop.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Mess of Done.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Those would be my four.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Look at you.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: Those are good rappers.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Those are also like vibe rappers.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a vibe.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I don't smoke anymore, but when I used to, I'd get in the Scion TC that I drive out there.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Good for you.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: My busted scion or my old Honda Civic.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: A rebadged Toyota?
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: You better start talking to her different.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a good idea.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's actually that's how me and my sister used to get along.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: We'd roll a blunt and we'd go listen to Mac Miller and Absolutely.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: I've smoked a blunt in high school with someone who had a scion.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's how you have to do it.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: This is my sister's old scion, anyways.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: They were made to smoke weed in.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, they are.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: Spoiler alert.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's why Toyota didn't make them.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_02: They had to make a completely different car for him to smoke blunts in it.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_04: Spoiler alert.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_04: It was actually Julie you were smoking with because you forgot all about it.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Back in high school, listen, unfortunately, if you said you're what, 38?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_04: When you were in high school, yeah, Julie loves reminding us.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_04: Julie loves doing this.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: I was born in 99.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: So oh hurts my heart.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: And my back.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: I got a sus for your age.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: We'll stretch.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: We'll stretch after the episode.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Your back will feel better.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: Probably not.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_04: Russia's been killing me for a minute.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_04: So, what do you think Vegas gives you that uh other cities don't in terms of the music scene here?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_04: Because there, I I especially with live music and not necessarily with rap or hip-hop, but with other genres, Nashville and Vegas, I feel like are two strong points in the US to go to if you want to, you know, get in the the music scene, depending on the genre.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_04: What about Vegas is it that you feel like there's pot just so much potential here?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_02: I think for the first time moving somewhere to do music or to help my music career, this was the one time that that wasn't part of it.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_02: I just felt like I could live a better quality of life here.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: And I got tired of the sky being fucking gray all the time and it raining every other day and it being cold as soon as September hits.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: So I just I wanted to be somewhere where I could wear shorts all the time.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: I could it was I'd hit I'd feel sun on my skin all the time.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_02: And um, and it's just a fresh start.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_02: I had been in the same music market for over a decade.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: And I felt like I needed to branch off and be in California more and be in Denver more and um just build a help build a new fan base.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_02: I felt like I had to stop just um keep working in the same area and expand.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: I love that.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: So in that regard, I did that for my music.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: And my my cousinslash manager, Honeycomb, lives here.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_02: So uh as far as like my team goes, logistically it made more sense.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_02: Harry Reid Airport is awesome to fly out of, it's cheaper than a lot of other airports.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: So it worked out, yeah.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but um, I haven't really been deep into the um into the music scene all like that yet.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_02: I need to I want to start doing shows out here.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_02: So, rappers, if you're watching out, DM me.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um, let's link up, let's start doing some shows, let's get some money together.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm down, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but when I was moving here, people told me there was no hip hop scene, there was no rappers here.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: That's interesting.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm trying to find them and build something here if there isn't.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure it exists.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_02: I just haven't, I'm not trying to disrespect anybody who's been doing it.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I just haven't met anybody who's been doing it.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_04: Listen, it's not even publicly well known, I feel like, because like I said, you're the first rapper we've had on the show.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_04: We've had many musicians on, but you're the first one in in the the the rap uh scene.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_04: And so for me, it it's new as well.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I'm not as as into it as as I used to, I but I love hip-hop.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_04: I I love the sound, and um it's it's hard to find you know that that vibe here um if if if you're not going to clubs or on the strip or wherever it is that these are.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_04: So you're right, spot on.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like I've heard I haven't been to any rapper hip-hop shows here, but just I have a lot of friends involved in the music industry here.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: And what I've heard is that Vegas hip-hop scene is very like very much so still underground vibes.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's not it's not on this on the surface, like our rock scene or our pop scene, or even our our jazz and soul scene.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: We just had someone on recently from that genre.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: But like there is hip-hop here, it's just you have to know where to go.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: You have to find the posters.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: You have to, you know, it's not not the social media posts.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: Most of the time when that happens in the city that it's happening, it's whoever's like running the scene is not doing it a certain way where enough people are seeing it, or um, the venues that they're doing their shit at is not as big of venues as you know, EDM.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_02: EDM is the biggest shit out right now.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, for sure.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_02: That's selling the most tickets by far, at least for one of the things.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_02: Especially here.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, huge invasion.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: And music festivals, when I go to music festivals, there's like one or two rappers.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm one of the only like uh there's not a lot of rappers in that scene.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: So like when I got into that scene, courtesy and my cousin, I was like, oh shit, this shit wide open.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_02: Because even the rappers that are in there, no disrespect to them, but like they're not on a skill level as far as the best rappers in hip-hop go.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: Of course.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's just like they they just know how to be vibey on an EDM track.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_02: But there is a couple people that are nasty.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna lie.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: Side note, because you said festivals, I think this weekend, and this episode probably won't come out before it.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think this will come out next week.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: But this weekend we have tacos in tequila, which is a huge hip-hop and rap festival here in Las Vegas.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_02: How do you feel about tacos?
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_02: I love tacos.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: How do you feel about tequila?
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: I I love tequila too.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_02: I I don't even drink for like all like that.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Now I did when I was younger, but last couple years, I don't like I'll have one drink before I perform and call my nerves and shit.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but when I do, I do like tequila.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, straight to the point.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you should check it out this weekend.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's gonna be at the Las Vegas ballpark.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_04: Word, I'll check it out.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, tell me about your music.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_04: So when you the the sound of your music, the sound of your voice, especially, is is is unique to me.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_04: And I think that's one of the things that you know stood out to me when I saw you on that honeycomb video.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_04: Tell me about the the music that you do write though.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like what's the what and what motivates you or what what's the thought process behind the music that you put out?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I feel I feel like as far as my as far as my actual lyrics, I just live my life and then come up with witty ways of saying what I be doing.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_04: Whatever comes out.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but um as far as the sound of it, I feel like it's it's sorta it sort of goes off of how my life is.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: So certain like when I was younger living in Philly and stuff, my music's more chaotic, it sounds more depressing, it sounds uh like sort of sad, but then there's other songs where it's like super motivational because I it was like at that time I was bringing myself out of some shit.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: And then I feel like the last five years my life's been in a better place to where um it's like uh I've been trying to make more like vibey, like funky or shit.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_02: Because low-key funk is my favorite music really even more than hip hop.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's interesting, it's almost like uh look into you what your life is like now, like a like a diary.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_04: Because what you're going through, your portrait conveys it in the music, which is very interesting to see that.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_04: I like that way of looking at it.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: Well, a lot of other people do that too, but they're rapping about somebody else's life.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_02: So they're just listening or watching music videos of some other people and then rapping like them.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: But that shit's corny.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_02: We don't want that here.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_02: We don't we don't tolerate that shit.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: We don't tolerate that broadcast.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_02: Take that shit somewhere else.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: Take that shit to the Breakfast Club.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_02: Go lie to that motherfucker.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we clip.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're clipping right there.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_02: That was awesome.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_02: Take that shit over there.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: Go lie yo ass to DJ Anvil.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_02: I fucking love it.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_02: This is why I wanted him up.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_02: This is why I wanted him up.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'm the bull with the ideas.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'll be forgetting what I'm saying half the time.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_02: I forget what I ate yesterday, but I got the ideas.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_04: You'll remember next week when you see the episode.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_04: When you're so you're working your way up.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_04: You're you're you know, you're you're trying to.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_04: I'm trying, goddammit.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_04: I ain't trying to go fucking.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_04: We all are, man.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_04: That's that's I'm trying to go backwards.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_04: That's the life we're in, man.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_04: We're all trying to work our way and find that success.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_04: I don't even know why I'm trying to still make it.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm worried.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_02: I got the wrong priorities.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to not talk about politics.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_02: She's on me.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_02: She was like, She better watch your ass.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_02: We better get canceled.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_02: She's about to stand up.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_02: I know, you should see her face.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_02: She's just stood up.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're not a political show, but you and me can talk out camera.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_04: I'll talk to you later about this.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_04: We'll speak about it.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: Intellect, we can talk off camera about it.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: You and me can chit-chat up.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_02: Go buy my last album.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_02: What does success look like for you as an artist?
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_02: Success for me is me minding my motherfucking business, me staying out of jail, me being able to help with my family and friends' bills, me helping put my friends in position that weren't able to do it on their own.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_02: I want to be the person that I needed.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's who the fuck I'm trying to become.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to be the person who can open doors for other people and make them more money and you know, all that other shit.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to my cousin, man.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_02: Because he was one of those people like that for me.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to my cousin Netic, R-IP.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_02: There were certain people in my life that made me want more.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_02: Because there was certain times in my life I didn't even want to be here.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: You feel me?
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: It was just on some real shit.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm glad you're here.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_04: Has that changed over time or has that always been the mission since day one?
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_04: Or the vision since I it's always changed.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_02: Because when you when I was younger and I got enamored by what I thought the lifestyle was like when you made it, um, I just my whole life I've always been a hustler.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_02: I've always liked making my own money because I hate having to be told by another another motherfucker what to do.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't like spending my entire day working towards somebody else's dreams.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying I'm too good for a job because I'll go work tomorrow if my shit gets sticky.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm no better than anybody.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_02: But at the same time, that's just I just like doing my own thing.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_02: I like being able to say fuck you and walk out if I have to.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_02: So um so when I yeah, so when I first started, I felt like it was I wanted to do something that would allow me to do something that I thought was fun for a living, so that my entire life at no point felt like a job.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_02: Because jobs suck, bro.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_02: They do.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_02: If God was here, he didn't invent this shit.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_02: Whoever invented money told us that we had to fucking be somewhere all fucking day.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_02: If God was here, he was just chilling, eating fucking fruit off trees and shit.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_02: Eating uh eating tacos.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_02: What did we do?
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_02: Ate the fruit off the tree.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_02: There's irony in this shit.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_02: We ate the fruit off the tree, and now we all gotta go to work.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: All we had to do was not eat the fruit off the tree.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_02: We did.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_02: And now we gotta go to work.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_02: Son of a bitch.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_04: Julie, you you you you better not agree with this because I I'm her boss and I don't want her to be like, yeah, fuck a job.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_04: Tell this motherfucker to go fuck himself.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: I I like my job.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna go get you a job at the Breakfast Club.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_02: Don't even worry about it.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Whoa, whoa.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: See, now he wants me hanging out with weird Charlemagne.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I don't think he likes you.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I wants to pull one.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: My job is to make sure the laptop plays musical weird.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna allude to that.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_02: She got to you know what?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_02: She can keep her job just because she admitted to her wrongdoing.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_02: And she snorts.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I snort, that is.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know how hard it is?
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_02: You can you're just hard to go on the strip and find somebody who can snort like that.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_02: That's an ability.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_02: You get tipped.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: You get tipped on the strip.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I could.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: I could.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a Vegas snort, it's a Dallas snort.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I'm from.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: They don't make snorts like this in Nevada.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_02: My sit my sister's well, my voice.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_02: Jesus Christ.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's my real voice.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_02: It's my real voice.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_02: I knew we'd get it out of the way.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: Nah, my sister's Aria.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_02: She just moved down there.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, cool.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_02: I would totally live in Texas.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_02: You get a big ass house for like five dollars.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_02: But they fucking legal, they fucking weed's illegal as fuck.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: I was about to say I wouldn't go back.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: I like Vegas.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Texas is just like hot Vegas with no Vegas.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like, there's no strip.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and like no mosquitoes there.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really like the number one plus.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: The mosquitoes in Texas are terrible.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: But here, I know a lot of the locals that have been here longer than me, they're like, oh, the mosquitoes are coming in waves with people moving to Vegas and building pools or whatever.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: I never get bit.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_04: You know what Texas also doesn't have?
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_04: One of the best shows in the world, Absinthe.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Absinthe.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out Absinthe.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out Absinthe.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_04: Um, tell us, take us through your process of creating music.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_04: Do you just kind of lock yourself in a room and just don't come out till something comes over?
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_02: I definitely don't do that because if I do that, my music would suck.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_02: It has to like feel like I'm patient with it.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_02: So basically, what happens is I have a team of like five people that always kind of changes.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_02: Not because I stop fucking with people, but just because my vibe of what kind of beats I want changes.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_02: But uh like mainly it's just uh really my cousin Honeycomb and Nobby Beats.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, sometimes my homie Agent Blur.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of times we'll uh put together some shit.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_02: Uh one of them will make a beat and then I'll reach out to a friend that like plays guitar to add guitar.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um that's cool.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_02: But I think it's more or less um when I feel inspired, um I'll kind of think of an idea of like I'll create a concept of what I want in my head, maybe even like come up with the melody in my head, and then I pass that idea to somebody like Nobi who can put together the beat.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: And then um once the like while the beat is being done, while there's like a skeleton of it where at least I got the melody or like the structure of where I need a hook and where I need a verse and shit, um, I'll start writing the hook.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_02: And then once I have the hook, then I'll throw the verses in.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_02: And then how I do verses completely changed.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: I used to, I used to lock myself in and be like, okay, I can't do anything for the rest of the day until I'll get three verses done.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_02: But then it would be like I'd have a bunch of verses and I'd like like one out of ten of them because I'm forcing myself to rap.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_02: But now it's like I literally just live my life and some clever shit will come into my head, and I write down like those two bars.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_02: Then I put those two bars in a notepad with a bunch of other bars.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_02: And then once I have this, like once I have a beat that I like and maybe the hook, I take all the ideas from this index of ideas and somehow throw that into one verse and then put those verses on the song.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_02: It's like it's you're literally like a scientist kind of formulating this new thing.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_02: Now, so now my songs take like it can take me months to come up with some shit.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: At least like the shit that I want to put out.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_02: Now, some a lot of times people will pay me to do verses.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh shout out, yeah, holla at me if you need a verse for your song.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_02: But know that it comes with a down payment.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but as far as that, usually they'll send me the song with the concepts and I'll just I'll just get busy.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_02: I'll lock myself in and get that shit done.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um and uh I feel like when I'm writing to be on someone else's song, I'm not necessarily battling them on the song, but I'm trying to make sure that like my I don't have the weaker verse.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_02: At least my shit is as dope as yours.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_02: I don't want to because someone's paying you money, and money's not easy to come by these days.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_02: How do you so you've obviously like you said, you've music's been part of your life forever.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_02: Forever.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's been the only, it's been like the only constant.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_02: That and the love of my parents.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_02: Everything else has been cooks.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_02: There's oh, there's been times I haven't talked to them for a year or something, and they've been mad at me because of the dumb shit I was doing, because they raised me better than that.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_02: But um they've always loved me, and I feel like music has always been a love hate because it's so hard to make it professionally in music.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_02: And everybody's like, oh, well, it's so easy now because of Instagram and shit.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_02: But no, because then it puts a lot of people on there to suck.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_02: So then you gotta weed through all these people to find your shit.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying my shit's way better than other people, there's people that are way illder than me.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_02: But what I'm saying is it's just so much uh saturation of music that it's hard for listeners to see what they, you know what I mean?
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_04: So how do you so you you experience with in the music scene before social media, and now you're in it after and during social media.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_04: For somebody that's just getting in getting into the music scene, they're you know, wanting to try it out.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_04: How what what advice would you give them with social media and how they brand themselves or market themselves?
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_04: Because social media is a whole it's a beast in its own.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and it like it changes, it changes people, bro.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like I know some fucking weird ass people that somehow they got lit, and now these motherfuckers just walk around trying to big bro me, and it's like, bro, you still a weirdo.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_02: Like, there's stories of people slapping you in your face, and you ain't do shit about it.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_02: We remember, we remember, you forgot because you got a certain amount of followers.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_02: I ain't forget that shit.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_02: You got slapped in your face and let it rock.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like, so like I don't know, bro.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's it's just be funny.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: Certain, certain people act like all of a sudden because they have a lot of uh uh approval from half fake real profiles, half fake ones they paid for, of them saying that they're a cool person, that now they don't think that they're the dork that we know in real life that they really are.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_02: That's fair.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, I just gotta talk my shit.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_04: Please do.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'd expect nothing less from you.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, but no, that's that's social media.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_04: And I it changes people.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_04: It really does.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_04: It does.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_02: I am and we and people don't talk, sorry to cut you off.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: No, please.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_02: People don't talk to each other or hang out in public as much sense that.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_04: The the social connection, the the in-person social connection is is is a dying art.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_02: And that's gonna kill live shows if something don't change.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna get to the point where everybody's just in a house and nobody go nowhere, and uh if going to a show is gonna be streaming.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully, it don't get to that point.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_02: I agree.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_02: I can see it happening.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they already stream festivals like on whatever platform.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_02: So, what the fuck is the point of paying?
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like, don't do that.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_02: You need to not make that shit accessible.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's because what the NFL does, they cut that shit off so that you can't, you know what I mean?
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_02: They want you to pay to go see it, or they want you to pay some stupid ass app so you can see the game.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_02: Because they want they want they need their money.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_02: This is the direction we're headed, man.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm not a fan of it.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_02: And all and stuff like that takes away money from the artists.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yes.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm on like both sides of that shit.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because part of me is like, bro, I'm not trying to pay for that shit.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_02: I need to see it free.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_02: Don't blame you.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not paying to see that movie.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_02: I need the app, bro.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_02: Send send me the link.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not paying for it.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_02: Allegedly, I may not may or may not do that.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_04: We would never admit to downloading a movie on an app or I would never.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not a piece of shit.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_02: No, but but as far as like musicians and stuff like that, like the more that you make stuff based around streaming and stuff, the more that it hurts the artists.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: Because that's how everyone eats.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_02: Because the the the the labels and everything that made it to where you can't uh I don't know what year streaming happened, but that shit fucked the game up.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_02: Everything changed around the pandemic.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_04: You don't make no money off streaming.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_04: So everything changed around the pandemic.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_04: The whole strategy of getting yourself out there has become more digital.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_02: Flip that shit on the side, bro.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's just touring and merch.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_02: If you anyone I know is making a lot of money in music, or at least like they're not fucked up after paying their bills and they do this professionally, they're torn all the time, or and they're so a lot of merch, or like either or kind of on that same same wavelength, but looking at the plus size sides of it.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: You released a song this year called Got It Made, right?
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: What were you experiencing when you wrote that, or what are you experiencing now that's a good one?
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_02: I got my fucking money up and I moved to Las Vegas.
• 42:30
  unknown: That's what happened.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: You moved here and you were made.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_02: That was it.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's what they used to call the mob here, made men.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: And now you are now you're made up.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_02: I watch a lot of Sopranos.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_04: So I that may have popped in my head without me knowing.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: You got it made.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_04: I got it.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_04: It's just deep in that subconsciousness.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_02: Did you make it with your girl, that that song?
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so she made the beat.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and uh I was like writing the hook and all in part of the verse uh with her, and then uh I want to say like a month or so went by, and I finished the verse like in that month, and then we recorded the song.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_02: Is that like in the crib?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_02: Is that the song?
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_02: Does that sound right to you?
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_04: Is that the song you had the Hank Hill propane there?
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_02: No, that's uh what's the other one that uh Molly Wright did the animation for?
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_02: You hear it.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_02: Game ain't the same no more.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was that was that one.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_02: That'd be that marijuana, that jazz lettuce.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_04: The jazz lettuce.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_02: I can't think of shit.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'm calling it jazz letters.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_02: I like that name.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's your next that's your next song title.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_00: Jazz lettuce lettuce.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_02: That's the album.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: And you make it make it real funky.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's the album, and I'm gonna be holding the trumpet and shit.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_02: People don't buy that shit thinking I'll play trumpet.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_02: I'll play Nan Note.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm rapping over the whole thing.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_04: Just trumpet with some smoke coming out of it.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, perfect.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of that, that lyric, what's in your opinion, what do you think is the greatest rap lyric of all time that comes to your mind?
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_04: Not yours.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_04: Ooh.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_02: Damn.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: Take your time.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know about a specific Oh, I do.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_02: Uh 38 Special.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_02: You ever heard of him?
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_02: Super ill underground rapper.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_02: But he had, well, he's not underground now.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_02: Now he's he's finally getting his dues.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_02: He's he's cool with um Benny the Butcher and all them.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_02: I got a track with him.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out, uh, shout outs to him and Griselda and A-Rob.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but uh he had a what was that line?
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_02: He said, I put my own numbers on trees like I was looking for a lost pet.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_02: Bro.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_04: You gotta snorf, I guess.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_04: It was so good.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_04: It got good.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's so good.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_02: It's so good.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_04: What do you feel like your your best lyric is that that you've written so far in your career?
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_02: I have so many, I don't I don't know which one I picked.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_02: I like how I was putting my glasses on while I did that.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_02: It was very sophisticated.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_02: That was very good.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_02: It was very intellectual, one might say.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's what it was.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_02: With a knee.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and a K.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_02: And a K.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'll be here all week to waitresses.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_02: Live at the Palms Casino on Thursdays.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm uh what what uh what was the favorite lyric that you think you wrote the lyric?
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_02: Damn.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't even know.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_02: Go listen to my shit on Spotify.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_02: You tell me.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there you go.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: A good answer.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's a that's a solid.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: Drop it in the comments.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_00: Drop it in the comments, yes.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, wait, I don't know if it's my favorite, but or just one of them.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_02: They want me to leave, but like meditation, not I'ma stay.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_02: Ooh, that's I like that.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely write that one down.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_02: I make shit shake, bitch.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm Michael J.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_02: Shooter hit you with a whole clip like he Michael Bay.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's good.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's really good.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_04: This is why I like it, because he has he has shit like this, and he sounds good when he does that.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_04: I do.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_04: Check out my shit on Spotify.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, listen to him.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's why I'm on a show.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_02: I really be rapping.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_02: Leave me the fuck alone.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to tell you.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_02: You don't want you don't want this fucking problem.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: One thing I really love listening to you perform earlier, listening to your music on Spotify, which I've been doing for like the past two weeks, however long you've been booked.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, even just right now, one of my favorite things about rap is when somebody has a really good line, it's almost like comedic.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's not like ha ha funny, you're telling a joke, but it like makes you laugh because it was that good, that clever.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_02: And those are my favorite rappers because I love comedy.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_02: I like to laugh.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_02: People's been telling me I've been funnier longer than I've been able to rap.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_02: I just don't know how to do stand-up.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't know how to, I'm not finna disrespect the art and get up on stage on an open mic and act like I'm this is what I'm supposed to be doing.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_02: I need to make it at this first and then I mean dabble, or we can keep doing shit like this.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: But you've you've channeled it, you've channeled the comedy into being clever with your lyrics, and it it really shows.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_02: The best rappers do that again.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_02: Mm.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_02: Like, if and yeah, like honestly, good.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like there's unwritten rules about rap, and it's like if you can do those things well, people say you're good at rapping, and one of them is being clever at saying something, especially if you can say something similar to someone else already said, but like like more clever, you know what I mean?
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, intellect, man.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_04: That was fun.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_04: This went by fun.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_04: This was fun.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_04: Let's do it again.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_04: We run this back.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, where can people find more of you?
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_02: You can Google me, that's how important I am.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_02: Simply Google Intellect, and I'll come up on Spotify, Apple Music, where wherever you listen to music, I ain't hard to find, I ain't hiding.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, but yeah, I'm on Instagram under just my name, Intellect, E-N-T-E-L-L-E-K-T.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah, trying to set up a tour um probably for the spring.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_02: Good.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_02: So you might see me in a hood near you.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_02: We'll see, man.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_02: I appreciate y'all for having me.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_02: This was a blast.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thank you.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_02: Rappers, come on the big head big head podcast.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's the show y'all want to be on.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_02: Better than the breakfast.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_04: With the West Coast Breakfast Club.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just Big Head Rap Battle 2027.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_04: Big Head Rap Battle.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_00: That'd be fun.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all better lead me to fuck LeBron.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna just put that out there.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_02: Just put it out there.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not the to play with.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_04: That was fucking funny.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_04: Philly, I love y'all, man.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_04: We love Philly.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_04: Fuck LeBron.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_00: Go Vegas.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: Go Vegas.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: Go big head.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_04: Catch new episodes each week on heybighead.com.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_04: Go check out intellect.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_04: Check it out.