Latest / The Bootleg Kev Podcast / #623 - Wallie The Sensei on Signing to Travis Scott’s 'Cactus Jack', Kendrick Lamar, GNX Sessions & More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yo.
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- 0:39Speaker 2: Bootleg keV Show.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Man.
- 0:40Speaker 2: We got a special guest in here, my dog Walley.
- 0:42Speaker 2: The sen say, welcome.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Back, keV. What up man? What's the big old deal? Uh?
- 0:47Speaker 2: Man, you're the big old deal, sir. Congrats on everything
- 0:51Speaker 2: since last time you've been here. Obviously the worst kept
- 0:53Speaker 2: secret in the music industry. You have been you know,
- 0:58Speaker 2: brought onto the Cactus Jack Team. Congratulations, man, I appreciate
- 1:05Speaker 2: it a part of a number one album, sir shout
- 1:08Speaker 2: out to the squad. Yeah, man, what has been like
- 1:13Speaker 2: that journey? Because I know, like you and I would
- 1:15Speaker 2: talk like kind of behind the scenes, like I know
- 1:17Speaker 2: it was been percolating, cooking in the background for a
- 1:19Speaker 2: little bit, Like how did you initially kind of get
- 1:21Speaker 2: on to Travis's radar?
- 1:26Speaker 1: Damn? So it's kind of crazy, right because I'm sure
- 1:31Speaker 1: everybody been thinking like damn, like he did the gn
- 1:34Speaker 1: X feature, Yeah, and then that got himTo where Travis
- 1:40Speaker 1: seeing him. What's crazy is I was already I was
- 1:44Speaker 1: already signed the Cactus before the gn.
- 1:46Speaker 2: X, So before Dodger Blue happens, you're already are part
- 1:49Speaker 2: of that.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I was already signed. I just I just had to
- 1:53Speaker 1: announced it.
- 1:53Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I knew that.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Yeah, You've been telling me for a minute because we
- 1:58Speaker 2: had a record of the Lexus. You're like, yo, man,
- 2:00Speaker 2: this is the last song. Will put it out because
- 2:03Speaker 2: this shit's about that, like kicking, I.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Got some shit going on. But yeah, bro, he just
- 2:08Speaker 1: like we linked up a couple of times through Zona
- 2:13Speaker 1: or a blessing video shoot, was probably the first time.
- 2:17Speaker 1: And then we end up in the studio just playing music.
- 2:20Speaker 1: I started playing music and he was going crazy, like
- 2:23Speaker 1: what the fuck? Bro?
- 2:24Speaker 2: Yeah, you have like this ability to go into the
- 2:26Speaker 2: studio and just plugging the OX and just fuck up
- 2:29Speaker 2: the whole room.
- 2:31Speaker 1: You did. I got some wild shit in this phone,
- 2:34Speaker 1: no cap, I ain't gonna lie. I don't think. I
- 2:36Speaker 1: don't think nobody like as far as the music that
- 2:39Speaker 1: I got unreleased, this shit is crazy, bro. Like. My
- 2:41Speaker 1: main goal right now is to make sure that the
- 2:44Speaker 1: story match the music. So because I know I got
- 2:47Speaker 1: the music, I do this shit every day, So now
- 2:51Speaker 1: my goal is just so people won't miss so many
- 2:55Speaker 1: parts of the story right and just get lost in
- 2:57Speaker 1: the music. I'm trying to like ease it out, but
- 2:59Speaker 1: I want to just let it all go at the
- 3:02Speaker 1: same time.
- 3:03Speaker 2: How because you know, obviously being in this situation, it's
- 3:06Speaker 2: a big look You've You've obviously been in other situations before.
- 3:09Speaker 2: But what has been kind of the key to kind
- 3:11Speaker 2: of like slow rolling the rollout, making sure people kind
- 3:14Speaker 2: of are hip to who you are, where you come from,
- 3:17Speaker 2: getting people invested out, because I feel like La is
- 3:19Speaker 2: already invested in you you already you already have La classics,
- 3:23Speaker 2: but to get like, you know, the rest of the
- 3:26Speaker 2: world kind of onto the train.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Were really the main thing is just making sure that
- 3:32Speaker 1: you creatively They're like, yeah, especially being a part of
- 3:37Speaker 1: Joining Cactus. You know, it's like a this label is
- 3:42Speaker 1: huge in a creative lane, right, So it's just about
- 3:45Speaker 1: matching that energy like in my own way though, And
- 3:48Speaker 1: that's why I'm grateful because I got the room. I
- 3:51Speaker 1: got the room to do that over yeah like versus
- 3:54Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I could have been anywhere else,
- 3:56Speaker 1: but it's just not the same, right, And I feel
- 3:59Speaker 1: like for me, it's always difficult when I get in
- 4:03Speaker 1: situations because nobody ever dealt with artists like me. So
- 4:08Speaker 1: it's like, you know, like say, you might have a
- 4:11Speaker 1: label and you you've made a thousand artists successful, but
- 4:18Speaker 1: then you got this dude, like I'm really different from
- 4:22Speaker 1: every other artist that people run into. So it's like damn,
- 4:26Speaker 1: all right, what do we do with this nigga dude?
- 4:29Speaker 1: Like send him through the same send him through the
- 4:31Speaker 1: same route. Like now it's kind of different, and it
- 4:35Speaker 1: made it kind of difficult for me from the jump.
- 4:37Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm grateful because it's like,
- 4:39Speaker 1: all right, I can just I can show that versatility
- 4:43Speaker 1: and that can be my thing.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Was Travis like a fan of like oh three Flow
- 4:47Speaker 2: or Scandalous or any of your like yeah, yeah classics.
- 4:52Speaker 1: HEU with my with my original ship.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Because I feel like you had like like if you've
- 4:57Speaker 2: ever gone out in la you had to have your ship.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Fact, man, it was a time. It was a point
- 5:04Speaker 1: of time where you couldn't get away from it.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of crazy. You have like a like
- 5:09Speaker 2: I feel like there's a few guys out here who,
- 5:11Speaker 2: no matter what happens, like shit hits the fan, you're
- 5:15Speaker 2: always you always got that bag. Bro, What it's been
- 5:21Speaker 2: like for you? Because creatively, like you talked about Travis,
- 5:23Speaker 2: Travis is such a big creative. He's such a you
- 5:26Speaker 2: know when it comes to fashion, when it comes to
- 5:28Speaker 2: sonics all that shit, and like you are alien because
- 5:32Speaker 2: you can rap, you could do singing ship and you
- 5:34Speaker 2: do it so effortlessly that initial studio link up. What's
- 5:39Speaker 2: the creative bond like there, like, like how is it?
- 5:44Speaker 1: Honestly? Man, dude is crazy, Like he he do so
- 5:47Speaker 1: many different things that I don't do. I just watch right,
- 5:51Speaker 1: you know, like I try to anytime I'm in a
- 5:54Speaker 1: studio with any of the guys that have been doing
- 5:57Speaker 1: this shit longer than me, I'll try to find a
- 5:58Speaker 1: way to service them, you know, in the creative ship.
- 6:03Speaker 1: But at the same time, like like Bro's a unicorn here,
- 6:06Speaker 1: unicorns just like I am right, because he can produce
- 6:10Speaker 1: rap all this ship, even like the ship that we
- 6:14Speaker 1: might choose to let you see, like we all got
- 6:17Speaker 1: more bags than that. But it's it's always learning experience
- 6:22Speaker 1: when I'm around him and any any of the other
- 6:25Speaker 1: homies that been just.
- 6:26Speaker 2: The future, so give you a future a lot.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Yeah, he another one. He out of this world. They
- 6:31Speaker 1: the work ethic is just crazy, Like my work ethic
- 6:34Speaker 1: is crazy, and there's this too, So I just try
- 6:38Speaker 1: to pick up whatever I can, like try to pay
- 6:40Speaker 1: attention to the to the ship that other people ain't
- 6:43Speaker 1: paying attention to.
- 6:44Speaker 2: I know you have a lot of unreleased music with
- 6:46Speaker 2: a lot of big artists, is there. Uh, I'm sure
- 6:49Speaker 2: the clip is going to be pretty crazy for your
- 6:51Speaker 2: debut project.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I really want to, I really want I really
- 6:59Speaker 1: don't want to lose sight of like people to lose
- 7:01Speaker 1: sight of of like just where I am as well
- 7:05Speaker 1: thor Yeah. So it's like I cooked up this project
- 7:07Speaker 1: so many times, bro, like started from scratch because I
- 7:11Speaker 1: had so many different ideas of what it should be like.
- 7:14Speaker 1: And then I'm like, I gotta I gotta have some
- 7:17Speaker 1: parts of this ship that's dedicated to the core fans that.
- 7:21Speaker 2: We're two biggest songs are just you. You know what
- 7:23Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like the songs that change your life, they're
- 7:26Speaker 2: you with with no, yeah, yeah, you're right. It's like,
- 7:31Speaker 2: you know, that's kind of how you got here? Do
- 7:34Speaker 2: you feel like? Because for people who don't know the
- 7:36Speaker 2: dip record, which is all over the radio right now,
- 7:38Speaker 2: the dip record is an old song, like you've had
- 7:40Speaker 2: that song forever. How much of this project are you
- 7:42Speaker 2: picking between? Like, Man, I've been working on shit that
- 7:46Speaker 2: I got in the cut and I've also been working
- 7:49Speaker 2: on new ship, Like are you putting it all together?
- 7:52Speaker 2: Are you like how you compartmentalizing?
- 7:54Speaker 1: Like if on this project specifically, most of the songs
- 7:59Speaker 1: are I had to?
- 8:01Speaker 2: I had to I got demo itis on the old ship.
- 8:06Speaker 1: No, It's just like I'm making so much ship, bro,
- 8:10Speaker 1: I'm never gonna be able to get all this ship
- 8:11Speaker 1: out right. So if I go all the way back
- 8:14Speaker 1: to the to the oldest ship, by the time I
- 8:16Speaker 1: get to this new ship, it's gonna be old anyway,
- 8:18Speaker 1: so it's gonna be the same problem. So I just
- 8:21Speaker 1: try to go with whatever it feel best, whatever feel good,
- 8:24Speaker 1: whatever you can, you can play through this ship and
- 8:26Speaker 1: there's no skips like you know that that was my thing?
- 8:30Speaker 2: Uh, who's been Because you've been in the studio with
- 8:33Speaker 2: so many legends, who for you was like the most
- 8:36Speaker 2: because you're a songwriter who's recording process or songwriting process
- 8:41Speaker 2: kind of threw you off or impressed you the most.
- 8:43Speaker 2: So far.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Impressed me the most. Future. It's between future and yeah,
- 8:56Speaker 1: because we ain't talking producing anyhing, right, No, just yeah,
- 8:59Speaker 1: future most impressive and Kendrick on the right in side
- 9:05Speaker 1: he crazy, But I'm gonna just say future because the
- 9:09Speaker 1: style of how he doing things, Like, I just I
- 9:12Speaker 1: love the way he fully operating right like the whole room.
- 9:16Speaker 1: I like the way it's operating, and I work at
- 9:19Speaker 1: a fast paced so I feel like when I watch
- 9:21Speaker 1: what he do, that's more kind of your Yeah, like
- 9:25Speaker 1: where I will want to take things.
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- 11:03Speaker 2: Just get back to the interview. You're in the studio
- 11:05Speaker 2: with dot when you guys do Dodger blue?
- 11:08Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 11:09Speaker 2: So what is kind of because it's a very short song,
- 11:12Speaker 2: that's this type of song. I wish it was like
- 11:13Speaker 2: six minutes long because it's such a great record.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Yeah, survived though makes the album.
- 11:20Speaker 2: What is that studio session like with Kendrick and and
- 11:23Speaker 2: like obviously it's some confidence shit going on.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Man, keep it trill. The ship was like the exact
- 11:29Speaker 1: opposite of what my sessions is like.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Like your sessions are fun.
- 11:36Speaker 1: I'm not saying it wasn't fun. It was just a
- 11:41Speaker 1: slower pace, right, like, but everything is intentional, like like
- 11:46Speaker 1: I might just go and he really challenged me. He
- 11:50Speaker 1: challenged me to make sure every bar is intentional and
- 11:55Speaker 1: said the way that it should be said, because I
- 11:57Speaker 1: might when I'm recording, I might I might feel you
- 12:00Speaker 1: feel like damn, like this part ain't really right, but
- 12:03Speaker 1: I'll come back to it later or maybe when the
- 12:05Speaker 1: whole song is done, you won't notice it. And he
- 12:08Speaker 1: kind of challenged me, like, nah, I want you to
- 12:09Speaker 1: do that, like I want you to first option, second option,
- 12:13Speaker 1: third option, if it ain't hitting, still go to that
- 12:16Speaker 1: fourth fifth, sick goal, to as many options as you
- 12:19Speaker 1: need to go to until you figure it out every bar.
- 12:22Speaker 1: So I'm like, damn, I kind of needed to hear
- 12:24Speaker 1: that because I've been back and forth with my head
- 12:26Speaker 1: about it. But him telling me that, I was like,
- 12:29Speaker 1: all right, I got I gotta take them extra steps
- 12:31Speaker 1: to make sure that this year is that that is
- 12:35Speaker 1: all cohesive.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Do you remember which line like he hit you like
- 12:40Speaker 2: you got to rehit this, you got to rehit this, Like.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had said I had a bar
- 12:47Speaker 1: on the song that we had to take off. Damn.
- 12:55Speaker 1: What was it hold on, I had a bar on
- 12:58Speaker 1: there and he like, like, I get it. It's a
- 13:01Speaker 1: hard bar. He like, but like better, you can do better?
- 13:06Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Made you change it or just yeah?
- 13:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I did the whole I did my verse like
- 13:14Speaker 1: I forgot the bar, but I did the verse like
- 13:17Speaker 1: seven different ways. M.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Yeah, he had and is he directing you like yeah,
- 13:22Speaker 2: try this way, try it this way like some.
- 13:25Speaker 1: Of the time. Yeah. Yeah. And then we got to
- 13:27Speaker 1: a point where he just he just stepped away and
- 13:30Speaker 1: then I knocked it out. That's fire.
- 13:34Speaker 2: How much was his parts of the song already fit?
- 13:37Speaker 2: Was there any like like bones of the song? Are
- 13:39Speaker 2: you just in there with the beat?
- 13:41Speaker 1: Like?
- 13:41Speaker 2: Do you hear anything else from the record? M?
- 13:45Speaker 1: I think his rap verse from the beginning of the
- 13:49Speaker 1: song was there. It might see. The thing is it
- 13:54Speaker 1: could have been, but he's so mysterious, like it probably wasn't.
- 13:58Speaker 1: It was probably muted so that we couldn't hear it.
- 14:00Speaker 1: So like when the song came out, like me roddy
- 14:04Speaker 1: yet they none of us knew that each other was
- 14:06Speaker 1: on the song. That's pretty dope. Yeah, we didn't even
- 14:11Speaker 1: when the song came out. It didn't have no names
- 14:13Speaker 1: on it. I just remember that, ye Kendrick Lamar Dodger Blue.
- 14:16Speaker 2: I remember I was in Thailand the day it was
- 14:19Speaker 2: like it dropped. I was in Thailand leaving Rolling Loud
- 14:21Speaker 2: and we're freaking the funk out in the in the
- 14:23Speaker 2: van and like, I'm just hearing everyone's verse.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Yeah you gotta listen for I'm.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Like, oh shit, that's Lefty Guns.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that shit was interesting. But shout out to brunh.
- 14:37Speaker 2: I think it. I mean, obviously it's it's I mean,
- 14:39Speaker 2: I hope that's not the last time you guys worked together.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Nah for Damn Show hopefully not.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Did you guys work on anything else that just didn't?
- 14:47Speaker 1: Yeah, we got other ship, Yeah, oh ship too, like
- 14:50Speaker 1: to be honest.
- 14:51Speaker 2: With from the same session.
- 14:55Speaker 1: I think we did like two three sessions for Dodger
- 14:58Speaker 1: Blue alone, and yeah, we cut another song in one
- 15:02Speaker 1: of those sessions. It was crazy, So maybe, I mean
- 15:05Speaker 1: it might even be even better than.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Is that the kind of thing where like, if it
- 15:09Speaker 2: doesn't end up coming out you had to have Trav
- 15:11Speaker 2: make the call, like, hey, could we get that over
- 15:15Speaker 2: here on this debut album?
- 15:17Speaker 1: Nah? You know what I really be trying to build
- 15:20Speaker 1: like I'll really be working on building like real relationships
- 15:23Speaker 1: with all these people. Like even though I know being
- 15:27Speaker 1: signed to Cactus or and shit like that, I know
- 15:30Speaker 1: that to probably make stuff easier if I made calls
- 15:35Speaker 1: like that, But I really be wanting to build these
- 15:37Speaker 1: relationships from the ground up so they real, you know
- 15:40Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I don't even I probably don't
- 15:43Speaker 1: use the juice as much as.
- 15:45Speaker 2: But to be fair, I feel like just on some
- 15:47Speaker 2: confident shit, like it's probably easier for you to make
- 15:49Speaker 2: that call, you know type shit, Yeah, on some relationship.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know what's up?
- 15:57Speaker 2: So do we have a date? I know you have
- 16:01Speaker 2: a show coming up on February thirteenth, It's at the Novo, right, yep.
- 16:04Speaker 1: And then we got the project mad Dog coming out
- 16:08Speaker 1: January thirtieth. Relationship boots this shit on the flow, it's
- 16:11Speaker 1: on the way.
- 16:12Speaker 2: Why mad Dog has nothing to do with the beer.
- 16:15Speaker 1: No, No, none of that. Well, yeah, because that's like
- 16:19Speaker 1: the whole nostalgic side of it. Yeah, just took me
- 16:22Speaker 1: back to a specific time in my life. But mad
- 16:25Speaker 1: Dog is more so an expression of just our niggas
- 16:29Speaker 1: is where I come from. Yeah, Like I feel like
- 16:31Speaker 1: that's that's just the explanation for like, damn, why he
- 16:35Speaker 1: acts like that. I just feel like that's that's the
- 16:40Speaker 1: that's what we are given when were pushing it. When
- 16:42Speaker 1: we're moving around, we go to different states, like we
- 16:45Speaker 1: don't fit in, bro, we don't fit in no matter
- 16:47Speaker 1: where we go. I went to Alaska crazy years ago,
- 16:51Speaker 1: and I'm like, damn, everywhere I go, why did you
- 16:54Speaker 1: go there? I'm scarous working on the fishing boats and shit,
- 16:57Speaker 1: oh shit, yeah I did that shit right for like
- 17:00Speaker 1: a whole season. Yeah I did, like three years. I
- 17:03Speaker 1: had no idea. Yeah, hell yeah, that shit was crazy.
- 17:06Speaker 2: We got to get into that.
- 17:07Speaker 1: But I used to be thinking like, damn, why everywhere
- 17:10Speaker 1: I go it's like I gotta talk myself out of
- 17:13Speaker 1: doing something to somebody, right, like it is everybody the problem.
- 17:18Speaker 1: And I started thinking like, man, I gotta be the
- 17:20Speaker 1: fucking problem. Bro, there's no way everywhere I go. I'm
- 17:24Speaker 1: talking about I'm sitting here having the same conversation with
- 17:27Speaker 1: myself like it ain't worth it. It ain't worth it,
- 17:29Speaker 1: Like I'm just angry ass dudes sometimes like or that's
- 17:34Speaker 1: how I can be perceived because these is just our
- 17:37Speaker 1: standard morals like dudes and don't. But when you go
- 17:41Speaker 1: other places, it's like, damn, why do they not respect
- 17:45Speaker 1: personal space like we do? Or why do they say
- 17:49Speaker 1: shit that we don't allow people to say to us
- 17:54Speaker 1: when it don't got to be said. It make us
- 17:56Speaker 1: look like just we just some angry motherfuckers.
- 17:59Speaker 2: But yeah, not everybody has the same boundaries of humor,
- 18:02Speaker 2: you know.
- 18:02Speaker 1: Yeah, mad dog managing angry demons, deprived of God's grace.
- 18:06Speaker 2: Damn, it's a fucking acronym. I don't take you to
- 18:10Speaker 2: come up with that ship though that I had to
- 18:14Speaker 2: be like, I had to be a night.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Man. Shout out to everybody who's sick as hell right now? Ship.
- 18:22Speaker 2: I hope it ain't me next.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Bro, everybody's sick as fuck.
- 18:25Speaker 2: This shit crazy, yo, So talk to you were what
- 18:29Speaker 2: were you like? Okay, so you go to Alaska to
- 18:32Speaker 2: do the fishing bowl? Shit, tell me about this man.
- 18:35Speaker 2: This is a very intriguing wrinkling the wally the sense story.
- 18:41Speaker 2: Mm hmm, what kind of fish? What was it like?
- 18:47Speaker 1: So? Yeah, I got out of jail one time and
- 18:50Speaker 1: I got on the bus because I was trying to
- 18:51Speaker 1: surprise my family. I'm like, damn, I ain't even gonna
- 18:54Speaker 1: tell nobody that I'm getting up. Let's just get on
- 18:56Speaker 1: the train. I'm gonna pop up at the house. So
- 18:59Speaker 1: when I got on the train, then I got on
- 19:01Speaker 1: the bus, it was these two dudes sitting in front
- 19:03Speaker 1: of me, and they had like a newspaper or some shit,
- 19:06Speaker 1: and they like they they planning out their whole trip,
- 19:09Speaker 1: like like yeah, man, like they talking about how much
- 19:12Speaker 1: they're finna get paid this, this and that. So I'm like, hey,
- 19:15Speaker 1: what's that you know, Like, what's how long? What's that
- 19:18Speaker 1: right there? So they give me the paper because one
- 19:21Speaker 1: of the dudes he like, bro, I'm not doing that shit.
- 19:24Speaker 1: I'm like, shit, whatever it is for the amount of
- 19:26Speaker 1: money they talking about, I'll do it. So me not
- 19:30Speaker 1: even knowing like all the information I called. I called
- 19:33Speaker 1: this number. They told me to fill out an application.
- 19:37Speaker 1: I filed it out. Bro. They called me like old
- 19:42Speaker 1: days later, like trying to fly me to last I'm like, damn,
- 19:50Speaker 1: I'm gonna just go. I'm finna see what this shit about.
- 19:53Speaker 1: So I did the orientation. They sent me out to Seattle.
- 19:58Speaker 1: That's like the meeting point for when you going to
- 20:00Speaker 1: Alaska to me Seattle. I went out to Dutch Harbor.
- 20:06Speaker 1: B this shit was like, this shit was a whole
- 20:10Speaker 1: nother world. Like it's a spot in Dutch Harbor. It's
- 20:14Speaker 1: called Unalaska, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska. Bro, it's a fucking small
- 20:19Speaker 1: ass island with nothing on it, Like it's one grocery store,
- 20:24Speaker 1: one coffee shop, one McDonald's, and like in the school.
- 20:31Speaker 1: And then they got the bunkers up there where the
- 20:34Speaker 1: where the US army used to be. Yeah, I guess
- 20:37Speaker 1: when they took over, because this shit. I guess this
- 20:40Speaker 1: ship might have been Russia at one point.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I know Alaska was one of the last states.
- 20:45Speaker 2: I think it was forty nine or fifty.
- 20:46Speaker 1: So they still got the bunkers up there looking exactly
- 20:49Speaker 1: how it did whenever they the war ended, so like
- 20:51Speaker 1: you could go up there and look at this shit.
- 20:53Speaker 1: But yeah, this shit was crazy, bro, cold as fuck.
- 20:56Speaker 1: The work I'm working like twenty one hour shit today.
- 21:00Speaker 2: It on the boat.
- 21:02Speaker 1: I ended up. I did it in the in the
- 21:04Speaker 1: plant first, and then I went back and did it
- 21:06Speaker 1: on the boat. So we went out into the barren
- 21:09Speaker 1: sea and like a big ass vessel like the American
- 21:13Speaker 1: Sea Freeze. I was part of the first crew. That's
- 21:16Speaker 1: like the big it was the biggest ship ever for fishing.
- 21:22Speaker 1: So I went on the American Sea Freeze out to
- 21:24Speaker 1: the barren Sea did that ship.
- 21:26Speaker 2: So you're like, it's gotta be freezing. What kind of
- 21:31Speaker 2: fish are you guys catching.
- 21:33Speaker 1: When we was in the when we was in a plant,
- 21:35Speaker 1: we was catching crab, pollock crab and pollock Alaskan king
- 21:43Speaker 1: crab and yeah yeah, and then when we was on
- 21:45Speaker 1: a boat, we was mainly catching like yellow fin. And
- 21:48Speaker 1: then some seasons you'll catch perch and ship like that.
- 21:52Speaker 1: That's crazy, Like you get big ass salmon's and ship.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Too, but just in the net, just like thousands of
- 21:58Speaker 2: fishes probably get pulled up.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Yeah, millions of pounds at a time. That's crazy.
- 22:03Speaker 2: And that shit pays well. I heard like some people
- 22:06Speaker 2: like the only work during that season.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Yeah, you go out there for three months and.
- 22:09Speaker 2: Then they're off the rest of the year.
- 22:10Speaker 1: The rest of the year, you straight. I just kept
- 22:13Speaker 1: sucking up. I was going doing this shit because the work,
- 22:17Speaker 1: the work ain't easy. This ship is like the hardest
- 22:19Speaker 1: work you're ever do in your life. So I come
- 22:22Speaker 1: home fucked my bag up, like I just kept getting
- 22:25Speaker 1: in trouble. I come home, ended up getting in trouble
- 22:30Speaker 1: or something, going back to jail, or just helping too much,
- 22:33Speaker 1: helping helping people too much, running a little on the bread.
- 22:36Speaker 1: I had to go back. So that was kind of
- 22:40Speaker 1: like my route for a minute.
- 22:42Speaker 2: So you like, go work, come home, spend the block,
- 22:45Speaker 2: come home. Yeah, did you ever take down any Alaskan chicks?
- 22:51Speaker 1: My damn show Eskimo Cuchie, you know I had to.
- 22:54Speaker 2: How's the Eskimokuchie?
- 22:56Speaker 1: Oh? Man, that shit themfold fire.
- 22:59Speaker 2: I feel like they probably are probably like you know,
- 23:01Speaker 2: obviously if it's in a town, or there's only one
- 23:02Speaker 2: McDonald's in one Bro.
- 23:03Speaker 1: They never seen a black dude before. When they when
- 23:07Speaker 1: you get off the plane, it's like you like lunch meat. Bro.
- 23:11Speaker 1: They trying to take you back to the Philippines. All
- 23:14Speaker 1: kind of shit. It's crazy.
- 23:17Speaker 2: That's wild, man. So you would you say you are
- 23:20Speaker 2: a fisherman by trade? Like if worst comes the worst,
- 23:23Speaker 2: we need we had a boat, we go get some fish.
- 23:25Speaker 1: For sure, we can. I can take it. I could
- 23:28Speaker 1: lead you to the to the water.
- 23:31Speaker 2: You can teach me a man how to fish. But
- 23:32Speaker 2: after that it is what it is you did. So
- 23:36Speaker 2: let's talk about Mad Dog. Can you reveal any features
- 23:39Speaker 2: from the project?
- 23:42Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we got of course, Tie and Blash,
- 23:47Speaker 1: Roddy Rich.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Okay, those are the ones that are already out.
- 23:50Speaker 1: So yep, yeah, some ship that y'all.
- 23:53Speaker 2: Know, keyword is revealed.
- 23:55Speaker 1: I got some Don Tolliver ship on there.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Don Tolliver all right.
- 24:00Speaker 1: And then but now that's it. No, Travis mm, Travis
- 24:07Speaker 1: ain't on there at the moment. They leaked our song,
- 24:10Speaker 1: the song that I was putting on the album. Yeah,
- 24:12Speaker 1: they leaked it. So it's like, damn sure, did you
- 24:14Speaker 1: find out who leaked it? No? That's a good question
- 24:18Speaker 1: though that I've been asking myself, like, damn they leaked this,
- 24:20Speaker 1: should you still drop it? Hell?
- 24:22Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I didn't know. I didn't know you had
- 24:24Speaker 2: a song leak.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Yeah. If you go on YouTube right now.
- 24:26Speaker 2: Listen, man, most people ain't fucking paying attention to leaks.
- 24:31Speaker 2: I'll be hearing that shit was like, Yo, my whole
- 24:32Speaker 2: album leaked. I'm like, dog, I had no idea, I
- 24:36Speaker 2: had no fun.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Maybe it's a good thing out of the leak, because now
- 24:38Speaker 1: you can go change some of this ship, because yeah,
- 24:40Speaker 1: make it leaked and didn't go crazy.
- 24:43Speaker 2: Yeah, switch it up a little.
- 24:45Speaker 1: You gotta switch it up.
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- 25:15Speaker 2: sure you shoot them a visit. Uh, Is there any
- 25:18Speaker 2: because obviously the last time you came up here was
- 25:20Speaker 2: with Meet the Woops. Is that a project that's still
- 25:23Speaker 2: being worked on or what's kind of the status there?
- 25:26Speaker 2: Because I had ys up here and who else came
- 25:30Speaker 2: up here? Oh? Jay Worthy was up here. Feels like
- 25:32Speaker 2: that kind of tape is kind of.
- 25:34Speaker 1: And they still working. Yeah, Meet the Wop still working.
- 25:40Speaker 1: I just actually pulled up on them in the studio.
- 25:44Speaker 1: I put up on them in the studio recently and
- 25:47Speaker 1: we did some ship, lay some hard ship and shout
- 25:50Speaker 1: out to the gosh, well yeah they're still working.
- 25:53Speaker 2: Do you.
- 25:54Speaker 1: Uh.
- 25:56Speaker 2: I feel like the there's this like energy with you
- 25:59Speaker 2: and Roddy that is very very coming from l a
- 26:03Speaker 2: similar How much unreleased ship do you guys have together,
- 26:06Speaker 2: because we already have obviously Dodger blues out and obviously
- 26:09Speaker 2: beams out Man.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Shout out to Roddy Man, Me and me and Bro.
- 26:13Speaker 1: We just I feel like the role that we playing
- 26:19Speaker 1: it's just a little bigger than music. Like as far
- 26:22Speaker 1: as with each other, I wouldn't say we got a
- 26:25Speaker 1: whole lot of music, but like that ship is accessible
- 26:31Speaker 1: for the both of us, Like you know, he know
- 26:32Speaker 1: he can call me for anything, you know, musically in
- 26:36Speaker 1: the same vice versus. So that's just what it is.
- 26:42Speaker 2: If you could do a joint album with anybody, who
- 26:44Speaker 2: would be a.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Joint album with anybody? Uh, It'll probably be Chris Burrow.
- 26:52Speaker 1: That'd be crazy. I'll do a joint album with I mean, yeah,
- 27:00Speaker 1: uh popcor Okay, fucking t pa ynw Melly.
- 27:14Speaker 2: That'd be a tough one.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of people I would do
- 27:19Speaker 1: that with Honestly, should I do a joint album with Emine?
- 27:23Speaker 1: I like that, do you do? You are? Hooks?
- 27:27Speaker 2: Just hooks and then let him get the let him
- 27:30Speaker 2: get them verses off, Like look and I got you
- 27:33Speaker 2: on the hooks. Yeah, let me just give you a
- 27:35Speaker 2: bunch of open go crazy.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Don Tolliver, Travis.
- 27:41Speaker 2: You've heard a lot of people talk about like how
- 27:44Speaker 2: the gm X look has like kind of affected their
- 27:46Speaker 2: career path or not. How how did that being on
- 27:50Speaker 2: that album change? Did it change anything? I mean, like
- 27:52Speaker 2: you said, you're already on the Cactus Jack situation, but
- 27:55Speaker 2: did that look change anything? Did you notice the difference
- 27:58Speaker 2: like after the album comes out and people kind of realize,
- 28:01Speaker 2: oh shit, that's while we're on there.
- 28:03Speaker 1: Yeah, gn next shit had a real positive Uh. It
- 28:08Speaker 1: gave me a real positive push, bro, because you know,
- 28:12Speaker 1: like sometimes it's bigger than music. Sometimes some people might
- 28:16Speaker 1: fuck with you because y'all share personal things, you know
- 28:21Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I feel like that that certain
- 28:24Speaker 1: group of people that that might might have even respected
- 28:27Speaker 1: my music but just still didn't fuck with me, right.
- 28:30Speaker 1: I feel like it opened the door for them to
- 28:32Speaker 1: be like Okay.
- 28:33Speaker 2: Nah, It's almost like that those kind of looks have
- 28:35Speaker 2: to happen for certain people to.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Be like all right, I like him even for it
- 28:39Speaker 1: to reach them, to reach their ear, because you know,
- 28:42Speaker 1: everybody don't live the same bro, so you gotta think
- 28:45Speaker 1: when you wake up, get in your car, and do
- 28:48Speaker 1: what you're doing for the day. Some people will never
- 28:50Speaker 1: have a chance to even run across this shit, right,
- 28:53Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, Like they might fuck
- 28:55Speaker 1: with who they fuck with musically for specific reasons. Some
- 29:00Speaker 1: people are that intentional, like you know, so I feel
- 29:03Speaker 1: like it really did open that and the type of
- 29:05Speaker 1: song it was, the name of the song, it was
- 29:08Speaker 1: just a real I.
- 29:09Speaker 2: Mean, it's a West Coast anthem, the Dodgers fucking you know,
- 29:14Speaker 2: go to the World Series or whatever. That's like a
- 29:18Speaker 2: forever song.
- 29:19Speaker 1: It's a real dedication to the home team, you know.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that ship. That ship helped me a lot.
- 29:25Speaker 2: Anybody from Compton that we're not up on that we
- 29:27Speaker 2: should be.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Up on mm hmm, yeah for sure. Four four eight.
- 29:37Speaker 1: He he was on my second project, Golden Child. Yeah,
- 29:44Speaker 1: he was on Golden Child on a song we had
- 29:47Speaker 1: called Cuisine. But since then he didn't like threw so
- 29:51Speaker 1: much and this nigga, he he didn't really figured it out.
- 29:54Speaker 1: He found this he said niche.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean niche.
- 29:58Speaker 1: Yeah, he found his niche. And I've been listening to
- 30:00Speaker 1: the ship he been doing lately. I'm like, damn, you
- 30:02Speaker 1: gotta figure it out. The ship cold. But fourth foy eight,
- 30:09Speaker 1: God damn Epic must die specifically from the city, right yeah, yeah,
- 30:16Speaker 1: fourth foy eight Epic must die. Bang Gotty, God damn
- 30:26Speaker 1: bang Gotti for show he's been he's been doing his
- 30:29Speaker 1: ship hard ship and it's and it's got like a
- 30:33Speaker 1: little difference to it. Who else you know? All the
- 30:37Speaker 1: guys Mari Ruger. Why is y'all know all the guys already?
- 30:41Speaker 1: But for the people who don't, Yeah, ship those names
- 30:44Speaker 1: right there?
- 30:47Speaker 2: Do you realize you're probably about to win a Grammy?
- 30:51Speaker 1: Yeah? I think about it. I thought about it yesterday.
- 30:53Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about it, bro, I ain't gonna lie.
- 30:55Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it since like I posted it
- 30:59Speaker 1: and then, like you know, I don't be dwelling on
- 31:02Speaker 1: ship like positive or negative. I'd be like whatever is
- 31:05Speaker 1: in front of me. I'm just trying to tackle what
- 31:07Speaker 1: I'm on. But I'm like, damn, sometimes I'll be looking
- 31:10Speaker 1: up them. Yeah, you dirty motherfucker you doing it?
- 31:15Speaker 2: Like yeah, like there's like a very bad, serious chance
- 31:18Speaker 2: that gn X is gonna win. I'd be I don't
- 31:22Speaker 2: even multiple Grammy as a body of work.
- 31:24Speaker 1: As this shit be going on. I like to I
- 31:27Speaker 1: like to live by a year, right, so so at
- 31:29Speaker 1: the end of this year, I'll look back and see
- 31:32Speaker 1: what I did, and then I can, like, you know,
- 31:34Speaker 1: look in the mirror and be happy.
- 31:35Speaker 2: That's crazy. That shit was November of twenty twenty four.
- 31:39Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild. How fast time flies? Hell yeah?
- 31:42Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, you gotta fucking figure out, like, Okay,
- 31:46Speaker 2: if I get this Grammy, where am I putting it?
- 31:48Speaker 2: Am I putting the studio and putting on a mantel
- 31:50Speaker 2: putting it? Put it on the fucking TV stand?
- 31:53Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I'm personal lean in it, but
- 31:57Speaker 1: don't pour lean in it. I'm joking.
- 31:59Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't disrespect the Graham. Kanye used to piss
- 32:02Speaker 2: in the Grammys. No, yeah, didn't he put in He
- 32:06Speaker 2: put in the toilet, pissed on it.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Yes, I swear. That's crazy.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when you're like I don't know how
- 32:15Speaker 2: many that motherfucker got, respectfully, but I'm sure he could
- 32:18Speaker 2: piss on a few, and I still have some ship.
- 32:21Speaker 2: A lot of people don't even say, like The Weekend
- 32:22Speaker 2: doesn't even submit his music for the Grammys anymore.
- 32:25Speaker 1: I mean, bro, once you's successful and neither this Ja Cole,
- 32:29Speaker 1: once you's successful in your own right, like in your
- 32:31Speaker 1: own mind shit. Like you know, some of these dudes,
- 32:34Speaker 1: they don't even want the validation no more. They don't care.
- 32:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you have a good chance either Album
- 32:40Speaker 2: of the Year a rap Album of the Year.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Think about this in the streets. I'm already a Grammy artist.
- 32:46Speaker 1: I'm already already got a Grammy in the streets, a
- 32:49Speaker 1: couple of them. So so you know what I'm saying,
- 32:52Speaker 1: It ain't really too much of a difference. It depends
- 32:55Speaker 1: on what world you're living in, right.
- 32:57Speaker 2: What kind of special guests we do. We have a
- 32:59Speaker 2: lot lying up for the thirteenth.
- 33:01Speaker 1: At the Novo, whole city out.
- 33:04Speaker 2: That's a big look man, to be doing the Novo.
- 33:06Speaker 2: The Novo is a I feel like that's one of
- 33:08Speaker 2: those things you check off like that list. Yeah, like
- 33:11Speaker 2: firstus the Roxy, all right, then you do the Novo Palladium.
- 33:14Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, that's exactly what I'm doing.
- 33:17Speaker 1: I did the Roxy like three years ago. I only
- 33:20Speaker 1: had one show my whole career, one.
- 33:22Speaker 2: Of my one solo show.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I've only had one my whole career. In six years.
- 33:27Speaker 1: I only did one shows at the Roxy. Ye.
- 33:31Speaker 2: So yeah, there's gonna be just I'm sure everyone in
- 33:33Speaker 2: their moms.
- 33:33Speaker 1: So now it's gonna go down.
- 33:36Speaker 2: A lot of people coming the thirty whole city out.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Get tickets. Still tickets are still available.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Yeah, get some tickets and we're gonna be giving away
- 33:45Speaker 1: a couple of tickets. So just stay tapped in on
- 33:47Speaker 1: the Instagram ship and I'm gonna be doing some opportunities
- 33:51Speaker 1: out there for people to win some free tickets, like
- 33:54Speaker 1: for them and a couple of family members like that.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Mad Dog January thirtieth, January thirty. How many songs?
- 34:01Speaker 1: Thirteen songs? No skips?
- 34:03Speaker 2: There is this your first album in what five years now?
- 34:06Speaker 2: Golden Child was twenty twenty one.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Nope. Here to Stay was like, ah, you're right, you're right,
- 34:10Speaker 1: You're right here twenty three yeah maybe yeah.
- 34:16Speaker 2: Your Cactus Jack debut though, it's on.
- 34:19Speaker 1: The floor, it's on the flow.
- 34:20Speaker 2: Mad dog Man January thirtieth Wally appreciate you brother, Love
- 34:24Speaker 2: bro Wool