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EP116: Magnu5 | Hip-Hop, Boom Bap, and Building a Sound Nobody Can Put in a Box · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_04: Check test, you ready to go?
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on y'all?
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh welcome back to the Corpus Christi Originals podcast.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_04: We're here uh at Lucy's spot.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_04: Uh thank you for letting us uh record in front of their spot.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_04: This today the brew of the day is uh what is this white uh chocolate mocha?
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_04: Who you drinking that, bro?
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: I got a matcha with vanilla in it, some sweetener, you know what I'm saying?
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_03: Gotta be sweet, but shout out to Lucy's you guys.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm here Corpus Christi Originals.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_03: I got with me uh Magnus.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_03: Introduce yourself, bro.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yo, yo, yo, I'm Magnus.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm from the town, I'm from the hood, from the north side.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm here, dog.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to CC Originals for having me.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Jesus.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Is it Jesus?
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Is it Jesus?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_03: Jesus, whatever, bro.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: I like Jesus.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean Jesus, bro.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is cool.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so hey, sugar, you're from the north side, bro.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_04: I never would have guessed that.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: I went to Miller, I went to Drill School.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: No kidding.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_04: You're from here?
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_03: I'm from here, bro.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_04: From here, okay.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_04: So I went to Ray High School.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_04: I grew up near Baldwin and Staples.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: Kind of the Delmar across from Delmar.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_04: And went to Ray, dropped out for dropped out on my junior year, and then went back to Miller, my senior year.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Bad, yeah, yeah.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: How old are you?
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: If you don't mind the acting?
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: 43.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, cool, cool.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm I'll be 39 on Monday.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, no kidding.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: We're old, yeah.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no, hey, dude, I see I seen you over there produce, like where I do my my show, the show sometimes, right?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_04: And I was like, hey, that looks like a pretty cool dude.
• 1:29
  unknown: Thank you.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_04: So that's why you're here.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_04: That's why I bought you on, bro.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_04: So well, it's been a minute, bro, because I have been thinking about it since like I initially met you, and I was like, damn, I got I really want to get that guy on.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_04: Then life happens.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Word.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_04: And then the other day I walked past, like, you know what?
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_04: It's right now's the time, bro.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna walk past here.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_04: Word, word, and we initiated it, so we're here, man.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's it, that's it.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, so we're we're in the in our 40s, bro.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, what's what's it like now?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_04: We're there.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, you're there.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: 40s a new 20.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I like to say, I guess.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, another way I was introduced to you was through your music, bro.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh a clip, maybe something on Instagram or something.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_04: I can't remember which uh which which song it was.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, but then I was listening to it.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_04: I love the and I did I ask you for the instrumental if you had the instrumental?
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_04: I think I I might have asked, but I was like, hey man, I I really like this song.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_04: If you have an instrumental, bro, I'd put it on on anything that I had, you know what I mean?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I got I could get it to you for sure.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so man, how long have you been doing stuff like that?
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, should it started in high school?
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: I would say it would like, you know, Miller banging on tables and the fucking in the lunchroom and shit, and everybody freestyling.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, we had a crew, it was me and probably like three other guys.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_02: We were called in the booth, and we were just freestyle, dog.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like, you know, every weekend, this was back like street racing days.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you remember.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you remember, you're my age, so street racing days.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, because there's street racing now, right?
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: But like back then it was a little more um Maybe it was like new at the time.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: I guess you could say new.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody was, you know, T-Heads was barely popping off type shit.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_02: And dog, I would like I kicked it with uh DSR, dynamic street racing.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: So like every weekend, dog, like I would, you know, go to school, do what we did, allegedly illegal, you know, whatever, whatever.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_02: And I would make mixtapes, dog, and like print them up, print out like fucking 30 CDs, you know what I'm saying?
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_02: Go downtown, sell them 10 bucks, five bucks, you know what I'm saying?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: And then wow, it just kind of like street racing crews, because I would always shout out DSR, like we would freestyle.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: Back then I go in by flawless, and I mean, I would freestyle for like hours, you know what I'm saying?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_02: Like just put beat on, rap on the whole beat, put another beat, rap on the whole beat.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: So I like I said, I would shout out DSR, and like the other crews were like, yo, can you make us you know shout us out type shit?
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'm like, yeah, I got you, but you know, y'all gotta buy some shit.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like it turned into like, you know, we're freestyle, we show up downtown, yo, we made you this, we made you this boom boom boom, sell them out, you know what I'm saying?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_02: And it just went from there, dog.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_02: Like, freestyling was a big thing.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, you know, Texas rap was based on freestyle, you know.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_02: You had a little flip, you had freestyle kings.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like rapping over everybody else's beats was the fucking thing before we had our own beats, you know what I'm saying?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: So it and I mean, like I said, I was probably like 16, 17.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_02: Just freestyling and just kept rapping, and then I kind of, you know, took time off.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: I had a baby, you know, grown up shit, you know, had to get a job, start doing the legal activity type shit, and then the homies were still freestyling, like they were still, you know, going hard with it, and I just kind of like you know, pushed away a little bit, and then I kind of came back and I was like, yo, I want to be more serious with it though.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I want to write, like I want to fucking make songs, not just freestyle on some shit.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_02: So wow, kind of started doing that, you know, start making my own beats, start getting beats from like QB the problem and like local shit.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you know who QB is.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: Bro, he got like placement with like 50 Cent, Joe Budding, like and he's from here, he's from Northside, like he's just a homebrew.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: That's amazing.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like so it was just you know, rapping and rapping, dog, and right, like I said, now I'm 39, well about to be 39, but and it's just I love it, you know what I'm saying?
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's like it's my art, it's it's what I do.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like, whether now it's not more of like, oh, you're making money, you know.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_02: I I see that a lot, like you know, rappers got big old chains, like I could pull out a chain, and you know what I'm saying?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like, but it's more of the art aspect, like it's boom bap beats, it's fucking you know, writing down these rhymes, the bars gotta be ill, you know what I'm saying?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: I don't want to put out no wax shit.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna put it out regardless.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like, if if it's not for y'all, it's for me, right?
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, for people to like it and people to like grow accustomed to magnus, that's that's ill, you know what I'm saying?
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and it's just yeah, that's just what I like to do.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_02: I'll probably never stop.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_02: I like, I mean, people probably like, yo, this thing is old, you know, I'm just fucking well, how is he still rapping?
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_02: Why?
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, painters paint, mechanics mechanic, you know what I'm saying?
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I rap, like that's what I do, like for sure.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I believe that that definitely that it helps your brain, man.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_04: And like there's no age, there's no age limit for creativity, man.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_04: And that's what I like about your music, bro.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_04: Like, uh it's like uh like whatever's going on in your life, you put it on a sword.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: Word, word, definitely.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of like a like a blog or a video log, but it's definitely like if you don't know me, you can listen to my music and kind of get the picture.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_04: And that's and like the my the one I had on loop was uh play with your heart.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, okay.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_04: I really oh the track in the background is sweet, bro.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, dang.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_04: So I looped it for a minute and then I started, it's it got me to thinking, bro, like just like dang, this is about real life, bro.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_04: Like I was with my kids and I was like, damn, this is this is life, bro.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_04: And that's what I really liked about it.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_04: Because some of the some of the I guess some of the modern stuff is more like like you're saying, like the chains and the money and the that's cool.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_04: Not not to like Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, for sure, for sure.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_04: That's that's a that's a creativity and an art in itself, right?
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_04: But just to just that kind of bringing you back down to earth type of type of stuff is something that we you and I, you know, being in a in our in our up and age, kind of uh we can relate to, right?
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: You know, exactly.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: I I try to make I try to write rhymes and I try to make songs that are relatable.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: So like somebody's going through with their girl, they hear that song and they're like, yo, does he know me?
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_02: Like, so it it's cool though.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, that's that's why I do it.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, relatable shit.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_04: Wow, wow, that's awesome, man.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_04: So when you when you first started uh rhyming or rapping uh in the on the north side, like in what, like at Driscoll?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_04: You were going to Drisk School or it would you say it was like part of the culture that you grew up in?
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, it wasn't everybody's culture, but we're from the hood, you know what I'm saying?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_02: So it was always like we needed something to look up to.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_02: It was like dudes in Houston, like you know, Freestyle Kings, Lil' Kiki, Slim Thug, Paw Wall.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: It was like right right when the Texas thing was like taking off, that was like, yo, we can do this.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like we can actually, yes, like we can actually start a crew and fucking rap and make money and put music out, and like, so it was like that's I mean, that's basically what it was.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_04: That's pretty cool, man.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_04: Like that representation, you see somebody else doing it.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, I could do that too.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Word, word, for sure, for sure.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_04: It's amazing, man.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_04: It's it just shows you how much and it makes me think of that, like how people say gatekeeper, scarcity mindset, abundance mindset, and all that stuff.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_04: But look how that in itself affects the culture, you know what I mean?
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_02: Honestly, I'm with the gatekeeping.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_02: Really, like, I mean, beat-wise, like I don't just give beats to anybody.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I I work with Warship, he's you know, he he makes beats for me.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: I work with SO, okay, dust, and shit like that.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_02: But like people hit me up and they're like, yo, can you give me some beats or I'll buy some beats?
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: And I I gotta check them out.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and if I and if it's not up to par, yeah, like I don't want them wrapping up.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: Well, see, there's see there's a difference between gatekeeping and curating.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, okay.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: Like, okay, yeah, so curation is like like for my brand.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_04: People will shout will be like, hey, let me get on your podcast, this is this and that.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_04: I go look at their their profile and kind of look at their digital footprint.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, eh, maybe not.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: Word, word.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_04: But that's that's not gatekeeping though.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_04: Because like I guess like gatekeeping, I guess, could mean like your craft.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_04: As far as like, okay, how do you write a rhyme?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_04: Would you be willing to share somebody how do you how you create rhymes or how you create beats?
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_04: Right, right.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_04: That's that's and to gatekeeping to me is like, nah, I'm not gonna show you how to, I'm not gonna show you the game, that game, I'm not gonna let you get better than me, type of thing.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well shit.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_02: Luckily, I had a lot of people that were like, Cause I I I wrote with DVS RIP, he was a DJ, you know, he did a lot of fucking DJing downtown and shit.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_02: And he started making beats, and you know, he was just sending me beats and I was rapping on them, and then he some shit happened, he passed away.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that was like my main spot where I was getting beats from, and it was just the shit I wanted, like, you know, the boom bap, the sample shit, chop vocal, and it was like, damn, like what am I gonna do?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_02: Like, it was kind of like at a pause, and I want to say, for like a good two years, dog, like it was like, what the fuck am I gonna do?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: I don't mean to cuss.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's all good.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: Go ahead.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: It was like devious past, and like the whole city felt it, dawg.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like, it was wow, he was like a big staple to the city.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_02: So, like when he went, it was just like everything stopped.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: Every every like we did, we did the anniversary shows and we did like you know all that type of stuff, but it like I didn't want to do no music.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't want to, I was just like, I wouldn't say I was depressed, but it was more like what the fuck, what am I gonna do?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like, that's what that's where I got my inspiration from, that's where I get my beats from, and it's gone.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: I still have like devious beats in the tuck that I won't even touch because it's too like Damn, it's too crazy, you know what I'm saying?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't I don't know, it's just like you know, I got a couple homeboys that are like, yo, you still got that, and I'll play them at shows type shit.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: And I reached out to QB, which he was getting his he was getting his paws in it, and you know, he was trying to do the placements, sending out beats to like bigger artists.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, yo, he's from the same hood I am, so I was like, I seen him like, I think he was like riding his bike or something, dog, and like I was like, yo, chopped it up with him, and he was like, Yeah, come come to the come to the apartments and I'll show you some shit.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: So showed up over there, I showed up with a laptop, he put reason on my laptop, and it was just like, yo, do do this, do this, do this, chop a vocal, you know what I'm saying, chop a sample, and boom.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: So we just started doing it, you know what I'm saying?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_04: And it just just Yeah, so what did you learn from what was something that you learned from that particular experience?
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_04: Like just because you like you said, you were stuck and like, dang, what am I gonna do now?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_04: Hadn't it been for had it been for him, had it not been for him, what what would you still have learned it from somebody else?
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_04: You know, because somebody's gonna give you the game along the way, right?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like at that time in the rap game, nobody was into the the type of beats that I was into except for QB.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like it was a good thing that he didn't act, he didn't like, oh no, fuck this dude.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna fuck him, I'm not gonna work with him, or I'm not gonna show him.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and he did, and I I fuck with him for that, like heavy, you know what I'm saying?
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: And it was just like once I started learning, you know what I'm saying?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_02: I showed my partner, he starts learning, and you know, we just fucking start finding samples, start fucking chopping shit, the type of shit I like, and it's like I just knew, you know what I'm saying?
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like right then, I was just like, This is it.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm gonna rap on my own shit.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm done doing the freestyle shit, I'm done doing that.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_04: Like, this is just gonna be oh what do you how do you say it hit the ground running right there, bro?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_04: Dang, that's awesome, man.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like I said, I went I went by flawless because it was I was freestyling, and they were like, Yeah, my homeboy gave me the name.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_02: He was like, This thing raps flawless, you know, and I was like, I didn't have a name, I was just Lotto government name, don't don't tell nobody.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_02: But uh they was like, Yeah, you think it raps flawless, like just rapping forever, you know what I'm saying?
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_02: So I was like, shit, that's my new name.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like, if I'm flawless, you know what I'm saying?
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, all that happened with the whole devious shit, and then I kind of felt like I had to I had to change steps, I guess.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I didn't want I didn't want to be known as flawless freestyle rapper, so I kind of like, you know, I was always in the comics, I was in the X-Men.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_02: Magneto was the biggest villain ever.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, I went by Eric Magnus for a little bit, and I like dropped the Eric.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: They were like, yo, your name Eric.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, nah.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, yeah, nah, it's not, but you know where did the Eric come from?
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: Just because uh Magneto's name is Eric Lenchner.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, no kidding.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_02: And then they just call him Magnus for short because of Magneto.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, wow.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_02: So I kind of like, yo, Magnus is dope.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: Let me put a five at the end of the day.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and it just went from there, dog.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_04: Like, it's just that's pretty interesting, man.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_04: So, so you didn't want to be known for your freestyle because you you felt you were plateau at that point.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: I felt like freestyle rappers are just that.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like, a freestyle rapper is cool.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: You could go in the booth and you can freestyle, and then it'll be a song, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: But like for the art, the art-wise of it, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: I felt like writing and like actually putting my mind to it, and like, yo, I'm gonna write these bars, I'm gonna write this 16, I'm gonna write this 24.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like, Wow, I mean, you could ask anybody, old heads like that I fuck with, shout out to Lao Mouth, shout out to Vino.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_02: We would do songs with them, and they were always like, Yo, you ain't gonna do a hook.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, nah, I'm this is just all bars.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like it just kind of stayed that way.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, now I do hooks and shit, but it's it's whatever, whatever the beat tells me to do, I'm gonna fucking, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yeah, for sure.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_04: That's dope.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and that's because when I was listening to your to your some of your songs, it sounded like freestyle, bro.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, damn, is this like is he that good?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: To be freestyling like this?
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, but dope, dude.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I well, I guess it they could the two go together.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_04: Once you have a history of freestyling, and then you start writing words, then you kind of maybe mix the two together as far as like like rhythm goes and and cadence and stuff like that goes.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like the first bar has to be like because people are gonna put the song on.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, shoot.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: And then you know, your if your first bar isn't yeah, that's your hook right there.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like if your first bar isn't good, and then you know, you go into the rest of the verse, people were like, oh, next song.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_02: How did you figure that out?
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's just I don't know, dawg.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's kind of just the way I just fucking patterned it out.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_04: Well, like like people's attention spans, because like even now, like TikTok, you gotta hook them.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly, exactly.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, honestly, I feel like the way music is now, it's super microwave.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's like everybody, it's fast-paced, you know what I'm saying?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: So like people are always hitting me like, yo, when you drop an EP, when you drop a tape or an album, and I'm always like, Dog, I just dropped two songs last week.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_02: Would you say it takes time?
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: Is that was that what you're saying?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_02: I wouldn't even say it takes time.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_02: I would say if Magnus put out a EP, they're only gonna listen to two songs.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and I mean that either whether you're a fan or not, right?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_02: That's what it takes because of the vision and like what the music industry is now.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's super microwave, dog.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what do you what do you mean by that?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, like, when you see an artist and you go to their catalog, you're like, yo, yo, yo, let me pick this song.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's a dope song.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_02: All right, let me go to the next one.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's a dope song.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like, nobody's like, You're clicking on an album, and you yeah, you might listen front to back, but you're only gonna like so much.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_02: So I feel like putting singles out and putting like I mean, basically that's what I do.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I put out a lot of singles.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, see, I saw that.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_04: I saw that you've been putting them out since like two, what was 2021?
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, that's when I when I really, really started like honing in on shit.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_04: I noticed it, okay.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_04: So I was I was I was researching 2023.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_04: You had like one single.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_04: Right, right.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_04: 2024 was like, oh, was it 2025?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_04: It was like like 14 or what?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Right, started doing videos and all that shit.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: I hooked up with my partner Stax, Pete Windsor, and Windsor Films, and like shut up.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, and you know, shout out to Vendetta and all them.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: You know, they did a couple of my videos with Loudmouth and shit, and it was just like I needed somebody by my side with a camera, you know what I'm saying?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like my homeboy, he oh yo, I got a camera.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, shit, let's fucking do it.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: Let's let's do a video for every song that I can put out, you know what I'm saying?
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_04: So like so uh is that that's just part of the creativity?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, are you trying to monetize?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like what I mean, I would I would love okay, I would love to actually like make crap, yes, like make big paper off of it.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know about signing to a label type shit, but like I would love to get paid, and I'm not to say that I'm not getting paid now, but industry-wise, you know what I'm saying?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: Like somebody like yo, I mean, shout out to um my bad.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just I just drew a blank.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: Jay Fedia.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: He hit me up for fucking beats.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_02: I think I sent him like a total of like, I don't know, maybe like 20 joints.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_04: Damn, wow.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: He picked like eight, he dropped the EP with, you know what I'm saying, with my beats on it, and it's like I like that, you know what I'm saying?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like he and his style is completely left to what the beats are.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: So him rapping over them was like dope.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like he kind of like he heard it and it he fucking he he did the damn thing.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like, damn, that's cool.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_02: That collaboration to get your name out there.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_02: Word, word.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean I would love to fucking like I said, I would love to be monetized.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_04: You wouldn't, bro.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_04: There's so many creatives in this town, dog.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_02: I at the same time, I feel like I don't really try hard enough to like, oh, I'm gonna put out something on TikTok or something on, you know what I'm saying, to like try to like, it's just like yo, I put this out, I got a video for it.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: If you fuck with it, you fuck with it.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: If not, that goes back to it just being my heart, you know what I'm saying?
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm I'm gonna do it regardless whether anybody likes it, whether everybody likes it.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's just what I'm gonna do, like for sure, man.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_04: And then like because I because I was like that too when I when I was younger, I was in a band, I played guitar.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Dope, dope.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_04: Got it my first band.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, bro, we're gonna make it.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what I mean?
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like, it's different, it's different for a band though.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: Cause that's what a band needs to be took to the next level.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you know what I'm saying?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, I mean, dog middle school, I was around fucking hella bands, X-Crete, yeah, um, Eric, no, not Robert Batron.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, dog, like I was I was a little gordo sitting back and they were practicing, and you know what I'm saying?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: Center theater shows, yeah, fucking the zone on Agnes, like I was in all that shit.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I was super into metal, and then like the whole the new metal hit, which was like the limp biscuit and the corns, and like I kind of like like Fred Durst.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you didn't dig you.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_04: So you didn't dig like the so when it got to new metal, you didn't really you didn't get into it?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: No, I did.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: You did I did that's what kind of pushed me to like yo, Fred Durst is rapping, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_02: Like this is tight, like I kind of want to I wanna do that.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah, dude.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: So like it and it kind of led into freestyling again in fucking high school and shit like that.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like metal head, super metal into like Sepple Duda, Soulfly, Fear Factory, you know what I'm saying?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like and then it just like completely yo, the new metal shit just like kind of like cranked something in my brain and I was like, Oh, this is dope.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_04: Like that's pretty cool.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_04: See, I like I like mus musicians or Creatives that like different types of music work work still to this day.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: I listen to everything.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Woomrod, shout out to fucking dog Woomrot's heavy dog, dang super heavy.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_04: I keep looking back, like, are they gonna do are they gonna do some new stuff then?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_04: Where's it at, you know?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, dog, for sure, for sure.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_02: I listen to everything.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: Dog country, the Hano.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_02: Grew up on Tehano, of course, Mexican household, you know what I'm saying?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_02: Dad was always drinking beer, you know.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like fucking the the deep Dejano shit, like the fucking you know, you know, the fucking with no bass player, they got the tuba player, bro.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: I would always be like, yo, what is this?
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: And now that I'm older, I'm like, I see it.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, I can totally relate to that.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_04: Like a song would pop on, I'd be like, damn, this is home right here.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_04: And I'll just jab it to it in my truck, just like, oh shit, this is it.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_04: It's pretty cool, man.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_04: So you got uh you got the Marauders Podcast.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: Words, shout out to SO.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Marauders Podcast, we're on Spotify, we're on Audible, we're on all that, you know what I'm saying?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: RSS feed, check the link, follow us on Instagram, all that fucking hoopla, you know what I'm saying?
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_04: I listened to I listen, so I went to your Instagram and I clicked on the the link.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_04: Audible, right?
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: Right, yeah.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: I listened to that's that's the RSS feed, that's like what we oh yeah to publish the podcast basically.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like the backlog is on there.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and I noticed there was some of them that weren't on the Spotify, that's why I went to the Audible because they flagged y'all.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: Spotify be hating dog, like heavy style, like and it's because our podcast is a music pod, you know.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_02: We fucking we trash music, we look, we up music, like you know what I'm saying?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's like yo, have you heard this?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: We heard that.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's such a cool thing.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: Spotify's like, fuck you.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, oh, you're gonna play that universal?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, nah, we're gonna cut you, like, dude.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: I that's why I think everybody should get a website, bro.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_02: Nah, for sure, for sure.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that'd be dope.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: Either that or like a Patreon or something, you know what I'm saying?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_04: Like, something, man, because if Spotify goes away, what's gonna happen?
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_04: Like, all your stuff, you know what I mean?
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's for sure.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_04: So I man, so how did you get into podcasting?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like, that's a total that's a well, I mean, is it that different from hip-hop and that's that type of stuff, you know?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: I was I wouldn't say because like I listen to a lot of pods.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I I'm I'm heavy on the Joe Budden podcast really since the beginning.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: And like I'm a huge Joe Budden fan, so it was like he was doing that shit early, dog.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: Like he was like filming himself in his crib, you know what I'm saying?
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: Like on YouTube, early YouTube days.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_02: So I would always listen to that, and then I hooked up with Esso.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's weird because like I went to high school and middle school with Esso, but I didn't know him, you know what I'm saying?
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, and we bro lived around the corner from me, and I like didn't like he had a different crew, I had a different crew.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_02: Fast forward, we fucking link up.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: I think like our first link up was I had a Wolverine figure, and I was like, I seen him on Instagram, he was he's super into Wolverine.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'm super into Magneto.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, so it was like I hit him up, DM, I was like, yo, I got this figure.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: He was like, cool, how much?
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, nah, I got you.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_02: So I pulled up, he gives me his address, it's around the corner, you know what I'm saying?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like I pulled, I'm like, damn, I didn't even know he lived in the hood like that.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, Yeah, and then from then it was just like we just locked in, dog.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like he's always been doing the pod shit.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I call him pod daddy.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to SO.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_03: Shout out, bro.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_02: And like, like I said, I was a I was a guest on the Ruthless Villains podcast.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's with Jaime, and that's with Gabe, RIP, he just passed away recently.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I love that shit.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what like the energy, you know, like chilling with homies, and then being able to like laugh with your homies, and like, you know, we talked about music, we talked about movies, we talk about everything.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like, yo, this is dope.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: Episode dropped.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: I hit up Esso like a week later, two weeks later, I was like, yo, let's do a pod, me and you.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: And he, I mean, he didn't say no.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: He didn't say he was like, let's do it.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_02: He has all the gear and shit, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_02: So it's just like I kind of start coming up with content, and then we just, you know, first episode came out, and we were doing it like every Thursday.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_02: Like we were recording Tuesday, Esso would edit, drop Thursday.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: And then, like, so it was just like boom, we were just doing it like that.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, we we I mean, I think we're probably like 50 episodes deep, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_02: We might have like two in the tuck that we haven't dropped, but wow.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I like that shit.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: I I like just chopping it up with with Esso because he's like he's he's more than a friend, he's like my brother, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_02: And like we like the same shit.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like I said, he's he's Wolverine, I'm Magneto.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and X-Men, they're like they hate each other, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_04: Like, so what if they didn't have each other, if they didn't have each other, like what would it be?
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's what kind of made it click too.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_02: Like the X-Men, the Wolverine and Magneto thing was like, yo, this is like it's meant to be.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like, so that's cool, man.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_02: The name Marauders, yeah, yeah.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_02: It's like there's a there's an X-Men crew called the Marauders.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: And they're just like a group of assassins.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_04: So okay, okay.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I noticed that about Marvel.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_04: There's different, like they got the Avengers, and then you have another set or whatever.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know their names, but Marauders is one of them.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: They're like a loose underground assassin crew called Marauders.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_02: Easy.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_04: So, like, yeah, that sounds dope, bro.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_02: We were looking for a name, and I think we were gonna be like the Legion of Doom or some shit.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like some some lame shit, dog.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_02: And um, I have like a couple Marauders fucking comics.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, yo, so I seen the fucking, you know, the name.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: I was like Marauders, and then we went back to um a fucking a song.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: I can't I can't, I'm mind blocking right now off of what it is, but in the in the song, they say, like it's part of our intro.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's like marauders, you know, whatever, whatever, and it's like it's kind of chumpy, it sounds cool, man.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_02: We maraud for ears, you know, so that's why it's like music and shit like that.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: So like it just all fell together, dog.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_04: Like, and it and it just do you feel like everything has that, everything in life has to have a meaning, like like that type of stuff?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like for it to make sense, yes.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, like for it to be like yo, I I think if we didn't click the way we clicked, me and Esso, I think the podcast would probably be trash.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like, because everybody has a pod, everybody's doing interviews, everybody's doing this, which is all love.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_02: I like you know, the whole live aspect.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, Facebook.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Riding High and all that, you know what I'm saying?
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_02: They got like 50 podcasts over there, you know.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they definitely got their culture over there, bro, for sure.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_04: And shout out riding high, man.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, riding high.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Freak, shout out to DJ King, shout out to this.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, everybody, uh man, Alex, everybody.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_02: It just clicked, dog, and I I mean, like I said, to sit with the homie and just chop it up and record it and then listen back, and it's funny.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_04: It's like that's dope.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_04: Dude, that's what I like, man.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_04: And when you listen back to your episode and you actually enjoy it.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, he's like, I'm not gonna listen.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like, he'll edit, but I'm sure he likes fast forwards.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay, okay.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: Like, there'll be like little parts where I'm like, yo, edit that out.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, fuck, you're gonna make me work.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, but shit, me dog, I fucking like, yo, send it to me before you post it.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I wanna hear that shit.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_04: Like, that's cool, man.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, do you think like uh podcasts can influence how how much of an influence do podcasts have on the people that listen, that listen to it?
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_04: To my music or listen to your music, listen to well, I guess podcasts.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_04: Like, how much of an influence do you think podcasts in general or your podcasts has an influence on the people who listen to it?
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_02: I think podcasting has changed a lot lately, as of probably like a year or two.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, you got people doing like big deals now, like before people weren't really like paying attention to pods, you know what I'm saying?
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like, Joe Budden put out like a fuck ton of pods on SoundCloud, you know what I'm saying?
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like I was listening to that, I would watch them on YouTube, and then like deals started coming up for them.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, Spotify deals, like I don't know if you'd like podcasts on Netflix now, you know what I'm saying?
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_02: It's like everywhere, commercialized, right?
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_04: Man, I was in Walmart, bro.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_04: Walmart has a freaking podcast.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_04: Word.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_04: I was in Walmart, dude, with my kid with my kid, shopping for a toy for them.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_04: Uh tune in to the Walmart podcast.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know what that is.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's about what it's like dropping prices.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_04: Dropping prices, or like uh yeah, uh for the big dudes that wear 42s, they never have your size word, word.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to shout out to Walmart not being 24 hours anymore, dog.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_04: Ah man, come on, bro.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_02: I used to love that, dog.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: Just waking up, I mean not waking up, but like going to Walmart at 3 a.m.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_02: Nobody in there, like just getting some shopping done.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, bro.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: That was a shit, dog.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_02: Now it's like, fuck, we gotta make it by 11.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_04: Make sure you have a list already.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, shout out to COVID.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, shout out to COVID.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_04: Fucked all that.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_04: That's what's up, man.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_02: But I I mean, podcasts, I feel like it has a lot to do with everything now.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like music, movies, yeah, actors have pods now.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_02: Rappers, so many rappers have pods now.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_04: Like, and it's like I don't know, I I guess I guess what comes to my mind is like how do you stick out or how do you stand out if you're trying to stand out?
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_04: Uh you know, I guess that's why I did like that's why I started local, bro.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_04: Word to be honest, word uh because the world is huge, man, and you try to reach everybody, that's gonna be hard, dude.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so and I and I was talking about this earlier, like start where you're I start wanted to start where I was at because if I can influence the people that I'm around, then I can start uh consider it consider growing past the corpus.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: Word, word you know what I mean?
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah, man.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of corpus, bro, how has uh so what's the hip hop scene to you?
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_04: What's it been like?
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_04: Uh the well, let me see.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh you worked with El Dusty on various local legends and various local legends.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Dusty.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out Dusty, man.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out uh what is one thing outsiders don't understand about the Corpus Christi uh creative community?
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like when you think about Corpus, you think of course Selena, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_02: You think of Gumiakings, you and which is dope, like they fucking they made the path, you know what I'm saying, for Corpus to be what it is.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_02: But at the same time, like it's the music now It's it's just like it's it's it's it's it's its own identity now, like because you know you got like metal bands, you got fucking Chris 56, he does like the alternative.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, he like it's it everybody has their own thing, and it it it's like Corpus is starting to like how would I say it?
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, when you think of music and you think of like industry Texas rap, you think of Houston.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yes, because of all those Houston artists that blew up.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like Corpus is its own sound and it has its own sound now, you know what I'm saying?
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_02: Before it was like, oh, y'all just some teanos down there, you know what I'm saying?
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_02: That y'all some Mexicans that just listen to Tejano, like and the Mexican rap.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, I'm Hispanic, I'm Mexican, yeah, but I never wanted to be a Mexican rapper, you know what I'm saying?
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_02: Like your you know, your SPMs and like that.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's it's it's a different tone, it's a different genre, you know what I'm saying?
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_02: I never wanted to be held down as a Mexican rapper.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, I I just wanted to be a fucking rapper, you know what I'm saying?
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like, so like to put out music and to have my own sound and for like you know the city to grow on it.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody has their own little lane, you know what I'm saying?
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_02: And it's it's it's dope, dog.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like, Corpus is blown up big time.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like, that's also a lot of dope artists out of here.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, there's a lot of like TikTok rappers, like, you know, I don't know if you heard of the those dudes.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, not okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, with the whistling and whatever.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I gotta recognize it.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, they're dope.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to them, like they're super dope.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_02: But like, it was like they came and they're gone.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like, where like I see that dude in the streets like Damn bro, that's interesting.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_04: It makes me think about movies and how Hispanics are portrayed a certain way, either like the cleaner or the or the coaster or this.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_04: Definitely, you know what I mean?
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I mean, like I said, I grew up in a Mexican family, so it was always about hard work.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, no shade on it.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_02: If you're not gonna go to school, if you're not gonna do this, you're gonna work, right?
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_02: And like I've always worked with my hands, carpentry, oil field, you know what I'm saying, shit like that.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like it's what we had to do.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_02: Like, as Mexicans, we are hard workers, you know what I'm saying?
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, dude, for real, man.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_04: Like, damn.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_04: If we and it's like too, I feel like we transfer that discipline over to our creativeness.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely, definitely.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_04: Like, like you and your raps, me with podcasting, you know, whatever I do.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it's like, dude, why wouldn't we be good at it if we have that type of work ethic?
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_04: And how come how come we can't have the light shot shone on that?
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_04: I don't like that either.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_04: Like, oh, they're just the Mexic, they're just Mexicans.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_04: It sucks to be put in that category, bro.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_02: It does.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's crazy.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_02: Like, that's when you like when I see out of towners and they come to the bar, like, shout out to okay hi-fi, yeah, they're like, oh, Selena, I want to go see the Selena statue, you know what I'm saying?
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_02: Which is dope, but like there's way more in Corpus.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, there's way more to that than fucking.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_04: You know, and you know what I don't what I don't like, or something that that kind of pet my pet peeve is like, oh, you sound like the guy from New York, bro.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_04: Why are you rapping the boomer?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like seeing that's that's a funny thing in itself because like I always wanted that, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I say it in my rhymes, like showing my corpus, but I got a Brooklyn flow, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like so my homies, they were super into like Texas rap, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: And I would bring over like dipset CDs, I'll bring over Big L, Big E, and shit like that.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like, yo, what's this?
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like, why are you listening to this?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm saying?
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_04: So that wow, that's interesting, bro.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_04: I never would have thought of well, I guess I guess I can now think of that, but there was friction between, you know, I guess California, New York music, right, right, Texas music.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_04: So like I guess you can say the purists, the there would be purists, like, oh, only Houston stuff or only Texas stuff.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_04: I don't mess with that.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, because there's still Houston artists that still rap like Houston artists, right?
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_02: And then there's like you got your like Travis Scott that like completely different, right?
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like he made his own lane, but he's from Houston, so you can't really like yeah, is he like a Houston?
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_02: Don't put him in a box, bro.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_02: I don't want like that's how I feel.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like Corpus is like, I don't want to be in that box.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_02: I want to be Magnus.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yo, Magnus drops dope shit, he has dope beats, his fucking content is dope.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_02: Dope.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: He's not your regular corpus entity, you know what I'm saying?
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_04: So how do you think how do you think we can like flip that like into what you're saying instead of just oh there's there's a Selena rappers, you know what I mean?
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_04: How do we like can we like change like how do we change that?
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_02: Honestly, I think we're kind of getting there.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_02: Like, okay, okay.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like the city, like everybody's starting to like show love to everybody.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like Corp.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, if you know Corpus is full of hate.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, oh this dude can't rap, like he can't rap better than me, type shit, you know what I'm saying?
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_02: And like lately, it's like everybody's like, yo, I got dudes that hit me up, they're like, yo, let's get on joint.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: Like, all right, cool, let's do it.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_04: Like, so yeah, so it seems like you're saying that collaboration, right, right, and not, I guess, not a scarcity mindset, right?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_04: Abundance mindset, I'm I'm guessing, would help help that to help us to be more seen more as actual creative artists and rather just than just oh the Mexican rappers.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's interesting.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_02: Because there's still Mexican rappers here, for sure.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, yeah, no, no shade on them for sure.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_02: It's like everybody has their own lane, dog, and it's you know if that's your style, that's your style, right?
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, exactly.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: And like I said, I've like I've always been into New York, I've always been in the like, you know, heavy in that culture.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like we're all fucking wearing fucking wallet chains because of Jim Jones.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_04: It was like Yeah, I was hearing that name on the episode 51, Jim Jones.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, he's so he's a rat, he's a hip hop artist, right?
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's he's a he's originally from Dipset, which is Cameron, Jouel Santana, and Jim Jones, Freaky Zeke.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_02: They're like they were big in New York, you know what I'm saying?
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure they were doing what they're doing in New York, what we were doing down here.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, but because New York is so it's bigger, you know what I'm saying?
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_02: So like it was it's kind of hard to make it out of here if you don't have the right connections, if you don't have the right, you know what I'm saying?
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like it's just everybody's different, dog.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody likes different shit.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_02: I've always been into the East Coast shit.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_02: I never fucked with West Coast rap till this day.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like I fuck with Kendrick, you know, he's he's a little different.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, he's not really West Coast, he kind of like is it the music or like the the It's the beats, honestly?
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't like I don't like the West Coast beats.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I really love that boom bap stuff, bro.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_02: The homies were like super into Tupac, I would trash it.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like I was like, I don't want to hear that shit.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I still to this day, like I'm not a Tupac fan.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: And I mean, not to say that he's not great or he wasn't great, he's a super great lyricist.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just not into it, you know what I'm saying?
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you the music you you had come out with is real chill, bro.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, real chill.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_04: The the BPM is real slow.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_04: Most of them that's that's that's those are the joints that I really like.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I like the big dude joints, man.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I've started to notice that, like, Big X.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_04: Even some of Biggie's stuff is pretty cool to me.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_04: Like, so just the way he raps, because he's got that big dude energy, and I'm a big dude, you know what I mean?
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_02: We'll you know, we're big dudes, yeah.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_04: And like I can feel I can feel that stuff, like whenever I'm listening to it, like, oh shoot, definitely can relate.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_04: That's pretty cool, man.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_04: So, what do you see the the corpus uh the corpus scene headed or uh I guess I mean I'd like to see Corpus blow up industry-wise, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like, not to say that that's not happening already, but I want people to hear Corpus and see Corpus and be like, oh, that's Corpus.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: Like, just the same way that they dipset is fucking East Coast, Tupac and is West Coast, yeah.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_02: Like, we're down south, but we're still fucking dope.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like still holding it down.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_02: This is like the city has like its own shell, you know what I'm saying?
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like everybody in it, everybody underneath it is like putting out dope shit.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I would like, I mean, there's artists from here that blew up.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I mean, I can't even lie, like shout out to Vino.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you heard Vino, he's uh he's from the South Side, and he like hooked up with Benny the Butcher, he's from which is from uh Buffalo, New York.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, hooked up with Benny the Butcher before Griselda blew up, you know what I'm saying?
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't I mean he paid for a feature, I don't know what the situation was.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, but Vino's always had that East Coast flow, also.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_02: So like when he hooked up with Benny, people were like, yo, how did he do that?
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_02: Bro, has a black soprano chain like signed to the label, like you know what I'm saying?
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's a lot of dope shit.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_02: Like Drojo.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you know Dropy.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_02: No, he's I think he's from the valley, he's in and out of corpus and shit, but he like on a fucking industry scale, he's like, he's out there, you know what I'm saying?
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_05: Like, dang.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of dope artists here.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_02: We just need that light, you know what I'm saying?
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: And I feel like it's starting to shine on us.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_02: Like that's cool, it's starting to come around.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_04: So, like, how how much of an influence, let me check see how much time we got, bro.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_04: Hop comment.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_04: So, how much of an influence do you think uh I guess social media bigger?
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_04: Well, it seems like big, big.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so we need to do more of that.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_02: I would say, I mean, I like you know what I'm saying?
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_02: I try to do it, and I'm I'm all for it.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_02: I praise the the social media shit, the shenanigans, but at the same time, I feel like some of it's corny, dog.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, I don't want to be known as a TikTok rapper, yeah, from Corpus.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I want to be like, yo, Magus is dope.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_02: Magnus puts out dope shit, you know what I'm saying?
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_04: Bro, it sucks because it seems like to in order to make it quote unquote, your stuff has to suck.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that's funny that you say that because that's hella true, dog.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like dude, like the shit that pops off is like jokes, you know, like joke rap.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_04: Like exactly, bro.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_04: I was talking with uh another buddy of mine, his industry, he was like, my industry, we're basically the the good stuff is turning into the jazz music, okay, which is like the most skillful music that you can play, but who listens to jazz?
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I sample the fuck out of jazz.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_04: Dude, hell yeah, I'm all for that.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_04: I love jazz.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like, social media is big now, dog.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_02: And it didn't used to be like that.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_02: It used to be we were selling CDs out the trunk, you know what I'm saying?
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like, we were it was more face to face, like, yo, I rap, check out my music.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, here's a free CD.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_02: If you like it, hit me.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_02: Now it's like follow me.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so yeah, yeah, for sure, man.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_04: That's an interesting point.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_04: Do you feel like these TikTok rappers or even the modern era is personable?
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_04: Do they share about their life and about themselves?
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_04: And should they?
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like they should.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_02: But a lot don't.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of just like.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, to blow, like, to blow up on TikTok, all it takes is one video.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like one skyrocket you, everybody checking you out, gaining hella followers.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_02: But for the most part, the content is like watered down, dog.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's it's not where it needs to be.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_02: And at the same time, I feel like some of it's corny, dog.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, I'm not up for it.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_05: Like, yeah.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_02: That's why I say, like, I don't really like.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I try, not to say that I don't try, but like, I'm not like posting a video every day or like as I should in order to get there.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_02: But like it's kind of like, yo, if you want to check me out, check me out.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna do it regardless.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, too.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yeah, and then like I guess a lot of us creatives actually make our own money aside from that.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like, yeah.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I really don't have to, but something inside me I tells me that I want to.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_04: Word, like this.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like, I'm not, I don't have to do this.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_04: I could just do my nine to five, my, you know, my truck driving job, not even do this, bro.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_04: Word be good.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_02: Word.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_02: And that's I mean, that's the that's the life side of things, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like, it's like, do we need to blow up?
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_02: No, do we want to blow up?
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, it'd be dope.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_02: It'd be dope to quit my job and just rap, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I mean, I I also feel like I'm not really like pushing it, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_04: I should, like, but yeah, dude, yeah, no, your rhymes are definitely dope for sure, man.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, a lot of it is like, I don't know.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_04: I want to ask, like, is a lot of it like true?
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_04: A lot of the stuff that you said.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, for sure, for sure.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm heavy, I'm heavy on it being real, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I think that's what makes it makes it makes it good, bro.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_02: Word, word.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I feel like that's what that's what gives me the credibility as an artist to be who I am and to be like people see me and they're like, yo, this dude's hard.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_02: They meet me in person, they're like, yo, he's he's living it like he looks like who he says he is, exactly.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and I like that, like that's the realism, the relatability, it should always be in the music.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, if you hear my rhymes, yes.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_02: Allegedly, let's just say allegedly, the shit's real.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, it's just bro, did that tattoo on your on the palm of your?
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, for sure.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, dog, shout out to um brother wolf and around this past.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_02: Dog, I rode up there on the one with hurt, it seemed like that.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_02: I rode up there on my chopper, fucking got there, got tatted, put my gloves on, rolled back.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Brother Wolf.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, no, I mean, it didn't really hurt.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you I saw it, I was like, damn, that looks like hurt.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_04: Because I got a couple right here.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_03: I got a and like inside is like, ooh.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_02: I got like a big old Magneto right here on my chest.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_02: No, he's hurt, yeah.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_02: Oh damn.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_02: Like I live this Magneto shit.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like this, there's nothing.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_04: What do you like about Magneto, bro?
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like, he's he's the biggest villain, dog.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's like the best villain.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_02: He's the he's the boss villain, you know what I'm saying?
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_02: Like everybody, if you go back to the shows in the 90s, like Magneto was a big he was the predecessor to fucking Xavier, you know what I'm saying?
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like, and I just I just I love the evil part of it, you know.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_02: I always like I want to be the bad guy, you know what I'm saying?
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_02: So like I guess you could say I'm the bad guy.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's all good, man.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's been a good conversation, bro.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, you got any any uh any milestones you want to reach or it's just take it day by day.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_04: Like, how do you how do you look at the future?
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_04: How does Magnus look at the future?
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna keep dropping joints, dog.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm I'm gonna keep weekly.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_02: I try to put out at least like two joints, and it's based on my life.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_02: So like if you don't know me, listen to my music, get to know me.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I probably never stop.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna keep fucking I'm gonna keep putting out music.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_02: I got fucking some shit working with Dusty.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_02: I got some shit brewing with a couple of dope artists, dope producers that like send me shit, and like, you know, it's I'm gonna keep putting shit out regardless.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_04: You sound like real humble about it, like, because Dusty's name is big, bro.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody knows that Dusty's big.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_04: Huge.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_04: And the way you're driving, you're like, yeah, Dusty here.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I don't know.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_04: Which is good though, bro.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_02: I don't mean to I don't mean to sound like that, but like at the same time, like that's that's that's what that's who I am.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm laid back.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, bro.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_02: And Dusty seems like the person too that like he he works with who he wants to work with.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_02: Word, word.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_02: Dusty's like, he's done a lot, dog.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I've known Dusty for over 20 years, from when they just had this corner store, you know what I'm saying?
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_02: Selling fucking clothes, selling figures, amazing, doing fucking Friday parties there, and it's just like, bro, what he has now is what everybody dreams of, you know what I'm saying?
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_02: Like what he's done for the city, and like shit.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_02: Like, bro, shout out to Dusty big time.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Produce, shout out to OK Hi-Five, all that that whole block over there on People Street.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm always there, come see me.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I might let you in.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, indeed, man.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, uh, so what uh last last thing, closing thought, bro.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, what is one piece of advice for a local creator uh struggling to find their own lane in a city in Corpus Christi?
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_02: Don't stop.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_02: Don't stop.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean, people are gonna say you're whack, people are gonna say, yo, you know, it's not good.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_02: But like, if it's in your heart, if it's your passion, if you love the shit for music, if you love it for putting out content, if you love it for you just want to get famous, don't stop.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you always want to keep going, just keep moving forward, dog.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_02: Never look back, never look, you know what I'm saying.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, you gotta check your rear view for the cops and shit, but like you always want to just keep progressing, you always want to keep getting better.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_02: And like I've been fucking rapping for 10 plus years, you know what I'm saying?
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_02: And I still don't feel like I'm great.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I know I'm great, but I don't feel like I'm at where I need to be.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I could I mean I could go in the studio.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_02: If I was in the studio with let's say a Jay-Z, like, man, I'll rap him.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and that's just a type of attitude.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_02: Right, you know what I'm saying?
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you gotta have that.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta have you gotta be yourself and you gotta lock in, dog.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta like know that what you are and what you're gonna present to the to the fans and to everybody, like, be true to yourself, dog.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_02: Just don't stop, you know what I'm saying?
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_02: Just keep going.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so man, that's interesting, bro.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I wanted to end on that thought, man.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_04: But I have another question on that, dude.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_04: How do you find yourself?
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_04: Like, because a lot of people I say, like, I feel like like I'm in my 30s, bro.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_04: I just finding out, like, oh, this is who I am, this is how I how I am.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_04: Is it a certain life event that happens to you?
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_04: Like, okay, now I'm gonna figure out who I am, or is it just like be you without caring that what people are thinking?
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like since since day one, I've always been me.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like, ask anybody that knows me, anybody that's been around, friends, old friends, they know Magnus is always gonna be Magnus.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_02: And it's just like whether you like it or not, like you just you just have to like it, throw it back.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_02: If you like it.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly, exactly.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you just it's just part of the game, dog.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you just you just gotta be yourself, dog.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_04: On the cool amazing attitude, man.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_04: Love that, bro.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Magnus, thanks for coming through, bro.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_04: For sure, for sure.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_04: For sure.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_04: It's cool nice getting getting to know you a little bit more, man.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_04: So maybe we'll have you on the Marauders.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_04: Hey man, come on, bro.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_04: I'm I'm I'm up for it, man.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_02: We don't, I mean, we do like kind of we're not really a guest pod, but it'd be dope.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_04: It'd be dope to have Jesus on there.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no, bro.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, dude, for sure, man.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_04: I'm up for it, man.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm like, and I've been wanting to put a post, like, hey, can I get on somebody's podcast?
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'll talk to SO.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_04: No, but yeah, but yeah, that'd be cool, man.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, another, yeah, yeah.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_04: So, anyways, yeah, thanks a lot, you guys, for watching, uh, for listening.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_04: How did we find you, bro?
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_04: Magnus, right?
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_04: M-A-G-M.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_02: Magnus.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_02: M-A-G-N-U-5, the five is a S.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_02: Magnus.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on everything.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on Instagram, I'm on TikTok.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_02: It's uh T underscore Magnus.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on Spotify, I'm on YouTube, I'm on fucking Apple Music, everywhere.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_02: M A G N U 5.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_02: Look me up.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_02: I fuck with you if you fuck with me.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_02: If not, I still fuck with you.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir, yes, sir.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_04: Indeed.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_04: Well, we'll see you guys later.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_04: Check you later.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot again.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, have a good one, y'all.