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#14 - Dizzy Wright & Demrick · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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Speaker 1: About to get into episode number fourteen. That's right, number fourteen.
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Speaker 1: Dope episode today with the good homies Demrick and Dizneywright,
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Speaker 1: today's episode, Dizzy Riding Demrick. I've been knowing Disney Right
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Speaker 1: since he was Dizzy d Flashy in Vegas before he
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Speaker 1: was on Funk Volume. I met Dizzy Right for the
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Speaker 1: first time at a talent show at Chic Shoes at
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Speaker 1: the Boulevard Mall in Las Vegas, and you know, me
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Speaker 1: and him have had a great relationship over the years.
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Speaker 1: I'm been a big supporter from his from the jump
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Speaker 1: and I'm happy to talk to him and of course
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Speaker 1: my guy Demrick, who's been doing his thing. That guy's
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Speaker 1: like a utility knife man. He's he's always working, you know,
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Speaker 1: doing serial killer projects on the road would be real.
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Speaker 1: Doing stuff with Dizzy, doing his solo stuff, doing this
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Speaker 1: stuff with DJ Hoppins Stony Point. So we have a
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Speaker 1: nice discussion with Disney riding Demrick Episode number fourteen of
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Speaker 1: the Boutlet Cap Podcast. Let's get into it Buelet Cap Podcast.
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Speaker 1: We got two special guests. This is the first time
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Speaker 1: we've had multiple guests on the Bootleg Cap podcast. Two
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Speaker 1: close friends of mine. They just got an incredible body
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Speaker 1: of work that they dropped was it last month? Almost
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Speaker 1: two months ago? Now? Right? Men in June? Right? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: blaze with us too, Denrick, Let's get that Mike a
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Speaker 1: little closer to your mouth. Okay, cool, anyway, what's up guys,
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Speaker 1: piece bro whatever, Bro, thank you for having us of course. Man,
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Speaker 1: you guys are fam I was telling Demrik this the
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Speaker 1: other day, like, this is a great body of work.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, bro. Yeah. Thanks. Now you guys went through
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Speaker 1: Smokers Club. Shout out to the homie Johnny shipes like
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Speaker 1: that was kind of I know that that's kind of
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Speaker 1: like a new offshoot of like what cinematic does. What
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Speaker 1: is like what was the motivation behind like working with
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Speaker 1: Smokers Club for this project, besides the fact that both
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Speaker 1: of you guys are degenerate stoner's Well, I've been a
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Speaker 1: fan of Smokers Club for a long time. I always
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Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of their festivals. But I
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Speaker 1: had great tours and shit, yeh had a bunch of
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Speaker 1: things going on back in the day. And when I
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Speaker 1: found out that they wanted to start releasing music, I
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Speaker 1: thought it would be dope to just kind of mix
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Speaker 1: what we got going on with what they got going on,
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Speaker 1: because down on the East coast, right here on the
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Speaker 1: West coast, so we thought it could be a dope, man.
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Speaker 1: And then you guys creatively, I mean when you when
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Speaker 1: you broke away from Funk Volume, or when everyone broke
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Speaker 1: away from Funk Volume rather and you started still moving
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Speaker 1: Demrick was, I want to say, the first artist you announced, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: as a part of the crew. What is like your guys' relationship,
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Speaker 1: your guys' friendship. You guys have made so much music together.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of fans just automatically associate you
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Speaker 1: guys together, like it's got to be super easy to
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Speaker 1: just like knock Out a project, right, It's just like
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Speaker 1: probably natural. Like I feel like we tore. We spent
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Speaker 1: a lot of time like out on the road together,
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Speaker 1: and we just kind of picked up the habit of
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Speaker 1: just you know, getting off the tour bus on days
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Speaker 1: off and renting studios so we can smoke and chill
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Speaker 1: and make music. And I feel like once we got
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Speaker 1: into the studios and we started making music, we like,
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Speaker 1: first off, this shit is fire and it's really easy
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Speaker 1: to create facts that's fair. It's almost like I got
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Speaker 1: the vibe of like Method Man, Red Men, Blackout, like
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Speaker 1: the new era of that with this, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like it just had that energy, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, That's the vibe he was going for. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, so if Funk Volume was still going, I
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Speaker 1: was trying to get Demrick signed the Fun Volume, So
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Speaker 1: that's kind of like one of the last things that
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Speaker 1: I was trying to do before the label dismantled. So
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Speaker 1: you know, just going over into still Moving was it
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Speaker 1: was kind of already happened in that way, So the
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Speaker 1: vibe was already there. We was already vibing off of
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Speaker 1: each other, So being able to bring it back for
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Speaker 1: a second time. That's just purely being on the road,
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Speaker 1: being inspired, looking at how the fans were responding to
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Speaker 1: the first one. Man, it's been four years, maybe we
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Speaker 1: could give them another one, you know, And that's kind
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Speaker 1: of that's kind of the motivation I wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: to you guys about, like each one of you guys
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Speaker 1: have storied independent careers like Demrick. Obviously, I think the
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Speaker 1: first time I met you, you were b Real's hype man.
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Speaker 1: This was like an O nine in Boise, Idaho. I
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Speaker 1: think I think Busybone was supposed to be on the show,
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Speaker 1: but he was super late. Yeah, and he ended up
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Speaker 1: not showing up. Yeah, by the way, wild Busybone story
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Speaker 1: to share with you about that night because I ended
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Speaker 1: up having to pick up for the airport later and
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Speaker 1: we did like a little offshoot like show across the street.
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Speaker 1: It was. That guy's interesting to say the least. But
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Speaker 1: obviously you have a storied independent career. Dizzy, Like I
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Speaker 1: remember being in Vegas and when you were Dizzy, d flashy,
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Speaker 1: and you know you kind of had like the youth
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Speaker 1: like turned up in Vegas and you know, then you
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Speaker 1: transitioning from that to dizzy ride and doing smokeout conversations
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Speaker 1: and your funk volume run. How how are you guys
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Speaker 1: able to like sustain what's going on with the COVID shit,
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Speaker 1: not being able to go on the road, Like, what
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Speaker 1: are some of the ways you guys are are are
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Speaker 1: are are I guess innovating to kind of keep keep
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Speaker 1: bread coming in on the music shit? Because I feel
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Speaker 1: like a lot of people who don't, who are artists
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Speaker 1: who might not necessarily have be the smartest with their money,
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Speaker 1: probably are like having a rough time right now because
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Speaker 1: you know a lot of artists depend on that bag.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying to hit you know the back.
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Speaker 1: If you've burned through the bag and and you was
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Speaker 1: you was planning on other tours coming right up, you
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Speaker 1: might be in a bad spot right now. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But I think for me, it's
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Speaker 1: just about getting consistent. You know. It's as far as
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Speaker 1: like always going you know, doing a project and going
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Speaker 1: out on the road, doing two tours and then coming
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Speaker 1: back and getting something else together and just kind of
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Speaker 1: like keeping the process going. You know. I realized that
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Speaker 1: the battles really won in the studio, so it's about
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Speaker 1: locking into the studio and seeing what I could create
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Speaker 1: there now that I have more time on my hands,
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Speaker 1: you know, to just take out take away the road shit,
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Speaker 1: double up, double down. Like, obviously you got your story
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Speaker 1: that's going, like you got a lot of other shit
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Speaker 1: going on. But like, I do feel like you've you've
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Speaker 1: done a really good job of like navigating the indie
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Speaker 1: game throughout your career and even like since the Funk
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Speaker 1: volume shit kind of went away, because I know that
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Speaker 1: was still independent per se, but like I feel like
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Speaker 1: you've done a great job of like building like monetizing
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Speaker 1: your brand independently since since that had kind of gone away,
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, what are the things
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Speaker 1: that you would kind of give pointers to artists who
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Speaker 1: are watching this like it even fuck the COVID shit
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Speaker 1: put that to the side, just like being independent, Like,
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Speaker 1: what are the things you think that that you might
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Speaker 1: might might see other artists making mistakes with that you
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Speaker 1: might have learned from, even mistakes that you might have
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Speaker 1: made that you learned from. Yeah, one hundred percent. Actually,
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Speaker 1: me and Demmock had a conversation last night that kind
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Speaker 1: of like relates to this question a little bit, And
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Speaker 1: it's like having a balance of knowing when you're doing
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Speaker 1: something for your soul and knowing when you're doing something
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Speaker 1: for the bag. You know, and all the bags ain't
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Speaker 1: worth going to get. All the bags ain't gonna be
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Speaker 1: good for your soul, and some of the things that's
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Speaker 1: good for your soul ain't gonna give you a really
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Speaker 1: good bag. So you got to have that balance on
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Speaker 1: being able to figure out, you know, what keeps you going,
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Speaker 1: what keeps you driving, like what keeps the wheels turning?
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Speaker 1: Really and for me, it's always, you know, of course,
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Speaker 1: creating music. I'm always playing the head, so I'm always
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Speaker 1: That's the one thing that COVID shit kind of did
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Speaker 1: to me. It kind of prevented me from being able
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Speaker 1: to plan ahead, which I wasn't. I haven't been used
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Speaker 1: to that ever since I got in the game and
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Speaker 1: I've been navigating. I'm always thinking three steps ahead, you know,
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Speaker 1: so I'm never running into that time period and kind
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Speaker 1: of looking around and figuring out like what I need
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Speaker 1: to do, but more just like you know, having a
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Speaker 1: plan in play, so when I get there, you know,
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Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm doing. So for me, it's
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Speaker 1: just really about like creating the music side of things
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Speaker 1: and utilizing this time to work with different artists and
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Speaker 1: be inspired by different artists. And you know, we're all
9:38
Speaker 1: on different levels, so it could be somebody bigger that
9:40
Speaker 1: can inspire you, somebody smaller that can inspire you, but
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Speaker 1: you know, figuring out that hunger, finding that hunger and
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Speaker 1: running with it. I wanted to ask you, Dizzy, because
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Speaker 1: you had like a there was a stretch right where
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Speaker 1: you were on the Freshman cover and the funk volume
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Speaker 1: shit seemed to be doing very well because the Warner
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Speaker 1: situation had happened, and your album I think you were
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Speaker 1: the only Were you the only person who ended up
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Speaker 1: putting the album outrough Warner officially or did one of
10:05
Speaker 1: Hobson's album come up? I think one came Yeah. And
10:09
Speaker 1: by the way, Warner dropped the ball on your album
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Speaker 1: because I remember I couldn't find it the best buy
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Speaker 1: they did. I was trying to go by like buy
10:15
Speaker 1: our best buy, and I was like, bro, what the
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Speaker 1: fuck they did? Hitting b Yeah. The coldest part is
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Speaker 1: that they told me that it was going to be
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Speaker 1: a real rollout, like it was gonna be in I
10:27
Speaker 1: wouldn't even have told people they could get it at
10:29
Speaker 1: best Buy if you know, they didn't gass me up.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it's just trials and tribulations. I wanted
10:33
Speaker 1: to ask you, man, because like I feel like there
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Speaker 1: was there's you know, you were I remember I think
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Speaker 1: the I want to say, the last time I might
10:43
Speaker 1: have saw you live was with Logic in Orlando. Whatever
10:50
Speaker 1: tour that was, Whatever Logic tour that was. Was that
10:52
Speaker 1: for a second album? I think under pressures for his
10:55
Speaker 1: first album. Yeah, but I'm curious, Like, no, U incredible
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Speaker 1: it was the truth story, yeah, in incredible truth. But
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Speaker 1: I'm curious, man, because like you've obviously done records with
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Speaker 1: some of the biggest artists in the world, and like
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Speaker 1: with the Funk Volume thing imploding and then you having
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Speaker 1: to kind of figure this out for yourself moving forward.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you could have at that point in time
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Speaker 1: probably gotten a deal if you wanted one, and did
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Speaker 1: the major label thing, which would have been new to
11:24
Speaker 1: you kind of right, but you decided to kind of
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Speaker 1: just hunker down and stick to the independent shit. Like
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Speaker 1: why why that as opposed to you know, trying to
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Speaker 1: go get a deal with Atlantic or whoever the fuck? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because I like, I don't have that. Sometimes I feel
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Speaker 1: like I don't have the same desires as some of
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Speaker 1: these other artists, Like I don't really want it all
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Speaker 1: too fast. Getting it all too fast kind of makes
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Speaker 1: me nervous. I grew up with the bare minimum, so
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Speaker 1: I feel like I know how to maneuver off of
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Speaker 1: what feels to me like a lot right now. Even
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Speaker 1: in the independent game, I feel like the love of
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Speaker 1: the traveling to being able to create the music, it's
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Speaker 1: what I want to do, being able to work with
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Speaker 1: different artists, and like having a range, a wide range
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Speaker 1: of like sounds that I can tap in with different people.
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Speaker 1: And I just feel like this is what I want it.
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Speaker 1: You know, it don't It's not as glamorous from the
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Speaker 1: outside looking then, But you know, I make good money,
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Speaker 1: I own my masters, you know. I'm intact with my soul,
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Speaker 1: my spirit, you know, and I do what I want.
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Speaker 1: You know. I can move in my own pace, Like
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Speaker 1: if something is something don't feel right, I could pull
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Speaker 1: the plug, you know. But I can also take chances,
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Speaker 1: you know, I can, Like I like being in control
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Speaker 1: of when I can when I want to, like maybe
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Speaker 1: take a chance, go out on the edge. A little
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Speaker 1: bit and just that kind of like slow paced grind.
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Speaker 1: So I've always been I guess like content bro with
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Speaker 1: being independent and watching it grow slowly and just every
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Speaker 1: year is something new, whether it's the strains getting more strained,
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Speaker 1: or it's the store and people coming out to the store.
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Speaker 1: I just see like if you just slowly keep pushing
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Speaker 1: at something, she would just keep unfolding. You know. I
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Speaker 1: was gonna say, like everyone has their own success is
13:14
Speaker 1: and always we look at this music industry and it's
13:17
Speaker 1: so superficial, right. It's like people will look at you
13:21
Speaker 1: and be like, ah, man, like, well you ain't. You
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Speaker 1: ain't doing what this person's doing and this person's doing.
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Speaker 1: But I think success for everyone and happiness is subjective.
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Speaker 1: You don't absolutely for a fact. And if you think
13:35
Speaker 1: about it, a lot of the stuff with some of
13:37
Speaker 1: these you know, some artists that are signed, you know,
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Speaker 1: it don't when the curtain closed, it look a lot
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Speaker 1: different backstage and it looks in front of stage, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so it's it's like whatever you feel comfortable with,
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Speaker 1: do you always Sometimes those people don't have the right
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Speaker 1: control something. A lot of times they don't have the money,
13:57
Speaker 1: you know, you're taking money. You owe people a lot
13:59
Speaker 1: of money. You know, the stakes are higher, you know,
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Speaker 1: so everybody's in your business trying to tell you what
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Speaker 1: to do and what not to do. And it just
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Speaker 1: depends on how you want to do this music thing.
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Speaker 1: You know. The cool shit is like you able to
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Speaker 1: do it. It's big enough. The pool is big enough
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Speaker 1: for people to do it every which way to get
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Speaker 1: to it. And at the end of the day, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's your legacy you leave them behind. And how many
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Speaker 1: people you're gonna have involved with it? Yeah? Demmrick like you,
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Speaker 1: you've been around some of the more legendary I mean
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Speaker 1: obviously Cypress Hill, you know, Exhibit, serial Killer, Shit Dizzy
14:34
Speaker 1: and shout out TDJ Hopper too. Man. I feel like
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Speaker 1: every time I see Diszey, I usually se DJ Hopper right,
14:42
Speaker 1: shout out to hop Man. Just put a new album
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Speaker 1: out too, hop in Friends part too, So go support
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Speaker 1: that man. That's the homie right there. But what I mean, shit,
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Speaker 1: you were just telling me like serial Killers Force coming, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: fourth project man with dudes that I you know, shout
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Speaker 1: out Exhibit and be Real. It's like I just remember
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Speaker 1: wanting to rap for be real and just wanted to
15:04
Speaker 1: just get into I was hoping that maybe I could
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Speaker 1: get into the studio with him and and do some
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Speaker 1: songs with him, to being on tour with them, to
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Speaker 1: travel into even tapping into uh, introducing me to the
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Speaker 1: songwriting or the or the touring and and all of
15:19
Speaker 1: that type of stuff, and then actually being able to
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Speaker 1: loop it all the way around to being in a
15:23
Speaker 1: group with them and four projects later. That's crazy. It's
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Speaker 1: crazy who you said, but the four like you a
15:29
Speaker 1: doctor Dre might be touching something on the project. I mean,
15:32
Speaker 1: you know, I we'll let that unfold when it when
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Speaker 1: it folks. But I'll tell you this, maybe twisting some knobs.
15:38
Speaker 1: You know, we shall we shall, we shall see. But
15:41
Speaker 1: uh but ship shout out busting rhymes, he on there,
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Speaker 1: shout out, Uh. Snoop he on there and DJ Quicks
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Speaker 1: on the record, you know, and obvious that's big. It's
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Speaker 1: crazy for me, you know, it's like get being on
15:54
Speaker 1: the even just being on a record with Snoop and
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Speaker 1: Quick and Bust. I'm like, damn, I'm riding you see,
16:00
Speaker 1: I'm going bar and bar with bus to bus. You know,
16:02
Speaker 1: if it feels good. You know, one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: guests versus or guest sogs you ever are? You were
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Speaker 1: on the Faded record with Berner and be Real right now,
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Speaker 1: I was on, I was on I wasn't on that one. No,
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Speaker 1: you were on another one on that same album though,
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Speaker 1: uh was a patron Patrol. I was gonna say Perks
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Speaker 1: and Patrol, Zanex and Patron. Yeah, Yo, But like, what
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Speaker 1: are some things that you've learned from being around be Real?
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Speaker 1: Being around Exhibit because a lot of people don't know
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Speaker 1: man exhibits. Like a lot of people be like, well,
16:30
Speaker 1: what happened to Exhibit? But like Exhibit is a boss
16:33
Speaker 1: on some other ship. He got his alcohol shit and
16:36
Speaker 1: his weed shit is out of here, like, and he
16:39
Speaker 1: definitely did the movies and the television and just shot
16:42
Speaker 1: the Triple X State whatever Triple X he was in
16:45
Speaker 1: with all of these Cube State of the Union. I
16:47
Speaker 1: definitely learned a lot from him, just on how to
16:49
Speaker 1: like move through the game and just you gotta be
16:52
Speaker 1: confident and get into it. And he's you know, both
16:56
Speaker 1: him and be Real also taught me about diversifying and
16:59
Speaker 1: having multiple different things and even Dizzy Dizzey's killing it.
17:02
Speaker 1: By the way, we're gonna get to the guy damn
17:03
Speaker 1: the dizzy o G. Yeah, well shit, you know, shout out,
17:06
Speaker 1: shout out gas Cod because I got Demrix Gaslado and Demricks,
17:09
Speaker 1: Mac Tonight and Cushco. We got Stony Point with Hapa
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Speaker 1: selling and the stores in Vegas. So it's like diversifying
17:17
Speaker 1: and tapping into these different uh, just these different markets
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Speaker 1: that are natural to what you do. What you do
17:24
Speaker 1: is is a big part of it. It's like, I've
17:27
Speaker 1: been doing this shit already for a long time, so
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Speaker 1: it's just about doing it on on the next level
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Speaker 1: and trying to make sure that now you're putting a
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Speaker 1: stamp on it so that other people could try what
17:37
Speaker 1: you think is fired. Yeah, I wanted Dizzey, I wanted
17:39
Speaker 1: you to kind of give me some insight on like
17:41
Speaker 1: on the on the weed side of ship, right because
17:44
Speaker 1: you got your your strain that's doing really well. I
17:47
Speaker 1: feel like I see a lot of dispensaries. I know
17:52
Speaker 1: it's an azy, I know it's I mean it's everywhere.
17:56
Speaker 1: What because I don't think a lot of people understand
17:59
Speaker 1: how how the weed shit works like legally yet still
18:03
Speaker 1: it's still kind of like wait what like so for you.
18:06
Speaker 1: Is it like they're licensing your name? Is it another
18:09
Speaker 1: company you're working with? Like how hands honor you with
18:13
Speaker 1: the strain and the actual brand and the actual weeders,
18:17
Speaker 1: because you know a lot of times people will just
18:20
Speaker 1: like license your likeliness for whatever. The fuck? Right is it? Like?
18:24
Speaker 1: What is that? It's similar to that. Yeah, it's pretty
18:26
Speaker 1: much like that where they're license and my name and
18:29
Speaker 1: my face pretty much. But back in two thousand, I
18:33
Speaker 1: think it was thirteen or fourteen, I was hands on
18:38
Speaker 1: deck with like helping create the strain, you know, finding
18:41
Speaker 1: the right strain. They were crossing a lot of different
18:44
Speaker 1: strains to try to find what would be the diz Og.
18:47
Speaker 1: So shout out the Crown Genetics because the Crown Og
18:51
Speaker 1: and the King Louis is the cross that we use
18:53
Speaker 1: to get diz og. And it's been that way ever since.
18:56
Speaker 1: You know, we knew back then that we was futuristic.
19:02
Speaker 1: You know, it felt like it was just strong as
19:05
Speaker 1: fuck potent and it was like the next level of weeds.
19:09
Speaker 1: So we knew that it would it would it would
19:12
Speaker 1: live for a long time. So Dizzy o G has
19:15
Speaker 1: been doing really great and now we got the cookies.
19:19
Speaker 1: Now we're doing Dizzey cookies. Okay's my first train of cookies.
19:23
Speaker 1: So we tapping into something like that around here, starting
19:26
Speaker 1: in California. So I'm excited, man, Just taking of the
19:29
Speaker 1: day at a time, not moving too fast, you know,
19:32
Speaker 1: and really trying to build the brand. You know, my
19:36
Speaker 1: face is on it, like your face is on it,
19:38
Speaker 1: you know, being able to walk in the dispensary and
19:40
Speaker 1: see my smiling face. Man, I'm like, I'm gonna push
19:42
Speaker 1: this ship to the death for sure. Yeah. Man, So
19:45
Speaker 1: it's been cool for a lot of fans that don't
19:49
Speaker 1: know behind the scenes. I don't know where you're at
19:52
Speaker 1: with the situation, but I had a conversation with Dame
19:56
Speaker 1: and him and Hopson are back kosher. Yeah, they're back talking.
20:00
Speaker 1: There might be something happening between them two, not necessarily music,
20:05
Speaker 1: but something which I never thought would ever happened. Me
20:10
Speaker 1: and you, I mean, obviously you're really close to the situation,
20:11
Speaker 1: but you know, I mean, you guys are my guys
20:13
Speaker 1: and Dames. You know, I've had a good relationship with
20:15
Speaker 1: Dame for a long time, and I thought that that
20:17
Speaker 1: was like when he called me and told me that
20:20
Speaker 1: they were called was like You're for real the fuck now,
20:24
Speaker 1: I had asked him, like, so, does this mean the
20:27
Speaker 1: gang is getting back together? Now? This was like a
20:30
Speaker 1: month ago and he and he had told me that
20:32
Speaker 1: you and him might have had like some weird energy.
20:34
Speaker 1: Now I don't know you and Dame, but like, what
20:37
Speaker 1: is that? What is the By the way, shout out
20:41
Speaker 1: to Jared Jaren for being one of the best people
20:43
Speaker 1: in the world, But what is like your interest in
20:47
Speaker 1: getting the crew back together? Per se you Hopson and
20:51
Speaker 1: Jaren And maybe even if it's just a song, not
20:55
Speaker 1: even like Funk Volume coming back or on the album,
20:58
Speaker 1: like just the record something like that, what's your interest
21:01
Speaker 1: in that? I would be I would be down. I'm
21:04
Speaker 1: not gonna say that my interest is crazy high. Like
21:07
Speaker 1: it's something that I'm just extremely looking forward to, but
21:11
Speaker 1: I would like to see it happen eventually. It's crazy
21:14
Speaker 1: because as close as I was to the situation, I
21:16
Speaker 1: disconnected myself so much. You know, when me and Dame
21:20
Speaker 1: kind of had our little falling out and the energy
21:22
Speaker 1: was kind of where between us, I completely just kind
21:25
Speaker 1: of detached myself from all thoughts of moving forward in
21:30
Speaker 1: any kind of direction with like Funk Volume with that
21:32
Speaker 1: old shit. Yeah, with the old shit I was trying
21:34
Speaker 1: to figure out. I kind of felt like it put
21:37
Speaker 1: me in a funk a little bit because the fans
21:39
Speaker 1: were kind of like, you know, I had never did
21:41
Speaker 1: nothing to have the fans you know, on my page
21:46
Speaker 1: or coming at me with so much negative energy. This
21:48
Speaker 1: was kind of this kind of happened after the breakup,
21:50
Speaker 1: so it was kind of all like, I didn't do
21:52
Speaker 1: nothing wrong. Yeah, it was all kind of new for me,
21:54
Speaker 1: you know, new energy. So I had to figure out
21:56
Speaker 1: how to shake that and like do my own thing.
21:58
Speaker 1: But I absolutely don't know the details about Dame and
22:04
Speaker 1: Hop right now, like I was supposed to. Actually, I
22:07
Speaker 1: was gonna get with Dame a couple of weeks ago
22:08
Speaker 1: in Vegas, and we weren't able to make it happen.
22:10
Speaker 1: But he's probably stuck at the craps table. Probably man
22:15
Speaker 1: is a gambling man. Oh yeah, he gets his money,
22:17
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
22:20
Speaker 1: I definitely think that it's a I think it's a
22:24
Speaker 1: beautiful thing to see Hop step into his own you know.
22:27
Speaker 1: I know that he's been doing some soul searching. He's
22:30
Speaker 1: been traveling, and I really wanted that for him as
22:33
Speaker 1: a hummy, even back when we were on the same
22:35
Speaker 1: label together. So you know, if he was able to
22:39
Speaker 1: like tap into some some higher energies to make him,
22:43
Speaker 1: you know, see things a little differently and feel better
22:46
Speaker 1: about himself. Like I'm off, I'm all about getting around
22:49
Speaker 1: that type of energy, and you and him had recently
22:51
Speaker 1: kind of correct me if I'm wrong, but you and
22:54
Speaker 1: him had kind of recently had a a resurgence in
22:58
Speaker 1: your friendship again first communication and like we did getting
23:02
Speaker 1: on the same page again, like it just kind of
23:04
Speaker 1: communicating because I feel like there was so much man
23:07
Speaker 1: during that time. I remember, like that last tory y'all
23:10
Speaker 1: did together. I remember like there was just so much
23:12
Speaker 1: weird shit, like Hops had call it out Crooked Eye
23:14
Speaker 1: and all the guys and like just putting you in Jared,
23:16
Speaker 1: like yeah, we're catching Like I had heard that you
23:25
Speaker 1: guys had kind of reconnected recently and like just kind
23:28
Speaker 1: of I guess it came to a good place more recently.
23:33
Speaker 1: Is that's true? Yeah, Yeah, there was some things that
23:35
Speaker 1: I didn't know about the fallout that wasn't made really
23:38
Speaker 1: clear to me that I found out maybe two years later.
23:43
Speaker 1: I hadn't talked to Hopson in like two or three
23:45
Speaker 1: years or some shit like that, and then I finally
23:47
Speaker 1: hit him and asked him a question. And from there,
23:51
Speaker 1: you know, I have realized that there was it was
23:54
Speaker 1: some extreme miscommunication when when funk volume was like falling apart.
23:59
Speaker 1: So we was able to kind of hash things out
24:02
Speaker 1: from there. And then last year I did go pop
24:07
Speaker 1: up on him. Well, he actually popped up on me
24:10
Speaker 1: and a lambbo. Yeah, I say, I'm on my tour bus,
24:15
Speaker 1: but my boy popped up in the lembo. So I
24:18
Speaker 1: was just super proud of him, and we was able
24:20
Speaker 1: to just you know, get on good terms. And you
24:23
Speaker 1: never know, man, you never know the fans might get something.
24:26
Speaker 1: Is it kind of like a gifted a curse having
24:27
Speaker 1: fans like that? Oh for sure, because it's like like
24:31
Speaker 1: you said, it's like yo, they're hitting like like I
24:33
Speaker 1: feel like like those kind of fans like you know,
24:35
Speaker 1: shout out to strange music or like like those kind
24:38
Speaker 1: of fans are so crazy. Yeah, I tried to shift
24:41
Speaker 1: away from those kind of fans. Actually, I kind of
24:43
Speaker 1: let them weary theyself out of the dizzy, right, vibes,
24:48
Speaker 1: you know, if that wasn't what they was into. Cause
24:50
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not like a I fuck all the
24:53
Speaker 1: other rappers, but we fuck with you, you know type
24:55
Speaker 1: of dude. Like I don't want those kind of fans.
24:57
Speaker 1: I want fans that are real, like like music, enjoy music,
25:01
Speaker 1: and know how to pick the shit they like and
25:03
Speaker 1: know how to stay away from the shit that they
25:05
Speaker 1: don't like. But I don't want to be a part
25:07
Speaker 1: of like, ah, fuck, this person fucked this person, but
25:09
Speaker 1: you to go, you know what I mean? It was
25:11
Speaker 1: just But then again, you can't you can't control how
25:14
Speaker 1: people think, and you can't control what kind of fans
25:16
Speaker 1: you have, so you gotta kind of roll with the punches.
25:18
Speaker 1: It's just a learning experience, that's fair. Man. You guys
25:23
Speaker 1: together this new project. You guys just dropped the video yesterday.
25:27
Speaker 1: We did day before yesterday. Yeah, don't worry. Has it
25:30
Speaker 1: been hard like pushing like obviously putting a new album out,
25:33
Speaker 1: not being able to do the normal shit you would do, Like,
25:36
Speaker 1: has it been hard to like push this project the
25:39
Speaker 1: way you want to? Obviously? You guys fuck with us.
25:41
Speaker 1: Look at me fucking with your mike man, we're in
25:44
Speaker 1: close proximity. This is a first interview with multiple three people,
25:47
Speaker 1: so excuse us, but I mean even like shooting videos
25:51
Speaker 1: and shit, like I remember like March April, like motherfuckers
25:53
Speaker 1: would get frowned upart if they're doing a video shoot,
25:56
Speaker 1: like you're a selfish motherfucker. Tell this, just thinking, Deren,
26:01
Speaker 1: we was looking at the situation, you know, I'm in
26:05
Speaker 1: Vegas and like, we got this project and we had
26:08
Speaker 1: this whole plan put in place. You know, we were
26:10
Speaker 1: gonna start shooting videos and how we were gonna roll
26:13
Speaker 1: it out, and what we were gonna do, how we
26:16
Speaker 1: were gonna get the fans involved, all the shit, you know,
26:19
Speaker 1: and then the pandemic happened, and I was kind of like,
26:22
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the right thing to do
26:26
Speaker 1: to come and shoot a video, and then you know,
26:29
Speaker 1: we had to kind of figure out like do we
26:32
Speaker 1: let this time consume us? And then we like, you know,
26:36
Speaker 1: then sitting in a couple of weeks kind of looking
26:39
Speaker 1: like damn, I wish we would have shot that video
26:41
Speaker 1: at least so we could have something to promote, you know,
26:44
Speaker 1: instead of like not having anything. So we end up
26:48
Speaker 1: pushing through it. But it was weird. It was definitely weird,
26:51
Speaker 1: fucking weird. And if you if you even see the
26:54
Speaker 1: All Night video or the the we ain't the same.
26:58
Speaker 1: Like there's not a lot of people. There's no extra
27:00
Speaker 1: people in the video. You know, it was very small set.
27:04
Speaker 1: We shot with one director, mad Alonzo, and uh, you know,
27:08
Speaker 1: we first one we rely heavily on the concept of
27:13
Speaker 1: like playing these characters and kind of having fun with it.
27:15
Speaker 1: And then the second one was a lot of graphics.
27:18
Speaker 1: So we made sure that, you know, because at that time,
27:21
Speaker 1: nobody was even trying to book out a spot or
27:24
Speaker 1: that's this thing, so it was like, you know, we
27:26
Speaker 1: had to maneuver to try to make it happen. It's
27:28
Speaker 1: it's being more relaxed lately, I feel, yeah, it's kind
27:31
Speaker 1: of getting into I see people kind of maneuvering a
27:35
Speaker 1: little more. But yeah, a couple of months ago, you
27:37
Speaker 1: ain't know, how was it you just did a show
27:39
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma? Right, Yeah, I don't know what the by
27:43
Speaker 1: the way shot Oklahoma a great weed state now, a
27:46
Speaker 1: lot of dispensaries there. I went there to do a
27:48
Speaker 1: weed show. I was gonna ask you, like, what was
27:50
Speaker 1: that like doing the show during these times. Was it
27:53
Speaker 1: like social distancing? Like, yeah, it was, And I was
27:56
Speaker 1: a little nervous at first, but you know, they made
27:59
Speaker 1: it very clear. You know, I could they had a
28:01
Speaker 1: spot for me that was kind of away from everybody,
28:03
Speaker 1: and I didn't have to do some of the obligations
28:07
Speaker 1: that I had agreed to originally before the like the
28:11
Speaker 1: meet and greed and kind of like sitting down and
28:13
Speaker 1: judging some of the shit, you know, some of the
28:15
Speaker 1: things that I just naturally would go do at the
28:17
Speaker 1: weak events. It ended up just be it just ended
28:21
Speaker 1: up being me and Hapa and my boy Peanut popping
28:25
Speaker 1: up and you know, kind of just staying ducked off
28:28
Speaker 1: in the room, jumping on stage and doing the show.
28:30
Speaker 1: But I will say this, like the show for me
28:35
Speaker 1: personally felt really good because I'm like I hadn't been
28:39
Speaker 1: on stage. Yeah, it was super therapeutic. Bro, I damned there.
28:44
Speaker 1: Didn't Like I like I was supposed to do a
28:47
Speaker 1: thirty minute said, I think I did forty five just
28:49
Speaker 1: off the shrink because I was just like having a
28:52
Speaker 1: great time on stage and I just realized how much
28:54
Speaker 1: I really like being on stage. So, you know, they
28:57
Speaker 1: were kind of far back and like they had them
28:59
Speaker 1: all social distance and like, you know, people it's a
29:02
Speaker 1: weed event, so you know, people were stone and kind
29:04
Speaker 1: of just staring. But I was on stage, like you know,
29:07
Speaker 1: like I was at a festival because it's right, it
29:08
Speaker 1: had just been so long and when this when this
29:12
Speaker 1: concert ship come back around and we could tour again. Man, shit, whoever,
29:15
Speaker 1: at the first couple of shows, they're gonna be in
29:17
Speaker 1: for a treat, because people gonna be going crazy, gonna
29:19
Speaker 1: be going for Are you guys worried about like because
29:22
Speaker 1: you know, Live Nation announced that they're gonna cut artists
29:25
Speaker 1: pay next year, are you guys like prepared to like
29:29
Speaker 1: make less money from promoters or maybe because I feel
29:32
Speaker 1: like at the very least, a lot of venues are
29:36
Speaker 1: gonna close, right, and a lot of promoters are gonna,
29:39
Speaker 1: like I don't know how many are gonna survive, especially
29:43
Speaker 1: like the smaller promoters. And then I don't know how
29:46
Speaker 1: long it's gonna take for people to be super comfortable,
29:48
Speaker 1: like fuck it, I'm gonna pull up to a show,
29:50
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, even when shit is quote
29:52
Speaker 1: unquote back, Do you guys think like that might affect
29:55
Speaker 1: like either a like the bag that you guys are
29:58
Speaker 1: gonna get, or just the structure of the bag, like, hey,
30:02
Speaker 1: if it sells out, you guys get a botus. I
30:03
Speaker 1: know that those already exist, but like, yeah, even more
30:06
Speaker 1: so that than like usual. That's why. That's why it's
30:09
Speaker 1: kind of like that balancing. You know, the shit is
30:11
Speaker 1: good for your soul exactly, and the ship that's like
30:14
Speaker 1: for the bag. You know, like if you a nigga
30:17
Speaker 1: like me that like thrives off of the fans' energy,
30:24
Speaker 1: you know, being able to get on stage and get
30:25
Speaker 1: off stage and fuck with the fans is everything for me.
30:28
Speaker 1: You know. That's how I keep going. That's how I
30:29
Speaker 1: keep pumping out the music. Put because I'm inspired by
30:33
Speaker 1: just the every day struggle to everyday life people that's
30:37
Speaker 1: just inspired that's coming out to just all come to
30:40
Speaker 1: one place for the same thing. So I feed it.
30:43
Speaker 1: I kind of need that for my spirit. I found
30:45
Speaker 1: myself kind of like feeling a little lost at the
30:48
Speaker 1: beginning of this because I was just like, damn, I'm
30:50
Speaker 1: not used to dropping the project and just being behind
30:54
Speaker 1: the keyboard the whole time. Yeah, exactly, It's extremely difficult
30:57
Speaker 1: for me, and like my store was shut down, you know,
31:00
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, this is just didn't feel right,
31:04
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's really I think
31:07
Speaker 1: once the shows come back, you know, if long as
31:10
Speaker 1: you can make some money where you can walk away
31:12
Speaker 1: with some money and you're not losing money, it's a
31:15
Speaker 1: dub to me. Yeah, fans again, sell some merch. That's it.
31:19
Speaker 1: That's it. And I look at it like even with
31:21
Speaker 1: dropping Blaze with us too, it's like we see the
31:24
Speaker 1: numbers and we're like, okay, and you see the comments
31:27
Speaker 1: of people saying that they fucking with the music, but
31:29
Speaker 1: nothing's like going to that concert or going to that show,
31:32
Speaker 1: or really meeting those people and seeing how much the
31:35
Speaker 1: music is inspiring them, or seeing them singing the lyrics
31:38
Speaker 1: like like oh this ship, this ship hit in Tulsa,
31:42
Speaker 1: those of every word off a project. I just drive
31:44
Speaker 1: that part. I'm doing this for a reason. Yeah, that
31:48
Speaker 1: ship will keep you going. And then like getting fan
31:50
Speaker 1: paintings and ship yeah oh yeah, and I take them
31:53
Speaker 1: all home and hang them up. I cave them all
31:56
Speaker 1: this shit. I mean I cherished that ship. What was
31:58
Speaker 1: the Disney you Tourtech nine a couple of years ago
32:02
Speaker 1: I did. I did, and uh that's its own kind
32:05
Speaker 1: of world, right street music thing. And then also just
32:10
Speaker 1: touring there like with them, like the rules are crazy,
32:13
Speaker 1: like the bus rules and they'd be fineing motherfucker like
32:17
Speaker 1: Travis don't play. Oh yeah, Like I know a lot
32:21
Speaker 1: of people who have either just quit those tours or
32:24
Speaker 1: gotten kicked off the tours. And how how was that
32:28
Speaker 1: experience touring Retecht nine and just getting getting into that
32:32
Speaker 1: world and then also kind of just dealing with all
32:35
Speaker 1: the strange music shit. Man, It's like inspiring, but it
32:39
Speaker 1: was also extremely tough. You know, you can't smoke on
32:42
Speaker 1: the bus, right, yeah, you can't smoke smoking on the buses.
32:45
Speaker 1: And what bothered me, I think it's the going to
32:50
Speaker 1: venues that I went to by myself that you know
32:55
Speaker 1: they have they have rooms for me to smoke in.
32:59
Speaker 1: You know, they got ducked off areas for me to be.
33:02
Speaker 1: You know, they know they like dizzy coming. We got
33:04
Speaker 1: to make sure that we got a fan upstairs and
33:06
Speaker 1: we open the windows and let them be you know,
33:10
Speaker 1: upstairs and away from everybody. And like, you know, some
33:13
Speaker 1: of those places we were coming to that had like
33:15
Speaker 1: those setups for me Strange Music was shutting it down,
33:20
Speaker 1: and that shit was eating at my spirit a little bit,
33:23
Speaker 1: because you know, I I thrive off not having no
33:26
Speaker 1: weed problems. I know I talk a lot about weed
33:28
Speaker 1: and shit, but it's not cool to get in trouble
33:30
Speaker 1: for this shit. You know. You gotta be smart, you
33:32
Speaker 1: gotta move smart. And I you know, I dropped the album,
33:36
Speaker 1: my first album on four twenty in twenty twelve, and
33:39
Speaker 1: I ain't never had a problem, never had a run
33:42
Speaker 1: in with the police about weed, not once. You know,
33:46
Speaker 1: in my whole career. You're not gonna I'm not bragging
33:53
Speaker 1: or like showing off. I'm just just trying to make
33:55
Speaker 1: it apparent like on how serious it is, you know,
33:58
Speaker 1: and especially in some of those ran the market you
34:00
Speaker 1: be in and what I install on my team, you know,
34:02
Speaker 1: because it's not just me, like I ain't never had
34:05
Speaker 1: nobody on the road with me getting too no weed trouble,
34:08
Speaker 1: you know, like personally somebody that I brought nah a nigga.
34:12
Speaker 1: We all on the same page, you know what I'm saying.
34:14
Speaker 1: For years, so being on the road with Strange Music
34:16
Speaker 1: and having doing this for so long and always finding
34:22
Speaker 1: a way to stay out of the way. I felt
34:24
Speaker 1: like they kind of you know, they don't want you
34:26
Speaker 1: smoking in the venue. They don't want you smoking backstage,
34:28
Speaker 1: they don't want you smoking on the bus, they don't
34:30
Speaker 1: want you smoking in the hotel. So it's like, where
34:33
Speaker 1: do you want me to smoke? You want me to
34:34
Speaker 1: go outside in front of and you might get the fans,
34:37
Speaker 1: in front of the people, in front of businesses. It
34:40
Speaker 1: felt more like I was being put in danger kind
34:45
Speaker 1: of like instead of being ducked off normally, you know,
34:48
Speaker 1: and I had I would call Travis a trip with
34:50
Speaker 1: him about this shit because I'm like, man, Travis, I
34:52
Speaker 1: feeling like, you know, you you Nigga's putting us in
34:55
Speaker 1: like dangerous situations. He just like, you know, the room.
35:00
Speaker 1: It's just like, yo, is that the toughest story to beyondest? Oh?
35:03
Speaker 1: Very very much, so very much. So. I was inspired
35:10
Speaker 1: by Tech, you know, and just what he was able
35:15
Speaker 1: to build. You know, I'm just so inspired by you know,
35:18
Speaker 1: him and what he was able to do and how
35:20
Speaker 1: he's able to get up there and the show he's
35:22
Speaker 1: able to put on and every single city. Yeah, it's
35:27
Speaker 1: really inspiring. And he don't complain. He loves what he do.
35:32
Speaker 1: Like it's it's not like, you know, he's not pressed,
35:37
Speaker 1: he's not you know, complaining, he's not drunk, wilding out.
35:43
Speaker 1: He's just tech. You know, he's working out, he's fucking
35:48
Speaker 1: but you know, shit, I feel the same way. I
35:50
Speaker 1: feel like I'm an easy person to work with. You know,
35:53
Speaker 1: I just need to be able to, you know, do
35:55
Speaker 1: my little smoke dang when I need to do my
35:57
Speaker 1: little smoke dang, and you know, maybe not blow it
36:00
Speaker 1: down on the bus where it might bring some extra
36:03
Speaker 1: attention to other people. But you know, when you at
36:05
Speaker 1: these shows, you definitely want to be comfortable, especially before
36:08
Speaker 1: you get on stage. So it was inspiring, but it
36:11
Speaker 1: was also extremely tough for me. I can imagine, hey, bro,
36:16
Speaker 1: that honestly, that's the thing that's like, we live in
36:19
Speaker 1: we live in LA and Vegas. People legal and you
36:23
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And like when we traveling and
36:26
Speaker 1: shit like that, you get some places and you see
36:29
Speaker 1: how that actual state really frowns on this shit. And
36:32
Speaker 1: then imagine not being able to smoke in the venue
36:33
Speaker 1: where you tucked away, like anything could happen to you
36:37
Speaker 1: out there on the streets if you're in one of
36:39
Speaker 1: those states, and it's a shame because six hours away
36:42
Speaker 1: you're good. Six hours away you good, and then six
36:45
Speaker 1: hours here you like, oh, you know, so much is
36:48
Speaker 1: on the line and something like they don't even allow
36:50
Speaker 1: smoking outside in some of the places where they kind
36:53
Speaker 1: of wanted us to just kind of smoke outside. Yeah,
36:55
Speaker 1: you know, it's not my thing. You know, I try
36:58
Speaker 1: to do well with kind of stand duck off and
37:00
Speaker 1: out the way. You know what I'm saying. I don't
37:02
Speaker 1: need to be blowing it down all in everybody face
37:05
Speaker 1: and things like that. You know. So, but you know,
37:07
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Strange Music runs they
37:10
Speaker 1: ship the way they want to run they ship, and
37:13
Speaker 1: it works and they've been successful, and they run it
37:17
Speaker 1: that way so they can keep law and ordering what
37:19
Speaker 1: they got going. And you gotta respect that if you
37:22
Speaker 1: want to be a part of that. I went to
37:23
Speaker 1: be a part of they ship. It was you I
37:26
Speaker 1: signed up for. Now. Don't get me wrong. I was
37:29
Speaker 1: told that I could do my smoke thing. Now now
37:32
Speaker 1: I agreed to not smoke on the bus. You know,
37:35
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have I don't know
37:37
Speaker 1: if I would have signed up to not for it
37:39
Speaker 1: to be for me to be me and my team
37:42
Speaker 1: to be put in those kind of situations because you know,
37:45
Speaker 1: Nigga was raining and snowing and the type of ship
37:49
Speaker 1: and they're like, Yo, I'm gonna get fined if I
37:51
Speaker 1: smoke in the spot that they that the venue says
37:55
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't because on you to perform right right,
37:59
Speaker 1: So Edibles, this is like a sangerous I like Edibles
38:03
Speaker 1: when I'm getting ready to go to sleep, you know,
38:05
Speaker 1: so when I'm operating during the day, you know, I
38:07
Speaker 1: just need to puff it down a little bit. I
38:09
Speaker 1: was just kind of like shressed out more than I'm
38:12
Speaker 1: normally shressed out on the road, you know what I'm saying.
38:14
Speaker 1: So other than that, it was all love. I feel
38:18
Speaker 1: like a natural thing that you and Berner have a
38:21
Speaker 1: great chemistry on records, both of you guys. Actually, I'm curious,
38:27
Speaker 1: like Burn's knowing to drop just hell with collab projects.
38:30
Speaker 1: I mean, he just put out shit with Currency this
38:32
Speaker 1: year and another beat real project, like he's with either
38:37
Speaker 1: of you guys. Has there ever been a discussion of
38:39
Speaker 1: doing like a Fool release with Berner. I haven't personally
38:44
Speaker 1: talked to Burner about doing the full release. I talked
38:47
Speaker 1: to him about maybe like executive producing because his beat
38:52
Speaker 1: selection is solid. Shout out to Cosmo. Yeah, Cosmo yeah,
38:56
Speaker 1: eat selection as wow. So I'm like Burn just picked
38:59
Speaker 1: the beast for me. Yeah, I mean, I'll go in
39:01
Speaker 1: on some of these because he always he always says
39:04
Speaker 1: the vibe on on his on his records, the music,
39:08
Speaker 1: the music is, songs are double full in it in
39:12
Speaker 1: its entirety, but his bat selection is, like, I feel
39:15
Speaker 1: like it's top level. Do you guys like Dizzy Obviously,
39:19
Speaker 1: Burn is somebody who's kind of another independent juggernaut, right,
39:23
Speaker 1: another weed juggernaut. You know what I'm saying. Do you
39:27
Speaker 1: do you kind of get inspired seeing like some of
39:28
Speaker 1: the moose Berner does. Oh like a motherfucker. Man, that
39:32
Speaker 1: guy's killing it. I love it man for a long
39:37
Speaker 1: time though, you know, no, you guys, I mean he
39:39
Speaker 1: was on the Warner album. Like you guys have worked
39:41
Speaker 1: together for a while. It wasn't like recently, you know
39:44
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I've been inspired by Berner for
39:47
Speaker 1: for a long time. But just some of the boss
39:50
Speaker 1: moves that he making right now, it's just like, you know,
39:54
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for him to write the book. Yeah,
39:56
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I got the complete
39:59
Speaker 1: pieces that I because I just you know, when you
40:02
Speaker 1: got that much game, you know. Hopefully he feels generous
40:06
Speaker 1: enough to just dish it out so we could all
40:09
Speaker 1: get that kind of money. But I'm very inspired by him,
40:13
Speaker 1: and I just hope he keeps continues to keep the
40:16
Speaker 1: right people around him so he can stay he will. Yeah,
40:19
Speaker 1: he's got a very short small circle. Would you ever
40:21
Speaker 1: do a I think it's it'd be natural for you
40:24
Speaker 1: to do a dizzy right or it's still moving dispensary
40:27
Speaker 1: in Vegas? Oh yeah, absolutely. I would love to grow
40:31
Speaker 1: into that man. That's uh you know me, I'm thinking
40:35
Speaker 1: that big for Shure, I just gotta just find one
40:37
Speaker 1: of the ones that's out there struggling and be like, yo, look,
40:39
Speaker 1: I'll just license the name. I'll show up, cut the ribbon.
40:43
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, Because I feel like, man, that shit
40:46
Speaker 1: would be if you have a fucking dizzey right, dispensary
40:50
Speaker 1: that's a destination in Vegas, put it in there. That's
40:55
Speaker 1: it idea out there? Now? Yeah? For show? Is it
40:59
Speaker 1: how much you guys pay for wheat anymore? Either? Yeah,
41:03
Speaker 1: sometimes you still gotta you know, you gotta switching flavors up.
41:07
Speaker 1: You know, we get the pack, you know, but if
41:09
Speaker 1: you just want to smoke on the packs that you
41:10
Speaker 1: get all the time, that's cool. But sometimes you know,
41:14
Speaker 1: you want to switch them flavors up a little bit.
41:17
Speaker 1: Be able to do that, you might have to you know,
41:19
Speaker 1: dish a little while, especially right now because there's so
41:22
Speaker 1: many different strains and dropping all the time. There's always
41:25
Speaker 1: something that new cross or something new on the on
41:27
Speaker 1: the cookie menu or doctor. Yeah. I don't like not
41:31
Speaker 1: knowing the fire that's out, Yeah, exactly. I like being
41:34
Speaker 1: a part of all. Do you guys, So the next
41:37
Speaker 1: thing I know that's supposed to get legalized? I know
41:39
Speaker 1: in San Francisco mushrooms are legalized, and I know that
41:42
Speaker 1: like the idea of microdosing mushrooms has become more of
41:46
Speaker 1: like a an accepted thing amongst like telemercials like It'll
41:53
Speaker 1: make you know, the guy that Shark Tank like invested
41:57
Speaker 1: in a big mushroom company. Uh, do you guys dabbling
42:00
Speaker 1: the mushroom game at all? The psychedelics? I don't, personally,
42:05
Speaker 1: I actually ain't never dabbled into nothing but weed weed.
42:09
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm a scary ass snigger when it
42:12
Speaker 1: comes to that ship. You wouldn't do mushrooms. It's from
42:15
Speaker 1: the earth. I know. I know people always tell me
42:19
Speaker 1: that maybe, but shit, I don't have no desire to
42:24
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Some people just like, oh, it'll
42:27
Speaker 1: make you get through your day better, or maybe it'll
42:29
Speaker 1: make you look at things a little differently. And I'm like, shit,
42:32
Speaker 1: right now, I like, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
42:36
Speaker 1: What about I've done I've done shrooms twice and I
42:39
Speaker 1: had one great experience and I've had one not so
42:43
Speaker 1: good experience. So I'm all I'm like, was what happened
42:46
Speaker 1: with the not so good I just had? I had
42:49
Speaker 1: it just a piece of chocolate. I didn't know how
42:51
Speaker 1: much it was. And then, uh, I just was watching
42:55
Speaker 1: a movie and it felt like the person in the
42:57
Speaker 1: movie tell the person though. Samuel L. Jackson was yelling
43:01
Speaker 1: at me, and it tripped me out man big time.
43:04
Speaker 1: And I was I was in Philadelphia and it was
43:07
Speaker 1: winter and you're in a row You're in a row
43:09
Speaker 1: home in there, so you can't really get out nowhere.
43:11
Speaker 1: And that's the first time and uh, yeah, you know,
43:14
Speaker 1: homies had to sit me down, you have relaxed, give
43:17
Speaker 1: me some water, tell me it's all in my head
43:19
Speaker 1: type ship. And then I was like, I'm not going
43:22
Speaker 1: to judge it off of that experience, because uh so,
43:25
Speaker 1: Samuel Jackson was like, coming out the TV on you
43:27
Speaker 1: ain't motherfucker with something. I'm like, damn movie where you're
43:35
Speaker 1: watching it, because that also might be like I forget that, Yeah,
43:38
Speaker 1: one of them ones. And right anyway, he felt like
43:40
Speaker 1: he was talking to him. Yeah, black snake moan. I
43:44
Speaker 1: don't know, man, he's got something that I can imagine.
43:46
Speaker 1: We're way more intense if you're on truth. But I
43:48
Speaker 1: realized though that you got to be able to be
43:52
Speaker 1: around the situation where you can move freely and it's
43:55
Speaker 1: good to you know, do it in like outside and
43:58
Speaker 1: nature and ship like that, and really enjoyed full spectrum
44:01
Speaker 1: of the situation. So I went back and redid the experiences.
44:05
Speaker 1: It was better. Yeah, it was way better, man, I'm like,
44:07
Speaker 1: but it's still I realized you gotta be able to, like,
44:12
Speaker 1: you know, people who like could have control over a
44:14
Speaker 1: lot of shit. Probably not gonna like psychedelics in my opinion,
44:18
Speaker 1: because you don't got no fucking control over that. You know,
44:21
Speaker 1: your mind start going where it's going and you just
44:23
Speaker 1: gotta go with it, hit the button and just go.
44:26
Speaker 1: You'll get a bad trip or some shit like that.
44:28
Speaker 1: And that's what That's what always made me like I
44:31
Speaker 1: feel like I'd be one of them niggas that have
44:33
Speaker 1: start panicking, like and I don't want to take no
44:36
Speaker 1: motherfucking chances, so I don't do shit. Have you ever
44:39
Speaker 1: had a bad like edible experience? I had actually had
44:43
Speaker 1: like a bad like Bung rip experience, Like wow, yeah,
44:48
Speaker 1: like I had too much just trying to hit one
44:53
Speaker 1: of them big ass bungs, trying to just be the
44:57
Speaker 1: biggest stoner I can be at the time, and I'm
44:59
Speaker 1: a clear right, yeah, I must have cleared that bitch,
45:03
Speaker 1: and you know, I just you know, this was back
45:07
Speaker 1: in the front volume days like hops In and Swizz
45:11
Speaker 1: was wearing those contacts and that ship was just too
45:16
Speaker 1: much for me. And then I remember hops It took
45:20
Speaker 1: one of the contacts out and was like I looked
45:23
Speaker 1: like a devil and ship and I was like, oh,
45:25
Speaker 1: I think the hell No, I need to go to
45:28
Speaker 1: sleep and wake up and start over again. Like I
45:31
Speaker 1: tried it was the highest that I ever been. What about?
45:34
Speaker 1: What about? What's the highest I ever been? Was was
45:38
Speaker 1: last November in Europe. Uh. Exhibit always like he likes
45:44
Speaker 1: to put a block of hash and cut a Snickers
45:48
Speaker 1: bar open and put the block of hash in there
45:50
Speaker 1: and then close it up and eat it, eat it,
45:52
Speaker 1: oh ship. And so for all these years of traveling
45:55
Speaker 1: with him, I never I never, I never tried it.
46:00
Speaker 1: And so we were all a shot out problem. He
46:02
Speaker 1: was out there, we was all out there, and I said,
46:04
Speaker 1: I said, fuck it, you know this this time, I'm
46:06
Speaker 1: about to do it. And so I took a piece
46:09
Speaker 1: to the Snickers and I ate it, and uh, I
46:12
Speaker 1: got back to my hotel room and I started to
46:14
Speaker 1: feel my body. I started to feel myself like lift
46:17
Speaker 1: above my body and uh you know, and then I
46:21
Speaker 1: just I just laid there and just let it, let
46:23
Speaker 1: it happen. Eventually fall asleep, but I was on some
46:25
Speaker 1: next level. H yeah, man, put that put that hash.
46:29
Speaker 1: Exhibit eats that normally. Well, I'm saying like on a
46:32
Speaker 1: day off, like let's say we do six seven years
46:35
Speaker 1: and they stay off, and he's like, he's like, fuck it,
46:37
Speaker 1: you know, I'm about to make the snickers with the
46:39
Speaker 1: hash and it who wants a piece? Typically, I would
46:43
Speaker 1: always be like, nah, I'm cool. You know you feel
46:46
Speaker 1: like you had superpowers at all when you had the
46:47
Speaker 1: edible like that, because like I had an edible ones
46:51
Speaker 1: and uh, it was a really rough night for me.
46:54
Speaker 1: It was a Ritz and Yellowolf concert, and I felt
46:58
Speaker 1: like I could hear everybody talking in the concert. I
47:00
Speaker 1: could like hone in like there was like two thousand
47:04
Speaker 1: people in this ventu. You know, maybe maybe like one conversation.
47:08
Speaker 1: I'd be on the other side of the venue and
47:09
Speaker 1: I like look in the middle of a concert, just
47:11
Speaker 1: look at somebody on the other side of the building
47:13
Speaker 1: and hear exactly what they're saying. Yeah, you was tripping.
47:17
Speaker 1: I don't know if I was tripping, though I felt
47:22
Speaker 1: like I was like yo, I couldn't move my legs. Though.
47:25
Speaker 1: I remember when I had the hash niggers, like, I
47:27
Speaker 1: was like, fuck it, I feel weird. I'm not to
47:29
Speaker 1: throw on like some YouTube and watch like a little
47:31
Speaker 1: movie or whatever. And slowly but surely the words stopped.
47:35
Speaker 1: I stopped being able to understand what was being said
47:39
Speaker 1: in the movie. Right, just sounded like shit just started
47:44
Speaker 1: off like what am I even watching? Just cut it
47:46
Speaker 1: off and it was a dangerous because you can't like
47:49
Speaker 1: eat to get it to go away. You know, got
47:51
Speaker 1: to like just let the high pass. There's no other choice, bug,
47:55
Speaker 1: you can't. I tried to get in a shower and
47:57
Speaker 1: watch that ship. I had to look at myself in
47:59
Speaker 1: the middle and everything. I was just like off of Bonghad.
48:03
Speaker 1: Though off of Bonghad, Bro, are you not a big dabber?
48:07
Speaker 1: I imagine now I became a big dabber. This was
48:09
Speaker 1: before dabs was dabs, you know, it wasn't dabbing yet
48:12
Speaker 1: when I did this. Uh, And this was actually in Minnieanapolis.
48:15
Speaker 1: I had first got with shout out to Prince with
48:18
Speaker 1: the funk volume Niggas, and it was like my first
48:20
Speaker 1: time going out there, and like Dame kind of had
48:24
Speaker 1: me running around watching what Hopson was doing. You know,
48:27
Speaker 1: as far as Meet and Greens skating, right, listen, you're
48:31
Speaker 1: gonna play skate with fans, Disney. You don't know how
48:32
Speaker 1: to skate, figure out how to skate. You're just gonna
48:36
Speaker 1: go show up at the fans house and play them
48:37
Speaker 1: and skate fags fags, bro. But I remember I just
48:42
Speaker 1: started making my little fans, you know what I'm saying.
48:44
Speaker 1: And I went to go smoke with one of my
48:46
Speaker 1: fans and filled the bong up and tried to hit
48:49
Speaker 1: that big ass bong and was fucked up. Whole world
48:52
Speaker 1: tilt the sideway. Jesus, I don't like being that high.
48:56
Speaker 1: How was the experience of you guys doing the the
48:59
Speaker 1: album a couple of years ago with Audio Push and Jaring.
49:04
Speaker 1: Everybody was in the house together. You're the only one
49:06
Speaker 1: who didn't show up to freestyle, by the way, everyone
49:10
Speaker 1: came into the radio station. But you blame blame Dame,
49:13
Speaker 1: blame Hey, I'm telling you, if Dame doesn't make some
49:18
Speaker 1: merg that just us blame day. He's cripping. But but
49:22
Speaker 1: how was that experience because that obviously I can imagine.
49:26
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like staying in Austin and the
49:29
Speaker 1: recording process. I mean, all you guys are boys. Audio
49:33
Speaker 1: pushed the great guy shout out to Price at octane
49:35
Speaker 1: and was great when we all went out there. We
49:37
Speaker 1: originally milia Rohaus was there too. Yeah, we was originally
49:41
Speaker 1: gonna get in the studio and then the studio didn't
49:44
Speaker 1: allow smoking, so we all brought studios. So we just
49:47
Speaker 1: set our studios up at the crib and just kind
49:50
Speaker 1: of turned it into like a little musical trap house,
49:52
Speaker 1: you know. And we we were there for the whole
49:55
Speaker 1: week and just feeding off each other energy from sun
49:57
Speaker 1: up the sundown, you know what I'm saying. And it
50:00
Speaker 1: was dope. Then we like we were loving the record
50:03
Speaker 1: so much that we started going out and shooting videos
50:05
Speaker 1: and stuff like that and like really adding to it.
50:07
Speaker 1: It's very similar to what j Co did some years
50:10
Speaker 1: later with the Dreamville project. Yeah, it just invited a
50:13
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Yeah, when I seen that, I was like, damn,
50:16
Speaker 1: we essentially did something like that, you know what I'm saying.
50:21
Speaker 1: But the rollout and when it came time, just things
50:26
Speaker 1: kind of went left field. Like me and Dame had
50:28
Speaker 1: a falling out, and then I wasn't a part of
50:31
Speaker 1: the Free Styles and I wasn't a part of a
50:33
Speaker 1: bunch of different shit, And I think it took a
50:35
Speaker 1: lot of momentum away from what we were doing. But
50:39
Speaker 1: as far as building it up to get it where
50:41
Speaker 1: it was, we had a lot of fun. We had
50:43
Speaker 1: the creation part of it, just even tapping in with people,
50:47
Speaker 1: you know, somebody producing right there, another person coming up
50:50
Speaker 1: with a chorus, and then other room people working on
50:52
Speaker 1: the song, and yeah, people did still go two on
50:55
Speaker 1: the mic. Man, So I can only imagine like the
50:57
Speaker 1: like the friendly competition, Oh yeah, had the level of
50:59
Speaker 1: every times it's gonna be like what you got. Oh yeah,
51:03
Speaker 1: oh you had. You had the hardest verse yesterday, so
51:05
Speaker 1: that means today I gotta had the hardest. Nigga was
51:09
Speaker 1: in there, he was doing it. It was a lot
51:11
Speaker 1: of fun. You had mentioned earlier that you were attempted
51:16
Speaker 1: to meet up with Dame a couple of weeks ago.
51:17
Speaker 1: What was the because obviously you had stuck you kind
51:19
Speaker 1: of stuck with Dame after the Funk Volume thing. What
51:21
Speaker 1: was the like, what was y'all's issue that you know
51:26
Speaker 1: made that kind of split because I remember he stopped
51:28
Speaker 1: fucking with you and it was with Futuristic for a
51:30
Speaker 1: little bit, and he's doing his Entreneur music club thing,
51:33
Speaker 1: But like, what what had happened between you two? Obviously
51:36
Speaker 1: it's better now, I'm assuming, or at least on the
51:38
Speaker 1: way to be in bad. Yeah, it's on the way
51:39
Speaker 1: to being better. It's definitely. I definitely don't got no
51:42
Speaker 1: hard feelings for Dame or nothing like that. I guess, Bro,
51:50
Speaker 1: I feel like I was the one to kind of
51:51
Speaker 1: ride with Dame definitely. And then, you know, finding out
51:58
Speaker 1: that Hopson wasn't making any money off of Dizzy Right
52:03
Speaker 1: was kind of like the big bang for me, because
52:07
Speaker 1: you know, Hopson made it seem like there was money problems,
52:10
Speaker 1: but he never said that he wasn't making a dollar
52:12
Speaker 1: from Dizzy Right. You know, I'm on Hopson's label, and
52:15
Speaker 1: I respected Hobson so much, and I respected him so much,
52:19
Speaker 1: and I was very appreciative for him allowing me to
52:22
Speaker 1: come out and do those shows with him and get
52:24
Speaker 1: my feet wet as an artist. You know, I just
52:26
Speaker 1: wanted to get out of Vegas, Bro. You know, we
52:28
Speaker 1: was just out there all kind of doing the same
52:30
Speaker 1: little bubble. I feel like it's hard to get out.
52:33
Speaker 1: It's hard to get out of it. And not only that,
52:35
Speaker 1: it's hard to get with an artist that has like
52:37
Speaker 1: fans in a platform for you to travel the world
52:40
Speaker 1: without it being like a major artist or like having
52:43
Speaker 1: to have like some crazy stipulations to it. So I
52:47
Speaker 1: felt like he kind of opened up his platform to
52:49
Speaker 1: me with open arms, you know, and finding out that
52:53
Speaker 1: he wasn't a part of the come up with me financially,
52:57
Speaker 1: you know that he was pieced out of that. It
53:04
Speaker 1: just changed me and Dame's relationship forever because I thought
53:07
Speaker 1: Dame was the fairest nigg in the world, you know,
53:10
Speaker 1: But I didn't know the logistics on the problem. And
53:13
Speaker 1: that's why me and Hopson had to have a conversation
53:16
Speaker 1: because I had to call him like, Bro, did you
53:19
Speaker 1: ever make any money? He was like, Noah, and that's
53:22
Speaker 1: my fault. I should have told you. And I'm like,
53:25
Speaker 1: you let three years go by a nigga with me
53:27
Speaker 1: running around with this nigga and you didn't let me
53:30
Speaker 1: know thinking that this nigga was the fairest nigg in
53:32
Speaker 1: the world, and it kind of blew my mind when
53:35
Speaker 1: I you know, I had to just ask dam like
53:39
Speaker 1: was Hopson cut out? And its just like yeah, you know,
53:41
Speaker 1: because he pretty much felt responsible for finding me and
53:47
Speaker 1: giving me the opportunities, even though it was Hopson's platform
53:50
Speaker 1: we was using. So I just felt some type of
53:53
Speaker 1: way about that shit and I wanted to like separate
53:57
Speaker 1: myself from that. What I didn't do is I didn't
54:02
Speaker 1: say anything to and I didn't like make it a
54:05
Speaker 1: big thing. I didn't get on my hops and ship
54:07
Speaker 1: and and like, Yo, fuck this nigga, Dad, I'm not
54:11
Speaker 1: fucking with him no more. I just stopped fucking with him.
54:16
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move accordingly now. But a lot of people
54:18
Speaker 1: felt like Dame was still in my corner kind of
54:22
Speaker 1: helping me out. And I seen the fans responding to
54:25
Speaker 1: a lot of things thinking that Dame was the one
54:27
Speaker 1: moving with me when I was moving by myself for
54:29
Speaker 1: so long. So I just felt like the best way
54:33
Speaker 1: to get out of that was to just keep working,
54:35
Speaker 1: you know, just keep working and keep doing things for myself.
54:38
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, it was a tricky little situation. Was
54:41
Speaker 1: it was that the same I mean, I don't know
54:43
Speaker 1: if you know this or not, because I'm not trying to,
54:45
Speaker 1: But was it was that a similar situation with Jaron?
54:47
Speaker 1: You think, where like, did you know if Hopsin saw
54:49
Speaker 1: anything off of Jaron? I don't know. I don't know,
54:52
Speaker 1: to be honest. I always thought we all had similar deals,
54:57
Speaker 1: and that's why I always thought it was fair, and
55:00
Speaker 1: I just thought that what was fair. Hopson didn't think
55:03
Speaker 1: that was fair anymore. So that was alway, Hey, from
55:07
Speaker 1: his perspective totally right from his perspective, totally because he
55:10
Speaker 1: deserved to have a team behind him instead of just
55:12
Speaker 1: one person. So I completely understand paying one person for
55:16
Speaker 1: what a team could be doing and getting one person's
55:19
Speaker 1: results instead of a team results could make you feel
55:21
Speaker 1: like that. So I definitely, I definitely just learned a
55:26
Speaker 1: lot from that shit, bro and then going into doing
55:29
Speaker 1: still Moving records, my own label and shit like that.
55:33
Speaker 1: At first I was going to do it with Dame,
55:36
Speaker 1: and then I just learned more about the business. And
55:40
Speaker 1: as I was learning about the business, and I don't
55:43
Speaker 1: want to make it seem like I'm throwing Dame under
55:46
Speaker 1: the bus because we're passed this and I feel like
55:50
Speaker 1: you live and you learn right or like I have
55:53
Speaker 1: no hard feelings or anything. But at the time, oh yeah,
55:56
Speaker 1: I was salty than the motherfucker, you know what I'm saying,
55:58
Speaker 1: because I felt like I have road with somebody and
56:02
Speaker 1: I didn't know the full truth and I didn't know
56:04
Speaker 1: how to feel about that. Damn. Yeah, that's crazy shout
56:08
Speaker 1: out to I mean, I, like I said, I'm just
56:09
Speaker 1: happy that at the end of the day, like there's
56:12
Speaker 1: some sort of roadmap to everyone just talking again. I
56:17
Speaker 1: guess yeah, I think everybody. Everybody could have did better
56:20
Speaker 1: and everybody still can do better, so you never know
56:22
Speaker 1: where it could go. All right, So the album is out,
56:25
Speaker 1: Uh go support it you guys. It was this a
56:28
Speaker 1: one off with Smokers Club or you guys going to
56:31
Speaker 1: be doing more stuff with them? Because I know you
56:32
Speaker 1: guys are obviously you know, I know you got hell
56:34
Speaker 1: of shit coming out and your album is getting wrapped
56:38
Speaker 1: up right. Yeah, yeah, I'm about to drop another album.
56:40
Speaker 1: Uh this I wouldn't say, wouldn't lock it down as
56:44
Speaker 1: a one off, you know, shout out the Smokers Club.
56:46
Speaker 1: We feel like they've been extremely tapped in with us
56:49
Speaker 1: and supportive to what we got going on, so maybe
56:51
Speaker 1: we can run it back. You know what about Demrick?
56:55
Speaker 1: I know with the serial killer shit, you have another
56:58
Speaker 1: shout out to yo. Can we bounce to Tony Chalk,
57:01
Speaker 1: Demrik EP, Let's go Tony Chalk, bring your Vietnamese ass
57:04
Speaker 1: on camera real quick. Let's go, man, let's get it
57:07
Speaker 1: Tony Chalk. I happen to manage Tony Chalk by the
57:10
Speaker 1: way out to Tony Tap. But uh yeah, so your
57:14
Speaker 1: album is done or is almost done? Done? Okay, we're
57:17
Speaker 1: mastering it today. Who can you tell us who's gonna
57:20
Speaker 1: be on the album? Chevy Woods would be on there.
57:26
Speaker 1: Shout to Chevy, Shout out to my boy, Chevy Woods.
57:28
Speaker 1: I love a cook, Chevy Woods. He's a chef. Oh
57:32
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, they have it cooking with Chevy. Yeah. Yeah,
57:36
Speaker 1: he's like kind of he really be feeling himself. It's
57:39
Speaker 1: telefoot pull up man. Your next time you come to
57:41
Speaker 1: the studio, brings some of them homemade dishes. You feel
57:43
Speaker 1: me right that part? Uh? So that album's coming out,
57:47
Speaker 1: anything like, do you have like any sort of idea
57:49
Speaker 1: next month? I'm gonna drop it next to month. I
57:52
Speaker 1: also got beans on their beans Aces girl beans, Yes,
57:57
Speaker 1: from the Netflix show from the netflixire. Yeah, we just
58:01
Speaker 1: did a video too. So we got a video coming
58:04
Speaker 1: called Sick of Complaining. I'm excited about that. Let's say,
58:07
Speaker 1: just working with different artists, saying creative, you know, and
58:10
Speaker 1: staying inspired by people's hunger. Demrick when it's Serial Killers
58:15
Speaker 1: for coming out, it'll come. It's called a Summer sam
58:18
Speaker 1: so it'll be out sometime next month. So we were
58:21
Speaker 1: we're still locking in the exact day, but it's for
58:24
Speaker 1: sure coming out in September. What is I know, Demrik
58:28
Speaker 1: could be doing a lot of writing for a lot
58:29
Speaker 1: of artists. Like when you do that, like is it,
58:31
Speaker 1: uh do you ever like like how how do you
58:34
Speaker 1: approach that creatively compared to when you work on your
58:37
Speaker 1: own shit, It's really the same process. But I just
58:40
Speaker 1: think kind of like tapping into the energy that, you know,
58:44
Speaker 1: the goal that that artist is trying to get accomplished,
58:46
Speaker 1: and just trying to more essentially write, get creative with
58:51
Speaker 1: that person, you know, and kind of just keep that
58:53
Speaker 1: in mind of the direction that they're going to go with.
58:56
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that I like to make music.
58:59
Speaker 1: I can make a lot of music, hit the studio,
59:01
Speaker 1: and just get creative. So if one day it's going
59:04
Speaker 1: down this lane, next day we're doing some stuff for
59:06
Speaker 1: some television and film, or if I'm plotting on something
59:09
Speaker 1: that I want to do, then I'm just always putting
59:12
Speaker 1: a plan together. Really, is it still like extremely uh
59:16
Speaker 1: taboo to like ghostwrit or like if you're like a
59:20
Speaker 1: rapper and you have a ghostwriter. I just I don't know.
59:23
Speaker 1: I don't think so, just because I just feel like
59:25
Speaker 1: songwriting is songwriting. You know, people get it. Feel like
59:27
Speaker 1: the Drake thing kind of made it like a little
59:29
Speaker 1: bit more okay, even though he got shipped for it
59:30
Speaker 1: at first. But now it's like, yo, fam, Drake's still
59:32
Speaker 1: the biggest rapper of the world. Fans made it clear
59:37
Speaker 1: that they don't care. Yeah, and like low key. If
59:40
Speaker 1: you go back to like Kanye's first album, Ryan Fest
59:42
Speaker 1: wrote Jesus Walks and people didn't give a fuck, and
59:45
Speaker 1: a lot of those people be in the room would
59:47
Speaker 1: get creative. You know. There's some people that like to
59:50
Speaker 1: sit in the room by themselves and they got the
59:52
Speaker 1: whole plan on how to get to a to Z,
59:55
Speaker 1: and then there's other people that like to get creative
59:57
Speaker 1: with people. You know. I'm one of those people that.
59:59
Speaker 1: That's why I have a lot of projects with different people,
1:00:02
Speaker 1: because you know, whether it's a producer or different artists,
1:00:05
Speaker 1: and I'll be in groups. And then also even when
1:00:08
Speaker 1: I do my solo shit, I kind of like team
1:00:09
Speaker 1: up with certain people to do it because I like
1:00:12
Speaker 1: the team effort of creativity. You know. It's like I
1:00:16
Speaker 1: don't think that I ever was, you know, sitting in
1:00:19
Speaker 1: there just writing, you know, writing raps all by myself.
1:00:23
Speaker 1: You know, saying I was just gonna change the world
1:00:25
Speaker 1: like that. It was something that I always did with
1:00:26
Speaker 1: my homies, that I always did with other creatives, and
1:00:29
Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's helped me in this industry,
1:00:34
Speaker 1: do you know, just be able to hop on some
1:00:37
Speaker 1: with somebody's team and then also do my own thing
1:00:40
Speaker 1: and then do like it's you know, just should be happening. Yeah, Yeah,
1:00:43
Speaker 1: that's it. That's what. Oh I love. I love tapping
1:00:45
Speaker 1: in with a with a producer and uh kind of
1:00:48
Speaker 1: working together on a on a vibe and energy, and
1:00:50
Speaker 1: that's how you get Stony point one and two and
1:00:52
Speaker 1: Blaze with US one and Blaze with US two and
1:00:56
Speaker 1: Serial Killers the fourth one. And remember I came I
1:00:59
Speaker 1: came from a group, so that that always says just
1:01:01
Speaker 1: been in my heart. I guess the way I create. Wait,
1:01:05
Speaker 1: which group did you come from? I was. I started
1:01:07
Speaker 1: early in a group called Tangle Thoughts. So we live
1:01:09
Speaker 1: in Philly and we moved out to LA together and
1:01:12
Speaker 1: we actually released a Corrupt Presents album with with that
1:01:17
Speaker 1: group in two thousand and seven. Bro, So that's how
1:01:19
Speaker 1: far back it goes. Damn, I didn't know that. So
1:01:21
Speaker 1: you were like rolling with the corruptionhit back in the day.
1:01:23
Speaker 1: That was it. That's how That's how I evenknew to
1:01:25
Speaker 1: come come out here to LA because we were hitting
1:01:27
Speaker 1: all the ceilings in Philly and it just didn't feel
1:01:30
Speaker 1: just didn't feel real, you know, it didn't feel like
1:01:32
Speaker 1: we could take it to the next level. So to
1:01:34
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to come to LA was that was it.
1:01:37
Speaker 1: And especially with somebody you know at that at that point,
1:01:40
Speaker 1: corrupts already legend. You know you grew up there. Man.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: Let me tell you some Streets is a Mother is
1:01:44
Speaker 1: one of the most slept on albums of all time. Man.
1:01:47
Speaker 1: That fucking Roscoe his brother. Yeah, it's fucking fire exactly.
1:01:52
Speaker 1: And he could like rap rap. Both of them can
1:01:54
Speaker 1: rap rap. But like I mean, obviously, you know, it's
1:01:58
Speaker 1: just it's it's crazy when you think of Corrupt and
1:02:00
Speaker 1: like how like I always remember on the Eminem Show
1:02:03
Speaker 1: when Eminem like named all those rappers that get put
1:02:06
Speaker 1: ahead of him, like Corrupt was one of them, red man.
1:02:08
Speaker 1: But I just I guess I wish Corrupt's career would
1:02:12
Speaker 1: have shook it out a little bit differently. Hey, bro,
1:02:15
Speaker 1: But if you look at them plaques and them records,
1:02:17
Speaker 1: that he's no for sure. I'm like, damn, like there
1:02:19
Speaker 1: was a point in time where he was on everybody's
1:02:22
Speaker 1: album that like so many goods and shout out to
1:02:25
Speaker 1: Corrupts moon Rocks. Hello, those moon Rocks ain't no joke
1:02:29
Speaker 1: and they've been booming for a long time. Yeah, last question, Dizzy,
1:02:32
Speaker 1: this for you. Logic just retired to be with his family. Obviously,
1:02:37
Speaker 1: I know you're a big family guy. Like, could either
1:02:40
Speaker 1: of you guys ever see yourself just stepping away from
1:02:43
Speaker 1: hip hop? It's not making albums, just like I'm done,
1:02:49
Speaker 1: I personally can't see it right now for me. Just
1:02:54
Speaker 1: that's why you gotta just do things for your soul. Man.
1:02:57
Speaker 1: You gotta make sure you know. I was there. I've
1:03:00
Speaker 1: seen Logic's whole you know, I was even on tour
1:03:03
Speaker 1: with him, and I really just you know, I watched
1:03:07
Speaker 1: how you move. I paid attention. I'm an observer. You know,
1:03:10
Speaker 1: you really gotta move at your pace and make sure
1:03:14
Speaker 1: you're doing things that's right for your spirit. If you'll
1:03:16
Speaker 1: get into a position and it'll be overwhelming, you know
1:03:19
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And I feel like you'll find yourself
1:03:22
Speaker 1: needing to step away or take a breather. I don't
1:03:25
Speaker 1: think Logic's done forever. I think Logic just needs a
1:03:28
Speaker 1: break from all the judgment that comes with him. Probably. Yeah,
1:03:32
Speaker 1: he's been getting mad, you know, and he's been getting
1:03:35
Speaker 1: it for a couple of years many. I feel like
1:03:37
Speaker 1: ever since Everybody album came out and he kind of
1:03:39
Speaker 1: started to talk about his biracial like, just been on
1:03:42
Speaker 1: since then on his head. Bro, it's been o. He
1:03:44
Speaker 1: ain't been getting no slack from there, and it was
1:03:46
Speaker 1: already tough for him before then, just with the stigma
1:03:51
Speaker 1: of being like a white rapper, you know, but I'm
1:03:54
Speaker 1: also I'm biracial, right, But you know, he wants to
1:03:56
Speaker 1: be known for what he is. So not to get
1:04:01
Speaker 1: too deep or go to off subject, but I personally
1:04:03
Speaker 1: can't see myself stepping away right now. I want to
1:04:07
Speaker 1: keep inspiring and I feel like I'm getting better. Right,
1:04:11
Speaker 1: Could you ever retire? I don't think so. I'm always
1:04:14
Speaker 1: going to be involved in this shit in some kind
1:04:16
Speaker 1: of way. I mean, this is this gave me life,
1:04:19
Speaker 1: gave me purpose. Right. It's like, once I started doing music,
1:04:23
Speaker 1: I fell in love with it. Then I had a
1:04:24
Speaker 1: direction in life. Before that, I just was I just
1:04:27
Speaker 1: was out here, so I think that I couldn't see
1:04:32
Speaker 1: myself in the same thing like I see myself. I
1:04:35
Speaker 1: gain more fans, more traction, get more opportunities, and understand
1:04:40
Speaker 1: even my story better about what I want to talk
1:04:43
Speaker 1: to people about. As the years progress, you know, I
1:04:46
Speaker 1: still got to I wake up every day trying to
1:04:49
Speaker 1: get behind the mic or or at least find a
1:04:52
Speaker 1: play to do with some music that I got going
1:04:54
Speaker 1: or something. So my mind's in the game, but different levels.
1:04:57
Speaker 1: You know what, shit, you might catch me behind making
1:05:00
Speaker 1: a beat one day. You never know. Come on, I
1:05:02
Speaker 1: mean yeah for sure. All right, well look go get
1:05:06
Speaker 1: the album. It's out you guys each got a lot
1:05:08
Speaker 1: of new music coming out too soon. Any more video
1:05:11
Speaker 1: is going to be coming out from the project. Or
1:05:12
Speaker 1: this last one was like was that the last one? Yeah,
1:05:15
Speaker 1: don't worry. It was like the the last one, the finale,
1:05:19
Speaker 1: kind of the bow on the campaign, and well we
1:05:21
Speaker 1: dropped four so we got we got all night. We
1:05:23
Speaker 1: ain't the same medicated and now don't worry. Don't worry.
1:05:28
Speaker 1: It was like the biggest streaming record, right it was, Yeah,
1:05:31
Speaker 1: it was boom. Well, yo, go get the project. Thank you,
1:05:33
Speaker 1: guys for checking in as always and uh yeah, man,
1:05:37
Speaker 1: Demnrick is he right? Blue Lake Heap Podcast, Boom Big