Latest / The Bootleg Kev Podcast / #311 - R-Mean
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What help is your bore Armyan Pentagon family. Catch me
- 0:03Speaker 1: on the Bootleg Care podcast. Yes, Sir, boutlet Care Podcast.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Man special guests in here, my guy, my man waits
- 0:15Speaker 2: my chair too high? Is it going down slowly?
- 0:17Speaker 1: There?
- 0:17Speaker 2: It is mean? Is here?
- 0:19Speaker 1: W Bro? Thank you for having me.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Yes, Cirtain new album is out.
- 0:22Speaker 1: It's out Mean Yes, which means what mean is really
- 0:26Speaker 1: what everybody calls me. Obviously know what I'm saying. It's
- 0:29Speaker 1: very autobiographical. But I also figured it'll be an acronym,
- 0:32Speaker 1: you know, manifest everything avoid negativity really because I like
- 0:36Speaker 1: manifested this project, you know what I'm saying. First of
- 0:38Speaker 1: all is produced by Scott Storge, all of it, all
- 0:41Speaker 1: of it. Well, to be technical, there's two songs on
- 0:45Speaker 1: there that Scott Storge didn't do, but he oversaw the
- 0:48Speaker 1: whole process. It's fifteen songs, two bonus tracks, and then
- 0:51Speaker 1: thirteen records with the last two is not Scott. Shout
- 0:54Speaker 1: out my boy Pyro who did that. But yeah, it's
- 0:56Speaker 1: basically produced by Scott Storge. I work with him the
- 1:00Speaker 1: first time. It was like, I want to say, twenty
- 1:02Speaker 1: seventeen or something. We just did like one joint you know,
- 1:05Speaker 1: through Steve Lobell and stuff. Steve shout out to Steve
- 1:08Speaker 1: and I was like, man, he might be the one,
- 1:10Speaker 1: you know. I was looking for that like that production.
- 1:13Speaker 1: And I left that session like, Yo, this guy. Don't
- 1:16Speaker 1: know how I can get him to do a whole
- 1:17Speaker 1: album because he ain't cheap, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:19Speaker 1: But I'm like, Yo, this is the guy for me,
- 1:22Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I feel like he has
- 1:23Speaker 1: that balance. Obviously he's a gold producer. Long story short,
- 1:26Speaker 1: it happened, you know what I mean, like a year
- 1:28Speaker 1: and a half. Two years later, we kind of reconnected
- 1:31Speaker 1: through like my new partners and everything, and they had
- 1:34Speaker 1: a great relationship and they kind of reintroduced me to
- 1:36Speaker 1: Scott like Yo, let's not just sell us a beat,
- 1:39Speaker 1: like this is really our guy, you know what I mean,
- 1:41Speaker 1: in our community, to Armenian and they're like, Yo, this
- 1:43Speaker 1: is really our guy. We got his back and like,
- 1:45Speaker 1: let's work, and one thing led to another. We did
- 1:48Speaker 1: the whole project.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Do you have to pay for all the beats?
- 1:50Speaker 1: Not? Well, no one works for free, right, you know
- 1:53Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, but it's like we gave him
- 1:56Speaker 1: a fee love. We gave him a fee and just like,
- 1:58Speaker 1: let's work. You know what I'm saying.
- 2:00Speaker 2: You didn't you got you got the homie rate, super
- 2:02Speaker 2: homy rate, super homie because he is Scott Storge. Beats
- 2:05Speaker 2: ain't cheap.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's my dog. Thank you, Scott. I appreciate it. Yeah,
- 2:10Speaker 1: but yeah, he he also got excited though. Once we
- 2:12Speaker 1: started working. He's like, oh, okay, like you know what
- 2:15Speaker 1: I'm saying. We started really having records. Once I finished
- 2:18Speaker 1: like the French Joint, he was like, bro, you have
- 2:21Speaker 1: a smash on your hand. Then I brought Nos to
- 2:23Speaker 1: the studio. He's like, hold on Nos coming to the studio.
- 2:26Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So once we started working,
- 2:28Speaker 1: he started seeing like what I'm doing and you know
- 2:30Speaker 1: what I mean, how I'm putting everything together, and he
- 2:32Speaker 1: started respecting it more and more.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Yeah, because only the album you got nas, you got Quavo,
- 2:36Speaker 2: you got Offset.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Right, it's a ridiculous track list. I got Nas, Quavo, Offset, YG,
- 2:44Speaker 1: metha Man Kebbacca, Pyramid shot to myth. Hell yeah, shout
- 2:49Speaker 1: out to Meth. That was the easiest one. There's just
- 2:51Speaker 1: one DM And two weeks later it was in my
- 2:53Speaker 1: in my inbox. He always showed me love, but I
- 2:56Speaker 1: didn't you know, I wasn't sure.
- 2:57Speaker 2: That's crazy.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, j Wheremiah French?
- 3:01Speaker 2: You put the Lebron record on the bonus?
- 3:04Speaker 1: Yeah? To the two bonus tracks is King James with
- 3:06Speaker 1: Jeremiah and the yallab with French. I call it bonus
- 3:09Speaker 1: because I mean they were made during that process, but
- 3:11Speaker 1: we had alread dropped them, so you know, I kind
- 3:14Speaker 1: of put them as a bonus. But that King James
- 3:15Speaker 1: joint is still my highest stream It don't stop.
- 3:18Speaker 2: You know, I feel like it. I feel like it's
- 3:21Speaker 2: it was. It's like a sync record for like the
- 3:23Speaker 2: playoffs and ship. Yeah.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Last last year ESPN synced it. Yeah, was playing it
- 3:27Speaker 1: during the games. You know. It's always like a time
- 3:30Speaker 1: lit it. They licensed it for like three months.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Is that like the best way to make money off
- 3:37Speaker 2: the actual song outside of streaming is that.
- 3:39Speaker 1: I've had some good money off Like the ESPN on
- 3:43Speaker 1: was cool to be honest, but like commercials. You can
- 3:45Speaker 1: get your ship in a commercial that like plays a
- 3:49Speaker 1: few Netflix like TV shows and stuff I've had too
- 3:52Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah, that not only like the money
- 3:55Speaker 1: they pay, but it just brings awareness, you know, like
- 3:58Speaker 1: people that shit pops up on one of your most
- 4:01Speaker 1: streamed songs because people she exam it and you know
- 4:04Speaker 1: what I mean.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Have you ever done any ghostwriting for anybody?
- 4:08Speaker 1: No? No, not really? Would you ever do it? Yeah?
- 4:11Speaker 1: People songs? Yeah, I feel like local people, but I
- 4:16Speaker 1: don't really but not really.
- 4:17Speaker 2: You know, I'm not not like super like Yeah you know, yeah,
- 4:20Speaker 2: I kind of haven't really focused on that.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I feel like it's been mentioned to me multiple times,
- 4:24Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, that might be
- 4:27Speaker 1: a thing to look into.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Especially for these a lot of these rappers you need
- 4:29Speaker 2: help with the verses. Man.
- 4:30Speaker 1: It's just weird. Though, if you're like an m c
- 4:32Speaker 1: MC then usually I'm sure people do, but it's kind of.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Weird if it's not weird anymore.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I guess I'm from that cloth
- 4:40Speaker 1: where like.
- 4:40Speaker 2: You could write a song for like Coiler Ray.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, but that wouldn't be like bars. They
- 4:45Speaker 1: would be so cool. Yeah, shout out the Coiler Yeah,
- 4:48Speaker 1: I never met her. She's fan, she's she's fire.
- 4:50Speaker 2: She posted a great photo on the on the graand
- 4:52Speaker 2: today did she Yeah, she had the yeah, my guy. Yeah,
- 4:59Speaker 2: I'm surprised she didn't get check it out. Community guidelines
- 5:01Speaker 2: yanked that thing down. I'm surprised anyway. Yo. So the
- 5:06Speaker 2: Armenian genocide anniversary date was recently recently, it's on April
- 5:11Speaker 2: twenty fourth every year.
- 5:14Speaker 1: You know, I always been super involved in that, you
- 5:17Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, you know, every Armenian kind
- 5:19Speaker 1: of grew up learning about this, about how it's not recognized,
- 5:22Speaker 1: and you know, anything unrecognized, you basically give people the
- 5:26Speaker 1: right to do it again. So history repeats type of thing,
- 5:29Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So this is something that
- 5:31Speaker 1: you know, we all in our households have been really taught.
- 5:35Speaker 1: So from early on, I was at protests and things
- 5:37Speaker 1: like that, you know, And then when I started rapping,
- 5:39Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I was kind of, you know, the
- 5:41Speaker 1: first Armenian to really rap. I literally was the first.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Now there's obviously more people, but no one yet at
- 5:47Speaker 1: this level. But I was like, yo, I gotta tell
- 5:49Speaker 1: the story of my people, you know. So I did
- 5:51Speaker 1: a song called open Wounds, and then you know, we
- 5:55Speaker 1: printed these shirts that said our wounds is still open
- 5:57Speaker 1: and award in the video it was actually the ten
- 5:59Speaker 1: year anniversary this here for that of that shirt of
- 6:02Speaker 1: the whole thing at a video to shirt. That's crazy.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I see those shirts everywhere everywhere, So.
- 6:06Speaker 2: I feel like in Glendale or Burbank, you see those
- 6:08Speaker 2: shirts and the stickers and all that everywhere.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it became really I mean, someone one time
- 6:14Speaker 1: told me, it's like the biggest logo in our community.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Like there's one like coat of arms type thing that's
- 6:19Speaker 1: like a national Armenian thing, you know that everybody gets tatted,
- 6:22Speaker 1: and the second one is that our one is still
- 6:24Speaker 1: Sits crazy. That was an honor, but for me it
- 6:27Speaker 1: was really a way to kind of like encourage first
- 6:30Speaker 1: of all the youth of my own community to like,
- 6:32Speaker 1: you know what I mean, keep that spirit alive and
- 6:34Speaker 1: care about shit like that basically, but also obviously spread
- 6:37Speaker 1: the message to like people like yourself and other you
- 6:40Speaker 1: know what I mean, other races to know about our history.
- 6:42Speaker 1: So that's just really hip hop to me, you know
- 6:44Speaker 1: what I mean, share real your people.
- 6:46Speaker 2: You see the most famous Armenian like Kim Kardashian become single,
- 6:51Speaker 2: right do you like you trying to you know, bring
- 6:55Speaker 2: over back home.
- 6:55Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I mean if I could get
- 6:57Speaker 1: in the room.
- 7:00Speaker 2: To mine. You know what I'm saying, because I just
- 7:02Speaker 2: saw a clip somewhere of like I think it was
- 7:04Speaker 2: her mom was like trying to like hook her find her.
- 7:07Speaker 2: That's like an old I know it's old.
- 7:09Speaker 1: It's old, like keeping up with a card. Yeah. Yeah,
- 7:12Speaker 1: her mom was trying to hook him up with my boys,
- 7:14Speaker 1: the Platinum Brothers or one of them, you know, Platinum
- 7:17Speaker 1: Motors Sports because they do all their cars. They've been
- 7:19Speaker 1: for like mad years. Shout out to George and Jack.
- 7:22Speaker 1: So yeah, there was a there was an episode with Chris.
- 7:25Speaker 1: I don't know if that was real.
- 7:26Speaker 2: It was for the show, but it was hilarious every
- 7:29Speaker 2: time I see it.
- 7:29Speaker 1: I don't know if Kim was interested at the time,
- 7:32Speaker 1: but she was funny.
- 7:33Speaker 2: I think you should give it a shot, man. I
- 7:34Speaker 2: think she's I mean, she's single, you know.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Yeah, just shoot her a DMI. Just be like, hey,
- 7:39Speaker 1: she only has two undred million followers.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Shoot her DM with you know, the Armenian flag and
- 7:43Speaker 2: be like, hey, I'm a fan.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure I'm the only one that's going to
- 7:46Speaker 1: do that.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Let me take it to get some good food in Glendale.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Where would you would say you would take her to Raffis.
- 7:53Speaker 1: I mean, she's obviously Armenian, but I don't know if
- 7:57Speaker 1: she's super tapped in into the Armenian Armenian like restaurants
- 8:00Speaker 1: and culture. I don't know.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Maybe she is, So you're saying that'd be the restaurant,
- 8:04Speaker 2: So I.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Would probably, you know, I'd be giving Rafy's way too
- 8:06Speaker 1: much love. Like every time I've never gotten a discount,
- 8:09Speaker 1: but every time someone asked me, I bring up Rafy's,
- 8:11Speaker 1: you know, and I post what everybody always says, Rafe's
- 8:13Speaker 1: is amazing. I was there the other day. Carousel is
- 8:15Speaker 1: another one, both in Glendelle. Yeah, I haven't really thought
- 8:19Speaker 1: about where I would take Kim.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Did you start thinking we've got to manifest this man.
- 8:24Speaker 1: We've been manifesting ship lately.
- 8:26Speaker 2: So Kim, k you guys would you guys would literally
- 8:29Speaker 2: own Armenia.
- 8:30Speaker 1: We would broken can go with own Armyia. She's like,
- 8:34Speaker 1: I already own Armyia.
- 8:37Speaker 2: I don't need Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. What's up, y'all?
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- 14:28Speaker 2: outside of nas You've done some big records with You've
- 14:31Speaker 2: done records with some fucking legends, Like what is the
- 14:37Speaker 2: record that almost happened or that you thought Mike could
- 14:41Speaker 2: still happen in the future, that you haven't worked with
- 14:44Speaker 2: somebody in terms of just like an artist, because I
- 14:46Speaker 2: know we had discussed in the past. You had almost
- 14:48Speaker 2: did something with eminem back in the day. Yeah, but
- 14:52Speaker 2: today that's crazy.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Probably the craziest almost story was Nipsey because I had
- 14:59Speaker 1: just just started working with Scott. I didn't have literally
- 15:02Speaker 1: none of these features yet we just start cooking up
- 15:06Speaker 1: and my partners. You know that's from the Cannabis game.
- 15:08Speaker 1: He just randomly brought up like, you know, I'm mad
- 15:10Speaker 1: cool with Nipsey and the team. And this is when
- 15:12Speaker 1: Victory lat was everywhere and Nipsey my favorite rapper, like
- 15:15Speaker 1: especially then right that album, Like I was like, yo,
- 15:18Speaker 1: Nipsey to one, and he's he called him right on
- 15:22Speaker 1: the spot, you know what I'm saying. And he's like,
- 15:24Speaker 1: you know, we work in this and this and that.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to my guy, you know, so
- 15:27Speaker 1: briefly introduced us. We started slowly building that relationship. Never
- 15:30Speaker 1: met in person yet, right, and then he connected me
- 15:32Speaker 1: one of his team members. I send the record over
- 15:35Speaker 1: and he hit me back saying, Yo, nip fucks with it.
- 15:37Speaker 1: You know, he's down to do it. I'm like, Yo,
- 15:39Speaker 1: if it's possible, I'm trying to be in the studio,
- 15:42Speaker 1: all these features except Meth and French, all the other
- 15:45Speaker 1: industries in the studio together. You know what I'm saying.
- 15:48Speaker 1: It's a different energy, bro. Like I feel like the
- 15:50Speaker 1: NAS record would have wouldn't have been that if it was.
- 15:53Speaker 2: If you guys weren't vibing with each other on.
- 15:55Speaker 1: The hook together and shit like that. So you know,
- 15:57Speaker 1: if I can, which nowadays obviously not easy, especially for
- 16:00Speaker 1: like a big artist like that. But anyway, I asked
- 16:02Speaker 1: him and he's like, yeah, no problem, I'm gonna hit
- 16:05Speaker 1: you, you know, top of the week and we set it
- 16:06Speaker 1: up and that Sunday he got he got killed.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Bro damn.
- 16:10Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, crazy, crazy story. So yeah, rest in peace,
- 16:15Speaker 1: Rest in peace. Besides that, yeah, I've been around a
- 16:17Speaker 1: lot of people and it's like, you know, me and
- 16:20Speaker 1: Ross talked about doing something at one point. You know,
- 16:23Speaker 1: I learned like, you can't take too long when these
- 16:25Speaker 1: opportunities come take off. We talked about this in the
- 16:27Speaker 1: last interview. It was a brief como with takeoffs like YO,
- 16:30Speaker 1: send me something. Because I offset and I had Quavo.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, you the only MiG I and do
- 16:36Speaker 1: a record with yet you know what I mean. He's like, Yo,
- 16:38Speaker 1: what we're doing is send me something. And I lagged
- 16:41Speaker 1: on it, you know what I'm saying. But it's not
- 16:42Speaker 1: just because I lagged. It's like I felt like I
- 16:44Speaker 1: didn't have the right record yet because I hate having
- 16:46Speaker 1: mediocre records. I see this all the time with a
- 16:50Speaker 1: big name for sure, and you click on it. It's
- 16:52Speaker 1: like it's cool. That doesn't do nothing for you, you
- 16:55Speaker 1: know what I mean, for your career. But the way
- 16:56Speaker 1: to smash if you have really something undeniable and then
- 16:59Speaker 1: you have a big on.
- 17:00Speaker 2: It it just helps. Then you got something, you know
- 17:02Speaker 2: what I'm saying, You have a this is a one
- 17:05Speaker 2: of one jacket you have on yes, sir, okay. So
- 17:08Speaker 2: when Jeff Hamilton, when he does so, how much is
- 17:11Speaker 2: this jacket?
- 17:13Speaker 1: So basically this this jack is kind of a funny story.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Jeff Hamilton is my man, Like I got in a
- 17:17Speaker 1: couple of jackets and I got introduced to him through
- 17:19Speaker 1: some mutual friends and we became homies. And then one
- 17:22Speaker 1: day I had a video shoot with be Real for
- 17:24Speaker 1: a song called Godflows, and b Real Studio is literally
- 17:28Speaker 1: maybe a block or two away from Jeff Hamilton's like
- 17:31Speaker 1: showroom store or whatever. So I hit Jeff. I'm like, yo,
- 17:34Speaker 1: you think I can borrow a jacket for the shoot?
- 17:36Speaker 1: He's like, h of course, come through. So I go
- 17:38Speaker 1: over there and my boy found this one kind of
- 17:41Speaker 1: hanging in the corner. It's like a one of one custom,
- 17:43Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He's like, yeah, I did
- 17:45Speaker 1: that for a rapper. I don't have to mention him.
- 17:48Speaker 1: But he's like, basically he ordered it, but then he
- 17:50Speaker 1: never picked it up. You know what I'm saying, ten
- 17:53Speaker 1: thousand dollars. But he's like, I don't care to me.
- 17:55Speaker 1: My jacket's are art, you know, I hang them up.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I don't give discounts this and this and that. So
- 17:59Speaker 1: I'm like he's like, yeah, take it for the video.
- 18:01Speaker 1: I'm like, perfect, this is a perfect vibe for the
- 18:03Speaker 1: be Real video. This that I went we shot the video.
- 18:06Speaker 1: On the way back we go to drop it off,
- 18:08Speaker 1: my boy's like the whole time during the shoot, my
- 18:10Speaker 1: boy's like, Yo, this shit is too fire, Like I
- 18:12Speaker 1: need that jacket, you know. But I didn't think he
- 18:14Speaker 1: was serious. Right, We went back to Jeff Hamilton and
- 18:17Speaker 1: he went up to him. He's like, yo, I need
- 18:19Speaker 1: to cop that jacket. You know, what's my price? He's like,
- 18:22Speaker 1: I really don't give discounts. He gave him like a
- 18:25Speaker 1: thousand bucks off, so he paid nine thousand cash on
- 18:27Speaker 1: the spot. I'm like, bro, And then he's like, well,
- 18:29Speaker 1: you wore in the video already, so now everybody's gonna
- 18:32Speaker 1: think I borrowed your jacket. Just keep it for now.
- 18:36Speaker 1: So technique, this is not my jacket, but everyone's gonna
- 18:39Speaker 1: think it's my jacket.
- 18:41Speaker 2: Nine thousand dollar jacket. Jesus Christ.
- 18:42Speaker 1: I'm like, dog, Yeah, Jeff Hamilton is a beast tho bro.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Everything he does. Like every time I wear Jeff Hamilton jacket,
- 18:49Speaker 1: you get compliments by everyone that will yo sick jackets,
- 18:52Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Time, bros.
- 18:54Speaker 2: So, I feel like I've known you for so long,
- 18:55Speaker 2: but you were being so like kind of there was
- 18:57Speaker 2: like a period of time where I felt like you
- 18:59Speaker 2: were just like everything. In the last couple of years,
- 19:02Speaker 2: You've just been letting shit fly. You know what I'm saying.
- 19:04Speaker 2: Are you gonna continue?
- 19:05Speaker 1: Not for sure?
- 19:06Speaker 2: Are you gonna continue that same amount of output?
- 19:09Speaker 1: Yeah? I kind of learned. You know, two years ago
- 19:11Speaker 1: we put the project out with Berner, and I wasn't
- 19:13Speaker 1: really ready to continue the buzz I got off that,
- 19:16Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I put the King James
- 19:19Speaker 1: record out and then kind of like I wasn't ready
- 19:21Speaker 1: to keep up. You know, it's a content game now,
- 19:23Speaker 1: and like, no matter how good the shit is, you
- 19:25Speaker 1: got to follow it up, right, So this time I
- 19:27Speaker 1: made sure to be ready. So this album is definitely
- 19:30Speaker 1: like my the one I've been like working on, but
- 19:33Speaker 1: I'm like deep into the next one already. So yeah,
- 19:37Speaker 1: We're gonna keep going. Do you feel twenty twenty three
- 19:39Speaker 1: for sure.
- 19:40Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, do you feel being an
- 19:43Speaker 2: Armenian rapper? Is it that much harder to kind of
- 19:47Speaker 2: get through some of the doors and get to get
- 19:49Speaker 2: people to kind of check you out?
- 19:51Speaker 1: I think it definitely. You know, hip hop is growing, right,
- 19:54Speaker 1: and it's becoming so much more universally accepting. Right, It's
- 19:58Speaker 1: the biggest genre exactly, so slowly it's getting I guess
- 20:03Speaker 1: less and less. But at the end of the day,
- 20:04Speaker 1: we all know what the culture is, you know what
- 20:06Speaker 1: I'm saying, and we all know the initial doors. A
- 20:09Speaker 1: lot of people are not just down to support just anything,
- 20:12Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's gotta come for So
- 20:14Speaker 1: I definitely had some certain hurdles, you know what I mean,
- 20:17Speaker 1: and like or a lot of times people are like, yo,
- 20:19Speaker 1: you dope, but then turn the other way, like, you know,
- 20:21Speaker 1: do your thing. But it's never like let me come
- 20:24Speaker 1: fuck with you. I mean, because there's no real other connection.
- 20:28Speaker 1: I come from a whole outside culture, you know what
- 20:31Speaker 1: I'm saying, So I feel like any other race and
- 20:34Speaker 1: as a positive and a negative because it sets me apart,
- 20:36Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you got your your people are fucking.
- 20:39Speaker 1: My people fuck with me heavy, so you know. And
- 20:42Speaker 1: nowadays it's all about building your own independent like fan
- 20:45Speaker 1: base anyway more than anything. But yeah, for the industry
- 20:49Speaker 1: to kind of fuck with you, it's not that easy.
- 20:52Speaker 2: What would be some advice you would.
- 20:53Speaker 1: Especially sorry to cut you off, like when I started,
- 20:56Speaker 1: because I've been doing this decade plus now, like French
- 20:58Speaker 1: Montana was just you know what I mean, or DJ
- 21:01Speaker 1: caliber of people that look like me wasn't really around
- 21:03Speaker 1: yet or they just started so like it wasn't Yeah,
- 21:07Speaker 1: it wasn't the norm.
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- 24:36Speaker 2: let's get back to the interview. Yeah, French is like.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Man, eat a one, bro. He's like, as far as
- 24:41Speaker 1: black people that look like us, like, eat the one
- 24:43Speaker 1: that really did it? You know what I'm saying. It's
- 24:46Speaker 1: from Morocco, right, Morocco, which is technically Africa, but it's
- 24:49Speaker 1: a Middle Eastern kind of the culture and the looks
- 24:51Speaker 1: and everything.
- 24:52Speaker 2: You know, I mean, what would be the advice you would
- 24:54Speaker 2: give because you've kind of, like you said, you've been
- 24:57Speaker 2: doing this for ten years plus and you kind of,
- 24:59Speaker 2: you know, the end of the day, you make mistakes,
- 25:02Speaker 2: you correct you you're probably still learning as you go
- 25:05Speaker 2: behold in the world. What would be the advice you
- 25:07Speaker 2: would give, like one or two things for an independent
- 25:10Speaker 2: artist that's just like maybe in a rut that that
- 25:13Speaker 2: you know they can't figure out, like do I drop music?
- 25:17Speaker 2: Maybe they're hesitating too much, Maybe they're overthinking this ship.
- 25:19Speaker 1: What's overthinking and hesitating is not it's not the move,
- 25:23Speaker 1: but really what it is is consistency. So once you
- 25:27Speaker 1: feel like you know you found your sound, you find
- 25:30Speaker 1: you know you're you're laying or whatever. Now you just
- 25:32Speaker 1: got to stack up on the music, stack up on
- 25:34Speaker 1: the content, and then just go and and understand that
- 25:38Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot of groundwork, you know
- 25:40Speaker 1: what I'm saying, A lot of you know, probably several years.
- 25:44Speaker 1: I wouldn't bank on just going viral. Maybe that'll happen. Yeah,
- 25:47Speaker 1: the lottery, right if we go buy a lottery ticket
- 25:50Speaker 1: right now, what's the chances right so that that happens
- 25:53Speaker 1: to one in that fucking hundred million. Maybe, But if
- 25:56Speaker 1: you consistently put out quality ship, you know, the fan
- 26:01Speaker 1: base slowly grows, you know what I mean, and you
- 26:03Speaker 1: grow your own That's really the only way.
- 26:06Speaker 2: So anything you learned from Burner, because you got you
- 26:08Speaker 2: were on the road with Berner, you do a project,
- 26:10Speaker 2: I mean you've been around him a lot.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Yeah, Burner's a beast man. The way what I learned
- 26:13Speaker 1: from Berner is just this output is so incredible, it's crazy.
- 26:16Speaker 1: He runs this like massive company, right, and then he
- 26:21Speaker 1: still puts out multiple projects a year, you know what
- 26:24Speaker 1: I mean. And I see how he does it, and
- 26:26Speaker 1: you know, for every artist is different. But he he
- 26:28Speaker 1: books the studio for a week and that's all he
- 26:30Speaker 1: focuses on, and he boom, he drops a week, boom
- 26:34Speaker 1: and then move on to the next thing. He don't
- 26:36Speaker 1: have the time to sit there for a year or
- 26:38Speaker 1: for six months, you know what I'm saying. So but yeah, man, really,
- 26:41Speaker 1: just the work ethic that the consistency, the output is crazy.
- 26:45Speaker 2: You know, was there was some man he got some
- 26:48Speaker 2: crazy ass fans too.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Man, I seen, you know, I went on tour with him.
- 26:53Speaker 1: One of the dopest tours I've been on. Yeah, you'd
- 26:55Speaker 1: be surprised every single show sold out. Everyone's singing along
- 26:59Speaker 1: to every song, and then the smoke is not normal.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Even he'd be backstage because I would go on right
- 27:05Speaker 1: before him, So every night I would get off, he'd
- 27:08Speaker 1: be like, how bad is it today? Like how bad
- 27:10Speaker 1: is this smoke? Because we be wrapping up there live.
- 27:13Speaker 1: He's a big boy saying it hits you like, bro,
- 27:15Speaker 1: I can't breathe in this motherfucker, you know what i mean?
- 27:17Speaker 1: Like super fire alarm box fire alarms went off every
- 27:21Speaker 1: at least every other show.
- 27:22Speaker 2: What about it? Anything different or any anything you might
- 27:27Speaker 2: have learned from Chris Webby, who you're also close with,
- 27:30Speaker 2: also was on the road with, who also was an
- 27:31Speaker 2: independent juggernaut.
- 27:32Speaker 1: I would say I learned a lot from Chris Webby
- 27:35Speaker 1: because he was like one of the first people I
- 27:36Speaker 1: went on tour with, the whole touring aspect the show
- 27:41Speaker 1: at how he put his show together. You know what
- 27:42Speaker 1: I'm saying. I started using one of his drummers as
- 27:46Speaker 1: my drummer. Then I started using his DJ. I'm like,
- 27:48Speaker 1: I started realizing what I'm missing in my live show.
- 27:51Speaker 1: That's not just all about me, and I can't just
- 27:53Speaker 1: carry the whole shit, right, you know what I'm saying, Like,
- 27:55Speaker 1: if you have the right DJ that's strong on the mic,
- 27:58Speaker 1: that's helping, you know what I mean. It's almost like
- 28:00Speaker 1: hype man, but not a hype man then you know
- 28:02Speaker 1: what I mean, Like certain elements and the way he
- 28:04Speaker 1: does it bro is like again, it's consistency. He started
- 28:08Speaker 1: this thing with Webby Wednesdays.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Oh dropping hell of records.
- 28:12Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, every Wednesday he was, but he was doing
- 28:14Speaker 1: it the right way, right. He was cooking for like
- 28:16Speaker 1: three four months and then the rest of the year
- 28:18Speaker 1: he would hit him every week. At the end of
- 28:20Speaker 1: the year, he would hit him with an album, same
- 28:22Speaker 1: cycle for like five years. He's been doing that and
- 28:24Speaker 1: I've seen it grow, Like he's getting hundreds of millions
- 28:27Speaker 1: of streams. So he's killing you know what I mean, every
- 28:29Speaker 1: every year and every show, Like I've been on like
- 28:32Speaker 1: three four tours with him.
- 28:34Speaker 2: That's just crazy.
- 28:34Speaker 1: Shout out to Webby, my brother.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Great guy. Man. Yeah all right, so the album's out
- 28:38Speaker 2: me and go run it up. Yes, Crazy features intro's Crazy.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's one of my favorite songs. Yeah, the
- 28:47Speaker 1: features are crazy, but honestly, I'm just really proud of
- 28:50Speaker 1: the whole the whole project, like how came together. I
- 28:53Speaker 1: feel like Scott brought out of me what I hadn't
- 28:56Speaker 1: been able to show to the world yet. Like I
- 28:58Speaker 1: knew I had this potential, but I didn't have the
- 29:00Speaker 1: right you know what I mean, the right music, the
- 29:02Speaker 1: right everything to really shine. That's what good production does,
- 29:05Speaker 1: I guess you know what I'm saying. So you have
- 29:07Speaker 1: any Kim Kardashian stories for you, Scott, No, I mean, yeah,
- 29:13Speaker 1: he told he just told me that they've been together
- 29:15Speaker 1: a long time ago, but he wasn't really talking like
- 29:17Speaker 1: greasy or anything. Yeah, he was with everyone, apparently everybody.
- 29:22Speaker 1: He was. He literally was with everyone.
- 29:24Speaker 2: He's mister, He's literally I hit it first.
- 29:27Speaker 1: He's the one.
- 29:27Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the one.
- 29:29Speaker 1: Yeah, Kim is just one of the names. Bro, Like, yeah, that's.
- 29:31Speaker 2: That short, little talented guy with those glasses and all
- 29:34Speaker 2: that weed.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Talent does a lot. Talent does that boy starts on
- 29:38Speaker 1: them keys, want you give him every time? I'm impressed,
- 29:41Speaker 1: like every single time in a session, Like Jesus Christ,
- 29:43Speaker 1: he did it again.
- 29:44Speaker 2: It's crazy, man, you know what I mean, like, well,
- 29:46Speaker 2: go run the album up. It's out right now. We
- 29:49Speaker 2: got a freestyle that's crazy. You can watch ye and uh,
- 29:53Speaker 2: your new album is out, but you already got in
- 29:57Speaker 2: the tank.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Work but right now mean out right now produced by
- 30:00Speaker 1: Scott Storage. Thank you.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Tour coming.
- 30:03Speaker 1: I'm working on it, but we're doing the Rocks the Roxy.
- 30:05Speaker 1: If you're in LA Thursday, May fourth, Uh, definitely pull
- 30:10Speaker 1: up to that. And we got your boy Alexis on
- 30:12Speaker 1: the on the line up.
- 30:14Speaker 2: Were hanging out, man, my bro. Appreciate you. Thank you, yes, sir,
- 30:18Speaker 2: Love Fire