Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Babyface Ray Talks New Album The Kid That Did,' New Label, Detroit Rap Scene, Rich Paul, Jayz + More
Transcript
- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody, it's the j Envy Jess hilarishall,
- 0:08Speaker 2: I mean the guy we are, the Breakfast Club lawn,
- 0:10Speaker 2: the roasters feeling in for Jess. We got a special
- 0:12Speaker 2: guests in the building. The Kid that did baby Face Ray. Yeah,
- 0:16Speaker 2: what's up, brother?
- 0:16Speaker 1: How you feeling?
- 0:17Speaker 3: How you doing, my brother?
- 0:19Speaker 2: I'm doing good doing all right.
- 0:21Speaker 3: I love the title of that new album, Man. What
- 0:23Speaker 3: does that title mean?
- 0:24Speaker 1: The Kid that Did, Kid That Did Man?
- 0:26Speaker 4: Originally I got it from Sauce Walker. It was a
- 0:29Speaker 4: quote he was saying, you know what I'm saying, But
- 0:30Speaker 4: I felt like it applied to what I had going
- 0:33Speaker 4: on and everything that I did so far in my career.
- 0:36Speaker 4: So it originally started out as a mixed tape idea
- 0:39Speaker 4: where I wanted to put all the group artists that
- 0:42Speaker 4: I was dealing with on it, but it ain't work
- 0:45Speaker 4: out like that, and then it.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Turns into an album.
- 0:48Speaker 2: We've been talking about how how much Detroit has influence
- 0:50Speaker 2: on the game right now, speaking about that for a
- 0:52Speaker 2: little bit, because for a while it was it was
- 0:54Speaker 2: difficult to get out being a Detroit artist.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Yeah, it was tough for us at first, but now
- 0:59Speaker 1: like everywhere you go, they love us. You know what
- 1:01Speaker 1: I'm saying. It feel good right now, you know, but
- 1:04Speaker 1: at first it was rough. They ain't even want to
- 1:06Speaker 1: hear it.
- 1:06Speaker 3: What was the switch?
- 1:06Speaker 2: What was the change?
- 1:09Speaker 1: Me always say this.
- 1:10Speaker 4: I think when t came out with the first day
- 1:12Speaker 4: out kind of like opening it kind of shine like
- 1:15Speaker 4: on Detroit for that type of sound, you know what
- 1:17Speaker 4: I'm saying, And then everything after that side of dood
- 1:21Speaker 4: it was cool.
- 1:22Speaker 3: You know. It's interesting that I saw somebody, somebody sent
- 1:25Speaker 3: me a tweet where they said, baby faces babyface raised
- 1:28Speaker 3: music is all about getting money and hustling. Even if
- 1:30Speaker 3: you're broke. His music will motivate you to go get
- 1:32Speaker 3: it bag. How does it feel to hear people say
- 1:34Speaker 3: things like that about you because you know, for me
- 1:35Speaker 3: growing up, that's what Jeezi felt like.
- 1:38Speaker 4: You know what, I that's a cool title to put
- 1:41Speaker 4: on me. I'm glad they're putting that on me than
- 1:42Speaker 4: anything else. I'm glad I can motivate them to do that.
- 1:47Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 1:47Speaker 4: I hate when they I don't hate when they say
- 1:49Speaker 4: it and they trying to put it like that like
- 1:50Speaker 4: I'm just down talking to everybody that was broke because
- 1:52Speaker 4: I used to be broke. I remember I used to
- 1:54Speaker 4: be so but it's cool.
- 1:55Speaker 1: I ain't tripping at this point.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Do you feel like you're getting like your flowers or
- 1:59Speaker 5: like you're justice?
- 2:00Speaker 1: Definitely? Definitely.
- 2:01Speaker 4: How they received my last album definitely motivated me and
- 2:05Speaker 4: made me feel love and support.
- 2:07Speaker 3: It Still, what motivated you to get a bag? When
- 2:09Speaker 3: you hear people say, you know, damn baby face read
- 2:11Speaker 3: music motivates me to go get some money? What motivated you.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Being in a mix? Like when I was young, I
- 2:16Speaker 4: was in a mix. You know what I'm saying. I
- 2:18Speaker 4: probably was in a mixed the wrong crowd, but just
- 2:20Speaker 4: seeing what they did and that motivated me to get
- 2:23Speaker 4: a bag.
- 2:23Speaker 1: It wasn't even about rapp.
- 2:25Speaker 4: It was just with the things they did and how
- 2:27Speaker 4: they carried themselves and stuff.
- 2:29Speaker 5: So now you're not in the mix. What motivates you
- 2:31Speaker 5: today today? Yeah?
- 2:32Speaker 4: My kids, you know what I'm saying. My family, my
- 2:34Speaker 4: fans and stuff like that. That's keep me going through.
- 2:37Speaker 3: I wasn't look at your kids and be like, I
- 2:38Speaker 3: don't really have a baby face, because this is what
- 2:40Speaker 3: a real baby face looks like.
- 2:41Speaker 4: Not for real, I'd be looking at them like this,
- 2:43Speaker 4: This is how I used to look when I was little,
- 2:44Speaker 4: Like it's crazy.
- 2:46Speaker 2: I love seeing you know, sod the baby was up there,
- 2:49Speaker 2: and I loved the fact that Detroit is coming together
- 2:51Speaker 2: a lot more than before. You know, there was just
- 2:53Speaker 2: so many beasts on so many different sides of Detroit.
- 2:56Speaker 2: But it feels like that's been squashed. What do you
- 2:58Speaker 2: think the reason that that has I.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Think it's more of everybody understanding that we got business
- 3:04Speaker 4: to handle.
- 3:05Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 3:05Speaker 4: We ain't gotta be like each other or hang around
- 3:09Speaker 4: each other, but all the bullshit that's in the mix,
- 3:13Speaker 4: we ain't gotta you know what I'm saying, Like you
- 3:15Speaker 4: get in a bag, whatever, go do your thing.
- 3:16Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Y'all in the same clubs, y'all doing concerts.
- 3:19Speaker 1: It ain't no big deal.
- 3:23Speaker 3: I saw you got a few lyrics, man, that make
- 3:26Speaker 3: me just wonder, like, why does it feel like you
- 3:29Speaker 3: be so disgusted to hear that a woman would even
- 3:31Speaker 3: fuck with a lame ass nigga When you put a
- 3:33Speaker 3: lot of emphasis on that. You got one line. You see,
- 3:35Speaker 3: we ain't got no business even speaking if you fucking lambs,
- 3:37Speaker 3: you ain't got no business even thinking you can fuck
- 3:39Speaker 3: with face. Another line you say, seeing the soul called
- 3:42Speaker 3: batty fucking lamb, it left me traumatized.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Another line you say, almost cry when I seen my
- 3:46Speaker 3: ex bitch her new nigga broken. It's sad to see.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, dang, that's crazy. I don't know. Man.
- 3:52Speaker 4: You know, when you're dealing with somebody, you put your
- 3:54Speaker 4: you know, look, your love and your care into them
- 3:56Speaker 4: and you deal with them. And then you see somebody
- 3:59Speaker 4: that you feel is lame, that's dealing with the same
- 4:01Speaker 4: thing that you cared about.
- 4:02Speaker 1: It can miss you up a little bit.
- 4:03Speaker 6: So why is it that he can say that and
- 4:06Speaker 6: you big him up, but when a girl says the
- 4:07Speaker 6: same thing, we get dawnplayed. Why do you think that
- 4:10Speaker 6: that is because he loves to drag me for being
- 4:12Speaker 6: like the it's certain things I don't want to deal with.
- 4:14Speaker 3: That's crazy I was talking about.
- 4:16Speaker 5: He does it daily. I can send you.
- 4:17Speaker 4: Women is doing that a lot now, Like y'all got high,
- 4:20Speaker 4: high expectations in me and you feel me.
- 4:23Speaker 1: I'm saying it.
- 4:24Speaker 6: Just you think not dealing with the lame is high
- 4:26Speaker 6: high or is that like just regular depends on what
- 4:28Speaker 6: you to consider a lame too.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Though.
- 4:29Speaker 1: You gotta excuse me because what I think is the
- 4:31Speaker 1: lame y'all.
- 4:32Speaker 4: People might not think I don't know you just you
- 4:35Speaker 4: could just I don't know.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I can't really pinpoint.
- 4:38Speaker 3: You see, like Broin, maybe that girl was always lame.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Man's why y'all you had heard it? Maybe maybe maybe
- 4:47Speaker 1: I'm lame to somebody too.
- 4:48Speaker 3: So do you have an ex in particular when you
- 4:51Speaker 3: be writing these raps?
- 4:52Speaker 1: Do you have? No? No, no, no, no, I ain't
- 4:54Speaker 1: ain't turn nobody. I ain't doing that.
- 4:58Speaker 6: So in delusional, you're not talking about nobody specific because
- 5:01Speaker 6: it was given finding love currently in love.
- 5:05Speaker 4: Nah, No, it was it was it kept everybody kept
- 5:08Speaker 4: saying delusional, delusional.
- 5:09Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 5:10Speaker 4: I think I think Be even has said it to
- 5:12Speaker 4: me delusional. And I was in the studio.
- 5:15Speaker 5: About what it's the summertime, it's a delulu summer. You
- 5:18Speaker 5: ain't hurt.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been that. Somebody just kept saying, like delusion,
- 5:22Speaker 4: you delusion or anything.
- 5:24Speaker 1: So it was just something.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Going on, right, You ever told a girl that you delusional?
- 5:28Speaker 3: That's my boyfriend, that girl delusion.
- 5:30Speaker 1: I never say that.
- 5:35Speaker 6: I'm really just asking because this ain't This game am
- 5:38Speaker 6: new to me. I guess you're using me. But for you,
- 5:40Speaker 6: I'm delusional. You perfectly beautiful. I got some bruises too.
- 5:43Speaker 6: It sounds like you been right there.
- 5:45Speaker 4: I ain't gonna lie in the relationship. You have to
- 5:47Speaker 4: be somewhat delusional about your partner. You know what I'm saying,
- 5:51Speaker 4: Somewhat I feel you know what I'm saying. If you
- 5:53Speaker 4: ain't delusional about that person, then it ain't really gonna
- 5:56Speaker 4: work out. If you not all the way strong out
- 5:58Speaker 4: on me, like to the to the full, like, it
- 6:01Speaker 4: ain't gonna work up.
- 6:02Speaker 3: You can't be a little stupid though, like like, for example,
- 6:05Speaker 3: if you're dealing with a girl, sometimes get straight up smart.
- 6:10Speaker 3: She know you got a bunch of girls. She can't
- 6:11Speaker 3: be delusional, but like you the only one.
- 6:13Speaker 6: Hey man, I was gonna say sometimes, well, but never
- 6:23Speaker 6: mind nothing what you say.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Lauren single and she's been looking for a man for
- 6:27Speaker 2: a while now, well a lot.
- 6:30Speaker 5: I'm not delusional.
- 6:31Speaker 6: I just think that I agree with you that sometimes
- 6:33Speaker 6: at some point you do have to kind of like
- 6:35Speaker 6: remove critical.
- 6:37Speaker 5: No, that's gonna sound dumb, not remember critical thinking.
- 6:39Speaker 6: But sometimes you have to just kind of go with
- 6:41Speaker 6: the flow and if you figure out at the end
- 6:43Speaker 6: of it, d it's not working and it's not right,
- 6:44Speaker 6: it's whatever. But you are a bit delusional as you're
- 6:46Speaker 6: flowing because you want to you want to f around
- 6:48Speaker 6: and find out a bit.
- 6:49Speaker 5: But I was gonna say sometimes as a woman, you
- 6:52Speaker 5: have to not fully tell the truth a bit because
- 6:57Speaker 5: you got to ease it.
- 6:57Speaker 2: You got it a lot on it.
- 6:59Speaker 6: You gotta ease a guy strikes again. You have to
- 7:02Speaker 6: ease a guy into being able to take what you're
- 7:05Speaker 6: saying to.
- 7:06Speaker 5: Them without it being an ego trick. Crazy as a man.
- 7:10Speaker 5: Men's lives. Men do small lives with women.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Sometimes they do a lot of lies.
- 7:18Speaker 1: They do a lot of.
- 7:19Speaker 6: I'm not saying it in like like I'm lying about
- 7:21Speaker 6: who I'm with or I'm cheating. I mean like, because
- 7:23Speaker 6: he was basically trying to get you to say, you
- 7:25Speaker 6: be telling people they the only one and they not.
- 7:26Speaker 5: You do that? Are you not saying that's that's what
- 7:29Speaker 5: that's that's what he was trying.
- 7:30Speaker 3: To get You let them.
- 7:34Speaker 5: That's why he was about to answer that question.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, Yeah, I ain't that type of gay bro.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Ain't that type of guy.
- 7:45Speaker 4: I ain't gonna say, I ain't gonna I'll just blankly
- 7:48Speaker 4: be like you only one, like I'm gonna treat you
- 7:51Speaker 4: as such.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I'm gonna let my actions show.
- 7:54Speaker 6: And she delusionally feels that and goes with it, even
- 7:57Speaker 6: if she might not think different.
- 7:58Speaker 4: I mean, ship, people go through stuff. You've been through stuff,
- 8:02Speaker 4: and I'm sure you've been through stuff like people go
- 8:04Speaker 4: through saying I've been through stuff.
- 8:06Speaker 3: You everybody. That's why now read that you just brought
- 8:13Speaker 3: your mama house man.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. You know that you listen to say
- 8:16Speaker 1: I think I was.
- 8:19Speaker 4: Yeah, how that feels feel good? I feel damn good.
- 8:23Speaker 4: I ain't gonna I used to have to staying like
- 8:25Speaker 4: once I buy my mama house.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I'm cool. You know what I'm saying. But we're gonna
- 8:29Speaker 1: keep going and keep reaching.
- 8:30Speaker 3: You know, when did you know you got to that
- 8:33Speaker 3: point where you were able to do it? Like you
- 8:34Speaker 3: sitting with your financial advisor, I can go by my
- 8:38Speaker 3: mama house.
- 8:38Speaker 4: I sent the money, like, hold on, in my mind,
- 8:41Speaker 4: I'm doing the right thing. Is like, as soon as
- 8:44Speaker 4: I get X amount of dollars, I'm buying my my house.
- 8:47Speaker 4: So once I got to that I'm buying my house,
- 8:49Speaker 4: it was that simple.
- 8:50Speaker 3: You're surprised that, you know how she was getting.
- 8:53Speaker 4: I called my dad. I didn't tell her. I called
- 8:55Speaker 4: my dad like, yeah, find the house. And he's like,
- 8:57Speaker 4: what's the what the budget?
- 8:59Speaker 3: What what was?
- 9:00Speaker 4: And I told him, He like, you show yeah, so
- 9:02Speaker 4: what was the budget? It was a It was a
- 9:05Speaker 4: nice amount.
- 9:06Speaker 3: He said, you shure, And he's playing like you broke.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Bro yeah, because they don't be little.
- 9:11Speaker 5: Yeah, look over here, because I wouldn't do that. That's
- 9:14Speaker 5: so mean. And boy, you just asked him.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Was he sure I am broke?
- 9:18Speaker 5: Like I threw it on you.
- 9:20Speaker 2: That's that's what my mama do to all you show.
- 9:21Speaker 2: My pap do that because they want to make sure
- 9:23Speaker 2: that we're not having.
- 9:26Speaker 1: To protect it.
- 9:28Speaker 5: Did she what was she crying? What she was her?
- 9:30Speaker 1: She cried?
- 9:31Speaker 4: She's still she might crab today, crowded time. You know
- 9:33Speaker 4: what I'm saying, My mama crazy.
- 9:35Speaker 6: But that's because she's seeing all of the success and
- 9:38Speaker 6: things happen that you said that, like, you know, she's
- 9:39Speaker 6: not used to.
- 9:40Speaker 4: Seeing I'm the baby boy too, so everything that I
- 9:45Speaker 4: do she'd be looking at me like this is crazy.
- 9:48Speaker 1: She gonna watch this and me like you said, Mama,
- 9:51Speaker 1: like that's crazy.
- 9:52Speaker 2: So you got to support the whole fam. The whole
- 9:53Speaker 2: family look at you because you baby boy, you you
- 9:55Speaker 2: the artist. You're making it. So how was that stress
- 9:58Speaker 2: on you?
- 9:59Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes get stressful because they get a little crazy,
- 10:03Speaker 1: Like every when it's all coming to you at.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Once, Christmas time, Thanksgiving, everybody coming to the same time.
- 10:07Speaker 1: I ain't tripping a Christmas time because it's time to
- 10:10Speaker 1: give you know what I'm saying.
- 10:11Speaker 3: But when they see you do stuff like by your
- 10:13Speaker 3: mama house not now, those requests get a little crazy.
- 10:15Speaker 3: Let me borrow ten grand tell Friday man man hey
- 10:18Speaker 3: now for real?
- 10:19Speaker 6: But how do you deal with stuff like that? I
- 10:21Speaker 6: saw an interview where you said I can't have your
- 10:23Speaker 6: problems on me right now. I'm trying to lock in
- 10:25Speaker 6: and focus. That don't mean I don't love you or nothing.
- 10:26Speaker 6: It's just I'm on a mission right now. So how
- 10:28Speaker 6: do you create that barrier of like, it's not that
- 10:30Speaker 6: I don't love you, but not right now.
- 10:32Speaker 4: I need to get better at communicating because when I
- 10:34Speaker 4: get in that mold, I feel like you're wearing me down.
- 10:36Speaker 4: I just cut off all communication and I don't be
- 10:39Speaker 4: meaning them by, but I be so focused on what
- 10:41Speaker 4: I'm trying to do.
- 10:41Speaker 1: I feel like you're throwing me off.
- 10:43Speaker 2: How many siblings?
- 10:44Speaker 1: Yeah? I got three? Ye.
- 10:48Speaker 3: Salute to you too.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Man.
- 10:49Speaker 3: You partners your Wavy Gang label with Empire. Yeah, what
- 10:52Speaker 3: does that mean for you?
- 10:53Speaker 1: It means a lot.
- 10:55Speaker 4: I don't know too many people that got their own
- 10:56Speaker 4: record label for real, for real, you know what I'm saying.
- 10:59Speaker 1: So for me to have one, it feel good. You
- 11:02Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
- 11:02Speaker 3: You feel pressure, like I guess put on more artists
- 11:06Speaker 3: from Detroit? Are you gonna be looking for artists from everywhere?
- 11:08Speaker 3: Or No?
- 11:09Speaker 4: No, I ain't really got that type of precire. Like
- 11:11Speaker 4: people ain't even run up on me. I mean they
- 11:13Speaker 4: do all the time. But I don't feel feel no pressure.
- 11:15Speaker 4: But I'm a helping guy. So if you got good
- 11:18Speaker 4: music and I can help you, know what I'm saying,
- 11:20Speaker 4: especially while I'm in a position I mean not, then
- 11:22Speaker 4: I'm gonna help you.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Just rappers or R and B everybody.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Really yeah, R and B, producers everything. If it's fire shit,
- 11:28Speaker 1: we can work.
- 11:30Speaker 6: Is there more that you want to do, like in
- 11:31Speaker 6: your city, just outside of music, like community wise. I
- 11:34Speaker 6: know that you just did like the new balanced shoes
- 11:36Speaker 6: for the boys and Girls club.
- 11:38Speaker 5: Like what else are you looking to do? Like building
- 11:40Speaker 5: out lives?
- 11:41Speaker 4: Ain't man, We've been in talks trying to get school.
- 11:45Speaker 5: Oh wow with ages with grades.
- 11:47Speaker 4: Uh they were saying more like high school because we're
- 11:49Speaker 4: working with the football team now. So I think he'll
- 11:51Speaker 4: be cool for us to get to school and build
- 11:53Speaker 4: it up and have it under my brother and get
- 11:57Speaker 4: something going like that. But it's a lot I want
- 11:59Speaker 4: to do however I can.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I'm who's all in the Wavy Game?
- 12:03Speaker 1: Who all in the Wavy Game? Uh? We got a
- 12:06Speaker 1: lot of people in Wavy Game that's not rappers. So
- 12:08Speaker 1: I'm just gonna name the people that you.
- 12:10Speaker 3: Know, the rappers entertainers.
- 12:12Speaker 4: But everybody is a Wavy Game Samuel Sha Bass, we
- 12:15Speaker 4: got Rockstar Rally, we got uh World Tour, Mafia. Any
- 12:22Speaker 4: of my brothers you've seen me with vs Nam all
- 12:26Speaker 4: them they claim they we all claim the same thing.
- 12:28Speaker 4: Daisy Name, Los and Nutty. You know what I'm saying.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Everybody Wavy Game.
- 12:31Speaker 3: You've been around, how many change you gotta buy you change?
- 12:34Speaker 3: How many wave game change change? I bought?
- 12:37Speaker 1: Everybody really bought their own change that got waste for real.
- 12:40Speaker 4: I just recently bought two changs for Samuel Bass and
- 12:44Speaker 4: rock Star, and I bought my nephew Changed today money
- 12:47Speaker 4: he rappers.
- 12:48Speaker 3: Well, I saw you say that the entertainment business involved
- 12:51Speaker 3: more than just rapping. So when you got the Wavy
- 12:54Speaker 3: Gang label deal with Empire, was that was that part
- 12:56Speaker 3: of that rapping? You saying that the taming business was
- 13:00Speaker 3: more than rapping, more than just rappings.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 13:03Speaker 4: It was me handling my business for sure, because we
- 13:05Speaker 4: have been talking about it a lot, and I had
- 13:06Speaker 4: did so much for the artists around me.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Guys. He was like, you know, we had a conversation.
- 13:11Speaker 4: I'm like, you need to just let me get a
- 13:13Speaker 4: label and I try to work with the artists. We
- 13:16Speaker 4: really was trying to have me like work with the
- 13:17Speaker 4: artists in Detroit, but it ain't turn out like that.
- 13:19Speaker 4: I just got who I feel like I want to
- 13:21Speaker 4: work with.
- 13:23Speaker 5: What do you want people to take away from this album?
- 13:27Speaker 1: On the growth? Man?
- 13:28Speaker 4: Just see me growing musically, you know, I want people
- 13:31Speaker 4: to know that I'm.
- 13:33Speaker 1: Still growing with it. You know what I'm saying. I'm
- 13:35Speaker 1: not just trying to put it out.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Sometimes artists in the music business now today they look
- 13:40Speaker 4: at it as a cash grap.
- 13:41Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So I want to keep
- 13:43Speaker 1: trying to move musically.
- 13:45Speaker 5: People still got albums as cash grabs, like I thought.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Yeah, in the way it set up, nothing like that.
- 13:49Speaker 4: Okay.
- 13:50Speaker 2: Last time he was up there, you were talking about
- 13:52Speaker 2: the importance of a good team and a good manager.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Did you work at all out and find your good
- 13:57Speaker 2: team and make sure your your people around you?
- 13:58Speaker 4: Yeah, you see my team, But I mean when we
- 14:01Speaker 4: handled a business, y'all. Keep my team women for show.
- 14:04Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They keep me focused. You know.
- 14:06Speaker 4: They don't let me slack even when I want to
- 14:08Speaker 4: be lazy or just do what I want to do
- 14:10Speaker 4: and feel like something is not important.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Next day, you also talked about, uh, you got two
- 14:14Speaker 2: sisters with you too, that's important.
- 14:16Speaker 3: Yeah, two black women.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Yeah, they boss you.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Around all day.
- 14:20Speaker 4: No, No, I'm a pretty easy going Yeah, so they
- 14:22Speaker 4: ain't got to boss me around.
- 14:23Speaker 1: It makes sense.
- 14:24Speaker 5: Can you say that again? For them?
- 14:26Speaker 6: Easy going, easy going, so they don't have to bush you.
- 14:30Speaker 5: Yeah, you look over there.
- 14:33Speaker 3: I'm a man. I like direction. I like for a
- 14:35Speaker 3: woman to give me direction.
- 14:36Speaker 4: Yeah, if it makes sense, you ain't. Might just tell
- 14:42Speaker 4: me anything though exactly.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Now.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Also, last time here we talking about acting. Yeah, you
- 14:47Speaker 2: want to get in the acting game.
- 14:49Speaker 3: How has that been?
- 14:50Speaker 2: Because tob is the Detroit is the biggest place for
- 14:52Speaker 2: to be so.
- 14:52Speaker 4: To be lit right, this ain't gonna lie. I mean,
- 14:55Speaker 4: I mean smallly trying to do my thing, y'all gotta
- 14:57Speaker 4: go check it out. I got a video called Money
- 14:59Speaker 4: on my Mind where I kind of like did a
- 15:01Speaker 4: little acting, and then my trailer for my album we
- 15:03Speaker 4: did a little acting. So it's slowly getting to the
- 15:06Speaker 4: point where I'm gonna.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Try to act a little bit.
- 15:08Speaker 3: How did you connect with Rich Paul? For the World
- 15:11Speaker 3: is Yours?
- 15:11Speaker 1: Rich Paul?
- 15:12Speaker 4: Let me say this right too, because the last few
- 15:14Speaker 4: interviews I've been doing, I've been saying it wrong. My
- 15:17Speaker 4: guy who do clothes by the name of Jack Rip,
- 15:20Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. He connected me with Rich Paul.
- 15:24Speaker 4: You know, he called me one day like you messed
- 15:26Speaker 4: with Rich and I'm like, yeah, So I got Rich
- 15:28Speaker 4: and we faced that and we just was talking. He
- 15:30Speaker 4: wasn't even talking about no sports and nothing else. He
- 15:32Speaker 4: was talking about music, how he enjoyed it, and we
- 15:35Speaker 4: ended up linking in California and doing the song.
- 15:37Speaker 3: Oh he liked your music? Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
- 15:40Speaker 4: He was telling me how he was listening to a song,
- 15:42Speaker 4: one specific song during his book release, which one was
- 15:45Speaker 4: Congratulations with Little Yachty dj Esco.
- 15:48Speaker 3: Did it got you?
- 15:49Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 15:49Speaker 3: What other conversations did y'all have?
- 15:50Speaker 1: You know?
- 15:50Speaker 3: Rich he's a wall for knowledge.
- 15:52Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I see everybody say that. But he we
- 15:55Speaker 4: just be kicking about music. We're just trying to keep
- 15:58Speaker 4: me on game about excelling music.
- 16:02Speaker 1: He has sent me a beat.
- 16:03Speaker 4: You might sound fire on this and attacking like this,
- 16:07Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. He helped me out with
- 16:09Speaker 4: my foundation thing back on. But other than that, we
- 16:11Speaker 4: were talking about music.
- 16:13Speaker 3: Dope. What about the legacy record with with dough Boy Clay.
- 16:17Speaker 3: You said, build build a legacy before you get to
- 16:20Speaker 3: the tune. Yeah, Like, what kind of legacy do you
- 16:22Speaker 3: intend to leave in Detroit?
- 16:24Speaker 1: Mm hmmm?
- 16:26Speaker 4: One of the Motown joints? Like everybody know about Motown
- 16:29Speaker 4: just being a staple. I want people to remember Babyface
- 16:32Speaker 4: right waver game like that. You know what I'm saying, positive,
- 16:34Speaker 4: good music stuff like that.
- 16:39Speaker 6: The title of that song, I don't know why that.
- 16:41Speaker 6: The title of that song just made my like heart
- 16:44Speaker 6: drop a little bit.
- 16:46Speaker 5: No, what was it?
- 16:46Speaker 6: Something about the tune to be completely off like for
- 16:53Speaker 6: I think with me when artists have songs like that,
- 16:55Speaker 6: I guess you have to. You do have to think
- 16:56Speaker 6: about legacy as your building. But I don't know, I
- 16:59Speaker 6: just don't. It's just a weird feeling that thing.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I didn't.
- 17:02Speaker 4: I didn't put it in a negative way. I know
- 17:03Speaker 4: what you mean, like the power to tongue and what
- 17:05Speaker 4: you're saying and stuff like. I didn't put it in
- 17:07Speaker 4: a negative way.
- 17:07Speaker 1: I'm just being honest about life.
- 17:09Speaker 3: The reality is we all gonna go Yeah, for sure.
- 17:12Speaker 3: I'm just like I saw DC Young Fly I say
- 17:14Speaker 3: that yesterday. It's true, like we all on borrow time
- 17:16Speaker 3: for sure, that interviews. At some point, we all gonna
- 17:19Speaker 3: end up in that place. We just don't know when.
- 17:21Speaker 1: So for sure, you know.
- 17:22Speaker 3: It's not like you're saying, I want to go to
- 17:23Speaker 3: the woman tomorrow.
- 17:24Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just make it count why you're here, That's right, wasting.
- 17:29Speaker 4: I procrastinated a lot of my younger life, so I'm
- 17:32Speaker 4: trying to make it count right now.
- 17:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I need some motivation. You started with a devotion
- 17:36Speaker 3: to what you said.
- 17:37Speaker 1: God.
- 17:37Speaker 3: You never promised me days without pain, but you did
- 17:39Speaker 3: promise He promised me to scrimp for those days. Was
- 17:42Speaker 3: there a situation that happened or do you remember you
- 17:45Speaker 3: know when you when your faith became so strong?
- 17:47Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we all got low points, you feel me.
- 17:50Speaker 4: So that prayer was like when people play that song,
- 17:54Speaker 4: when you hear that prayer and understand like you ain't
- 17:56Speaker 4: alone because I know people be going through stuff.
- 17:58Speaker 1: I didn't been through low point. You've been through little
- 18:00Speaker 1: points where you had.
- 18:01Speaker 4: To you know what I'm saying, So, uh, it ain't
- 18:04Speaker 4: I can't name a specific time when it happened, but
- 18:07Speaker 4: you know that was just for the first to know,
- 18:09Speaker 4: like you're going through something you can get through it.
- 18:12Speaker 6: Do you have a song on the project that like
- 18:14Speaker 6: you're that's kind of like your favorite out of the twenty.
- 18:16Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie.
- 18:17Speaker 4: I've been feeling a legacy lot, Like before the album
- 18:20Speaker 4: came out.
- 18:20Speaker 1: I was playing that a lot. You know what I'm
- 18:23Speaker 1: saying legacy for.
- 18:25Speaker 3: You even one because you're building one to ask what
- 18:27Speaker 3: is it?
- 18:27Speaker 5: But it's that, Yeah, I don't have question, just looking at.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Me for let's let's get into something the album then
- 18:37Speaker 3: what you want to hear? Babyface Ray, I don't know.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Y'all can just pick whatever y'all get, Just pick one.
- 18:42Speaker 2: I wanted to ask one more questions because I know
- 18:44Speaker 2: you do so much for Detroit, and I know a
- 18:45Speaker 2: lot of times people don't necessarily see all the stuff
- 18:47Speaker 2: that you do for the kids in Detroit. Yeah, when
- 18:49Speaker 2: did that come about? When did you change your said?
- 18:51Speaker 2: These kids need to see a difference because every time
- 18:53Speaker 2: I'm in Detroit, and I'm in Detroit a lot, I
- 18:54Speaker 2: see you out about, but not only in the clubs.
- 18:57Speaker 2: I see you doing for the youth, right, I see
- 18:58Speaker 2: you giving back, whether it's the sneaky thing that she said,
- 19:01Speaker 2: or the backpacks, or the football teams or whatever it
- 19:04Speaker 2: may be. When did you feel like that was what
- 19:06Speaker 2: I need to do because you do it so much
- 19:07Speaker 2: and a lot of times people don't necessarily talk about.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Because I was actually looking for an article where they
- 19:11Speaker 2: talk about it, I see it, but I didn't see
- 19:12Speaker 2: any articles of talking about the things that you do.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Once we built our foundation, you know what I'm saying.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Once we built it.
- 19:18Speaker 4: We already knew like what we wanted to do, So
- 19:21Speaker 4: we started doing like workshops for all the kids. And
- 19:23Speaker 4: I got kids, My brothers got kids, so we already
- 19:26Speaker 4: dealing with our kids, so it was it was important
- 19:28Speaker 4: to like start helping the kids. Is around, like, like
- 19:30Speaker 4: you say, when you come to the city, you gonna
- 19:32Speaker 4: see me out. So it ain't make no sense for
- 19:34Speaker 4: me to be bouncing through their luxury cars and not
- 19:37Speaker 4: giving back, you know what I'm saying. So I wanted
- 19:39Speaker 4: to help and reach out and touch the kids in
- 19:41Speaker 4: a way where they remember that someone like me help.
- 19:44Speaker 2: You know why is it so important for especially Detroit artists.
- 19:47Speaker 2: I see this a lot in Detroit, where Detroit artists
- 19:49Speaker 2: stay in Detroit. Like a lot of times you see
- 19:52Speaker 2: people love other markets and they go to another city,
- 19:55Speaker 2: another state, like they move away. But you know, I
- 19:57Speaker 2: didn't been and seeing you in your hood, I didnet
- 19:59Speaker 2: pulled up on you. So why is that so important.
- 20:01Speaker 1: To it be?
- 20:02Speaker 4: It's rough real like because even my people like nah,
- 20:05Speaker 4: they still want me to get away. You know what
- 20:07Speaker 4: I'm saying, but it be hard because of my family
- 20:09Speaker 4: and what I got going on. But I did have
- 20:12Speaker 4: a theory in my mind that I wanted to stay
- 20:14Speaker 4: in Detroit and like get it going to where how
- 20:16Speaker 4: Atlanta is and how California is, you know what I'm saying,
- 20:19Speaker 4: And how they strong and they got what they got
- 20:22Speaker 4: going on, but it get rough out here.
- 20:24Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I love that you think
- 20:25Speaker 1: you may got. It might not be like that for real.
- 20:27Speaker 1: So still I'm still kind of fifty fifty on how
- 20:30Speaker 1: I want to play. If I still want to be there.
- 20:32Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, You gotta move. I'm sure
- 20:34Speaker 3: you move a certain way though.
- 20:35Speaker 4: Yeah, and some days I might be riding dolo. My
- 20:39Speaker 4: pops might call what you know, who you're with by myself?
- 20:42Speaker 3: Man?
- 20:42Speaker 1: You tripping?
- 20:42Speaker 6: Man?
- 20:43Speaker 1: Get somebody with you, you know?
- 20:44Speaker 2: And you think it would see a day like how
- 20:46Speaker 2: Kendrick get in that lake where he brought everybody on
- 20:48Speaker 2: that stage. You think we can see that in Detroit where.
- 20:50Speaker 4: We somewhat had that day Dug had a concert, Yeah, yeah,
- 20:53Speaker 4: where it kind of reunited both sides. That was kind
- 20:56Speaker 4: of fut before even though we had conversations prior to
- 20:59Speaker 4: the concert behind the scenes. But I think that day
- 21:02Speaker 4: kind of show like unity, but it's still more work
- 21:05Speaker 4: to do. It's still artists that's few in but they
- 21:08Speaker 4: might not show it. But we got to get past that,
- 21:10Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So maybe that day coming.
- 21:12Speaker 3: I don't know what is it the Detroit street politics
- 21:16Speaker 3: though I don't understand that, like.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Is it beyond the music. It's real stuff going on
- 21:19Speaker 1: that you don't know about.
- 21:20Speaker 3: You know what I say?
- 21:21Speaker 1: So you know how that is.
- 21:23Speaker 6: Speaking of Kendrick, he dropped the song where he's talking
- 21:26Speaker 6: about like we need more substance in media and music
- 21:30Speaker 6: all of that stuff. And I know you talked earlier
- 21:31Speaker 6: about T Grizzly and one of the things I like
- 21:33Speaker 6: about Detroit artists is the way that you guys storytell music.
- 21:37Speaker 5: Do you feel like right.
- 21:38Speaker 6: Now that we were having this conversation the other day, that
- 21:39Speaker 6: things are shifting more towards that and that's why people
- 21:42Speaker 6: are receiving you so well. Do you think that music
- 21:43Speaker 6: is at a place where you pick and choose what
- 21:45Speaker 6: you want to hear?
- 21:46Speaker 4: It depends on the artists. I think Kendrick can do
- 21:50Speaker 4: with that. Because that's what type of artist he is.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Not.
- 21:53Speaker 1: If you're not an artist known for doing that, it
- 21:55Speaker 1: might not work for you, you know what I'm saying. Like,
- 21:57Speaker 1: even if you try to switch.
- 21:58Speaker 4: Over to it, it might not work. So I don't
- 22:03Speaker 4: think we switching towards that. I think people know what's
- 22:06Speaker 4: right and what's wrong and what they want to hear.
- 22:08Speaker 4: Somebody told me the other day that our audience is
- 22:11Speaker 4: not maturing as much as we the artists may be,
- 22:15Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
- 22:15Speaker 5: So when crazy Young Miami was told that too.
- 22:17Speaker 4: Yeah, So even when even we might find figure out
- 22:21Speaker 4: the information and try to kick it back into music,
- 22:23Speaker 4: they might be like what you want?
- 22:24Speaker 1: Like you, they don't really know for real.
- 22:26Speaker 4: So I think it's shifting, but it might be a
- 22:29Speaker 4: little taking, little time a little bit.
- 22:31Speaker 3: Yeah, But I think it's the way you do it too, right,
- 22:33Speaker 3: Like when you I need a motivation and you wrapping,
- 22:35Speaker 3: I need some motivation, you're rapping about God. Yeah, that's
- 22:38Speaker 3: your way of doing it.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:39Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's just really I just think it's just
- 22:41Speaker 3: all about how you do it.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Yeah, yo, how you present it.
- 22:43Speaker 6: But does it make it hard for you when you
- 22:45Speaker 6: do stuff like that, But then you're told your audience
- 22:47Speaker 6: isn't maturing with you, Like, how do you figure out?
- 22:49Speaker 5: Who are you talking to now?
- 22:51Speaker 3: And who told you that?
- 22:51Speaker 1: The label man, My partner told me that. We were
- 22:55Speaker 1: sitting in the car kicking it. He told me that.
- 22:57Speaker 5: Okay, So it wasn't like a statistic.
- 22:59Speaker 1: No, no, no no, just like the homy.
- 23:01Speaker 4: We were just talking about growing and the things we
- 23:06Speaker 4: know now versus what we you know, what I'm saying,
- 23:08Speaker 4: music and stuff like that. He was just saying, like
- 23:10Speaker 4: the audience might not be maturing how we mature, So
- 23:14Speaker 4: you gotta sometimes, you know.
- 23:17Speaker 2: I've also seen Rolling Stone asking you about being underrated,
- 23:20Speaker 2: and you were saying you don't feel underrated because of
- 23:23Speaker 2: these artists.
- 23:24Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't feel underrated. I go in the rooms
- 23:27Speaker 4: and get the same respect as any other artists you might.
- 23:30Speaker 4: It's just how I carry myself. It may seem like
- 23:33Speaker 4: I'm underrated, Like I'm kind of like I'm to myself.
- 23:37Speaker 1: I don't bother nobody. I don't want to be nobody mixed.
- 23:39Speaker 1: I don't care what you are doing. I'm doing my thing,
- 23:41Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So if you don't see
- 23:43Speaker 1: me in a lot of places might feel like I'm underrated.
- 23:45Speaker 2: So when you see Whole puts you on the on
- 23:47Speaker 2: the playlist, is it surprising to you all?
- 23:49Speaker 4: I thought it was like a pr He like, I'm like,
- 23:53Speaker 4: it ain't no way hold put me on the playlist.
- 23:55Speaker 4: But yeah, for sure, I know not you know what
- 23:58Speaker 4: I'm saying, So not that I know. It's like that's
- 24:01Speaker 4: lit because we listened to Whole. To be accepted by
- 24:04Speaker 4: a whole man gouds like future accepting, It's like that's
- 24:08Speaker 4: a big thing because that's all we used to listen to.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Is ain't no way I feel underady?
- 24:13Speaker 5: Oh so he didn't retry after that, no conversation after.
- 24:17Speaker 4: No, no, we were just talking about that. One to
- 24:19Speaker 4: the game was floor season. He was across and they
- 24:21Speaker 4: was texting my phone like what up on home? I'm like,
- 24:23Speaker 4: you can't just walk up home?
- 24:25Speaker 2: He would?
- 24:28Speaker 4: He hit me with the hit me. I accepted that,
- 24:31Speaker 4: like I don't be too now what about that? What
- 24:39Speaker 4: about idea? To Tip and the security guys was like
- 24:42Speaker 4: I didn't want to tell y'all got blamed. It was
- 24:48Speaker 4: like I was over here and I'm telling security like,
- 24:51Speaker 4: ohoh no, me baby, face and I watched him tell
- 24:57Speaker 4: him and whole blaze me.
- 24:59Speaker 1: But it's I don't believe what game was it, man, Katie?
- 25:06Speaker 1: We really was going on to we have kat was
- 25:08Speaker 1: me and Katie. I think they was. I don't know
- 25:11Speaker 1: who they was playing, but I know this was when
- 25:12Speaker 1: Katie was there.
- 25:13Speaker 3: I'm sure y'all will do that again because we're falling
- 25:16Speaker 3: and got a connection.
- 25:17Speaker 6: A lot of people don't even have Jason stories. At
- 25:19Speaker 6: least you got one, you know what I mean.
- 25:20Speaker 1: It just I didn't want to say that it's a
- 25:23Speaker 1: jay Z story, so.
- 25:24Speaker 3: You'll never try it again. If you see him somewhere,
- 25:26Speaker 3: you gotta be different circumstances, y'all walking by each other
- 25:30Speaker 3: in the hall stopping him, even with the same security guard.
- 25:33Speaker 3: If you see the.
- 25:33Speaker 1: Guard stopping listen out, remember this.
- 25:40Speaker 5: To my house while you being warried to me.
- 25:43Speaker 3: Well, let's get into it more. Question about the label?
- 25:46Speaker 3: Our label is still important?
- 25:47Speaker 1: Labels?
- 25:48Speaker 3: Yes?
- 25:48Speaker 1: What you mean?
- 25:49Speaker 3: Are they just important for artists nowadays?
- 25:52Speaker 4: I don't know, because you're trying to go in the
- 25:54Speaker 4: direction of being an independent artist and stuff like that.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Whatever suit you.
- 25:59Speaker 4: If you, if you got to dry to do everything
- 26:01Speaker 4: on your own, didn't do everything on own. We're not
- 26:03Speaker 4: knocking you. Go get that money, do everything you need
- 26:06Speaker 4: to do. But some people need to be told what
- 26:07Speaker 4: to do, you know what I'm saying. Some people need directions,
- 26:10Speaker 4: some people need a team, different ideas. They're not as
- 26:13Speaker 4: creative as you know what I'm saying that, yeah, or
- 26:16Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So whatever works for you.
- 26:19Speaker 4: I see people talking about being an independent artist, but
- 26:21Speaker 4: they're not telling you. It's a lot of work to
- 26:23Speaker 4: come in that, you know. So if you don't have
- 26:26Speaker 4: the work ethic to do everything I own, I don't
- 26:29Speaker 4: even try. It's gonna be sitting in the room looking
- 26:31Speaker 4: stupid talking about you.
- 26:32Speaker 1: An independent artist ain't gonna work for you. So whatever
- 26:34Speaker 1: worked for you.
- 26:35Speaker 3: Did you ever try to highlight future he you to?
- 26:40Speaker 3: You know you that future before?
- 26:41Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 26:41Speaker 5: For sure playing with you.
- 26:45Speaker 1: I don't be getting blade. That's why I don't. I
- 26:48Speaker 1: don't think.
- 26:48Speaker 4: I don't think I'm don't have a dance blaze blade. Yeah,
- 26:54Speaker 4: I don't be getting blazed, Like, I don't really put
- 26:56Speaker 4: myself out there to be rejected.
- 26:58Speaker 3: Like, so how long do you Jesus that before after
- 27:02Speaker 3: he put you on the playlist.
- 27:03Speaker 1: This one.
- 27:03Speaker 4: I came and saw your okay, see it on my
- 27:07Speaker 4: face and breakfast j just blazed me.
- 27:12Speaker 3: Wow, I feel like I feel like I need to pause.
- 27:16Speaker 3: That did just blaze?
- 27:19Speaker 1: Men.
- 27:22Speaker 4: Ever since you've been watching too much Cam and Mace bro.
- 27:28Speaker 5: He he been, he was locked into the did he try?
- 27:30Speaker 2: Ever since the baby he's been real kinky last couple
- 27:32Speaker 2: of days.
- 27:33Speaker 3: But not true. That's true.
- 27:36Speaker 5: He was born this way.
- 27:36Speaker 3: Let's get into a jow. But you were here, Wavy
- 27:39Speaker 3: Navy universe, okay with VS.
- 27:43Speaker 2: All right, Lis, get into that now, Ladies and gentlemen,
- 27:46Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club, is baby face Ray?
- 27:48Speaker 3: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club