WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:02.759 What's good. It's a lot of good. 2 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:06.000 What ups musty and you're checking out the Cruise Show podcast. 3 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.640 Make sure to subscribe right and ship yo no to 4 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:13.720 welcome my brother into the studio, Nico Blitz. Right then, 5 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.559 I heard the rumors about the intros. Man, I didn't 6 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:18.320 know it was at the top, like, y'll come me 7 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:19.280 off guard with that joint. 8 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:21.239 I was fine, man, that was fine. 9 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:22.199 Welcome to the show man. 10 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:24.879 It's a blessing to be here, man. Honestly, Bro, it's 11 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:25.600 great to have you here. 12 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:27.920 Bro. We appreciate the time. Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're 13 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:29.839 gonna make it, make it jump. Let's get it, Come on, man, 14 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:34.640 get well. Soon is out the EP cray crazy, big vibes, 15 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:39.520 quality sound jack like eight times, let's go. Let's go. 16 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:43.399 Because I'm a bumping in the car and she's gonna listen. 17 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:48.520 Yeah yeah, let him keep the ox, let me keep 18 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.920 the eyes, let him keep it on. I have to 19 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:52.679 give him the music. 20 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:53.840 There you go. 21 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.920 That's a good compromise, right there. Wife, you got me 22 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:01.000 watching that too, Love Love Island. Yeah, well you know 23 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:04.400 that that shoulder time is important. Whatever she want to 24 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:06.840 put on, it's like I'll indulged, but I do get 25 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.159 interested sometimes. 26 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.239 Now they talked about it. I'm like, man, I might 27 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:13.920 have to peep this show. Man. 28 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:19.319 It's messy as heck, but but you know it's the 29 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.159 reason why it's popular for sure. 30 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.400 So yo, the relationship between you and the craze started 31 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.200 off with ten dollars. With ten dollars ten dollars. The 32 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.959 show did. It was twenty fourteen in San Francisco. 33 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.000 He had a tour out there, and I didn't have 34 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.040 meet and greet money, but I really wanted to meet him, 35 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.640 and so I waited buy his tour bus after the 36 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:39.840 show for hours. 37 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:41.159 I don't know what he was doing in there, but. 38 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.840 It took a long time to come out and praying, man, alright, look, hey, 39 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.000 let's hold that's what he was doing. Then he comes 40 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.159 out and he shakes my hand. I was I'm like, y'all, 41 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.200 I want to give you something. He's like, y'all can't 42 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.159 take this. I'm like, no, I want to. I want 43 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:56.599 to sold this into your life. I want to be 44 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.560 a blessing to you because you've been a blessing to me. 45 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:01.519 And this is my seed by faith, believing that one 46 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:03.519 day I'm gonna be able to work with you and 47 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.120 have the same amount of impact on the world as 48 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.000 you have had and grow from there. And seven years 49 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:09.639 after that, he reached out to me, not even knowing 50 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:10.000 that was me. 51 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:10.479 Who did that? 52 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.960 Whoa wow? Did you remind him of that moment? 53 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:14.360 I did? I did. 54 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.599 I did a few years after we started really connecting 55 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.240 and he was like mind blown because he remembered that night, 56 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:21.560 but he didn't know that was me. 57 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:23.680 Now, what's the line? You gotta sew where you want 58 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:23.919 to go? 59 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:24.879 So where you want to go? 60 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:25.240 Yeah? 61 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.240 Yeah, yeah, that's where I learned, you know, in terms of, yeah, 62 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.680 so where you want to go. And that's even like 63 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.360 so your time and your efforts into a direction too, 64 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:35.080 like wherever you want to go. Like it's not just 65 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:37.800 like money per se. But that was that was a 66 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:38.479 method I used. 67 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.680 Man, listen, you gotta do what you gotta do. Oh yeah, 68 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.639 what was the What was the price for the meet 69 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:44.800 and greet? Do you remember? 70 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:47.319 I think it was like seventy five hours? 71 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.400 Wow, and you have ten bucks on You're like, Yo, 72 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.159 this is gonna work, This is gonna have to work. 73 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.360 I'm like, yeah, this is gonna do something for me. Yeah, 74 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:57.000 I was. I was super broke. 75 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:01.039 But it paid off. Yeah, yeah, thank. 76 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.599 Here we are man, get well soon. It's an EP. 77 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.199 The beats are hard on this man, what's that selection? 78 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:09.039 Like a man? 79 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.319 First of all, trying to come. My producers Man Trey 80 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:14.000 Wright and Forcing. They go about thirty four thirty four 81 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.080 where it hits at they go crazy out to see 82 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.159 me Valley. Really we just locked in and build everything 83 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.520 from scratch. They made like four out of the six 84 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.199 and then Cato on the track which like Instagram viral 85 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:31.159 producer made gang on there and then there's another one. No, 86 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:32.919 he made two of them. Yeah, so my producer made 87 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.000 four kto made two and we took it from there. 88 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:36.319 Crazy. Yeah. 89 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.039 It's refreshing, bro, because a lot of the West Coast 90 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.599 hip hop is very just like dark yalladays. So like 91 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.159 to hear your project like it's very bright, it's very cheerful, 92 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:47.280 and it's very happy. 93 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.240 Like there's a party in that, right, there's a party 94 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:49.599 in there. 95 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:52.479 Oh yeah yeah, and yeah, thank you for that. 96 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:52.639 Man. 97 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.080 We try to make slaps for the soul, you know, 98 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:57.000 something you can dance to and feel, but it's like 99 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.319 it's gonna make you feel good, like on the inside, 100 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:01.680 you know, I'm trying to lead you into the light, 101 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.599 you know. So yeah, like we are surrounded by that that. 102 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:08.080 I slide on the block with. 103 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:12.319 But but rap is all about being authentic to you, 104 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:13.719 and that's not authentic to me. 105 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:14.960 I'm not sliding on nobody. 106 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.319 I'm not doing what you know, was normally depicted in 107 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.480 rap music on the West Coast. So it's like, what 108 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:21.160 what does my life look like? Let me put that 109 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.319 into the music with my personality but still had a 110 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.240 West Coast sound, and see how far it goes? 111 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.399 For sure? You know, do you you get judgment by 112 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.000 other Christians? For sure because of the music you're making? 113 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.360 For sure? 114 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.279 Really for sure because what you're talking. 115 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.839 About, I mean, I mean, but it don't look like 116 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.680 what they're used to, you know. So those who are judging, 117 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.000 they're used to one type of ministry, one type of 118 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.560 music that associates with God and the gospel. 119 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:45.639 And so when they look. 120 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:47.399 At me, you come breaking barriers down. 121 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.720 They see somebody that's just trying to get famous or 122 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.879 try to use God to get rich or whatever. But no, like, 123 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.040 for one, I was raised in California culture, and two 124 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:58.399 I had an authentic encounter with God and I gave 125 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.199 my life to him. So this this is who I am. 126 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:02.279 You feel me. I'm not. 127 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.560 I wasn't raised on classical music. I wasn't raised on 128 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.319 like gospel, like hymns. I'm raised on this and so 129 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.319 this is my language. All I'm doing is speaking my 130 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.160 language with what I learned and bringing it to the mask. 131 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:14.759 Have you encountered protesters at your show? 132 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:20.759 For sure? For sure? Several times, like like picking signs, megaphones, 133 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.959 them quoting my lyrics, like they're like, thank you for 134 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:29.079 the promotion. Do you hear what he's saying? Well, first, 135 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.839 I do like this Christ like on the hat and 136 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.199 it mats the fit. Can you believe that he's profiting 137 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.360 off the name of Jesus. I'm okay, y'all. Y'all need 138 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.959 to repent, y'all need to like, y'all need to chill. 139 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:44.160 Some of the fans almost had to square up with 140 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:49.720 one of them in front of the Novo last year. 141 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:53.959 Yeah that's la Yeah again like that, I'm like Jesus man. 142 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:05.000 Yeah that's different, man, Man, We're in the same game, 143 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:08.600 love man. But do you have to resist going out 144 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.079 there yourself and talking to them and getting into a 145 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.240 heated argument with them? As far as as far as defending. 146 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.199 Yourself, yes, yes, in person and online. 147 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:18.000 But you know what I did. 148 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:24.120 I contacted the chief protester, the general of the protesters, 149 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.560 and I said, let's have a sit down on zoom. 150 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:28.199 I want to hear your perspective. 151 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.560 I want to hear where you're coming from, and I 152 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.480 want you to hear where I'm coming from. I spent 153 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.279 three hours with his brother going over scripture, hearing his 154 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.920 heard him here on mine, and we pray to end 155 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:43.319 it really well. And then I've seen this whole army 156 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.399 of protesters at the next show. I'm okay, like, what 157 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:50.279 is going on here? I thought we spoke exactly. But 158 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.839 some people it's gonna take God himself. It's on them. 159 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:56.519 I can't change nobody. All I could do is run 160 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.399 my race, and it's going to read who it's supposed 161 00:06:58.399 --> 00:06:58.680 to reach. 162 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.720 Right, And I listen. You go to church, for sure, 163 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.439 you pay your tithe right, yeah, yeah, right, you give 164 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.680 back for sure, you bring people to where you at. 165 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.560 I don't. I don't know if that's being recognized or 166 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:14.639 that's being overlooked. 167 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.920 Right, very unfortunate it is, But you know what, it's 168 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.279 a lot of people who aren't overlooking it. There's a 169 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:21.959 lot of people who are supporting it, a lot of 170 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.879 people who are buying tickets to the shows and listening 171 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.360 to the music. And so sometimes we tend to amplify, 172 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.040 you know, who's not agreeing with it or who's you know, 173 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.879 coming against it, because they could be louder sometimes. But 174 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.759 I'm learning to, you know, drown out that noise with 175 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.079 with the positivity, because there is much more of that 176 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:38.920 than there is of this. 177 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.199 Did you get shot at I did? 178 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:48.839 I got shot at? Leaving church? Yeah? Not out here 179 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.639 in Antioch. Yeah, it's at that moment if you're going 180 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.160 to Bay, you know about Antioch. I had a car 181 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.800 full of young people from the church too, like like 182 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:02.600 like no seat was empty. My girl was in a 183 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.240 passenger seat, and then all the kids was in the back. 184 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:08.480 We had to stoplight on Sycamore in front of Easy 185 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.480 Stop Liquor. All of a sudden, two people with ski 186 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.199 masks on standing on the corner just started firing out 187 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:20.319 the vehicle. Was an ambush and we don't know why. 188 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.480 We don't know if it was mistaken identity or a 189 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:27.839 gang initiation. All I know several bullets hit my car 190 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.879 and one of them hit my power steering, so I 191 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:31.759 couldn't even turn. 192 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.159 I couldn't even turn a wheel. 193 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:35.200 I had to just like ski scirt through the red 194 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.799 lights and this goal like as fast as I could 195 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:38.360 to get away. 196 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.120 And I'm looking around, Is everybody okay? Is everybody okay? 197 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:41.360 Well? 198 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:43.679 All them bullets that hit my car, not one bullet 199 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:45.240 hit anybody in a full car. 200 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.799 Wow, nobody got hit. 201 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:49.759 How many bullets it was? 202 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.919 It was at least five, at least five of them joints, 203 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.960 you know what I'm saying. And you would think, you 204 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:56.799 would think them being that close, they would they would 205 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:57.759 hit somebody. 206 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:59.759 In the leg, somebody would get you know, struck in 207 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:00.720 an arm or something. 208 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:02.240 But that's why. That's why. 209 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:04.720 You know, people could try to get scientifical or whatever. 210 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.879 But it's moments like that that could that convinced me that. 211 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:09.399 Can't nobody tell me that God ain't real? 212 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:09.840 Yeah? 213 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.759 Straight up, I could have been dead, Them kids could 214 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.200 have been dead, point blank range, and we're alive, all 215 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.840 of us, not even injured. Come on, man, yeah, God, 216 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:22.480 God God's hand on us. 217 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:23.600 Come on yeah man. 218 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.320 Wow, Yeah, that's why I go so hard for God. 219 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.519 You got to straight up yeah, didn't don't know, Man, 220 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.279 rescue me from that. M Come on, you know how 221 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:34.000 many people get their car shut up and don't live 222 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.000 to tell the story. 223 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.159 Yeah, every day, all the time, all the time. That 224 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.480 bay l A, I mean especially bay La right, Like Yo, 225 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:44.559 it's vicious out out there and out here as well. 226 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:45.919 Man. 227 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.879 Any crazy yeah yeah crazy, yeah, yeah, ridiculous, especially that 228 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:50.720 particular corner. 229 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:51.480 Yeah. 230 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:52.600 I never went back to that. 231 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:59.799 Particular carn I'm driving around it, yeah, I'm driving, you know, 232 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:00.559 away from it. 233 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:01.559 Man, Mama. 234 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:03.919 That's a lot of trauma too. I mean you saw it. 235 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:05.519 You saw that at you. 236 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:07.080 Big trauma, big trauma. 237 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.440 You know, you have these kids in the car as well. Bro, 238 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:10.919 that's a lot of responsibility, a. 239 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.879 Lot of responsibility, and you know the kids parents was like, 240 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:15.720 you can't ride with minister Miles, no more. 241 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.039 You can't. You can't go in that car that Yeah. 242 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.159 Yeah, they gave me that that uh that nickname. 243 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:27.000 You know. You get rid of that car, uh. 244 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:34.360 It got it, got it, got rebound. Yeah. I'm like, look, yeah, 245 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:39.360 y'all want to say, oh good, I got repold, but 246 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.159 that was my first and last repo. Yeah that that 247 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.279 ain't never gonna happen again. You know, I didn't fight 248 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:45.960 it through. I'm like, you know what, maybe that I 249 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.000 shouldn't even have that car that was bringing bad juju. Yeah, 250 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.399 let it go, bro, Yeah go glow Fest July twenty six, 251 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:54.159 twenty six. 252 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:55.639 The years our fourth year, you know. 253 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.000 Yeah, congratulations man, fourth year. 254 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:02.480 Fourth year. Man, it's a dream, It's a god dream. 255 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:02.679 You know. 256 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.039 We sold out three years in a row, selling more 257 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.240 tickets man, by God's grace every single year, and so 258 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:12.440 going into the fourth or on pace to like do 259 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.840 more than we did last year. And really all we're 260 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.320 doing is cariter to the craving. We're catering to the 261 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.200 craving that we see on the West Coast where it's 262 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.519 like people want different alternatives for their events, you know 263 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.639 what I'm saying, Like people want to go somewhere whe 264 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.519 they don't got to look over their shoulder or worry 265 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.559 about somebody being super drunk and hitting on them and 266 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.799 slipping something. And they drink, like you get the same 267 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.519 level of fun, maybe even more fun, but a different 268 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.720 level of safety where you could turn up and experience 269 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:41.559 you know, some holy gooes. Far I'm not gonna lie. 270 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.600 I was DJing in Utah a couple of years ago. 271 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.840 No one was drunk, but it was lit. M it 272 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.480 was super lit, and I was like, I couldn't imagine 273 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:53.639 a space where nobody was doing anything shasty. Yeah, but 274 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.440 everybody's on the same level of like dancing and having fun. 275 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.639 Yeah yeah. Sometimes it's like like the sore people had 276 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:01.279 the most fun. 277 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.000 Yeah you know what I mean. 278 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.360 Like all start weekend in the Bay a few months 279 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.639 ago was super lit and we got invited to the 280 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:12.639 YG concert and for whatever reason, like me and all 281 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.440 my homies like we were sober, was chilling with me 282 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.919 and dolls in them and we was the most lit 283 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.039 in there. Everybody was just like like in the day, 284 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:24.240 were like crazy. I'm like, don't I don't need much 285 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.080 to get going. Sometimes that stuff could like he used 286 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:28.600 to weigh me down a lot, so that's right. 287 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:29.240 Yeah. 288 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.879 Yeah, well like you're I think I saw on your 289 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.320 YouTube page like you were in a smoke session which 290 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:36.639 eventually led you to God. 291 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.679 Yeah, yeah what happened there? 292 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:41.519 Yeah, I used to be a big pie head, like 293 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:43.360 growing up in the Bay, like that was culture, like 294 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.360 three blunts a day, cutting school, the smoke, going to 295 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.600 the smoke shop, panhandling, like mister, if I give you 296 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:52.360 five dollars, can you give me a switcher or a blunt? Right, 297 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.600 like all of that. And so sixteen years old, in 298 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:57.360 the middle of a smoking session, my friend Dante was like, hey, bro, 299 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:00.320 we should go to church, like with the one in 300 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:00.720 his hand. 301 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:01.799 Yo. 302 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:03.360 We used to go to church and it was a 303 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.840 Wednesday night. If you know about churches, you know they 304 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.759 got like Wednesday night services and stuff. And I'm like, bro, 305 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:10.679 right now, like are you what are you talking about? 306 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:12.559 Like you must be like super hot, right, what do 307 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:16.639 you mean. He's like, no, like this exactly. But he's like, no, 308 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:18.720 we can go to the youth group, talk to the girls, 309 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.120 get their phone numbers. 310 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:21.159 It's down the street. 311 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:23.639 The youth group be super litle, all the local high schools, 312 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.399 and so they drug me in there with some hand 313 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.600 sanitizer and some cologne to get the smell off of me. 314 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:31.639 But you know, when we went in there at though, 315 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.159 it's like we went in there for the wrong reasons. 316 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:36.039 But it's like it was almost like a setup from. 317 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.919 God little key because like guid guided, it was like 318 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.519 a little bait or whatever. So the youth group was 319 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:46.679 closed at night, so we went into the main service 320 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:48.360 and God wrecked me. 321 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:48.600 Bro. 322 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:51.159 I feel like I felt the presence of God for 323 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:51.879 the first time. 324 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:53.440 The message hit me. 325 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.039 And it was a packed church, right, like a thousand 326 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:58.799 people in there, and the pastor did an ultra call 327 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.159 that's like where you say, whoever we to accept God, 328 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.240 come to the front out of everybody in his church. 329 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:06.360 I went to the front, crying, real tears, not even 330 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.759 on really why I'm crying, just feeling like this warmth 331 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:09.519 hitting my body. 332 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:11.039 I'm like, God, is this you? 333 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:11.200 Like? 334 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:11.679 Are you real? 335 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:14.159 Like what's going on? The pastor pray for me man, 336 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.039 And then I literally felt like God took away one 337 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.720 high and gave me a new one. And I never 338 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.440 forgot that experience. And that was another moment where I said, Okay, 339 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.200 I don't know what you're talking about over there on 340 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.120 TV or whatever, but hey, I felt God that day 341 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:29.840 and I carried that with me to this day. 342 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:30.600 For sure. 343 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:31.840 Was that the last day he smoked. 344 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.639 It took me two years from that moment to stop. 345 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.519 Oh good, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. The earth yeah yeah, 346 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.399 it's fine on earth. And yeah it had me, it 347 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:48.200 had me broken, hungry all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, look, 348 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.519 yeah right, yeah, you feel me, Yeah, I let it go. 349 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.080 Are there any artists that you would, I don't know, 350 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:54.559 not necessarily jump to work with. 351 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:56.279 Yeah? 352 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.559 Yeah, absolutely. And I just worked with two of them, 353 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.519 Lacrae and the forty. You know, I jumped toward them 354 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.600 immediately because like, those are two of my goats. Like 355 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:08.200 think about Bay Area forty is like the guy. You 356 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.679 know what I mean, you know what I'm saying. But 357 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.159 what about artists that you wouldn't all this shit? I 358 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.519 wouldn't work Oh that's that's a tough one. 359 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.080 Because of their lyrics or because of the content, you 360 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:21.879 know what I mean? Scott Cardi b. 361 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:27.240 Well, if if I get on here and say I 362 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.360 can't work with Travis, somebody can say, well, you worked 363 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:35.120 with sb RB, the boy, you worked with Larrussell. You 364 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.080 worked with these different people, So what's you know, what's 365 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.600 the difference between the lyrical content and so this this 366 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:44.279 is what I think most people, majority of people grew 367 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:46.759 up in the house with a praying grandma, or grew 368 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.399 up going to Eastern Service Church on Mother's Day, New 369 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:51.960 Year's Eve, watch night services. 370 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.919 Everybody got a little bit of God in them. Somewhere somehow, right. 371 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:57.720 I believe everybody has a certain type of story to 372 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.080 tell where we can relate on that level, you know 373 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.000 what I'm saying, regardless of their music catalog, I think 374 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.559 we could find a common ground and make a slap 375 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:07.639 for the soul. 376 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:08.559 Right. 377 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:10.519 And I just got I made a song with G 378 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:14.720 Eazy two weeks ago and it's it's it's a it's 379 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:15.639 a banger. 380 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:16.519 Man letting me go here man. 381 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.080 Oh yeah, oh yeah, I got you, Man, Yeah, I 382 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:20.519 got you. 383 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.360 How do you how do you get all these rappers 384 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:26.960 to not cuss? Because, like when I saw it was 385 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:28.799 you Plow and the Boy, I was like, this is 386 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:29.720 gonna be interesting. 387 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:31.120 Yeah, I love the boy. 388 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.279 And then you also got e forty to not cuss. 389 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.279 I'm like, you got Yellow Hill to not cuss? 390 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.879 I'm like, bro, how how do you do this? Well? 391 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.360 They know, they know when they get a song with me, 392 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.000 they're stepping into my world, you know what I'm saying, 393 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.720 And they legitimately respect it. They respected They listen to 394 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:49.799 the music that they're fans so that they understand like 395 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.279 the wave that I'm on, And so I don't I 396 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.320 don't even got to say much really, I I never 397 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:57.600 had to tell somebody not to cuss. 398 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:58.039 They just know. 399 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.000 Oh wow, now they respect it, right, yeah, and they 400 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.960 know what it is. Yeah. Yeah, but it's a challenge also, 401 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:06.240