WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:02.160 I don't know how to dance look a lane and 2 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:04.240 make it ghet a woman put the hands on their knees. Yeah, 3 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:06.200 I can't even lie be running. I be trying to 4 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:08.400 get out of the baby and break thrust my enemy. 5 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:10.919 Let's go. You just sent me and I beat you 6 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.359 out in front of your pockets and children. I don't 7 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:16.640 even like no lame, keep my name about your mix. 8 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.839 It's sick to say. I hearn't it. It ain't even gave 9 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:19.320 me nothing. 10 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:21.559 We woke up in the morning. Baby, it's a blessing. 11 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.960 I'm trying to give a morning so she cooks me breaking. 12 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:26.600 You know, I ain't come to play the yas snapping 13 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.320 off the risk y'all. 14 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:27.839 I'm saying I'm a. 15 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:32.600 Favorite pro gally to what everybody looking. 16 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:33.880 Forward to look. 17 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:35.799 I'm just trying to make a turn on the day 18 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.840 the baby, make her forget what she learned from it 19 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:40.560 down like a deepen the night I put up give 20 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:42.600 it a deeper to night to fly. 21 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.479 Her across the country. I finished the show, and now 22 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:46.920 I got me. It is wrong. Okay. 23 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:48.960 I admitted they're not as strong, so they're not gonna 24 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:50.439 get it. Ain't on one on my own so they're not. 25 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:51.719 Gonna feel it even went out alone. 26 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:53.560 I stand on the piddle and piddle and pitdle and 27 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:56.240 pit and he o the babies back on the cruise show, 28 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.359 big introl right gow with it? 29 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.159 Bro put that that intro to j Fuse Am I 30 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.359 supposed to be CUsing? No? Yeah? Yeah, God, Baby, you 31 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.400 say what the fuck? You want to understand me? Okay? Cool? 32 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.560 Grand introduction? Man, that was crazy. Somebody send that to me. 33 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:13.040 You got it? Yeah, too easy, We can drop it. 34 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.680 See your cell phone number. Whatever you want to do. Man, 35 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.680 it's too baby. You've been You've been through the show 36 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.359 a few times. Man. Respect, I appreciate you. Come on, Bro, 37 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:24.799 how the fuck is this something? How is this mixed? 38 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:28.239 I'm still trying to figure out yao, my g Yeah, 39 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:30.280 I just can't seem to god damn, you know, come 40 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.120 to grasp with it. She's gonna put our album call 41 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.599 her mix that'dred percent. 42 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.239 Yeah, no features all the baby at all. 43 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.719 I let I used the phone call for my Baby 44 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:42.719 Talking hotline series that I do with a lot of 45 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.280 fans to connect with me directly or whatever. I put 46 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:46.959 a phone them up. I allow my fans to call 47 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.439 in number. What is it thirteen? Ain't going shut out 48 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.280 the brit Brad from Detroit. Okay, Yeah, that's her voice 49 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.519 on there. It's yeah, we simpled her voice and her 50 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:58.560 phone call for the beat. So if you want to 51 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.400 consider that the feature, the only feature I got is 52 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:03.359 one of my beautiful love and supporting of fans. 53 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.239 You get what I'm saying that, Yeah, baby. 54 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.240 You've been about the fans man for sure, feel it 55 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.319 for sure and give me a reason, you say, blame 56 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:13.159 my mama for my cocky blame my mama. 57 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:14.719 For the way that I'm rocking, because she always instilled 58 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:18.479 supreme confidence and that you know, just poured love and yeah, admiration. 59 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.319 So yes, she never never spoke on her sons without 60 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.479 putting the word handsome in front of it, you know 61 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:24.840 what I mean. 62 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:28.520 So I feel like, yeah, I feel like this right. 63 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.080 When I told that, we told the opposite and it's 64 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.319 my ugly Yeah, this is my big headed that son, 65 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.479 this is my Yeah, you know, she's gonna keep it 66 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:40.000 real with me too. 67 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.120 She didn't embarrass me plenty of times too, but even 68 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:44.199 that develops character. 69 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.840 That's that's that's like, Yeah, you ever get whooped in 70 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.120 front of your friends? Oh, that's the worst. 71 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.159 Punched in the mouth, he yeah, I know. 72 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:54.800 My dad punched me in the head once in front 73 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.879 of my friends. I was like, Yo, we're supposed to 74 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:58.000 do this in private, dad. 75 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.479 In front of Mario really good ship talking. 76 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:05.800 One hundred percent, the biggest, the biggest. I come from 77 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.840 a long line of ship talking. Sweetest woman in the world. 78 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.840 But she definitely definitely a ship popa. 79 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:13.680 No, that's great now, I mean you got to see 80 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:15.520 the raw, the realness, right, so you got to see 81 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.280 the truth as a kid, sure for sure. 82 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:18.759 Yeah. A lot of that is in your music. 83 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:24.199 Yeah, right, that attitude, that that swag, I guess that bravado. 84 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:25.840 Yeah, it's in the music. Right. 85 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:27.800 That's the point for you to make, not a point 86 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.240 for me to make. I think, you know, at the 87 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.800 end of the day, it's just that's just me. We are. 88 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:32.919 Yeah. Yeah, at the end of the day. 89 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:34.159 You know what I'm saying, I don't really go out 90 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:36.120 my way to you know, more often than not, I 91 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.520 try to turn it down. You get what I'm saying 92 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.879 more so than Yeah, you know what I mean. But 93 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.560 I just you know, I just delivered, have it, have 94 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:45.680 it come about me? That's how you know. That's how 95 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.360 I give it. That's right, that's right. Have people called 96 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:53.039 you a lyricist, Yeah, you are lyc They should they should, definitely. 97 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:59.240 Like the fucking rant is dude, brong way. 98 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.800 I'll been telling myself like sometimes I turn around look 99 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.159 at the engineer the middle of rapping, like I don't 100 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:04.800 know what I be on. 101 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:06.759 You know what I'm saying? For sure? 102 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:11.599 It reminds me of like Young Wayne, where you just 103 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:13.960 turn the mic on you hear the lighter flo. 104 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:18.759 What it is, and that's my fav that's my favorite rapper. Yeah, 105 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:19.399 I already know. 106 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:21.199 I already know, and you can you can hear it, 107 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.319 but you know you're obviously in your own length. But 108 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:25.399 when that mic comes home, bro, I don't know what 109 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:26.279 the fuck happened. 110 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.439 Yeah. Sometimes I don't even let the fucking beat drop. 111 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:33.680 I just ready go back to the lyricist thing. 112 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:35.600 How long would you say you know it took you 113 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.519 to get comfortable and just sharpen up that that that. 114 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:44.560 Ability that it depends on, like you know, at what 115 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.120 point one would consider me? 116 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:47.040 You know what I'm saying? 117 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.839 Really like because for real, for real, like before I pop, 118 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.319 like as a as an artist, I dumbed the music down, 119 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:55.000 you know what I mean, Like a lot of songs, 120 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:56.519 like the caliber of the songs that I'm making out, 121 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:58.000 like a lot of the songs that I tap back 122 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:01.319 into in the making, like the creative approach with this 123 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.720 new project that people loving, Like that was the shit 124 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.800 I was making first, you get what I'm saying. But 125 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:07.759 it's like, you know, coming from like a new artist 126 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:10.279 or artists want to come up with local artists, especially 127 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.600 when you got like so many different qualities to offer, 128 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.199 Like I can be entertaining as hell. I can give you, 129 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:18.800 know what I'm saying, club bangers, I can give you 130 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.480 shit that can turn you up or whatever. But like 131 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.800 I was making, like you know, vulnerable, heartfelt music and shit, 132 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:26.560 I can do that too. I was doing that early 133 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.759 on like my second or third song, you know what 134 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.079 I'm saying. So I don't know to get comfortable with 135 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:34.120 it though, like to like it was it was quick, 136 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.839 like I never I was never rapping for fun, you 137 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:37.519 know what I'm saying. 138 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.560 Like never, like I was never rapping for fun. 139 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.759 The second that I stepped in front of my tubes 140 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:43.199 might take me to a producer that could make me 141 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:44.879 original beat. So I could start rapping like it was 142 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:49.920 always was to you know, I was competing with not 143 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:51.160 even competing. 144 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:52.000 But yeah I was. 145 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.160 I was ready to sit next to these niggas and 146 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.959 these montherfucker. They quickly became my peers within the business. 147 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.480 You know what I'm saying, Yeah, you're ready for like 148 00:05:58.600 --> 00:05:59.959 five years, Yeah for sure. 149 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.759 Yeah, humbly speaking, was there a song growing up even 150 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.199 as a kid, right that you thought to yourself, I 151 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:05.240 got to make a song like that? 152 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.560 Not even making song when I was a kid, I ain't. 153 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:10.240 I ain't had no desire to be a rapper, Like 154 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.240 I ain't even consider rapping until I was probably I 155 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:14.199 was a grown ass. 156 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.240 Man for Charlotte twenty one. 157 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.040 As a kid, I ain't had to make a lot 158 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.399 of money. Yeah, you make a lot of money. 159 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:21.800 I knew. 160 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.199 I didn't have an answer like when, Like when I 161 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:25.680 got asked, like you know, you ask kids. 162 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:27.600 What they want to be there, firefighter or this or that. 163 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.439 I was a kid, literally like I don't know something 164 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:32.279 to make a lot of money. 165 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.560 That was my square seven years old, real I was. 166 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.639 I wasn't bullshitting at all, like even in school whatever 167 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.040 year that is, it might be middle school or to 168 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:42.959 beginning the high school. 169 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.879 When they give you that day in North Carolina, they 170 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:45.439 give you some shit. 171 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.800 It's like a list and they have like all the 172 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.800 occupations and ship like all the you know what I'm 173 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:51.439 saying that you can go that you can go after. 174 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.519 And it starts from like what's the highest paid? I 175 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:56.079 got all the way down to the bottom along with 176 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:57.040 like how long you got to. 177 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.600 Go to school? All that other shit, and the highest 178 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.319 one was like a doctor. And I knew I wouldn't. 179 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:02.920 I wouldn't about to go to school for no nine 180 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.240 years to be no fucking dogy. The other thing I ever, 181 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:09.800 I ever, even somewhat like had had a desire to be, 182 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.680 was a chef when I was a Yeah, but that 183 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:14.560 ain't last long when I saw how much money they made. 184 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.720 But I'm still a chef. Yeah, But to make a 185 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.560 career out of a shift, that wasn't an option. When 186 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.639 I saw at the house everything every good thing. 187 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:23.199 I made good. 188 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.199 I made good cornea side of taco and we was 189 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.199 just cilantro onions. 190 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:28.160 It don't take much little. 191 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.399 I don't eat walking over though, I don't eat. I'm 192 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:36.439 a texture. I'm a texture person. So It's like I 193 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.600 don't really Yeah, you know. 194 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.120 At what point, what was the turning point where you 195 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.279 thought to yourself, I'm making music from here on now? 196 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:45.120 Uh? 197 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:47.399 It was It was when I had got to the 198 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.040 point to where what I was doing in the streets 199 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:53.319 like it was, No, I had got to like I 200 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.439 mastered it, you get what I'm saying. So I could 201 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.720 have just kept making a lot of money and I 202 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.079 would have went out of went fed you you know 203 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:00.480 what I'm saying. 204 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.199 I'd have got out whatever. 205 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.800 Yeah, Like I don't mind everybody that I was, anybody 206 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:05.639 that I was getting money with, Anybody was getting money 207 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.839 on my left, like anybody who I was, you know, 208 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.759 and and business back and forth with all them niggas. Yeah, 209 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.480 when I when I said I'm about to start wrapping 210 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.839 cold turkey and boom and kind of was like one 211 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:16.560 for in, one for out. 212 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.879 The rest of them niggas all went to prison. Wow. 213 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.519 Yeah, eventually all of them niggas went to prison, got back, 214 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:22.319 and they got back out. 215 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:25.600 I was the hottest rapper in the world. Yeah. 216 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:27.680 And then those checks coming in, right, those checks start 217 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:29.560 coming in, and you think to yourself, this is the 218 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:30.360 ship I was talking about. 219 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:31.120 When I was seven. 220 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:35.240 Now hundred percent per definitely definitely manifested it all. Didn't 221 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.320 know exactly what it was gonna be, how it was 222 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:39.279 gonna be, but I definitely get everything. 223 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:39.639 I said. 224 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.039 I was gonna do yo fat with a pee, right, 225 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.120 So it was crazy what it life from the back, 226 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.559 I won't see. Hey, hey, is there is there a 227 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:48.960 size limit to how big it can be for you? 228 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:50.960 Baby? Don't discriminate. You get what I'm saying. 229 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.960 As long as you're confident with that thing, it don't 230 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:56.600 matter how big or small it is. 231 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.000 Yeah, matter the baby? Yeah? 232 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:05.000 Absolutely, Okay, them the ones for real? Why put my shade? 233 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.759 They're gonna I ain't get into it. I ain't gonna 234 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.559 get into it. No, but it's a compliment, not for 235 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.559 sure A thousand You know I'm all about, you know, 236 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.639 just a woman, just a woman at zoom confidence man 237 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.000 and you know, and just loving themselves. And I feel 238 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.559 like that alone to make anybody the most beautiful person 239 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:25.000 in the world. 240 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.600 Yeah, it's just a mixtape. Was process is a mixtape 241 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:32.559 put together? Back off my. 242 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:37.240 Eyes meant to see. I'm trying to figure it out, 243 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:38.600 you know what I'm saying. Go ahead, I bet I 244 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:44.559 ain't triggering the process of making this right, what was 245 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:45.120 that for you? 246 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.600 What was that process for you know, life happens, and 247 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:49.200 you know you got organizations. 248 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.200 Well you're not going on your father. Yeah, for sure. 249 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:52.600 When it comes to when it comes to how to 250 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.519 is this a mixtape? Like the process and making that one, 251 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:58.759 it was it was simple. You get what I'm saying, 252 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:02.639 because I didn't. I didn I wasn't intentional as far 253 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.600 as you get what I'm saying, Like I'm not okay, boom, 254 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:06.960 I'm making this song. It's like this is going to 255 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:08.519 be the hit, this is the single, and put this 256 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:11.759 and that. Like I probably got asked like fifty times, 257 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:12.720 what's what's the single? 258 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.759 Were targeting what's this? What's that? And I would just 259 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:16.519 ignore it, ignore it, ignore it because. 260 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:17.919 It's like I don't I don't have one, Like I 261 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:19.480 want to get a fans of body of work and 262 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:21.240 reintroduce them to the person. 263 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:22.320 You get what I'm saying. 264 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.039 Behind the artists, I feel like, you know that's imperative 265 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:27.320 at this point, like it'd have been three to four 266 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:29.320 years since I don't put my heart into a project period. 267 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:29.919 You know what I'm saying. 268 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.320 So it's like, yeah, they gotta know who they listening 269 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:33.840 to at the end of the day. All the other 270 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.159 shit is cool. I can make a song go viral 271 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.000 anytime I want to. You get what I'm saying, Like, 272 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:39.519 I can make it, make it go viral. 273 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:42.279 It can have the clubs going crazy, the show is 274 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:43.240 going crazy. Whatever. 275 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.840 But that ain't that ain't something I'm you know that 276 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:47.960 I that I saught after when it comes to this project. 277 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:49.639 You know what I'm saying, It's time for them to understand. 278 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:50.799 You know, what's up with the plat Yeah, I done 279 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:52.879 did that, but you know, and that's that's you know, 280 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.240 I hold myself accountable for that, for even getting into 281 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.559 a space to where, you know, I allow myself to 282 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:00.360 approach the shit like that because you know, uh that 283 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:02.399 that really led to me or had something to do 284 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:03.960 with me kind of following out of love with the 285 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.879 creative process and how I go about doing it, you 286 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.600 know what I'm saying. So you know, when you put 287 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.120 out the body of work like this, though, none of 288 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.159 that other shit matter, you know what I mean, None 289 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.200 of that shit matter. You know, that shit is gonna stick, 290 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.600 It's gonna it's gonna navigate through all bullshit because it's 291 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.440 it's a real body of work, you know. And that 292 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.360 was my approach with this, A lot of that shit. 293 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.759 I just recorded the oldest song on that Can't Keep Keisha. 294 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.600 I still just did that one like March. But other 295 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:29.639 than that, everything else is was done within like the 296 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:30.639 last month and I half. 297 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:32.440 Everything was fresh like that. 298 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:34.600 It's current, So it's current energy, right, and that's the 299 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.159 way I you know, that's the way I would prefer 300 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.120 to to put out my art anyways, you know what 301 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:39.679 I'm saying. So the fans when they get it and 302 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.080 they gravitate towards it, whatever, they gravitate towards whatever, however 303 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.559 they connect with it. We were on the same frequency 304 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:49.200 right now. It's time absolutely in the moment with it. 305 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.720 That's then when they come to pushing the music like 306 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:55.279 it's you know, it's me just expressing myself, expressing my 307 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:55.879 current energy. 308 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.080 It ain't it's nothing fabricated. It ain't me. 309 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.480 You know, I ain't coming in this bitch and like, okay, 310 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:02.159 look this it's gonna be the talking points. We're gonna 311 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.320 say this to make people see this and do Nah, 312 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.039 it's got THEMN the real deal, you know, And that 313 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:09.039 type shit. That type shit. Moved mountains, bro that type shit. 314 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:10.480 It's a difference, you know what I mean. 315 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:13.159 Talk to us about the cover. Can you break the 316 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:13.720 cover down? 317 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:15.639 Oh yeah, I'm just standing on top of the fucking 318 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.679 cyber truck was wheat Tom Zone like it is, you know, 319 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.440 one of the most sought off the cars in the world. 320 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.679 I mean the cover. First thing. First, my boy Joe, 321 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.240 there you go. I was looking for you. Yeah, my 322 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:27.519 boy Joe, Joe the man, you know, best photographer in 323 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.919 the world. He took the cover and it's just you know, 324 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.320 it's just a cyber truck part in front of a 325 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:36.679 phantom in Charlotte, North Carolina, looking down a narrow you know, 326 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.200 a narrow passage, you know what I'm saying. And it 327 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.679 kind of you know, on hindsight, right, we was just 328 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.159 we were taking a dope ass picture. Definitely lined up 329 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:47.600 like spot on with what the project was. But on hindsight, 330 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.919 like when I look at it, it's crazy how it 331 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.919 come together because it's it's a reflective picture, so to speak. 332 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.600 It's like me looking behind me, you get what I'm saying, 333 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.919 but with my head up high, you know what I mean. 334 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:01.080 While I'm standing on top the ship that I in acquired, 335 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.440 you know, throughout my journey, not giving a fuck about it. 336 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:05.559 You get what I'm saying. 337 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.519 I'm like exactly stepping on the ship, you know, and 338 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.679 uh that that's kind of like what it symbolizes. 339 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.960 Man, the the you know, summarize it. 340 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.679 It's just it's a reflective yet god damn, you know 341 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:21.440 it Also it also expresses, you know, like just dominance confidence. 342 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:23.960 You get what I'm saying. I ain't even facing the camera, 343 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.120 you know what I mean? Right now? I saw the pic. 344 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:26.559 I love it. 345 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.360 It's a lot of different ways to process that cover, 346 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:30.440 but all in all, just a dope ass picture. 347 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:33.399 Represent with the dope ass project. 348 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.440 When I saw the cover, I thought to myself, oh man, 349 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:37.320 that's good for the soul right now for show. 350 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.559 And you know Elon Musk posted it, so it's like 351 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.080 it gotta be so it got you know, it gotta 352 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:46.559 be something for sure. It's it's the factory, you know, 353 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:49.159 cyber truck. I ain't wrapped it yet or put rams 354 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:50.679 on it, the none of that, that's right, none of 355 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.000 the extra ship did everybody else been doing it? They 356 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.039 probably like, why the fuck Elon post is? You know, 357 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.600 what I'm saying, So I shout out to Elon or whatever. 358 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:58.759 It's a dope ass car too. 359 00:13:58.840 --> 00:13:59.759 Yeah, for sure. 360 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.320 What was the most valuable lesson that you've learned throughout 361 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:04.840 this project? Would you say? 362 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.440 Throughout the project? Like since putting it out right, since 363 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.799 releasing this scene, how people receive it? Just to you know, 364 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.080 stay true to my stick to my guns, and just 365 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.240 stay true to myself with my art and my music 366 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.799 and you know, let the rest play itself out for sure. 367 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:19.120 For sure. 368 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:20.519 That's how I came in the door too, you know 369 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.879 what I mean. So it's like it's just such a 370 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:24.919 great place to be in. But I'm just in that 371 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.440 space now with just so much more knowledge, wisdom, patience, understanding, 372 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.799 you know what I'm saying of myself before anything, you know, 373 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.080 and and everything else around me, you know what I mean. 374 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.759 So yeah, that's it. I learned plenty lessons in it, 375 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.000 and I give plenty lessons. I give plenty of game 376 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.320 within it, and and I love that about their project, 377 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:41.960 Like that's something. 378 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.039 That the motherfucker can put on and learn something a 379 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:44.840 decade from now. 380 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:46.480 You put their mother for gone, there's plenty of shit 381 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.320 to learn from within that shit, you know, based off 382 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.000 of my experiences and what I haven't been through. 383 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:51.960 You know what, the line caught my eye right away, 384 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:53.919 dog because it's so easy. But like, yo, you like 385 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:55.960 the way you did it was that Draco. 386 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:03.000 Draco Draco do now for show? That's my ship right though? Yeah? Right? 387 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:03.799 So does it ever? 388 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:05.919 You know, because there's obviously trying in my heart is 389 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:08.320 not to put up a video singing to my drake. 390 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.240 I'm like, see, this is gonna distract them. They they're 391 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.120 gonna be like, see he on that bullshit, But I ain't. 392 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:15.679 I'm just making it great and I really be having 393 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:17.679 that motherfucker with me. I'm from North Carolina, by the way, 394 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.159 you know where we but we can, you know, you know, 395 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.320 we can exercise our constitutional right the bell on. 396 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.080 Yeah, for sure. Nobody's taking y'all guns away and not 397 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.039 having ain't going for it. They're not going for it. 398 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.600 They can try for yah bluck. Yeah, they're not going down. 399 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:33.120 No. 400 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:36.200 But yeah, so like there's you know, you obviously lived 401 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.679