Speaker 1: I don't know how to dance look a lane and
Speaker 1: make it ghet a woman put the hands on their knees. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't even lie be running. I be trying to
Speaker 1: get out of the baby and break thrust my enemy.
Speaker 2: Let's go. You just sent me and I beat you
Speaker 2: out in front of your pockets and children. I don't
Speaker 2: even like no lame, keep my name about your mix.
Speaker 2: It's sick to say. I hearn't it. It ain't even gave
Speaker 2: me nothing.
Speaker 1: We woke up in the morning. Baby, it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give a morning so she cooks me breaking.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't come to play the yas snapping
Speaker 1: off the risk y'all.
Speaker 2: I'm saying I'm a.
Speaker 1: Favorite pro gally to what everybody looking.
Speaker 2: Forward to look.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make a turn on the day
Speaker 1: the baby, make her forget what she learned from it
Speaker 1: down like a deepen the night I put up give
Speaker 1: it a deeper to night to fly.
Speaker 2: Her across the country. I finished the show, and now
Speaker 2: I got me. It is wrong. Okay.
Speaker 1: I admitted they're not as strong, so they're not gonna
Speaker 1: get it. Ain't on one on my own so they're not.
Speaker 2: Gonna feel it even went out alone.
Speaker 3: I stand on the piddle and piddle and pitdle and
Speaker 3: pit and he o the babies back on the cruise show,
Speaker 3: big introl right gow with it?
Speaker 2: Bro put that that intro to j Fuse Am I
Speaker 2: supposed to be CUsing? No? Yeah? Yeah, God, Baby, you
Speaker 2: say what the fuck? You want to understand me? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 2: Grand introduction? Man, that was crazy. Somebody send that to me.
Speaker 2: You got it? Yeah, too easy, We can drop it.
Speaker 2: See your cell phone number. Whatever you want to do. Man,
Speaker 2: it's too baby. You've been You've been through the show
Speaker 2: a few times. Man. Respect, I appreciate you. Come on, Bro,
Speaker 2: how the fuck is this something? How is this mixed?
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out yao, my g Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just can't seem to god damn, you know, come
Speaker 1: to grasp with it. She's gonna put our album call
Speaker 1: her mix that'dred percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no features all the baby at all.
Speaker 1: I let I used the phone call for my Baby
Speaker 1: Talking hotline series that I do with a lot of
Speaker 1: fans to connect with me directly or whatever. I put
Speaker 1: a phone them up. I allow my fans to call
Speaker 1: in number. What is it thirteen? Ain't going shut out
Speaker 1: the brit Brad from Detroit. Okay, Yeah, that's her voice
Speaker 1: on there. It's yeah, we simpled her voice and her
Speaker 1: phone call for the beat. So if you want to
Speaker 1: consider that the feature, the only feature I got is
Speaker 1: one of my beautiful love and supporting of fans.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying that, Yeah, baby.
Speaker 3: You've been about the fans man for sure, feel it
Speaker 3: for sure and give me a reason, you say, blame
Speaker 3: my mama for my cocky blame my mama.
Speaker 1: For the way that I'm rocking, because she always instilled
Speaker 1: supreme confidence and that you know, just poured love and yeah, admiration.
Speaker 1: So yes, she never never spoke on her sons without
Speaker 1: putting the word handsome in front of it, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I feel like, yeah, I feel like this right.
Speaker 3: When I told that, we told the opposite and it's
Speaker 3: my ugly Yeah, this is my big headed that son,
Speaker 3: this is my Yeah, you know, she's gonna keep it
Speaker 3: real with me too.
Speaker 1: She didn't embarrass me plenty of times too, but even
Speaker 1: that develops character.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's like, Yeah, you ever get whooped in
Speaker 3: front of your friends? Oh, that's the worst.
Speaker 2: Punched in the mouth, he yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: My dad punched me in the head once in front
Speaker 3: of my friends. I was like, Yo, we're supposed to
Speaker 3: do this in private, dad.
Speaker 2: In front of Mario really good ship talking.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent, the biggest, the biggest. I come from
Speaker 1: a long line of ship talking. Sweetest woman in the world.
Speaker 2: But she definitely definitely a ship popa.
Speaker 3: No, that's great now, I mean you got to see
Speaker 3: the raw, the realness, right, so you got to see
Speaker 3: the truth as a kid, sure for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. A lot of that is in your music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, that attitude, that that swag, I guess that bravado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in the music. Right.
Speaker 1: That's the point for you to make, not a point
Speaker 1: for me to make. I think, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just that's just me. We are.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I don't really go out
Speaker 1: my way to you know, more often than not, I
Speaker 1: try to turn it down. You get what I'm saying
Speaker 1: more so than Yeah, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just delivered, have it, have
Speaker 1: it come about me? That's how you know. That's how
Speaker 1: I give it. That's right, that's right. Have people called
Speaker 1: you a lyricist, Yeah, you are lyc They should they should, definitely.
Speaker 3: Like the fucking rant is dude, brong way.
Speaker 1: I'll been telling myself like sometimes I turn around look
Speaker 1: at the engineer the middle of rapping, like I don't
Speaker 1: know what I be on.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? For sure?
Speaker 3: It reminds me of like Young Wayne, where you just
Speaker 3: turn the mic on you hear the lighter flo.
Speaker 2: What it is, and that's my fav that's my favorite rapper. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I already know.
Speaker 1: I already know, and you can you can hear it,
Speaker 1: but you know you're obviously in your own length. But
Speaker 1: when that mic comes home, bro, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the fuck happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes I don't even let the fucking beat drop.
Speaker 2: I just ready go back to the lyricist thing.
Speaker 3: How long would you say you know it took you
Speaker 3: to get comfortable and just sharpen up that that that.
Speaker 1: Ability that it depends on, like you know, at what
Speaker 1: point one would consider me?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Really like because for real, for real, like before I pop,
Speaker 1: like as a as an artist, I dumbed the music down,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like a lot of songs,
Speaker 1: like the caliber of the songs that I'm making out,
Speaker 1: like a lot of the songs that I tap back
Speaker 1: into in the making, like the creative approach with this
Speaker 1: new project that people loving, Like that was the shit
Speaker 1: I was making first, you get what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, coming from like a new artist
Speaker 1: or artists want to come up with local artists, especially
Speaker 1: when you got like so many different qualities to offer,
Speaker 1: Like I can be entertaining as hell. I can give you,
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, club bangers, I can give you
Speaker 1: shit that can turn you up or whatever. But like
Speaker 1: I was making, like you know, vulnerable, heartfelt music and shit,
Speaker 1: I can do that too. I was doing that early
Speaker 1: on like my second or third song, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I don't know to get comfortable with
Speaker 1: it though, like to like it was it was quick,
Speaker 1: like I never I was never rapping for fun, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like never, like I was never rapping for fun.
Speaker 1: The second that I stepped in front of my tubes
Speaker 1: might take me to a producer that could make me
Speaker 1: original beat. So I could start rapping like it was
Speaker 1: always was to you know, I was competing with not
Speaker 1: even competing.
Speaker 2: But yeah I was.
Speaker 1: I was ready to sit next to these niggas and
Speaker 1: these montherfucker. They quickly became my peers within the business.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, you're ready for like
Speaker 1: five years, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, humbly speaking, was there a song growing up even
Speaker 3: as a kid, right that you thought to yourself, I
Speaker 3: got to make a song like that?
Speaker 2: Not even making song when I was a kid, I ain't.
Speaker 1: I ain't had no desire to be a rapper, Like
Speaker 1: I ain't even consider rapping until I was probably I
Speaker 1: was a grown ass.
Speaker 2: Man for Charlotte twenty one.
Speaker 1: As a kid, I ain't had to make a lot
Speaker 1: of money. Yeah, you make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: I knew.
Speaker 1: I didn't have an answer like when, Like when I
Speaker 1: got asked, like you know, you ask kids.
Speaker 2: What they want to be there, firefighter or this or that.
Speaker 1: I was a kid, literally like I don't know something
Speaker 1: to make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: That was my square seven years old, real I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't bullshitting at all, like even in school whatever
Speaker 1: year that is, it might be middle school or to
Speaker 1: beginning the high school.
Speaker 2: When they give you that day in North Carolina, they
Speaker 2: give you some shit.
Speaker 1: It's like a list and they have like all the
Speaker 1: occupations and ship like all the you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that you can go that you can go after.
Speaker 1: And it starts from like what's the highest paid? I
Speaker 1: got all the way down to the bottom along with
Speaker 1: like how long you got to.
Speaker 2: Go to school? All that other shit, and the highest
Speaker 2: one was like a doctor. And I knew I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't about to go to school for no nine
Speaker 1: years to be no fucking dogy. The other thing I ever,
Speaker 1: I ever, even somewhat like had had a desire to be,
Speaker 1: was a chef when I was a Yeah, but that
Speaker 1: ain't last long when I saw how much money they made.
Speaker 1: But I'm still a chef. Yeah, But to make a
Speaker 1: career out of a shift, that wasn't an option. When
Speaker 1: I saw at the house everything every good thing.
Speaker 2: I made good.
Speaker 1: I made good cornea side of taco and we was
Speaker 1: just cilantro onions.
Speaker 2: It don't take much little.
Speaker 1: I don't eat walking over though, I don't eat. I'm
Speaker 1: a texture. I'm a texture person. So It's like I
Speaker 1: don't really Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: At what point, what was the turning point where you
Speaker 3: thought to yourself, I'm making music from here on now?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: It was It was when I had got to the
Speaker 1: point to where what I was doing in the streets
Speaker 1: like it was, No, I had got to like I
Speaker 1: mastered it, you get what I'm saying. So I could
Speaker 1: have just kept making a lot of money and I
Speaker 1: would have went out of went fed you you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'd have got out whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't mind everybody that I was, anybody
Speaker 1: that I was getting money with, Anybody was getting money
Speaker 1: on my left, like anybody who I was, you know,
Speaker 1: and and business back and forth with all them niggas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I when I said I'm about to start wrapping
Speaker 1: cold turkey and boom and kind of was like one
Speaker 1: for in, one for out.
Speaker 2: The rest of them niggas all went to prison. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, eventually all of them niggas went to prison, got back,
Speaker 1: and they got back out.
Speaker 2: I was the hottest rapper in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then those checks coming in, right, those checks start
Speaker 3: coming in, and you think to yourself, this is the
Speaker 3: ship I was talking about.
Speaker 2: When I was seven.
Speaker 1: Now hundred percent per definitely definitely manifested it all. Didn't
Speaker 1: know exactly what it was gonna be, how it was
Speaker 1: gonna be, but I definitely get everything.
Speaker 2: I said.
Speaker 1: I was gonna do yo fat with a pee, right,
Speaker 1: So it was crazy what it life from the back,
Speaker 1: I won't see. Hey, hey, is there is there a
Speaker 1: size limit to how big it can be for you?
Speaker 2: Baby? Don't discriminate. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: As long as you're confident with that thing, it don't
Speaker 1: matter how big or small it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, matter the baby? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Okay, them the ones for real? Why put my shade?
Speaker 1: They're gonna I ain't get into it. I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get into it. No, but it's a compliment, not for
Speaker 1: sure A thousand You know I'm all about, you know,
Speaker 1: just a woman, just a woman at zoom confidence man
Speaker 1: and you know, and just loving themselves. And I feel
Speaker 1: like that alone to make anybody the most beautiful person
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a mixtape. Was process is a mixtape
Speaker 2: put together? Back off my.
Speaker 1: Eyes meant to see. I'm trying to figure it out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Go ahead, I bet I
Speaker 1: ain't triggering the process of making this right, what was
Speaker 1: that for you?
Speaker 3: What was that process for you know, life happens, and
Speaker 3: you know you got organizations.
Speaker 2: Well you're not going on your father. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: When it comes to when it comes to how to
Speaker 1: is this a mixtape? Like the process and making that one,
Speaker 1: it was it was simple. You get what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because I didn't. I didn I wasn't intentional as far
Speaker 1: as you get what I'm saying, Like I'm not okay, boom,
Speaker 1: I'm making this song. It's like this is going to
Speaker 1: be the hit, this is the single, and put this
Speaker 1: and that. Like I probably got asked like fifty times,
Speaker 1: what's what's the single?
Speaker 2: Were targeting what's this? What's that? And I would just
Speaker 2: ignore it, ignore it, ignore it because.
Speaker 1: It's like I don't I don't have one, Like I
Speaker 1: want to get a fans of body of work and
Speaker 1: reintroduce them to the person.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Behind the artists, I feel like, you know that's imperative
Speaker 1: at this point, like it'd have been three to four
Speaker 1: years since I don't put my heart into a project period.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, they gotta know who they listening
Speaker 1: to at the end of the day. All the other
Speaker 1: shit is cool. I can make a song go viral
Speaker 1: anytime I want to. You get what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I can make it, make it go viral.
Speaker 2: It can have the clubs going crazy, the show is
Speaker 2: going crazy. Whatever.
Speaker 1: But that ain't that ain't something I'm you know that
Speaker 1: I that I saught after when it comes to this project.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, It's time for them to understand.
Speaker 1: You know, what's up with the plat Yeah, I done
Speaker 1: did that, but you know, and that's that's you know,
Speaker 1: I hold myself accountable for that, for even getting into
Speaker 1: a space to where, you know, I allow myself to
Speaker 1: approach the shit like that because you know, uh that
Speaker 1: that really led to me or had something to do
Speaker 1: with me kind of following out of love with the
Speaker 1: creative process and how I go about doing it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So you know, when you put
Speaker 1: out the body of work like this, though, none of
Speaker 1: that other shit matter, you know what I mean, None
Speaker 1: of that shit matter. You know, that shit is gonna stick,
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna navigate through all bullshit because it's
Speaker 1: it's a real body of work, you know. And that
Speaker 1: was my approach with this, A lot of that shit.
Speaker 1: I just recorded the oldest song on that Can't Keep Keisha.
Speaker 1: I still just did that one like March. But other
Speaker 1: than that, everything else is was done within like the
Speaker 1: last month and I half.
Speaker 2: Everything was fresh like that.
Speaker 1: It's current, So it's current energy, right, and that's the
Speaker 1: way I you know, that's the way I would prefer
Speaker 1: to to put out my art anyways, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So the fans when they get it and
Speaker 1: they gravitate towards it, whatever, they gravitate towards whatever, however
Speaker 1: they connect with it. We were on the same frequency
Speaker 1: right now. It's time absolutely in the moment with it.
Speaker 1: That's then when they come to pushing the music like
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's me just expressing myself, expressing my
Speaker 1: current energy.
Speaker 2: It ain't it's nothing fabricated. It ain't me.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't coming in this bitch and like, okay,
Speaker 1: look this it's gonna be the talking points. We're gonna
Speaker 1: say this to make people see this and do Nah,
Speaker 1: it's got THEMN the real deal, you know, And that
Speaker 1: type shit. That type shit. Moved mountains, bro that type shit.
Speaker 1: It's a difference, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Talk to us about the cover. Can you break the
Speaker 2: cover down?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm just standing on top of the fucking
Speaker 1: cyber truck was wheat Tom Zone like it is, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the most sought off the cars in the world.
Speaker 1: I mean the cover. First thing. First, my boy Joe,
Speaker 1: there you go. I was looking for you. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: boy Joe, Joe the man, you know, best photographer in
Speaker 1: the world. He took the cover and it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a cyber truck part in front of a
Speaker 1: phantom in Charlotte, North Carolina, looking down a narrow you know,
Speaker 1: a narrow passage, you know what I'm saying. And it
Speaker 1: kind of you know, on hindsight, right, we was just
Speaker 1: we were taking a dope ass picture. Definitely lined up
Speaker 1: like spot on with what the project was. But on hindsight,
Speaker 1: like when I look at it, it's crazy how it
Speaker 1: come together because it's it's a reflective picture, so to speak.
Speaker 1: It's like me looking behind me, you get what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: but with my head up high, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: While I'm standing on top the ship that I in acquired,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout my journey, not giving a fuck about it.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm like exactly stepping on the ship, you know, and
Speaker 1: uh that that's kind of like what it symbolizes.
Speaker 2: Man, the the you know, summarize it.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a reflective yet god damn, you know
Speaker 1: it Also it also expresses, you know, like just dominance confidence.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying. I ain't even facing the camera,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Right now? I saw the pic.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of different ways to process that cover,
Speaker 1: but all in all, just a dope ass picture.
Speaker 2: Represent with the dope ass project.
Speaker 3: When I saw the cover, I thought to myself, oh man,
Speaker 3: that's good for the soul right now for show.
Speaker 1: And you know Elon Musk posted it, so it's like
Speaker 1: it gotta be so it got you know, it gotta
Speaker 1: be something for sure. It's it's the factory, you know,
Speaker 1: cyber truck. I ain't wrapped it yet or put rams
Speaker 1: on it, the none of that, that's right, none of
Speaker 1: the extra ship did everybody else been doing it? They
Speaker 1: probably like, why the fuck Elon post is? You know,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So I shout out to Elon or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's a dope ass car too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: What was the most valuable lesson that you've learned throughout
Speaker 4: this project? Would you say?
Speaker 1: Throughout the project? Like since putting it out right, since
Speaker 1: releasing this scene, how people receive it? Just to you know,
Speaker 1: stay true to my stick to my guns, and just
Speaker 1: stay true to myself with my art and my music
Speaker 1: and you know, let the rest play itself out for sure.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: That's how I came in the door too, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So it's like it's just such a
Speaker 1: great place to be in. But I'm just in that
Speaker 1: space now with just so much more knowledge, wisdom, patience, understanding,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying of myself before anything, you know,
Speaker 1: and and everything else around me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's it. I learned plenty lessons in it,
Speaker 1: and I give plenty lessons. I give plenty of game
Speaker 1: within it, and and I love that about their project,
Speaker 1: Like that's something.
Speaker 2: That the motherfucker can put on and learn something a
Speaker 2: decade from now.
Speaker 1: You put their mother for gone, there's plenty of shit
Speaker 1: to learn from within that shit, you know, based off
Speaker 1: of my experiences and what I haven't been through.
Speaker 3: You know what, the line caught my eye right away,
Speaker 3: dog because it's so easy. But like, yo, you like
Speaker 3: the way you did it was that Draco.
Speaker 2: Draco Draco do now for show? That's my ship right though? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 2: So does it ever?
Speaker 1: You know, because there's obviously trying in my heart is
Speaker 1: not to put up a video singing to my drake.
Speaker 1: I'm like, see, this is gonna distract them. They they're
Speaker 1: gonna be like, see he on that bullshit, But I ain't.
Speaker 1: I'm just making it great and I really be having
Speaker 1: that motherfucker with me. I'm from North Carolina, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know where we but we can, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we can exercise our constitutional right the bell on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Nobody's taking y'all guns away and not
Speaker 2: having ain't going for it. They're not going for it.
Speaker 2: They can try for yah bluck. Yeah, they're not going down.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so like there's you know, you obviously lived
Speaker 3: a life, and you obviously live through your music. You
Speaker 3: feel me, There's a lot of people that necessarily don't.
Speaker 3: They're just they're good at executing position, right, does that
Speaker 3: ever intrigue you or bother you or inspire you.
Speaker 1: What like the fact that when you see people ain't
Speaker 1: about what they be talking about. Nah, I don't pay
Speaker 1: that ship no attention. I know it's your business season. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. I mean, because it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna stop. You know, it ain't gonna stop, you
Speaker 1: know it. It bothers me when I when I when
Speaker 1: I find myself or like when I see that I
Speaker 1: that I ended up finding myself like in the space
Speaker 1: to where I feel like, you know me, like my
Speaker 1: authenticity was was being taken for granted or it was underappreciated.
Speaker 1: You give what I'm saying, because I already know how
Speaker 1: this shit go. That's how going in real life. So
Speaker 1: it don't matter. Like so me even allowing myself to
Speaker 1: just slip in the space to where, you know, the
Speaker 1: where I expect you know, me keeping it real to
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, to be recognized. That ain't
Speaker 1: you moving backwards when you do that shit? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, It ain't supposed to be understood. They
Speaker 1: got to be of that to understand it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And if they of that then was understood.
Speaker 1: Don't got to be explained. So you know, look, finding
Speaker 1: yourself in a space to where you're looking for gratification
Speaker 1: for doing what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: That ain't that ain't how I was raised. You get
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's when I find myself and I find shit rubbing
Speaker 1: off on me, like you know, when other people crying
Speaker 1: about not getting.
Speaker 2: An award, this or that, all that other puss sass ship.
Speaker 1: When I find myself in the skim of like but
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, But when I find myself got damn you know,
Speaker 1: like in them type spaces.
Speaker 2: You know which I have. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't find myself in them often, but definitely I
Speaker 1: definitely didn't slipped in and feel into like them type
Speaker 1: spaces where I feel like, you know, like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: like I'm entitled to like I know I'm better than niggas.
Speaker 1: I know this, I know that I know what out
Speaker 1: and did you know what I'm saying, I know what
Speaker 1: what what I feel like, I'm I'm rightfully old. But
Speaker 1: see that's the problem at old works. Don't nobody owe
Speaker 1: me shit at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 1: And I also know that I can attain whatever it
Speaker 1: is my heart desired, and did it before, I know
Speaker 1: exactly how to do it again. So I think it's
Speaker 1: all about just you know, keeping a clear head and understanding.
Speaker 1: You know, every day when you get up, you gotta
Speaker 1: go get it all the way.
Speaker 2: Over again, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And everybody around you that got to be on the
Speaker 1: same shit or you gotta get away from around you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you enjoy your life? And how do
Speaker 2: you ensure your your care and love into my kids?
Speaker 2: There you go, you answer this for me?
Speaker 1: My kids and just watching you know how happy they are,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Just how happy and how
Speaker 1: much they enjoy their life, how carefree they are. You know,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed my life through watching my kids and my nephew.
Speaker 1: You do they have any toy in the world. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm toying, so I got they don't. My daughter still
Speaker 1: got toys in my crib. She's seven.
Speaker 2: Then she ain't open from her third birthday six months ago.
Speaker 2: Grew them already, know what I'm saying. I did that,
Speaker 2: by the way, she didn't open the ships.
Speaker 1: Again or she grew Actually, I don't like I don't
Speaker 1: like that and give them to my sister. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like it was giving bags with like Gucci book bags
Speaker 1: and ship all type of ship. I'm like, damn, like
Speaker 1: you know, like like real deal gifts. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: hope I ain't bouy that. I hope I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: wanted about that ship. So nah, Definitely my kids, you know,
Speaker 1: it's beyond toys. Like they enjoy just life period. They
Speaker 1: enjoy experiences, they enjoy they love being at the end
Speaker 1: of the day.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, whether you had a dollar in your pocket or
Speaker 3: a million dollars, Absolutely.
Speaker 2: We gonna have a ball.
Speaker 4: What's one of the craziest things your kids to say
Speaker 4: to you?
Speaker 2: Just like this is definitely my Well, kids will hurt
Speaker 2: your feeling, man, craziest thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Man, we're different over here, soout it's like I would
Speaker 1: have to do some some deep dive and or something crazy.
Speaker 2: They ever repeat back to anything to hear in the music? Nah? Repeat? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean they like my daughter, she know my music.
Speaker 1: She also know what not to repeat. You get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, right, she Yeah. The discernment of my child
Speaker 1: is amazing to me. It blows my mind. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So if it's if it's if it's
Speaker 1: like some type of shit that I can classify as like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it fucked me up, Like it's crazy the type of
Speaker 1: ship my child says.
Speaker 2: It's like it's shit that like I don't.
Speaker 1: Expect her to like no or like be aware of
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, Like she just she blowed
Speaker 1: my mind. I'm telling you, like she she she really
Speaker 1: sees people and things, but like what they are, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like she gonna be way she's
Speaker 1: gonna be way better than me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I'm just talking about just my oldest daughter. All
Speaker 1: of them, you know, special in their own way. So
Speaker 1: it's plenty. That's a hard question that like it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to some that up.
Speaker 2: But you'd be.
Speaker 1: Surprised, you get you know what I'm saying, because I am
Speaker 1: all the time and you and I helped create and
Speaker 1: create the little princess. So not definitely, man, my kids,
Speaker 1: they're definitely my pride and joy girl. Dad, how many
Speaker 1: girls do you have? Four girls and five princesses? Making No,
Speaker 1: that's my nephew, that's your nephew. That's my brother's son. Okay, Cerial,
Speaker 1: he's something different, man, my nephew. What you like being
Speaker 1: a girl, dad, Man, I don't have I love it.
Speaker 2: It's the best. You know.
Speaker 1: They say, they say your boy's gonna drop your ass
Speaker 1: off at that nursing home. Yes, they say, your daughter's
Speaker 1: gonna go right doing you. Besides, you're not for sure
Speaker 1: for sure, So now I love it, man, and my
Speaker 1: girls like they, I adore them.
Speaker 2: They adore me. You know what I'm saying. They doing me.
Speaker 1: They sit there, they sitting there beside they hold my face,
Speaker 1: wow with my last beard. And because to them, you're
Speaker 1: not your dad, I'm dad. I'm a fucking superhero to
Speaker 1: them and they superheroes to me. I believe it right now, stronger, Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: I make remind him them for seven three sixty five
Speaker 1: that shit, man, Hey talk to me about gotta know
Speaker 1: and the intent behind, gotta know behind, gotta know, gotta know.
Speaker 1: It's really like one of them ship popping songs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's saying I probably made gotta know before I made
Speaker 1: a lot of the other ones.
Speaker 2: I was, did you have that? Nah? I just I
Speaker 2: still just made it.
Speaker 1: But I probably made Gotta Know in like June, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a couple different things I touched
Speaker 1: on with Gotta know, like for real, for real, But
Speaker 1: like I said, it's like one of them ship popping songs.
Speaker 2: But when it get around to the hook, it is
Speaker 2: really just like on some you know, they don't even
Speaker 2: gotta know. I won't tell your secret. Who's song? That
Speaker 2: is your secret? Safe with me? Who is that? At
Speaker 2: least the kids? That's what I got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's just one of them. It's
Speaker 1: it's a couple of different things I touch on. People could
Speaker 1: take away what they take away from it, but it
Speaker 1: got like that rage type feel too. It's it got
Speaker 1: a nice build up. When the beat drop, you know,
Speaker 1: it goes crazy. So got to know it's one of them.
Speaker 1: It's one of them to where you know, I lay
Speaker 1: it out there and give get it in energy, give
Speaker 1: all that and let people, you know, choose what the
Speaker 1: what the gravitate towards from. It ain't really you know,
Speaker 1: one sided or direct when it come to like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean in tension with it?
Speaker 2: What about Hollywood freak, Hollywood free?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that just you know, that just exemplifies,
Speaker 1: you know, like like one of them, you know, one
Speaker 1: of them, beautiful, one of them, beautiful women you know
Speaker 1: out in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: You feel me. They know how to have a good time.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody let time right exactly, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: let her have a good time.
Speaker 2: I leave it at that. Yeah, yeah, celebrate. Everybody likes
Speaker 2: to celebrate.
Speaker 1: For sure, you know, yeah, not too much, don't celebrate
Speaker 1: too much. But yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Don't go too crazy, don't go too crazy. Don't
Speaker 2: do that. That ain't what you do. How the funck is.
Speaker 2: That's a matter of fact. I got to take them back.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to understand.
Speaker 3: Speaking of that body of work, what was the fastest
Speaker 3: song that you created within this body of work?
Speaker 1: That's just probably, uh, give me a reason. Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: give me a reason for sure. Either give me a
Speaker 1: reason or either give me a reason or ain't that
Speaker 1: a bitch I did that quick too?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Ain't that a bitch I did that quick too? Because
Speaker 1: that was really just you know, from the heart. It's
Speaker 1: like I'm just talking for real. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they come together beautifully. But it's like, you know, when
Speaker 1: it's when it's that real deal. But give me a
Speaker 1: reason was definitely like you can kind of tell when
Speaker 1: you listen back to it, like you could tell from
Speaker 1: delivery and shit like that was one like as soon
Speaker 1: as I heard the beat out, boom, you know, so
Speaker 1: either give me a reason or or ain't that a bitch?
Speaker 1: That would probably be like one of the quickest ones.
Speaker 1: But really, with all the music on here, like I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't nitpick at none of it. Like I let
Speaker 1: it boom like all the way, like from the top
Speaker 1: to bottom, you know what I mean. I ain't leave
Speaker 1: versus open for potential features, none of that shit.
Speaker 2: I I didn't do none of that. There was no
Speaker 2: thought random.
Speaker 1: It just topped the bottom. Yeah, shout out of my
Speaker 1: engineer coach Brody uh Shine the first and ko they
Speaker 1: produced majority, you know what I mean. The of the
Speaker 1: records on that we really locked in on a on
Speaker 1: a whole other level. And those names that I mentioned
Speaker 1: like these is people like that I started with that
Speaker 1: I made like some of my first songs with that
Speaker 1: I really found my sound with as a local artist.
Speaker 1: So everything about the project, like it's it's so North Carolina,
Speaker 1: it's so Charlotte North Calin It's boom, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like it's it's back to the roots, not
Speaker 1: only with you know, just my approach to creating and
Speaker 1: just staying completely authentic to myself, but just all the
Speaker 1: way around the board. Like the person that engineered it,
Speaker 1: they tracked the records out that he also mixed every record.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, Like we had our hands
Speaker 1: on it. It stayed right there. It didn't leave got
Speaker 1: damn my house until it got them. It was done
Speaker 1: when it left my crib, everything about it and the
Speaker 1: master all that. When it left my crib, it came
Speaker 1: straight to y'all.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Wow, And yeah, that's that's the results that it's breeding,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that's the connection that
Speaker 1: that it's happening with the fans and the listeners, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I'm just blessed to you know,
Speaker 1: just be in a space to well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: back delivering work, you know what I mean, in that
Speaker 1: form and that fashion and the way people receiving it.
Speaker 1: On the other end, it's exactly how I want to
Speaker 1: receive it. And I ain't even got started.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I usually motherfuckers don't even they don't even begin to
Speaker 1: try to receive my music till I give them visuals
Speaker 1: because they so used to being a visual artist.
Speaker 2: But they want to see the fact that I led.
Speaker 1: With fourteen songs like out of Nowhere, not the traditional
Speaker 1: roll out the pro mode for the ship, none of
Speaker 1: that ship. And the way people, you know, the way
Speaker 1: people is really like boom, Like it's like you can
Speaker 1: see it. I'm getting phone calls from from old holes.
Speaker 1: I ain't talk to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stay away.
Speaker 1: Old Potner's got damn but Potner's friends, old friends I
Speaker 1: ain't talk to they. Yeah, it's making them pick up
Speaker 1: that phone and bruh, you get what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: that type of shit. So you see it, like you know,
Speaker 1: and and the respect that it's getting from from people
Speaker 1: that that I got respect for people who opinions that
Speaker 1: I respect, people who these tough crowds and you know
Speaker 1: and tough listeners and shit like I love it like
Speaker 1: it's you know, it covers our bases, it checks our boxes.
Speaker 1: So it's it's dope to just see it received, man,
Speaker 1: And how I want to be for sure.
Speaker 3: For sure, man, can you can you talk about the
Speaker 3: Baby Cares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, mental health organization.
Speaker 1: I put together a program and just provide the resources
Speaker 1: in a safe space for people who do need, you know,
Speaker 1: any type of help when it come to mental health
Speaker 1: awareness or just need help period, you know. So with
Speaker 1: that being something that I need, my goddamn self, my
Speaker 1: family members need, you know, and and something that my
Speaker 1: family that been deeply affected by as well as just
Speaker 1: about one in one in every three families, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying around the world, if not every motherfucking family,
Speaker 1: and this is where everybody got somebody effected about mental health,
Speaker 1: you know, even if they're not aware of it.
Speaker 2: Shit, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely my way of just utilizing my platform, man,
Speaker 1: and the resources that I got, and you know, and
Speaker 1: and doing for others and trying to just create a
Speaker 1: safe space and you know, help others in ways to
Speaker 1: prevent them from going through some of the ship I
Speaker 1: done went through a countless other you know, amount of
Speaker 1: families haven't been through.
Speaker 2: So I'm definitely excited about that.
Speaker 1: In the summer, I'm doing it my late brother, So
Speaker 1: definitely excited about that. Something I've been wanting to do.
Speaker 1: And it's also you know, a journey that that will
Speaker 1: serve me. You know what I'm saying, My family members,
Speaker 1: the ones that I love, like Boom, like immediate family members.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's definitely something very near and
Speaker 1: dear to the heart and once again authentic. It ain't
Speaker 1: no fucking publicity, stunting, no none of that anything about
Speaker 1: it that it ever turn into that or feel like
Speaker 1: that to me. I'm not doing it, you get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's like it gotta be everything about
Speaker 1: it got to be one thousand percent, you know, from
Speaker 1: the heart and real.
Speaker 2: Deal because it's a real thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's bigger than all.
Speaker 1: That big big all of us, right, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck if I don't get saluted by one
Speaker 1: person for doing it. You get what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: it's it's much bigger than that for me, much bigger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, I got an organization called Cruise Cares. Look at us, man, baby,
Speaker 3: look at us.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. We're doing big now, right, We're doing
Speaker 2: it big. Yeah. We help out a lot of family.
Speaker 2: That'sh it necessary, bro, that shit necessary. Commendable. Why make
Speaker 2: the decision to wrap up the project with Can't Keep Keisha? Oh? Really?
Speaker 2: I mean why.
Speaker 1: When it came to the track list? Man, that was
Speaker 1: that was that was hard for me. I probably made
Speaker 1: that call like last minute. I probably it was probably
Speaker 1: in a different order. And then I now, wait, y'all
Speaker 1: submitted it. You do this, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But really, what Can't Keep Keisha? Like, aside from like
Speaker 1: like the dope ass hook right and and how to hook?
Speaker 2: You know how to hook?
Speaker 1: It's an infectionous hook for sure, and that that really
Speaker 1: like that's catered to like the female audience, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, like the context of the song, it's
Speaker 1: much bigger than the hook, you know what I mean altogether,
Speaker 1: So I just.
Speaker 2: Felt like it was just a perfect close.
Speaker 1: I definitely didn't feel like it could just be placed
Speaker 1: anywhere in between. It either had to be you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But it was just it's so much
Speaker 1: gas on there, bro, It's so much.
Speaker 2: Gas on that.
Speaker 1: And I just love the way that the little sample,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I love the way that
Speaker 1: ends the project and then it loose it right back around,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying to the intro to in
Speaker 1: a minute. So definitely I wanted to. I wanted to
Speaker 1: start it with a heartfelt song, ended with a heartfelt song.
Speaker 1: I did what I'm saying, and have everything else that
Speaker 1: you that your heart can ever desire in between, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So definitely body or work.
Speaker 4: No, I just going back to the to your mental
Speaker 4: health organization, Like I think that's just a beautiful thing,
Speaker 4: Like you caring that enough and like you said, you
Speaker 4: don't need people for validation you know any of that?
Speaker 4: Is there something that you aside from that want to
Speaker 4: pursue as well?
Speaker 2: In terms of what like.
Speaker 4: In terms of like organizations that I mean.
Speaker 1: Really like like like day to day right, like I
Speaker 1: already I already like just do whatever I can for others,
Speaker 1: Like that's just who I am as a person, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So in terms of like organizations
Speaker 1: like it would I ain't tripping like when it come
Speaker 1: to that, Like when it come to that, I don't
Speaker 1: like I don't know how many organizations. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: people could have plenty of them going on. But like
Speaker 1: the way I the way I give you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, or the way that I you know, the
Speaker 1: way that I allow myself to be at disposed of anybody,
Speaker 1: you know, who I need and anybody who I can help.
Speaker 1: I don't really, it don't matter to me if it's
Speaker 1: if it's a title put on it and it's you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying and it's being covered or recognized.
Speaker 1: Just I just you know, I love to do for people,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like when I ask for
Speaker 1: my blessings, when I pray for my blessings, it was.
Speaker 2: Never for me like anything.
Speaker 1: When I pray for my blessings, everything I'd have been
Speaker 1: blessed with, it was always I'm telling you, it was
Speaker 1: complete sentences. It was always so I could bless others,
Speaker 1: so I could do this, so I could do that.
Speaker 2: So with just me, Like that's just who I am
Speaker 2: as a person.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily got no plans like when it comes
Speaker 1: to you know, like like different organizations like okay, I
Speaker 1: want to do this, I know, even with like the
Speaker 1: de Baby Cares, like I specifically want to target like
Speaker 1: minorities like people that look like us and the youth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying, Like that's what I'm on,
Speaker 1: you know, because that's who needed the most, that's who
Speaker 1: got far less resources.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Not only that, like the chips is taugh for us,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out the womb.
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We already up against way more than anybody else. You
Speaker 1: know what i mean I'm saying. So you know that
Speaker 1: that type ship you got to be recognized by the
Speaker 1: ones who do got the ability and who do got
Speaker 1: who are in a position of where they can you know,
Speaker 1: have an impact on the ship.
Speaker 2: Got it. It's like with the youth, But.
Speaker 1: I'm on that twenty four seven, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like when they coming to kids and all that ship,
Speaker 1: Like if it would be anything else I would do,
Speaker 1: it would be you know, for the kids.
Speaker 2: But that's also within that's along the lines that will
Speaker 2: be covered. That'll be a basically be covered with the
Speaker 2: Baby Carriers organization.
Speaker 1: We gotta be who we needed, right exactly. Yeah, growing up,
Speaker 1: did any celebrities ever come to your neighborhood or come.
Speaker 2: To my city? Probably?
Speaker 1: I mean them all your school, Nah, he like the
Speaker 1: type of ship I'd be doing, Nah, like just popping
Speaker 1: up somewhere on the round at my school. Nah, I
Speaker 1: will remember, no, no, hell nah, you know who came
Speaker 1: to our school? The fucking the there the dog, the
Speaker 1: dere dog b Yeah, and then that school bus. What
Speaker 1: was the school bus? Gust the fucking bus y'all they
Speaker 1: don't know, Gusts don't know, gusta buss California, gusta bus
Speaker 1: and the fucking the dog from there.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: That was the only celebrities that ever pulled up. We
Speaker 1: used to be excited as hell when we saw the nigga.
Speaker 1: Nigga probably took that damn mask off, mascot off and
Speaker 1: went home, got high.
Speaker 2: As head, you know that, any of that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the neighborhood, if someone's never been a Charlotte,
Speaker 1: some some restaurants recommend restaurants and Nana's. I would go
Speaker 1: to Nana's for sure.
Speaker 2: No, I gotta tell that. My brother just moved there ago.
Speaker 2: He loves it. Yeah, for sure, I got I want
Speaker 2: to put him up on some of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell him, tell him, tell him trying Nana's out.
Speaker 1: What's another spot, man, Tell him, Try to tell him
Speaker 1: try g spot Chicken and office that's getting ready to
Speaker 1: launch for sure, for sure, Yeah, that spot that's all right,
Speaker 1: guaranteed to hit the spot show, the show. Uh huh,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 2: We don't see you up there, my g. For sure.
Speaker 1: You know, for sure you don't mean usta beat the
Speaker 1: state when you're there. Whatever y'all mean, How then is
Speaker 1: this something?
Speaker 2: This ches on? I take them off now. Congratulations solutiates bro,
Speaker 2: A great conversation.
Speaker 3: Appreciation all day always, just love, respect, real Naty two
Speaker 3: three the baby Let's go, yeah,