Speaker 1: All right, so introduce yourself to the Private Talk podcast
Speaker 1: with Alexus Texas. Let's know all about.
Speaker 2: You, and you already know it is a one. The guy,
Speaker 2: the guy.
Speaker 1: I like that. So what's your background. Let's let's let
Speaker 1: us know for those of you who's out there who
Speaker 1: doesn't know this is a one, and tell them all
Speaker 1: about you.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll keep it short. I'm a I'm
Speaker 2: a songwriter, producer and I've written and produced for people
Speaker 2: like Drake.
Speaker 1: You say it like so humbly, like I'm a producer. Nia.
Speaker 1: Oh you're a big deal. Like it's okay, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like you've done some really big hits obviously,
Speaker 1: Like like this is this is like a private podcast
Speaker 1: with a Lexus Texas. Now we've met each other before.
Speaker 1: It feel comfortable to speak as freely as you want to.
Speaker 1: And yeah, don't don't be so, don't be boring.
Speaker 2: I'm a big deal.
Speaker 1: I know you. Let's hear about your a big deal.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest person that you've worked with that you
Speaker 1: feel like that you've either set off your career or
Speaker 1: you've helped their career or which otherwise.
Speaker 2: I would have to say A one man like, I like.
Speaker 1: That respective if you're not you fan, then who else
Speaker 1: is going to be?
Speaker 2: You're not like that? Dude is fucking incredible. Like you
Speaker 2: get in the studio with a one man and the energy,
Speaker 2: the ship that he brings to the table is just incredible,
Speaker 2: you know. And he's also worked with people like Drake,
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Robin Thig, you know, Todd Ala Son, Jeremiah
Speaker 2: you know, kidding a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Very cool. Yeah, so what do you think is your
Speaker 1: your biggest hit out of all the hits that you've made.
Speaker 2: That you'd be my savorite is right now? No stylist, stylist. Yeah,
Speaker 2: My first placement ever was a record called Unusual by
Speaker 2: Trey Songs and Drake and uh. People people used to
Speaker 2: ask me like who who If if you had a choice,
Speaker 2: who would be the two artists that you would love
Speaker 2: to work with? And I used to say Trade Songs
Speaker 2: and Drake And my first placement ever was Trey Songs
Speaker 2: and Drake.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Like, I'm a true believer into speaking things
Speaker 1: into existence. And you have to again, like you have
Speaker 1: to be your biggest fan and supporter because that's how
Speaker 1: the shit happens. That's why you are who you are
Speaker 1: and you've made big hits.
Speaker 2: And I didn't get it easy. You know, I was homeless,
Speaker 2: you know I did. I did.
Speaker 1: I really.
Speaker 2: I'm from Kansas City, Kansas, so you know. I played
Speaker 2: basketball in college. So I did three years in college
Speaker 2: and my my, well my.
Speaker 1: My fourth year, as said, my position did you play?
Speaker 1: I played basketball point guard?
Speaker 2: Okay, I was a beast. I'm a beast at everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's why my name is a one, because
Speaker 2: I'm just a one all around you.
Speaker 1: If I challenge you to a game and you think
Speaker 1: they would be me, I would be anybody, anybody, even Lebron. Nice,
Speaker 1: right Lebron.
Speaker 2: You hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah you heard it first on the private podcast with Ass.
Speaker 2: But yeah, now I was homeless. I took a break
Speaker 2: from college for a year, That's what I was telling myself.
Speaker 2: And then I was just wrapping and then my friends
Speaker 2: gasted me up, like yo, you could really make it,
Speaker 2: and I was like for real. So I had a
Speaker 2: little job for seven months back home. I quit the job.
Speaker 2: Cash my check. Last check was like a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I got a Greyhound ticket to LA.
Speaker 1: So you put everything that was like all in yeah.
Speaker 2: I knew this dude who. He was like, man, I
Speaker 2: got a crib out here, you can rent a room.
Speaker 2: So I'm like you sure, You're like yeah, So I
Speaker 2: said I'll be there in La on let's say Tuesday.
Speaker 2: He was like all right, cool. So I get.
Speaker 1: There, and how nervous were you on that on that
Speaker 1: greathound bus, like going there because you to Kansas City,
Speaker 1: You've put everything in You're you're just hoping that this
Speaker 1: room is.
Speaker 2: Getting excited like I couldn't wait, you know. And when
Speaker 2: I got here, the dude stop answering forever. I've probably
Speaker 2: never talked to him ever again, and I was just
Speaker 2: like with damn. I was looking at the city lights
Speaker 2: and I was still excited. So I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I'll figure it out. And my homegirl, Rona, which I
Speaker 2: knew her through a mutual friend. Rona she was the
Speaker 2: girl that used to do the jingles on Jamie Fox Show.
Speaker 2: So she lived in North Hollywood and she was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: you know what, you can park your bags in my
Speaker 2: parking space, like right next to my car. So I
Speaker 2: was like all right, hell yeah, now I got somewhere
Speaker 2: to park my bags. It's all I needed, you know,
Speaker 2: so I would sneak in her little parking garage, grasb
Speaker 2: some clothes and hit any little clean restroom I could,
Speaker 2: you know, find and take a full wash up and
Speaker 2: get dressed. Like nobody knew I was homeless, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And I would walk up and down
Speaker 2: North Hollywood every day, just trying to meet producers and
Speaker 2: looking for opportunity to take the train to Hollywood, trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out, you know. And one night I
Speaker 2: was walking in North Hollywood that was like my, my,
Speaker 2: my stop. Yeah, you know yeah. And people used to
Speaker 2: say like, yo, you should meet Raphael and I'm like, man, no,
Speaker 2: shade to him. I'm like, I'm trying to meet Drake
Speaker 2: or somebody you know, like Raphael.
Speaker 1: What this was.
Speaker 2: This was the beginning of nine, two thousand and nine,
Speaker 2: And I'm like, man, I'm trying to meet like Drake
Speaker 2: or somebody you know. And then one night he Raphael
Speaker 2: rolled past me on a bike like what up, Champ.
Speaker 2: I was like what a And then he went into
Speaker 2: this building and I was like, wait, that was RAPHAELA
Speaker 2: deep So I went back to the door. His engineer answer,
Speaker 2: it was like leave a demo on your number he
Speaker 2: hit you, I never heard from MS. I wasn't tripping,
Speaker 2: and then I was like a few weeks later, I
Speaker 2: was walking past the gate and it was open. It
Speaker 2: was broke that day, and I seen him on the phone.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, fuck this, I'm going in there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I go in there and then he puts his
Speaker 2: finger up like hold on, and he was on the
Speaker 2: phone for thirty minutes. Can you imagine.
Speaker 1: Standing there like sweating, like it's even gonna listen to me,
Speaker 1: or like wave me off or like what is this?
Speaker 1: But that's still a big thing, like and you could
Speaker 1: have been like, nah, fuck it, I'm leaving whatever, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you put it in work and you're like, no, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Wait here, playing with my fingers, just trying to look
Speaker 2: cool and ship.
Speaker 1: Around at that time. So you can't find something.
Speaker 2: So he gets out funing like yo, how the fuck
Speaker 2: you get in my studio? I was like, oh, ship
Speaker 2: And I looked down and I was like, yo, I'm
Speaker 2: just a producer, songwriter, look for opportunity. And he was like,
Speaker 2: oh that's how shit happened. And he was like shiit,
Speaker 2: come on in. He's like, leave a demo with me.
Speaker 2: And your number. I'll hit you up. I left him
Speaker 2: another demo and my number, and then another week will
Speaker 2: by I ain't here from so I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: off him. And then I went in this restaurant in
Speaker 2: North Hollywood called Big Wings and I see him and
Speaker 2: I at the time, my cousin was like, yo, I
Speaker 2: feel back there. I was like, man, I fuck that.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying back yeah, and then he
Speaker 2: was like, nah, but he's fanning us back there. So
Speaker 2: I was like shit, so I go back there. He
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I was just telling my partner, how
Speaker 2: y'all just you know, snuck in my studio and shit.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm there every day three thirty, pull up
Speaker 2: and we will take a meeting. And I was like
Speaker 2: all right, cool. So I pulled up the next day
Speaker 2: three thirty. He was like damn man, you you know persistent. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then he was like, I ain't gonna lie. I
Speaker 2: don't know what I did with that demo. I was like,
Speaker 2: I got another one. So I played only songs I
Speaker 2: had was five songs. He was like, yeah, this is dope.
Speaker 2: What do you want and I was like, I just
Speaker 2: want opportunity. So he left He gave me like fifteen
Speaker 2: beats and was like, yo, take the with you right
Speaker 2: to it. When you got something, hit me up, I'll
Speaker 2: get you in my studio to record it. So I
Speaker 2: said back, it's this guy that I knew where I
Speaker 2: met who had a little car wash in the back
Speaker 2: of a gym, and so I asked him if I
Speaker 2: could wash cars during the day, just to make a
Speaker 2: little change, and he was cool with it. But he
Speaker 2: had a shed. It was like a real share where
Speaker 2: he kept his equipment. I was like, Yo, is it
Speaker 2: cool if I crashed in his shed at night? And
Speaker 2: he was like yeah. So at night I would sleep
Speaker 2: in the shed with a line chair on a line
Speaker 2: chair with one cover. So I went to that shed
Speaker 2: and wrote a song and called him like seven eight
Speaker 2: in the morning. He was just like fuck, alright, dude,
Speaker 2: come on, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, And I
Speaker 2: went up there and did a song and then he
Speaker 2: liked it and he was like, Yo, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: on tour. I'm going on tour for like two weeks.
Speaker 2: When I get back, I'm you could take this little
Speaker 2: room in the back when I get back, I'm on
Speaker 2: here what you got And then we'll talk. So he
Speaker 2: came back. I had like six songs and then he
Speaker 2: was like, yo, you're dope. I want to sign you publishing.
Speaker 2: Let's do a fifty to fifty and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm with it. And then before he left, I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: can I can I get the big room the room
Speaker 2: and he was like yeah. I was like, oh ship, yeah.
Speaker 2: So so I'm here. I'm like, still new to this
Speaker 2: writing and producing things, and I have a big ass
Speaker 2: room to myself.
Speaker 1: Every dy booster you're in confidence a little bit.
Speaker 2: It did boost my confidence, but then I'm like, yo,
Speaker 2: I gotta find an engineer because I don't know how
Speaker 2: to do none of this ship, you know. So I
Speaker 2: met this dude and uh, he knew how to engineer
Speaker 2: his fucking ass off. His name was Life, and we
Speaker 2: kind of became cool, you know. And then he was recording,
Speaker 2: and then he was writing too because he was a
Speaker 2: writer as well, and shit, I was pumping out songs
Speaker 2: and then one night I said I want to write
Speaker 2: a country song. So I studied country for three days straight,
Speaker 2: no sleep.
Speaker 1: What does studying country mean for those people that are listening.
Speaker 2: Right on to YouTube? And I just started looking up
Speaker 2: old country.
Speaker 1: Songs were the people that she looked up.
Speaker 2: And I can't even tell you. I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2: Classic country, Yeah, classic country hits and you know, just
Speaker 2: studying the structure and how they talked about things stories,
Speaker 2: and then I wrote one and I thought it was nice,
Speaker 2: you know. And then I was just whatever. I was
Speaker 2: working on other stuff. And then one time, this about
Speaker 2: four months had passed, me working with my own room.
Speaker 2: Ralphaieladk never got his business right, So I'm in the
Speaker 2: studio without even being signed to him, and I think
Speaker 2: it is hit him and he came in there one
Speaker 2: day like kind of anger. I was like, yo, I'm
Speaker 2: renting this room out like he's over, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like, oh shit. I He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is your last day. And I was like, well damn.
Speaker 2: So then it was low key back to the streets
Speaker 2: because I was really sleeping in that motherfucker.
Speaker 1: How did that make you feel? Did you feel like
Speaker 1: you have to do more you felt you were doing? Like,
Speaker 1: did you feel like you're a grind? One had to
Speaker 1: be like as a you know, entrepreneur, entertainer trying to
Speaker 1: get your foot in the business, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt like it was back to Z zero,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And I'm like, shit, now
Speaker 2: I got to figure it out. And it was just
Speaker 2: like a cool I've been here before. It's all good.
Speaker 2: My cousin was out here with me and he had
Speaker 2: a godfather who does jazz music. So he reached out
Speaker 2: out the blue and was like, Yo, I heard y'all
Speaker 2: out here, like, come to my house. I live in
Speaker 2: North Ridgs. So we fucked and walked from North Hollywood,
Speaker 2: took bus, walked, took the bus journey all the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for those of you guys the Private Talk podcast,
Speaker 1: that's that's quite a hike.
Speaker 2: And we got there and then he was like, how
Speaker 2: y'all get we like we walked, he was like, oh man,
Speaker 2: where y'all standing? We're like nowhere.
Speaker 1: Determination.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted music from us, and so he was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put you on the rental. Y'all sleep in
Speaker 2: my back my back studio. So boom. It went from
Speaker 2: the studio with Raphael Sadik, another studio in the back house.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, They don't have a big room.
Speaker 1: Now you're in the back house, but I.
Speaker 2: Was cool with it. You know, it was really comfortable
Speaker 2: and all. So we started working on jazz music with
Speaker 2: Norman Brown.
Speaker 1: I like how you go from the country the jazz,
Speaker 1: Like it's all over the place, because as an artist
Speaker 1: you really have to know all of it to be
Speaker 1: your craft and do be as talented as you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, we was giving him what he
Speaker 2: needs pause and we was good. So we was in
Speaker 2: that house with him for a solid three months after
Speaker 2: he wrapped his album. It was kind of like a
Speaker 2: god but he was telling us he was gonna put
Speaker 2: us in an apartment and everything.
Speaker 1: At this time, like when you're going this, are you
Speaker 1: showing them music because you're working on or they're just
Speaker 1: scratch okay? But is there ever like a time where
Speaker 1: you're like, man, this is a hit and I know
Speaker 1: it and you're like showing them or you're just like
Speaker 1: they're just doing their own thing. You're just staying there
Speaker 1: until something.
Speaker 2: Like nah, I was waking up working but like.
Speaker 1: But when were you showing this guy these beats? And
Speaker 1: was he just like something's better?
Speaker 2: He was playing guitar from scratch, so he would play
Speaker 2: the guitar and then we would write a song on
Speaker 2: top of it every other day, you know, and then
Speaker 2: that's how we did the music. We did like three
Speaker 2: or four songs on his album, but after that it
Speaker 2: was a rap and he was like, I was like, damn,
Speaker 2: what happened to the apartment?
Speaker 1: You know? So how did you get your like breakthrough
Speaker 1: when everyone was like this is the man a one?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So so I'm I got a call from Mike
Speaker 2: Karen from he was the vice president of Atlantic Records,
Speaker 2: and he was like, yo, I want to take a
Speaker 2: meeting with you. You did this country song and I
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 1: It is a country song.
Speaker 2: Called that was the country song. I don't even remember.
Speaker 2: I've written probably like two to three thousand songs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you. Yeah, the level I'm at now
Speaker 2: is ridiculous. I can do like ten songs.
Speaker 1: Get them, yeah, get them.
Speaker 2: But we'll get to that all right. Yeah. So, so
Speaker 2: I took the meeting with Mike Karen and then he
Speaker 2: thought I had a bunch of country songs and shit,
Speaker 2: but I had a bunch of R and B songs
Speaker 2: yeah that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was like, I was trying to get a publishing
Speaker 2: deal and he's like, I feel like you straight up
Speaker 2: the middle writer, and I was like I was new
Speaker 2: to everything, so I was like, I don't know that term,
Speaker 2: what does that mean? And he was like there's no
Speaker 2: edge to you, like you're a safe writer. And I
Speaker 2: was like oh damn. He was like, but keep working
Speaker 2: and I was like shit, I cool. Literally six days later,
Speaker 2: I write a song and then he calls me again.
Speaker 2: He's like, yo, this is a single and I was like, oh, word.
Speaker 2: And I did it for Pleasure Pete at the time
Speaker 2: because I was trying to get it on trade songs,
Speaker 2: you know, album, but they just yeah, they told me
Speaker 2: that the album was closed and they was mastering it.
Speaker 2: So Mike Herron was like, Yo, this is a single.
Speaker 2: So I was like, yeah, I know, Pleasure gonna kill it.
Speaker 2: He was like, nah, trade songs and I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: Drake on it. I was like word. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's take a meeting tomorrow. I was like, all right,
Speaker 2: beat that feel. It was crazy, you know. I love
Speaker 2: Mike Karens, so like no shade. But it was two
Speaker 2: Mike Karens that I met within that week. The one
Speaker 2: that it was like safe and then the one that
Speaker 2: was like, yo, You're fucking incredible. Whatever you're eating, keep
Speaker 2: eating it. And so I was confused because you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm still new out here and I don't know
Speaker 2: the game like that. So I was like, damn, you
Speaker 2: just you really.
Speaker 1: Don't know what to say. You don't want to step
Speaker 1: anybody's toes.
Speaker 2: Right, So he offered me a publishing deal, and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 2: I do want to take it. I'm homeless, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, But I don't know the business. So
Speaker 2: I was like, fuck, let me call Ralfy. So I
Speaker 2: called olf Yesterd. He like, come by. I show him
Speaker 2: all these agreements and he's like, nah, this bullshit. Because
Speaker 2: like word got around and almost every publisher wanted to
Speaker 2: sign me, you know what I'm saying. And the biggest
Speaker 2: offer I had at the time was three fifty three
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand, and I wanted to take it so bad,
Speaker 2: but I was listening to Raphaelsa like, Yo, this is
Speaker 2: a terrible.
Speaker 1: Deal and that you know you said you're being homeless.
Speaker 1: That's like a lot of money that you've never like,
Speaker 1: you know, at one time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you do? It's like yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all on me.
Speaker 2: Right. So then death Jam flew me to Miami for
Speaker 2: a couple of months to just work in writing camps
Speaker 2: for Justin Bieber and a lot of people. So I
Speaker 2: got to meet cool producers like Bangladesh cool and Dre
Speaker 2: and and all these people. And I was living the life.
Speaker 2: I had a room at the what was it, I
Speaker 2: feel like the Weston, you know, overlooking the water. I
Speaker 2: had a rental per dim Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're living it now, living in studio.
Speaker 1: Now you live in at large per dimn. You can
Speaker 1: get carried away with that sometimes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when I got back to La, I'm like, damn right,
Speaker 2: I got this single coming out, but I'm still homeless
Speaker 2: because I ain't take no deals. And so this guy,
Speaker 2: and Gary Leon, he's an A and R now at
Speaker 2: Atlantic Records, but he was just up and coming and
Speaker 2: he was like, yo, I believe in you. I want
Speaker 2: to manage you. And I was like, damn, yeah, I
Speaker 2: do need management. I said, you got a five bedroom house,
Speaker 2: so yeah, you manage me. I live with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So he was like that, so boom, I was
Speaker 1: out the streets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had my own room, five bedroom house
Speaker 2: gated community. It was like, I'm like, oh, I'm living
Speaker 2: a life, you know what I'm saying. And then residuals
Speaker 2: started coming in from the song doing so well. It
Speaker 2: went top ten on the Urban charts, and so I
Speaker 2: started Then a lot of people would listen to me now,
Speaker 2: like I could get in sessions, like then I met
Speaker 2: Tiger from that song is how I met Drake. It
Speaker 2: was up for an ASCAP Award, and so I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, Drake, I appreciate you know what I'm saying everything.
Speaker 2: He was like, I appreciate you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You bringing this record? And I was like, yo, you
Speaker 2: got an email, and he grabbed my phone. He put
Speaker 2: his number down. So I was like, damn, Drake just
Speaker 2: gave me his number. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So you got in another way, you know.
Speaker 2: It's a couple of days go by. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 2: I got a call this you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like he might change his numbers. So I called him.
Speaker 2: He talked to me for a very long time. He
Speaker 2: was at the time. He was like, yeah, I'm about
Speaker 2: to be dropping a single. One a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: caught headlines I'm gonna link you with my producer, Boy Wander,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, hell yeah. So he linked me with
Speaker 2: Boy Wander. I started doing some stuff with Boy Wander.
Speaker 2: I had a potential record that was gonna be on
Speaker 2: Drake's album at the time, but it was a miscommunication
Speaker 2: on the drums. Drake wanted some drum changes, Boy Wander didn't.
Speaker 2: It was a miscommunication and and so that record ended
Speaker 2: up going to Tiger and Tiger put Big Seane on it,
Speaker 2: and there was a single called I'm Gone. So, you know,
Speaker 2: me and Boy Wonder at that time, we was doing
Speaker 2: a little little work, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 2: did like a little non exclusive with him, you know,
Speaker 2: signed to him.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have like a lot of like unreleased
Speaker 1: stuff that you just have so much out there, Like
Speaker 1: it's just like I'm sure you just make geats and.
Speaker 2: Like all the time, there's a record.
Speaker 1: Does your library look like anyone library?
Speaker 2: Crazy? But there's a record out there that's sitting somewhere
Speaker 2: in Drake's hard drive with him and a little wang
Speaker 2: produced by me and Boy Wonder that I've never heard.
Speaker 1: Drake. If you're listening to this a private podcast with
Speaker 1: a lectu sect. You better find that in your playoffs.
Speaker 2: And every time I would you want to hear it,
Speaker 2: Like every time I would see Drake around the time,
Speaker 2: But yo, what's up with the record? Like yeah, he
Speaker 2: was like it's coming, and then after all he was
Speaker 2: I could tell he was annoying, Like, Bro, we're probably
Speaker 2: a hundred records past that, Like, why are you still
Speaker 2: bringing up that record?
Speaker 1: Well, I still have faith. I'm gonna, We're gonna, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Hey, we're still speaking to an existence.
Speaker 1: So with all these people that you're saying, like with
Speaker 1: Drake and the Trey songs, it's like, which artists do
Speaker 1: you think that you've been are still currently friends with
Speaker 1: that you like, you just collab and you're just in
Speaker 1: there and you don't even know if you make it.
Speaker 1: You're just doing it for fun, Like who do you still?
Speaker 2: The best chemistry I have is with Chris Brown?
Speaker 1: Chris Brown?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you think is your biggest hit that you've
Speaker 1: done with Chris Brown?
Speaker 2: Party?
Speaker 1: Party?
Speaker 2: Yeah? One?
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I have a question with you, Like you
Speaker 1: for me, you've always been the most stylish. You always
Speaker 1: like you know, is there anything people that inspired that.
Speaker 1: Do you just create it yourself? Do you have like
Speaker 1: who inspired you to create your look? Do your own thing?
Speaker 1: Like you're very like one not one dimensional, I say,
Speaker 1: but you're in your own lane. You do your own thing.
Speaker 1: You're very outside of the box. People are always going
Speaker 1: to look like, hey, what is that like? Like today,
Speaker 1: awesome colors when you walked in the door, I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 2: My nails like they changed colors a little bit.
Speaker 1: When did you start doing your nail like painting your
Speaker 1: nails twenty fourteen? Did you see someone? Are you just
Speaker 1: light the way looking? You're just like, fuck it, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just what I want to do.
Speaker 2: Oh. I used to take my wife and my mom
Speaker 2: to the nel salon and then I would sit in
Speaker 2: a little massage chair and go to sleep. And one
Speaker 2: time I woke up and I looked and my mama
Speaker 2: was right across from me getting her toes done, and
Speaker 2: she was like, boy, you should paint tip nails black
Speaker 2: on some rock stars shit. And I was like, man,
Speaker 2: get the fuck out of here. And I went back
Speaker 2: to sleep, right, but I had a dream that I
Speaker 2: did it and went to the mall and a lot
Speaker 2: of people was like, Yo, what do you do? And
Speaker 2: I was like what? So I woke up. I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: I got at least try this shit. So I tried
Speaker 2: it right when we actually went to the mall and
Speaker 2: people were really like, yo, what do you do? You're
Speaker 2: an artist?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh shit, because of the nails. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now do you do your hands and your feet or
Speaker 1: just your hand? No?
Speaker 2: Just just my hands tied out the sign? Does his
Speaker 2: hands and feet?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but did they match? Didn't see the match? The
Speaker 1: hands and feet?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't look at his feet.
Speaker 1: Lovely one day he'll come here and ask him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. But yeah, so I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: I'm a rocket for a little bit. And then I
Speaker 2: ended up having an opportunity to be on a reality show,
Speaker 2: which is Love and Hip Hop, and then I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not going to do this ship
Speaker 2: while I'm on camera on TV. And then I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, fuck it because I used to I
Speaker 2: wear pearls too. You know, it's been a minute I style,
Speaker 2: but you know that was my thing.
Speaker 1: So that just came naturally from you or did you
Speaker 1: have an did you like see fashion as a kid, did.
Speaker 2: You just like I just felt like doing it. And
Speaker 2: then I just everything. If I feel like doing something,
Speaker 2: I just do it. You know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 2: fun like that, free spirited all and so it's like
Speaker 2: I let people say what they want, all these gays.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone has to live in your truth,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's I think that if you think
Speaker 1: that because of the way that my appearances and you
Speaker 1: don't even know anything what that even means, Like, so
Speaker 1: you're not that's like your problem, not mine, right.
Speaker 2: So you know, I was like, fuck it, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just I'm gonna just be me on TV. And then
Speaker 2: I was looking at it like all right, you'll be
Speaker 2: able to google me without knowing my name. And that
Speaker 2: was happening. The guy with the blonde dreads wear pearls
Speaker 2: and black nail polish, you know. So I was like,
Speaker 2: that's cool.
Speaker 1: Now you can't go back. Yeah, no, there's no turning back.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I like them. I've done Chromebuck that before. Mind myself
Speaker 1: for Sparklings.
Speaker 2: I've been in a chrome vibe lately. I dig that.
Speaker 2: I'm working on my own noil polish line as well.
Speaker 1: Respect. That's awesome. So you said reality show, you said
Speaker 1: love and hip hop? How did you get into that?
Speaker 2: Did that?
Speaker 1: Just like, how did you start that?
Speaker 2: How did that being that nigga in the streets? You know?
Speaker 1: So they came and approached you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, making noise in the industry as a producer songwriter,
Speaker 2: and they was.
Speaker 1: Just like, did you go in with a bunch of friends?
Speaker 1: Was it solo?
Speaker 2: It was me and my wife, Lyrica Anderson, and you know,
Speaker 2: I was just really focused on her projects. So we
Speaker 2: was kind of making some noise on some independent shit,
Speaker 2: you know, in the streets, and they was just like, yo, y'all,
Speaker 2: y'all should come in for an interview. And we did
Speaker 2: that and they fell in love. I met my mom
Speaker 2: and they met her mom Like this is crazy, like
Speaker 2: they wanted us. You know.
Speaker 1: It just clicked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it clicked. So we was just like we give
Speaker 2: it a shot.
Speaker 1: And shit, how many seasons have you been on?
Speaker 2: Now? Four? Now? Four? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So with those through the ways, have you like obviously
Speaker 1: there are people. LA is small. LA is really small,
Speaker 1: and it's like with cast people, do you are you
Speaker 1: actually friends with them? Is it really scripted to the thing?
Speaker 1: Do use it mechanical do when you fight with them?
Speaker 1: Are they fighting because it means something or is it
Speaker 1: just because it's just how you feel at the time.
Speaker 2: My only friends is ray J, like we was friends
Speaker 2: before that, Marcus Black, Solo, Luci and Ship. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's it so far.
Speaker 1: Okay, But I guess it's like one of those things
Speaker 1: you don't see each other all the time. Is it
Speaker 1: just because of the show or is it like you
Speaker 1: guys actually hang out a personal level?
Speaker 2: Well me and raise a we like, we like that,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Other than that, is there anybody from the show that
Speaker 1: you absolutely couldn't like, you don't even want to be around,
Speaker 1: won't film with, won't do anything with.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, nah, I don't really.
Speaker 1: Like My life is so like you feel like you're
Speaker 1: like an open book because you're on the show though,
Speaker 1: because it's like at that point, it's like you get
Speaker 1: targeted either way if you want to be their friend
Speaker 1: or not. They're going to say a headline, Hey, you're
Speaker 1: fighting with this person or you're doing this or how
Speaker 1: like how do you get wrapped up and not wrapped
Speaker 1: up in those things? You know?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know I'm an open book for sure.
Speaker 2: My life's you see it, it's reality for me. But
Speaker 2: I just I don't know, like people don't love hip
Speaker 2: hop other cast members, Like you know, if I am
Speaker 2: in the scene with him, I'm just doing my job
Speaker 2: and then I'm out of there. I don't carry love
Speaker 2: and hip hop home with me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I have fun. I do what I do in real life,
Speaker 2: and then I don't talk about it like after like that,
Speaker 2: like what it is, Yeah, is what it is?
Speaker 1: So with your real life? What is your your real
Speaker 1: life contained? What is your relationship status? You say, your wife, Like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I know that you just si a
Speaker 1: new baby? Congratulations on that.
Speaker 2: Love him oceans Ion Bentley.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's a give mix to the both
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a superstar.
Speaker 1: I see something rockstar in the making. Dirty a rockstar.
Speaker 2: No, he's a superstar. Like he He's like, it's crazy
Speaker 2: how you can already see him. I'm like eighteen years
Speaker 2: old in the NBA. It's just crazy, Like you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. He went to the We took him
Speaker 2: to the Lakers game like last week for the first time.
Speaker 2: He was just so like I just was reading his
Speaker 2: brain like, yo, I can't wait as me. He was
Speaker 2: looking at Lebron like YO, that's me in seventeen years,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, yo, that's right. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You soak it up in a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, And he was really good there,
Speaker 2: like he didn't give me no problem. So I'm like, yo,
Speaker 2: he fell at home already, so I know he gonna
Speaker 2: play for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Nice, Yeah, for sure putting it out there Lakers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for what year would that be?
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie like he's so like, you know
Speaker 2: how things changed so that she could be in ten years.
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie to you. The Lakers unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Here first on the podcast with Election Texas, like he's.
Speaker 2: You know, hey, you never know anything is possible.
Speaker 1: It's very true. We have all kinds of things that
Speaker 1: we never thought were possible ten years ago at this point,
Speaker 1: so that this could be very true. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: So your relationship status, you said, what's going on right now?
Speaker 2: Just we just co parenting, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So you're single, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, we co parenting, right.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you. I don't know what co parenting you mean,
Speaker 1: I doesn't I don't know your child like I don't
Speaker 1: have you know, this means like, all right, you're just
Speaker 1: ambicable having a relationship. But y'all, you know seeing other people.
Speaker 1: Do you think because of your the show and everything
Speaker 1: like that had a reflection of those things?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: Do you think the show had anything to do with
Speaker 1: like that whole process right now?
Speaker 2: Now? Just you know, just life. You know, sometimes we
Speaker 2: make mistakes, make bad moves. You know, it's like playing cards.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you deal the wrong car and ship.
Speaker 1: I like that you say cards because you know, here
Speaker 1: at the Private Pod or the Private Talk Podcast with
Speaker 1: a Lexus Texas, we have a game called Truth with Texas.
Speaker 1: So we're going to play a game. And after this
Speaker 1: break we're going to set up this game Truth with Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you pick some cards. Just's got some
Speaker 1: little questions. It's gonna be quick, painless, and then I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're gonna have a lot of fun. I hope
Speaker 1: you guys are ready? Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Ayone?
Speaker 1: Are you sure you're done? The seed hasn't been that hot,
Speaker 1: hasn't Okay? All right, here we go peck it like it.
Speaker 1: Those fancy nails shining. All right, we've got a club,
Speaker 1: so my clubs. All right, what part of the body
Speaker 1: turns you on the most about a woman? Oh? Oh huh,
Speaker 1: for real, for real Private talk wants to know?
Speaker 2: Lips?
Speaker 1: Lips? As I licked my lips, I'm like, you looked
Speaker 1: at me to say I saw them. So is that
Speaker 1: your final answer? Lips? Yeah, I don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's accurate. That's the first thing you
Speaker 1: look at as a woman that turns you on the most.
Speaker 2: Oh, the first thing that I look at.
Speaker 1: I'm scared of you, motherfuckers.
Speaker 2: The first thing that turned me on. She gotta look pretty.
Speaker 1: Face for sure, body part a face. It has to
Speaker 1: be specific. Lips are we going with. We'll go with lips,
Speaker 1: whole face as a whole. That's just like a.
Speaker 2: Cop out body part. I'm trying to tell you you
Speaker 2: want the truth true, Hey, I.
Speaker 1: Want like you said, you want to ship like.
Speaker 2: You want the truth. Here it is lips. That's yeah.
Speaker 1: Clips first, all right, we're gonna go with lips. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. But hey, what let us no secret?
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think most men do. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like head and I'm a woman, and so I mean.
Speaker 2: Some some girls asked this question like, oh what do
Speaker 2: you what do you like more pussy? Your head? You know?
Speaker 2: My answer is head?
Speaker 1: Is it because some good girls pussy is whack? Are
Speaker 1: you just like head? I like your sound effects?
Speaker 2: Should I be talking about that?
Speaker 1: Yes? This is a private conversation that's doing the couch
Speaker 1: here with the private talk conversations do it's.
Speaker 2: Just something about, oh my gosh, don't kill me, guys,
Speaker 2: something about like a good jacket, twist.
Speaker 1: A jack and twist. Guys out there Private talk podcast
Speaker 1: with a Lexis Texas. You guys, you like a jack
Speaker 1: and twist?
Speaker 2: You know, a girl jack and twisting this it's different.
Speaker 1: Do all of them do that? Or do you like
Speaker 1: demand them and instruct them to do that because that's
Speaker 1: the way you like. I'm just saying, okay me not
Speaker 1: all all right, let me back out, let me back up.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you're in your whole like sexual encounter,
Speaker 1: history and life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just talking about if I'm in a relationship,
Speaker 2: you know, by.
Speaker 1: What happened was Okay, let's go to the next card.
Speaker 1: Truth with Texas. Let's do it, all right, are you ready?
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Ooh the hearts all right? Hmmm, how long have you
Speaker 1: gone without sex? For the longest amount of time?
Speaker 2: For real?
Speaker 1: For real? Don't lie to hit, don't lie, don't lie.
Speaker 1: Don't make me do this again.
Speaker 2: Long as I've gone without sex? Damn, like I got it?
Speaker 1: Scroll back.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of life.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're here. I got time.
Speaker 2: But do you maybe maybe three months?
Speaker 1: Three months? No head, no pussy, no nothing.
Speaker 2: Oh shit.
Speaker 1: Oh the longest I've gone is six months?
Speaker 2: Oh shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was angry the whole time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, like two months.
Speaker 1: Two months with everything. It's hard start out here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I respect the honesty. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: Next question, Let's see what you get?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Ooh, that's my favorite one. It's a spade, so it's
Speaker 1: just like my my booty but different. So this one
Speaker 1: is going to be a little bit more riskier than
Speaker 1: the naughtiest question, because this is why we're here at
Speaker 1: the Private Talk Podcast. So are you ready? Listeners? Are
Speaker 1: you still with me? You better be subscribing to the
Speaker 1: Private Talk Podcast with your favorite Alexis, Texas. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's get this question out. What's the weirdest sexual experience
Speaker 1: you've ever had?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm ship the weirdest secion m h.
Speaker 1: M, going back into sexual bank, it's like, dude.
Speaker 2: It was weird and wow, don't hold that.
Speaker 1: Let's hear it.
Speaker 2: I have three girls lined up.
Speaker 1: Were they like based?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was hammering them all.
Speaker 1: Like one stroke each one like bam bam bam. Like
Speaker 1: were they like stocked on top like like a you know,
Speaker 1: like drum line like I was the man a one a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was. It was weird. That's weird. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, dy was game for it.
Speaker 1: And it was just you and the drum line with
Speaker 1: ladies and cheeks. Nice.
Speaker 2: Three girls.
Speaker 1: That's the most you've ever been with?
Speaker 2: Yeah at one time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was that a lot to handle? No?
Speaker 2: I think I am I saying so much.
Speaker 1: No, you're supposed to feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: This is a back then. I felt like I was
Speaker 2: performing pretty good. Okay, I'm a great performer.
Speaker 1: So each girl would be like, yeah he drummed that line?
Speaker 2: Yeah not for sure?
Speaker 1: All right, perfect, I like it? All right, last question,
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, here we go, right, diamonds.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, are you ready for the last question.
Speaker 1: It's the diamond card and let's see how many people
Speaker 1: have you slept with? Oh ah, don't look at don't
Speaker 1: look for an answer. No, it's just it's a I
Speaker 1: have a list of questions that are each categorized for things,
Speaker 1: and I just what happens happens. If you listened and
Speaker 1: you actually liked and know what was it, if you
Speaker 1: joined my Instagram for the private podcast, you would see
Speaker 1: all these questions there. You should do it. You're going
Speaker 1: to be live on there as well. How many people
Speaker 1: have you had sex with? My and your whole life?
Speaker 1: Do you need my hands and fingers and toes? Do
Speaker 1: or you going over there?
Speaker 2: I say like, I.
Speaker 1: Don't even know my number. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: to be quite honest.
Speaker 2: I say like like like, yeah, you know that's not
Speaker 2: a number.
Speaker 1: That is not a number. No, it's not a number.
Speaker 1: Come on now, it's a private talk here. This is
Speaker 1: your whole life situation. How many people have you had
Speaker 1: sex with?
Speaker 2: Probably by like thirty thirty? All right?
Speaker 1: I like it. That means like we should add our subtract.
Speaker 1: What does that rule? With the girls or men. I
Speaker 1: think with girls you subtract, and men you add. I
Speaker 1: don't really remember how it goes.
Speaker 2: I could be lying. It could be less.
Speaker 1: It could be less, or it could be more.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to look cool.
Speaker 1: You already look cool. You're nail polished. Yeah no, but
Speaker 1: you're again, ayone the man. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being a part of the Private Talk podcast. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you for coming out and being honest with us, and
Speaker 1: I hope that you've had a lot of fun with me.
Speaker 1: I hope you like the channel, subscribe to the channel yourself.
Speaker 1: And yeah, thanks for coming on the Private Talk Podcast.
Speaker 2: If I'm being honest, I have a single that's about
Speaker 2: to drop.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hear it. Oh not where we can
Speaker 1: find it? Not hear the single? Come down Down, come on.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's okay. It's called two at a Time
Speaker 2: and it's featuring A one and it's fucking amazing. Produced
Speaker 2: by Draymond.
Speaker 1: This a one. He's speaking the third person.
Speaker 2: I like him.
Speaker 1: I listen to his music.
Speaker 2: This record, it's gonna be a runner for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that you have like different like
Speaker 1: feels about this one? Other than the ones we talked
Speaker 1: about previous in this interview.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's shout out to Draymond, like, like, he's one
Speaker 2: of my favorite producers.
Speaker 1: I got a pause. He's done some phenomenal work. He's
Speaker 1: an amazing person.
Speaker 2: I love he did the beat.
Speaker 1: He's a true he's a true one.
Speaker 2: I like you did that. I that dude is amazing.
Speaker 2: But it's just something about his beast that I just it.
Speaker 2: It's magic.
Speaker 1: Is it because of where you are right now? And
Speaker 1: maybe you're like life and that it's like you're like, maybe.
Speaker 2: Is just like this one?
Speaker 1: All right, so tell us again.
Speaker 2: What it is. It is eight away driven. It's really catchy.
Speaker 2: You know, two at a time? Just think about it.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had two at a time? I have.
Speaker 1: I'm Alexis Tech now I'm interviewing. It's okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: afraid we're This is a private conversation. You can ask
Speaker 1: me anything you want.
Speaker 2: Five at a time I have.
Speaker 1: Actually, there was a movie I did. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: go and watch that. I haven't ten movies in a
Speaker 1: really long time, but back back in the day, I
Speaker 1: did do my share. No shame in my game. This
Speaker 1: is a private talk with Alexus, Texas and you should
Speaker 1: feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: But yeah, not a single about to drop, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, And I think it's going to give
Speaker 2: give a run.
Speaker 1: So where can the fans see your social media?
Speaker 2: Where can we just follow me? I'm everywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, what's your social media?
Speaker 2: But my social media is a one Bentley