WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.360 Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz. Tough, tough, tough, tough, 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:08.000 give ahead, tap tat tat tat. They said that they 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:10.640 will wear it. Bud, it's CAP's got cat, hey man, 4 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.519 not your fit there pushing back back back, flo you 5 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:15.800 on my homies on the twenty per Le's go. I 6 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.199 can put it in my rotation that you'll never get upset. 7 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:20.000 I make sure when I turned down and I go 8 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:22.039 straight into them, I'm read if I'll go yard bag 9 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:22.320 old it. 10 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:22.640 Thank you. 11 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:24.879 Put the mortgag jet in my seat. Woke up feeling 12 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.039 like a million bucks. Took a shower after I'm done 13 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:29.760 getting sucked too much. 14 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:30.039 Drop. 15 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.520 I think we can put it visising, even know it's 16 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:35.960 Lemmy might just pull the enemy to be Ain't falling 17 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.520 for that talk that helpings in the discussion. You don't 18 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.679 want these redcause I just bout little shorty tweeny Berkis. 19 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:44.640 Then they skeed up for off. 20 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:46.880 Now then, ain't I was rmage having. 21 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:48.520 Any east let the shop. I shoul keep the receipts. 22 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:50.359 Don't you tell him you got it for me? After this, 23 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:52.560 I'm gonna neath therapy I've been doing in my legacy 24 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.119 is a heady so far I been so were it 25 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:55.759 stuck at the top. 26 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:56.640 It is a where to go. 27 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.640 That's a reason I'm away too much. Mo Ley moneyfucker 28 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.240 had to I still left with three holes and stuff. 29 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.400 I mean, like Tam, may you be long, shout out 30 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.920 the bar, uncle, funk around, go deep boy. It's just 31 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.840 like the Cruise Show on Real ninety two three is. 32 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:14.560 Back on the Cruise Show. Let's get it well? You 33 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:15.040 sup with it? 34 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:15.159 Bro? 35 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.599 You felt intro by DJ Nico, Right, I. 36 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.760 Me locked in. Jump to the studio again. 37 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:25.640 Right, I know right, We're about to record a song. 38 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:26.680 You ready, Let's do this. 39 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:28.359 Now? 40 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:29.040 You stay ready? 41 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:29.159 Right? 42 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:30.920 I mean that's how it all started, recording music. 43 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.920 In your bedroom. I mean yeah, here we are, yeah, bro, it. 44 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.040 Was non stop making beads, selling a little weed. You 45 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:36.439 feel me? 46 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.519 You know, just getting I don't know, yeah, I mean right, yeah, 47 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.239 it's legal now, right, so we're good, I mean selling 48 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:43.439 it it. 49 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:46.319 I guess you're right. Let me shut the fuck up. 50 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.959 Nah Ma, congratulations Rexdeale joints sounds crazy. I appreciate it, yes, sir. 51 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:53.959 And it's uh it's an homage to back home right 52 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.760 right where it all started, right, What kind of place 53 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:57.480 is Rexdale? 54 00:01:58.079 --> 00:01:59.879 Man? Rextel could be whatever you wanted to be. Man 55 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.000 could be a cool, calm place, or it could be crazy, 56 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.120 or you know, it could be very multicultural and fun. 57 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:06.879 You know what I mean? You good food. 58 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.479 There's people there that have been there their whole lives, right, 59 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.039 There's people that migrated there, people that have been in 60 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:16.319 and out of Rexdale. Some say it's dangerous, some say 61 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:18.960 it's not dangerous. So it all depends on how you roll, 62 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.360 I guess in Rexdale, right. 63 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.199 Right, It depends what you're born to. Some people get 64 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.360 born in a type of neighborhood. Whrey got no choice, 65 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.599 you know, yeah, for me, I had, I had choices. 66 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.919 What kind of food? Everything? Any food? Jamaican food happy? 67 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.280 You get a lot of places shut down though a 68 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.759 lot of cool places shut down during quarantine. Yeah they lost. 69 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:39.479 We still got something all good. 70 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.360 What do y'all got, like like chicken spots or what. 71 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:43.840 Do we got? Honestly? Everything you got Jamaica House at 72 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.639 the Western Jamaica House on. 73 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.719 Jamaican food, I apologize Jamaican food is. 74 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:51.800 I haven't lived there a long time, so I don't 75 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.599 even know what the new spots are family still out 76 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.840 there or yeah, I got some families and cousins and 77 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:57.879 my mom and them. That's right. 78 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.199 I saw you went back to your mom's crib in 79 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.080 Rextall and went back to your room and kind of 80 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.360 reflected on everything that happened there, right right, Yo. And 81 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.199 I also saw that, you know, you were raised on manners, 82 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.680 having manners, and how Americans don't necessarily. 83 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:14.120 Have the manners that they should. Right, I'm not not 84 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.560 all of them, but something. Yeah, Paris is worse though, Paris. 85 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:19.560 Sure, no manners in Paris. 86 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:21.159 What you staying? 87 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.560 People are polite, but the manner ship is different, you 88 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.439 know what I mean? Like, Nah, dude reaching his old 89 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.439 arm pit over your plate. I'm not saying excuse me, 90 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:30.199 like the waiter. 91 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.400 That's crazy, like harsh hair falls into my soup, I'm sick. 92 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:37.479 I'm just saying, like you say, excuse me. 93 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.800 You know what people don't understand, like yeah, like yo, 94 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:41.879 please thank you? 95 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:42.680 Excuse me? 96 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:44.400 No, thank you goes a long way. 97 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:44.719 Man. 98 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.520 I feel like they don't like Americas that much over there. No, Yeah, 99 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.759 and I fall under that, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, 100 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.280 what did you say? 101 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:53.280 I didn't have that experience but there are way too 102 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.039 many tank tops and way too little socks. 103 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:58.199 Both of those bring the funk, you know what I mean, 104 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:02.240 It's crazy. I noticed that shopping is great though. Over there. 105 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:03.520 I can't complain shopping shopping. 106 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.599 It's big shopper, good prices, good prices, different taxes. 107 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.439 We'll get your tax money back on the way in. 108 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:11.639 Oh wow, Oh that's good. 109 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.159 That's what duty free stands for. God bless. I had 110 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:16.160 no idea what that stake. 111 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.360 I didn't know. I didn't got to pay your duties. Man, 112 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.600 I don't fucking travel. I'm here and I'm at home. 113 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:22.839 What do you want from me? 114 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:24.240 Nothing? 115 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:24.959 I'm nobody. 116 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:25.240 Man. 117 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:26.519 I'm a father of two. 118 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.279 I come to work and I go home, you know, 119 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:31.079 and I try to figure it out. 120 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.079 At least your father, I'm a father. 121 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:33.680 Man's fire. 122 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:34.040 Yeah. 123 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.480 No, I'm great, it's great. I mean, yeah, I hope 124 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.040 to be a great father. I guess I don't know. 125 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:40.319 You're not a father, right? 126 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:40.560 No? 127 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:41.560 No, no kids for you. 128 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:42.839 I was at them from before. 129 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.439 Yeah. Nice, we'll see Now you want kids down the line, hell, yeah, 130 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.560 of course, yeah, hell yeah right. You want to teach 131 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.759 them and give them everything you didn't have, not. 132 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:51.439 Too much though. 133 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:53.079 It's gonna be a strict dad. 134 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.240 Yeah, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna give them handouts, 135 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.199 no spoil I'm making I let them figure out the 136 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.000 ship by themselves. 137 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.439 Well okay, you say that now, you've. 138 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:01.920 Never seen that video on the internet with the Asian 139 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.879 dad and then his son is trying to Like they're 140 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:08.160 walking and there's like a rope in the sidewalk and 141 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:09.800 he's like crying, he wants to be picked up over 142 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.639 and he just waits, and sooner or later the kid 143 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:13.240 figured it out. 144 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.240 Yeah, you gotta let them find it out. Yeah, you 145 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:16.959 find that vine of them of that experience. 146 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:18.000 You got to let them figure out. 147 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:19.839 Let them figure out Garcia's son. 148 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:22.399 I listen, they're gonna leave the country soon, and his 149 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.519 sixteen year old son is going to hang back and 150 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.600 be with family. I'm like, let him stay by himself. 151 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.279 He's sixteen. I think he can handle it. 152 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.160 I don't know, it depends how he's raising, how much 153 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.839 he is. You know, he's a sixteen year old boy 154 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:40.120 with a girlfriend, bro, and they're getting so I don't 155 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.560 want to come home and be your grandpa. How's the 156 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:44.600 time for Garcia? 157 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:45.000 Right? 158 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.759 And his wife Sarah, beautiful wife Sarah, to like to 159 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.319 really see the job that they've done with him. 160 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.319 That's the opportunity. I mean, I mean, you know, like 161 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:55.399 especially dads, I know they want their kids to be 162 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.439 like them, right, It's like me, if I want my 163 00:05:57.519 --> 00:05:59.199 kid to be like me, he got to kind of 164 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.399 grow up like me. It was like my parents just 165 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.319 at work all day, were just figuring out. 166 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:04.439 Yeah, and that's what. 167 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.000 But you was also that had you in the streets naff. 168 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:10.360 But nah, I was smart enough to know, like you 169 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:11.800 know what I mean. I was bumping Nas on the 170 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.839 way here, and Nas is like my encyclopedia, you know 171 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:15.439 what I'm saying. I was listening to him. I go 172 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.560 outside and see what's going on. It's exactly matching up 173 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:19.399 to the music. Yes, I knew it. I had to 174 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:20.120 stay away. 175 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:21.800 From Nah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, growing up I 176 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.199 was left alone too, But like TV and radio help 177 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.199 raise me right, and music and hip hop in the 178 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:28.800 dark and jay Z was like. 179 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:30.839 Dark and was going on. TV was crazy dark and 180 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:32.439 the news was dark for sure. 181 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:34.920 You feel me, Like now they'll they'll pull away from 182 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.480 a shot like a dangerous shot. 183 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.319 Back then, bro, you we was watching heads roll on 184 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.120 the freeway. Right ship was wild, bro. 185 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:44.000 Even YouTube back in the day was crazy. 186 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.160 Yeah yeah yeah, my era was before YouTube but all good, 187 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:52.199 so YouTube was crazy crazy, yo, bro, I really like 188 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:54.759 real me, Like I like real me. I think that 189 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.399 that song I don't know, does that song when you 190 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.959 recorded that song? You wrote that song obviously, right, Like 191 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.040 you go in there with with with an intent, like, yo, 192 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.360 I gotta speak my truth here. 193 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.560 I really I'm like a notation musical kind of like 194 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.000 you know, piano type person. Like I just go based 195 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:15.560 off like how the chords is and how the vibe 196 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.600 is of just that and I'll just like the lyrics 197 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.439 just come out depending on, you know, how I'm feeling. 198 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.040 And that day it was like Metro pulled up and 199 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.000 every beat he pretty much played, I was just recording 200 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:28.399 to every single one. Of course it's central booming, yeah, 201 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.839 but not just because of that, just like I don't know, 202 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.839 like I'll say no to beats. I don't care who 203 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:34.920 you are, but Metro by chance. 204 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.360 But you're a producer, so you have that. 205 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.800 Yeah. But we he knows what I want to like, 206 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:40.920 he knows what kind of be something looking for. 207 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.680 I feel like you know, yeah, be instant Unlimited was 208 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.399 a really good choice too to go with. I'm glad 209 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.480 that made the album too unlimited. It's crazy. I love 210 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.839 that with Cardi right, getting the Cardi verse that's is 211 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.160 that tough to get? 212 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:55.439 Is that? 213 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.600 Communication wise? Does he disappear? I don't know. I think 214 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.079 I feel like like we have an even relationship. I 215 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.000 remember just being like I always remember this one memory 216 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.680 where I was starting a perfect time and then play 217 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:08.399 by Cardi was in the studio with us, just kicking it, 218 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.920 and I'll never forget like we was talking about like yo, 219 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.319 I had supreme stuff and was talking about trading it. 220 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.439 Like we was at that level where like got some 221 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.839 money but not really and like got some success but 222 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:19.800 not really. So we were both on the common Yeah, 223 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:21.160 Homi shit, I just got to know him and they 224 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.319 always been just cool. Every time I pull upon him, 225 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.480 the exact same person. So I'm just, you know, blessed 226 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:28.439 to have shared you know, rub shoulders with the people. 227 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.160 I'm sure you've seen people switch up, oh for sure. 228 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:32.799 Not sure for the shape, but I'm just saying, like, 229 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.120 in this business, it's going to run into it. 230 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.159 Absolutely. You drop a number one album, they said, job. 231 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.080 You don't drop a number one album, they say, job, 232 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:41.000 So didn't it break your heart? 233 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:41.399 No? 234 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.799 No, I knew what to expect. I knew what to expect. 235 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:46.960 I know, I know all these relationships just based off 236 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:48.120 a lot of them is just based off of the 237 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.159 fact of who I am now, you know what I mean, 238 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:52.799 not like my friends from like back home. That's just 239 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.200 the you know, the real me. Yeah, for sure. 240 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:55.879 What's up Jack? 241 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.159 You know you've said before that you've had that your 242 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.720 personal life has almost made you quick music and stop it. 243 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:02.759 Have you found that balance between personal and music? 244 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.360 Yeah? I feel like I have to sort a couple 245 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:09.600 of things out of my personal life, like remove a 246 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:14.639 couple things people, And once I did that, if I'm like, 247 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.279 you know, I just got this space to think about 248 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.360 myself kind of be selfish in a healthy way. 249 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:18.720 M hm. 250 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.679 And then also like not paying attention to social media 251 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.440 towards I feel like social media is messing up everybody 252 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.480 right now, just stay off that shit. When I stay 253 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.600 off that shit in my life is great. I'm on it. 254 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.799 Not to now you can o d on social media. 255 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.639 You're gonna dig I always find myself looking past they 256 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.559 could be fifty fire emojis, and I look past those 257 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:39.559 fifty fire emojis and just look for that one back, 258 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.320 and that one holds so much more weight than. 259 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.840 All them, you know, I feel I can't give too 260 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.559 much power to that, right, That's what I've learned. 261 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:48.919 Like you pay attention to it gets crazy. It's crazy. 262 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:49.879 I stay off that shit. 263 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:50.799 Can you read into it? 264 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.720 Like you go through, like you respond, you stop responding 265 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:56.679 to those type of comments, the ones that like are 266 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:57.480 the negative ones. 267 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:00.799 I mean I've responded one of the past ones that 268 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:05.879 needed yeah, yeah, always that one. Fuck yeah. 269 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.279 But it's crazy because now you're in their page, and 270 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.639 if they're public, you're you're scrolling, You're looking for anything, right, 271 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:14.200 You're like you're going hard, and if they're private, you 272 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:15.240 fucking report them. 273 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:18.919 That's crazy. Just the other day, the other day, there 274 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:20.720 was this clip of me and Neon on stream, and 275 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.960 I'm talking about how like sometimes least in a car 276 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:27.600 could be financially better, like with taxis smart and whatever. 277 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:29.480 But I didn't go into detail about like how you 278 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:31.759 know what I mean, how it worked. I see the 279 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.080 clip and I see a bunch of people comment, They're like, oh, bro, 280 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.679 if you can't afford the car. Just say that, or 281 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.919 they're like, they're like, no, what does he know about interest? 282 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:40.759 And I clicked these people's page. I'm like, bro, you 283 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:42.639 ain't never bought a nice car about three in the 284 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.679 last five six years. You end up feeling bad expensive 285 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:47.639 cars over two hundred eight thousand. What I'm saying, I 286 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.240 didn't even see my cars on the bottom. I look 287 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.840 at the pictures, say yes, so I know what I'm 288 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:56.080 talking about. I see that properties. Don't even see bottle, 289 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:58.279 so I don't know. Like, you can't pay attention to 290 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.919 the crowd because the crowd is you know what I'm saying. 291 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.000 Now, But you've also called a fan on FaceTime to 292 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:04.519 tell him it's okay to be a fan of you. 293 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:06.919 Yeah, for sure, right for sure. But even that, like 294 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.840 people might hate on you and make you feel like 295 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.120 shit for being a fan of a certain artist. Now 296 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.360 it's crazy. You got one artist fans beefing other artists fans. Shit, 297 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.480 it's crazy. Social media shit is wild. 298 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:18.679 You gotta be careful. Run it, don't let it run you, 299 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:19.279 I guess. 300 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.200 Exactly for sure. Unplugged from the matrix, you know that shit. 301 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.000 Yeah, you have to yo how long rextell how long 302 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.080 did it take to make the album. Were you in 303 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.000 between stuff or were you solely focused on the project, 304 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.000 because for me, it sounds like a focused project. 305 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.279 The songs, most of the songs that are on the album, 306 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.360 they were made in the final year, But it took 307 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.440 about three years and a lot of those years where 308 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.240 I was like stepping away from music. I wasn't even 309 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.320 in the studio for like months at a time. It's 310 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:47.919 because like I want to give my mind right. All 311 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:49.480 my friends all worried about me, like what's going on 312 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:51.360 with him? And da da da. I got to go 313 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.600 through something to get through it, like let me just 314 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:55.080 stay away from the shit for a second, and that 315 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.000 really helped, just you know what I mean. But I 316 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.279 would always constantly feel guilt I'm not working, just like 317 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:01.360 a weird balance. 318 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:01.240 You know. 319 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.200 Yeah. Is that from like having immigrant parents? That and 320 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.120 also just the pace that I've always been used to, 321 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.320 which is the studio, students, studio, hotels, travels, travel. Like 322 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.320 I'm like slowing down and saying now, I just feel 323 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:15.919 like you feel like you're not popping or something anymore, 324 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.000 you know. M You get in your head a lot 325 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.960 and mix the social media drive you crazy. 326 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.159 Yeah, then it's just like, oh shit, I'm done, I'm finished. 327 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:23.320 Yeah, it's a bad combination. 328 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.240 No, yeah, give yourself grace, give yourself time, right right? 329 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:27.639 What's up, nik yo? 330 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:30.879 You know, just being like the megaproducer that you are, bro, Like, 331 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.240 what's one big piece of advice that you would give 332 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.080 to producers who are like just starting out. 333 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:36.679 A lot of people ask me the same thing at 334 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.720 my meet and greets. I just save music theory, like 335 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.120 learn how to play an instrument. Learn that, like you 336 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:44.559 have to if you want to be a really good 337 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.600 beat maker, you got to learn a little bit of everything, like, 338 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.000 because a beat is just a band. At the end 339 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.399 of the day. There's a drummer, there's a guy playing 340 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:53.559 the piano, there's a guy playing guitar, the guy doing 341 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.559 against vocal layers or whatever, somebody playing synth. There's only 342 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.639 so much shit that can fit on there. If you 343 00:12:57.639 --> 00:12:58.720 don't know how to deal with all those if you 344 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.279 don't try some drumming I learned patterns or something. If 345 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.200 you don't try piano, you don't try a little guitar 346 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:05.000 and figure out how it's supposed to be played and 347 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.440 how good can your best possibly be you know what 348 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:07.799 I'm saying. 349 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.559 Do you ever get fearful of like how AI is 350 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:12.519 like slowly taking over the producer space. 351 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.440 No, because AI will never have taste, Like it'll do 352 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:17.919 what you tell it to do for sure, but you 353 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:19.840 got to have the taste. You gotta know what the pick. Still, 354 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:21.240 at end of the day, you can't just tell AI 355 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.240 make me a corp progression and just put that corporression 356 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:24.360 on the song without men thinking about it. 357 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.679 It takes a sauce, Yeah, human sauce. 358 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:37.919 You need that. Yeah, and sauce sauce is crazy. But 359 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:41.039 if AI ever learns the sauce, they we're in trouble. 360 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.799 But people ask us that as well with radio and 361 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.679 AI give a fuck like AI can never dog could never. 362 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.879 Don't underestimate it of course, kind of like how like 363 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:53.120 Blockbuster do with Netflix? 364 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:53.320 Right? 365 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.720 Be Blockbuster? Very true with it? 366 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:58.240 Yeah, exactly, stay with it. 367 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:03.360 I'd all day. I love I love it, man, The 368 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.279 grocery trips will never be the same, dude. 369 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.399 I use it for grocery list to Cruz uses it 370 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:09.919 for emails and comments on Instagram. 371 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:11.559 Yeah, because I don't want to leave the same comment 372 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.480 as everybody, so GPT helps me out? 373 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:16.720 Yo you with Don Tolliver? 374 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:17.039 Was that? 375 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.679 Was that a session together or did that just come 376 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.159 about together? He was at the studio at my manager 377 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.679 just crib. We're just chilling. Then he played some songs 378 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:28.960 and I started playing songs and he just started recording 379 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.960 to them. He actually did two that night, and and 380 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.759 that one was the stronger record. 381 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:35.759 Yeah, where's the other one? 382 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:37.639 The other one is the song that was on an album. 383 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:39.120 I don't want to say it because fans are gonna 384 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:40.360 start asking for it, but there was a song on 385 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.240 album where he he was on it too, but we 386 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.559 just talked his verse off. I mean, we have to 387 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.080 pick which one because we don't want to put damn, 388 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:53.240 you gonna make me? You make the same, tell me 389 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:54.240 too many. 390 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.320 The mics are off? Tell me dog no, no, the 391 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:04.039 mics are sucking. You're gonna hate me. Nah. 392 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:05.639 Yeah, that's that crazy though. 393 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.639 Like yeah, like fans, they they want to know more, right, 394 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:11.519 they want to know more, and sometimes it's best that 395 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:12.480 they don't know everything. 396 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:14.440 Yeah, they want to know what kind of underway you wear? 397 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.759 They want to that's crazy and. 398 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.399 They want in man, DJ Leslie, what's going on? 399 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.720 Less? Congrats on the new album. What's like your ideal 400 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.639 studio session set up? Like, is there are there any 401 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.279