Speaker 1: Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz. Tough, tough, tough, tough,
Speaker 1: give ahead, tap tat tat tat. They said that they
Speaker 1: will wear it. Bud, it's CAP's got cat, hey man,
Speaker 1: not your fit there pushing back back back, flo you
Speaker 1: on my homies on the twenty per Le's go. I
Speaker 1: can put it in my rotation that you'll never get upset.
Speaker 1: I make sure when I turned down and I go
Speaker 1: straight into them, I'm read if I'll go yard bag
Speaker 1: old it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Put the mortgag jet in my seat. Woke up feeling
Speaker 1: like a million bucks. Took a shower after I'm done
Speaker 1: getting sucked too much.
Speaker 3: Drop.
Speaker 1: I think we can put it visising, even know it's
Speaker 1: Lemmy might just pull the enemy to be Ain't falling
Speaker 1: for that talk that helpings in the discussion. You don't
Speaker 1: want these redcause I just bout little shorty tweeny Berkis.
Speaker 1: Then they skeed up for off.
Speaker 3: Now then, ain't I was rmage having.
Speaker 1: Any east let the shop. I shoul keep the receipts.
Speaker 1: Don't you tell him you got it for me? After this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna neath therapy I've been doing in my legacy
Speaker 1: is a heady so far I been so were it
Speaker 1: stuck at the top.
Speaker 4: It is a where to go.
Speaker 1: That's a reason I'm away too much. Mo Ley moneyfucker
Speaker 1: had to I still left with three holes and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Tam, may you be long, shout out
Speaker 1: the bar, uncle, funk around, go deep boy. It's just
Speaker 1: like the Cruise Show on Real ninety two three is.
Speaker 4: Back on the Cruise Show. Let's get it well? You
Speaker 4: sup with it?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 4: You felt intro by DJ Nico, Right, I.
Speaker 1: Me locked in. Jump to the studio again.
Speaker 4: Right, I know right, We're about to record a song.
Speaker 4: You ready, Let's do this.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: You stay ready?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean that's how it all started, recording music.
Speaker 1: In your bedroom. I mean yeah, here we are, yeah, bro, it.
Speaker 4: Was non stop making beads, selling a little weed. You
Speaker 4: feel me?
Speaker 1: You know, just getting I don't know, yeah, I mean right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's legal now, right, so we're good, I mean selling
Speaker 1: it it.
Speaker 3: I guess you're right. Let me shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3: Nah Ma, congratulations Rexdeale joints sounds crazy. I appreciate it, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: And it's uh it's an homage to back home right
Speaker 3: right where it all started, right, What kind of place
Speaker 3: is Rexdale?
Speaker 1: Man? Rextel could be whatever you wanted to be. Man
Speaker 1: could be a cool, calm place, or it could be crazy,
Speaker 1: or you know, it could be very multicultural and fun.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You good food.
Speaker 3: There's people there that have been there their whole lives, right,
Speaker 3: There's people that migrated there, people that have been in
Speaker 3: and out of Rexdale. Some say it's dangerous, some say
Speaker 3: it's not dangerous. So it all depends on how you roll,
Speaker 3: I guess in Rexdale, right.
Speaker 1: Right, It depends what you're born to. Some people get
Speaker 1: born in a type of neighborhood. Whrey got no choice,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, for me, I had, I had choices.
Speaker 1: What kind of food? Everything? Any food? Jamaican food happy?
Speaker 1: You get a lot of places shut down though a
Speaker 1: lot of cool places shut down during quarantine. Yeah they lost.
Speaker 1: We still got something all good.
Speaker 4: What do y'all got, like like chicken spots or what.
Speaker 1: Do we got? Honestly? Everything you got Jamaica House at
Speaker 1: the Western Jamaica House on.
Speaker 3: Jamaican food, I apologize Jamaican food is.
Speaker 1: I haven't lived there a long time, so I don't
Speaker 1: even know what the new spots are family still out
Speaker 1: there or yeah, I got some families and cousins and
Speaker 1: my mom and them. That's right.
Speaker 3: I saw you went back to your mom's crib in
Speaker 3: Rextall and went back to your room and kind of
Speaker 3: reflected on everything that happened there, right right, Yo. And
Speaker 3: I also saw that, you know, you were raised on manners,
Speaker 3: having manners, and how Americans don't necessarily.
Speaker 1: Have the manners that they should. Right, I'm not not
Speaker 1: all of them, but something. Yeah, Paris is worse though, Paris.
Speaker 3: Sure, no manners in Paris.
Speaker 2: What you staying?
Speaker 1: People are polite, but the manner ship is different, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, Nah, dude reaching his old
Speaker 1: arm pit over your plate. I'm not saying excuse me,
Speaker 1: like the waiter.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, like harsh hair falls into my soup, I'm sick.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like you say, excuse me.
Speaker 3: You know what people don't understand, like yeah, like yo,
Speaker 3: please thank you?
Speaker 1: Excuse me?
Speaker 4: No, thank you goes a long way.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I feel like they don't like Americas that much over there. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I fall under that, you know what I'm saying? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what did you say?
Speaker 3: I didn't have that experience but there are way too
Speaker 3: many tank tops and way too little socks.
Speaker 1: Both of those bring the funk, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I noticed that shopping is great though. Over there.
Speaker 1: I can't complain shopping shopping.
Speaker 3: It's big shopper, good prices, good prices, different taxes.
Speaker 1: We'll get your tax money back on the way in.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh that's good.
Speaker 4: That's what duty free stands for. God bless. I had
Speaker 4: no idea what that stake.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't got to pay your duties. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't fucking travel. I'm here and I'm at home.
Speaker 3: What do you want from me?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 4: I'm nobody.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: I'm a father of two.
Speaker 3: I come to work and I go home, you know,
Speaker 3: and I try to figure it out.
Speaker 1: At least your father, I'm a father.
Speaker 3: Man's fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I'm great, it's great. I mean, yeah, I hope
Speaker 3: to be a great father. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 3: You're not a father, right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, no kids for you.
Speaker 1: I was at them from before.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Nice, we'll see Now you want kids down the line, hell, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, yeah, hell yeah right. You want to teach
Speaker 3: them and give them everything you didn't have, not.
Speaker 1: Too much though.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a strict dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna give them handouts,
Speaker 1: no spoil I'm making I let them figure out the
Speaker 1: ship by themselves.
Speaker 4: Well okay, you say that now, you've.
Speaker 1: Never seen that video on the internet with the Asian
Speaker 1: dad and then his son is trying to Like they're
Speaker 1: walking and there's like a rope in the sidewalk and
Speaker 1: he's like crying, he wants to be picked up over
Speaker 1: and he just waits, and sooner or later the kid
Speaker 1: figured it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta let them find it out. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: find that vine of them of that experience.
Speaker 1: You got to let them figure out.
Speaker 4: Let them figure out Garcia's son.
Speaker 3: I listen, they're gonna leave the country soon, and his
Speaker 3: sixteen year old son is going to hang back and
Speaker 3: be with family. I'm like, let him stay by himself.
Speaker 3: He's sixteen. I think he can handle it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it depends how he's raising, how much
Speaker 1: he is. You know, he's a sixteen year old boy
Speaker 1: with a girlfriend, bro, and they're getting so I don't
Speaker 1: want to come home and be your grandpa. How's the
Speaker 1: time for Garcia?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: And his wife Sarah, beautiful wife Sarah, to like to
Speaker 3: really see the job that they've done with him.
Speaker 1: That's the opportunity. I mean, I mean, you know, like
Speaker 1: especially dads, I know they want their kids to be
Speaker 1: like them, right, It's like me, if I want my
Speaker 1: kid to be like me, he got to kind of
Speaker 1: grow up like me. It was like my parents just
Speaker 1: at work all day, were just figuring out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what.
Speaker 4: But you was also that had you in the streets naff.
Speaker 1: But nah, I was smart enough to know, like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I was bumping Nas on the
Speaker 1: way here, and Nas is like my encyclopedia, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I was listening to him. I go
Speaker 1: outside and see what's going on. It's exactly matching up
Speaker 1: to the music. Yes, I knew it. I had to
Speaker 1: stay away.
Speaker 3: From Nah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, growing up I
Speaker 3: was left alone too, But like TV and radio help
Speaker 3: raise me right, and music and hip hop in the
Speaker 3: dark and jay Z was like.
Speaker 1: Dark and was going on. TV was crazy dark and
Speaker 1: the news was dark for sure.
Speaker 3: You feel me, Like now they'll they'll pull away from
Speaker 3: a shot like a dangerous shot.
Speaker 4: Back then, bro, you we was watching heads roll on
Speaker 4: the freeway. Right ship was wild, bro.
Speaker 1: Even YouTube back in the day was crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah, my era was before YouTube but all good,
Speaker 3: so YouTube was crazy crazy, yo, bro, I really like
Speaker 3: real me, Like I like real me. I think that
Speaker 3: that song I don't know, does that song when you
Speaker 3: recorded that song? You wrote that song obviously, right, Like
Speaker 3: you go in there with with with an intent, like, yo,
Speaker 3: I gotta speak my truth here.
Speaker 1: I really I'm like a notation musical kind of like
Speaker 1: you know, piano type person. Like I just go based
Speaker 1: off like how the chords is and how the vibe
Speaker 1: is of just that and I'll just like the lyrics
Speaker 1: just come out depending on, you know, how I'm feeling.
Speaker 1: And that day it was like Metro pulled up and
Speaker 1: every beat he pretty much played, I was just recording
Speaker 1: to every single one. Of course it's central booming, yeah,
Speaker 1: but not just because of that, just like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I'll say no to beats. I don't care who
Speaker 1: you are, but Metro by chance.
Speaker 4: But you're a producer, so you have that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But we he knows what I want to like,
Speaker 1: he knows what kind of be something looking for.
Speaker 3: I feel like you know, yeah, be instant Unlimited was
Speaker 3: a really good choice too to go with. I'm glad
Speaker 3: that made the album too unlimited. It's crazy. I love
Speaker 3: that with Cardi right, getting the Cardi verse that's is
Speaker 3: that tough to get?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 1: Communication wise? Does he disappear? I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: I feel like like we have an even relationship. I
Speaker 1: remember just being like I always remember this one memory
Speaker 1: where I was starting a perfect time and then play
Speaker 1: by Cardi was in the studio with us, just kicking it,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget like we was talking about like yo,
Speaker 1: I had supreme stuff and was talking about trading it.
Speaker 1: Like we was at that level where like got some
Speaker 1: money but not really and like got some success but
Speaker 1: not really. So we were both on the common Yeah,
Speaker 1: Homi shit, I just got to know him and they
Speaker 1: always been just cool. Every time I pull upon him,
Speaker 1: the exact same person. So I'm just, you know, blessed
Speaker 1: to have shared you know, rub shoulders with the people.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've seen people switch up, oh for sure.
Speaker 3: Not sure for the shape, but I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 3: in this business, it's going to run into it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. You drop a number one album, they said, job.
Speaker 1: You don't drop a number one album, they say, job,
Speaker 1: So didn't it break your heart?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, I knew what to expect. I knew what to expect.
Speaker 1: I know, I know all these relationships just based off
Speaker 1: a lot of them is just based off of the
Speaker 1: fact of who I am now, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: not like my friends from like back home. That's just
Speaker 1: the you know, the real me. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: What's up Jack?
Speaker 5: You know you've said before that you've had that your
Speaker 5: personal life has almost made you quick music and stop it.
Speaker 5: Have you found that balance between personal and music?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I feel like I have to sort a couple
Speaker 1: of things out of my personal life, like remove a
Speaker 1: couple things people, And once I did that, if I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I just got this space to think about
Speaker 1: myself kind of be selfish in a healthy way.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: And then also like not paying attention to social media
Speaker 1: towards I feel like social media is messing up everybody
Speaker 1: right now, just stay off that shit. When I stay
Speaker 1: off that shit in my life is great. I'm on it.
Speaker 3: Not to now you can o d on social media.
Speaker 1: You're gonna dig I always find myself looking past they
Speaker 1: could be fifty fire emojis, and I look past those
Speaker 1: fifty fire emojis and just look for that one back,
Speaker 1: and that one holds so much more weight than.
Speaker 3: All them, you know, I feel I can't give too
Speaker 3: much power to that, right, That's what I've learned.
Speaker 1: Like you pay attention to it gets crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I stay off that shit.
Speaker 4: Can you read into it?
Speaker 5: Like you go through, like you respond, you stop responding
Speaker 5: to those type of comments, the ones that like are
Speaker 5: the negative ones.
Speaker 1: I mean I've responded one of the past ones that
Speaker 1: needed yeah, yeah, always that one. Fuck yeah.
Speaker 3: But it's crazy because now you're in their page, and
Speaker 3: if they're public, you're you're scrolling, You're looking for anything, right,
Speaker 3: You're like you're going hard, and if they're private, you
Speaker 3: fucking report them.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Just the other day, the other day, there
Speaker 1: was this clip of me and Neon on stream, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about how like sometimes least in a car
Speaker 1: could be financially better, like with taxis smart and whatever.
Speaker 1: But I didn't go into detail about like how you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, how it worked. I see the
Speaker 1: clip and I see a bunch of people comment, They're like, oh, bro,
Speaker 1: if you can't afford the car. Just say that, or
Speaker 1: they're like, they're like, no, what does he know about interest?
Speaker 1: And I clicked these people's page. I'm like, bro, you
Speaker 1: ain't never bought a nice car about three in the
Speaker 1: last five six years. You end up feeling bad expensive
Speaker 1: cars over two hundred eight thousand. What I'm saying, I
Speaker 1: didn't even see my cars on the bottom. I look
Speaker 1: at the pictures, say yes, so I know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. I see that properties. Don't even see bottle,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Like, you can't pay attention to
Speaker 1: the crowd because the crowd is you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Now, But you've also called a fan on FaceTime to
Speaker 3: tell him it's okay to be a fan of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, right for sure. But even that, like
Speaker 1: people might hate on you and make you feel like
Speaker 1: shit for being a fan of a certain artist. Now
Speaker 1: it's crazy. You got one artist fans beefing other artists fans. Shit,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Social media shit is wild.
Speaker 3: You gotta be careful. Run it, don't let it run you,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: Exactly for sure. Unplugged from the matrix, you know that shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to yo how long rextell how long
Speaker 3: did it take to make the album. Were you in
Speaker 3: between stuff or were you solely focused on the project,
Speaker 3: because for me, it sounds like a focused project.
Speaker 1: The songs, most of the songs that are on the album,
Speaker 1: they were made in the final year, But it took
Speaker 1: about three years and a lot of those years where
Speaker 1: I was like stepping away from music. I wasn't even
Speaker 1: in the studio for like months at a time. It's
Speaker 1: because like I want to give my mind right. All
Speaker 1: my friends all worried about me, like what's going on
Speaker 1: with him? And da da da. I got to go
Speaker 1: through something to get through it, like let me just
Speaker 1: stay away from the shit for a second, and that
Speaker 1: really helped, just you know what I mean. But I
Speaker 1: would always constantly feel guilt I'm not working, just like
Speaker 1: a weird balance.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that from like having immigrant parents? That and
Speaker 1: also just the pace that I've always been used to,
Speaker 1: which is the studio, students, studio, hotels, travels, travel. Like
Speaker 1: I'm like slowing down and saying now, I just feel
Speaker 1: like you feel like you're not popping or something anymore,
Speaker 1: you know. M You get in your head a lot
Speaker 1: and mix the social media drive you crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then it's just like, oh shit, I'm done, I'm finished.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bad combination.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, give yourself grace, give yourself time, right right?
Speaker 3: What's up, nik yo?
Speaker 2: You know, just being like the megaproducer that you are, bro, Like,
Speaker 2: what's one big piece of advice that you would give
Speaker 2: to producers who are like just starting out.
Speaker 1: A lot of people ask me the same thing at
Speaker 1: my meet and greets. I just save music theory, like
Speaker 1: learn how to play an instrument. Learn that, like you
Speaker 1: have to if you want to be a really good
Speaker 1: beat maker, you got to learn a little bit of everything, like,
Speaker 1: because a beat is just a band. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day. There's a drummer, there's a guy playing
Speaker 1: the piano, there's a guy playing guitar, the guy doing
Speaker 1: against vocal layers or whatever, somebody playing synth. There's only
Speaker 1: so much shit that can fit on there. If you
Speaker 1: don't know how to deal with all those if you
Speaker 1: don't try some drumming I learned patterns or something. If
Speaker 1: you don't try piano, you don't try a little guitar
Speaker 1: and figure out how it's supposed to be played and
Speaker 1: how good can your best possibly be you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Do you ever get fearful of like how AI is
Speaker 2: like slowly taking over the producer space.
Speaker 1: No, because AI will never have taste, Like it'll do
Speaker 1: what you tell it to do for sure, but you
Speaker 1: got to have the taste. You gotta know what the pick. Still,
Speaker 1: at end of the day, you can't just tell AI
Speaker 1: make me a corp progression and just put that corporression
Speaker 1: on the song without men thinking about it.
Speaker 3: It takes a sauce, Yeah, human sauce.
Speaker 1: You need that. Yeah, and sauce sauce is crazy. But
Speaker 1: if AI ever learns the sauce, they we're in trouble.
Speaker 3: But people ask us that as well with radio and
Speaker 3: AI give a fuck like AI can never dog could never.
Speaker 1: Don't underestimate it of course, kind of like how like
Speaker 1: Blockbuster do with Netflix?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Be Blockbuster? Very true with it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, stay with it.
Speaker 1: I'd all day. I love I love it, man, The
Speaker 1: grocery trips will never be the same, dude.
Speaker 5: I use it for grocery list to Cruz uses it
Speaker 5: for emails and comments on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I don't want to leave the same comment
Speaker 3: as everybody, so GPT helps me out?
Speaker 4: Yo you with Don Tolliver?
Speaker 3: Was that?
Speaker 1: Was that a session together or did that just come
Speaker 1: about together? He was at the studio at my manager
Speaker 1: just crib. We're just chilling. Then he played some songs
Speaker 1: and I started playing songs and he just started recording
Speaker 1: to them. He actually did two that night, and and
Speaker 1: that one was the stronger record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where's the other one?
Speaker 1: The other one is the song that was on an album.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it because fans are gonna
Speaker 1: start asking for it, but there was a song on
Speaker 1: album where he he was on it too, but we
Speaker 1: just talked his verse off. I mean, we have to
Speaker 1: pick which one because we don't want to put damn,
Speaker 1: you gonna make me? You make the same, tell me
Speaker 1: too many.
Speaker 3: The mics are off? Tell me dog no, no, the
Speaker 3: mics are sucking. You're gonna hate me. Nah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that crazy though.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, like fans, they they want to know more, right,
Speaker 3: they want to know more, and sometimes it's best that
Speaker 3: they don't know everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they want to know what kind of underway you wear?
Speaker 1: They want to that's crazy and.
Speaker 3: They want in man, DJ Leslie, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Less? Congrats on the new album. What's like your ideal
Speaker 1: studio session set up? Like, is there are there any
Speaker 1: necessities that you have to have in the studio. It
Speaker 1: always changes, Like I feel like the last few years
Speaker 1: it would just be me and just my engineer and
Speaker 1: then you know, sometimes we'll do the sessions where like
Speaker 1: you know, some girls come by and we test the songs.
Speaker 1: But now since I went to Toronto, I just like
Speaker 1: being in the studio with my boys, you know, and
Speaker 1: just staying there for a long time, like get there
Speaker 1: like four pm, stay till like four or five in
Speaker 1: the morning, just do everything there, you know, whether we're
Speaker 1: just playing dominos, whether we're making beats, just cracking jokes.
Speaker 1: It's just like more like hanging on the block. And
Speaker 1: then when I want to record, I just record.
Speaker 5: So your schedule is like a two you have the
Speaker 5: six am.
Speaker 1: Yeah pretty much, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: Not bad. Great benefits in one sense, and look look
Speaker 3: at the spoils that comes with you know that.
Speaker 1: Schedule, right, Yeah, but it's cool. But the sacrifice to
Speaker 1: the sacrifice.
Speaker 3: There is sacrifice, of course, Yeah, now you got I mean,
Speaker 3: I think it's you can't skip the sacrifice. That's crazy,
Speaker 3: you know, you can't skip the sacrifice.
Speaker 1: There's no story. You still have a bad day in
Speaker 1: a Rolls voice. Man, Yeah, Man, I want a bad
Speaker 1: day in a voice. It's better than a bad day
Speaker 1: in the Honda show. But still it could be bad.
Speaker 1: It can be bad, although a bad day in the
Speaker 1: Toyota's not bad. Dog. That ship I used to ava Toyota.
Speaker 1: This was those baddings are rough. Car punch the car,
Speaker 1: the car Corolla like I want to see, like a
Speaker 1: two thousand oh dog. And it was like that, the
Speaker 1: ugliest beige, like Grandma color.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 4: I bet you that color. That car is still running
Speaker 4: to this day.
Speaker 1: No, it's not the worst one I had was a
Speaker 1: Chevrolet Alumina. You gotta look that ship up. That car
Speaker 1: was just embarrassing. It's like a couch in the back
Speaker 1: back seat. It just feels like a couch.
Speaker 5: Speaking of cars, you said once that Birkins and Ultimus
Speaker 5: don't match. What else doesn't match?
Speaker 1: Ship? Ah? Uh? Fake designer clothes with U supposedly real jury.
Speaker 1: It's all fake.
Speaker 4: I mean, Nico doesn't mind wearing like you know, some
Speaker 4: some duke nikes.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 2: No, look, I went to the Philippines once and I
Speaker 2: got some some knockoff Travis Scott's full like under sixty bucks.
Speaker 1: I was past though, past pants. Who's who's rocking them?
Speaker 1: I want? One day? The other day my boy Bucks
Speaker 1: needed a plain T shirt, so we went to with
Speaker 1: a Tsarro right like fuck it, I'm gonna walking Zarrow,
Speaker 1: which we were in Thailand and I'm in t sorrow
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at ship like damn, I put these
Speaker 1: boots on. People don't think they put this. I don't
Speaker 1: think that you're wearing. It's crazy. Yeah, And like I said,
Speaker 1: you could have the most realist Rolex, but if you
Speaker 1: got a shitty car or you're not somebody, they're gonna
Speaker 1: think it's fake and it could be real as fucked.
Speaker 1: I have the fakest shit ever and they're gonna buy it.
Speaker 1: It's all illusion, man, it's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I should have won my fake shit today.
Speaker 1: I should have did it.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 4: The album cover, I love it man, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's back home.
Speaker 1: Yeah we actually went there. Yeah, with the worst photoshop.
Speaker 4: Where you're standing right there right is that is that
Speaker 4: where you lived?
Speaker 1: I ain't lived there. I live like there's a north
Speaker 1: side of Rexidenta and that's the south side. Okay, I
Speaker 1: live right in the middle. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We lived in like a bungalow where it was three
Speaker 1: bedrooms for five people, and we rented out the basement
Speaker 1: so we could have extra money. Like my parents want
Speaker 1: extra money, so be me and my sister sharing in
Speaker 1: the room growing up, and my other is across the
Speaker 1: other way. And then my parents paper thin walls.
Speaker 3: Man, you had to sacrifice your room so they could
Speaker 3: rent it out.
Speaker 1: No, they were running out the basement, basement, they rent
Speaker 1: that out. Yeah, we didn't have enough for all of us,
Speaker 1: that's right. But it's cool though, Like that, I was.
Speaker 1: I felt spoiled and so like at an advantage compared
Speaker 1: to other kids in my neighborhood. Like I go to
Speaker 1: like some of my friend's house and open the fridge
Speaker 1: there was nothing in there. Yeah, I felt rich compared
Speaker 1: to the kids. Right we got Then when I came
Speaker 1: out here and I talked to some of my friends
Speaker 1: from like New York, how they grew up and they
Speaker 1: had proud of this flip phones in high school, Like, damn, man,
Speaker 1: I was broke.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but you had family. You had family, right,
Speaker 4: you were never hungry.
Speaker 1: We were never like I felt like my dad is
Speaker 1: a sacrificer, you know what I mean? He he pretty
Speaker 1: much like he's the type to wear like one pair
Speaker 1: of jeans for the whole year and we had five
Speaker 1: six you know. Immigrant ship like ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, that's the kind of ship that like we're
Speaker 3: built on. So we saw that growing up and we're like, no,
Speaker 3: like we can't be lazy. We we gotta get to it.
Speaker 1: Your Mexican right, yeah, yeah, for sure you've seen it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen it, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 4: it's like, what was that Mexican tweet that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you tweeted out once that you didn't grow up
Speaker 5: with a lot of Mexicans, but you realized we're.
Speaker 1: Dope as full. They always got my shows and they
Speaker 1: be taught. They be treating me like on one of them,
Speaker 1: oh yeah brown hell yeah, it's around Indians. But ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could always showing love. They're so cool.
Speaker 3: Nah, Like we're.
Speaker 4: Mexicans, is like, yo, fuck it, Like they're not Mexican
Speaker 4: or they're not, but they're brown.
Speaker 1: They're down.
Speaker 3: Don't you feel me? Same color out here? Yo, you
Speaker 3: got your mom's attention. The way I want my dad's attention.
Speaker 3: Once you got into the Toronto Star, like your mom.
Speaker 4: Knew you made it. Yeah, the newspaper. For me, it's
Speaker 4: lopping you on out here in l A.
Speaker 3: Like once I make it in there, my dad's going
Speaker 3: to realize all the hard work I did the game
Speaker 3: here was worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't understand. Grammy's enough Number one.
Speaker 4: I'm ok radio on every day.
Speaker 3: My name's on the wall, not lopping you on.
Speaker 1: My You think knows who your dad is?
Speaker 4: Yah? You you probably know my dad George Lopez.
Speaker 1: Get out of here, actual dad? Now you lying?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I mean no, no, no, my dad is George Lopez.
Speaker 1: But like yo and listen, no he's not. Is he serious?
Speaker 3: Can I let me let me, let me let me
Speaker 3: tell you what happened? Right, We've I found out way
Speaker 3: late in life, right, but like yeah, man.
Speaker 4: That's my father.
Speaker 3: Man, and like that dude, that dude's a legend, right
Speaker 3: and like he doesn't he asked me not to bring
Speaker 3: it up, right because he thinks like culture forgot about him.
Speaker 4: I'm like, dad, people love you. He's really my dad. Man.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's crazy. What do he say? What you said?
Speaker 1: He feels like What was that? What did you say?
Speaker 3: He feels like he feels like the culture forgot about him.
Speaker 1: Really, is that what's going on? Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, he's getting older.
Speaker 3: You know, he's getting older, and he's he's he's he
Speaker 3: had a past, you know, and my my my half
Speaker 3: sister Mayan Rach who I just met as well recently.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just an interesting, dynamic man.
Speaker 3: And my mom was an.
Speaker 4: Immigrant and things, you know, just growing he grew up
Speaker 4: out here in the valley.
Speaker 3: My mom.
Speaker 4: It was just it was it was tough.
Speaker 3: It was tough.
Speaker 1: But to me, like not being I'm not really really
Speaker 1: hip in that world, but to me, he's like one
Speaker 1: of the biggest that ever did it. Yeah, sometimes you
Speaker 1: get when you look at all the like like I'm saying,
Speaker 1: look at the comments, get the nitty gritty, like the
Speaker 1: critics don't really matter. Bro, you guys, he still got
Speaker 1: a legacy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I tried telling him, but you can't.
Speaker 3: You know, Bro, he's o g dog. You're just like
Speaker 3: it's hard to tell him anything.
Speaker 1: And I still almost don't believe it's a farm. I
Speaker 1: still don't believe he's like, yeah.
Speaker 3: I know, I don't believe it sometimes either, O, my god,
Speaker 3: because you be doing funny stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm like checking the date. I'm like April Fools already
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I knew it. Now, your
Speaker 1: face was so great. You shouldn't be an actor.
Speaker 4: Who was googling?
Speaker 1: Who was googling? Ship in the corner. I swear he
Speaker 1: started turning up the accent.
Speaker 4: To yah, I I love you, Dog, you feel me?
Speaker 3: I kind of looked like him, which is crazy, but
Speaker 3: WED how to figure that out? Dog, we were born
Speaker 3: in the same hospital. That's not a joke.
Speaker 4: That's real.
Speaker 3: Ship.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Now, You're not gonna trust anything I say.
Speaker 1: Dog, get a dog for you right now? You got me?
Speaker 4: You got interviews over guys. I'm sorry, Nicole. I was
Speaker 4: sure I was gonna go there yet, but you took
Speaker 4: it there, you know, So we went there. You feel me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so many people have Nelly. Dog couldn't believe it,
Speaker 3: But then he believed it. And then I told him
Speaker 3: I was working around. He was like, fuck you, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Believes it's a girl thinks my dad is George Love.
Speaker 3: I never told her I was playing. Yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 5: We forgot to tell her that we were sucking around
Speaker 5: you what?
Speaker 4: Then he's my dad. I call him dad on the
Speaker 4: show a lot. So I called her and he's like,
Speaker 4: what the fuck is like you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, me answering his questions all sentimentally ship, I'm sorry, bro, sorry, bro, Like,
Speaker 1: don't worry, George Man, you.
Speaker 4: Got this, you got this. But I do know that
Speaker 4: he he does feel like personally, he does feel like,
Speaker 4: you know a way about.
Speaker 1: Why you're rich. We'll figure it out. You're rich, figure
Speaker 1: it out. You got money, ben, go buy something?
Speaker 3: Be happy?
Speaker 4: Is that like you know you mentioned shopping earlier?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Is that like a.
Speaker 4: Cure? Like like money the retail therapy and money can
Speaker 4: buy happiness?
Speaker 1: No, no, it can buy you peace, a little bit
Speaker 1: of peace, freedom, not buy you happiness. You got happiness, governments. Man.
Speaker 1: I went to India and the kids living on the
Speaker 1: street and they were smiling and playing, and the kids
Speaker 1: out here to be pissed that they don't got something,
Speaker 1: you know, right right?
Speaker 3: It's different, Yeah, and they're and they have everything. We
Speaker 3: have everything right here right all right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I know, but I heard that if you know money
Speaker 3: buys happiness, right, that be when you give it away.
Speaker 1: I mean, you give it away. It feels good unless
Speaker 1: you like cheap. Yeah, definitely doing stuff for people. It
Speaker 1: brought me way more joy than just buying myself something,
Speaker 1: because it's like, how how do I feel going around
Speaker 1: my friends back home and then don't got much whatever?
Speaker 1: And I'm the only one with the change. I'm the
Speaker 1: only one to watch. I'm the only one design on
Speaker 1: you look at my friends. All of them got to roll,
Speaker 1: all of them got to bust down, all of them
Speaker 1: got changed. Yes, oh yeah, yes. When I bout one,
Speaker 1: I bout four, about one, about three, like yeah, when
Speaker 1: I bought my demons backed by Angel's name, my boy
Speaker 1: came up with the name. I bout him one too. Wow,
Speaker 1: because he came up with the name. He did it
Speaker 1: after his He did it for his mom that passed away.
Speaker 1: It was like a deep meanings. I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta give you that. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you have financial people in your life saying,
Speaker 3: now what are we doing?
Speaker 1: We'll stop? Yeah, for sure, But thank god we bounced
Speaker 1: back a lot of times.
Speaker 4: You know, we don't run it back up.
Speaker 1: Bro Jo, Yeah, you define have a speaking of giving
Speaker 1: away money.
Speaker 2: We've actually had this topic on the show for the
Speaker 2: past couple of days. What are your thoughts about, Like,
Speaker 2: here's the question. Should the servers tips solely be based
Speaker 2: on their service?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm It depends what a wrestaurant you talking about.
Speaker 1: Some of them be adding gratuity to the bill. That's crazy, right,
Speaker 1: Like yo, yeah, obviously, like they rude and ship, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like why would I want to
Speaker 1: give a tip? But me in general, like I feel
Speaker 1: like every waiter don't really be knowing who I am,
Speaker 1: and they judge a book by its cover and they
Speaker 1: might think like I'm like the way I'm dressing someone
Speaker 1: like a ghetto. Some I don't know. I don't really
Speaker 1: be jewelry. When I got to Easto, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they know who I am and this and that.
Speaker 1: So I just always trying to prove them wrong type shit,
Speaker 1: like you're probably not expecting the tip from me, so
Speaker 1: I'm to be extra. No, I've done that, but like
Speaker 1: changing there it is crazy, but it's like no, like
Speaker 1: I'll probably think I'm a cheap Indian or something.
Speaker 3: We get Mexican or the Mexican five, no matter how
Speaker 3: much to build with Brown Boys, tell you Brown Boys
Speaker 3: Doggie my real dad, not George Lowan's my real dad
Speaker 3: used to tip fifty sads dog like Yo, no matter
Speaker 3: how much the bill was, I'm like, yo, God, sometimes
Speaker 3: people take it back.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I out here, the restaurants that I go to,
Speaker 1: the service is generally really good, so it's easy to like,
Speaker 1: give me too.
Speaker 4: That's right, Yo. Why decide to put pain away at
Speaker 4: the end of the album.
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably one of my least favorite songs. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta have a least favorite. But like everybody was,
Speaker 1: if you asked me, what's the least faverite long album,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one. Remember, it's like my album, the
Speaker 1: track is question, the track is ain't all just me.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is like you know the team,
Speaker 1: what they think when we play for everybody, because you know,
Speaker 1: my team loves me, they really care about me, so
Speaker 1: I know that opinion is real. And then there's times
Speaker 1: like we went to like Universal Canada and I'll never
Speaker 1: forget I played all the songs that I liked from
Speaker 1: the album and they're like still like but we need
Speaker 1: some like radio type, like some goods like Kelsey who
Speaker 1: works with me. Right, she was like, play the pay Away,
Speaker 1: pay Away, And we played that one. They're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is I was like, wow, play y'all unlimited all
Speaker 1: kinds of I'm like, yeah, there's just certain crowds is
Speaker 1: they pick up on like more simple lyrics and stuff, so.
Speaker 4: You trust, Yeah, you trust their word obviously, right.
Speaker 1: But all those songs when I know when I recorded them,
Speaker 1: I felt I like them. So I just try to
Speaker 1: hold onto that feeling because over time you keep listening
Speaker 1: to it, you're not gonna like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. Of course, then it just starts to
Speaker 3: sound all the same, and then you find certain things
Speaker 3: in it that you want or that are going to
Speaker 3: drive you crazy. But I thought pain Away was it
Speaker 3: because it was a slower song, and it was kind
Speaker 3: of like the curtain Call, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're supposed to be at least one more
Speaker 1: song on them, but we didn't make the cut because
Speaker 1: clearance issues. You know, Oh ship a sample something like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: damn it? Who was it?
Speaker 3: Tell me who? We'll have more? Now we've we had
Speaker 3: a shower conversation here a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Pause pause, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know we didn't take a shower. We had a
Speaker 3: conversation shower. Let me ask you this, after how many
Speaker 3: years should you throw out your pillow?
Speaker 1: Your whole entire pillow? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Man, before you answer, I have a seventeen year old pillow.
Speaker 1: Damn, that's nasty. It's like a good luck fillo or
Speaker 1: something good dreams on it.
Speaker 4: That's my baby dog.
Speaker 1: I got so many pillows in the crib that I
Speaker 1: don't know where they are at. And I'm like really
Speaker 1: like a trend person with like buying stuff for the crib.
Speaker 1: So like, there's this new pillow, you know, the one
Speaker 1: that has a dip in it, So I have that.
Speaker 1: So I was like, it's like Brandon, you don't have
Speaker 1: like a pillow from home. No, yes, you do from home.
Speaker 1: Those pillows are stiff pillows, got bad. Look, I still
Speaker 1: have stiff pillow money, right, ship. I think I think
Speaker 1: the healthy as I don't know the life span. I
Speaker 1: don't know how long I've had these pillows. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of them, but I think the healthy thing is
Speaker 1: like six months to a year, right, because then it
Speaker 1: gets all those dead skin and like, well you wash it,
Speaker 1: it's not I wash it. Yeah, I feel like I'll
Speaker 1: be breaking on when I sleep on dirty you do.
Speaker 4: But new pillowcase.
Speaker 3: It's not like I like a raw dog and the
Speaker 3: pillow doggy like there's a pillowcase on it.
Speaker 1: Then I guess it's all right. As long as the
Speaker 1: pillow like young pillowcases.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: From Macy's dog holding onto that thing?
Speaker 4: Can you feel the passion?
Speaker 1: I don't have to get you for Christmas?
Speaker 3: At least I appreciate that man on my way to Rexdale. Congratulations,
Speaker 3: my guy, Cruise show Real ninety two three. Let's go