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Speaker 1: What's good?
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Speaker 2: What's good?
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Speaker 3: What up?
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Speaker 2: As much?
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Speaker 2: Right yo?
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Speaker 4: Hey, Blast is back on the Cruise Show. Let's go, let's get It's a big homie labor of love.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations, thank you.
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Speaker 4: Here we are man, a collection of sounds and songs, Man, songs that you've been working on, I'm sure for a while. Maybe some some songs that were created on the spot. I guess as they say, you know, a lot of these songs sound so good. And you know we're talking about this, Nico or I about the It's just vibes. It's vibes, it's good feeling. It's storytelling at its best. Right, Yeah, that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's a labor of love from top to bottom, one hundred percent produced by me. So you know, every detail comes from a real place, real stories. And I just wanted to cut the characters, cut the fat, and just tell people who Blast is. That's right on this project? That's right? What was why a song that easy to make? Why the song?
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 2: I think natually, you know, me, me being a lover, it's easy to create that frequency in my songs, you know, And it's just me being grateful for the ones around me, you know, my family and the love that I receive, you know, and letting people know that they my why and the reason why I keep going.
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Speaker 4: That's it, That's right the opener. Did you have to write that or was that just? Was that just you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I had to dig deep, man, I had to dig deep. It was a moment of self reflection. Did you write it over and over or was that one take? Now? It was one take. It was one take. It came from a real place, It came from the soul, and it really was just me in isolation, like reflecting on, Okay, what's what's love for me? You know? Because I was looking at my career and I always speak about love, but I think over time, I've gained wisdom and created my own perception of what it means to me. And it's not just the feeling, it's the work that comes behind it too. That's right. Yeah, what up Jack?
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Speaker 5: You know, back in twenty twenty you said that you want your kids to listen back to your music and no that it meant something. Do you feel like this project fulfilled that portion of that of what you said?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think it's a I think it's a body of work that reflects where I'm at in this age, in this in this era of my life. And I look at my entire catalog like I want my kids to be able to learn from the lyrics. You know. I came up off lyrics like Tupac where he said certain bars that you can be raised as a man on right. So I'll try to instill that same thing in my art.
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Speaker 4: No, You're right, there's verses that we just were raised off of the bars that we were raised off of, and that became like credos.
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Speaker 2: Almostactly right, Nah, for sure. Man. You know Chuck Dizel, right, that's family. That's family right there. Man, he's our new executive producer here on the Cruise Show.
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Speaker 6: Congratulations, It's so crazy to see see you from this era because I've seen you at at every stage. Right, I was telling them about being at the apartment and you guys pulling up as Tiu music. You know what I'm saying with Lady g jizzl. You know what I'm saying, Just to see all of these erarors and it's a proud moment for me to kind of see witness this era. And you've evolved into a man as a father. It's just a trip just to see bro. And for you, you know, going from those moments to now, how is that kind of getting to this moment? You know, we're talking Grammys, were talking, you know, all these these moments that you guys early on kind of wanted, and now you're you're achieving those things, creating your own sound, and now people are looking at you as you were looking at you know, people as you were coming up. So I just how does that feel just coming out as a full circle moment for you?
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Speaker 2: Bro? Man? I tell myself every day it's like I'm living it in all of my dreams, you know, as we speak, and I think like, at this stage, I try to just be more present of it all because I feel like it's not gonna last forever, you know, And You're right, You get to a point where you start living everything that you manifested and you just want to hold on to it, right. So that's just where I'm at right now, just being present and joined every moment, remembering all the relationships that came across the table, and just being grateful in the process.
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Speaker 5: How do you make sure that you have those moments where you take a step back and you like look at the fruits of your labor.
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Speaker 2: I think, for me, connected with my family always ground me, you know, talking to my mom or talking to my grandma and my auntie because they remind me of who I am before all this happened, you know, And it's always like a full circle moment to like, damn, I was a dreamer. Now I'm living in the dreams. But it's always good to like be aware of that, you know.
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Speaker 1: Is there anybody that checks you nowadays?
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Speaker 2: Like everybody checked me. Everybody step call me the childhood name and everything.
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Speaker 5: Like a cousin who still like rags on you.
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Speaker 2: Just something new? This bro exactly my family. They always keep me humble. But I come from a humble family to where it's like nobody's bigger than anybody, you know. And that's how I came to myself to bro.
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Speaker 4: That's why when your house was broken into that that that was very significant and how significant was that in your life?
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Speaker 2: Man? It was a scary moment, you know, it was. It was a traumatic moment for not only was inside of the family. Yeah, my two boys was at home. I was in New York at the time. So yeah, it was I didn't know what to do in the moment, so helpless, so far away, right, But you know, I got an opportunity to turn my pain into art on this album, and I look at it as you know, a blessing. You know, life is ups end down, so I can't look at it like I'm a victim. It's just part of life. That's just got to stay ready and get ready. No, no, no, that's right.
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Speaker 4: And then of course after that, you you you go to protect yourself in a very intense way. I guess, right, yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's right. I'll take all those guns. Give me four rows of guns. I need four I need four rolls yo.
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Speaker 4: Uh. Day after day writing and producing a song like that, right, what goes into that?
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Speaker 2: What goes into that? I think what it's two sorts to it. You got the visual side, because I got my real family in the video, and then you know, just the sonics. I think it was just a reflection of where I was at in that moment, going through everything, and I was going through the pressures of being a man, being a father, you know, the grind of the industry, being independent, and just wanted to, you know, spill that pain into into music to where people can connect to it and you know, the visual I think it's just that self reflection of we all in it together, despite where you at in your journey. You know, you got to lean on the ones that love you to keep going. Ah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the album cover too. Talk to us about the album cover.
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Speaker 2: Imagine that right there, that's on the east side of LA that's my actual childhood home. This is it right now? Yeah? My grandpa actually built that house from scratch. Nah yeah, with his hands. Well I would, I wouldn't say it was him. Were don't imagine it that way. I'll tell you tell the story exactly true. I love labor, love right, they built this with his hands.
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Speaker 4: But it's important, it's important to show, it's important to display, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a big piece of who I am. I just wanted to symbolize that for my album cover. You know. Connect back to the roots.
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, go back to it the way it felt, right, the way it felt.
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Speaker 2: Put my feet in the grass. You know what I'm saying, Remember who I am?
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Speaker 4: Ye?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it's almost like how you like built the album too, because since you did write and produce everything, right, so like was it like a conscious effort for you to be like, yo, I'm gonna just sit down and produce everything, because you could easily grab it damn near any producer you want.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my mission was just to re engage with the ones who fell in love with me in the first place for my original sound. You know, as I start getting success in the industry, I start working with bigger producers, you know, you go through the ringer of everything. But for me, I just wanted to tap back into me and my original day ones that fell in love with that original blast down. And I've never produced an entire project top to bottom, so I just wanted to get that out of my system.
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Speaker 3: You know who really loves your original sound? Filipinos?
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Speaker 4: Bro Oh yeah, now Filipino right, yes, he confer Are you Filipino or Filipino.
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Speaker 2: I'm a stretch it into the day I die. Man, Yeah, man, brace the love you feel me? I love my Philippinos.
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Speaker 4: That's right, Hey, How important is outside to you the song?
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Speaker 2: That song is? It's I would say it's important to the error that we're in right now, you know, because it kind of gives you that ability to slow down and embrace what's inside instead of what's outside. For me, that's my family, you know. In the song, I say I'm gonna decline my night you my outside. I like, you know, and that's just like spinning that quality time with my family, my kids, you know, things like No, that's right, bro, you can catch me at the house. You feel me.
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Speaker 4: That's my type of party all day. That is my type of party. That's my outside inside. Bro. I'm at the house with my kids. Bro, my girl you know and her mom.
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Speaker 2: Bro, we at the house. You enjoy it, and sometimes you feel like you're missing out. You go outside. You're like, that's exactly.
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Speaker 4: Why why don't come outside? Every once in a while, will pop outside? That was outside for their wedding. They just got married.
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Speaker 2: Nick on Jack Okay, yeah six day, yeah, bro, clap it up to love. We were outside, yeahs.
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Speaker 5: Are the times I enjoyed being outside other than that I'm on the couch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's different when you around people that you love, Yes, sir, that's what it was. It was love and vibes, unity, union. It was beautiful, man.
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Speaker 1: I think that's what.
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Speaker 5: Like is missing still like in music, and that's why I love like labor of love so much. Is that you feel that love, you feel that unity, you feel that selflessness, you feel all of that. And I feel like that's what gravitates so many people to you and to your music as well, is because they know that it's not just affront. They know, but you truly believe in everything that you hear.
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Speaker 2: It in the voice. You hear it in the voice. Yes, that was important for me to just strip my ego and be vulnerable, I said, as a man. You know, I think a lot of times the career choice that I chose, people think it's all glitz and glamour, like, oh, he's just riding off into the sunset. But you know I go through things too. Of course you're.
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Speaker 6: Human, right, Yeah, I gotta figure out that because you talk about being outside and wanted to be inside on just my type. You said you're good at Irish goodbyes, and that really resonated fire at that Iris, what's your your typical Irish cobb?
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Speaker 2: What's just go? You know what? I call it a soft exit. You don't hit the phone, it's just all right everyone. You notice everyone is not looking, their backs are turned, they're having fun. Slide out. Too much work to go to each and every person.
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Speaker 5: I say, like maybe like by to like three key people and I'm just like all right, then I'm out.
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Speaker 4: Even that's tricky though, nah because with the black and brown it takes forty five minutes to an hour to say goodbye.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the fact it.
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Speaker 4: Could take two business days. You feel me.
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Speaker 2: I remind you my childhood. You're leaving a Thanksgiving party is like go say bye everybody. That's the worst. Fear the worst, worst one person and it's a wrap getting a whip in there. You know.
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Speaker 5: I did see and this is no like I did see a study that to other people who use Irish goodbyes save up to at least maybe fifteen years of their life.
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Speaker 2: Believe it why we look so Young's care?
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Speaker 1: Let's care self care?
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Speaker 2: Yes, it is, and that's the selflessness.
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Speaker 4: That being selfless, bro, you feel me, You got to take care of yourself, man.
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Speaker 2: One thing.
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Speaker 6: One thing also, man, I've seen you evolves coming from being a kid doing the music to become and father.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 6: Like and even the last time we talked, you have you know more? You got two sons, right, yeah, so I'm on that same tip. I have one now I got to know.
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Speaker 2: You inspired me to do the snip snip you know what we had we had low key might be out the game. So you didn't do it yet. I didn't do it yet.
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Speaker 1: You gotta do it, bro.
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Speaker 2: I would want a girl though too.
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Speaker 6: That's what they all say. I got a homie that's still waiting for a boy four in four in huh yeah, man, damn it's too much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, irritable bouncer.
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Speaker 5: Is like where you can like make a test two baby and you make sure.
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Speaker 2: You get your test two baby.
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Speaker 4: Sounds crazy, trusting God around, trust God.
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Speaker 6: But I do want to get some dad advice from you, bro, like as you evolved as a father now going from one, going from going from one.
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Speaker 1: To two, Like, what what advice could you give to other fathers out there? At this point?
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Speaker 2: I will say just being present more so than anything, like intentionally present, not just around on your phone, like seeing what they into, not trying to pull them to what you only into, like what you want to do for that. I think that quality time goes a long way.
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Speaker 4: Got you watch some YouTube programming with him broat.
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Speaker 2: Get outside, not just a little you know what?
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Speaker 4: I just so you know that they're that you're so they know you're in tune with what with what they watch and what they like?
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I feel you. You gotta monitor every year. The monitor has got to be aware.
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Speaker 4: Don't let him go crazy because then the Silis commercial pops up, like what the fuck are we watching? Really quick though, back to uh, Chuck inspiring you to get the snip snips.
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Speaker 2: So Chuck, you got the snip.
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Speaker 1: Snip got the snip. Step Man, best decision?
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Speaker 2: What did school boy you call it?
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Speaker 1: He said, I got newter brot.
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Speaker 2: Like that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was the best decision for sure.
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Speaker 5: You just have like a fear of doctors. Is that what it is?
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Speaker 2: Or you just man? Does I'm just I'm just in between. Do I want to aim for a girl or just you in.
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Speaker 1: A different you, in a different situation than I am. So you got that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if the risk is worth the re bro.
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Speaker 4: When you aimed for it, it always comes out different. Bro, we were aiming for a girl, We got a boy. We got two boys, and we shut down the shop.
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Speaker 6: So just aim for a boy and I ain't that easy?
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Speaker 5: Reverse program?
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Speaker 2: You're gonna stuck with three boys? Dog? What the thing? Was the thing is I wasn't aiming at.
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Speaker 7: All, just shooting up, popped up, and I showed up, and I showed uprowed up right, damn dog.
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Speaker 4: So do you have a timeline on when you might do the snip snip?
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Speaker 2: Or you just think no see them now? Never does. I'm just trying to make it concrete. But you know we'll see. No, that's right.
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Speaker 1: What's going to solidify that decision for you?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You want to say directly, but is it a time thing or is it?
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Speaker 2: Like I think there's more more conversations around. You're the only person I know. Yeah, in history of blast life, who's get to the snips.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to We'll talk you need, we could walk out of here. It's all good, doctor, I got the recommendation.
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Speaker 4: You got the doctor for sure. You need some time let us it's good. It's personal, bro, I get it.
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Speaker 2: It's mad person.
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Speaker 4: It's a heavy decision to make, right, but you can reverse it.
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Speaker 1: You can reverse it.
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Speaker 2: But I heard it. It's like some percussions to that too, Like it ain't one hundred percent.
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Speaker 6: It's nothing. Even getting it is not one hundred percent. They say it's ninety nine point nine to nine. So even that is like you're still kind of taking your shot. But I'd rather the ninety nine than you know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, consider good luck. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Put that on the right side of that bro.
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Speaker 4: Handle it, bro Hey, speaking of being inside, bro, were you inside watching Love Island?
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Speaker 2: Nah, that ain't one type of party. That's the type of party. That's not your type of programming. I'm on type of program The transition was crazy.
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Speaker 4: No, because he's inside the house, not inside whatever. Y'all think we in the house broke huh? But yeah, I don't know. I wasn't watching it either, but they watched it, like crazy.
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Speaker 2: Hair is good though, it's.
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Speaker 1: Good, it's good, spicy.
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Speaker 5: It's just like, you know, it's just saying this shit like it makes me feel better knowing that I'm not that crazy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so you know I'm not that crazy. It shows you that you're not that great because there's other crazy people and people are really fly fine love though, Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, well, here's the the It's also a game as well, because you're there to find love in like the time span of three weeks or six weeks. I'm sorry and you're also competing for one hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: You got to be with a couple.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be.
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Speaker 2: Seeing people break up after they get the bread.
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Speaker 5: Huh with last season they did?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on now who they who? They think they fooling? Yeah, it's a game, bro, It's a game. And they're getting paid to be.
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Speaker 5: On the show too, right, I mean eventually, Yeah, there's endorsements all out of it, probably, but we shall see. I'll keep you update next.
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Speaker 2: Time you season on.
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Speaker 1: Well, this one's.
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Speaker 5: US Love Island US and we're on season eight. I think UK is the original one. They're on season like thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, interesting, it's far it's far too gone. It's just you got to catch up. It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Do you have to catch up? Or can you just jump in any season? Just jump because they like.
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Speaker 5: Start over with Yeah, can you guys new people knew?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, you're kind of convincing me. I might tune in there you go see what the love is and this?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you never know. You're being inspired today. Bro, it's a lot going on.
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Speaker 2: At the sniff snip Love Island. What hell are we?
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Speaker 3: Are we ever getting a six tape? Three six tape four or for.
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Speaker 2: Of course. Yeah, I think it's inevitable, and I want to take it past. Just a lot of tapes that I grew up off always stopped at three for some reason. I just want to keep it going. You might get a six tape ten, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, it's a part of my It's a part of my legacy and being Overdeu's legacy as well. So I think it's a staple in our career.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, man. And you know, Beano got his project with Nipsey coming up.
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Speaker 2: Are you in prolific?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 2: We shall find out.
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Speaker 1: Probably this man has a great poker face.
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Speaker 6: Let me tell you this, this man has a great poker face.
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Speaker 1: Be honest. We asked this fool on Homegrown a you working with dot Bro? Yeah, man, I don't know. I don't know that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah right.
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Speaker 1: Literally two weeks.
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Speaker 6: Later, mister Morale and the Big Stepps comes out. Guess who's on die Hard Blast?
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Speaker 1: This guy?
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Speaker 2: Hey man, you know that was a tough one. That was a tough one.
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Speaker 1: I was like, yo, just blink if you in the studio.
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Speaker 2: If I would have blink, would have kicked me right off. Oh my god, I know, right deleted yet no, bro.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like that we shall see answer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't gonna dragon. I'm definitely not on that bro. It's about BEINGO and Nipsey anyway. No, that's right. Yeah, shout out to them. Yeah, that's right. Okay, if you're on a dog, we're gonna. If he's on it, I'm gonna. I'm gonna be Yo break down Ruin for us Ruin featuring Sash. That song is speaking about, you know, just not letting a bad thing ruin the whole relationship, you know, get worse. Yeah, Like we see stuff like Love Island, we think it's all listen or it might be drama on there toma, okays drama told, but we love in the movies and we think it's all glitz and glamour. But I think I just wanted to reflect the imperfect side of being in a relationship and getting past a tough situation. Yeah, and just bigging the ones who do get past a tough time. Nah.
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Speaker 4: You gotta be able to recognize, right that if it's a tough situation, can we get past this? Is it so tough that we can't get past it? Usually you can, right, But you can make a decision that will ruin the relationship when it could have been patched up. It could have been easily fixed. Pride is in the way and whatever else is in the way.
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Speaker 2: Right, It's an everyday choice you gotta make. You know something last night, it may be you were to get out the door, but then you gotta wake up and realize what really matters. You know, sometimes it's bigger than just a relationship that'll keep it going. More importantly, you still got to do the work within a relationship too.
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Speaker 5: There you go, man, I feel like you're so like tapped into yourself to know to be self aware like that what I point in your life did you make that shift?
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Speaker 2: I don't feel like that. I don't feel like that I am self aware. I think I just show up every day with the willing I don't even know the word willingness. Willingness to be able to learn and be able to fail. You know, sometimes you got to be comfortable or learn to be comfortable with the fact that nothing's going to be perfect. And I think embracing failure as much as success will propel you to show up the next day.
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Speaker 4: Okay yo, your mom's worked for the mental health department.
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Speaker 2: She does. Oh she does, yes, man, so that's who you turn to. Yeah, I got like a cheek hould in my corner, damn dog. Can I call her? I need some help?
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Speaker 5: Will she call you out though?
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Speaker 7: On?
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Speaker 5: Like with your tripping?
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Speaker 2: I just see that's the that's the one part. It's like she's still my mom at why you still got to separate bro right, So sometimes it's kind of hard to differentiate if she like, okay, am I just your son? And you just are you really giving me game? But I think me and my mom's relationship is always being graceful, Like she's always been accepting of my failures and understanding that I'm just human. I'm her only boy. So that maybe where the grace come from too.
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Speaker 4: Nah, that's it, Yeah, you feel it. It makes you better for relationships, having a close relationship with your mom like that.
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Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, naturally, if you respect your mom, you have a natural respect for women. It's just right. Yeah, I've also had I had all older sisters tell so that's the game.
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Speaker 3: Like, did your mom ever see you as like just her son? Or does she ever see it as like blast the rapper?
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Speaker 2: That's a good question. You'll have to ask her. But from my experience, she's on the phone blast hello. I wouldn't be surprised. From my experience, I think I think we still in the midst of like accepting blasts as well aside from her son, you know, if that makes sense. Yeah, so I think it's an everyday process because it be sometimes I be got to having to tell her, like Mom, like you can't do that, you know, or you know, just set my own boundaries for our relationship and who blast is as the business as a friend. But I think overall she's very understanding of business in family. It's just a matter of having a conversation.
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Speaker 4: Bro having a relationship with your mom and a relationship with your sisters being close has to allow you to write some unbelievable music. Has to be able to give you that creativeness that you need, right and having and not having a relationship with your mom and not being surrounded by female energy could also create some really good music.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think I definitely have a unique perspective being the youngest kid in my family and just being the first to break generational curses. And I think I pride myself on my perspective being from La because me and being know, we kind of broke through an era where it was, you know, a lot of tough shit going on. You know, we kind of put the player in the lover and the you know, just being cool in the music in the industry. And that's what I stand on as a man in the position I play with in music. What's your childhood name? Who are you?
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Speaker 3: Bro?
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Speaker 2: They call me Matt, Matt, Mat Matt. My real name is Matthew, so it's Matt Matt.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's how yo, yo, Matt Matt is adorable. No, why it's horrible? What's the problem?
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Speaker 2: Maybe because it's me, okay, but it's just, you know, it's just a different taste that I get when I hear it, Like what is it? Or it's just got to be the right person saying it. You know how some people just use your name like like they know you was right right? Oh God, trying to little homie or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why you asked me, who are you? I get it. I got it.
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Speaker 1: I got it, bro, I got it. I'm a little sensitive.
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Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. I get it.
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Speaker 4: When you're Latino, though your nickname is your biggest insecurity. Yeah, that's worse.
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Speaker 2: That's that's how you feel. I mean, I embrace it with my family, but you know, if you're not my family, I could be sensitive to it.
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Speaker 4: God, yeah, try being sensitive to like fail which is ugly, got and so on which is big.
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Speaker 2: Also, which is just disgusting. Like that's what that's crazy And it's with love. But that's how I get what you're saying. Bro, you feel me? So who are you? Yeah? I feel you feel you got me beat?
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Speaker 5: Like there was a school crossing guard I was in elementary school. She always call me more that basically just meant like dark.
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Speaker 2: Sin or darky. That's crazy.
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Speaker 5: You a school crossing guard.
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Speaker 1: I was like, girl, but are you?
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Speaker 4: But it's with love. It's with love. But it's like, damn, what kind of love is? That's why you spank your kids?
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Speaker 2: Nah, I don't do that. Why not? I don't know. I didn't really get whippings growing up myself. I think a good conversation and understanding to take you further than just sometimes there we know sometimesimes, you know, but I feel like my kids just a little different. I got some good kids, you know, God bless they have a good mom too, So I have a great mom. That's try to be patient and graceful. But I don't judge if you got a whip some mess. I mean, hey, I was whooped. I try.
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Speaker 4: I don't hit my kids, but sometimes I'll grab them by the arm, you know, like get over here, you know. But it's not what I had to deal with when I was a kid.
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Speaker 2: Never that, you know, Yeah, try differently.
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Speaker 6: I feel like every time we have this conversation we just saw to Marlon ways and he's challenged me.
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Speaker 1: Now, I don't beat my kids, right every it sounded.
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Speaker 6: Like I beat my d beat my kids right, just to pop on the hand, maybe on the butt, you know what I'm saying, the youngest one. But it's because like after those conversations four or five times and hey, don't do that, Hey don't do that, raise of what, Hey don't do that, you're still doing it. That's when I popped in, like all right, and that for me, that's done the job right. But Marlon was saying that you know you you you're not the best communicator if you do if you do, he's a kid, So I'm understanding that, and I'm trying to challenge myself not to take that route.
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Speaker 1: But it's it's a sensitive subject for me because I'm still trying to get this out, bro.
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Speaker 5: But also the second Chuck is saying that his second test him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, that's how. That's how my second is too, really for sure, But I think it's just you just have to develop a bigger patience for that. Like as a father, that's just what it is, because sometimes you know that resentment of kick in too when you get older. It's like, why you never talk to me? You just put your hand. That's what marlin.
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Speaker 1: You know what he said.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell you the exact bar that he said That made me kind of just rethink it. He was like, man, every time you spank your kid, you potentially lose your best friend.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, drop the tears challenge accepted, Bro.
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Speaker 2: Hit hard.
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Speaker 1: In those moments when you're not listening, that's when it's tough.
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Speaker 6: He's easy to do it right now when we're away from it, but in the moment, because.
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Speaker 4: You remember, we're raising potential fathers, potential partners, right, and men and kings, right, So like we don't want them to lash out either, right, We want them to be better than us in every way. Yeah, so what are we teaching them by by by hitting them to hit.
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Speaker 5: You mentioned growing up with all your sisters and everything. What and you're the last one. What's the most like baby thing about you being in the family? Like, what would you say? Like for me, me being the baby and my family, I'm just like I can get whatever I want. What's the most like baby anything about you in the family.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, because even though I was a baby, like I was still a good kid, Like I wasn't just like doing crazy shit. I was kind of the shy just in the corner, didn't bother nobody. So I would say, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Were you a tittletale to your sisters?
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Speaker 2: Nah? I was so cool. I was just chilling observe and everything. It was almost as if I wasn't even in the family.
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Speaker 3: And it was a surprise to your family.
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Speaker 2: Like, oh, yeah, for sure, I think. Yeah, it's definitely a shit. They see me on stage, they'd be like, who is this guy? Wow? Because even when I'm like even at this grown age, like I get back home and I'm a total different person. Like the music it just do something to me to where it felt like my alter ego is free. Ah. Yeah, it's a gold button. Yeah. So it's definitely a shocker for my family to witness meeting. That's great in the spotlight.
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Speaker 4: Doesn't that mean they get they get two versions of your low key?
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Speaker 2: Low key? But you know, when I'm on stage, I kind of set that boundary. It's like you don't even know me right now. I'm locked in. Yeah, that's right. And then so as I get off stage, it might be directly backstage I go into Matt mad again. That's right. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I do want to ask you one's last thing on my end. Man, in terms of fatherhood. Man, you you you met, you know, we talked about the home invasion thing, but how did you make that home again?
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 6: I think you kind of referenced it and talked about like damn, leaving that spot and then going back, like how did you then make that a safe space and a home again for your your family?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly. I had moved out the house, and then I don't know, something hit me, you know, raising kids. I think if I didn't have kids, I probably would have just been gone.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, now you gotta go back because nobody runs us out of our home exactly.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly. I must have watched the Denzel Washington movie and just felt it in my chest like okay, let me step up as a father, like we just gotta protect ourselves, be more aware, but we ain't scared, you know. And I tell my kids every day like it's okay to be scared, but you still gotta facial fears. And that's what I have to do for myself in that moment as a reflection for them to see as an example.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta show them you gotta be tough, you gotta protect your home artists as a man that you know that shit put a little fear, I mean, of course, but of course it's like, you know, you.
00:31:35
Speaker 2: Still gotta face your fears and be like we gotta face whatever whatever's knocking at the front door, and just be ready for it.
00:31:42
Speaker 4: That's right, and be ready for it. That's a fact. Why wrap up the album with he Can?
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Speaker 2: That's the moment where it's the end credits after your Superhero movie. It's telling yourself in the mirror that you can get through whatever you may be going through, you know. And I think a lot of times we look at super heroes like they don't go through nothing, but they the most ones that be going through the vulnerable moments, like as if nobody can connect to the pain that they feel because they looked at it and expected to save the whole world. So I think telling myself that it is deeper than anybody else telling me that. Yeah.
00:32:20
Speaker 4: Man, it's a great way to wrap up the album. Real good way to wrap it up. Strong, strong way, you know. I'm like, Yo, he could either started with that or ended with it. That was the exact battle when we was making the check list sold. We started with it, should we end with it? And then it just felt more powerful ending with it, right, Allison, That's the way to do it, man, Yo. CDs are making a crazy comeback. Yeah, CDs and vinyl. We saw vinyl, now we're seeing it with actual physicals.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, So you're having a CD signing coming up as well, right, Yeah. We had VIP Records in Long Beach this Saturday, going crazy. Man. We got to connect the people. That's what we do it for, right yep. So I'm ready to step out and you know, sign some CDs, meet the fans that have been tapped in with album.
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Speaker 4: Dope Man, Labor of Love is out now. It's everywhere. Labor of Love is Crazy Crazy project. Congratulations and Blast come see us any time. You know you got a home here. iHeart Radio Real ninety two three The Cruise Show All day there it is, Yes, Sir, Blast Real ninety two three.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Blast is back on the Cruise Show. Let's go, let's get It's a big homie labor of love.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations, thank you.
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Speaker 4: Here we are man, a collection of sounds and songs, Man, songs that you've been working on, I'm sure for a while. Maybe some some songs that were created on the spot. I guess as they say, you know, a lot of these songs sound so good. And you know we're talking about this, Nico or I about the It's just vibes. It's vibes, it's good feeling. It's storytelling at its best. Right, Yeah, that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's a labor of love from top to bottom, one hundred percent produced by me. So you know, every detail comes from a real place, real stories. And I just wanted to cut the characters, cut the fat, and just tell people who Blast is. That's right on this project? That's right? What was why a song that easy to make? Why the song?
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 2: I think natually, you know, me, me being a lover, it's easy to create that frequency in my songs, you know, And it's just me being grateful for the ones around me, you know, my family and the love that I receive, you know, and letting people know that they my why and the reason why I keep going.
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Speaker 4: That's it, That's right the opener. Did you have to write that or was that just? Was that just you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I had to dig deep, man, I had to dig deep. It was a moment of self reflection. Did you write it over and over or was that one take? Now? It was one take. It was one take. It came from a real place, It came from the soul, and it really was just me in isolation, like reflecting on, Okay, what's what's love for me? You know? Because I was looking at my career and I always speak about love, but I think over time, I've gained wisdom and created my own perception of what it means to me. And it's not just the feeling, it's the work that comes behind it too. That's right. Yeah, what up Jack?
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Speaker 5: You know, back in twenty twenty you said that you want your kids to listen back to your music and no that it meant something. Do you feel like this project fulfilled that portion of that of what you said?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think it's a I think it's a body of work that reflects where I'm at in this age, in this in this era of my life. And I look at my entire catalog like I want my kids to be able to learn from the lyrics. You know. I came up off lyrics like Tupac where he said certain bars that you can be raised as a man on right. So I'll try to instill that same thing in my art.
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Speaker 4: No, You're right, there's verses that we just were raised off of the bars that we were raised off of, and that became like credos.
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Speaker 2: Almostactly right, Nah, for sure. Man. You know Chuck Dizel, right, that's family. That's family right there. Man, he's our new executive producer here on the Cruise Show.
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Speaker 6: Congratulations, It's so crazy to see see you from this era because I've seen you at at every stage. Right, I was telling them about being at the apartment and you guys pulling up as Tiu music. You know what I'm saying with Lady g jizzl. You know what I'm saying, Just to see all of these erarors and it's a proud moment for me to kind of see witness this era. And you've evolved into a man as a father. It's just a trip just to see bro. And for you, you know, going from those moments to now, how is that kind of getting to this moment? You know, we're talking Grammys, were talking, you know, all these these moments that you guys early on kind of wanted, and now you're you're achieving those things, creating your own sound, and now people are looking at you as you were looking at you know, people as you were coming up. So I just how does that feel just coming out as a full circle moment for you?
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Speaker 2: Bro? Man? I tell myself every day it's like I'm living it in all of my dreams, you know, as we speak, and I think like, at this stage, I try to just be more present of it all because I feel like it's not gonna last forever, you know, And You're right, You get to a point where you start living everything that you manifested and you just want to hold on to it, right. So that's just where I'm at right now, just being present and joined every moment, remembering all the relationships that came across the table, and just being grateful in the process.
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Speaker 5: How do you make sure that you have those moments where you take a step back and you like look at the fruits of your labor.
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Speaker 2: I think, for me, connected with my family always ground me, you know, talking to my mom or talking to my grandma and my auntie because they remind me of who I am before all this happened, you know, And it's always like a full circle moment to like, damn, I was a dreamer. Now I'm living in the dreams. But it's always good to like be aware of that, you know.
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Speaker 1: Is there anybody that checks you nowadays?
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Speaker 2: Like everybody checked me. Everybody step call me the childhood name and everything.
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Speaker 5: Like a cousin who still like rags on you.
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Speaker 2: Just something new? This bro exactly my family. They always keep me humble. But I come from a humble family to where it's like nobody's bigger than anybody, you know. And that's how I came to myself to bro.
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Speaker 4: That's why when your house was broken into that that that was very significant and how significant was that in your life?
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Speaker 2: Man? It was a scary moment, you know, it was. It was a traumatic moment for not only was inside of the family. Yeah, my two boys was at home. I was in New York at the time. So yeah, it was I didn't know what to do in the moment, so helpless, so far away, right, But you know, I got an opportunity to turn my pain into art on this album, and I look at it as you know, a blessing. You know, life is ups end down, so I can't look at it like I'm a victim. It's just part of life. That's just got to stay ready and get ready. No, no, no, that's right.
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Speaker 4: And then of course after that, you you you go to protect yourself in a very intense way. I guess, right, yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's right. I'll take all those guns. Give me four rows of guns. I need four I need four rolls yo.
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Speaker 4: Uh. Day after day writing and producing a song like that, right, what goes into that?
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Speaker 2: What goes into that? I think what it's two sorts to it. You got the visual side, because I got my real family in the video, and then you know, just the sonics. I think it was just a reflection of where I was at in that moment, going through everything, and I was going through the pressures of being a man, being a father, you know, the grind of the industry, being independent, and just wanted to, you know, spill that pain into into music to where people can connect to it and you know, the visual I think it's just that self reflection of we all in it together, despite where you at in your journey. You know, you got to lean on the ones that love you to keep going. Ah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the album cover too. Talk to us about the album cover.
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Speaker 2: Imagine that right there, that's on the east side of LA that's my actual childhood home. This is it right now? Yeah? My grandpa actually built that house from scratch. Nah yeah, with his hands. Well I would, I wouldn't say it was him. Were don't imagine it that way. I'll tell you tell the story exactly true. I love labor, love right, they built this with his hands.
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Speaker 4: But it's important, it's important to show, it's important to display, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a big piece of who I am. I just wanted to symbolize that for my album cover. You know. Connect back to the roots.
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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, go back to it the way it felt, right, the way it felt.
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Speaker 2: Put my feet in the grass. You know what I'm saying, Remember who I am?
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Speaker 4: Ye?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it's almost like how you like built the album too, because since you did write and produce everything, right, so like was it like a conscious effort for you to be like, yo, I'm gonna just sit down and produce everything, because you could easily grab it damn near any producer you want.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my mission was just to re engage with the ones who fell in love with me in the first place for my original sound. You know, as I start getting success in the industry, I start working with bigger producers, you know, you go through the ringer of everything. But for me, I just wanted to tap back into me and my original day ones that fell in love with that original blast down. And I've never produced an entire project top to bottom, so I just wanted to get that out of my system.
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Speaker 3: You know who really loves your original sound? Filipinos?
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Speaker 4: Bro Oh yeah, now Filipino right, yes, he confer Are you Filipino or Filipino.
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Speaker 2: I'm a stretch it into the day I die. Man, Yeah, man, brace the love you feel me? I love my Philippinos.
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Speaker 4: That's right, Hey, How important is outside to you the song?
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Speaker 2: That song is? It's I would say it's important to the error that we're in right now, you know, because it kind of gives you that ability to slow down and embrace what's inside instead of what's outside. For me, that's my family, you know. In the song, I say I'm gonna decline my night you my outside. I like, you know, and that's just like spinning that quality time with my family, my kids, you know, things like No, that's right, bro, you can catch me at the house. You feel me.
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Speaker 4: That's my type of party all day. That is my type of party. That's my outside inside. Bro. I'm at the house with my kids. Bro, my girl you know and her mom.
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Speaker 2: Bro, we at the house. You enjoy it, and sometimes you feel like you're missing out. You go outside. You're like, that's exactly.
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Speaker 4: Why why don't come outside? Every once in a while, will pop outside? That was outside for their wedding. They just got married.
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Speaker 2: Nick on Jack Okay, yeah six day, yeah, bro, clap it up to love. We were outside, yeahs.
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Speaker 5: Are the times I enjoyed being outside other than that I'm on the couch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's different when you around people that you love, Yes, sir, that's what it was. It was love and vibes, unity, union. It was beautiful, man.
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Speaker 1: I think that's what.
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Speaker 5: Like is missing still like in music, and that's why I love like labor of love so much. Is that you feel that love, you feel that unity, you feel that selflessness, you feel all of that. And I feel like that's what gravitates so many people to you and to your music as well, is because they know that it's not just affront. They know, but you truly believe in everything that you hear.
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Speaker 2: It in the voice. You hear it in the voice. Yes, that was important for me to just strip my ego and be vulnerable, I said, as a man. You know, I think a lot of times the career choice that I chose, people think it's all glitz and glamour, like, oh, he's just riding off into the sunset. But you know I go through things too. Of course you're.
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Speaker 6: Human, right, Yeah, I gotta figure out that because you talk about being outside and wanted to be inside on just my type. You said you're good at Irish goodbyes, and that really resonated fire at that Iris, what's your your typical Irish cobb?
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Speaker 2: What's just go? You know what? I call it a soft exit. You don't hit the phone, it's just all right everyone. You notice everyone is not looking, their backs are turned, they're having fun. Slide out. Too much work to go to each and every person.
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Speaker 5: I say, like maybe like by to like three key people and I'm just like all right, then I'm out.
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Speaker 4: Even that's tricky though, nah because with the black and brown it takes forty five minutes to an hour to say goodbye.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the fact it.
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Speaker 4: Could take two business days. You feel me.
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Speaker 2: I remind you my childhood. You're leaving a Thanksgiving party is like go say bye everybody. That's the worst. Fear the worst, worst one person and it's a wrap getting a whip in there. You know.
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Speaker 5: I did see and this is no like I did see a study that to other people who use Irish goodbyes save up to at least maybe fifteen years of their life.
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Speaker 2: Believe it why we look so Young's care?
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Speaker 1: Let's care self care?
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Speaker 2: Yes, it is, and that's the selflessness.
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Speaker 4: That being selfless, bro, you feel me, You got to take care of yourself, man.
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Speaker 2: One thing.
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Speaker 6: One thing also, man, I've seen you evolves coming from being a kid doing the music to become and father.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 6: Like and even the last time we talked, you have you know more? You got two sons, right, yeah, so I'm on that same tip. I have one now I got to know.
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Speaker 2: You inspired me to do the snip snip you know what we had we had low key might be out the game. So you didn't do it yet. I didn't do it yet.
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Speaker 1: You gotta do it, bro.
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Speaker 2: I would want a girl though too.
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Speaker 6: That's what they all say. I got a homie that's still waiting for a boy four in four in huh yeah, man, damn it's too much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, irritable bouncer.
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Speaker 5: Is like where you can like make a test two baby and you make sure.
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Speaker 2: You get your test two baby.
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Speaker 4: Sounds crazy, trusting God around, trust God.
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Speaker 6: But I do want to get some dad advice from you, bro, like as you evolved as a father now going from one, going from going from one.
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Speaker 1: To two, Like, what what advice could you give to other fathers out there? At this point?
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Speaker 2: I will say just being present more so than anything, like intentionally present, not just around on your phone, like seeing what they into, not trying to pull them to what you only into, like what you want to do for that. I think that quality time goes a long way.
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Speaker 4: Got you watch some YouTube programming with him broat.
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Speaker 2: Get outside, not just a little you know what?
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Speaker 4: I just so you know that they're that you're so they know you're in tune with what with what they watch and what they like?
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I feel you. You gotta monitor every year. The monitor has got to be aware.
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Speaker 4: Don't let him go crazy because then the Silis commercial pops up, like what the fuck are we watching? Really quick though, back to uh, Chuck inspiring you to get the snip snips.
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Speaker 2: So Chuck, you got the snip.
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Speaker 1: Snip got the snip. Step Man, best decision?
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Speaker 2: What did school boy you call it?
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Speaker 1: He said, I got newter brot.
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Speaker 2: Like that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was the best decision for sure.
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Speaker 5: You just have like a fear of doctors. Is that what it is?
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Speaker 2: Or you just man? Does I'm just I'm just in between. Do I want to aim for a girl or just you in.
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Speaker 1: A different you, in a different situation than I am. So you got that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if the risk is worth the re bro.
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Speaker 4: When you aimed for it, it always comes out different. Bro, we were aiming for a girl, We got a boy. We got two boys, and we shut down the shop.
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Speaker 6: So just aim for a boy and I ain't that easy?
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Speaker 5: Reverse program?
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Speaker 2: You're gonna stuck with three boys? Dog? What the thing? Was the thing is I wasn't aiming at.
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Speaker 7: All, just shooting up, popped up, and I showed up, and I showed uprowed up right, damn dog.
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Speaker 4: So do you have a timeline on when you might do the snip snip?
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Speaker 2: Or you just think no see them now? Never does. I'm just trying to make it concrete. But you know we'll see. No, that's right.
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Speaker 1: What's going to solidify that decision for you?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You want to say directly, but is it a time thing or is it?
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Speaker 2: Like I think there's more more conversations around. You're the only person I know. Yeah, in history of blast life, who's get to the snips.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to We'll talk you need, we could walk out of here. It's all good, doctor, I got the recommendation.
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Speaker 4: You got the doctor for sure. You need some time let us it's good. It's personal, bro, I get it.
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Speaker 2: It's mad person.
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Speaker 4: It's a heavy decision to make, right, but you can reverse it.
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Speaker 1: You can reverse it.
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Speaker 2: But I heard it. It's like some percussions to that too, Like it ain't one hundred percent.
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Speaker 6: It's nothing. Even getting it is not one hundred percent. They say it's ninety nine point nine to nine. So even that is like you're still kind of taking your shot. But I'd rather the ninety nine than you know what I mean?
00:15:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, consider good luck. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Put that on the right side of that bro.
00:16:02
Speaker 4: Handle it, bro Hey, speaking of being inside, bro, were you inside watching Love Island?
00:16:07
Speaker 2: Nah, that ain't one type of party. That's the type of party. That's not your type of programming. I'm on type of program The transition was crazy.
00:16:16
Speaker 4: No, because he's inside the house, not inside whatever. Y'all think we in the house broke huh? But yeah, I don't know. I wasn't watching it either, but they watched it, like crazy.
00:16:27
Speaker 2: Hair is good though, it's.
00:16:29
Speaker 1: Good, it's good, spicy.
00:16:31
Speaker 5: It's just like, you know, it's just saying this shit like it makes me feel better knowing that I'm not that crazy.
00:16:35
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so you know I'm not that crazy. It shows you that you're not that great because there's other crazy people and people are really fly fine love though, Yeah.
00:16:45
Speaker 5: I mean, well, here's the the It's also a game as well, because you're there to find love in like the time span of three weeks or six weeks. I'm sorry and you're also competing for one hundred thousand dollars.
00:16:57
Speaker 2: You got to be with a couple.
00:16:59
Speaker 1: You gotta be.
00:17:02
Speaker 2: Seeing people break up after they get the bread.
00:17:04
Speaker 5: Huh with last season they did?
00:17:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on now who they who? They think they fooling? Yeah, it's a game, bro, It's a game. And they're getting paid to be.
00:17:13
Speaker 5: On the show too, right, I mean eventually, Yeah, there's endorsements all out of it, probably, but we shall see. I'll keep you update next.
00:17:21
Speaker 2: Time you season on.
00:17:23
Speaker 1: Well, this one's.
00:17:25
Speaker 5: US Love Island US and we're on season eight. I think UK is the original one. They're on season like thirteen.
00:17:33
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:17:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, interesting, it's far it's far too gone. It's just you got to catch up. It's crazy.
00:17:40
Speaker 2: Do you have to catch up? Or can you just jump in any season? Just jump because they like.
00:17:45
Speaker 5: Start over with Yeah, can you guys new people knew?
00:17:48
Speaker 3: What?
00:17:48
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, you're kind of convincing me. I might tune in there you go see what the love is and this?
00:17:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, you never know. You're being inspired today. Bro, it's a lot going on.
00:17:57
Speaker 2: At the sniff snip Love Island. What hell are we?
00:18:01
Speaker 3: Are we ever getting a six tape? Three six tape four or for.
00:18:07
Speaker 2: Of course. Yeah, I think it's inevitable, and I want to take it past. Just a lot of tapes that I grew up off always stopped at three for some reason. I just want to keep it going. You might get a six tape ten, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, it's a part of my It's a part of my legacy and being Overdeu's legacy as well. So I think it's a staple in our career.
00:18:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, man. And you know, Beano got his project with Nipsey coming up.
00:18:32
Speaker 2: Are you in prolific?
00:18:34
Speaker 3: Man?
00:18:35
Speaker 2: We shall find out.
00:18:38
Speaker 1: Probably this man has a great poker face.
00:18:40
Speaker 6: Let me tell you this, this man has a great poker face.
00:18:43
Speaker 1: Be honest. We asked this fool on Homegrown a you working with dot Bro? Yeah, man, I don't know. I don't know that.
00:18:51
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
00:18:53
Speaker 1: Literally two weeks.
00:18:54
Speaker 6: Later, mister Morale and the Big Stepps comes out. Guess who's on die Hard Blast?
00:18:59
Speaker 1: This guy?
00:19:00
Speaker 2: Hey man, you know that was a tough one. That was a tough one.
00:19:06
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, just blink if you in the studio.
00:19:08
Speaker 2: If I would have blink, would have kicked me right off. Oh my god, I know, right deleted yet no, bro.
00:19:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I like that we shall see answer.
00:19:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't gonna dragon. I'm definitely not on that bro. It's about BEINGO and Nipsey anyway. No, that's right. Yeah, shout out to them. Yeah, that's right. Okay, if you're on a dog, we're gonna. If he's on it, I'm gonna. I'm gonna be Yo break down Ruin for us Ruin featuring Sash. That song is speaking about, you know, just not letting a bad thing ruin the whole relationship, you know, get worse. Yeah, Like we see stuff like Love Island, we think it's all listen or it might be drama on there toma, okays drama told, but we love in the movies and we think it's all glitz and glamour. But I think I just wanted to reflect the imperfect side of being in a relationship and getting past a tough situation. Yeah, and just bigging the ones who do get past a tough time. Nah.
00:20:13
Speaker 4: You gotta be able to recognize, right that if it's a tough situation, can we get past this? Is it so tough that we can't get past it? Usually you can, right, But you can make a decision that will ruin the relationship when it could have been patched up. It could have been easily fixed. Pride is in the way and whatever else is in the way.
00:20:32
Speaker 2: Right, It's an everyday choice you gotta make. You know something last night, it may be you were to get out the door, but then you gotta wake up and realize what really matters. You know, sometimes it's bigger than just a relationship that'll keep it going. More importantly, you still got to do the work within a relationship too.
00:20:51
Speaker 5: There you go, man, I feel like you're so like tapped into yourself to know to be self aware like that what I point in your life did you make that shift?
00:21:05
Speaker 2: I don't feel like that. I don't feel like that I am self aware. I think I just show up every day with the willing I don't even know the word willingness. Willingness to be able to learn and be able to fail. You know, sometimes you got to be comfortable or learn to be comfortable with the fact that nothing's going to be perfect. And I think embracing failure as much as success will propel you to show up the next day.
00:21:35
Speaker 4: Okay yo, your mom's worked for the mental health department.
00:21:38
Speaker 2: She does. Oh she does, yes, man, so that's who you turn to. Yeah, I got like a cheek hould in my corner, damn dog. Can I call her? I need some help?
00:21:53
Speaker 5: Will she call you out though?
00:21:54
Speaker 7: On?
00:21:54
Speaker 5: Like with your tripping?
00:21:56
Speaker 2: I just see that's the that's the one part. It's like she's still my mom at why you still got to separate bro right, So sometimes it's kind of hard to differentiate if she like, okay, am I just your son? And you just are you really giving me game? But I think me and my mom's relationship is always being graceful, Like she's always been accepting of my failures and understanding that I'm just human. I'm her only boy. So that maybe where the grace come from too.
00:22:23
Speaker 4: Nah, that's it, Yeah, you feel it. It makes you better for relationships, having a close relationship with your mom like that.
00:22:29
Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, naturally, if you respect your mom, you have a natural respect for women. It's just right. Yeah, I've also had I had all older sisters tell so that's the game.
00:22:41
Speaker 3: Like, did your mom ever see you as like just her son? Or does she ever see it as like blast the rapper?
00:22:48
Speaker 2: That's a good question. You'll have to ask her. But from my experience, she's on the phone blast hello. I wouldn't be surprised. From my experience, I think I think we still in the midst of like accepting blasts as well aside from her son, you know, if that makes sense. Yeah, so I think it's an everyday process because it be sometimes I be got to having to tell her, like Mom, like you can't do that, you know, or you know, just set my own boundaries for our relationship and who blast is as the business as a friend. But I think overall she's very understanding of business in family. It's just a matter of having a conversation.
00:23:31
Speaker 4: Bro having a relationship with your mom and a relationship with your sisters being close has to allow you to write some unbelievable music. Has to be able to give you that creativeness that you need, right and having and not having a relationship with your mom and not being surrounded by female energy could also create some really good music.
00:23:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think I definitely have a unique perspective being the youngest kid in my family and just being the first to break generational curses. And I think I pride myself on my perspective being from La because me and being know, we kind of broke through an era where it was, you know, a lot of tough shit going on. You know, we kind of put the player in the lover and the you know, just being cool in the music in the industry. And that's what I stand on as a man in the position I play with in music. What's your childhood name? Who are you?
00:24:30
Speaker 3: Bro?
00:24:32
Speaker 2: They call me Matt, Matt, Mat Matt. My real name is Matthew, so it's Matt Matt.
00:24:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's how yo, yo, Matt Matt is adorable. No, why it's horrible? What's the problem?
00:24:46
Speaker 2: Maybe because it's me, okay, but it's just, you know, it's just a different taste that I get when I hear it, Like what is it? Or it's just got to be the right person saying it. You know how some people just use your name like like they know you was right right? Oh God, trying to little homie or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why you asked me, who are you? I get it. I got it.
00:25:07
Speaker 1: I got it, bro, I got it. I'm a little sensitive.
00:25:10
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. I get it.
00:25:11
Speaker 4: When you're Latino, though your nickname is your biggest insecurity. Yeah, that's worse.
00:25:16
Speaker 2: That's that's how you feel. I mean, I embrace it with my family, but you know, if you're not my family, I could be sensitive to it.
00:25:24
Speaker 4: God, yeah, try being sensitive to like fail which is ugly, got and so on which is big.
00:25:32
Speaker 2: Also, which is just disgusting. Like that's what that's crazy And it's with love. But that's how I get what you're saying. Bro, you feel me? So who are you? Yeah? I feel you feel you got me beat?
00:25:49
Speaker 5: Like there was a school crossing guard I was in elementary school. She always call me more that basically just meant like dark.
00:25:54
Speaker 2: Sin or darky. That's crazy.
00:25:57
Speaker 5: You a school crossing guard.
00:25:58
Speaker 1: I was like, girl, but are you?
00:26:00
Speaker 4: But it's with love. It's with love. But it's like, damn, what kind of love is? That's why you spank your kids?
00:26:07
Speaker 2: Nah, I don't do that. Why not? I don't know. I didn't really get whippings growing up myself. I think a good conversation and understanding to take you further than just sometimes there we know sometimesimes, you know, but I feel like my kids just a little different. I got some good kids, you know, God bless they have a good mom too, So I have a great mom. That's try to be patient and graceful. But I don't judge if you got a whip some mess. I mean, hey, I was whooped. I try.
00:26:39
Speaker 4: I don't hit my kids, but sometimes I'll grab them by the arm, you know, like get over here, you know. But it's not what I had to deal with when I was a kid.
00:26:48
Speaker 2: Never that, you know, Yeah, try differently.
00:26:52
Speaker 6: I feel like every time we have this conversation we just saw to Marlon ways and he's challenged me.
00:26:56
Speaker 1: Now, I don't beat my kids, right every it sounded.
00:27:00
Speaker 6: Like I beat my d beat my kids right, just to pop on the hand, maybe on the butt, you know what I'm saying, the youngest one. But it's because like after those conversations four or five times and hey, don't do that, Hey don't do that, raise of what, Hey don't do that, you're still doing it. That's when I popped in, like all right, and that for me, that's done the job right. But Marlon was saying that you know you you you're not the best communicator if you do if you do, he's a kid, So I'm understanding that, and I'm trying to challenge myself not to take that route.
00:27:29
Speaker 1: But it's it's a sensitive subject for me because I'm still trying to get this out, bro.
00:27:33
Speaker 5: But also the second Chuck is saying that his second test him.
00:27:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, that's how. That's how my second is too, really for sure, But I think it's just you just have to develop a bigger patience for that. Like as a father, that's just what it is, because sometimes you know that resentment of kick in too when you get older. It's like, why you never talk to me? You just put your hand. That's what marlin.
00:27:56
Speaker 1: You know what he said.
00:27:57
Speaker 6: I'm gonna tell you the exact bar that he said That made me kind of just rethink it. He was like, man, every time you spank your kid, you potentially lose your best friend.
00:28:04
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, drop the tears challenge accepted, Bro.
00:28:09
Speaker 2: Hit hard.
00:28:12
Speaker 1: In those moments when you're not listening, that's when it's tough.
00:28:15
Speaker 6: He's easy to do it right now when we're away from it, but in the moment, because.
00:28:19
Speaker 4: You remember, we're raising potential fathers, potential partners, right, and men and kings, right, So like we don't want them to lash out either, right, We want them to be better than us in every way. Yeah, so what are we teaching them by by by hitting them to hit.
00:28:42
Speaker 5: You mentioned growing up with all your sisters and everything. What and you're the last one. What's the most like baby thing about you being in the family? Like, what would you say? Like for me, me being the baby and my family, I'm just like I can get whatever I want. What's the most like baby anything about you in the family.
00:29:02
Speaker 2: I don't know, because even though I was a baby, like I was still a good kid, Like I wasn't just like doing crazy shit. I was kind of the shy just in the corner, didn't bother nobody. So I would say, I don't know.
00:29:17
Speaker 5: Were you a tittletale to your sisters?
00:29:19
Speaker 2: Nah? I was so cool. I was just chilling observe and everything. It was almost as if I wasn't even in the family.
00:29:34
Speaker 3: And it was a surprise to your family.
00:29:36
Speaker 2: Like, oh, yeah, for sure, I think. Yeah, it's definitely a shit. They see me on stage, they'd be like, who is this guy? Wow? Because even when I'm like even at this grown age, like I get back home and I'm a total different person. Like the music it just do something to me to where it felt like my alter ego is free. Ah. Yeah, it's a gold button. Yeah. So it's definitely a shocker for my family to witness meeting. That's great in the spotlight.
00:30:01
Speaker 4: Doesn't that mean they get they get two versions of your low key?
00:30:06
Speaker 2: Low key? But you know, when I'm on stage, I kind of set that boundary. It's like you don't even know me right now. I'm locked in. Yeah, that's right. And then so as I get off stage, it might be directly backstage I go into Matt mad again. That's right. Yeah.
00:30:24
Speaker 6: I do want to ask you one's last thing on my end. Man, in terms of fatherhood. Man, you you you met, you know, we talked about the home invasion thing, but how did you make that home again?
00:30:35
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:30:36
Speaker 6: I think you kind of referenced it and talked about like damn, leaving that spot and then going back, like how did you then make that a safe space and a home again for your your family?
00:30:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly. I had moved out the house, and then I don't know, something hit me, you know, raising kids. I think if I didn't have kids, I probably would have just been gone.
00:30:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, now you gotta go back because nobody runs us out of our home exactly.
00:31:01
Speaker 2: That's exactly. I must have watched the Denzel Washington movie and just felt it in my chest like okay, let me step up as a father, like we just gotta protect ourselves, be more aware, but we ain't scared, you know. And I tell my kids every day like it's okay to be scared, but you still gotta facial fears. And that's what I have to do for myself in that moment as a reflection for them to see as an example.
00:31:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta show them you gotta be tough, you gotta protect your home artists as a man that you know that shit put a little fear, I mean, of course, but of course it's like, you know, you.
00:31:35
Speaker 2: Still gotta face your fears and be like we gotta face whatever whatever's knocking at the front door, and just be ready for it.
00:31:42
Speaker 4: That's right, and be ready for it. That's a fact. Why wrap up the album with he Can?
00:31:47
Speaker 2: That's the moment where it's the end credits after your Superhero movie. It's telling yourself in the mirror that you can get through whatever you may be going through, you know. And I think a lot of times we look at super heroes like they don't go through nothing, but they the most ones that be going through the vulnerable moments, like as if nobody can connect to the pain that they feel because they looked at it and expected to save the whole world. So I think telling myself that it is deeper than anybody else telling me that. Yeah.
00:32:20
Speaker 4: Man, it's a great way to wrap up the album. Real good way to wrap it up. Strong, strong way, you know. I'm like, Yo, he could either started with that or ended with it. That was the exact battle when we was making the check list sold. We started with it, should we end with it? And then it just felt more powerful ending with it, right, Allison, That's the way to do it, man, Yo. CDs are making a crazy comeback. Yeah, CDs and vinyl. We saw vinyl, now we're seeing it with actual physicals.
00:32:50
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, So you're having a CD signing coming up as well, right, Yeah. We had VIP Records in Long Beach this Saturday, going crazy. Man. We got to connect the people. That's what we do it for, right yep. So I'm ready to step out and you know, sign some CDs, meet the fans that have been tapped in with album.
00:33:08
Speaker 4: Dope Man, Labor of Love is out now. It's everywhere. Labor of Love is Crazy Crazy project. Congratulations and Blast come see us any time. You know you got a home here. iHeart Radio Real ninety two three The Cruise Show All day there it is, Yes, Sir, Blast Real ninety two three.
00:33:26
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