Trascrizione completa di The Raw Truth

--> 00:02:46.340 Let's get right into it, man, because we ain't going to cut all the extra stuff out. 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:47.534 We're going to get right into it. 00:02:47.534 --> 00:02:51.458 What made you come up with this album title? 00:02:52.841 --> 00:02:53.262 That's funny. 00:02:53.262 --> 00:03:03.458 So, as you know, a little back story of like some of my situations I was experiencing with people, they just was basically asking me to tell the truth. 00:03:03.458 --> 00:03:08.098 So that motivated me to like confess, you want me to tell the truth? 00:03:08.098 --> 00:03:09.241 I'm going to tell my side. 00:03:09.241 --> 00:03:13.173 I'm going to tell, like you know, how I'm living, how I see it, what my experience is. 00:03:13.274 --> 00:03:20.554 So, so when you told me the name of it, I was like we about to get like an R&B joint, I feel like it gave a little. 00:03:20.995 --> 00:03:23.286 Um, none of the songs are really R&B. 00:03:23.286 --> 00:03:29.695 I might have got two, maybe three slow songs, but um, all the songs turned up. 00:03:29.829 --> 00:03:30.831 Yeah, the reason why I said that? 00:03:30.831 --> 00:03:32.774 Because you know Confessions by Usher. 00:03:33.436 --> 00:03:33.876 Uh-huh. 00:03:33.896 --> 00:03:34.918 You know that one about him. 00:03:34.918 --> 00:03:36.542 What was it about? 00:03:36.542 --> 00:03:37.643 It was about JD. 00:03:37.643 --> 00:03:39.334 That's what happened with the JD. 00:03:39.334 --> 00:03:43.120 That like was real life and he wrote it and put it on the song. 00:03:43.409 --> 00:03:44.314 Yeah, Usher sing it. 00:03:44.649 --> 00:03:48.994 That's why I, like you know in the video, you know everybody thinking like damn, he done messed off on Chili. 00:03:48.994 --> 00:03:55.325 Oh, remember, but it was really about JD and his issues. 00:03:55.325 --> 00:03:58.155 He was telling his story, yeah he was telling his story on the song. 00:03:58.878 --> 00:03:58.978 Oh. 00:03:59.490 --> 00:04:01.855 So what you? 00:04:01.855 --> 00:04:05.122 This is like your first big project, right, Mm-hmm. 00:04:05.122 --> 00:04:08.837 What is it like to like go like? 00:04:08.837 --> 00:04:10.621 What's the background of it? 00:04:10.621 --> 00:04:14.780 Like, how does it take, what does it take to get into that mode? 00:04:14.780 --> 00:04:19.057 You know what I'm saying, like the expectations? 00:04:19.076 --> 00:04:21.985 um, going into this project, I didn't know what to expect. 00:04:21.985 --> 00:04:32.220 Um, because when I was working with cuz this was my first time actually working in the studio with him, like we did a song real bitch, but it was more like him send me to be. 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:33.463 I booked my session at home. 00:04:33.463 --> 00:04:54.355 This time I flew down there in houston and um he literally I think I came with like six beats already, like drafted up done, but he was like nah, like we'll take two of those, you can do those, lay them down, but everything else you gotta

be raw, like I want to make the beat right now and I want you to write right now, right, so it was different, so I ain't expect that. 00:04:54.355 --> 00:04:54.877 How was how? 00:04:54.916 --> 00:04:55.498 was the sessions? 00:04:55.498 --> 00:04:57.503 Was it like long sessions? 00:04:57.503 --> 00:05:02.937 Or was it because I know you when you get in that mode and you start writing, it come it was a vibe. 00:05:02.976 --> 00:05:12.394 So I was really nervous at first because I'm like I don't know what I'm gonna say, like I don't know what, what feeling I'm feeling right now to even put towards you know, this project. 00:05:12.394 --> 00:05:14.517 Um, because I'm no. 00:05:14.517 --> 00:05:20.439 I'm normally like if you send me the beat, I listen to it, I might finish it in a day or I might finish it at the end of the week. 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.639 But this time was like on site, like it had to be right now. 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:27.500 So as soon as we got in there, we had to take shots instantly. 00:05:28.021 --> 00:05:28.201 Right. 00:05:28.289 --> 00:05:29.615 So that kind of warmed me up. 00:05:29.615 --> 00:05:33.152 Then some of his people came in and everybody started talking a little bit. 00:05:33.152 --> 00:05:38.017 It kind of made me feel a little bit more comfortable with my setting and he just started cooking. 00:05:38.197 --> 00:05:45.264 He started making the beats and I'm like, as we all like talking mid-conversation, it just like dawned on me like this beat fire as shit. 00:05:45.264 --> 00:05:53.479 So now I'm just like in my zone, like okay, so I get my phone out and I just start like writing the first thing, like whatever the beat made me feel like. 00:05:53.479 --> 00:05:58.887 Like it might make me feel like I feel like talking some shit about some niggas, I might talk some shit about some bitches, right. 00:05:58.887 --> 00:06:05.229 But that was like the whole process of how we like turn up vibe, talk out and then he start cooking. 00:06:06.031 --> 00:06:11.002 Now, did you knock the whole tape out in a day, or was it like? 00:06:11.569 --> 00:06:17.622 No, so I think I flew down there Friday and we left Monday, but Monday we didn't work. 00:06:17.622 --> 00:06:24.219 But Friday, saturday and Sunday we was in the studio from 6 pm to 1 am every night. 00:06:24.219 --> 00:06:25.682 Yeah, it was long. 00:06:25.849 --> 00:06:27.093 How did you link with Big Kuz? 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:29.040 Instagram. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.055 I reached out to him. 00:06:31.055 --> 00:06:32.776 Yeah, I think I was just on like a. 00:06:32.776 --> 00:06:45.825 I was going through a phase like either you can reach out, at least you say you tried, you can get a yes, or you can get a no, but at least I tried, right, and I used to always listen to like kinder man music and I would hear the tag you can ask big cousin. 00:06:45.825 --> 00:06:50.935 And I was like who is that? 00:06:50.935 --> 00:06:54.122 So I like Mo3, ken Erica Banks. 00:06:54.122 --> 00:07:01.516 And I was like, oh, he worked with a lot of females and I'm like the sound that he's working with sounds familiar like mine. 00:07:01.516 --> 00:07:05.115 So I reached out and was like, hey, how much for a beat. 00:07:05.115 --> 00:07:08.772 And he told me the price and I was like I could do that. 00:07:08.772 --> 00:07:17.762 He sent me the beat, I did the song to Real Bitch, did the video and we put it out and from there we just kept in touch and always talked. 00:07:17.762 --> 00:07:22.382 So this project kind of came about of us just talking and vibing on Instagram. 00:07:22.382 --> 00:07:24.737 And then he was like you need to drop a mixtape. 00:07:25.050 --> 00:07:26.175 That need to be your next step. 00:07:26.495 --> 00:07:27.238 And I was like okay. 00:07:28.392 --> 00:07:31.521 So we're getting tutelage from Big Cuz. 00:07:31.521 --> 00:07:36.754 How does that differ from like other people that you work with? 00:07:36.754 --> 00:07:37.790 Like, what was the Like? 00:07:37.790 --> 00:07:38.675 How was the vibe? 00:07:39.531 --> 00:07:48.221 I feel like Now with other people Like I worked with you before and a lot of times you'll be like, nah, I don't like how this sound Like, fix this. 00:07:48.221 --> 00:07:50.492 Yeah, but I think you catered more. 00:07:50.492 --> 00:07:53.378 You was more sensitive to my feelings because we were friends. 00:07:53.500 --> 00:07:55.182 No, I'm definitely like. 00:07:56.192 --> 00:07:58.920 You would be on me, but you wouldn't be hard on me. 00:07:58.979 --> 00:07:59.961 Because you know what I'm saying. 00:07:59.961 --> 00:08:05.860 Like me personally, it's the feeling so like when I hear your music I'm like, oh, you got to go hard. 00:08:05.860 --> 00:08:09.700 When I first heard your first song I'm like oh you got to go hard every time. 00:08:10.250 --> 00:08:11.252 But you believed in it. 00:08:11.252 --> 00:08:17.223 I didn't even know my sound of it for real, no, but you gave me a blueprint of how your process or how you do shit. 00:08:17.370 --> 00:08:22.221 So like when you recording you writing everything is like you going hard. 00:08:22.221 --> 00:08:27.766 So it's like I got to be on you like that, like I had to, but it wasn't like I ain't going to be too crazy on you. 00:08:27.766 --> 00:08:28.329 You know what I'm saying. 00:08:29.473 --> 00:08:30.116 Like what the fuck? 00:08:30.116 --> 00:08:31.389 He wasn't like cussing. 00:08:31.389 --> 00:08:32.528 He wasn't like cussing, because cuss don't cuss. 00:08:32.911 --> 00:08:35.377 But you know how some people Would be like no, do that shit again, do that. 00:08:35.377 --> 00:08:35.918 You know what I mean. 00:08:35.918 --> 00:08:36.319 Like nah. 00:08:36.379 --> 00:08:37.923 It was like that, but it wasn't like that yeah. 00:08:37.923 --> 00:08:40.003 He was like I would. 00:08:40.003 --> 00:08:45.238 I guess I would feel myself Just getting tired, like because from 6 o'clock To 1 am, that's a lot.

00:08:47.372 --> 00:08:51.137 That's a long hours, and then we had to like it wasn't no breaks. 00:08:51.657 --> 00:08:55.481 You probably I mean you already taking a break, you're sitting down and you're rapping and there's no breaks. 00:08:55.481 --> 00:09:08.239 Um, it would be like times where I would be rapping like one of the lines you know, this pussy got power when the niggas finna check and I would I wouldn't be standing with the energy I'm supposed to come. 00:09:08.239 --> 00:09:12.375 When he was like, nah, again he's like you need to, you need to feel it. 00:09:12.375 --> 00:09:19.316 How do we feel when you, this pussy, got power and the nigga need to check and I would be like, all right, I would feel a way. 00:09:19.316 --> 00:09:21.876 I would be like, damn, why he hard on me like this. 00:09:21.876 --> 00:09:23.160 Then you got to think about it. 00:09:23.160 --> 00:09:27.211 He care about the project, like you putting money and time into it and he putting his time and his name on it. 00:09:27.232 --> 00:09:43.686 Yeah, yeah, I think too is when I envision stuff for any artist, but like even for you, it's like you want these people to recite everything you're saying and you want them to feel like damn, this shit is power. 00:09:43.686 --> 00:09:45.936 Like where the money at. 00:09:45.936 --> 00:09:50.758 You know what I'm saying and that's how you got to do it, so I know exactly what he was doing. 00:09:50.758 --> 00:09:51.401 You know what I mean. 00:09:51.401 --> 00:10:00.469 But it's definitely like sometimes you got to bring it out of that artist because they like just Like, nah, like you can be chill on certain songs. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:06.353 I learned from another producer that I was working with before I just named. 00:10:06.353 --> 00:10:19.032 But he would always tell me like when you get nervous and like you don't feel comfortable with what you're saying or how you're saying it, like just keep saying it over and over and over again on the mic until you feel like this one is it and you keep that flow. 00:10:19.032 --> 00:10:28.489 So we had to do it a few times and then he was like you got it do it again and then I would just be like fuck, and I would just yell that shit out. 00:10:28.509 --> 00:10:29.480 Was you standing up or sitting down recording? 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:30.243 I was sitting down. 00:10:31.086 --> 00:10:31.688 He asked me. 00:10:31.688 --> 00:10:37.105 He was like you want to do it sitting down in the booth with everybody out here, or you want to go in the back, private? 00:10:37.105 --> 00:10:44.402 And I was like nah, that's vibe out. 00:10:44.442 --> 00:10:44.945 That's good right here. 00:10:44.945 --> 00:10:46.815 What's some of the pros and cons that you experienced? 00:10:46.835 --> 00:10:49.427 so far through your journey of recording, Trying to get my sound right. 00:10:49.427 --> 00:10:55.586 That's a con Because you know, working with different people, everybody ear not the same. 00:10:55.586 --> 00:11:06.249 Like sometimes I will go home with songs that's supposed to be first draft, supposed to be mixed and everything, but you can still hear no errors in it. 00:11:06.249 --> 00:11:11.230 And it depends on the engineer finding the best engineer to work with. 00:11:11.230 --> 00:11:14.386 That's a con, a pro. 00:11:14.386 --> 00:11:21.733 The networking I done met some good people along the way that helped me get into places that I wasn't in before. 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:32.362 That's always a plus, and I think a lot of people fall off of the network and it's like they'll meet the person and then forget the person the next day. 00:11:32.362 --> 00:11:34.543 Like instead of like following up. 00:11:34.563 --> 00:11:35.265 I'm a contact. 00:11:35.265 --> 00:11:36.069 Hey how you doing. 00:11:36.069 --> 00:11:38.463 Have a good day, Good morning Good afternoon. 00:11:38.503 --> 00:11:40.523 The follow up is the most important part. 00:11:40.523 --> 00:11:51.508 When you, after you network, you gotta to do a follow-up, because if you don't, and you got to be consistent about networking, it's not just you don't do a meet and greet today and then it's like, oh God, I met this person. 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:53.583 Like you keeping in contact, it's like a friendship. 00:11:53.583 --> 00:11:54.844 You got to build it. 00:11:54.985 --> 00:12:02.655 Because a lot of times man, like for me, like artists come to me all the time, like yo, I want to work with you, but I be like okay. 00:12:03.617 --> 00:12:05.259 You won't hear nothing else and I won't hear nothing else. 00:12:05.259 --> 00:12:07.465 Like you know what I'm saying, like I'm not going to reach out. 00:12:07.465 --> 00:12:08.248 You want to work with me? 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:10.508 Yeah, you want to work with me, but I'm not reaching out to you. 00:12:10.508 --> 00:12:17.585 You got to tell me why they make me want to work back with you. 00:12:17.585 --> 00:12:25.110 Show me, unless you got going on like your joint legit, then I'll reach out, but other than that, like it's like yo man, it's a two-way street. 00:12:25.110 --> 00:12:26.511 You know what I'm saying? 00:12:26.511 --> 00:12:28.451 You want to work, but you got to pull up. 00:12:29.013 --> 00:12:33.596 Some people I used to be one of them people Well, no, I was, but I wasn't. 00:12:33.596 --> 00:12:41.187 I would always reach out and then, like, I'll tell somebody I'd be like, all right. 00:12:41.206 --> 00:12:45.354 I can book it right there, and if I don't, I'd be like, all right, I'll use this for later and I'll come back to you. 00:12:45.354 --> 00:12:52.967 But some people just reach out because they just want to know like how much you willing to charge me for this if I want to get in the studio with you or do a podcast interview. 00:12:52.967 --> 00:13:00.750 But they don't think to keep going. 00:13:00.790 --> 00:13:02.012 You got to do it every day. 00:13:02.012 --> 00:13:07.227 Not only be consistent,

be persistent, because, like you can be consistent, all you want. 00:13:08.421 --> 00:13:09.023 Don't change it up. 00:13:09.023 --> 00:13:09.725 People change it up. 00:13:09.725 --> 00:13:15.158 They kind of get blindsided, like today I want to be a singer and tomorrow I know how to rap a little bit too. 00:13:15.158 --> 00:13:16.626 But what's the main? 00:13:16.646 --> 00:13:17.108 focus. 00:13:17.108 --> 00:13:35.417 Keep the main thing, the main thing you got to Focus on, that, push that, yeah, what you think is bad for business in the industry that we deal with music-wise and hold on music and acting-wise because you do be acting a little bit, I do. 00:13:35.758 --> 00:13:37.003 You know what I'm saying, so what's? 00:13:37.043 --> 00:13:37.786 bad for business. 00:13:39.521 --> 00:13:40.968 What's bad for business? 00:13:46.302 --> 00:13:46.826 Not doing your part. 00:13:46.826 --> 00:13:47.913 Not doing your part not doing your part. 00:13:47.934 --> 00:13:54.438 Not doing your part, like if you know you working with somebody and you getting something lined up with somebody. 00:13:54.438 --> 00:14:02.221 Like, say, if we doing music and we got a studio session today and cancel because you can't make it or you forgot that's important. 00:14:02.221 --> 00:14:03.123 I don't want to work with you no more. 00:14:03.123 --> 00:14:04.065 It's Right, or you forgot that's important. 00:14:04.085 --> 00:14:04.806 Now, I don't want to work with you. 00:14:04.806 --> 00:14:06.189 No more, right, it's bad for your business. 00:14:06.189 --> 00:14:08.874 You're making it look bad for yourself Like you selling yourself short. 00:14:08.874 --> 00:14:15.523 Yeah, what's another one? 00:14:15.523 --> 00:14:20.147 Stop trying to finesse artists and creators out of like what they do. 00:14:20.147 --> 00:14:22.810 Yeah, you don't win that way. 00:14:22.810 --> 00:14:24.771 Nah, that's bad for business too. 00:14:24.771 --> 00:14:27.334 That's definitely bad, you're going to mess up your name doing that. 00:14:27.354 --> 00:14:30.257 This industry, is small and everybody knows everybody. 00:14:30.257 --> 00:14:34.258 The way the circle comes back and forth. 00:14:34.258 --> 00:14:36.147 Yeah, they be like how you know this person in Atlanta, how you know this person, how you know this person. 00:14:36.147 --> 00:14:38.991 I'm like, look man, I've been around these areas multiple times. 00:14:39.011 --> 00:14:44.362 This group, here know this group, everybody knows somebody and I build relationships with these people here, that know these people there. 00:14:44.362 --> 00:14:46.723 And you think you dogging out this one person. 00:14:46.804 --> 00:15:00.841 but this one person know the same people you know and that's why I'm trying to tell people like, be careful who you work with and be careful who you do business with, because if that person ain't good, the person ain't gonna be like yo who you work with. 00:15:00.841 --> 00:15:02.362 Oh no, I'm straight. 00:15:03.543 --> 00:15:06.967 I just kind of had a similar situation like that the other day. 00:15:06.967 --> 00:15:14.014 I walked in the room and I was like, uh-oh, bad for business in here, yeah, and it was just like these, my people. 00:15:14.254 --> 00:15:14.554 Right. 00:15:14.855 --> 00:15:15.595 You a visitor. 00:15:15.855 --> 00:15:17.097 Right, you in my territory. 00:15:17.097 --> 00:15:25.932 Yeah, exactly, a lot of times, man, you know, a lot of times it's a lot of groupie stuff that be happening too. 00:15:25.932 --> 00:15:37.173 I would say for me that's bad for business, like I can't bring you to somebody and you turn out being a groupie when I brought you to this person. 00:15:37.353 --> 00:15:38.115 You've had that happen. 00:15:38.660 --> 00:15:42.468 Man, yeah, and the sad part, it wasn't a female. 00:15:42.780 --> 00:15:42.974 It was a man. 00:15:42.974 --> 00:15:43.293 Yeah, men are groupies. 00:15:43.293 --> 00:15:43.693 Yeah, men groupies, yeah. 00:15:43.638 --> 00:15:44.195 And the sad part, it wasn't a female, it was a man, yeah. 00:15:44.280 --> 00:15:44.863 Men are groupies. 00:15:44.863 --> 00:15:46.225 Yeah, men groupies too. 00:15:46.225 --> 00:15:47.012 I'm not surprised. 00:15:47.012 --> 00:15:49.527 Yeah, they're groupies too so it's like they do just as much female stuff. 00:15:50.527 --> 00:15:51.556 You know what I mean. 00:15:51.556 --> 00:15:59.584 You forget who you was loyal to, and then you go to, you go over there, and then now it's like how is it over? 00:15:59.604 --> 00:16:00.645 there Is the grass greener. 00:16:01.045 --> 00:16:02.907 If the grass greener, hey, let it be greener. 00:16:02.907 --> 00:16:05.069 But hey you know what helps me though. 00:16:05.390 --> 00:16:05.670 What. 00:16:06.129 --> 00:16:07.732 That's one less thing I got to worry about. 00:16:08.052 --> 00:16:10.715 Next, you know what I'm saying you just keep pushing on like. 00:16:10.754 --> 00:16:12.857 Yeah, just keep moving, Like I ain't got time for that. 00:16:20.021 --> 00:16:22.065 Like, but the groupie and studio etiquette Hmm studio etiquette. 00:16:22.085 --> 00:16:30.391 Studio etiquette is like if we in the club or we in the studio and my boy P, he in there too, he chilling you know what I'm saying. 00:16:30.391 --> 00:16:36.512 And then he just come up to the artist or the engineer or the producer and be like yo, yo, yo. 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:41.629 you should say it like this or hey, hey, hey, oh, no, no, no, you got to stay yeah you got to stay in the back. 00:16:41.629 --> 00:16:52.511 The only time you can tap into when an artist needs to make a correction is once I'm done and I'm doing a playback, like let me hear that If I'm not feeling it and I'm like hmm, should I give more energy? 00:16:52.842 --> 00:16:55.600 Then you can chime in and be like Now you're asking everybody else, yeah. 00:16:55.640 --> 00:16:56.542 I'm asking for your input. 00:16:56.742 --> 00:17:26.490 Then you could be like, yeah, you

might want to say it a little harder, because you kind of found some yeah, I had that happen a couple times Like it was just one cat, he was an R&B singer too, and like I was working at the studio and the crazy part is the manager was that I knew, shout out to Miko Miko, he brought him in and, like this, dude thought he was like Trey Jones and dude thought he was like Trey Jones and he thought it was big time. 00:17:26.490 --> 00:17:32.596 So he like sitting on the on the uh, the table like he, you know, I'm saying like hey, now play this song, play this song, turn and turning up the volume and I'm like bro is this my session. 00:17:32.657 --> 00:17:34.663 On your session I'm looking like bro, I'm trying to listen to what. 00:17:34.663 --> 00:17:47.469 If I want to work with you, like what you doing, he like you know doing all this his producer like chilling, you know, saying he chilling, but he peeping the scene and he just like yeah, yeah, yeah, this the song right here, this the song right here. 00:17:47.469 --> 00:17:52.528 And turning up the volume and sitting on the things Trying to sing the songs and stuff, and I'm just like. 00:17:52.528 --> 00:17:56.181 I'm just sitting there like what am I doing? 00:17:56.181 --> 00:17:57.162 Wasting my time? 00:17:57.201 --> 00:18:02.124 Yeah, what we doing, you letting me hear it, and sure enough he recorded like once. 00:18:02.124 --> 00:18:03.085 That was it. 00:18:03.225 --> 00:18:06.186 He recorded once and then went on about his way. 00:18:06.186 --> 00:18:06.826 You know what I mean. 00:18:06.826 --> 00:18:09.288 But shout out to him Like he was talented. 00:18:09.288 --> 00:18:13.730 But that's the etiquette stuff that'll get you thrown out the studios. 00:18:13.730 --> 00:18:16.352 Because, like what, if you're walking up in Future and them joint, like that? 00:18:17.211 --> 00:18:18.793 And you're telling them you touching the knob. 00:18:18.793 --> 00:18:20.614 Comfortable here, but you were no better there. 00:18:20.653 --> 00:18:25.635 Yeah, you turning up the dang on controls and stuff, like bro, what we doing, you know what I'm saying. 00:18:25.635 --> 00:18:33.420 But yeah, studio etiquette groupies and stop trying to smash everybody you work with Please. 00:18:34.321 --> 00:18:37.381 We don't all want to be fucked on. 00:18:37.422 --> 00:18:38.763 Stop, like just stop. 00:18:38.763 --> 00:18:46.528 If she come on you, that's on you, bro, like pause, you know she come to you with some with her energy, that's on you. 00:18:46.949 --> 00:18:49.549 I've had producers, slash engineers. 00:18:49.549 --> 00:18:53.913 They'll work with me for the longest time and, like once, I put you in the friend zone, that's it. 00:18:53.913 --> 00:18:56.456 You can't climb out, especially if you're working together. 00:18:56.456 --> 00:18:58.157 I'm not fucking people I'm working with. 00:18:58.157 --> 00:19:03.578 That's bad, yeah, and they would just find their way like try to climb out the friend zone.

00:19:03.578 --> 00:19:05.667 Like you know, I be into threesomes and shit. 00:19:05.667 --> 00:19:08.128 Like I'm freaking, I don't care, did I ask? 00:19:08.401 --> 00:19:08.662 you. 00:19:08.843 --> 00:19:09.304 I don't care. 00:19:09.525 --> 00:19:10.268 Coming out of nowhere. 00:19:10.268 --> 00:19:10.807 What the fuck? 00:19:10.807 --> 00:19:11.499 What's up with it? 00:19:12.481 --> 00:19:13.105 It wasn't an option. 00:19:13.144 --> 00:19:13.506 Yeah. 00:19:13.747 --> 00:19:14.530 What we talking about. 00:19:16.500 --> 00:19:17.163 That's crazy. 00:19:17.163 --> 00:19:21.567 Now here this one right here, that we gonna do. 00:19:21.567 --> 00:19:23.969 We gotta do take a shot. 00:19:23.969 --> 00:19:27.183 We're going to do the Q&A game. 00:19:27.183 --> 00:19:28.646 Q&a game. 00:19:28.646 --> 00:19:31.514 Look, p got his shot, I got mine. 00:19:31.514 --> 00:19:34.711 I had a double, you got to get another one. 00:19:34.933 --> 00:19:35.395 I'm scared. 00:19:35.395 --> 00:19:36.279 Please don't make it a double. 00:19:36.540 --> 00:19:37.706 Yeah, you got to get another one. 00:19:37.706 --> 00:19:47.818 I got to drop back Q&A. 00:19:47.818 --> 00:19:55.499 Top five artists your top five artists in a DMV. 00:19:56.321 --> 00:19:59.590 Oh, I'm fine In the DMV. 00:19:59.730 --> 00:20:04.227 Yeah, no around here. 00:20:04.227 --> 00:20:05.071 Yeah, it could be no Around here. 00:20:05.071 --> 00:20:06.395 Yeah, it can be all time. 00:20:07.923 --> 00:20:11.544 I mean, I know a couple I'm not going to lie to you. 00:20:11.544 --> 00:20:12.346 Dmv. 00:20:12.407 --> 00:20:14.372 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:15.201 --> 00:20:15.703 I don't. 00:20:16.085 --> 00:20:16.908 You don't listen to them. 00:20:19.261 --> 00:20:20.307 I used to listen to Wale. 00:20:20.307 --> 00:20:24.492 Is it bad that I never made I used to listen to Wale. 00:20:24.492 --> 00:20:25.999 Is it bad that I never made? 00:20:25.999 --> 00:20:31.609 I used to listen to Wale, but, like coming up, I will always listen to Shot Glizzy or Fat Trail. 00:20:32.561 --> 00:20:33.702 Yeah, they trail code. 00:20:33.702 --> 00:20:36.591 Shot Glizzy code, he still fly, he still fly. 00:20:36.591 --> 00:20:37.333 Yeah, fat Trail. 00:20:37.860 --> 00:20:39.727 I haven't heard no new Shot Glizzy because he been. 00:20:39.747 --> 00:20:40.590 Shout out to Phone too. 00:20:40.590 --> 00:20:46.612 I did a, we did a song, but I think he still liked that Free phone, big phone. 00:20:46.612 --> 00:20:47.162 He was a. 00:20:47.162 --> 00:20:51.240 We did a song, but he did a video to it and everything. 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:52.883 Was he a part of Trell's group With. 00:20:52.903 --> 00:20:53.565 Trell yeah. 00:20:53.924 --> 00:20:55.347 Short yeah, muslim. 00:20:57.010 --> 00:20:58.354 Tatted up Light skin. 00:20:58.354 --> 00:21:08.505 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. 00:21:09.226 --> 00:21:09.706 So yeah, trail glizzy. 00:21:10.125 --> 00:21:10.326 That's two. 00:21:10.326 --> 00:21:10.787 No, no, pass, pass. 00:21:10.787 --> 00:21:13.549 Okay, so three, you got three, you're missing two. 00:21:14.571 --> 00:21:15.490 Who else? 00:21:15.490 --> 00:21:18.153 Oh, you know what Rico Nasty. 00:21:18.314 --> 00:21:20.816 Fire Rico, fire, god damn. 00:21:20.816 --> 00:21:22.831 Yeah, fire Rico, nasty Rico, super Fire. 00:21:22.852 --> 00:21:23.319 That fire, God damn Fire. 00:21:26.250 --> 00:21:27.316 Rico nasty. 00:21:32.092 --> 00:21:32.513 Rico super fire. 00:21:32.513 --> 00:21:34.378 That's four. 00:21:34.378 --> 00:21:38.314 I don't know. 00:21:38.314 --> 00:21:39.000 Give me one Wale. 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:43.188 I'm not going to shit on Wale. 00:21:43.188 --> 00:21:46.033 Wale had a good upcoming. 00:21:46.394 --> 00:21:46.614 Yeah. 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.144 I remember seeing Wale as one of his performances when he really had no name. 00:21:52.924 --> 00:21:55.670 Oh Brent, oh Brent, brent, fias. 00:21:55.910 --> 00:21:56.532 He's from here. 00:21:56.632 --> 00:21:57.113 Yeah. 00:21:57.393 --> 00:21:57.994 I didn't know that. 00:21:57.994 --> 00:21:59.442 Oh, you know another one. 00:21:59.442 --> 00:22:00.265 What's her name? 00:22:00.265 --> 00:22:00.866 You know girl from here. 00:22:00.866 --> 00:22:02.090 It's a girl. 00:22:02.090 --> 00:22:03.472 What's her name? 00:22:03.472 --> 00:22:04.937 It's a girl, what's her name? 00:22:04.937 --> 00:22:05.258 She sings R&B. 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:08.728 She was with Dreamville Ari Lennox. 00:22:08.949 --> 00:22:09.410 Ari Lennox. 00:22:10.221 --> 00:22:11.348 She ain't with Dreamville, no more. 00:22:11.470 --> 00:22:11.793 She not. 00:22:11.793 --> 00:22:12.700 Oh yeah, she's independent now. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:17.991 They just like just you know, separated, but they did it on good terms. 00:22:18.011 --> 00:22:26.761 They still good Right after the Dreamville, the Dreamville, they make me a little scared to sign to a label, Like everybody go independent now. 00:22:26.782 --> 00:22:33.369 Well, I think what it is is because the contracts that they signing it don't be feasible for them. 00:22:33.369 --> 00:22:35.644 But they do. 00:22:35.644 --> 00:22:39.047 They turn to whatever year that it is, and then they want to go independent. 00:22:39.047 --> 00:22:41.148 They figure the rules I mean the game out. 00:22:41.148 --> 00:22:42.462 They figure the business out. 00:22:42.663 --> 00:22:45.370 I wonder what it's like if I figured out the game now, before I get there. 00:22:45.370 --> 00:22:47.144 Yeah, I still going to want that label. 00:22:47.259 --> 00:22:53.660 I think to me honestly, if it works for you, go to a major, you know what I mean. 00:22:53.660 --> 00:22:58.283 And then, once you done there, you know how to do it independently. 00:22:58.283 --> 00:22:59.625 Go independent like Boosie and them. 00:22:59.625 --> 00:23:02.693 You know what I'm saying, but like what makes you independent, though? 00:23:02.713 --> 00:23:05.019 Like because you're doing your own shows and dropping

stuff? 00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:06.928 You have to book everything marketing. 00:23:06.928 --> 00:23:08.644 That's what I'm doing now. 00:23:09.301 --> 00:23:10.373 Dolph was doing all of that. 00:23:10.373 --> 00:23:11.000 Like you know what I'm saying. 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:19.006 He had big record labels trying to sign him, but he was but he wasn't. 00:23:19.006 --> 00:23:21.870 I thought he independent, because that's just the publishing deal you know what I'm saying. 00:23:21.870 --> 00:23:25.654 Like you're not signed to an actual label, you're doing everything on your own. 00:23:25.654 --> 00:23:26.657 The publishing is your. 00:23:26.657 --> 00:23:27.197 You know what I mean. 00:23:27.218 --> 00:23:42.973 Whatever publishing deal you got on the side, okay, and then you know, like when you when you in that type of game you know what I'm saying, Because you- got it. 00:23:42.973 --> 00:23:47.248 Costs to pay to play it costs to be recording. 00:23:47.248 --> 00:23:48.808 It costs to travel. 00:23:49.539 --> 00:23:59.222 It costs to everything Like you know what I'm saying the marketing Like, if you want, if you want your joint to go crazy on the reels, you got to pay Instagram, facebook. 00:23:59.242 --> 00:24:00.004 You got to pay them. 00:24:00.004 --> 00:24:02.668 You got to TikTok. 00:24:02.668 --> 00:24:05.112 What's them little Instagram accounts that be doing promo? 00:24:05.292 --> 00:24:07.255 Yeah, the promo accounts, the little promo pages. 00:24:07.255 --> 00:24:09.439 Like you know what I'm saying, it's so much out there. 00:24:09.439 --> 00:24:10.019 And then the only. 00:24:10.019 --> 00:24:12.028 Thing is like what's real and what's fake. 00:24:12.592 --> 00:24:16.449 Oh, the ones who be buying followers and likes and those going to be real. 00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:19.444 Now you done wasted your money and they only be having like two likes. 00:24:19.444 --> 00:24:21.828 Uh-huh, one of them don't always match. 00:24:21.828 --> 00:24:22.691 Yeah, some don't match. 00:24:22.770 --> 00:24:24.212 I always check the followers first. 00:24:24.212 --> 00:24:25.194 They'll always be fake. 00:24:25.194 --> 00:24:31.144 People get a blue check and be having 12K followers they're not even real people and then you could tell by the likes. 00:24:31.144 --> 00:24:32.249 It'd be like 40 likes. 00:24:32.249 --> 00:24:33.986 I'd be like oh damn, it's a fake page. 00:24:34.086 --> 00:24:44.981 Yep, all right, so we got the five where the shots come in at. 00:24:44.981 --> 00:24:44.895 I do. 00:24:44.895 --> 00:24:45.038 I think I owe you a shot because I couldn't get some. 00:24:45.038 --> 00:24:45.305 No, this is, I still got mine. 00:24:45.305 --> 00:24:45.539 This is where the shots come in at. 00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:49.716 You got to pick between two artists, right, you ready? 00:24:49.716 --> 00:24:54.178 Okay, kendra Mann, meg Thee Stallion. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:56.282 Meg again. 00:24:56.582 --> 00:24:56.883 Meg. 00:24:56.883 --> 00:24:58.787 Okay. 00:24:58.787 --> 00:25:02.624 Ari Lennox or SZA, sza. 00:25:02.624 --> 00:25:24.886 Okay, wale or J Cole Damn, you can take a shot if you plead the fifth Shout out to Drink Champs too, because this was the dopest thing that they ever did. 00:25:24.886 --> 00:25:26.351 Like on they show Cool. 00:25:28.136 --> 00:25:28.278 Damn. 00:25:28.278 --> 00:25:31.410 Everybody's gonna say J Cole. 00:25:31.410 --> 00:25:38.738 Yeah, I like them both, but if I had to say who I listen to more, it would probably be Wale More than it has been J Cole. 00:25:38.738 --> 00:25:41.080 I'm not like everybody else. 00:25:41.381 --> 00:25:43.241 I mean she from here, though I'm from here, though you, cole, I'm not like everybody else. 00:25:43.241 --> 00:25:44.759 I mean she from here, though I'm from here, though you know what I mean I like. 00:25:44.778 --> 00:25:49.226 J Cole Some songs I know and, but I came up on Wale. 00:25:49.620 --> 00:25:50.981 I heard him more than I did J Cole. 00:25:50.981 --> 00:25:51.523 I understand that. 00:25:51.523 --> 00:25:54.665 I understand that it go a hard one though. 00:25:55.007 --> 00:25:55.787 Uh-oh. 00:25:56.188 --> 00:25:56.949 It go a hard one. 00:25:56.949 --> 00:25:58.611 R R&B singers. 00:25:59.392 --> 00:26:00.353 Right, I like R&B. 00:26:00.353 --> 00:26:03.697 Come on Tank and we. 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:06.283 Or Trey Songz. 00:26:09.369 --> 00:26:10.833 I'm going to say Trey. 00:26:11.596 --> 00:26:11.836 Trey. 00:26:12.085 --> 00:26:13.968 Because Trey had me singing my heart out back in the day. 00:26:13.988 --> 00:26:19.536 Okay, yeah, you going to say, tank, what you was going to ask? 00:26:19.536 --> 00:26:25.307 Oh, there's no, we just this Q&A, this Q&A. 00:26:26.966 --> 00:26:27.768 Who got more hits? 00:26:28.189 --> 00:26:33.795 We ain't talking about hits, we just Q&A, q&a who you, and if you don't wanna pick, you just take the shot. 00:26:34.548 --> 00:26:36.944 I think the old Trey he ain't got no new music. 00:26:37.066 --> 00:26:37.875 Yeah, he ain't got no new music. 00:26:37.875 --> 00:26:38.805 I'm sorry he don't. 00:26:38.805 --> 00:26:40.111 He don't got no new music. 00:26:40.111 --> 00:26:41.930 I mean, do he really he can live off that? 00:26:42.246 --> 00:26:44.033 He's living off of what he had back then. 00:26:44.033 --> 00:26:45.187 Yeah, cause all them shit Was hit. 00:26:45.207 --> 00:26:50.314 They were I'm going to hit you with an underground one. 00:26:50.314 --> 00:27:06.317 Sauce Walker, you ready, sauce Walker? 00:27:06.978 --> 00:27:07.519 or Thug. 00:27:07.798 --> 00:27:07.899 Or. 00:27:07.939 --> 00:27:08.861 Thug, yeah, thug. 00:27:11.555 --> 00:27:11.694 Thug. 00:27:11.694 --> 00:27:12.988 Sauce Walker cold. 00:27:12.988 --> 00:27:14.580 Though, hey, sauce Walker cold, he ain't going to take it from me, right, all right. 00:27:14.580 --> 00:27:14.902 Sonswalker Code. 00:27:14.902 --> 00:27:15.225 Sonswalker Code. 00:27:15.225 --> 00:27:33.853 I ain't gonna

take it from you alright, so here going one more JD, jermaine, dupri or Diddy oh go ahead, man, go ahead. 00:27:33.874 --> 00:27:36.123 Why the fuck would you do that to me? 00:27:36.123 --> 00:27:36.565 Go ahead, man, go ahead. 00:27:36.565 --> 00:27:38.394 Why the fuck would you do that to me? 00:27:38.394 --> 00:27:39.703 Hey, you told me to come up with this Q&A. 00:27:39.703 --> 00:27:41.851 Now I'm going to hit you with a curveball. 00:27:41.851 --> 00:27:45.971 Oh my God, you taking a shot, or are you picking? 00:27:47.505 --> 00:27:49.990 Wait, what's the JD? 00:27:51.452 --> 00:27:51.953 Or Diddy. 00:27:51.953 --> 00:27:54.399 That's all I'm saying Like best producer, jd or Diddy. 00:27:54.399 --> 00:28:06.976 That's all I'm saying Like best producer, jd or Diddy, because my personal I'll tell you after, but my personal opinion on it is it's going to be far to this side. 00:28:07.266 --> 00:28:13.567 I'm not going to end my career before it gets started, so I'm just going to take a shot, take a shot, all right take a shot. 00:28:13.567 --> 00:28:15.610 Take a shot. 00:28:15.610 --> 00:28:19.255 Alright, take a shot. 00:28:19.476 --> 00:28:20.317 I hit you with that one. 00:28:20.317 --> 00:28:21.538 Here we go. 00:28:21.538 --> 00:28:22.319 Another curveball. 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:30.184 I only got a little bit left. 00:28:30.184 --> 00:28:31.154 Gotta go with the times. 00:28:31.154 --> 00:28:40.290 So we're going to go with 90s, 90s R&B or 2000s R&B, from 90 to 99? 00:28:40.290 --> 00:28:40.813 2000. 00:28:40.904 --> 00:28:42.248 2000 to 2009. 00:28:43.229 --> 00:28:50.009 2000s Okay, all right, so you know who Aaron Hall is. 00:28:50.009 --> 00:28:53.404 No, okay, so I ain't gonna get you the Aaron Hall is. 00:28:53.444 --> 00:28:53.485 No. 00:28:54.286 --> 00:29:10.853 Okay, so I ain't going to get you the Aaron Hall one I don't take it too bad what about Aaliyah or you ready. 00:29:10.853 --> 00:29:12.056 Who you going to do. 00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:24.392 Who you going Erykah Badu, aaliyah, or Erykah Badu that lady? 00:29:24.392 --> 00:29:29.755 I'm going with Erykah Erykah, all right, one more, one more. 00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:34.135 This one might be the one of them all. 00:29:34.135 --> 00:29:46.372 Do I want to go R&B or do I want to go hip-hop? 00:29:47.548 --> 00:29:52.731 Well, I mean, if you're saying 2000s, you might as well say R&B, because we really had too much hip-hop in 2000s. 00:29:52.731 --> 00:29:53.725 We had a plet too much hip-hop in 2000s. 00:29:54.225 --> 00:29:56.950 We had a plethora of hip-hop in 2000s. 00:29:56.971 --> 00:29:58.073 I'm trying to think, wayne. 00:29:58.513 --> 00:29:59.275 Mixtape Wayne. 00:29:59.275 --> 00:30:01.860 Okay, wayne, jeezy Gucci. 00:30:01.860 --> 00:30:03.908 That right there. 00:30:03.908 --> 00:30:04.590 That's all you need. 00:30:04.630 --> 00:30:05.653 I'm still a Gucci fan. 00:30:05.653 --> 00:30:08.748 You know what you might be right, gucci, or? 00:30:09.489 --> 00:30:10.991 Jeezy Gucci TI 50. 00:30:11.011 --> 00:30:14.076 Ti was oh okay, we did, we did, we did. 00:30:14.076 --> 00:30:16.259 Maybe it's the alcohol. 00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:19.834 So you gonna go with Joe. 00:30:19.834 --> 00:30:20.417 Joe who Fat Joe. 00:30:20.437 --> 00:30:21.221 No, the singer. 00:30:21.221 --> 00:30:24.413 Who the fuck is Joe? 00:30:24.413 --> 00:30:25.960 You don't know Joe. 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:27.326 Who is Joe? 00:30:27.326 --> 00:30:29.551 Nah, you don't know who Joe is. 00:30:29.551 --> 00:30:33.297 You gotta know who Joe is I don't know who. 00:30:33.297 --> 00:30:33.878 Joe is. 00:30:33.878 --> 00:30:34.659 You gotta know who Joe is. 00:30:34.659 --> 00:30:35.000 I don't know. 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:35.760 God knows who Joe is. 00:30:36.302 --> 00:30:36.903 Who is Joe? 00:30:38.527 --> 00:30:38.807 Sing. 00:30:38.807 --> 00:30:39.708 I'm gonna play it. 00:30:40.990 --> 00:30:43.413 I wanna know him. 00:30:43.413 --> 00:30:45.278 You gotta at least sing the song. 00:30:45.518 --> 00:30:49.594 Yeah, but you know that song right, yes, or R Kelly, r Kelly. 00:30:55.466 --> 00:30:56.008 Piss my. 00:30:56.871 --> 00:30:57.132 Huh. 00:30:58.636 --> 00:30:59.117 R Kelly. 00:30:59.901 --> 00:31:01.144 R Kelly, it's chaos. 00:31:01.144 --> 00:31:04.796 Ain't nobody messing with Robert dog Chaos? 00:31:05.884 --> 00:31:12.498 He done, did some fucked up shit, but his pen is undefeated Artistically. 00:31:12.498 --> 00:31:14.268 He's creative. 00:31:14.989 --> 00:31:15.790 R&B wise. 00:31:16.833 --> 00:31:17.314 Musically. 00:31:18.477 --> 00:31:19.018 He's up there. 00:31:19.018 --> 00:31:20.548 Like he's there, I agree. 00:31:20.548 --> 00:31:23.054 You know what I mean. 00:31:23.054 --> 00:31:25.729 All right, so that was our Q&A. 00:31:25.729 --> 00:31:26.753 Take a shot. 00:31:26.753 --> 00:31:28.731 Name the artist or take a shot. 00:31:28.731 --> 00:31:36.634 Let's talk about this project, what you expect out of it, how many tracks you got. 00:31:38.125 --> 00:31:40.613 I think I got eight. 00:31:42.710 --> 00:31:43.270 Eight tracks. 00:31:43.270 --> 00:31:49.551 Eight tracks what audience, or what are you trying to give to the audience? 00:31:50.153 --> 00:31:57.815 What you trying to give, I want this project to be like a summer anthem for the women. 00:31:57.815 --> 00:31:58.376 Ladies. 00:31:59.225 --> 00:32:00.430 So it's a bunch of anthems on there. 00:32:00.430 --> 00:32:01.153 It is. 00:32:01.153 --> 00:32:03.431 You got a listening party coming up, right. 00:32:03.771 --> 00:32:04.473 I do. 00:32:04.473 --> 00:32:05.076 What date is that? 00:32:05.076 --> 00:32:07.152 May 23rd? 00:32:07.152 --> 00:32:15.311 So far for my event, I've only sent out personal invites for my RSVPs, but I think I'm going to drop the—. 00:32:16.786 --> 00:32:17.690 You got to send one to him too. 00:32:17.690 --> 00:32:20.625 Okay, you coming, you got to send one to P. 00:32:20.644 --> 00:32:22.950 P, I mean Sammy aka P.

00:32:22.950 --> 00:32:26.097 Okay, For sure. 00:32:26.664 --> 00:32:28.352 May 23rd, you got this listening party. 00:32:28.352 --> 00:32:35.039 I'm mad, because normally you would send me something, so it's like I'm waiting to hear what it sound like too. 00:32:36.509 --> 00:32:37.553 I want y'all to be surprised. 00:32:38.405 --> 00:32:39.331 But I'm okay with that. 00:32:39.765 --> 00:32:49.457 The reason I want everybody to be surprised is because y'all heard Pretty Bitch and you heard Real Bitch and every other song, but you ain't heard nothing like this. 00:32:49.457 --> 00:32:52.152 I tapped into something different. 00:32:53.275 --> 00:32:54.116 What's um? 00:32:54.116 --> 00:32:58.930 What are the eight songs you got on here, Mm-hmm? 00:32:58.930 --> 00:33:01.933 What's your favorite one and why? 00:33:04.959 --> 00:33:09.750 Um, I'll say the first one I'm gonna drop, which is this how I'm Comin'. 00:33:09.750 --> 00:33:21.215 It's lettin', you know, like I ain't been puttin' music out in a minute y'all, but when I come on this project, I'm coming harder than what you ever heard before. 00:33:21.215 --> 00:33:23.029 It's a different energy. 00:33:23.029 --> 00:33:24.832 It's different from what you heard in the city. 00:33:25.449 --> 00:33:29.729 I don't really ever compare my music to anybody from out here, no disrespect intended. 00:33:29.729 --> 00:33:30.049 It's different. 00:33:30.049 --> 00:33:33.757 It's a disrespect intended, it's different. 00:33:33.757 --> 00:33:34.798 It's a different vibe. 00:33:34.798 --> 00:33:35.379 It's a fun vibe. 00:33:35.379 --> 00:33:43.134 It's just something that nobody heard from me and I have different things going on on each track. 00:33:43.134 --> 00:33:45.814 Like I got some talking about niggas. 00:33:45.814 --> 00:33:47.932 I got some talking about niggas and females. 00:33:47.932 --> 00:33:50.314 I got personal songs on there. 00:33:50.314 --> 00:33:51.990 I got freaky songs on there. 00:33:51.990 --> 00:33:55.860 I got all types of shit You're going to vibe either way, but it's all anthems for the summer. 00:33:55.880 --> 00:34:00.452 It's all anthems, I think so, for the summer and beyond, when you drop your top down, you're going to be cranky. 00:34:00.452 --> 00:34:09.886 Now the question Because I'm real big on, like you know, I love music, but what songs do you feel like you can see on TV? 00:34:09.886 --> 00:34:14.029 Because I'm big on like sync, I love sync. 00:34:14.029 --> 00:34:16.592 I'm still pushing to get into sync, right. 00:34:17.793 --> 00:34:18.833 I have one. 00:34:19.514 --> 00:34:20.614 Just one out of eight? 00:34:20.614 --> 00:34:22.536 I beg to differ. 00:34:22.536 --> 00:34:24.297 I already know there's going to be some drinks. 00:34:24.297 --> 00:34:24.737 I'm like yo. 00:34:24.757 --> 00:34:31.083 this definitely can be on Each song can go on TV depending on the platform. 00:34:31.083 --> 00:34:39.649 Like, if you put me on some P-Valley or put me on some baddies intros like that. 00:34:39.669 --> 00:34:40.793 So look, here's the crazy part. 00:34:41.286 --> 00:34:43.514 I definitely kill that with this project you ever seen the Recruit? 00:34:44.201 --> 00:34:44.484 No, what's that? 00:34:44.484 --> 00:34:45.306 It's on Netflix. 00:34:45.306 --> 00:34:46.029 I've been watching it. 00:34:46.029 --> 00:34:46.811 I'm on season two. 00:34:47.192 --> 00:34:47.533 Okay. 00:34:47.814 --> 00:34:48.015 They. 00:34:48.015 --> 00:34:53.952 I always put it like this don't ever underestimate your sound. 00:34:53.952 --> 00:34:56.129 Yeah, because P-Valley. 00:34:56.129 --> 00:35:02.336 Yes, that definitely fit, but the Recruit is about, like CIA agents and lawyers. 00:35:02.724 --> 00:35:04.692 But they have, like when they about to go to work and go see. 00:35:05.125 --> 00:35:06.089 Yeah, and I'm listening. 00:35:06.089 --> 00:35:08.509 I'm like hold on, Are you playing Billie? 00:35:08.649 --> 00:35:10.188 Eilish, it don't make sense. 00:35:10.188 --> 00:35:15.987 Sometimes I be looking at that too, like when I watch certain shows or like movies. 00:35:15.987 --> 00:35:19.964 When they got like gun scenes and they about to go hard on the scene, I'm like, damn, my song would sound fire on this part. 00:35:19.964 --> 00:35:21.069 When they come through the door, like. 00:35:21.069 --> 00:35:22.622 Yeah that's what I'm saying. 00:35:22.622 --> 00:35:33.279 I like shit like that, like Power that would be fire it goes Mm-hmm, because you might only think P-Valley. 00:35:33.279 --> 00:35:37.375 I think that because they're like fun songs for girls. 00:35:37.394 --> 00:35:38.297 They're fun records. 00:35:39.425 --> 00:35:42.375 I do got a personal song on there. 00:35:42.375 --> 00:35:45.292 It's one that's catered to my son. 00:35:45.292 --> 00:35:51.607 Yeah, I feel like that can go for different types of things too, but mainly this project is fun. 00:35:52.227 --> 00:35:55.451 Well, before we get out of here, let's do. 00:35:55.451 --> 00:36:00.596 You know, I always do my tools, the gems, but before we do the gems, let's do. 00:36:00.596 --> 00:36:03.719 It's called like Build-A-Bear, like Build-A-Artist. 00:36:03.919 --> 00:36:04.260 Okay. 00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:05.161 Let's Build-A-Artist. 00:36:05.161 --> 00:36:12.772 So from lyrics like if you was to build an artist, it could be anybody. 00:36:12.772 --> 00:36:16.750 It can be anybody that you want to write the song, anybody you want to produce the song. 00:36:16.750 --> 00:36:17.794 You know what I mean? 00:36:19.428 --> 00:36:22.164 I'm going to go down the line of building an artist Like. 00:36:22.205 --> 00:36:26.136 the first thing is who would you want to write the song? 00:36:26.136 --> 00:36:31.514 Any artist, or you, even you. 00:36:34.745 --> 00:36:37.872 If he was still living, I'd say Young Dolph who Young Dolph? 00:36:38.193 --> 00:36:39.317 Dolph Okay. 00:36:39.317 --> 00:36:40.949 Great writer Dolph to write the song. 00:36:40.949 -->

00:36:45.570 Who is the style to perform the song? 00:36:45.570 --> 00:36:46.731 Who going to perform it? 00:36:49.556 --> 00:36:56.608 Hmm, female, I'm going to go with Megan. 00:36:56.808 --> 00:36:57.190 Meg Mm-hmm. 00:36:58.153 --> 00:36:58.494 All right. 00:36:58.625 --> 00:37:02.593 So you got Dolph as the writer, Meg as the performer. 00:37:02.914 --> 00:37:03.234 Mm-hmm. 00:37:03.695 --> 00:37:07.284 Who's the style, who's styling that person Like? 00:37:07.284 --> 00:37:09.011 Who's style you taking from? 00:37:09.493 --> 00:37:10.216 Tiana Taylor. 00:37:10.496 --> 00:37:12.464 Tiana, yeah, tiana Taylor fire. 00:37:12.504 --> 00:37:14.264 I love the tomboy look. 00:37:14.364 --> 00:37:16.090 Yeah, with the Jordan ones Her body fire. 00:37:16.170 --> 00:37:16.893 Yeah, her body fire. 00:37:16.893 --> 00:37:17.755 That's more my style. 00:37:17.755 --> 00:37:19.739 I feel more comfortable dressed like that. 00:37:19.739 --> 00:37:20.304 Yeah, okay. 00:37:20.465 --> 00:37:26.413 So Tiana Taylor, with the style, who is the producer of the record? 00:37:28.076 --> 00:37:32.456 Hmm, she Big Cuz, big Cuz All right, big Cousin, big Cousin. 00:37:32.477 --> 00:37:35.432 All right, big Cousin, shout out to Big Cousin, shout out to him. 00:37:35.432 --> 00:37:39.413 So we got, we got Dolph writing it. 00:37:39.753 --> 00:37:40.014 Uh-huh. 00:37:40.564 --> 00:37:48.244 Meg performing it Uh-huh, tiana Taylor styling it Uh-huh and Big Cousin producing it Made the artist. 00:37:48.244 --> 00:37:54.434 That's a tough artist, right there, right, that's how you build a test that's a tough all right before we get out of here. 00:37:54.434 --> 00:37:59.087 You know we always got the gym class, no matter where we at um also shout out to kitchen. 00:37:59.087 --> 00:38:02.913 The kitchen, dmv yes this dope area. 00:38:03.293 --> 00:38:04.777 Um for the podcast. 00:38:04.777 --> 00:38:18.030 Um, what is a gym that you learned from doing this album that you can give to the other artists out there female artists, male artists, any artists out there to store in their toolbox? 00:38:18.893 --> 00:38:19.495 Keep going. 00:38:19.495 --> 00:38:33.048 You're going to come across a lot of complicated things in your process that might feel like it's slowing you down or you might feel like you don't want to do it anymore, but just to keep going. 00:38:33.048 --> 00:38:40.533 Every, every day, literally since I've started this project, I have had so many downs and I just be like there's no way. 00:38:40.533 --> 00:38:49.968 I'm gonna see this through, like I'm not gonna get this project done, but like the more I keep going, the more I see it's getting accomplished off my checklist, off my whiteboard, and I'm like, all right, we almost there. 00:38:49.968 --> 00:38:52.553 Just keep pushing because you don't know what the end is going to be. 00:38:52.553 --> 00:38:54.056 It could be a good ending Like I'll come. 00:38:54.476 --> 00:38:55.077 That's a fact. 00:38:55.077 --> 00:38:55.919 Keep going, Don't. 00:38:55.919 --> 00:38:57.836 I think Pharrell said it. 00:38:57.836 --> 00:39:00.009 I seen it on Instagram a couple weeks ago. 00:39:00.009 --> 00:39:03.531 He was like just keep going, Keep creating. 00:39:06.368 --> 00:39:14.640 It sounds easier Because when you got life going on and you trying to focus on like your dream, it's like it don't really reality, don't seem like this. 00:39:14.784 --> 00:39:17.371 It's like where can I place my dream with all of this, With? 00:39:17.471 --> 00:39:17.852 all of this. 00:39:17.852 --> 00:39:19.156 You got bills, you got kids. 00:39:19.156 --> 00:39:23.531 You got this coming to you left and right Family, friends, foes. 00:39:23.531 --> 00:39:25.910 We got a lot of shit going on, so it's hard to keep going. 00:39:33.464 --> 00:39:35.043 But if you stay focused and just keep going like, like see you through alright, so Taz we got May 23rd, the listening party. 00:39:35.043 --> 00:39:36.692 We got confessionals dropping when we dropping it. 00:39:36.692 --> 00:39:39.454 May 23rd are we dropping it on May 23rd too? 00:39:39.655 --> 00:39:42.567 the listening party and the drop is May 23rd album drop. 00:39:42.586 --> 00:39:43.370 May 23rd. 00:39:43.370 --> 00:39:44.596 Go get that. 00:39:44.596 --> 00:39:45.540 Make sure y'all go get that. 00:39:45.540 --> 00:39:51.966 Like comment, share, subscribe and follow me and follow Taz we gonna put that down here. 00:39:52.067 --> 00:39:53.693 It's gonna be, it's gonna be down there. 00:39:53.693 --> 00:39:55.653 It's gonna be down there like that. 00:39:55.694 --> 00:39:57.724 L-o-v-e-t-a-z we gone like that.