The Real Grind: Don Dolla 500 on Happiness, Hustle, and Hip-Hop - I Will Not Lose Podcast - #0057

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[00:00:08.270] Good morning, good evening, good night, good afternoon.
[00:00:10.850] Don't give me copyright flag, though.
[00:00:14.740] No, no, no, you can cut this out.
[00:00:19.290] I sounded like a zombie.
[00:00:21.610] Just.
[00:00:24.190] Yeah, in order to grow, you got to have like some kind of goals.
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[00:00:56.630] baby failure can be frightening however as winston churchill reminds us success is all about going
[00:01:02.790] from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm this is i will not lose podcast where we set out
[00:01:08.470] to prove everything is learned from failure and we must persevere and recognize it as one step
[00:01:13.090] closer to success. I'm your host, Tony Ortiz. Let's jump right in.
[00:01:39.540] What's going on, man? Good to see you. Good to see you, man. Good to be here, man.
[00:01:47.240] got don dollar 500 in the building you already know man i will not lose do say dawn man legendary
[00:01:54.800] dawn man dawn soprano man oh man so we're gonna get into i'm just gonna roll off the intro and
[00:02:01.200] then we'll jump right in man been a great conversation before we got started actually
[00:02:05.880] we were on the phone and my phone just shut off said it got too hot so i was like man i hope these
[00:02:11.700] cameras don't overheat man it's gonna be fire but don dollar is a rapper coming out of allentown
[00:02:19.330] really people would would say you're always in the top five wherever you fall or wherever they
[00:02:27.020] give it a lot of people hold you and some may disagree but they hold you as one of the best
[00:02:33.600] out here you know i just appreciate it man you know i just i appreciate it definitely you know
[00:02:40.080] It's always an honor every time anybody give you that type of praise, you feel me, or a type of accolade and shit like that, you know what I mean?
[00:02:47.280] But, you know, I ain't go for top five or nothing like that, you know what I'm saying?
[00:02:51.600] I go for the best, but not just here, just anywhere, you feel me?
[00:02:55.240] So you just want to be the best doing what you do.
[00:02:57.700] So I try to do that, and hopefully I get respected for what I do.
[00:03:03.420] For sure, for sure.
[00:03:04.360] But I wanted to know, like, what does success mean to you?
[00:03:07.760] like you said you weren't really shooting to be the in the top five or whatever you know just
[00:03:13.400] the best yeah that entail i mean success in general just is is really just like a um
[00:03:21.780] it's a self thing to be honest success is like happiness to me like success is where
[00:03:28.010] when you sit back in your life and you reflect especially at that moment um you like you feel
[00:03:37.470] good about it that's success to me like that's that's success whatever you're doing it don't
[00:03:43.280] really matter like you don't that's not money and tail like you know i'm saying when you're
[00:03:47.640] sitting you're looking at you're in the mirror or you're chilling and you know you had that moment
[00:03:51.600] where you're just like ah and you're just thinking about life about where you at and you can you know
[00:03:58.760] sometimes you might get sad because shit might not be how you want it to be you feel me but if not
[00:04:05.000] if you feel good you feel happy you feel blessed you success you successful for me sure for sure
[00:04:12.150] for sure now if you're blessed and healthy and stuff there's a lot of things if you're grateful
[00:04:16.470] i think a lot of it comes from gratitude if you're at a point where you can be grateful
[00:04:20.250] now if you're like the fuck man the light bulbs out i can't get a new light bulb like
[00:04:25.810] fucking fridge don't work whatever it is i don't know whatever people are going through like
[00:04:31.210] sometimes you just don't got a dryer right now yeah gotta take wet clothes to the laundry and
[00:04:38.050] you're tired about that so i mean as long as you could be in a place where you're grateful and
[00:04:43.210] stuff like that that's a fact though i mean that's what i feel that's what i feel about success but
[00:04:48.790] um you had a line in confessions where you ended the verse it stuck out to me can't be a loss if
[00:04:56.210] there's a lesson yeah i'm like this this is definitely something we could talk about my
[00:05:01.050] listeners would appreciate in terms of finding their own success and figuring out you know
[00:05:06.470] hearing other people because the reason why i brought up the it's not even for clout and i
[00:05:12.470] don't get into those lists there's plenty of people in different lanes that do stuff and
[00:05:16.530] they're all just people's opinion facts you know but it's entertaining it's fun to see that it
[00:05:21.910] lights everybody up and everybody starts dropping singles like yeah like yeah listen to me listen to
[00:05:27.490] me people drop yeah no i think it's great but i decided to have a platform to kind of put stuff
[00:05:34.610] out and so i don't put anybody one guest above another or anything oh yeah no definitely not
[00:05:40.170] it just it brings the idea of like you know how you said essentially success is wherever you see
[00:05:51.730] it you understand a lot of people look at you and think of that as success you see the fan base
[00:05:57.910] they see you know i mean i could see that you know you that's life we always is like that you
[00:06:04.510] know i mean it's like you're in the gym and you know i'm saying you're working out you look at
[00:06:08.170] oh boy he got his you know i'm saying you got the certain weights on your shit his shit he got
[00:06:12.490] double that you're like oh shit i'm trying to get well boy yeah it'd be like that you know i'm
[00:06:17.150] saying but you don't know what he got what he putting in and then how much he had to put in
[00:06:20.910] to get there that's how i go so it ain't about nothing you know the success like i said success
[00:06:26.030] is where you see it so if niggas see this as success then when they get here they gonna be
[00:06:31.070] happy as fuck you know what i'm saying for sure for sure but i me i always been as far as like
[00:06:37.230] just being like you know having you know a few followers and shit like that like i'm i always
[00:06:44.290] have people that seen me this before the internet era so i just gotta work now i'm learning how to
[00:06:49.150] work the internet era but i always been lit in life like i always been the guy you know what
[00:06:54.010] i'm saying so it didn't matter and it was the was the bronx whether it was stevenson whether it was
[00:06:59.190] you know i'm saying roosevelt don't matter out here downtown don't matter where i go i always
[00:07:04.810] been the man job call so i've always been i always been oh your niggas rap over here
[00:07:10.570] and when i rap i'm top five or i'm the best you know what i'm saying that's how i always kind of
[00:07:16.200] been so i ain't never really trip off that i just kind of want to be able to harness um like you
[00:07:22.420] know a fan base is you know it's hard to measure sometimes you know i'm saying so you want to you
[00:07:28.760] want to know who your true fans is so that's why i wasn't really going consistently and doing shit
[00:07:33.700] so you know i had a lot of people that supported me with this shit but i didn't really go consistent
[00:07:37.360] i didn't really take it that serious so now i'm trying to take it more serious and now i'm trying
[00:07:42.420] to harness the fan base and feed them and do everything proper high quality and do everything
[00:07:48.160] right you know i'm saying and harness that so you could make a living off of it because that's the
[00:07:53.040] goal for me you know i mean everybody different but the goal for me is to to make a living off
[00:07:57.600] of what i what i'm doing of my skills and shit like that be able to focus more time on that i
[00:08:01.920] mean that's all making a living is you're still doing something eight to ten hours a day yeah
[00:08:06.300] it's just that you know it fits but how's that in the internet era keeping up with putting out
[00:08:11.940] hot quality content like you remember back in 2005 he put out an album maybe every two years
[00:08:18.660] or something now like they want tracks every day they want reels it's different man it's a different
[00:08:23.560] um my manager be on me about shit and i'm learning you feel me i'm learning and i mean i don't mind
[00:08:30.360] it i don't mind it as much you feel me i mean but uh i just ain't that type of nigga i ain't really
[00:08:35.640] a heavy camera nigga i'm like kind of anti-social like i'd rather chill but i do i'm gonna do what
[00:08:41.560] I need to do you feel me you know I'm saying I ain't shy I don't shy away from the moment or
[00:08:45.400] nothing but I ain't really into all this to stardom and shit like that that ain't really
[00:08:50.320] my swag you feel me I was like you know I always been popular or whatever but I ain't into that
[00:08:55.320] like that you feel me I'll be chilling you know what I mean but uh we've been shooting a lot of
[00:08:58.940] content though that's that's I mean it's fun to an extent you feel me like you just gotta build
[00:09:03.740] a team shit costs money like she gotta you know you gotta be on your on your grizzy you know
[00:09:08.000] i mean it's all like 11 people out there and that behind the scenes you just posted oh yeah yeah
[00:09:12.500] yeah you know i mean it was like a bunch of people just stopping by and beeping horns and
[00:09:16.180] shit like that but um but nah like it um even stuff like that content platforms doesn't even
[00:09:22.820] come in here like this is content you know what i'm saying so this is uh something like that every
[00:09:27.560] platform you know i'm not just gonna hit but um that's how i support people especially people i
[00:09:32.880] know you feel me and people on the rise you know hopefully you know this platform bring light to
[00:09:37.220] me i bring like to the platform and shit like that but definitely it's like all content you
[00:09:41.840] know i'm saying like everything like i know you're selective with your interviews too so i really
[00:09:46.100] appreciate you making time to come through you having me man here you know what i mean and it's
[00:09:51.080] it's the sort of content like we talked a little bit off camera about how i hate saying back in
[00:10:00.200] the day but back in the day you had like 116 that went and then people chopped it up on a different
[00:10:05.800] beat and then it would like it got mad rotation and radios are just playing a 16 yeah a little
[00:10:12.900] bit of content could go a long bit away you know what i mean yeah and it lasts longer back in the
[00:10:17.900] day but the songs is more quality like everybody did quality shit you don't get time to not to cut
[00:10:24.380] you off you don't get time to like tell your story until like you can in a 30 minute or a 45 minute
[00:10:31.580] album like you can in a 16 you just need like four good bars everything needs to connect yeah
[00:10:37.960] it's true you could tell you could tell a lot in a 16 you feel me it's a lot in a 16 and even back
[00:10:43.200] in the day it used to be three 16s like i don't know niggas might not remember that era but now
[00:10:49.460] we do two 16s you feel me so now my manager be like you know what's kind of shit kind of long
[00:10:54.220] scrap so i be like you know what i'm gonna stop doing three verses so i just stopped doing three
[00:11:00.700] verses like fuck it you know what i mean so now i gotta get my message across in two verses which
[00:11:06.300] back in the day used to have three you know what i mean so just you know a song that was uh four
[00:11:12.420] minutes was regular you feel me a song that was three minutes and 50 something like whatever
[00:11:17.640] now that shit a little that shit three minutes what the fuck they look down while they're
[00:11:24.700] listening to see how much this shit got a third verse like what we never used we used to like
[00:11:29.960] Yo man it was songs
[00:11:31.020] That had five verses
[00:11:32.260] Back in the day
[00:11:33.180] Used to be five rappers
[00:11:34.500] Hopping on one joint
[00:11:35.340] Yeah that's what I'm saying
[00:11:35.960] You feel me like
[00:11:36.420] We would love it
[00:11:37.220] I remember Touch It
[00:11:37.940] Remixes and shit like that
[00:11:39.260] Niggas would love that shit
[00:11:40.360] What
[00:11:40.660] It'd be mad rappers
[00:11:42.060] On that shit
[00:11:42.540] We'd just be like
[00:11:43.060] Oh word
[00:11:43.560] Got him on it
[00:11:44.320] Got her on it
[00:11:45.180] Word
[00:11:45.980] Keep them coming like
[00:11:47.300] Yeah Industry was doing that too
[00:11:49.160] Yeah
[00:11:49.660] But niggas rapped
[00:11:52.000] That's why
[00:11:52.700] That's why I'm
[00:11:53.640] I'm even doing it again too
[00:11:55.520] Is cause niggas rap again
[00:11:56.900] Nigga what they saying
[00:11:57.920] They want niggas to rap again
[00:11:59.280] Like
[00:12:00.700] It was a hit of time
[00:12:02.380] That's why I was chilling
[00:12:03.440] I was just chilling
[00:12:04.180] Cause it was like
[00:12:04.880] You know
[00:12:05.300] A hit of time with rap
[00:12:06.580] They ain't wanna
[00:12:07.240] They ain't appreciate
[00:12:08.520] If you was nice
[00:12:09.420] It was more about
[00:12:10.920] Either
[00:12:11.340] You know
[00:12:12.000] The bop
[00:12:12.940] You know
[00:12:14.200] The
[00:12:15.480] I don't know
[00:12:16.340] What the fuck
[00:12:16.820] The thing was on
[00:12:17.300] You know
[00:12:17.540] Dancing
[00:12:18.000] Or some other shit
[00:12:18.940] And I was then singing
[00:12:19.880] And
[00:12:20.280] Yeah you had to make up a dance
[00:12:21.860] When you dropped a single
[00:12:22.880] Yeah it was just different
[00:12:23.940] You know
[00:12:24.320] So it was about the looks
[00:12:25.400] And all that extra crap
[00:12:26.560] So I
[00:12:27.020] I wasn't on that
[00:12:27.920] I'm not really that type of nigga
[00:12:29.140] i'm like a mc type of nigga you know what i mean so once he was like all right you see the the wave
[00:12:35.430] of yo this nigga really fire this nigga really fire this nigga really fire like like everybody's
[00:12:41.150] starting to like the good rappers again so then i'm like i bet that's my time that behind the
[00:12:47.050] scenes you posted that was a collaboration with block work yeah that was um block work tv block
[00:12:52.110] work tv that's like a a platform a bit a pretty big platform you know i mean for um like up and
[00:12:59.330] come artists you feel like that i mean you got industry artists davies and neat bucks and niggas
[00:13:04.030] that was on there you know they go there to promote their albums or whatever but um that yeah
[00:13:09.790] um we brought you know uh it was a couple people from the town maybe from the area that went on
[00:13:15.370] the block work tv but before me and whatnot but um they probably went to new york you feel me
[00:13:22.590] didn't shoot theirs or they went to um philly or jersey or some shit like that but i was like
[00:13:27.730] fuck it you know i'm saying i went to um no one should lie in the town man you know i'm saying
[00:13:31.590] i'm like a i'm like a i'm one of the niggas supposed to hold the flag so i'm gonna hold
[00:13:35.670] the flag type of vibe so i'm like i bet i'm gonna let these niggas have these niggas come out here
[00:13:40.550] you feel me so i get like a block work tv allentown tour you feel me niggas ain't gotta
[00:13:45.710] really thank me but you know nah nah people appreciate it that's why i like uh like you said
[00:13:54.970] it's collaborative yeah we're putting together a piece of content and we're giving way more than a
[00:14:00.070] 16 or 30 minute album we're giving like in depth you know what i mean and and that's as dope to
[00:14:07.410] give that back to the fans like in social media days they want to see you in all aspects they
[00:14:12.590] want to see the behind the scenes they you can't just drop a music video every 10 years yeah like
[00:14:19.910] that that was that's that's exactly why i'm here like that's exactly the thing too like
[00:14:24.670] because i used to not do that and then i used to just drop a video like once a year like i was
[00:14:30.010] like that type of nigga maybe once every two years you feel me but i just not me my man my
[00:14:36.710] nigga champ got me on it and then on top of it why i came here was i seen that like you said
[00:14:42.190] it don't really have people like me here you know i'm saying like that's like you know what i mean
[00:14:47.150] i'm kind of like edgy you know if you listen to my music you know me it's just i'm like i'm not
[00:14:52.390] really like a corporate kind of guy but and on top of it um i don't think people get that type
[00:14:58.860] of you know so the conf the conversation you would give me probably be different than somebody else
[00:15:03.140] you feel i'm saying so it'll get a different side of me you know i mean then um me going to a
[00:15:09.660] or a podcast where i know it's about to be real you know i mean not as you go on a big radio show
[00:15:16.440] is is completely different you don't got the time that you got your points you have to get across
[00:15:22.000] no matter what i mean especially if you only got like 10 15 minutes facts though but uh so you
[00:15:28.140] gathered people around that kind of help you you mentioned your manager if you want to shout him
[00:15:32.580] out yeah shout out my nigga champ man a lot familiar you already know be the best man like
[00:15:37.460] call it but you get people around you to kind of for lack of a better term criticize you you know
[00:15:46.140] what i mean like like you said i don't know if we said it earlier in this conversation or off camera
[00:15:51.440] but you said it's not like a global appeal off camera yeah yeah me like i'm like um that's not
[00:16:00.000] what i'm going for you feel me like like some people might tell me that some people be like
[00:16:05.340] yo you know you got global appeal you feel me like you could go you could go here like you got
[00:16:11.020] a certain style like people like it like you you could go you could do this and do that you know
[00:16:16.160] i mean make this type of music but i don't care about that that's not what i'm rapping for you
[00:16:20.900] know i'm saying i don't rap for that you know i'm saying like i literally at this point i just rap
[00:16:26.510] for my people i rap for my hood i rap for the people that go through what i go through you
[00:16:31.490] know i'm saying i rap my life now if they connect to it that's what it is but that's my message like
[00:16:36.210] i'm not rapping for the suburbs i'm not rapping for no pop musics but if there's some shit that
[00:16:42.610] they fuck with they vibe with me and they connect and they hit right cool i'm all with that for me
[00:16:47.530] whoever called me for a song taylor swift called me for a song i'm a rocker i'm a kick i'm a cooker
[00:16:53.430] shit you feel me but i mean no that's good that's good that you say that because a lot of people
[00:16:59.890] come up here and they'll be like yeah you know nah it's all if you get that call from taylor
[00:17:04.750] swift you get that call from drake you're not gonna be like nah you're not like us i'm getting
[00:17:08.710] them spicy man i'm getting taylor swift super spicy man you feel me i'm getting i'm getting
[00:17:13.330] drizzy spicy man they already spicy without me so it's like of course like i'm gonna go
[00:17:18.370] you know i'm saying i'm gonna if they want the sauce man i'm gonna give them sauce i ain't with
[00:17:23.310] none of that i mean they cool like i'm i've listened to all type of music so i'm fans of
[00:17:27.790] everything you know i'm saying so like i ain't man but that's not what i'm going for you know
[00:17:33.330] i'm saying i'm not shooting for that that's not what i'm shooting for that's if it happened to
[00:17:37.490] happen but that's i'm just rapping for the trenches but i'm rapping for the people like me
[00:17:42.510] let's go through what i go through and you know that's that's that's just trying to make it out
[00:17:48.500] let's try and make something happen it's trying to be successful i mean not the people i can't
[00:17:53.850] rap for the people that's already successful because that's not i feel i feel like i'm still
[00:17:57.790] working towards my success so that's all that's my message so i'm talking to them so that's the
[00:18:03.170] anthems i try to make i try to make the anthems for a nigga working that's trying ground and he
[00:18:07.970] want to get up out of there but all niggas trying to take care of his kid one nigga that's got a
[00:18:12.990] trap because his jobs ain't hiring him because he got a felony niggas that went to jail and
[00:18:18.060] niggas that that's who i'm trying that's the message so whatever they going through i can
[00:18:23.440] help him get through that that's that's what i rap for i'm saying i ain't really that's the
[00:18:29.100] message in my shit everything else and then of course being fire you know i'm saying just being
[00:18:34.380] a fire mc you know i'm saying so when you hear it lyrically i mean everything is up to paul
[00:18:41.170] other than that i'm saying i have taylor swift call me i'm with it though you feel me but
[00:18:48.140] that's it i mean i ain't really know sure for sure that's dope though to have goals for it
[00:18:54.780] And like the thing about what you said, the music is not for people already successful.
[00:19:00.700] I think that even at success, like you said, let's say metaphorically, somebody gets to where you're at and they're happy as hell.
[00:19:07.920] And they're like, I made it.
[00:19:09.000] There's always someone that would wish for your health, your home.
[00:19:13.340] Like even just being in America, we're so much more blessed monetarily.
[00:19:18.280] You could take it one way or another.
[00:19:20.280] But I love America.
[00:19:22.380] It's a great place to live.
[00:19:23.540] I wouldn't want to be in no other country
[00:19:26.160] You know what I'm saying
[00:19:27.240] That's how I look at it
[00:19:28.960] But it don't take away from the fact that
[00:19:32.100] I'm at war inside the country
[00:19:34.540] You feel me
[00:19:35.880] It don't take away from that
[00:19:37.420] So that's the thing
[00:19:38.260] Is that you can only
[00:19:39.800] It's hard
[00:19:41.100] Until you hit a certain point
[00:19:43.340] Where you're living comfortably
[00:19:45.720] When you're living comfortably
[00:19:47.280] That's a different part
[00:19:48.320] And when you're living comfortably
[00:19:49.620] Like I said
[00:19:50.220] Sometimes financially that matters
[00:19:52.060] You know what I'm saying
[00:19:53.080] you could be happy in poverty don't get it fucked up absolutely but you could be you could be have
[00:19:58.140] mad happiness i see kids every day i see people every day super happy and but we only know what
[00:20:04.340] we know and being deprived is being deprived niggas can say what they want you know i'm saying
[00:20:09.820] like that's how i feel you know i'm saying being deprived of being deprived if it's like
[00:20:13.700] you only ate apples and oranges your whole life one of them when they actually wish to join you
[00:20:20.280] one of them is going to be an apple orange which is your favorite right you want to say i love them
[00:20:23.920] oranges i love them apples but you ain't taste kiwi you ain't taste dragon fruit you ain't taste
[00:20:30.050] mad or shit so what do you really know then you can then if you taste those it might change
[00:20:35.810] so if you never even get to experience it you're deprived of it right so i look at it so even if
[00:20:42.870] even if you don't like it you're kind of deprived like let's say i just never tried starfruit but i
[00:20:47.090] see that shit sitting you know i'm at an event somewhere i'm like you know i want to try that
[00:20:51.190] just for the the fact that you can do it even if you spit it out and say i don't like it
[00:20:56.050] is you you tried it it's experience you got your now you could judge it yourself
[00:21:00.990] because you actually know most people don't actually know and they and they so and and
[00:21:08.000] then when you feel like a lot of people in the hood when they feel like you can't reach it they
[00:21:11.200] they try to play it like oh it's just whack you know what i'm saying or some niggas get all that
[00:21:16.050] money when niggas doing all this or they doing that or they that's just whack but it's like come
[00:21:21.320] on man you know what i'm saying but it'd be knowledge too though they they we deprive for a
[00:21:26.860] reason it's you know i'm saying so that's why i say we have war in the country like being black
[00:21:31.600] is a is a thing niggas can say it ain't but it's a thing i know it's a thing because i live it
[00:21:36.880] i grew up like this so i know it's a thing it's always a thing the darker you are is a thing
[00:21:42.540] But when you succeed, then if you're essentially handicapped, if you're black in America, don't you feel like when you succeed or you achieve that gratitude or achieve happiness here, it's like you kind of like won without cheat codes.
[00:21:59.800] It's a fact.
[00:22:00.960] It's a heavy fact.
[00:22:02.720] You won without cheat codes.
[00:22:03.480] It's like, yo, in life, it's literally people like if it was a race, it's literally people that be two miles ahead of you.
[00:22:13.690] But y'all got to still hit that finish line.
[00:22:16.010] You're supposed to beat them to the finish line
[00:22:17.970] or meet them at the finish line.
[00:22:20.630] And they had a crazy head start.
[00:22:22.990] That's how life be.
[00:22:23.850] But we see it all the time.
[00:22:26.060] There ain't no excuse.
[00:22:27.060] Because talent is talent.
[00:22:28.160] You see a nigga running.
[00:22:30.040] She's shorty hitting them gas chains.
[00:22:31.940] You're like, oh, shit, she catching up.
[00:22:34.080] It's all about determination.
[00:22:35.700] You know what I mean?
[00:22:37.100] I will.
[00:22:38.100] I mean, the will to do shit.
[00:22:39.900] Like, I will not lose.
[00:22:40.900] You feel me?
[00:22:42.460] That's how it really is.
[00:22:43.560] That really is
[00:22:44.280] You know what I mean
[00:22:44.860] So there ain't no excuses
[00:22:45.840] You know what I'm saying
[00:22:46.880] But at the end of the day
[00:22:47.740] You're going to acknowledge it
[00:22:48.720] And that's what it's supposed to be
[00:22:50.100] You know what I mean
[00:22:50.620] And we got to figure out a way
[00:22:52.100] To restructure ourselves
[00:22:53.920] And help each other
[00:22:54.720] That's always the way
[00:22:56.020] Because that's what they know how to do
[00:22:57.700] They know how to help each other
[00:22:59.570] They set up a structure
[00:23:00.810] That helps each other
[00:23:01.670] That's what black people
[00:23:03.210] Don't know how to do
[00:23:03.890] That's what people with poverty
[00:23:04.990] Spanish people
[00:23:05.970] We ain't all figured it out yet
[00:23:07.550] You know what I mean
[00:23:08.720] But when we do
[00:23:09.480] It's going to be ill
[00:23:10.640] It's going to be real spicy
[00:23:12.020] When we do
[00:23:12.500] sure for sure it's early so i mixed it with a little red bull you feel me it's early coming
[00:23:19.080] on a nice early interview i have my energy drink somewhere i can't figure out where i put that
[00:23:24.780] shit but i don't know i would say like when i listen to your music it doesn't sound like uh
[00:23:31.000] like a glorification of crime you know what i mean like there's there's not a you're not putting
[00:23:40.480] out a lifestyle for making money you're not exploiting people and putting people's business
[00:23:45.000] out there in order to sell records, for lack of a better term.
[00:23:48.820] It's like-
[00:23:49.820] No, not at all.
[00:23:50.820] Like when Tupac shone light on This Is Life in the Ghetto and it hit a mainstream, you
[00:23:56.880] know what I mean?
[00:23:57.880] It brought light.
[00:23:58.880] Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do.
[00:24:00.680] And there's some that would argue that that whole era brought on a ton of people wanting
[00:24:07.610] to be involved in crime or just live ... They say rap creates violence.
[00:24:16.190] like what's your thoughts on that um the thing is like rap is a reflection sometimes music just
[00:24:24.670] a reflection so when you when i first heard my first rap song i forgot i can't remember the
[00:24:31.920] name of it but he was rapping about it was from the bronx he was rapping about he was like broken
[00:24:36.680] glass everywhere if it ain't about a dollar then i just don't care and it was like the broken glass
[00:24:43.840] It's everywhere related to me
[00:24:45.140] because it was broken glass
[00:24:46.240] all around the streets.
[00:24:48.320] You feel me?
[00:24:48.900] So that's what it's about.
[00:24:50.740] You feel me?
[00:24:51.260] So it's like,
[00:24:52.380] if you rapping about crime,
[00:24:54.870] if they rapping about this,
[00:24:56.090] we rapping about what we
[00:24:57.250] going through every day.
[00:24:59.840] So the thing is that,
[00:25:01.300] niggas,
[00:25:02.200] what you expect them to talk about?
[00:25:04.530] And that's the thing.
[00:25:05.390] That's a good point.
[00:25:05.970] It's not really glorifying
[00:25:08.290] if you telling a story
[00:25:10.050] and I'm telling you my story
[00:25:12.110] and it just sound like a movie to you.
[00:25:14.450] If it sound like a movie
[00:25:16.010] That's cool
[00:25:16.630] But it's just
[00:25:17.170] It's not glorifying
[00:25:18.010] It's just really what it is
[00:25:19.170] And that's what the niggas is
[00:25:20.590] The crime is still in the hood
[00:25:22.490] Niggas is still dying in the hood
[00:25:24.230] Niggas has got to sell drugs
[00:25:25.390] To live in the hood
[00:25:26.270] Because the jobs ain't hiring
[00:25:27.810] It's still niggas going to jail
[00:25:31.340] It's still mothers losing their sons
[00:25:32.680] It's still
[00:25:33.800] People you know what I'm saying
[00:25:35.400] Still young girls getting pregnant early
[00:25:37.140] It's still all of this
[00:25:37.960] So
[00:25:38.380] Niggas is rapping about what's around them
[00:25:41.640] That's why America eating it up
[00:25:44.000] Because they
[00:25:44.300] It's all moving
[00:25:45.080] It's all entertainment
[00:25:46.080] But we really
[00:25:47.240] living it that's why they can't stop rapping it how do they separate that from entertainment
[00:25:53.140] in general i mean because you have and i'm not even going to beat up on rap you got movies and
[00:25:58.140] stuff like that you got all sorts of stuff glorifying you got you know the mob movies
[00:26:03.320] were big you know what i mean and that's hugely they can make the hip-hop it's like they can make
[00:26:08.320] the money off of it but we can't like like it's like you know and then i just feel like rap is
[00:26:14.580] something to blame i just feel like it's easy because you know it's us you're saying it's us
[00:26:20.700] it's a wet thing it's a black thing so you know i'm saying rap is always going to be something
[00:26:26.050] to blame i'm it is what it is that's how i look at it but rap it may be interpreted as glorifying
[00:26:34.540] to the public but it's like yo if your son is going outside every day going to school right
[00:26:41.580] And school is treacherous
[00:26:43.920] The school is not the best school
[00:26:46.930] His block
[00:26:48.110] You got
[00:26:48.550] You a mother
[00:26:49.030] You got him living on
[00:26:49.910] Not the best block
[00:26:50.910] You know what go on
[00:26:53.520] He around niggas
[00:26:55.770] That's not the best
[00:26:56.710] So
[00:26:58.400] When he listening to songs
[00:27:00.020] You may be playing this song for him
[00:27:01.680] You trying to get him in this gospel
[00:27:03.000] And he talking about
[00:27:03.580] They'll try to get him into that
[00:27:04.660] And he listening to it
[00:27:05.480] It's not connecting
[00:27:06.200] But when he hear a rapper
[00:27:07.800] When he hear Meek Mill
[00:27:08.720] He hear somebody telling a story of
[00:27:10.560] Close to his story
[00:27:12.060] Close to
[00:27:13.820] Close to
[00:27:14.300] He don't got his pops
[00:27:15.180] He misses his pops
[00:27:16.220] His pops gone
[00:27:16.920] His pops got killed
[00:27:17.880] His pops is dead
[00:27:18.860] That's the things
[00:27:21.120] That people relate to
[00:27:22.040] My pops dead
[00:27:22.620] So I relate to it
[00:27:23.440] So when you hear it
[00:27:24.140] You can't
[00:27:24.920] You gonna gravitate
[00:27:25.640] To what's more
[00:27:26.560] Right in your lane
[00:27:27.840] So
[00:27:28.800] That's what they gonna feel
[00:27:30.440] That's so
[00:27:30.840] When you hear them listening to it
[00:27:32.200] You think they
[00:27:32.700] Oh the rap is influencing them
[00:27:34.340] To do it
[00:27:34.780] But no
[00:27:35.140] They already in it
[00:27:36.520] They already around it
[00:27:38.520] I feel like it's a rare occasion
[00:27:40.180] It's like I bet
[00:27:41.000] You know
[00:27:41.300] Some people
[00:27:41.860] They be like
[00:27:42.300] It's always gonna be
[00:27:43.740] Specific little joints
[00:27:45.730] To happen
[00:27:46.170] But
[00:27:46.470] If you do the numbers
[00:27:47.730] Ain't too many suburban kids
[00:27:49.230] That don't gotta
[00:27:49.930] Grab a gun
[00:27:51.030] Grabbing guns
[00:27:52.170] Cause they heard rappers do it
[00:27:53.450] They
[00:27:54.010] Most of they favorite rappers
[00:27:55.470] Is probably gangster rappers
[00:27:57.110] And they never did
[00:27:58.070] You know how many people
[00:27:58.850] How many
[00:27:59.430] Nah there's mad people
[00:28:00.710] That listen to hip hop
[00:28:00.730] When you go to 50 cent shows
[00:28:02.230] It all shows
[00:28:03.190] It's white people
[00:28:03.830] 70% yeah
[00:28:04.750] You think all those people
[00:28:06.270] Is no
[00:28:06.770] They getting
[00:28:07.470] They probably went on
[00:28:08.730] And went to college
[00:28:09.630] And had great lives
[00:28:10.510] Because that don't
[00:28:12.250] Influence them to do it
[00:28:13.410] because it ain't around them what's gonna make them they you know i'm saying it don't make sense
[00:28:17.870] just common sense you know yeah it wouldn't make sense you know i'm saying for them
[00:28:22.030] listening to it is great it's like watching a great movie you love watching a movie right
[00:28:26.190] about cops and shooting blowing shit up but if there's nobody's but if it's not around you
[00:28:30.670] you can separate it out or if you're playing a video game it's like it's not reality yeah but
[00:28:35.710] the thing is that the movies that are closer to you more documentary is movies more movies about
[00:28:41.010] that's different
[00:28:41.670] influence them right
[00:28:42.590] so when you hear
[00:28:43.630] paid in full
[00:28:44.330] you always hear like
[00:28:44.970] legendary hood movie
[00:28:45.970] to us
[00:28:46.730] Scarface
[00:28:47.470] why Scarface
[00:28:48.190] would resonate
[00:28:48.710] with black people
[00:28:49.370] what you think
[00:28:49.850] cause he poor
[00:28:50.930] came from the ghetto
[00:28:51.930] from the bottom
[00:28:53.030] to the top
[00:28:53.750] had to do it
[00:28:54.730] by any means necessary
[00:28:55.890] that's how most of us feel
[00:28:57.110] so it's not
[00:28:58.030] you know what I'm saying
[00:28:58.970] it's
[00:28:59.550] we still watch
[00:29:01.250] all of his stuff
[00:29:01.910] we still watch Rambo
[00:29:03.150] and all of them
[00:29:04.010] we don't do that
[00:29:04.910] right
[00:29:06.110] I don't get an axe
[00:29:07.570] or something like that
[00:29:08.330] that's what I'm saying
[00:29:08.650] we ain't doing all
[00:29:09.250] you ain't seeing us
[00:29:09.810] with just all
[00:29:10.390] we doing all those
[00:29:11.070] no we we doing it more similar to what's going on around us that's how it work bro it's your
[00:29:16.290] environment the environment is key to everything that you got going on so it's like i mean that's
[00:29:22.330] the main thing that's why niggas trying to rap to get out the hood you mean everybody say that
[00:29:25.890] everybody say you know you want to get out till you don't want to live in the ghetto right you
[00:29:29.390] want to if you want to get a house you want to get a house and we won't move to we want your kids to
[00:29:33.370] live i mean if it was just about the music you would you'd be like fuck it i i could raise my
[00:29:38.740] kids with the best morals right not listening to music they'll listen to gospel every day
[00:29:43.080] and we just gonna live in a hood and treacherous areas and they're gonna be all bad kids but they
[00:29:47.580] not gonna get touched by none none of it's gonna affect them because they're gonna no
[00:29:51.160] they're gonna be affected then they're gonna be colder because the world around them is colder
[00:29:56.580] and they have no choice but to adapt you feel me that's life so that's how i look at it like
[00:30:02.040] they have no choice but to adapt because our environment is key you know what i'm saying
[00:30:06.800] You keep your kids in a nice environment
[00:30:09.120] Where the birds are chirping
[00:30:10.160] They can do things
[00:30:11.340] They'll be happier
[00:30:12.600] There's probably scientific shit on that
[00:30:15.140] You know what I mean?
[00:30:15.920] I know it gotta be
[00:30:17.100] For sure
[00:30:18.020] Really?
[00:30:19.690] Sure
[00:30:20.050] That's a great take, man
[00:30:22.750] It's a lot
[00:30:23.830] For sure
[00:30:25.270] One of the things I wanted to run into was like
[00:30:29.190] I want to go a little bit into
[00:30:31.740] Some questions about the music that I had
[00:30:34.200] Just the journey as an artist
[00:30:36.120] From where you
[00:30:37.060] there was one post that stood out for me when you had uh posted your check you didn't post the
[00:30:42.280] amount but you got the check from allentown for empower 610 day shout out to lewis and nice
[00:30:47.120] and you were like it's it's crazy to get uh first off shout out to those guys for getting
[00:30:56.640] hip-hop on a platform facts in the city for sure you know what i mean that's what everybody talked
[00:31:01.980] about we just need someone to have us on a stage that place was filled yeah it was like a good show
[00:31:07.260] and uh by the time you went on the the lights had like dimmed i left right after you left i was like
[00:31:14.020] i gotta see this but like the sunset came down or whatever like that it was it was epic yeah so you
[00:31:20.280] come from doing probably a ton of shows for free for sure for sure for sure to okay now i'm respected
[00:31:28.680] as a craft that i got picked to be on this stage on this platform you know yeah now shout out to
[00:31:34.680] all those artists that were on there yeah shout out to all those artists you feel me and that
[00:31:38.140] that to me that was always like that was like a little milestone because i've got paid to battle
[00:31:42.720] you feel me i've got checks to battle now that's a different art you feel me so i got two checks
[00:31:48.400] to battle but i feel like battling is like a like a boxing man so people will pay to see you fight
[00:31:53.930] they love fights
[00:31:55.070] they love shit like that
[00:31:56.190] but just for your craft
[00:31:57.770] just for you making a song
[00:31:59.150] or just performing a song
[00:32:00.250] niggas ain't really
[00:32:00.850] jacking that like that
[00:32:01.870] feel me
[00:32:02.730] they ain't really jacking that
[00:32:04.030] so
[00:32:04.390] it's hard to get
[00:32:05.910] that acknowledgement
[00:32:06.690] especially for somebody
[00:32:07.510] like I'm gonna pay you for that
[00:32:08.810] like you know what I'm saying
[00:32:10.010] like I just recently
[00:32:11.210] like got
[00:32:11.850] a paid feature
[00:32:14.150] you feel me
[00:32:14.730] it's like somebody
[00:32:15.070] bought a feature
[00:32:15.750] and then wanted to pay
[00:32:16.550] for the video too
[00:32:17.570] you know what I'm saying
[00:32:18.410] and it was just like
[00:32:19.470] you know it's dope
[00:32:20.650] you feel me
[00:32:21.390] where people will look
[00:32:22.270] at your shit
[00:32:22.830] and be like damn
[00:32:23.630] i want to um i respect your craft enough i fuck with you i'm a fan of you enough that's like i bet
[00:32:29.630] i'm gonna i'm gonna pay you what you worth you know i'm saying and so it's just like you know
[00:32:35.880] i'm saying that that those those is like milestones for me you know i'm saying and it's like i bet
[00:32:40.940] now i know like i'm moving in the right direction like i need to keep it going type of uh i mean
[00:32:46.780] but it's been a journey i should that's a journey man you know i mean it's just a road and you gotta
[00:32:52.020] do it properly like anybody try to cut the corners but you can't really cut the corners
[00:32:56.100] i felt like i feel like you can't cheat the game just like you see niggas in the nba it's like
[00:33:02.940] ain't nobody skipped it nobody nobody had the fast trade you can't just be like oh yeah i'm um
[00:33:09.280] i'm steph carvey son i'm going to the right don't work like that i don't feel like it worked like
[00:33:13.740] that in music either i feel like you could get more opportunities but for having niggas the world
[00:33:18.540] To be fans of you
[00:33:19.560] To have real fans
[00:33:21.100] That means
[00:33:21.740] And I mean the fans
[00:33:22.780] Is corny
[00:33:23.340] Cause at the end of the day
[00:33:24.800] If you around somebody
[00:33:25.520] That just you know
[00:33:26.200] That ain't don't deserve
[00:33:27.560] To be there
[00:33:28.240] But you just a super fan
[00:33:29.900] Of them
[00:33:30.120] Then you corny
[00:33:30.720] You know what I mean
[00:33:31.820] But at the end of the day
[00:33:32.860] He deserve
[00:33:33.660] He worthy
[00:33:34.320] His music
[00:33:35.000] His art
[00:33:35.520] Is worthy of being a fan of
[00:33:37.120] I'm with that
[00:33:38.540] Like you feel me
[00:33:39.240] I don't feel like
[00:33:39.860] You could cheat the game
[00:33:40.740] So I feel like
[00:33:41.280] It don't matter
[00:33:41.680] Who you next to
[00:33:42.500] Don't matter how many
[00:33:43.320] Chains you got on
[00:33:44.420] It don't really matter
[00:33:45.500] It don't matter
[00:33:46.300] What it is
[00:33:47.460] Cause the music
[00:33:48.020] got to connect to the people you gotta make a great product i'm using it's just for grind people
[00:33:53.420] trying to grind make it out you know i'm saying now if you relate to that even more maybe you in
[00:33:59.740] that life okay you know i'm saying but nah more so you know i feel like hip-hop it's people from
[00:34:06.480] china and all these places that they barely even understand english and love hip-hop it's an energy
[00:34:12.800] it's a vibe that's kind of what i was going on that's what it is so so what that's what i'm
[00:34:17.080] saying it's all about a feeling that's why i say when i'm making this for them i'm making it for
[00:34:21.160] people who need inspiration who need something to get through the day with that's an energy that's
[00:34:27.520] not like you feel me i might even make i don't even make that much bop you feel me i'm a man
[00:34:32.500] i bop here and there but i don't even make that much bop so it's like more the people who listen
[00:34:37.220] to me you you you like man i gotta wake up in the morning i gotta get ready for work i need that
[00:34:42.240] So you won't listen to something
[00:34:43.960] That's gonna get you ready
[00:34:44.820] To like
[00:34:45.320] You in the gym
[00:34:46.620] You thinking about
[00:34:47.560] You know what I'm saying
[00:34:48.460] I'm gonna get right for these
[00:34:49.720] I'm gonna prove these niggas wrong
[00:34:50.880] You feel what I mean
[00:34:51.360] You doing what you doing
[00:34:52.800] That's what I'm
[00:34:53.520] I'm for
[00:34:54.100] I'm like for the underdog
[00:34:55.580] I'm an underdog
[00:34:56.520] So it's like
[00:34:57.340] I'm
[00:34:57.620] That's the
[00:34:58.620] It's like not successful
[00:35:00.200] Like
[00:35:00.740] Not even not successful
[00:35:01.840] It's just striving for success
[00:35:03.280] You know what I'm saying
[00:35:04.240] Just striving
[00:35:04.920] Cause even when you hit it
[00:35:05.940] It's a point of success
[00:35:07.160] And
[00:35:07.940] Now what
[00:35:09.080] So it's like
[00:35:10.000] When you make it to the NBA
[00:35:11.220] Now what you wanna do
[00:35:12.160] You want to be better
[00:35:13.000] You want to be the best
[00:35:13.860] In the NBA right
[00:35:14.520] You want to make
[00:35:14.960] The all star team
[00:35:15.700] You know you want to
[00:35:16.600] You know what I mean
[00:35:17.120] You want to make
[00:35:17.640] You want to win a championship
[00:35:18.380] So it's still goals
[00:35:19.460] After you hit a goal
[00:35:20.440] So it's not like
[00:35:21.560] Alright bet
[00:35:22.120] You got here
[00:35:22.540] That's why you like
[00:35:23.080] You got it
[00:35:23.580] You know what I mean
[00:35:24.340] A nigga get here
[00:35:25.140] And then he get here
[00:35:26.000] If he happy when he get here
[00:35:27.540] It's great
[00:35:28.220] I'm happy for him
[00:35:29.300] You know what I mean
[00:35:30.140] But me when I hit here
[00:35:31.740] I said oh sure
[00:35:32.460] Alright bet
[00:35:32.940] It's another level
[00:35:34.100] I got to go up there now
[00:35:35.240] So I got to give up
[00:35:36.420] You know you can celebrate
[00:35:38.040] For a minute
[00:35:38.540] It's like you win
[00:35:39.040] You win the first round
[00:35:40.280] you win the conference finals and he like i bet you see niggas like yeah but the job not done
[00:35:45.000] you know i'm saying and my kobe voice like the job not done like we got to still win the chip
[00:35:49.830] we still got to go all the way i win the chip my family's out here my kids are set for life
[00:35:54.450] and i ain't got to worry no more you know i'm saying that's when i hit the joint that's when
[00:35:58.730] i win the chip for me everybody chip is different and success when it comes to success but
[00:36:03.770] as i say it's always next levels to it so it's like it was a a line i lived by that i heard
[00:36:11.340] one time uh for every level there's another devil and it's like when you get to a point
[00:36:19.020] it's not like all the problems go away no and it's not the same as more money more problems i
[00:36:24.760] don't even know if we could quote that anymore what's going on i mean it is more money more
[00:36:28.700] problems in the world at the end of the day you know yeah but that's specifically with money i
[00:36:34.080] could be talking about if i'm saying another level like anything eventually i got four mics now let's
[00:36:39.420] say i have six mics let's say the caliber of my guest is i can't bring them to my basement so now
[00:36:45.020] i gotta go and rent out a space for the presentation that everybody goes for to be bigger like yeah my
[00:36:53.140] show is for people that seen when this was a green screen and this wasn't this mic and this was a
[00:36:58.600] computer monitor like uh yeah these things are holding those screens up right there i had
[00:37:03.260] garbage ties two mics like this i still got pictures that shit because i didn't want to
[00:37:08.640] wait till it's like okay shit is successful now look at it go from there you know what i mean
[00:37:15.120] but that's what the thing is it's a journey you feel me it's a come on that's what it's like so
[00:37:19.000] your show even represent the same thing you feel me just in a different art form you feel me it's
[00:37:23.700] the same thing as my music i will not lose if you listen to my music like yo this that's what it's
[00:37:28.240] all about i will not lose no matter what so that's what it's all about it's the come up and that's
[00:37:32.660] what i'm saying it's all it's the same thing that's why i'm like here because at the end of
[00:37:36.340] the day it's the same thing it's all about the come up bro like like people who know me they
[00:37:40.480] know they see me come from nothing they keep me coming from nothing and it's not even like i got
[00:37:45.140] a lot now so it's just be like you're going and they know where i'm about to go that's what it's
[00:37:49.580] all about ain't about nothing else ain't about coming up here saying this damn it there's about
[00:37:53.460] the real so it's just like yeah we just trying to make it happen bro and i'm saying that's what
[00:37:58.240] my music represents the same shit your podcast represents just in a different way you feel me
[00:38:02.920] mine might be a little more aggressive maybe a little bit more urban culture maybe just trencher
[00:38:06.920] but same message same thing same energy you feel me that's what it's about that's what i was getting
[00:38:13.540] to i think people that relate with that energy can relate with the music even if it's not you
[00:38:20.630] know what i mean yeah even if they don't gotta do that's what i'm saying it's like kids like that's
[00:38:24.570] what you should take from the culture let's say i don't think that people from the suburbs shouldn't
[00:38:28.830] listen to rap you know that's up to them and their parents but if you're gonna say okay i'm listening
[00:38:33.810] to this and it's not to go and say like like that's why i keep on falling back to the glorification
[00:38:39.610] but it's like that did happen there was a time when people were just fabricating stories they
[00:38:46.210] were just planting people and they're like this is this image this is a persona but it's like
[00:38:51.090] You can't fact check
[00:38:52.750] Any of that
[00:38:53.290] Like
[00:38:53.610] Yeah and it's true
[00:38:54.590] But at the end of the day
[00:38:55.710] That's because it was
[00:38:56.610] It was
[00:38:57.110] The thing is
[00:38:58.610] You got a villain
[00:39:01.220] In every story right
[00:39:02.340] It don't matter
[00:39:03.440] What movie
[00:39:03.780] It's a kid's movie
[00:39:04.700] It's a villain in the story
[00:39:06.140] But
[00:39:06.380] It's something about
[00:39:08.080] The villain
[00:39:08.700] Where
[00:39:09.160] You gotta understand
[00:39:10.960] That the villain
[00:39:11.620] God
[00:39:11.960] Is doing something
[00:39:13.380] That
[00:39:13.720] Sometimes
[00:39:16.210] You know you
[00:39:17.330] Kinda wanna do
[00:39:18.510] You
[00:39:19.860] It's like
[00:39:20.520] It's something about
[00:39:21.760] The goon
[00:39:22.500] A groom wouldn't be the guy
[00:39:24.840] King Kong was King Kong
[00:39:26.640] It's like damn it's something fascinating
[00:39:29.000] About this scary
[00:39:30.820] Motherfucker you know what I'm saying
[00:39:32.440] About this alpha
[00:39:34.700] Inferior motherfucker something scary
[00:39:36.880] About that
[00:39:37.420] That's why people like MMA
[00:39:38.980] And fighting and watching all that stuff
[00:39:41.720] And everything
[00:39:42.260] We all have something in us
[00:39:45.100] Where we want to do something
[00:39:46.440] But the courage fear
[00:39:48.380] And that matters in life
[00:39:51.020] So the thing is that
[00:39:52.260] when someone's doing something that's daring
[00:39:54.480] you don't really get
[00:39:56.280] rewarded for nothing like easy
[00:39:57.740] I could've did that myself
[00:39:59.240] it's like what go viral is the nigga
[00:40:02.180] who jump out the plane and do the backflip
[00:40:03.680] you know what I'm saying
[00:40:04.660] the park hard
[00:40:06.200] them young niggas jumping off the walls
[00:40:08.500] park head niggas
[00:40:09.540] you're like oh these niggas is crazy
[00:40:11.920] that's what it is
[00:40:13.380] in martial arts
[00:40:17.860] they're gonna post
[00:40:19.020] the picture of
[00:40:20.860] the guy doing i'm not even gonna get into technical terms but doing the front somersault
[00:40:24.980] and grabbing the leg and coming back and grabbing with his leg like they're not gonna do the
[00:40:28.920] fundamental shit that really works yeah you know what i mean like how to break a grip or how to you
[00:40:33.880] know they're they're not gonna show you the real stuff they're gonna show you that flashy shit
[00:40:37.480] when i cut up pieces of the podcast like i've put out things of here's me editing the podcast
[00:40:43.040] it's not the whole thing nobody want to see that shit it's when the ai is chopping this up and i'm
[00:40:48.520] doing the coloring on the video like just show the show the highlights and the highlights of it
[00:40:53.000] go from there facts that's what people like to see no i like the um i mean i haven't been
[00:40:59.580] in battles on your edge but i remember that rush i would compare it to like uh like
[00:41:04.440] well i trained jujitsu i don't know if i told you or not but like um rolling or fighting just
[00:41:11.280] that whole that in being in real time yeah we were talking off camera you could drill something
[00:41:16.160] as much as you want at the end we go live where it's like all right try to kill each other and
[00:41:21.380] you got to prevent me from trying to kill you and go from there and like that real-time strategy
[00:41:26.420] it changes different like yes it's different it's different battle rap and rapping is two
[00:41:32.060] different things just rapping you is is uh it's like you said it's just a expression and you could
[00:41:42.790] do it it's subjective it's like you know you're giving your music for your type of people and
[00:41:49.090] you know you don't gotta i mean but with battle rap you gotta come with it man you can have your
[00:41:56.950] style you can have different styles but you gotta have bars i'm going for what your style is you
[00:42:02.030] gotta have bars you gotta be talking it gotta be wordplay it gotta be witty you cannot just there's
[00:42:07.770] no bop there ain't no beat that could save you in bed rack you feel me there's nothing and them
[00:42:13.460] fans is different i mean but and the structure is different you know i mean and like like i was
[00:42:19.380] telling you off camera it's like that shit like shooting in the gym you say five four three two
[00:42:25.280] one you can hit that shit every time when you're practicing in the gym you get that every time
[00:42:29.620] when it's three and three with your homies you go in that big game five four three two one you
[00:42:35.530] gotta hit it right then on that time don't redo no nothing you know i'm saying you gotta make it
[00:42:43.310] and that's the that's you gotta get it right so that's what battle rap you only get one time to
[00:42:47.450] get it right you don't get to you don't get to redo you gotta live with that you gotta live with
[00:42:52.690] that and you know i'm saying you gotta come back next time better that's the only way battle rap
[00:42:57.770] making songs you could tweak it tweak it tweak it you would keep it to yourself sure you feel me you
[00:43:02.190] could do all that type of shit battle rap and you got a nigga trying to kill you yeah that's
[00:43:06.870] another thing like you said there's no time out in combat there's no like there's no oh i gotta
[00:43:11.530] breathe real quick and there's no half-assing you can't have you can't train and you know do all
[00:43:17.090] that when you go to the fight you're like no i'm kind of tired today i'm gonna take it easy no
[00:43:20.670] you can't take it easy different with battle rap you gotta go hard every time rapping you could be
[00:43:25.990] like i'm gonna do this i'm gonna make this time i'm gonna be like this i fucked it you can do it
[00:43:29.450] it's a leisure you know i mean it seems a little more lenient definitely definitely it don't give
[00:43:34.150] you it don't give you the same rush either i'm gonna be honest with you it don't give you the
[00:43:38.070] same rush maybe when i'm all the way successful and i got the the crowd rocking to me all crazy
[00:43:45.390] maybe i might i still don't think so but i feel like battle rap is different man it's like when
[00:43:49.770] you're playing ball and you hit that game winner or you hit that tight shot you make that crazy
[00:43:54.470] Highlight play
[00:43:55.370] And people just wanna
[00:43:57.110] Rush the court
[00:43:57.970] You know what I mean
[00:43:58.970] They just rush you
[00:43:59.730] Cause it's like an energy
[00:44:00.990] You got at that moment
[00:44:02.690] Where they just wanna
[00:44:03.970] Grab you
[00:44:04.670] And jump on you
[00:44:05.410] Or pick you up in the air
[00:44:06.710] You feel me
[00:44:07.330] Yeah
[00:44:07.970] That's how battle rap is
[00:44:09.270] You hit that bar
[00:44:10.210] You hit that
[00:44:10.870] You know what I'm saying
[00:44:11.770] You say that line
[00:44:13.370] That's so crazy
[00:44:14.310] They just
[00:44:15.130] They stopping it
[00:44:16.190] Fuck everything
[00:44:16.910] It's a moment
[00:44:17.190] Yeah it's a moment
[00:44:17.950] They grabbing you
[00:44:19.050] They trying to
[00:44:19.510] People just wanna hug you
[00:44:20.790] Just cause it's just
[00:44:21.550] That electrifying
[00:44:22.730] That's the difference
[00:44:23.610] With battle rap
[00:44:24.190] you know i'm saying it's like a in the moment thing like you said it's in the moment right
[00:44:29.530] then and there oh look at you you're getting hyped up we got adrenaline going right now
[00:44:33.370] i got you see i'm done with my cup now i'm chilling 20 minutes you're gonna battle me
[00:44:39.330] now we got uh we got a lot of stuff i had a lot to unpack listening to the music
[00:44:46.570] don status one was four or five years ago yeah man a long time five years ago thanks
[00:44:52.330] little break between there big break but yeah well yeah nah you're definitely a break you know
[00:44:58.580] i'm saying i mean i always kind of like was bullshitting with the music dog like i always
[00:45:03.430] kind of like just you know i did it at my leisure you know i'm saying um trying to get money just
[00:45:10.570] trying to live life figure it out you feel me so when it ain't paying the bills it's just but it
[00:45:15.730] never was my main thing you know i'm saying just i'm always was good at it was always good at it
[00:45:21.110] You know what I'm saying
[00:45:21.610] People would push me to do it
[00:45:22.930] But I ain't really
[00:45:23.610] You know what I mean
[00:45:24.630] But now
[00:45:25.190] You know what I mean
[00:45:26.850] Like you know
[00:45:27.270] God works in mysterious ways
[00:45:28.730] And shit
[00:45:29.030] So it's like
[00:45:29.510] I kind of just linked up
[00:45:30.310] With my manager
[00:45:30.890] Champ
[00:45:31.570] I was a champ
[00:45:32.290] And um
[00:45:33.390] We just hit it off
[00:45:35.420] And he pushed me
[00:45:37.020] He pushed me
[00:45:37.760] And he's structuring and shit
[00:45:39.060] He helping me out
[00:45:39.800] Making me make it right
[00:45:41.040] You know what I mean
[00:45:41.540] So everything niggas
[00:45:42.400] Is seeing now
[00:45:43.120] He letting me know
[00:45:44.560] What I should do
[00:45:45.580] What I'm not doing
[00:45:46.220] So he trying to harness the talent
[00:45:47.520] You know
[00:45:47.780] Even Michael Jordan
[00:45:49.340] Needed Phil Jackson
[00:45:50.280] You feel what I mean
[00:45:50.900] So
[00:45:51.280] that's how it go
[00:45:52.580] now I'm glad you
[00:45:54.340] recognize that
[00:45:55.900] because it would have been
[00:45:56.640] a different conversation
[00:45:57.880] you really leaned into
[00:45:59.760] that whole
[00:46:00.260] top five in Allentown
[00:46:01.620] thing
[00:46:01.980] and it was just like
[00:46:03.040] I mean it's all good
[00:46:04.400] when you
[00:46:04.940] I mean the thing is
[00:46:06.040] I'm the best at Allentown
[00:46:07.820] that's the thing
[00:46:08.760] I'm not going
[00:46:10.800] far away from that
[00:46:11.620] that's just
[00:46:12.540] that's nonsense
[00:46:13.400] but
[00:46:14.320] at the end of the day
[00:46:15.660] that accolade
[00:46:16.880] don't matter to me
[00:46:17.900] you feel me
[00:46:18.580] a top five
[00:46:19.440] it's a preacher
[00:46:20.220] I don't get it twisted
[00:46:21.140] i appreciate it as far as that's fire you feel me but you know man i'm just trying to make it
[00:46:26.980] happen bro you know what i'm saying i'm just trying to be a staple for the town so what's
[00:46:32.020] the next steps in terms of getting better is there anywhere would you would feel that you're
[00:46:36.640] lacking that you feel you mean like it's artistry wise or just what i do in my career even just
[00:46:43.310] development well i mean interviews about the person interviews about music and stuff too i
[00:46:49.350] don't mean specifically like take bar number 14 and change that to that i'm just saying like
[00:46:55.070] performance would you ever do like uh like i would definitely say i could work on my performance
[00:47:02.700] because i don't do too many of them like i'd be chilling you feel me so do more battles and
[00:47:07.420] performances i'm more of a live performer like a like a like how block work tv more of just a
[00:47:13.180] live performing with the camera on me yeah yeah you know i mean type of type of nigga don't get
[00:47:17.620] Twisted
[00:47:18.040] You know what I'm saying
[00:47:18.600] I feel like I'm a decent performer
[00:47:20.640] Like it shows and shit
[00:47:21.860] But
[00:47:22.640] I feel like that's somewhere
[00:47:23.740] I could definitely
[00:47:24.500] Work on
[00:47:25.660] Like that's
[00:47:26.280] That's gonna be probably
[00:47:27.260] My next thing
[00:47:28.000] Where I'll probably try
[00:47:28.780] To elevate
[00:47:29.300] To become
[00:47:30.340] The greatest at that
[00:47:32.060] You feel me
[00:47:32.420] I don't wanna say
[00:47:32.840] I'm the best performer
[00:47:34.300] You know what I'm saying
[00:47:35.040] I just feel like
[00:47:35.580] I'm the best rapper
[00:47:36.280] Period
[00:47:36.800] You feel me
[00:47:37.540] Like that
[00:47:38.160] You know what I'm saying
[00:47:38.900] You know what I mean
[00:47:39.340] So
[00:47:39.580] You know it's areas
[00:47:40.520] It's always areas
[00:47:41.380] You feel me
[00:47:41.880] You know what I'm saying
[00:47:42.660] You work on
[00:47:43.280] Even Michael Jordan
[00:47:44.120] Was working on his game
[00:47:45.360] Trying to
[00:47:45.840] You know what I'm saying
[00:47:46.900] LeBron James
[00:47:47.760] Working on his shit
[00:47:48.680] Trying to make sure
[00:47:49.620] You know what I mean
[00:47:50.640] He can get better every year
[00:47:52.500] Go ahead
[00:47:54.320] Shout out to
[00:47:55.060] Tug
[00:47:55.580] Shout out to Tug McGraw
[00:47:57.480] That's my guy
[00:47:58.140] He's the one that really
[00:47:59.460] Put me on that perspective
[00:48:01.020] That like
[00:48:01.700] There's studio
[00:48:03.820] There's live
[00:48:05.180] Performance
[00:48:05.920] And there's like battling
[00:48:07.180] Yeah
[00:48:07.740] You gotta like
[00:48:08.320] Almost choose two
[00:48:09.360] Like
[00:48:10.570] Two of them
[00:48:11.870] Are gonna be your core
[00:48:12.910] Now you could be
[00:48:13.730] Better than
[00:48:14.790] Someone else's best
[00:48:16.290] At number three
[00:48:17.070] but like they're different arts like you said right you know you could you know i remember for
[00:48:24.690] one time i just uh i didn't write for like two three years and all i did was freestyle and i got
[00:48:31.130] way better at eliminating that gap before you say the next thing you know what i mean like it just
[00:48:36.190] started getting more creatively yeah and as my actual vocabulary got better it's like okay it's
[00:48:43.270] easier to think of stuff but even then i might be like okay i lacked in the metaphor but i
[00:48:49.470] constantly did that even as an entrepreneur not even just as an artist i'm constantly like all
[00:48:54.170] right there's something at this point at 37 that i just need to outsource like do i need to go and
[00:49:01.330] pick up and learn this new skill at this point facts always always learn like that's what i feel
[00:49:06.710] That's why I feel like I'm the best
[00:49:08.270] Right
[00:49:08.830] It's because of that
[00:49:10.130] It's cause
[00:49:11.350] You
[00:49:12.900] You know
[00:49:13.840] It's niggas who can shoot the ball very well
[00:49:16.720] There's niggas who can dribble the ball very well
[00:49:19.190] There's niggas who can drive the ball very well
[00:49:20.910] There's niggas who can pass the ball very well
[00:49:22.850] I feel like I can do everything
[00:49:24.230] There ain't really nothing I can't do
[00:49:26.390] Where all these other niggas
[00:49:28.750] They can't do that
[00:49:29.990] So they can't make quality music
[00:49:31.790] Like a great album
[00:49:32.770] Like real music
[00:49:33.550] And separate it from battling
[00:49:35.170] Let alone
[00:49:37.160] So that's for the battle rappers
[00:49:38.440] That's like if you're a battle rapper
[00:49:39.820] You niggas
[00:49:40.400] Them battle rap niggas
[00:49:41.140] Can't really separate
[00:49:41.980] And make great music
[00:49:43.120] That makes sense
[00:49:43.900] Song making
[00:49:44.440] Song making
[00:49:45.180] And structure like that
[00:49:46.200] They can't do that
[00:49:47.280] And do it fluently
[00:49:48.180] And on a high level
[00:49:49.000] Like me
[00:49:49.540] Then on top of it
[00:49:50.820] Niggas that make songs
[00:49:52.740] Can't fucking battle
[00:49:54.000] Half them niggas
[00:49:56.030] Is melodic now
[00:49:56.930] And they can't
[00:49:57.390] Niggas is not
[00:49:58.070] Or drill
[00:49:59.190] Drill rapper
[00:49:59.970] You can't battle
[00:50:01.190] They not battling
[00:50:02.030] Put auto-tune on my battle track
[00:50:03.650] Exactly
[00:50:04.110] You feel me
[00:50:04.510] So that's not gonna happen
[00:50:05.710] Like now
[00:50:06.250] Today's rappers can't do that
[00:50:07.950] So it's certain
[00:50:08.390] It's like even the top rappers
[00:50:09.930] Like you look at them
[00:50:10.770] Like nah
[00:50:11.270] That's that
[00:50:11.830] Even don't matter
[00:50:12.370] Like Lil Baby can't battle
[00:50:14.070] I love Lil Baby
[00:50:16.220] He's fire
[00:50:16.760] But he can't battle
[00:50:17.520] Come on
[00:50:17.980] You know what I'm saying
[00:50:18.500] So if I get a certain pinnacle
[00:50:20.520] I
[00:50:20.740] I mean I got something
[00:50:23.100] He can't do
[00:50:23.780] Right
[00:50:24.080] So that's why I'm the best
[00:50:25.840] You feel me
[00:50:26.920] That's why I'm the best
[00:50:27.720] Like you know what I mean
[00:50:28.480] And if you're going to lyrically
[00:50:30.120] I feel like I'm lyrically the best
[00:50:31.600] You feel me
[00:50:32.340] It's like that's just how I go
[00:50:33.320] I feel like I do everything well
[00:50:34.860] At the top level
[00:50:35.860] where ain't really too much niggas could do with me you feel me so that's how i feel like you know
[00:50:41.800] you being well-rounded i'm saying i'm not like the most serious rock i got a little bot niggas
[00:50:45.840] no i gotta have one little moppy joints and i can make a couple of those you feel me but
[00:50:50.800] i feel like i'm just well-rounded that's that's what make me different than them they just do
[00:50:55.440] what they do they stick to that one lane you're leading towards creating the art and putting
[00:51:01.920] together uh you know a body of work and also something like it's a it's a personality yeah
[00:51:08.720] i mean that's one thing in general your music has always had personality to the point where it's
[00:51:15.040] like like you said i'm that dude off the mic yeah maybe that's why you didn't go as hard with it
[00:51:19.580] like there's a dude in the gym that gets pussy and a dude in the gym that doesn't get pussy who
[00:51:25.120] you think is working harder at that time yeah you know what i mean you're right you're right
[00:51:29.340] The nigga that don't get it
[00:51:30.620] Be like that
[00:51:31.640] I don't know
[00:51:32.360] I just
[00:51:32.700] Like I said
[00:51:33.180] Like you said
[00:51:33.700] Like I really
[00:51:34.300] It just was a natural thing to me
[00:51:37.640] I didn't really go hard
[00:51:38.760] I always
[00:51:39.480] It wasn't
[00:51:40.440] You know
[00:51:41.380] Once it hit it's point
[00:51:43.480] To where it didn't
[00:51:44.720] You know
[00:51:45.080] Really do too much for me
[00:51:46.440] Like add nothing to
[00:51:47.520] My stature
[00:51:48.580] Nothing
[00:51:48.900] I was already
[00:51:49.600] Like I was set out to conquer
[00:51:51.200] You wanna be
[00:51:51.940] Popular where you at
[00:51:53.000] You wanna be appreciated
[00:51:53.860] For what you do
[00:51:54.560] So once it hit the point
[00:51:55.760] Where you like
[00:51:56.260] Yo niggas is like
[00:51:57.040] Yo you either the best
[00:51:57.840] Or you top five
[00:51:58.660] Alright my job kinda
[00:52:00.890] Kinda done
[00:52:02.450] Unless there's other levels to it
[00:52:03.730] Unless I'm gonna go
[00:52:04.310] Be the best in the world
[00:52:05.790] Get paid
[00:52:07.030] You know what I mean
[00:52:07.790] Do all those things
[00:52:08.570] Now if those things
[00:52:09.330] Seeming too far fetched
[00:52:10.450] Or whatever
[00:52:10.990] I might just
[00:52:12.310] You know
[00:52:12.870] I'll be cool with what I am
[00:52:14.130] I'm gonna just chill
[00:52:14.790] And I'm gonna figure out
[00:52:15.610] Other things
[00:52:16.070] Cause life is real
[00:52:17.130] So it's like
[00:52:17.910] You know what I'm saying
[00:52:18.630] You getting older
[00:52:19.410] Life is real
[00:52:20.750] You know what I'm saying
[00:52:21.610] I come from an era
[00:52:22.450] Where you was like
[00:52:23.070] You had to
[00:52:23.670] Get spit for Jay-Z
[00:52:25.830] Spit for Jay-Z
[00:52:27.110] Or something like that
[00:52:28.090] And get found
[00:52:29.670] Be at the right place
[00:52:30.610] In the right time
[00:52:31.310] See now it's ever different
[00:52:32.410] You could work
[00:52:33.030] You could just grind
[00:52:34.510] You could just be like
[00:52:36.150] Alright bet I'm gonna
[00:52:37.230] I'm gonna drop my
[00:52:38.350] Put my tape together
[00:52:39.770] Drop it
[00:52:40.610] On all platforms
[00:52:41.730] So anybody can really listen to it
[00:52:43.870] And I can hit
[00:52:44.770] Hit streaming platforms
[00:52:46.690] And I can hit
[00:52:47.270] Social media platforms
[00:52:49.110] And I can work my tape
[00:52:50.510] Myself
[00:52:51.150] For real for real
[00:52:52.030] Without
[00:52:52.690] Any
[00:52:54.190] You know
[00:52:54.990] Label
[00:52:55.550] So that's when you start
[00:52:56.870] Looking at it like that
[00:52:57.670] Like alright cool
[00:52:58.270] i could build my fan base without that i mean you just gotta get your bag right of course
[00:53:04.720] you know i'm saying i know what you're doing nothing's free like they they buy likes to push
[00:53:11.040] uh like artists that already have something going but there's a there's a method of conversion from
[00:53:17.650] that like they're not just cloud some are some people are buying crazy stuff and views just for
[00:53:23.830] clout like even the label is doing that but a lot of times they're like all right this is going to
[00:53:28.430] create some sort of believability and that's one thing even back when they were looking for deals
[00:53:33.830] you still had to have some sort of following or some sort of proof that you have a personality
[00:53:39.350] that we can make shine and see that's the thing is that um views don't prove that back in the day
[00:53:48.560] if there wasn't no internet and niggas heard if you heard about me like oh yeah buying likes and
[00:53:55.520] like that and views it don't really equate they don't prove nothing you know i'm saying because
[00:54:00.940] a following is a following like back in the day if you were like you say you came with a father
[00:54:04.300] they heard go we heard about you in the streets niggas had to find because it was like yo we heard
[00:54:08.840] about you that's what it's real like people talking about you for real buying likes is not
[00:54:14.220] that buying views and just being a fan base and following is not that you know i'm saying like
[00:54:20.400] A nigga could
[00:54:21.660] Like
[00:54:22.800] It's like
[00:54:23.340] Niggas I know
[00:54:24.700] Like it's people you know
[00:54:25.600] That you look at their views
[00:54:26.920] Quarter million views
[00:54:28.760] Every video
[00:54:29.660] So you know what I mean
[00:54:30.760] You're like oh yo
[00:54:31.400] But the nigga ain't getting money
[00:54:32.940] He can't selling out the club
[00:54:34.820] So if he ain't selling out the club
[00:54:36.260] Where the fans at
[00:54:37.000] Where the views coming from
[00:54:38.380] It don't make
[00:54:38.860] It don't equate cause
[00:54:39.820] It don't matter
[00:54:41.500] Like really
[00:54:42.240] You got
[00:54:42.800] The movement is always
[00:54:43.920] The views is gonna be there
[00:54:45.120] It's interactions
[00:54:45.820] So it's like if you drop a post
[00:54:47.320] It's how much people
[00:54:48.000] Is interacting with your shit
[00:54:49.260] Now for sure
[00:54:50.000] It's like I'd rather
[00:54:50.860] If I get 5,000 views
[00:54:53.740] I don't even
[00:54:55.160] I don't want 5,000 people
[00:54:57.340] To have watched it
[00:54:58.440] If it's 5,000 views
[00:55:00.080] I'm the same way
[00:55:00.860] I'd rather it be 400 views
[00:55:03.000] 500
[00:55:03.460] Because that means
[00:55:04.680] 500 people kept watching it
[00:55:06.220] That means they really liked it
[00:55:07.680] So not no whole year
[00:55:08.880] The ad got them there
[00:55:10.220] Some bullshit
[00:55:10.920] Like yo they really like this shit
[00:55:12.360] And they rocking it
[00:55:13.380] So they kept going
[00:55:14.400] And ran me up to five minutes
[00:55:15.880] Those are real fans
[00:55:17.280] That's all I want
[00:55:18.120] I just want people
[00:55:19.340] really rock on my shit you feel me and really appreciate the art really get the message and
[00:55:23.720] they do something for them and connect to it you know what i mean so that's really the views i don't
[00:55:28.740] feel like that shit do nothing i feel like the likes and the views it does uh it's it's it hurts
[00:55:34.120] you it hurts you and it is cloud but it's it's a weird thing where naturally as humans we're
[00:55:41.710] tribal people like we gotta fit in with the community or we get excommunicated not so much
[00:55:46.690] anymore but like they just kick you out the tribe so that's why we have a natural fear of when people
[00:55:52.290] are looking at us now i'm gonna kind of wrap up here but what i'm saying is if i wanted views
[00:56:00.030] i would take all my shit off spotify all my shit off apple and i would just post to youtube where
[00:56:06.950] you could view it i mean we're doing a video podcast it's way easier to just record upload
[00:56:11.830] the mp3 and keep a show going like that yeah but because people can get it anywhere i want you to
[00:56:17.190] be able to get it anywhere if you listen to it on youtube now my numbers are spread out i got some
[00:56:22.890] with apple podcast some with this those aren't all in the same place so somebody might go and be like
[00:56:27.210] 30 views 100 views 300 views on the interview oh nobody's listening to them and stuff like that
[00:56:32.710] some people might do the the research and be like oh it's been slowly going up 10 20 views
[00:56:39.250] as it goes from there but part of that is listeners those are genuine listeners coming
[00:56:44.210] aboard and all of them have a different algorithm so if i wanted to let's say i knew i had hot
[00:56:50.110] content but we just don't have the views or the social backing i'd be like it makes sense to buy
[00:56:56.170] views just so people listen because people will see the 10 000 first thing they say is that click
[00:57:02.450] on the video with a bunch of there's people that won't click on this video until it has
[00:57:06.210] Thousands of views
[00:57:07.390] Hundreds of thousands
[00:57:08.550] Of views
[00:57:08.850] That is true
[00:57:09.350] Like sometimes
[00:57:10.330] Like the look of
[00:57:11.830] Like oh shit
[00:57:12.450] Like this shit
[00:57:13.310] Got a million views
[00:57:14.170] Like let me see
[00:57:14.910] What it's about
[00:57:15.530] You know what I mean
[00:57:16.330] That's a fact
[00:57:17.250] That's a fact
[00:57:17.870] But that's as far as it go
[00:57:20.130] That's
[00:57:20.810] It is
[00:57:21.350] That's as far as it go
[00:57:22.150] Now
[00:57:22.410] Now I wouldn't say
[00:57:24.070] I would feel like
[00:57:25.130] Ads and certain things
[00:57:26.490] Just to get you
[00:57:27.510] To want to click on it
[00:57:29.190] Is better than
[00:57:29.850] Buying a view
[00:57:30.570] You know what I'm saying
[00:57:31.690] Or trying to get
[00:57:32.350] You know
[00:57:32.750] Trying to get in certain spots
[00:57:33.990] Than buying a view
[00:57:34.970] Like
[00:57:35.310] But
[00:57:35.930] I mean you want the views
[00:57:37.790] I mean if they's real views
[00:57:39.270] And they translate to fans
[00:57:41.170] Then it makes sense
[00:57:42.110] You know what I'm saying
[00:57:43.250] And there's nothing wrong with that
[00:57:44.750] I don't see nothing wrong with that
[00:57:45.870] Like putting yourself
[00:57:46.550] In the opportunity to win
[00:57:47.810] People gotta see it
[00:57:48.850] That's what I want
[00:57:49.470] I want people to
[00:57:50.430] You know hear it
[00:57:52.090] And once they hear it
[00:57:52.850] When they fuck with me
[00:57:53.510] Or they pick me
[00:57:54.030] Like alright man
[00:57:54.570] Let me see what you got
[00:57:55.090] Going on over there
[00:57:55.850] They probably gonna like it
[00:57:57.370] You know what I'm saying
[00:57:57.790] They might not
[00:57:58.510] But that's
[00:57:59.410] You want the looks
[00:58:00.550] You want the looks always
[00:58:01.870] Ain't nothing wrong with that
[00:58:03.110] I ain't mad at the looks
[00:58:03.970] It's just
[00:58:04.390] If you're doing it for clout
[00:58:05.730] it ain't really working i mean i have a problem with that i don't buy likes i don't do any of that
[00:58:09.890] i actively don't shoot for the likes because then i gotta pander then i gotta cater i can't have the
[00:58:15.570] people that i want somebody trust me if i have a sponsor they might be like uh listen we listened
[00:58:21.450] to don status too and i'm thinking that maybe you know it's like i can have who i want i can do my
[00:58:27.730] thing i can talk the way i want it doesn't hurt me professionally yeah like that was part of probably
[00:58:33.630] get a sponsor that and any sponsor that come they'll understand what you're about and then
[00:58:37.710] support what the what your movement is about so they'll accept everybody you know i'm saying it's
[00:58:42.850] i'm a positive they get sponsors drink champs and they they drinking and smoking on the journey for
[00:58:47.710] me so it's like you got to look at it like that like at the end of the day you're gonna find a
[00:58:51.430] proper sponsor when they see the vision because the vision is the thing it's your vision so
[00:58:56.070] however you want to do how you said and then probably it'll be somebody who probably be like
[00:59:00.450] But you know what?
[00:59:01.150] I see what he's doing
[00:59:01.910] and I want to boost it up
[00:59:03.550] or I want to be part of it.
[00:59:05.650] And you know what I'm saying?
[00:59:06.830] That's coming for sure.
[00:59:08.690] Yeah.
[00:59:08.910] If it grows there organically,
[00:59:10.810] you know.
[00:59:11.150] Yeah, organically.
[00:59:11.990] That's how I feel.
[00:59:13.070] I'm exactly like organically
[00:59:14.710] is the way I want to go.
[00:59:16.630] Then we did something
[00:59:17.490] for a while, but.
[00:59:19.330] Yeah, facts.
[00:59:20.350] So you got anything
[00:59:21.230] you want to promote?
[00:59:22.070] Anyone you want to shout out?
[00:59:23.710] Tell them what you got going on.
[00:59:25.210] This is going to drop soon.
[00:59:26.350] I'm going to edit this.
[00:59:27.390] I'm going to edit this.
[00:59:28.010] I hope so, yeah, man.
[00:59:29.130] You know, the tape is out, man.
[00:59:30.230] DS2
[00:59:31.030] Don Status 2
[00:59:32.410] Is out
[00:59:32.990] I'm streaming on all platforms
[00:59:34.690] Man
[00:59:35.150] Don Dollar 500
[00:59:36.090] You can find me
[00:59:37.030] Don Dollar underscore 500
[00:59:38.670] You know what I'm saying
[00:59:39.730] On Instagram
[00:59:40.410] Don Dollar on Facebook
[00:59:42.050] You already know man
[00:59:43.790] Shout out to my nigga Champ
[00:59:44.990] Shout out to my nigga Tony man
[00:59:46.650] You know shout out to
[00:59:47.470] I Will Not Lose Podcast
[00:59:48.690] You feel me
[00:59:49.890] Thanks for having me man
[00:59:51.210] You know what I'm saying
[00:59:52.030] Look out for the merch
[00:59:53.590] Shout out my nigga Nano
[00:59:54.590] You know what I'm saying
[00:59:55.810] And the best designer
[00:59:56.910] You know what I mean
[00:59:58.250] In the world
[00:59:58.870] You know what I mean
[00:59:59.790] Shout out to him
[01:00:00.490] We got merch coming
[01:00:01.690] A collab
[01:00:04.500] You know what I'm saying
[01:00:05.120] Me and him
[01:00:05.820] AB Empire
[01:00:07.300] DS2
[01:00:09.120] Merch is coming for that
[01:00:10.540] You know
[01:00:10.880] Apparel
[01:00:11.560] Nice apparel
[01:00:12.860] For the people
[01:00:13.720] For the fans
[01:00:14.380] For my true fans
[01:00:15.300] You feel me
[01:00:15.900] So you gonna be my first sponsor
[01:00:18.260] And give me some drip
[01:00:19.180] For my show right
[01:00:20.260] Of course man
[01:00:21.480] You know I'm gonna come right through
[01:00:22.840] Drop that shit right off to you
[01:00:24.440] For real
[01:00:25.320] I bet
[01:00:25.980] Definitely man
[01:00:27.180] Yeah so I got that coming
[01:00:28.320] The apparel coming
[01:00:30.460] With Nano
[01:00:31.400] The collab
[01:00:32.420] We're gonna do some shorts
[01:00:34.560] And some tees
[01:00:35.500] For the summer
[01:00:36.660] Do a couple color waves
[01:00:38.100] And then
[01:00:38.960] You know I got a bunch of things coming
[01:00:41.940] I'm about to
[01:00:42.500] You know drop a couple more videos
[01:00:44.600] The video with him
[01:00:45.920] We're about to shoot that soon
[01:00:47.040] Get that dirty
[01:00:47.800] You know what I'm saying
[01:00:49.040] Cautious right
[01:00:50.140] Nah that's
[01:00:51.200] Oh that's the
[01:00:52.220] That's highly dedicated
[01:00:53.140] Off the album
[01:00:53.800] Highly dedicated
[01:00:55.120] Yeah featuring him
[01:00:56.600] From BFF
[01:00:57.420] BSF
[01:00:58.580] That hook is crazy.
[01:00:59.860] Oh, good looking.
[01:01:00.440] I appreciate it.
[01:01:01.480] It gives me like,
[01:01:02.360] that's more,
[01:01:03.000] like you said in the morning,
[01:01:04.160] that's more my afternoon vibe,
[01:01:05.900] like driving home
[01:01:06.720] in the sunset.
[01:01:07.780] Yeah.
[01:01:08.120] You know what I mean?
[01:01:08.620] And the windows
[01:01:09.560] just feel more open.
[01:01:11.220] You know, like.
[01:01:11.780] Word.
[01:01:12.260] That's a vibe.
[01:01:12.860] Sure.
[01:01:13.300] That's a vibe.
[01:01:14.100] But yeah,
[01:01:14.520] we got that.
[01:01:15.800] You know what I mean?
[01:01:16.100] I'm going to be doing
[01:01:16.680] some shows soon
[01:01:17.540] and shit like that.
[01:01:18.860] I mean,
[01:01:19.140] I'm going to be hitting
[01:01:19.380] some more platforms
[01:01:20.220] and just working the tape.
[01:01:21.840] You know what I'm saying?
[01:01:23.240] Yeah.
[01:01:24.380] What track,
[01:01:25.400] when I go and post,
[01:01:26.440] I'll throw one of your tracks
[01:01:27.620] to end the... I don't play music
[01:01:29.660] during the show just so people could figure
[01:01:31.520] it out, but if you wanted
[01:01:33.420] one track to play off the
[01:01:35.320] Don, may I throw
[01:01:37.440] Highly Dedicated on?
[01:01:39.380] I mean, you can if you want it.
[01:01:41.360] I don't really
[01:01:43.380] got, I mean,
[01:01:45.300] no actual preference or shit, but Highly Dedicated
[01:01:47.660] for sure.
[01:01:48.720] So we'll close out. This is Highly Dedicated
[01:01:51.480] off of Don Status 2
[01:01:53.640] available on all streaming platforms.
[01:01:55.940] Thanks for listening.
[01:01:56.940] Peace.
[01:02:40.380] The goons got me covered like a comforter
[01:02:42.880] Thinkin' bout my old chick, can't lie, I fuck with her
[01:02:45.900] Bitch broke my heart though, I should've never trusted her
[01:02:48.800] I don't think they feelin' us
[01:02:50.300] Back against the wall, but ain't no fearin' us
[01:02:52.460] Think I'ma fail, you niggas is delirious
[01:02:54.620] Listen as you hearin' this
[01:02:56.000] Thinkin' bout the ones who cross me, make me furious
[01:02:58.220] Man, I'm speakin' on this pain from experience
[01:03:00.580] Word to my mother, bad bowlin', man, I come from the gutter
[01:03:03.980] Disrespect, I'm the wrong motherfucker
[01:03:06.180] Fiends call me country crock, I'm known for the butter
[01:03:09.020] I stretch the white girl like a yoga instructor
[01:03:12.040] Niggas tried to block us
[01:03:13.700] Whoever knew a stove and a Pyrex
[01:03:15.880] I'd turn into a force in the process
[01:03:18.080] They could never stop us
[01:03:19.480] Listen, man, R.I.P. to Mamba
[01:03:21.580] We do niggas like Kobe with them choppers
[01:03:23.900] Life's hard, so I'm sippin' Duce to get faded
[01:03:27.360] For homies that died, I poured on the pavement
[01:03:29.580] I'm highly dedicated
[01:03:31.040] My homie had no roaches but got raided
[01:03:33.200] The way they hate on me, you'll think a nigga made it
[01:03:35.440] I'm highly dedicated
[01:03:36.940] Listen, man, I'm highly underrated
[01:03:39.080] Being a real nigga is never celebrated
[01:03:41.300] My mind elevated
[01:03:42.680] Took losses that left me devastated
[01:03:44.840] But turn me into someone you don't wanna play with
[01:03:47.160] I'm highly dedicated
[01:03:48.320] I stood down on my own tent
[01:03:50.400] Like 16 serving fiends
[01:03:52.460] Panhandling with grown men
[01:03:54.040] Them hard times, we was all in
[01:03:56.280] Tryna come up on a dime
[01:03:58.040] Niggas didn't wanna toss in
[01:03:59.920] My mom gon' kill me if she walk in
[01:04:02.120] My bedroom on a dresser
[01:04:04.020] It's a pistol in the walk, man
[01:04:05.760] They kill for me if I call them
[01:04:07.920] Make it hot out on that block
[01:04:09.740] Hundred shots if I call him
[01:04:11.600] It's for them days we was all stressin'
[01:04:14.180] Close my eyes, made a wish
[01:04:15.620] Then God sent us all blessings
[01:04:17.580] I ran the hood with a strong weapon
[01:04:19.700] They gon' say you out of bounds
[01:04:21.500] If they catch you in the wrong section
[01:04:23.460] Any nigga movin', foul-tech him
[01:04:25.640] Told the shooter, just do it
[01:04:27.380] I don't even wanna talk, check him
[01:04:29.260] He ain't a hustler, then I don't respect him
[01:04:31.540] Real bosses feed killers
[01:04:33.200] So you know a nigga well, but life's hard
[01:04:35.520] So I'm sipping Duce to get faded
[01:04:37.600] For homies that died, I poured on the pavement
[01:04:39.820] I'm highly dedicated
[01:04:41.020] My homie had no roaches but got raided
[01:04:43.460] The way they hate on me, you'll think a nigga made it
[01:04:45.680] I'm highly dedicated
[01:04:47.200] Listen man, I'm highly underrated
[01:04:49.320] Being a real nigga is never celebrated
[01:04:51.540] My mind elevated, took losses that left me devastated
[01:04:55.100] But turn me into someone you don't wanna play with
[01:04:57.420] I'm highly dedicated
[01:04:58.900] Don, Mr. Ma, Steve, and Don, what up nigga?
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