Baby Money On Being Arrested Right Before Tour, Taking Rap Seriously, His GF + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's way up at Angela. Yeah, and you know you
can't spell way without wayno wayno's in the building and
we got Baby Money here with us, and you know,
you guys are affiliated with each other, so we're gonna
get to that in a second.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But this is my now second time meeting you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Right, Yeah, I got the Pistons.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, three one three day at the Pistons game, Baby
Money was performing, So shout out to you for that.
That was a dope day. I was happy to be
at that game for three one three day. Everybody was there.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That was fun too.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
What was that like for you? Just you know, performing
at three and one three day? And are you a
Pistons fan?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, I gotta be a Piston fan. You gotta be
if it was good though, like that was she's not right,
she is not right. It made me feel good though,
and I was able to like pop upbout the stands
like it was like a real performance, like we was
at a concert or something. So and I like just
go to all them games, especially at the Palace before
it got to our city.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, no, it was dope.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I was in next to V's worse the five nine,
like everybody was there for three y'all go hard for.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Three one three days.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes, the day we get and.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Y'all also have sweetest Day, y'all get like some other
stuff that we don't do here.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's crazy. Everybody keeps saying that get your gifts back.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
See, he don't know what it is sweetest sweetish day.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's like so on Valentine's that you get your girl
some sweetiest days, like they got to get you something.
So you missing a lot of gifts right now. You
feel as you know, it's a world thing.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Gifts.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What kind of gifts you got for sweetest Day?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Louis changed? Oh, it's like important in our city, It's.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Very important important. What if your girl didn't get you
nothing but sweetest.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Day you I'm gonna take it personal because I go out,
I'm gonna go all the way off for Valentine's Day
to make sure she's smile well Wayno.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The reason why this was important because Wanna's been talking
about you for such a long time and he actually
signs you to Quality Control. But I know a lot
of people were trying to sign you, and so let's
discuss that whole process because this is something for a
lot of independent artists. You were doing your thing independently
and then you made the decision and decided to go
this route. So I want to talk about what went
(02:09):
into that decision. So what's that with you, Reyno?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What made you? What did you see in Baby Money?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
My man has sent me a little stuff, Like he
sent this me right when I was moving to Atlanta,
so I didn't get a chance to check it out.
And then when I did check it out, like he
had this song called Chrome Heart, and Chrome Heart was
just like I don't know, I think when I watched
the video, like not trying to be funny with the
way he looked at the camera, like he just showed
his vulnerability in that song because he was talking about
a personal situation in that song. So that alone made
(02:38):
me interested in him as an artist. You feel me,
And like I wasn't looking at no numbers, like I'm
not the number. I don't agree that numbers don't matter
early on, they do, but at the same time, for me,
I was just looking at him as somebody that could
be developed.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, And for you, Baby Money, because people were looking
at you and you had some other opportunities what made
you think Quality Control was the place to be And
what did you think initially when you met up with
Wayne O that made him stand out.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I was already he didn't know like this probably the
first time they know that. I was already watching him.
He had that podcast every Day Struggle. Yeah, I was
already watching him. I knew that that's the way to
get in though he don't even know. I followed him
before he signed. I wrote pee five years before he
signed me and told him, like, you're gonna be signing
me soon. That was another reason. And that was just
(03:26):
always like a dream, like somebody asked you something like
who's you signed to right now? Like you see everybody
over there, lit you don't see no problems. It ain't
nothing going on but money over there. So that was
one reason, like I know they're gonna turn me up
and put me in the right position.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And so initially when you reached out, you know, what
was your approach.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well, one of my homeboys, like I said, he sent
it to me in the morning, wake up.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
He said it to be like late morning. Then I
was on my way to the office.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I listened to it and then I caught p and
I was like, Yo, it's just this guy I want
to sign. He fired, and I said it to him.
He called me back like a met Like he is
real responsive. If he don't like something, if he don't
like it, he just won't say nothing that, you know
what I mean. He won't say that like you know
what I mean. But when I sent it the p
he hit me. He called me right back. He's like, yeah,
see what he talking about. And then that led to us,
(04:13):
you know, getting all on the phone, getting d D
on Baby Money's manager involved, and us getting on the
phone and figuring out how to get him down to Atlanta,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And when he came down.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I told him about like me moving down to Atlanta
and picking up and coming down there because I believed
in a brand, I believed in the company, and I
wanted him to be a part of the journey. I
wanted to be a part of his journey too. So
it's like, you know, once we talked about all that,
and then we got the money together, because that was
another thing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean, name is Baby Money, right, you know it's important.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
We had to get our bread right, give my boy.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
But you know it all worked out, you know, I mean,
it all worked out and were continuously growing, right, And.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's been it has been a long journey for you.
Like on countdown you said, it's been ten years. So
let's talk about those ten years from when you first
decided this is what you want to do to get
to where you are now, like some of the things
that trans fired over that time.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So losing a lot of people is one. Especially it
be the people that, like, be the people that push
you to do it. That'd be crazy part about it.
Like the people that push you to do it be
the ones that you lose and be like, damn, Now,
I got to make sure I did it, Like I
got to make sure I keep going, make sure I
make them happy. It'd be the people that when I
ain't had no money, they'd pay for the studio time,
(05:23):
like your brother. Yeah, like my brother, my club, my cousin. Oh,
Like I lost a lot of friends, so I just
wanted to make sure I make sure they happy for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And so even before that, I know you had said
previously you just found like heard some of your dad's
music for the first time too, because your father also
used to wrap.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
How did it sound to you when you heard sound.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It sounded cold, then it sounded like how the ninety
music was, Like he was in that moment, like you
feel me talking about how you get money in the kitchen.
I'm like, damn, I ain't know you was doing all
this year.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Then you get to hear like his story because I
lost when I was five, so I ain't really know,
but you get to hear like what he going through
and what he was doing. So it made me like,
all right, he was doing this. It was meant for
me to do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And you also have a lot of siblings as well,
how many and you're kind of in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
How do you think that affects you?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Like being because you know, they always talk about the youngest,
the oldest, and then the middle child has like but
they call middle child syndrome.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, I'm I'm the middle child, but I'm like the
big brother. Like I'm like the big brothers to everybody.
I get mad at everything that they do. I'm just
I'll be kind of controlling. That's probably bad, but we
grew up all with like together, so it's like if
you mess up, I gotta say something to you. You
feel me, So it kind of makes me the party
pooper sometime on they side, but I act old.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, they listen, that's what you call yourself. You got
the old soul, especially what he no.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
For real, because I mean I think that's one of
the things that really connect me and him, because.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I am you always at a long time, seriously, Like
I remember what time, Like when he called me on
a Sunday FaceTime, like what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He's like, Man, I'm a Bosston looking at a lake.
He's like, I was, like, how you get up there?
He's like, I just I just took a flight. He's like,
I was looking at lakes and stuff and I just
found the lake.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I was up there for like three four hours.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Look, but you know there's probably a lot of things
to think about and reflect on.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They get a clear mind, Yeah, to get.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
A clear mind, because that's nice to be able to travel.
Can you think about, like I think about the first
time I ever left New York and got on the
plane and went somewhere. Like, what's the first place you
ever visited outside of being in.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Detroit, Miami.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh, that's a nice one.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
My girl took mem I was probably fourteen, and.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
She took you to miam for sweetest day.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Probably no fourth of July. I remember fourth of July,
fourth of July, Miami.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And how did that change things for you? Because traveling in.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Town every week probably since then, I ain't know, it's
like bigger stuff, Like I ain't know as big as
she showed me that for shure.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's dope.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
See how a woman could change your whole viewpoint on things?
Is somebody you've been with since then?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
For thirteen years?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Since I was thirteen.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
There's not a lot of guys that could say that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, well, I'm not gonna say nothing way now, but
that does you know that longevity does mean a lot
and you do talk a lot of share in your music.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Does she take it this year?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Is she ever? Like?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You know, you ain't doing all that?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's my job.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Because that's hard for a woman, Like why is he
talking all this about other chicks?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And you know that's.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What they want to hear, that's the world want to hear.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
How is it being on tour with Skill and Rob
Forn and I just saw them earlier too, that's a
big deal as well. And that has to feel nice
like a piece of home traveling with you too?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Sure, I grew up with skillers, so it's like I'm
traveling with a brother. Like, so it's regular. We always
go out of town, you feel me so, but for
us to be on the same stage area night, it's
like big for us in the city for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That has to feel surreal because both of you are
really doing your thing right now and now you guys
are really getting to the money. Yeah, do y'all ever
just be like, I can't believe we're here right now.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We always had him. I just walked up on the
other day and told me, I appreciate you talking about bro.
This is what we supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So yeah, he always did the songs for women too,
and y'all got a song together this kind of for
the ladies.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Yeah, it's good tried, You're good now. I was gonna say,
it's like what the Detroit scene reminds me a lot
of you. Is like when I was around Philly, you
know what I mean. And like at the time when
I was around Philly beans and state property and almost
popping in like from that Meek came and the Oozy
all these other people. So like when I started working
like with Sada, seeing what he was doing for the city.
(09:46):
And then like Skiller was around at that time, seeing
what Skiller is that even you know, me meeting baby Money,
like you know what I mean, his growth and trajectory
since and it's not just purely being signed because you
can get signed and not doing the work.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
He do the work for me.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
So it's like to see what he's doing for Detroit
and so many other people Vessel, you know what I mean,
v GT all of them, Like it's it's dope to
see what they're doing for their city.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Baby Face, Ray, y'all all got songs together.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's really like you don't have to leave Detroit in
order to do music because there's so many artists that's there.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, for sure. And we've all been working together for
a long.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Time for too, Doug all you guys, and I know
there was a point in time. It's like everybody's trying
to sign somebody an artist from Detroit right now, you know,
is that something that you could see yourself, like signing
other artists?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Is that a goal for you too, just to I
want to be pe in a sense of I want
to sign a lot of artists too, Like Yo, got
to drop every five years because it's ten other people
rapping on it. You see what I'm saying. So it's
like I want to do other stuff other than this.
We want to do this like all our life, right
on the own houses like you.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We're almost done with our midtown Detroit projects.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, the thirty unit building. We were actually about.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To sign as soon as we're done with this, the
contract for the broker to start leasing out the apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But you also have seen that in your family. Oh
it is in Midtown. That's a nice area. You got
a nice area.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But you know, I was gonna say, you also have
family members right that own a lot of property in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So that's something that you've been seeing.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, And there's a lot of opportunity when you're from
there to invest there, but people have to take advantage
of it.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You got to take advantage of it whenever they give
it to you to take advantage of. Because I had
a sheet that I ain't get, somebody got the whole block.
I said, wow, I should have did it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Is that something that you're actively doing now?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Though?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
As far as opportunities and investing and have.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You I got a food truck opening too in Houston. Okay,
I think next month. I think next month on the seventeen.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Can you cook?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
No, I can't cook. I can cook all the hood food, noodles, hamburgers,
that's all food. That's what you can just as soon
as you come out, you know how to cook that now.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Wayna was talking earlier about the vulnerary ability that he
saw in you when he saw your video, and I
just want to talk about that for a second, because
that's something that you've been doing in your music too,
just being and in your interviews is being really transparent
about your journey to where you got.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
To here today.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And one thing you've talked a lot also about is
lean and that actually ended up having you violate probation
and do ninety days in jail for violating probation. And
when you think about that whole journey of how that happened,
because that's a discouraging thing to happen, like right when
things are really popping off too crazy, and then you
feel a little like, damn, I can't believe I.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I messed up. Messed up, sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But what are some lessons that you learned from something
like that?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You need to stop drinking lean. That's the first thing
you need to do, and just stay out the way.
The best thing I did since I got out of
that situation was stay off the way, just go to
the studio. I had to take it as a job
instead of fun, because I was having fun at the
same time I was leaving the show drinking lean, doing
ninety at three o'clock in the morning. You feel me,
So I was having fun. I got to take it
(13:03):
as a job. Make sure I make it again safe,
and just stop doing bs.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Were you already signed when that happened.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was going on Twitter next month. No, literally, I
was going on Twitter next month, so I had I
went in jail before she made sure I didn't go
on Twitter. Judge, and I went in jail the first
day of the tour.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
She sh it threw our whole plan off because we
had a tape dropping.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
We had a tape dropping, and right while he was
on tour, like right when he was coming off the tour,
the tape was gonna drop. We had so much momentum
and it slowed up our trajectory, like we didn't drop
into it was that d like September that Yeah, yeah,
we ain't dropping to September, yeah, of that year, and
I mean we still had a good year, but had
he been able to go on that tour drop we
was coming. We was playing on and dropping another tape
(13:46):
that year. So it slowed us down. But you know,
living you learn.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, because sometimes something like that happens to teach you
a bigger lesson. It could have been a lot worse,
you know. Yeah, So what does success look like to
you now? Because I'm sure as we get more success,
the bar gets higher and higher. So now if I
ask you today, what would success look like for you?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Everybody happy? When that's not possible either because you can't
make everybody cannot actually if you're not happy. But I
feel like that'd be successful. Everybody not calling every day,
everybody got their own tea apiece even, But I feel
like succession is what I got right now. I come
from nothing, so for my mama to have a house
(14:26):
and everything that she won't, I feel like I ain't
saying like I reached my goal, but I feel successful.
She's smiled every day.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I know you gave her a hard time growing up,
just come hearing the stories that you had to tell.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
For sure, If I'm probably what's the worst.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
When does she realize that this was going to be
something that was really going to happen, because listen, to
be honest, there's a lot of kids who want to
be rappers. You know, in Detroit, a lot of people rap,
and so you definitely stood out from the.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Pack of people.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
When does she realize, Damn, I my son really about
to make.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You start doing shows like every weekend, you ain't at
home no more. It's like, why I just came to
your house and you ain't there, Like, why you ain't there?
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'll be back. I gotta pay
your bills.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Did you have to do free shows at first? You
know how artists?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I did a lot of free shows. I did a
lot of shows for five hundred three hundred this for
people can see me every night.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, like you said, it is a job though, you know,
for people to be able to to Yeah, to build
up your brand and build up your name growth.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What other labels were trying to sign you.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I was down here seeing Alamo, Colombia, and I was
a third one. I don't know it had something to.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Do with YouTube, okay, but it feels.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Play one song in the studio, his man, his man.
It was like it was like he paused the song
and said, go get Champagne. He getting signed in the morning.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That whole what song was that.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Impatient and I'm talking about like my whole life, what
I've been through. He paused it before the beating and
drop and said, go get Champagne.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Sign him in the morning.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And in my eyes, I'm like, people say this all
the time. I don't believe. I'm trying on the beat.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And then he convinced because he kept he called me,
cursed me out. He's like, I'm telling you, if you
don't sign him, somebody gonna sign on them all telling
me like that, it was a lot.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I mean, you know, even through the process, like we
did have back and forth because.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You know, you got to let the lawyer's lawyer.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I mean it's like that's what I ain't gonna front.
That's what built me. And you know, Baby wanted to
manager DD. Our relationship a lot because at that time,
as much as we love each other, we learned how
to go back and forth one another.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
We was going back and forth about so many different things.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
And then once we was able to like make it
happen it was like you know what, I mean, a
wait o for all our shoulders and we got straight
to work.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
But it was it was it was a process. I
ain't even lie. It was a process.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And then you you work with so many well beats,
obviously Dasha guy who you work with, and Heleva. You
know again, like people that you don't have to leave
the city. I like the fact that people stay there too,
because a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Like you'll go too nighty, you go to a whole
nother state.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
They gotta go to Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
La, you sneak this.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
In me right now?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Wait you I left because I left New York and
went to Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That was the first thing she said. She sneaked me.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, I mean your headquarters. Is it something you ever
thought about though? Like did you ever think like maybe?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah? But every time I leave and go somewhere, I
want to go back home, Like I'd be somewhere for
two weeks or three weeks and be like y'all fool,
ain't the same, Like I ain't even eight season, ain't right.
I gotta go home real quick, right, So I probably
have like a house in two different states, if anything,
But I don't think I want listen.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
People underestimate the food and Detroit too so far because
I feel like they had some amazing restaurants. Tell me
some of your favorite places to go for everybody listening,
y'all got to visit Detroit, but give us some places.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Where we're going seven figures for sure. I love Chris,
so I'm going to throw Christ and there you are
about that Christ inspire. You think you out of town?
You feel me?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They do got a dress code.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Though they got a dress code. You can't smell like
no we you feel gonna put you out.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So you only get to go there once a month.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I probably get the last hour first. I've got the
last hour close. I got the last hour before they closed.
So nobody being there ain't gonna say nothing to that
mid West grill, mid West grill is fire. Uh. Coney Island,
Oh gosh, Any Coney Islands the same? Any Conney Island
from seven mile back? Okay, you hear me from seven
(18:41):
mile back to downtown, you would be good. You go
anywhere else, you're gonna be mad.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
T Grizzly did that whole campaign with Coney Island where
he put his.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Hour McDonald's like we allowed McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Though, but there's different. It's a different menu at it's the.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Most it's the same at all. It just looked different.
Just say what you want. We're trying to make it
look good inside when we really only sailed three different things.
Man picked what you one?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
What's what's that that one strip that's like by uh
this Michigan University's It's like you know, it's like.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Right up there, it's like sweet water and everything.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I think that's what that going.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh you gotta get sweet water when you go to DT.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So now you're like a Detroit persona no no, no,
you switch over on your look. So you had wallow
out there too, And I saw he's on the answer
for the album. How did you guys build such a
great relationship with each other?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
One of his first interviews was with Peas and I
was that's like probably three days after I got signed
to his first interviews with ps PZ. I told me
to pull up and that's when I met him. He
had gotten the car was We really did an interview
basically in the car he called p he called coach
on the fall call. We never dropped that part though,
but that's how that happened, and he told me, like,
I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna come back and walk
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through your hood with you. Like and he came back.
He walked through there, he was comfortable. I took them
to Barry Gordy House. Oh yeah, took them to Motown,
show to everything.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's dope to be able to show because Detroit definitely
has a lot of history when it comes to seeing
all those different things. What about politics, I saw skill
of Baby doing something with Mary Sheffield the other day.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But you appreciate her, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Right, So when you think about that, like, is that
something that you're planning to get involved in? Because I
feel like the good thing about Detroit is the certain
people who are running for office that you actually get
to see who are out and about that you can
have conversations with and make real things happen.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
For sure. But Mary Mary, like she was helping us before,
like we want her to be mayor if it's possible,
or when it happens, she's going to be our mayor.
She was helping us a long time ago, and now
she got a bigger platform. She helped us steal Like
you don't be having to do with no money. She
ain't calling asks for no money. She probably just want
you to be there and let you let the kids
see you. You feel me. So whatever she we can
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help her with, we make sure we help her. Then
she give you an award.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I saw she just had her birthday last week too,
So I do really hope that she's run if she's
the president of the city council, you know out there,
so I think the youngest one ever. So that's what
we really do need because people say bad things about politicians,
but there are politicians, and we need people to run
for office who actually care about the community and are.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Going to do the trucks giving ice cream all day.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
That's now another person that is on your label. Your
label mate is VESO as well. So isn't that nice
to have like somebody with you that y'all could And
his wife owns the juice bar, Fresh and Press.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
They have that.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
My brother and Troy.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Out there is well. The entrepreneurship is so heavy. What
are the things are you interested in besides music?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Like you said, I want to do real estate. I
want to get more into these food tricks, and I
want to open a closed store. But when that happened,
that happened. Okay, But I want to get into real estate.
These food tricks.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
You got to tell them about your franchise. And remember
you tried the franchise Raisin kan.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I try. I try to give them like four different
peo people too. They was missing women.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
What's the process to franchise that? It is a difficult one.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't know. I just kept emailing the email. They
still said no.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Told me have the money, and I got it right here.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I still have.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
If you re for raising cases, why don't you open
an island?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I want to open the corn Island somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Else, right, that would make sense.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I want to open the corn Island somewhere else that
don't know about Corny Island. Then it's gonna be the
biggest thing there.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
But that's so funny here, like for us being from
here here in Corney Island, because it's in Brooklyn, and.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Y'all ain't even got no real Corny Island. Y'all got
the city. That's the city. We have the real con the.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's like an amusement park and a neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
From as a matter of.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Fact, yeah, you need to go to Corney Island to
see what that's like. That slid up there and you
have a you have ail, you have a son as well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
From your son to Coney Island, it'll be fine because
it's an amusement park. They could go on the rise
and that I'm warriors.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Does your son know you're famous?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Now? He only won? Okay, I'm trying to Yeah, I'm trying.
I'm trying to make him famous Waldmark, anybody need him.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
The timing is good to have a baby, though, you
know what I'm saying, a baby, baby money.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
A baby baby. I'm gonna have to change my name soon.
It's getting crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What to big money?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Big money?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well no, honestly, congratulations on everything, and you know, seeing
all the success that you've had and people in your corner,
do you feel like, I know, you said some people
thought you would never get signed and that this would
never happen for you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do you feel like you have some haters too?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah? I think that that come with a period, And
I feel like nobody, like I didn't even know I
was gonna get signed, So can't nobody run up on
me like I knew it? No, you didn't you feel me.
I ain't even know it. You feel me?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So his team knew it.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
He said, his team y'all knew it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
No, I'm talking about Pride to me, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It ain't nobody d D he was knowing it. D D.
He wasn't even getting paid. She knew it. D he
won't even getting paid. She knew it, so d D.
For sure, ain't no in my brother's number. Ain't nobody
running up on me telling me I knew it. I
ain't accepting that because right after that, cash up me
four hours or something because I knew.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, congratulations on everything on the tour, you know, on
the album, him hustling me that you got going on,
and it's great to see it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
So again, glad to have you up here.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I know when I saw you, I was like, we
got to have you come up to the show and
we definitely made it happen, and thank you so much,
and thank you Wayna, because Wayna was like, no, I
don't want to do but I felt like this was
a good way for people to see the authenticity of
like how it does matter. Some people think there's no
artist development anymore. Some people think that A and RS
are irrelevant, you know, but that's clearly not true.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Me and him be trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Brother, you play too, But that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
But when you think about artists development, that is something
that does. And look, you're from, you know, Motown, which
is the home of where we think about Barry Gordy
and quality control for sure, and how they developed artists.
And so how does artist development happen now? Because like
you said, you don't necessarily wint an artist who has
the biggest numbers or everybody trying to you know, compete.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, I say mostly consistency, like that's that's been the
biggest thing. And sometimes life gets in the way to consistency,
like we were saying about when he had his legal troubles.
But I say consistency like constantly being in the studio,
like I ain't gonna lie. I don't stay in the
studio the five o'clock in the morning anymore, you know
what I mean. But there's days of what I do
is like when it is two hours in get two hours.
But we always communicate and it's like I'm always sending
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him be so like he'll call me and say I
want to work on this type of song. Or he'll
send me a certain type of song and say, yo,
like what do you think, and I'll just give him
my insight.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yo, we might want to put a feature on here.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
So it's like just constantly working together for the higher goal,
which is to make him a start, which I believe
he is already, but for the world to realize that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, all right, good well, we love to see it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And it feels like a lot of people have been
wanting to work with you and working with you, and
so I congratulate you.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
For the journey so far.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Our music is amazing and you know, I cannot wait
to see you again and have fun on tour.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Thank you for having me, Thank you wayno, you all right,
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's way up at Angela. Yeah, and you know you
can't spell way without wayno wayno's in the building and
we got Baby Money here with us, and you know,
you guys are affiliated with each other, so we're gonna
get to that in a second.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
But this is my now second time meeting you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Right, Yeah, I got the Pistons.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, three one three day at the Pistons game, Baby
Money was performing, So shout out to you for that.
That was a dope day. I was happy to be
at that game for three one three day. Everybody was there.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
That was fun too.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
What was that like for you? Just you know, performing
at three and one three day? And are you a
Pistons fan?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, I gotta be a Piston fan. You gotta be
if it was good though, like that was she's not right,
she is not right. It made me feel good though,
and I was able to like pop upbout the stands
like it was like a real performance, like we was
at a concert or something. So and I like just
go to all them games, especially at the Palace before
it got to our city.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, no, it was dope.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I was in next to V's worse the five nine,
like everybody was there for three y'all go hard for.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Three one three days.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes, the day we get and.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Y'all also have sweetest Day, y'all get like some other
stuff that we don't do here.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's crazy. Everybody keeps saying that get your gifts back.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
See, he don't know what it is sweetest sweetish day.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's like so on Valentine's that you get your girl
some sweetiest days, like they got to get you something.
So you missing a lot of gifts right now. You
feel as you know, it's a world thing.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Gifts.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What kind of gifts you got for sweetest Day?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Louis changed? Oh, it's like important in our city, It's.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Very important important. What if your girl didn't get you
nothing but sweetest.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Day you I'm gonna take it personal because I go out,
I'm gonna go all the way off for Valentine's Day
to make sure she's smile well Wayno.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The reason why this was important because Wanna's been talking
about you for such a long time and he actually
signs you to Quality Control. But I know a lot
of people were trying to sign you, and so let's
discuss that whole process because this is something for a
lot of independent artists. You were doing your thing independently
and then you made the decision and decided to go
this route. So I want to talk about what went
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into that decision. So what's that with you, Reyno?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What made you? What did you see in Baby Money?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
My man has sent me a little stuff, Like he
sent this me right when I was moving to Atlanta,
so I didn't get a chance to check it out.
And then when I did check it out, like he
had this song called Chrome Heart, and Chrome Heart was
just like I don't know, I think when I watched
the video, like not trying to be funny with the
way he looked at the camera, like he just showed
his vulnerability in that song because he was talking about
a personal situation in that song. So that alone made
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me interested in him as an artist. You feel me,
And like I wasn't looking at no numbers, like I'm
not the number. I don't agree that numbers don't matter
early on, they do, but at the same time, for me,
I was just looking at him as somebody that could
be developed.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, And for you, Baby Money, because people were looking
at you and you had some other opportunities what made
you think Quality Control was the place to be And
what did you think initially when you met up with
Wayne O that made him stand out.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I was already he didn't know like this probably the
first time they know that. I was already watching him.
He had that podcast every Day Struggle. Yeah, I was
already watching him. I knew that that's the way to
get in though he don't even know. I followed him
before he signed. I wrote pee five years before he
signed me and told him, like, you're gonna be signing
me soon. That was another reason. And that was just
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always like a dream, like somebody asked you something like
who's you signed to right now? Like you see everybody
over there, lit you don't see no problems. It ain't
nothing going on but money over there. So that was
one reason, like I know they're gonna turn me up
and put me in the right position.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And so initially when you reached out, you know, what
was your approach.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well, one of my homeboys, like I said, he sent
it to me in the morning, wake up.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
He said it to be like late morning. Then I
was on my way to the office.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I listened to it and then I caught p and
I was like, Yo, it's just this guy I want
to sign. He fired, and I said it to him.
He called me back like a met Like he is
real responsive. If he don't like something, if he don't
like it, he just won't say nothing that, you know
what I mean. He won't say that like you know
what I mean. But when I sent it the p
he hit me. He called me right back. He's like, yeah,
see what he talking about. And then that led to us,
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you know, getting all on the phone, getting d D
on Baby Money's manager involved, and us getting on the
phone and figuring out how to get him down to Atlanta,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And when he came down.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I told him about like me moving down to Atlanta
and picking up and coming down there because I believed
in a brand, I believed in the company, and I
wanted him to be a part of the journey. I
wanted to be a part of his journey too. So
it's like, you know, once we talked about all that,
and then we got the money together, because that was
another thing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean, name is Baby Money, right, you know it's important.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
We had to get our bread right, give my boy.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
But you know it all worked out, you know, I mean,
it all worked out and were continuously growing, right, And.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's been it has been a long journey for you.
Like on countdown you said, it's been ten years. So
let's talk about those ten years from when you first
decided this is what you want to do to get
to where you are now, like some of the things
that trans fired over that time.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So losing a lot of people is one. Especially it
be the people that, like, be the people that push
you to do it. That'd be crazy part about it.
Like the people that push you to do it be
the ones that you lose and be like, damn, Now,
I got to make sure I did it, Like I
got to make sure I keep going, make sure I
make them happy. It'd be the people that when I
ain't had no money, they'd pay for the studio time,
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like your brother. Yeah, like my brother, my club, my cousin. Oh,
Like I lost a lot of friends, so I just
wanted to make sure I make sure they happy for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And so even before that, I know you had said
previously you just found like heard some of your dad's
music for the first time too, because your father also
used to wrap.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
How did it sound to you when you heard sound.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It sounded cold, then it sounded like how the ninety
music was, Like he was in that moment, like you
feel me talking about how you get money in the kitchen.
I'm like, damn, I ain't know you was doing all
this year.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Then you get to hear like his story because I
lost when I was five, so I ain't really know,
but you get to hear like what he going through
and what he was doing. So it made me like,
all right, he was doing this. It was meant for
me to do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And you also have a lot of siblings as well,
how many and you're kind of in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
How do you think that affects you?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Like being because you know, they always talk about the youngest,
the oldest, and then the middle child has like but
they call middle child syndrome.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, I'm I'm the middle child, but I'm like the
big brother. Like I'm like the big brothers to everybody.
I get mad at everything that they do. I'm just
I'll be kind of controlling. That's probably bad, but we
grew up all with like together, so it's like if
you mess up, I gotta say something to you. You
feel me, So it kind of makes me the party
pooper sometime on they side, but I act old.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, they listen, that's what you call yourself. You got
the old soul, especially what he no.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
For real, because I mean I think that's one of
the things that really connect me and him, because.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I am you always at a long time, seriously, Like
I remember what time, Like when he called me on
a Sunday FaceTime, like what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He's like, Man, I'm a Bosston looking at a lake.
He's like, I was, like, how you get up there?
He's like, I just I just took a flight. He's like,
I was looking at lakes and stuff and I just
found the lake.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I was up there for like three four hours.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Look, but you know there's probably a lot of things
to think about and reflect on.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
They get a clear mind, Yeah, to get.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
A clear mind, because that's nice to be able to travel.
Can you think about, like I think about the first
time I ever left New York and got on the
plane and went somewhere. Like, what's the first place you
ever visited outside of being in.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Detroit, Miami.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh, that's a nice one.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
My girl took mem I was probably fourteen, and.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
She took you to miam for sweetest day.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Probably no fourth of July. I remember fourth of July,
fourth of July, Miami.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And how did that change things for you? Because traveling in.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Town every week probably since then, I ain't know, it's
like bigger stuff, Like I ain't know as big as
she showed me that for shure.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's dope.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
See how a woman could change your whole viewpoint on things?
Is somebody you've been with since then?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
For thirteen years?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Since I was thirteen.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
There's not a lot of guys that could say that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, well, I'm not gonna say nothing way now, but
that does you know that longevity does mean a lot
and you do talk a lot of share in your music.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Does she take it this year?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Is she ever? Like?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You know, you ain't doing all that?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's my job.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Because that's hard for a woman, Like why is he
talking all this about other chicks?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And you know that's.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What they want to hear, that's the world want to hear.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
How is it being on tour with Skill and Rob
Forn and I just saw them earlier too, that's a
big deal as well. And that has to feel nice
like a piece of home traveling with you too?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Sure, I grew up with skillers, so it's like I'm
traveling with a brother. Like, so it's regular. We always
go out of town, you feel me so, but for
us to be on the same stage area night, it's
like big for us in the city for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That has to feel surreal because both of you are
really doing your thing right now and now you guys
are really getting to the money. Yeah, do y'all ever
just be like, I can't believe we're here right now.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We always had him. I just walked up on the
other day and told me, I appreciate you talking about bro.
This is what we supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So yeah, he always did the songs for women too,
and y'all got a song together this kind of for
the ladies.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Yeah, it's good tried, You're good now. I was gonna say,
it's like what the Detroit scene reminds me a lot
of you. Is like when I was around Philly, you
know what I mean. And like at the time when
I was around Philly beans and state property and almost
popping in like from that Meek came and the Oozy
all these other people. So like when I started working
like with Sada, seeing what he was doing for the city.
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And then like Skiller was around at that time, seeing
what Skiller is that even you know, me meeting baby Money,
like you know what I mean, his growth and trajectory
since and it's not just purely being signed because you
can get signed and not doing the work.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
He do the work for me.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
So it's like to see what he's doing for Detroit
and so many other people Vessel, you know what I mean,
v GT all of them, Like it's it's dope to
see what they're doing for their city.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Baby Face, Ray, y'all all got songs together.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's really like you don't have to leave Detroit in
order to do music because there's so many artists that's there.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, for sure. And we've all been working together for
a long.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Time for too, Doug all you guys, and I know
there was a point in time. It's like everybody's trying
to sign somebody an artist from Detroit right now, you know,
is that something that you could see yourself, like signing
other artists?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Is that a goal for you too, just to I
want to be pe in a sense of I want
to sign a lot of artists too, Like Yo, got
to drop every five years because it's ten other people
rapping on it. You see what I'm saying. So it's
like I want to do other stuff other than this.
We want to do this like all our life, right
on the own houses like you.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We're almost done with our midtown Detroit projects.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, the thirty unit building. We were actually about.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To sign as soon as we're done with this, the
contract for the broker to start leasing out the apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But you also have seen that in your family. Oh
it is in Midtown. That's a nice area. You got
a nice area.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
But you know, I was gonna say, you also have
family members right that own a lot of property in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So that's something that you've been seeing.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, And there's a lot of opportunity when you're from
there to invest there, but people have to take advantage
of it.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You got to take advantage of it whenever they give
it to you to take advantage of. Because I had
a sheet that I ain't get, somebody got the whole block.
I said, wow, I should have did it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Is that something that you're actively doing now?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Though?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
As far as opportunities and investing and have.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You I got a food truck opening too in Houston. Okay,
I think next month. I think next month on the seventeen.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Can you cook?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
No, I can't cook. I can cook all the hood food, noodles, hamburgers,
that's all food. That's what you can just as soon
as you come out, you know how to cook that now.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Wayna was talking earlier about the vulnerary ability that he
saw in you when he saw your video, and I
just want to talk about that for a second, because
that's something that you've been doing in your music too,
just being and in your interviews is being really transparent
about your journey to where you got.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
To here today.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And one thing you've talked a lot also about is
lean and that actually ended up having you violate probation
and do ninety days in jail for violating probation. And
when you think about that whole journey of how that happened,
because that's a discouraging thing to happen, like right when
things are really popping off too crazy, and then you
feel a little like, damn, I can't believe I.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I messed up. Messed up, sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But what are some lessons that you learned from something
like that?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You need to stop drinking lean. That's the first thing
you need to do, and just stay out the way.
The best thing I did since I got out of
that situation was stay off the way, just go to
the studio. I had to take it as a job
instead of fun, because I was having fun at the
same time I was leaving the show drinking lean, doing
ninety at three o'clock in the morning. You feel me,
So I was having fun. I got to take it
(13:03):
as a job. Make sure I make it again safe,
and just stop doing bs.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Were you already signed when that happened.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was going on Twitter next month. No, literally, I
was going on Twitter next month, so I had I
went in jail before she made sure I didn't go
on Twitter. Judge, and I went in jail the first
day of the tour.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
She sh it threw our whole plan off because we
had a tape dropping.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
We had a tape dropping, and right while he was
on tour, like right when he was coming off the tour,
the tape was gonna drop. We had so much momentum
and it slowed up our trajectory, like we didn't drop
into it was that d like September that Yeah, yeah,
we ain't dropping to September, yeah, of that year, and
I mean we still had a good year, but had
he been able to go on that tour drop we
was coming. We was playing on and dropping another tape
(13:46):
that year. So it slowed us down. But you know,
living you learn.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, because sometimes something like that happens to teach you
a bigger lesson. It could have been a lot worse,
you know. Yeah, So what does success look like to
you now? Because I'm sure as we get more success,
the bar gets higher and higher. So now if I
ask you today, what would success look like for you?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Everybody happy? When that's not possible either because you can't
make everybody cannot actually if you're not happy. But I
feel like that'd be successful. Everybody not calling every day,
everybody got their own tea apiece even, But I feel
like succession is what I got right now. I come
from nothing, so for my mama to have a house
(14:26):
and everything that she won't, I feel like I ain't
saying like I reached my goal, but I feel successful.
She's smiled every day.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I know you gave her a hard time growing up,
just come hearing the stories that you had to tell.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
For sure, If I'm probably what's the worst.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
When does she realize that this was going to be
something that was really going to happen, because listen, to
be honest, there's a lot of kids who want to
be rappers. You know, in Detroit, a lot of people rap,
and so you definitely stood out from the.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Pack of people.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
When does she realize, Damn, I my son really about
to make.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
You start doing shows like every weekend, you ain't at
home no more. It's like, why I just came to
your house and you ain't there, Like, why you ain't there?
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'll be back. I gotta pay
your bills.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Did you have to do free shows at first? You
know how artists?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I did a lot of free shows. I did a
lot of shows for five hundred three hundred this for
people can see me every night.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, like you said, it is a job though, you know,
for people to be able to to Yeah, to build
up your brand and build up your name growth.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What other labels were trying to sign you.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I was down here seeing Alamo, Colombia, and I was
a third one. I don't know it had something to.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Do with YouTube, okay, but it feels.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Play one song in the studio, his man, his man.
It was like it was like he paused the song
and said, go get Champagne. He getting signed in the morning.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That whole what song was that.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Impatient and I'm talking about like my whole life, what
I've been through. He paused it before the beating and
drop and said, go get Champagne.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Sign him in the morning.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And in my eyes, I'm like, people say this all
the time. I don't believe. I'm trying on the beat.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And then he convinced because he kept he called me,
cursed me out. He's like, I'm telling you, if you
don't sign him, somebody gonna sign on them all telling
me like that, it was a lot.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I mean, you know, even through the process, like we
did have back and forth because.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You know, you got to let the lawyer's lawyer.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, I mean it's like that's what I ain't gonna front.
That's what built me. And you know, Baby wanted to
manager DD. Our relationship a lot because at that time,
as much as we love each other, we learned how
to go back and forth one another.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
We was going back and forth about so many different things.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
And then once we was able to like make it
happen it was like you know what, I mean, a
wait o for all our shoulders and we got straight
to work.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
But it was it was it was a process. I
ain't even lie. It was a process.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And then you you work with so many well beats,
obviously Dasha guy who you work with, and Heleva. You
know again, like people that you don't have to leave
the city. I like the fact that people stay there too,
because a lot of times.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Like you'll go too nighty, you go to a whole
nother state.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
They gotta go to Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
La, you sneak this.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
In me right now?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Wait you I left because I left New York and
went to Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That was the first thing she said. She sneaked me.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, I mean your headquarters. Is it something you ever
thought about though? Like did you ever think like maybe?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah? But every time I leave and go somewhere, I
want to go back home, Like I'd be somewhere for
two weeks or three weeks and be like y'all fool,
ain't the same, Like I ain't even eight season, ain't right.
I gotta go home real quick, right, So I probably
have like a house in two different states, if anything,
But I don't think I want listen.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
People underestimate the food and Detroit too so far because
I feel like they had some amazing restaurants. Tell me
some of your favorite places to go for everybody listening,
y'all got to visit Detroit, but give us some places.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Where we're going seven figures for sure. I love Chris,
so I'm going to throw Christ and there you are
about that Christ inspire. You think you out of town?
You feel me?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They do got a dress code.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Though they got a dress code. You can't smell like
no we you feel gonna put you out.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So you only get to go there once a month.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I probably get the last hour first. I've got the
last hour close. I got the last hour before they closed.
So nobody being there ain't gonna say nothing to that
mid West grill, mid West grill is fire. Uh. Coney Island,
Oh gosh, Any Coney Islands the same? Any Conney Island
from seven mile back? Okay, you hear me from seven
(18:41):
mile back to downtown, you would be good. You go
anywhere else, you're gonna be mad.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
T Grizzly did that whole campaign with Coney Island where
he put his.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Hour McDonald's like we allowed McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Though, but there's different. It's a different menu at it's the.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Most it's the same at all. It just looked different.
Just say what you want. We're trying to make it
look good inside when we really only sailed three different things.
Man picked what you one?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
What's what's that that one strip that's like by uh
this Michigan University's It's like you know, it's like.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Right up there, it's like sweet water and everything.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I think that's what that going.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh you gotta get sweet water when you go to DT.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So now you're like a Detroit persona no no, no,
you switch over on your look. So you had wallow
out there too, And I saw he's on the answer
for the album. How did you guys build such a
great relationship with each other?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
One of his first interviews was with Peas and I
was that's like probably three days after I got signed
to his first interviews with ps PZ. I told me
to pull up and that's when I met him. He
had gotten the car was We really did an interview
basically in the car he called p he called coach
on the fall call. We never dropped that part though,
but that's how that happened, and he told me, like,
I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna come back and walk
(19:53):
through your hood with you. Like and he came back.
He walked through there, he was comfortable. I took them
to Barry Gordy House. Oh yeah, took them to Motown,
show to everything.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's dope to be able to show because Detroit definitely
has a lot of history when it comes to seeing
all those different things. What about politics, I saw skill
of Baby doing something with Mary Sheffield the other day.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But you appreciate her, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Right, So when you think about that, like, is that
something that you're planning to get involved in? Because I
feel like the good thing about Detroit is the certain
people who are running for office that you actually get
to see who are out and about that you can
have conversations with and make real things happen.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
For sure. But Mary Mary, like she was helping us before,
like we want her to be mayor if it's possible,
or when it happens, she's going to be our mayor.
She was helping us a long time ago, and now
she got a bigger platform. She helped us steal Like
you don't be having to do with no money. She
ain't calling asks for no money. She probably just want
you to be there and let you let the kids
see you. You feel me. So whatever she we can
(20:51):
help her with, we make sure we help her. Then
she give you an award.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I saw she just had her birthday last week too,
So I do really hope that she's run if she's
the president of the city council, you know out there,
so I think the youngest one ever. So that's what
we really do need because people say bad things about politicians,
but there are politicians, and we need people to run
for office who actually care about the community and are.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Going to do the trucks giving ice cream all day.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
That's now another person that is on your label. Your
label mate is VESO as well. So isn't that nice
to have like somebody with you that y'all could And
his wife owns the juice bar, Fresh and Press.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
They have that.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
My brother and Troy.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Out there is well. The entrepreneurship is so heavy. What
are the things are you interested in besides music?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Like you said, I want to do real estate. I
want to get more into these food tricks, and I
want to open a closed store. But when that happened,
that happened. Okay, But I want to get into real estate.
These food tricks.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
You got to tell them about your franchise. And remember
you tried the franchise Raisin kan.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I try. I try to give them like four different
peo people too. They was missing women.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
What's the process to franchise that? It is a difficult one.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't know. I just kept emailing the email. They
still said no.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Told me have the money, and I got it right here.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I still have.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
If you re for raising cases, why don't you open
an island?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I want to open the corn Island somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Else, right, that would make sense.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I want to open the corn Island somewhere else that
don't know about Corny Island. Then it's gonna be the
biggest thing there.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
But that's so funny here, like for us being from
here here in Corney Island, because it's in Brooklyn, and.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Y'all ain't even got no real Corny Island. Y'all got
the city. That's the city. We have the real con the.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's like an amusement park and a neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
From as a matter of.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Fact, yeah, you need to go to Corney Island to
see what that's like. That slid up there and you
have a you have ail, you have a son as well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
From your son to Coney Island, it'll be fine because
it's an amusement park. They could go on the rise
and that I'm warriors.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Does your son know you're famous?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Now? He only won? Okay, I'm trying to Yeah, I'm trying.
I'm trying to make him famous Waldmark, anybody need him.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
The timing is good to have a baby, though, you
know what I'm saying, a baby, baby money.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
A baby baby. I'm gonna have to change my name soon.
It's getting crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What to big money?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Big money?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well no, honestly, congratulations on everything, and you know, seeing
all the success that you've had and people in your corner,
do you feel like, I know, you said some people
thought you would never get signed and that this would
never happen for you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do you feel like you have some haters too?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah? I think that that come with a period, And
I feel like nobody, like I didn't even know I
was gonna get signed, So can't nobody run up on
me like I knew it? No, you didn't you feel me.
I ain't even know it. You feel me?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So his team knew it.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
He said, his team y'all knew it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
No, I'm talking about Pride to me, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It ain't nobody d D he was knowing it. D D.
He wasn't even getting paid. She knew it. D he
won't even getting paid. She knew it, so d D.
For sure, ain't no in my brother's number. Ain't nobody
running up on me telling me I knew it. I
ain't accepting that because right after that, cash up me
four hours or something because I knew.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, congratulations on everything on the tour, you know, on
the album, him hustling me that you got going on,
and it's great to see it.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
So again, glad to have you up here.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I know when I saw you, I was like, we
got to have you come up to the show and
we definitely made it happen, and thank you so much,
and thank you Wayna, because Wayna was like, no, I
don't want to do but I felt like this was
a good way for people to see the authenticity of
like how it does matter. Some people think there's no
artist development anymore. Some people think that A and RS
are irrelevant, you know, but that's clearly not true.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Me and him be trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Brother, you play too, But that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
But when you think about artists development, that is something
that does. And look, you're from, you know, Motown, which
is the home of where we think about Barry Gordy
and quality control for sure, and how they developed artists.
And so how does artist development happen now? Because like
you said, you don't necessarily wint an artist who has
the biggest numbers or everybody trying to you know, compete.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, I say mostly consistency, like that's that's been the
biggest thing. And sometimes life gets in the way to consistency,
like we were saying about when he had his legal troubles.
But I say consistency like constantly being in the studio,
like I ain't gonna lie. I don't stay in the
studio the five o'clock in the morning anymore, you know
what I mean. But there's days of what I do
is like when it is two hours in get two hours.
But we always communicate and it's like I'm always sending
(25:47):
him be so like he'll call me and say I
want to work on this type of song. Or he'll
send me a certain type of song and say, yo,
like what do you think, and I'll just give him
my insight.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yo, we might want to put a feature on here.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
So it's like just constantly working together for the higher goal,
which is to make him a start, which I believe
he is already, but for the world to realize that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, all right, good well, we love to see it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And it feels like a lot of people have been
wanting to work with you and working with you, and
so I congratulate you.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
For the journey so far.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Our music is amazing and you know, I cannot wait
to see you again and have fun on tour.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Thank you for having me, Thank you wayno, you all right,
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