June 6, 2023 • 27 mins
Today host Louis Carr speaks with Korporate, a Chicago-based rapper and entertainer.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm Litti Scott, host to the Blueprint Connect podcast. The
Blueprint Connect podcast is an extension of the Blueprint Men's Center,
where we have consistently given men a prescription book group
not just for themselves, but also for their families and
their communities. During these podcasts, we will educate and motivate
our listeners about entrepreneurship, careers, finances, health and wellness, and relationship.
(00:28):
And on today's episode, Corporate Artists and Entertainer Chicago in
how you doing, Man.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm blessed and thank you so much. I can't complain
one day at a time. I'm grateful that you allow
me to speak with you today for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So Corporate, you grew up in Chicago, as we always
say and ask what side of time did you grow
up on?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Most definitely Actually I resided on different sides of the
city during my elementary school years. I was on the
West side of Chicago. After elementary school, the first half
of high school, I was in the suburbs and country
Club Hill and then life hit. My mama lost the
(01:18):
house and we ended up in a hundred and that's
when I went to uh Corliss my junior and senior year,
graduated from Coilers and then ended up staying in the
Ward Kill a ward which would be the south side
of Chicago seventy ninth and Honory, seventy ninth and Wood,
and then spent the majority of my life after that
(01:41):
over East.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What did you go to multiple high schools?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But my freshman and sophomore year I went to Hillcrest,
and my junior and senior year I went to Coilers.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, And when did you side corporate? You wanted to
be in the business entertainment? When did that ball hit you?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well? My junior year in high school was the first
time I found out that I knew how to put
words together when I participated in a poetry slam. I
participated in the poetry slam because there was a cash
cris up and I was always a hustler in high school,
so I saw another opportunity to get some money and
(02:29):
actually be it way better than I whatever thought after
that around college. That was my junior in high school.
Once college came, I decided that I wanted to be
a rapper and an artist, and that was in two
thousand and six, and from that point on, I've been
(02:51):
aspiring to be a musician, I started to gradually improve
my writing skills. Two thousand and eight is when I
started not writing at all and mentally composing everything. And
I've been doing that ever since so now present time,
I still don't write anything down, and I also do
(03:15):
the content the same way. There's no scripts or anything.
I really don't be knowing what anyone is gonna say
until the camera is elevated in this time to shoot,
so I freestyle everything.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So in corporate you know, most rappers don't have a
comedic side to them. That's almost like that comy, because
you know most rappers want to be hard.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Where did the comedy come from?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, the decision to even start producing content came as
a result of me attempting to market my music and
get it in front of more people. And that started
in twenty fifteen and it just took off. It blew
up bigger than I would have ever imagined. So I
just kept at it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So when people started calling you a comedian versus an
artist or a rapper, how did you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hurt?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Hurt?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was hurt because I love music so much that
I could cry about it. So I understood why people
referred to me as that, but you know, it's still hurt,
which is why over the course of the years the
content has started to get more dark and serious. There's
(04:36):
still a comedic value to it, but I've kind of
lean more toward it being more TV like, But I
can't eliminate the humorist factor in it because the people
appreciate it so much.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So were you trying to be funny or that's sort
of like just that side of you? Is it funny
or sarcast them? Tell us how does that come about
for you?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's a natural funny But I kind of understand, and
they're like, how to be entertained kind of because it's like,
you know, one would one would say, like you gotta
be a comedian delivering humor on that level, but you know,
(05:25):
you can have somebody that knows how to cut heap.
But that don't mean they're Bible, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, So you know, we're in the midst of the
fiftieth anniversary in hip hop. Tell me what does that
mean for you personally? You know, what, how has it
impacted your life? What has the history been like?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know, hip hop is an art form that I've
always appreciated hip hop and rap as the art form
that I've always appreciated, even since I was younger. I
remember the first albums. There was two albums that my
aunt fought me when I was younger, and it was
(06:16):
the first time that I had ever had albums in
my own possession, and it was Uh jay Z the
compilation album Rock Life Familiar the Dynasty, and it was
Snoop Doggs The Last Supper If I remember correctly, yep,
(06:37):
the Snoop Doggs The Last Supper. So even back then, listen,
I used to have them on repeat.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Even I remember the joints on Jay Z's album that
I used to have on replay that soon you'll understand,
Like it was just I just loved how, you know,
he put words together, and I just loved the whole
art form behind painting pictures with the things that you say.
(07:06):
And years later, I I found myself having the potential
to be a painter myself. So it's just kind of like,
even with the anniversary of hip hop coming up, hip
hop has affected the world in so many different ways,
(07:27):
I'm still taking away from it. My particular generation, I
was most heavily influenced by Kanye as a musician. So
even with me being a ver, I've always been a
huge fan of Kanye, So he's the one that even
inspired me to rap when I first heard When I
(07:47):
first heard College Drive Out, I was just amazed because
at that time, the only music you was really hearing
was either my fucks was singing or it was shoot
them a Bang Bang. Wasn't really too many people out
(08:08):
delivering thoughts and ideas in a neutral fashion talking about
you know what I'm saying, things that I could relate to,
you know, even just to strugive and just to give
bath at your mine until they get this got like
I just I just felt everything on a different level,
(08:28):
and that really gave me the courage to start delivering
my own thoughts and ideas about what I got going on.
Because I couldn't relate to the street stuff. I grew
up in a hood, but I wasn't one to go
in and threatening and inflict violence on others unnecessarily. That
wasn't anything that I could relate to. But as far
(08:51):
as just daily struggles and you know, trying to figure
out where you're gonna get your next meal from man,
you know, getting a job, the struggle that even found
a job and everything that Kanye just kind of put
out there into the atmosphere for us to enjoy in
the music form like that, that impacted me so much.
(09:13):
So you know, hip hop is evolved over the course
of the years, and just to know that the anniversary
of it is coming up, it just push you in
a place where you just reflected on the different ways
it's affected you and others around you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
For sure, we'll be right back with more of my
interview after this quick break.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So is the story that you tell is it about
the struggle? Is it about your struggle?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's about my struggle. It's about the struggle of you
know what I'm saying people around me. A lot of
my stories are also mere figments of my imagination of
what if. Just I pretty much just go in different directions.
I try to clear the whole spectrum in touch on everything.
(10:10):
I've touched on everything from rape, even sensitive topics rape,
child molestation, common violence in our neighborhood, being on both sides,
both the victim and the person victim, as I just
(10:35):
want to touch and relate to everybody. So I've hit
quite a few topics for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And what is the story of your YouTube videos. Is
that just something that comes about or is there sort
of strategic messages behind those.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Airy strategic One of the most important parts of my
brand is me giving people something that they could take
away from my content. I keep that in mind with
my raps, like you said in Man, with my content.
You know, I've been told that my influence over the
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youth is stronger than that of a lot of youth
parents and people that are in their life daily because
I understand about speaking their language a lot of two
where I've come to find that even adults, because there
(11:46):
are messages and viewpoints that I communicate to adults as well.
I've come to find that adults in a lot of
ways are like children as well. When you think about that's, say,
and you're feeding them something to eat that says vegetables
(12:06):
to something, and they know that they don't want the vegetables,
so they're not allowing you to spoon feed them. But
if you decide to take the spoon and and now
their attention is going toward what you're doing, and their
mouth open and they laughing, and then you and now
(12:29):
you didn't just you didn't just trick them. That's kind
of what I do. Even with the content, I take
some beefy buns and relatable scenarios and a witty scripts
and before you know it, I didn't just talk to
you something. And that's and that is the recipe behind
the moral of the story angles that I've had on
(12:52):
a lot of my videos.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So, yeah, So you came to the Blueprint Man's Summit,
and I noticed that you were very attentive when fact
Joe was on the stage. Matter of fact, you were sitting.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Like right in front. Why was that so important.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And to you? For you to really be in tune
to him.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
He's been around longer than I have. I don't you know.
I don't believe that every day is an opportunity to
learn something new. And he's been in the game for
a while. He's a successful man in the industry, he's
a successful man in life. So I knew that there
(13:43):
was some gems that I could take away from him,
and gems that I can apply to my own life
and pass along to somebody else. So when I did
have the opportunity to send in front of him and
listen to what he had to say, I was overly
grateful for that and attentive and I did for sure,
and it was a blessing to also hear him confirm
(14:04):
a lot of things that I believe in, like, Okay,
I'm not tweaking. That is how you know what I'm saying?
People see things.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So yeah, so you're from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
There is a lot going on in the city right
now in regards to violence. How do you think you
can sort of impact some of this through your music
or you're entertainment.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I feel like I could help assist with the violence
in Chicago by helping to contribute to a talent. You
know a lot of time. At some point, people was
blaming threat for the violence in Chicago and and me personally,
(15:02):
I never agree with it. I could empathize to understand
why people said that, but I didn't agree with that.
And the reason I didn't agree is because when we
think about drill rap, drill is an expression of different
people telling their stories. Life in general is about love
(15:24):
and war. Just as much as we need light, we
need dark, balance is necessary and that side of the spectrum.
The drill rap said they have the right and they
deserve to be able to tell their stories as well. Now,
(15:46):
what I would say is that there was a certain
point where it was too unbalanced. It was too much
drill being pushed and broadcast in Chicago, and or in
that process inadvertently militant were being breeded. You constantly infusing
(16:11):
this negativity into their veins. They don't have any choice
but to operate in that same fashion. But if there
was equal energy put into music that's going in another
direction by conscious rappings, then that will help to create
(16:32):
a balance. So I am contributing to the future of
Chicago by helping to contribute to a better balance. The
content that I put out is not all positive. Some
of it does touch on the war in Chicago as well,
but at the same time, I'm giving people something else
(16:55):
to feed on, not just in Chicago, with the world.
Because most pistically, whenever you go somewhere and you say
you're from Chicago, the first response is, oh, you're from Chiraq,
don't call me like But that's only because that's the
(17:16):
only that's the majority thing that they've been given to
feed on. But my content shows the whole nother light
uh in Chicago, and I'm helping to eliminate that stigma
that's hovering over the city of Chicago, So one day
(17:38):
at a time. It's definitely a process and it's gonna
take some time, but I'm here for the loan and.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
When they get old enough, your mission absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That even when my children, you know, you have different
parents and staff. You can choose to You can choose
to tide your children from real life. You can choose
to expose them to a lot of it. You can
choose to create some type of balance. But with me, personally,
(18:23):
I prefer to make them aware of what real life
is about. I feel like doing that, especially when you
get daughters, they.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Won't be so.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Prone to partakes because they know about it. A lot
of times the youth, they participate in stuff based off
of curiosity, and my children are well aware of what's
(18:56):
going on now here. It's a lot of different sides
of this life. Some are good, some are bad, some
are inappropriate, And I prefer for them to just be
knowledgeable of everything, but also understand the difference between reality
and entertainment, because there is a difference. So I'm starting
(19:20):
early with teaching them that. Persons.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
How old are your children?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
My youngest history, my middle child is six and my
oldest is twelve.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
All girls, all girls. So you know we've we've had
I would say, sort.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Of a dwindling of female rappers in the business.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
If you're doing us wanted to go into the business
with you, allowther.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yes, Actually, even now, I incorporate my children into a
lot of my work. My two youngest babies most recently
were a part of my last fashion Over contract, so
I had them modeling for Fashion Over. I've also had
them in and out of my productions as well as
my oldest child as well, in an attempt to create
(20:13):
that generational wealth. So even now, with me exposing them
to the reality of things, that will also allow them
to be able to more comfortably operate in the realm
of entertainment if that's where they choose to go.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
We'll be right back with more of my interview after
this quick break. When you think about three years, five
years from now, what is your hopes and dreams for corporate,
the artists and entertainment.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I would like to be in a position as similar
to Childish Gambino, with him having a significant presence in
the film realm as well as a significant presence in music.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
We always say corporate that most successful people have had
a waymaker, somebody that did something for them with no
expectation in return.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Who were some of the waymakers for you?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I would have to say, first and foremost, God, he hasn't.
He didn't have to put me in possession or bless
me the way that he has. It has been a
long journey with me getting to the point that I'm
(21:59):
at and I could. I'm just forever grateful that he
allowed me to flourish and have a chance to live
out my dream. So God is the number one way
maker for me. But my team, my management. I know
I have two managers, Shine real Well and Veronica Gads,
(22:23):
and they believed in me before we even got down
to paperwork. I know Sean real Well put me in
a position to have He had a significant relationship with
CPS and he allowed me to tap into his resources
to have my own school tour the whole time Shy Tour,
(22:43):
which resulted in me visiting over eighty schools in one
school year. And Veronica gas And also believing in me
enough to tap into her resources for example with even
Power Night too when she was working at Power ninety
two and allow me to get interviews there and be
(23:05):
a part of different events and so on and so forth.
So yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So what type of things are you doing corporate in
the city or in the country that is sort of
paying it forward for those people that you just named.
So for every waymaker, you have to be a waymaker.
So what type of things are you doing personally to
sort of pay it forward or to pay it back
(23:32):
however you want to frame that.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You know, it's unfortunate you have some people that aren't
willing to share their experience and knowledge with others and
fear of you know, I don't know, maybe people are
doing better than them, so on and so forth. But
I've always been more than willing to share my knowledge.
I go to the schools and then I speak with
(23:56):
the children and I share my knowledge with them as
well as sharing my knowledge a lot of my peers
and high league in Chicago and even other places. So
a lot of the things that I've learned, I've been
doing constan since twenty fifteen, where it's about to go
on eight years that I've been on this journey and entertainment.
(24:22):
Some of the things that I know it took me
for or five years to know find out. But if
I can give someone that information and cut a lot
of time in between them starting out and getting to
their goals. Then I'm more than willing. So just being
willing to communicate and advise and assist. That's definitely one
(24:46):
of the main ways that I make myself away maker
for others for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well, before we let you go, you got any new
music or new projects coming up?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Do you want to tell audience about?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Absolutely? You know, like we spoke about earlier in regard
to how I feel about, you know, people calling me
a comedian. Over the course of the years, even such
as making the videos more serious and putting out more
music and freestyle, I've garnered a musical presence that I
(25:23):
probably it would have took me years even longer to
establish if I would have never gotten the content. And
I'm just blessed to finally be in the position to
release my debut album. De Brooks Exclusives produced the whole Project.
I just released my first single off of the album
(25:45):
called whoofield Shit, and I am looking to release the
full project in January. I'm extremely excited about that and
I look forward to the world getting a taste of
Why am I so adamant about the fact that I'm
(26:05):
an artist. Now they're about to get a chance to
understand why. And I'm just I'm just I'm words can't
express how excited I am about this.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Sure Well, Corporate, we thank you for joining us today.
We appreciate the work that you're doing, and anything we
can help you do or be involved in with you,
we're more than happy to do that. So thank you
so much for being with us today.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The pleasure of man. Thank you for having
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Me, Thank you, Yes, sir,
I'm Litti Scott, host to the Blueprint Connect podcast. The
Blueprint Connect podcast is an extension of the Blueprint Men's Center,
where we have consistently given men a prescription book group
not just for themselves, but also for their families and
their communities. During these podcasts, we will educate and motivate
our listeners about entrepreneurship, careers, finances, health and wellness, and relationship.
(00:28):
And on today's episode, Corporate Artists and Entertainer Chicago in
how you doing, Man.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm blessed and thank you so much. I can't complain
one day at a time. I'm grateful that you allow
me to speak with you today for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So Corporate, you grew up in Chicago, as we always
say and ask what side of time did you grow
up on?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Most definitely Actually I resided on different sides of the
city during my elementary school years. I was on the
West side of Chicago. After elementary school, the first half
of high school, I was in the suburbs and country
Club Hill and then life hit. My mama lost the
(01:18):
house and we ended up in a hundred and that's
when I went to uh Corliss my junior and senior year,
graduated from Coilers and then ended up staying in the
Ward Kill a ward which would be the south side
of Chicago seventy ninth and Honory, seventy ninth and Wood,
and then spent the majority of my life after that
(01:41):
over East.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What did you go to multiple high schools?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But my freshman and sophomore year I went to Hillcrest,
and my junior and senior year I went to Coilers.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, And when did you side corporate? You wanted to
be in the business entertainment? When did that ball hit you?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well? My junior year in high school was the first
time I found out that I knew how to put
words together when I participated in a poetry slam. I
participated in the poetry slam because there was a cash
cris up and I was always a hustler in high school,
so I saw another opportunity to get some money and
(02:29):
actually be it way better than I whatever thought after
that around college. That was my junior in high school.
Once college came, I decided that I wanted to be
a rapper and an artist, and that was in two
thousand and six, and from that point on, I've been
(02:51):
aspiring to be a musician, I started to gradually improve
my writing skills. Two thousand and eight is when I
started not writing at all and mentally composing everything. And
I've been doing that ever since so now present time,
I still don't write anything down, and I also do
(03:15):
the content the same way. There's no scripts or anything.
I really don't be knowing what anyone is gonna say
until the camera is elevated in this time to shoot,
so I freestyle everything.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So in corporate you know, most rappers don't have a
comedic side to them. That's almost like that comy, because
you know most rappers want to be hard.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Where did the comedy come from?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, the decision to even start producing content came as
a result of me attempting to market my music and
get it in front of more people. And that started
in twenty fifteen and it just took off. It blew
up bigger than I would have ever imagined. So I
just kept at it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So when people started calling you a comedian versus an
artist or a rapper, how did you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hurt?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Hurt?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was hurt because I love music so much that
I could cry about it. So I understood why people
referred to me as that, but you know, it's still hurt,
which is why over the course of the years the
content has started to get more dark and serious. There's
(04:36):
still a comedic value to it, but I've kind of
lean more toward it being more TV like, But I
can't eliminate the humorist factor in it because the people
appreciate it so much.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So were you trying to be funny or that's sort
of like just that side of you? Is it funny
or sarcast them? Tell us how does that come about
for you?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's a natural funny But I kind of understand, and
they're like, how to be entertained kind of because it's like,
you know, one would one would say, like you gotta
be a comedian delivering humor on that level, but you know,
(05:25):
you can have somebody that knows how to cut heap.
But that don't mean they're Bible, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, So you know, we're in the midst of the
fiftieth anniversary in hip hop. Tell me what does that
mean for you personally? You know, what, how has it
impacted your life? What has the history been like?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know, hip hop is an art form that I've
always appreciated hip hop and rap as the art form
that I've always appreciated, even since I was younger. I
remember the first albums. There was two albums that my
aunt fought me when I was younger, and it was
(06:16):
the first time that I had ever had albums in
my own possession, and it was Uh jay Z the
compilation album Rock Life Familiar the Dynasty, and it was
Snoop Doggs The Last Supper If I remember correctly, yep,
(06:37):
the Snoop Doggs The Last Supper. So even back then, listen,
I used to have them on repeat.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Even I remember the joints on Jay Z's album that
I used to have on replay that soon you'll understand,
Like it was just I just loved how, you know,
he put words together, and I just loved the whole
art form behind painting pictures with the things that you say.
(07:06):
And years later, I I found myself having the potential
to be a painter myself. So it's just kind of like,
even with the anniversary of hip hop coming up, hip
hop has affected the world in so many different ways,
(07:27):
I'm still taking away from it. My particular generation, I
was most heavily influenced by Kanye as a musician. So
even with me being a ver, I've always been a
huge fan of Kanye, So he's the one that even
inspired me to rap when I first heard When I
(07:47):
first heard College Drive Out, I was just amazed because
at that time, the only music you was really hearing
was either my fucks was singing or it was shoot
them a Bang Bang. Wasn't really too many people out
(08:08):
delivering thoughts and ideas in a neutral fashion talking about
you know what I'm saying, things that I could relate to,
you know, even just to strugive and just to give
bath at your mine until they get this got like
I just I just felt everything on a different level,
(08:28):
and that really gave me the courage to start delivering
my own thoughts and ideas about what I got going on.
Because I couldn't relate to the street stuff. I grew
up in a hood, but I wasn't one to go
in and threatening and inflict violence on others unnecessarily. That
wasn't anything that I could relate to. But as far
(08:51):
as just daily struggles and you know, trying to figure
out where you're gonna get your next meal from man,
you know, getting a job, the struggle that even found
a job and everything that Kanye just kind of put
out there into the atmosphere for us to enjoy in
the music form like that, that impacted me so much.
(09:13):
So you know, hip hop is evolved over the course
of the years, and just to know that the anniversary
of it is coming up, it just push you in
a place where you just reflected on the different ways
it's affected you and others around you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
For sure, we'll be right back with more of my
interview after this quick break.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So is the story that you tell is it about
the struggle? Is it about your struggle?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's about my struggle. It's about the struggle of you
know what I'm saying people around me. A lot of
my stories are also mere figments of my imagination of
what if. Just I pretty much just go in different directions.
I try to clear the whole spectrum in touch on everything.
(10:10):
I've touched on everything from rape, even sensitive topics rape,
child molestation, common violence in our neighborhood, being on both sides,
both the victim and the person victim, as I just
(10:35):
want to touch and relate to everybody. So I've hit
quite a few topics for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And what is the story of your YouTube videos. Is
that just something that comes about or is there sort
of strategic messages behind those.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Airy strategic One of the most important parts of my
brand is me giving people something that they could take
away from my content. I keep that in mind with
my raps, like you said in Man, with my content.
You know, I've been told that my influence over the
(11:23):
youth is stronger than that of a lot of youth
parents and people that are in their life daily because
I understand about speaking their language a lot of two
where I've come to find that even adults, because there
(11:46):
are messages and viewpoints that I communicate to adults as well.
I've come to find that adults in a lot of
ways are like children as well. When you think about that's, say,
and you're feeding them something to eat that says vegetables
(12:06):
to something, and they know that they don't want the vegetables,
so they're not allowing you to spoon feed them. But
if you decide to take the spoon and and now
their attention is going toward what you're doing, and their
mouth open and they laughing, and then you and now
(12:29):
you didn't just you didn't just trick them. That's kind
of what I do. Even with the content, I take
some beefy buns and relatable scenarios and a witty scripts
and before you know it, I didn't just talk to
you something. And that's and that is the recipe behind
the moral of the story angles that I've had on
(12:52):
a lot of my videos.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So, yeah, So you came to the Blueprint Man's Summit,
and I noticed that you were very attentive when fact
Joe was on the stage. Matter of fact, you were sitting.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Like right in front. Why was that so important.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And to you? For you to really be in tune
to him.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
He's been around longer than I have. I don't you know.
I don't believe that every day is an opportunity to
learn something new. And he's been in the game for
a while. He's a successful man in the industry, he's
a successful man in life. So I knew that there
(13:43):
was some gems that I could take away from him,
and gems that I can apply to my own life
and pass along to somebody else. So when I did
have the opportunity to send in front of him and
listen to what he had to say, I was overly
grateful for that and attentive and I did for sure,
and it was a blessing to also hear him confirm
(14:04):
a lot of things that I believe in, like, Okay,
I'm not tweaking. That is how you know what I'm saying?
People see things.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So yeah, so you're from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
There is a lot going on in the city right
now in regards to violence. How do you think you
can sort of impact some of this through your music
or you're entertainment.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I feel like I could help assist with the violence
in Chicago by helping to contribute to a talent. You
know a lot of time. At some point, people was
blaming threat for the violence in Chicago and and me personally,
(15:02):
I never agree with it. I could empathize to understand
why people said that, but I didn't agree with that.
And the reason I didn't agree is because when we
think about drill rap, drill is an expression of different
people telling their stories. Life in general is about love
(15:24):
and war. Just as much as we need light, we
need dark, balance is necessary and that side of the spectrum.
The drill rap said they have the right and they
deserve to be able to tell their stories as well. Now,
(15:46):
what I would say is that there was a certain
point where it was too unbalanced. It was too much
drill being pushed and broadcast in Chicago, and or in
that process inadvertently militant were being breeded. You constantly infusing
(16:11):
this negativity into their veins. They don't have any choice
but to operate in that same fashion. But if there
was equal energy put into music that's going in another
direction by conscious rappings, then that will help to create
(16:32):
a balance. So I am contributing to the future of
Chicago by helping to contribute to a better balance. The
content that I put out is not all positive. Some
of it does touch on the war in Chicago as well,
but at the same time, I'm giving people something else
(16:55):
to feed on, not just in Chicago, with the world.
Because most pistically, whenever you go somewhere and you say
you're from Chicago, the first response is, oh, you're from Chiraq,
don't call me like But that's only because that's the
(17:16):
only that's the majority thing that they've been given to
feed on. But my content shows the whole nother light
uh in Chicago, and I'm helping to eliminate that stigma
that's hovering over the city of Chicago, So one day
(17:38):
at a time. It's definitely a process and it's gonna
take some time, but I'm here for the loan and.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
When they get old enough, your mission absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That even when my children, you know, you have different
parents and staff. You can choose to You can choose
to tide your children from real life. You can choose
to expose them to a lot of it. You can
choose to create some type of balance. But with me, personally,
(18:23):
I prefer to make them aware of what real life
is about. I feel like doing that, especially when you
get daughters, they.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Won't be so.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Prone to partakes because they know about it. A lot
of times the youth, they participate in stuff based off
of curiosity, and my children are well aware of what's
(18:56):
going on now here. It's a lot of different sides
of this life. Some are good, some are bad, some
are inappropriate, And I prefer for them to just be
knowledgeable of everything, but also understand the difference between reality
and entertainment, because there is a difference. So I'm starting
(19:20):
early with teaching them that. Persons.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
How old are your children?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
My youngest history, my middle child is six and my
oldest is twelve.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
All girls, all girls. So you know we've we've had
I would say, sort.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Of a dwindling of female rappers in the business.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
If you're doing us wanted to go into the business
with you, allowther.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yes, Actually, even now, I incorporate my children into a
lot of my work. My two youngest babies most recently
were a part of my last fashion Over contract, so
I had them modeling for Fashion Over. I've also had
them in and out of my productions as well as
my oldest child as well, in an attempt to create
(20:13):
that generational wealth. So even now, with me exposing them
to the reality of things, that will also allow them
to be able to more comfortably operate in the realm
of entertainment if that's where they choose to go.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
We'll be right back with more of my interview after
this quick break. When you think about three years, five
years from now, what is your hopes and dreams for corporate,
the artists and entertainment.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I would like to be in a position as similar
to Childish Gambino, with him having a significant presence in
the film realm as well as a significant presence in music.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
We always say corporate that most successful people have had
a waymaker, somebody that did something for them with no
expectation in return.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Who were some of the waymakers for you?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I would have to say, first and foremost, God, he hasn't.
He didn't have to put me in possession or bless
me the way that he has. It has been a
long journey with me getting to the point that I'm
(21:59):
at and I could. I'm just forever grateful that he
allowed me to flourish and have a chance to live
out my dream. So God is the number one way
maker for me. But my team, my management. I know
I have two managers, Shine real Well and Veronica Gads,
(22:23):
and they believed in me before we even got down
to paperwork. I know Sean real Well put me in
a position to have He had a significant relationship with
CPS and he allowed me to tap into his resources
to have my own school tour the whole time Shy Tour,
(22:43):
which resulted in me visiting over eighty schools in one
school year. And Veronica gas And also believing in me
enough to tap into her resources for example with even
Power Night too when she was working at Power ninety
two and allow me to get interviews there and be
(23:05):
a part of different events and so on and so forth.
So yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
So what type of things are you doing corporate in
the city or in the country that is sort of
paying it forward for those people that you just named.
So for every waymaker, you have to be a waymaker.
So what type of things are you doing personally to
sort of pay it forward or to pay it back
(23:32):
however you want to frame that.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You know, it's unfortunate you have some people that aren't
willing to share their experience and knowledge with others and
fear of you know, I don't know, maybe people are
doing better than them, so on and so forth. But
I've always been more than willing to share my knowledge.
I go to the schools and then I speak with
(23:56):
the children and I share my knowledge with them as
well as sharing my knowledge a lot of my peers
and high league in Chicago and even other places. So
a lot of the things that I've learned, I've been
doing constan since twenty fifteen, where it's about to go
on eight years that I've been on this journey and entertainment.
(24:22):
Some of the things that I know it took me
for or five years to know find out. But if
I can give someone that information and cut a lot
of time in between them starting out and getting to
their goals. Then I'm more than willing. So just being
willing to communicate and advise and assist. That's definitely one
(24:46):
of the main ways that I make myself away maker
for others for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Well, before we let you go, you got any new
music or new projects coming up?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Do you want to tell audience about?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Absolutely? You know, like we spoke about earlier in regard
to how I feel about, you know, people calling me
a comedian. Over the course of the years, even such
as making the videos more serious and putting out more
music and freestyle, I've garnered a musical presence that I
(25:23):
probably it would have took me years even longer to
establish if I would have never gotten the content. And
I'm just blessed to finally be in the position to
release my debut album. De Brooks Exclusives produced the whole Project.
I just released my first single off of the album
(25:45):
called whoofield Shit, and I am looking to release the
full project in January. I'm extremely excited about that and
I look forward to the world getting a taste of
Why am I so adamant about the fact that I'm
(26:05):
an artist. Now they're about to get a chance to
understand why. And I'm just I'm just I'm words can't
express how excited I am about this.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Sure Well, Corporate, we thank you for joining us today.
We appreciate the work that you're doing, and anything we
can help you do or be involved in with you,
we're more than happy to do that. So thank you
so much for being with us today.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The pleasure of man. Thank you for having
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Me, Thank you, Yes, sir,
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