June 26, 2025 • 16 mins
LiAngelo Ball Gets Real: Delayed Music, Misconceptions, Life as the Middle Child + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up? Its way up with Angela. Yeah, perfect timing
for this interview to happen. Jella is here r aka
le Angelo Ball. Congratulations, it was good.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And welcome to the show. Double XL Freshman List Right
before you walked in, they finally dropped that list unexpectedly
and you're on it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, that was some hot news for me too. I
just found out.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So where were you when you found out that you
were going to be on the list.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I was in LA when they told me, do I
want to like try out for it or whatever. I
don't know how they work that thing, but that was like,
you want to do something with double XL. And I
was in LA and I had to fly to Atlanta
and go do that handle.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That feels like you got drafted pretty much.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Like freestyling and all that Double XL on Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Do you guys did did you guys do the freestyles
and everything already?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
All right, so I know they say.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
They put that all yet I don't know coming.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I never heard it yet. I know they do all
of that ahead of time, like because they got to
start those out.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, we did that like two three weeks ago, maybe.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
How is all of this for you being like a
you know, just a star when it comes to the
music business.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I feel like I belong Lokey. When I came from Hoops,
it wasn't like a much different feeling from playing and
being in front of everybody and being in alarm like
to coming over here and making music being in front
of everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But you know, it's interesting because when you put a
tweaker out it kind of people weren't anticipating that song
to catch on the way that it would.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I wasn't anticipating it either. I had that song for
like a week.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I was playing it, and shit, it was just hard.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I always played my music though, like to myself and
my brother, but yeah, it blew up.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It shocked me for real.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And even with your music, I know you're from the
West Coast, but it feels like you're really inspired by
Louisiana rap and cash money, and just from what I've
heard so.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Far, I just know.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'll say my real inspiration from music came from fifty
cent U probably y'all, like third grade, That's all I
used to listen to get rid of trying and shiit
DMX them type of dudes. But yeah, we listened to
a lot of litl Wayne Nelly and shit.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I just hear a lot of music for real. I'm
sure I picked some stuff up, some flows or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But now, what do you think about all these performances
that And I was there at All Star when you performed,
so I had a chance to see that. And then
you did Rolling Loud. That's a huge festival to do
so early on, so it was hard.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, fly I got better each time, Like my Detroit
performance was a little it was like whatever, And then
I feel like All Star I prepared for that one,
like we had to do like rehearsals and all that
shit for two days and then go in there and
handle that. So I don't know, it's getting easier though.
And then Rolling Loud that was just me. That was
no training or nothing. But that's my favorite one.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It was, Yes, the role. It's interesting because I feel
like that's a hard audience to get, like to learn
while you're on stage. That is not easy because you know,
people go let you have it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, that's my favorite.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That's better because that's just me and them, Like they
ain't tell me what to do. They ain't tell me
what to say. It was like, you're gonna have like
a fifteen minute block, just do your thing.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
When it comes to the Double Tail Freshman List? Did
you know a lot of the other artists that actually
made it? Do they tell you ahead of time, like
you made it, this person made it? Or they only
let you know it's just you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, they don't let us know that it was just
But I've seen them when I got there, I know
a couple of them.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Dude, all right, so who was you cool it already?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wat TV? Fat he'd be up there. I'll say, what
up to that? Dude? Rug with nineteen? Yeah he was
up there. Well, I ain't runn into too much because
they had us like all moving and shit. So but yeah,
or did.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You have to be like, Okay, I gotta do it over.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now, I'm on one take type of do I Probably
they made me do.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It twice, like just in case for safety.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, but I do everything once pretty much.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Could you see yourself doing reality TV again?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah? Shit, yeah, they can film on me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
If you had a show, now, what would your show
be about? If you wanted to do something on Jello,
what could you see yourself if for.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Shows just follow me. Probably just following me around. That
shit is random, though I can't lie like it'll be
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Like and you know, doing me.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And my family. Though, I feel like we have some
good shows.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now, y'all. Show is lit. I'm not when it first was, yeah,
with no cameras, but even when you guys sit together
and do things together. To this day, I feel like
people love the energy that they have a chance to
see from from the brothers, from your dad obviously as well.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't know, yeah they should. Probably we might get
on TV soon, know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is that in talks or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think my older brother be talking to people about that.
So yeah, some talks show come out, we'll be ready
to go on there.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Is it a gift and a curse to have so
many people know so much about you though, because sometimes
you want to just be able to go walk around, chill,
mind your business, not have people like on you like that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, in that aspect of it, Like I can't go
everywhere tight shit, like I get a lot of people
coming up, but that don't bother me too much.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I don't feel like a lot of people know
me like that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Really yeah, Like no, I know everybody, Like the people
I talk to love me and shit like they know me,
and uh yeah, I don't know as far as the world, Like,
I feel like it's a lot of wrong assumption.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't be correcting shit like people know. I hope
they know the main shit, that's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Right, do you miss that?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I kind of been like getting looked at since a
young ass kid, and my pomps always had us playing
up high and shit. So it's like I was signing
autographs in like third fourth grade or like kids my
age with it, I'll be signing their shirts and shit,
because I don't know. We always played like I was
probably like eight years old playing fourteen. You probably some
(05:50):
shit like that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So do so do you miss it now? Is that
something I saw you talk to Speedy and you said
that you could go back right now play We.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Talking for basket?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah? Basketball?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Do you miss Yeah? I still play though, but yeah
I would like to. I would yeah, like to play
in the NBA. But shit, I'm doing this now.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So it's like, is this more fun? You think?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, you could do it. Yeah, you can be yourself
and rap. It ain't no rules like that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
When you did a something like tweaking. What are sometimes
that you've been tweaking in real life?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
What I got many times? I can't count them, but yeah,
I like shit, and I don't know I've tarp u
ram bunshit.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Stuff be happening, stuff be happening. That's how you know
you tweaking when you just have to say stuff, it
ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's good, doom'n good, everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You were the first one to get a tattoo out
of your brothers. What was your first tattoo that you got?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Chest piece?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's like some wings in across you know, songs one
thirty eight seven.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Do you have any idea how many tattoos you have now?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I don't covered for like pretty much everything you think
you've done. Or yeah, I just get touch ups for real.
I might finish my leg sleeve. I got like a
little piece on my leg now.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You also made headlines when you signed a deal with
death Jam and there were a lot of numbers being
thrown out and things like that. So how did you
handle that news? Like for people finding out you gotta deal.
Some people even were kind of a little upset, like Dan,
he just put out one song. How we got a
deal so fast?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, and shit, I don't know about all that. Yeah,
too bad on that part, but uh, it's when I
found what'd you say?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What was the question when you found out you got
the deal?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
They pretty much told me like I didn't really didn't
want people to know for real, Like they Depth Jam
called me and a couple other labels and they we
was talking. I'm like, damn, I hope this shit don't
get out. That didn't last long for real, So everybody
threw their.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Own number on what made you choose Deaf Jam.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
When I went to the meetings, they was rocking with
me the most, like, and they was like, we gonna
let you do your own thing, like you clearly know
what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So they gave me my masters. I liked that a
lot of records don't be given Oh wow they did.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, I got my masters and shit, and I got
I own all my music for real, and they real
leaning with me like I could talk to them.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I talked to the major. They let me like make
my own music and see what I'm trying to put
out and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So is this more like a joint Venturedale or is
it okay? Because I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's not very distribute tye stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And when you went into the meeting for that, who
is with you?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You meet Demo and Tony Okay, So you have your.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Whole team of people around you. Do you still even
when it comes to the music, because that's not necessarily
your dad's forte obviously is basketball, but business is just
in general. So did you go to him and say, look,
this is what's on the table. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
At that age, I just know, like I just I've
seen him enough. I've been around my pop so I
pick up ways to do business. I'll say, I just
know I know what to do. I talked to them myself.
I got DMO on the phone and was like, we
gotta go take these meetings and then we gotta do
the music shit for real.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
What were the other labels that you were considering?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Atlantic Records? I was considering you. There was like my
two main ones, Death Gym in Atlantic and then Universal.
I think Universal too. Ye had some good ship.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's great to see that you came out the gate
like that, had a huge song. We're able to do festivals,
got a record deal, made it to the Freshman List,
and you've been putting out music consistently since then. But
you are supposed to have the album coming out, was it?
I heard it was pushed back.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I pushed it back.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, you pushed it back? Yeah, okay, why is that?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I just felt like you needed more features on it.
I only had the Glorilla feature on there.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh we like that.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Though I liked it too, I left it on there,
but I'm saying I had to add like I added,
like I want to add like four or five more
artists on.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
My Okay, when do you anticipate that coming out?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What the music's done? I'm just waiting on them to
get back to me, Taye stuff. So it's gonna be
some surprises on there. It's gonna drop into July, I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And what about a tour?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, I probably follow up with a tour. I mean sure,
I'm gonna talk to death Jam about all that stuff.
We're gonna get it set up.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It just felt like life is amazing you just yeah,
I feel.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Like it's supposed to be like this for real. I
don't know. I got the music for it, so I'm
ready to go for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I'm looking to see if you were in a ring. No, okay,
because I was going to say congratulations, but I wasn't
sure on that too. Nothing with that, with that, okay,
So you happy? Everything's good?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I'm cool. Shit, everybody good? For real?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Did you move out of California?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
No, I'm basing she on here in my house and
she on Hills, And I got some spots in LA
that I could go to and chill up.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Because I know sometimes people start doing the music heavy
and they're like, Okay, I'm gonna go to Atlanta, I'm
gonna go.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
My favorite states. Still, I'm always gonna be there.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I bet they know everybody knows you there though when
you're at home, do they still treat you like a
celebrity or are they used to seeing you everywhere?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And she know Hills, it's so be I can't go nowhere,
but yeah, everybody know me for real. Still they talk
to me. I talked to them. I don't know how
to describe it, but yeah, people see me and say
what up?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
All right, well, listen, I appreciate you for coming through.
I'm excited for you.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Do you have it?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So you don't have a date yet. You're waiting for
death Cham to tell you the date for the album. Yeah,
we got to that. What about music videos.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Because I know, yeah, have some music videos on there.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I was thinking Booted Up should have been a video already.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So I I got songs I like a lot more
than that.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Tuto, but we haven't heard them yet. Yeah, so what
do you think I saw you talking.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I add on to it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, So what's the next video you plan on doing?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
M I need to do a video for this song
called humble of Bolde Humbler.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, what is that about?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's hard? That's my song. I don't know. You gotta
listen to that joint. It's nice.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is it something real personal?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Because that's yeah, it's cool. It's just got a nice
flow to it. And yeah, I talked about my family
and shit, it's a good song.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
People always talk about like your parents kind of pushing
you to do things, and also like when you see
talent in your kids and being like, Okay, I see
this talent, you know, let's put him in this, Let's
put him in that. I want to ask you how
you feel about like the way that things happen for you.
Clearly your dad was like he did a lot for
you guys growing up, right, But sometimes parents feel like
(12:21):
I don't know how hands on to be with my
kids if they like something. Sometimes, especially when it comes
to sports, there's times when kids might feel like I
don't want to do this anymore. But your parents is
going to kind of push you a little bit. What
are your thoughts on that? Seeing how things turned out
for you and your brothers.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And my PAS's not really like that, like he'll give
you the choice.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
He kind of I'll say, he'll let you know good
and bad and then damn near picked like he just
be like, how I'll discard this, Like he know, he'll
be like you could do this or this, and you know,
and he's not really overbearing, like he not pushing us
to do shit.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like some days we wake up he'd be like, you
don't want to run, don't run down. You can lay down,
lay down all day.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He liked that, okay, but your other brothers running, you're
not going lay down like and he just gonna get
up just off of one and.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Two like he used to do that. Like the reverse
psychology shit.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I was gonna say, it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't care like he just do that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You don't want to be the best goad.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, he'd be like that. Well, I think that worked good.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
When we was younger, though, everything seemed like a challenge
for real, like a game, especially when you got brothers
too cold and everything.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So yeah, everything felt like competition.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What did you think when you were watching what was
happening with Shadora Sanders and deonn Sanders? What happened like
when he was they thought he was going to get
drafted a lot earlier the NFL, and people were saying
they thought it was because there were a lot of
different theories on why things happened the way that it did.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, I just think that's can I say this, I
don't know the NFL. That's just how the NFL worked.
I don't think you could really be taught. You can't
say stuff like that coming into that because now all
the young dudes looking up to you is like damn,
you know, popping and shit like that. He still getting
in like now it's gonna be it might get out
of hand. I feel like they just need to tighten
(14:14):
it up a little bit. So they tried to show
on like it's not how.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It's about to go type shit, you know, right, they
were trying.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
To combines and not doing interviews with teens and artists.
They not about to have that in the NFL. That's
just my thought though.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
How do you think that sports mentality is helping you
with music? Do you think there's things that you transfer
over from playing ball as far as being an artist.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I just try to.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Carry myself professionally probably, like when I'm hoping, I hope
at my highest level when I make music, I don't
try to write just anything like I'm trying to make
some shit that will stamp on an album.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well, I'm looking forward to seeing this. I feel like
you're gonna end up doing a show at some point.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Again, yeah, I think so for real, we need one ship.
It will help you how to explain a lot of shit.
Y'all could just watch the show.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But like, damn, yeah, he just tune in. Man.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You think there's misconceptions about you very much, So every
one of them cooling?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Really?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You think, like what type of from what I hear
from what people say about you, they think you chill,
they think you cool, laid back.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, sometimes it'd be like he was high during this interview.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't be high like that.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So what are the misconceptions about you? You think?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I don't know, probably anything bad. You heard.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
He's just perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, I ain't perfect, but I think different. I say,
I don't think like the normal human being. So you're
not gonna relate or understand where I'm coming from. So
don't even try.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, that's all I'm common said. Okay, all right, well, look,
congratulations and everything waiting in here when the album's gonna
come out. Congratulations on the Doubleic South Freshman list too,
you know, and it's great to see just having washed
you from when you were younger to where you are now.
You're the middle child, right, you know there's a lot
of theories about middle kids too.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah. I heard a couple thank you thinking we the
outcast or something.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You think that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I don't know for sure, Like I'm for sure getting
called first to clean some shit up, to wash a whip,
to move something. No cap, that's all. It's like one one,
one dude in the house. That's how my fossiles coming.
I'm like, call one of them, but I'd be like, yeah,
I got used to it. Always pull up.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
For everything, all right, Well, good to see well, thank
you so much for coming through.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, thank you way
What's up? Its way up with Angela. Yeah, perfect timing
for this interview to happen. Jella is here r aka
le Angelo Ball. Congratulations, it was good.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And welcome to the show. Double XL Freshman List Right
before you walked in, they finally dropped that list unexpectedly
and you're on it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, that was some hot news for me too. I
just found out.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So where were you when you found out that you
were going to be on the list.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I was in LA when they told me, do I
want to like try out for it or whatever. I
don't know how they work that thing, but that was like,
you want to do something with double XL. And I
was in LA and I had to fly to Atlanta
and go do that handle.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That feels like you got drafted pretty much.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Like freestyling and all that Double XL on Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Do you guys did did you guys do the freestyles
and everything already?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
All right, so I know they say.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
They put that all yet I don't know coming.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I never heard it yet. I know they do all
of that ahead of time, like because they got to
start those out.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, we did that like two three weeks ago, maybe.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
How is all of this for you being like a
you know, just a star when it comes to the
music business.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I feel like I belong Lokey. When I came from Hoops,
it wasn't like a much different feeling from playing and
being in front of everybody and being in alarm like
to coming over here and making music being in front
of everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But you know, it's interesting because when you put a
tweaker out it kind of people weren't anticipating that song
to catch on the way that it would.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I wasn't anticipating it either. I had that song for
like a week.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I was playing it, and shit, it was just hard.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I always played my music though, like to myself and
my brother, but yeah, it blew up.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It shocked me for real.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And even with your music, I know you're from the
West Coast, but it feels like you're really inspired by
Louisiana rap and cash money, and just from what I've
heard so.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Far, I just know.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'll say my real inspiration from music came from fifty
cent U probably y'all, like third grade, That's all I
used to listen to get rid of trying and shiit
DMX them type of dudes. But yeah, we listened to
a lot of litl Wayne Nelly and shit.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I just hear a lot of music for real. I'm
sure I picked some stuff up, some flows or whatnot.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But now, what do you think about all these performances
that And I was there at All Star when you performed,
so I had a chance to see that. And then
you did Rolling Loud. That's a huge festival to do
so early on, so it was hard.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, fly I got better each time, Like my Detroit
performance was a little it was like whatever, And then
I feel like All Star I prepared for that one,
like we had to do like rehearsals and all that
shit for two days and then go in there and
handle that. So I don't know, it's getting easier though.
And then Rolling Loud that was just me. That was
no training or nothing. But that's my favorite one.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It was, Yes, the role. It's interesting because I feel
like that's a hard audience to get, like to learn
while you're on stage. That is not easy because you know,
people go let you have it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, that's my favorite.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That's better because that's just me and them, Like they
ain't tell me what to do. They ain't tell me
what to say. It was like, you're gonna have like
a fifteen minute block, just do your thing.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
When it comes to the Double Tail Freshman List? Did
you know a lot of the other artists that actually
made it? Do they tell you ahead of time, like
you made it, this person made it? Or they only
let you know it's just you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, they don't let us know that it was just
But I've seen them when I got there, I know
a couple of them.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Dude, all right, so who was you cool it already?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wat TV? Fat he'd be up there. I'll say, what
up to that? Dude? Rug with nineteen? Yeah he was
up there. Well, I ain't runn into too much because
they had us like all moving and shit. So but yeah,
or did.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You have to be like, Okay, I gotta do it over.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now, I'm on one take type of do I Probably
they made me do.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It twice, like just in case for safety.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, but I do everything once pretty much.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Could you see yourself doing reality TV again?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah? Shit, yeah, they can film on me. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
If you had a show, now, what would your show
be about? If you wanted to do something on Jello,
what could you see yourself if for.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Shows just follow me. Probably just following me around. That
shit is random, though I can't lie like it'll be
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Like and you know, doing me.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And my family. Though, I feel like we have some
good shows.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now, y'all. Show is lit. I'm not when it first was, yeah,
with no cameras, but even when you guys sit together
and do things together. To this day, I feel like
people love the energy that they have a chance to
see from from the brothers, from your dad obviously as well.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't know, yeah they should. Probably we might get
on TV soon, know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is that in talks or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I think my older brother be talking to people about that.
So yeah, some talks show come out, we'll be ready
to go on there.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Is it a gift and a curse to have so
many people know so much about you though, because sometimes
you want to just be able to go walk around, chill,
mind your business, not have people like on you like that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, in that aspect of it, Like I can't go
everywhere tight shit, like I get a lot of people
coming up, but that don't bother me too much.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I don't feel like a lot of people know
me like that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Really yeah, Like no, I know everybody, Like the people
I talk to love me and shit like they know me,
and uh yeah, I don't know as far as the world, Like,
I feel like it's a lot of wrong assumption.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't be correcting shit like people know. I hope
they know the main shit, that's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Right, do you miss that?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I kind of been like getting looked at since a
young ass kid, and my pomps always had us playing
up high and shit. So it's like I was signing
autographs in like third fourth grade or like kids my
age with it, I'll be signing their shirts and shit,
because I don't know. We always played like I was
probably like eight years old playing fourteen. You probably some
(05:50):
shit like that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So do so do you miss it now? Is that
something I saw you talk to Speedy and you said
that you could go back right now play We.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Talking for basket?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah? Basketball?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Do you miss Yeah? I still play though, but yeah
I would like to. I would yeah, like to play
in the NBA. But shit, I'm doing this now.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So it's like, is this more fun? You think?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, you could do it. Yeah, you can be yourself
and rap. It ain't no rules like that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
When you did a something like tweaking. What are sometimes
that you've been tweaking in real life?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
What I got many times? I can't count them, but yeah,
I like shit, and I don't know I've tarp u
ram bunshit.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Stuff be happening, stuff be happening. That's how you know
you tweaking when you just have to say stuff, it
ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's good, doom'n good, everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You were the first one to get a tattoo out
of your brothers. What was your first tattoo that you got?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Chest piece?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's like some wings in across you know, songs one
thirty eight seven.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Do you have any idea how many tattoos you have now?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I don't covered for like pretty much everything you think
you've done. Or yeah, I just get touch ups for real.
I might finish my leg sleeve. I got like a
little piece on my leg now.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You also made headlines when you signed a deal with
death Jam and there were a lot of numbers being
thrown out and things like that. So how did you
handle that news? Like for people finding out you gotta deal.
Some people even were kind of a little upset, like Dan,
he just put out one song. How we got a
deal so fast?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, and shit, I don't know about all that. Yeah,
too bad on that part, but uh, it's when I
found what'd you say?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What was the question when you found out you got
the deal?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
They pretty much told me like I didn't really didn't
want people to know for real, Like they Depth Jam
called me and a couple other labels and they we
was talking. I'm like, damn, I hope this shit don't
get out. That didn't last long for real, So everybody
threw their.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Own number on what made you choose Deaf Jam.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
When I went to the meetings, they was rocking with
me the most, like, and they was like, we gonna
let you do your own thing, like you clearly know
what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So they gave me my masters. I liked that a
lot of records don't be given Oh wow they did.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, I got my masters and shit, and I got
I own all my music for real, and they real
leaning with me like I could talk to them.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I talked to the major. They let me like make
my own music and see what I'm trying to put
out and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So is this more like a joint Venturedale or is
it okay? Because I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's not very distribute tye stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And when you went into the meeting for that, who
is with you?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You meet Demo and Tony Okay, So you have your.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Whole team of people around you. Do you still even
when it comes to the music, because that's not necessarily
your dad's forte obviously is basketball, but business is just
in general. So did you go to him and say, look,
this is what's on the table. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
At that age, I just know, like I just I've
seen him enough. I've been around my pop so I
pick up ways to do business. I'll say, I just
know I know what to do. I talked to them myself.
I got DMO on the phone and was like, we
gotta go take these meetings and then we gotta do
the music shit for real.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
What were the other labels that you were considering?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Atlantic Records? I was considering you. There was like my
two main ones, Death Gym in Atlantic and then Universal.
I think Universal too. Ye had some good ship.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's great to see that you came out the gate
like that, had a huge song. We're able to do festivals,
got a record deal, made it to the Freshman List,
and you've been putting out music consistently since then. But
you are supposed to have the album coming out, was it?
I heard it was pushed back.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I pushed it back.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, you pushed it back? Yeah, okay, why is that?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I just felt like you needed more features on it.
I only had the Glorilla feature on there.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh we like that.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Though I liked it too, I left it on there,
but I'm saying I had to add like I added,
like I want to add like four or five more
artists on.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
My Okay, when do you anticipate that coming out?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What the music's done? I'm just waiting on them to
get back to me, Taye stuff. So it's gonna be
some surprises on there. It's gonna drop into July, I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And what about a tour?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, I probably follow up with a tour. I mean sure,
I'm gonna talk to death Jam about all that stuff.
We're gonna get it set up.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It just felt like life is amazing you just yeah,
I feel.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Like it's supposed to be like this for real. I
don't know. I got the music for it, so I'm
ready to go for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I'm looking to see if you were in a ring. No, okay,
because I was going to say congratulations, but I wasn't
sure on that too. Nothing with that, with that, okay,
So you happy? Everything's good?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I'm cool. Shit, everybody good? For real?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Did you move out of California?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
No, I'm basing she on here in my house and
she on Hills, And I got some spots in LA
that I could go to and chill up.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Because I know sometimes people start doing the music heavy
and they're like, Okay, I'm gonna go to Atlanta, I'm
gonna go.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
My favorite states. Still, I'm always gonna be there.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I bet they know everybody knows you there though when
you're at home, do they still treat you like a
celebrity or are they used to seeing you everywhere?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And she know Hills, it's so be I can't go nowhere,
but yeah, everybody know me for real. Still they talk
to me. I talked to them. I don't know how
to describe it, but yeah, people see me and say
what up?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
All right, well, listen, I appreciate you for coming through.
I'm excited for you.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Do you have it?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
So you don't have a date yet. You're waiting for
death Cham to tell you the date for the album. Yeah,
we got to that. What about music videos.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Because I know, yeah, have some music videos on there.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I was thinking Booted Up should have been a video already.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So I I got songs I like a lot more
than that.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Tuto, but we haven't heard them yet. Yeah, so what
do you think I saw you talking.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I add on to it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Okay, So what's the next video you plan on doing?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
M I need to do a video for this song
called humble of Bolde Humbler.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, what is that about?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's hard? That's my song. I don't know. You gotta
listen to that joint. It's nice.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is it something real personal?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Because that's yeah, it's cool. It's just got a nice
flow to it. And yeah, I talked about my family
and shit, it's a good song.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
People always talk about like your parents kind of pushing
you to do things, and also like when you see
talent in your kids and being like, Okay, I see
this talent, you know, let's put him in this, Let's
put him in that. I want to ask you how
you feel about like the way that things happen for you.
Clearly your dad was like he did a lot for
you guys growing up, right, But sometimes parents feel like
(12:21):
I don't know how hands on to be with my
kids if they like something. Sometimes, especially when it comes
to sports, there's times when kids might feel like I
don't want to do this anymore. But your parents is
going to kind of push you a little bit. What
are your thoughts on that? Seeing how things turned out
for you and your brothers.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And my PAS's not really like that, like he'll give
you the choice.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
He kind of I'll say, he'll let you know good
and bad and then damn near picked like he just
be like, how I'll discard this, Like he know, he'll
be like you could do this or this, and you know,
and he's not really overbearing, like he not pushing us
to do shit.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like some days we wake up he'd be like, you
don't want to run, don't run down. You can lay down,
lay down all day.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He liked that, okay, but your other brothers running, you're
not going lay down like and he just gonna get
up just off of one and.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Two like he used to do that. Like the reverse
psychology shit.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I was gonna say, it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't care like he just do that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You don't want to be the best goad.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, he'd be like that. Well, I think that worked good.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
When we was younger, though, everything seemed like a challenge
for real, like a game, especially when you got brothers
too cold and everything.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
So yeah, everything felt like competition.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What did you think when you were watching what was
happening with Shadora Sanders and deonn Sanders? What happened like
when he was they thought he was going to get
drafted a lot earlier the NFL, and people were saying
they thought it was because there were a lot of
different theories on why things happened the way that it did.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, I just think that's can I say this, I
don't know the NFL. That's just how the NFL worked.
I don't think you could really be taught. You can't
say stuff like that coming into that because now all
the young dudes looking up to you is like damn,
you know, popping and shit like that. He still getting
in like now it's gonna be it might get out
of hand. I feel like they just need to tighten
(14:14):
it up a little bit. So they tried to show
on like it's not how.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It's about to go type shit, you know, right, they
were trying.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
To combines and not doing interviews with teens and artists.
They not about to have that in the NFL. That's
just my thought though.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
How do you think that sports mentality is helping you
with music? Do you think there's things that you transfer
over from playing ball as far as being an artist.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I just try to.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Carry myself professionally probably, like when I'm hoping, I hope
at my highest level when I make music, I don't
try to write just anything like I'm trying to make
some shit that will stamp on an album.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well, I'm looking forward to seeing this. I feel like
you're gonna end up doing a show at some point.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Again, yeah, I think so for real, we need one ship.
It will help you how to explain a lot of shit.
Y'all could just watch the show.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But like, damn, yeah, he just tune in. Man.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You think there's misconceptions about you very much, So every
one of them cooling?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Really?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You think, like what type of from what I hear
from what people say about you, they think you chill,
they think you cool, laid back.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, sometimes it'd be like he was high during this interview.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't be high like that.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So what are the misconceptions about you? You think?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I don't know, probably anything bad. You heard.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
He's just perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
No, I ain't perfect, but I think different. I say,
I don't think like the normal human being. So you're
not gonna relate or understand where I'm coming from. So
don't even try.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Okay, that's all I'm common said. Okay, all right, well, look,
congratulations and everything waiting in here when the album's gonna
come out. Congratulations on the Doubleic South Freshman list too,
you know, and it's great to see just having washed
you from when you were younger to where you are now.
You're the middle child, right, you know there's a lot
of theories about middle kids too.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah. I heard a couple thank you thinking we the
outcast or something.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You think that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I don't know for sure, Like I'm for sure getting
called first to clean some shit up, to wash a whip,
to move something. No cap, that's all. It's like one one,
one dude in the house. That's how my fossiles coming.
I'm like, call one of them, but I'd be like, yeah,
I got used to it. Always pull up.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
For everything, all right, Well, good to see well, thank
you so much for coming through.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, thank you way
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