EP: 657- Don Toliver Interview (uncensored)

Don Toliver stopped by the Cruz Show to talk about his new album, he broke down the purpose & mood of the album along with talking about specific song meanings and more. He also talked about fatherhood and how it's changed his perspective + Kali Uchis & what Spanish she's taught him & so much more!

Episode Transcript

(00:03):
Tell me what's really really need.I don't know what's name. I guess
I'm told demanding, gott me tripping? You need making cashion? Now,

(00:25):
okay, how about it? Thebody you went on your friends the baby
shoes Marvin, but I have beenup and goes to Darwin. Yeah,
don Tolliver's on the Cruise Show.Let's get it real ninety two three,
shop with you? Send me's onTolliver. What's good, doggy? How
you feeling? Man? We're doinggood man, We're doing alright. We're

(00:48):
hanging in there. I'm lying,we're struggling, but listen, we're here.
I'm like, we're struggling, butwe're here. Brother. Gotta keep
it real, right, yeah,everybody around you have to keep it real
because that's what the music is.It's real. So we gotta be honest,
right, We gotta you gotta,you gotta really you know what I'm
saying, Stand up business. That'sit all day. Heartstone, Psycho,

(01:08):
Congratulations, you went crazy. Mylast album was Love Sick and Sometimes like
you Love Sick for so Long andJoy Psycho, So that was really like
the whole spin off into it.That's a good connection, right there is
that when Don Tolliver was on stage. It's an outer body experience. I
see it. He could see himselfperforming. It's crazy. Yeah, bro's
superpower. Witness that. I witnessedit. Bro. I'm like, Yo,

(01:32):
you hard for that, Bro?Like you see himself performing is crazy
because that's really like a third person. You crazy crazy and you're going crazy
in the crowd. Yeah, Bro, that's you. You know see our
producer He was like, Yo,does he really ride bikes like that?
I'm like, Yo, that's hislife, Kelly Whchie is not like you
bring home one more like I neverseen that friend that mean where it's like

(01:55):
my friend, buddy, I knowthat memes my life for sure. Don
Tolliver is here Heartstone psycho. Hewent psycho on the project. Quality music,
The videos are crazy too, thevisuals are you? Are you hands
on this whole thing? I washands on that said everything. You know

(02:15):
what I'm saying, yo, lastlaugh on the project? Right? What
does that song mean to you?Is that a middle finger to everybody?
Man? It's not a big middlefinger to everybody. Is kind of just
one of those things where anybody inmy life that kind of try to like
take advantage of like who I waswhere I was being naive, not knowing,
you know, being young in theindustry. It's it's like I got

(02:37):
the last laugh, you know,I finally I got a lot of things
in order within my business and alot of things in order within you know,
my everyday life. That I feellike I just had got a crazy
grip on and it's really like ait's really like a laugh in your face
type of situation. You know,if you ever tried, you know,

(02:58):
it's so far gone to this point, you know, whatever you wanted to
do, it didn't work. Itpossibly couldn't have worked. Yeah, saying
you know what I got, it'slike yo, I forget, but I
ain't forgot. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, ever like that, like
to sometimes the same way, cruisea little bit more, forget the exercise.

(03:19):
Is that a little bit more?I got a thirty minute song in
my head right now? You gotyou. I'm knowing that everybody has Calie
taught you anything, slightly Spanish,slightly. I just it's kind of that's
Columbia Spanish. That's different Spanish.Yeah, she'd be talking fast talk,
yeah, real fast, fast,