April 3, 2026 • 25 mins
Lexa Gates checked in with the Cruz Show to talk about her New Album "I Am" - Lexa broke down the meanings of songs with Cruz & she talked about how the album came together very casually. She also talked about relationships, family, her love for soul music, her tour & more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bread me like that could cause.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
It for be like, oh okay, acting like.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And I swear it's just so much. I'm always craving it,
sug and one of us just star My Desson overna
stop four shots, four hundred chip bees.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Probably gotta take a fast ship for alive.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I only know what that means. A little bits really
exactly a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
M faking.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I got ideas about you making a move on me
to the latency.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It is a cruise show on Real ninety two three.
Let's get it like you. Gates is on the cruise
shows with it. Yeah. Intro by Nico Blitz.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Right there, it's great sounds fire, what someth man?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What's going down?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What's going down? I'm going on tour. I'm doing rehearsals.
I'm really tired, not going on.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I'm the tired, right, I'm tired of answering questions.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, I'm ready to answer questions.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, No, I feel you. I am is out. Congratulations,
I am is very Uh. It's got a lot of
soul to it, right, it's sold out facts. Yeah, love
that you do your own.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Production, do I Na, Na, not on that project.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Not on that project.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So when you start picking out beats, right, you start
picking out songs that you like?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is that a crazy process for you? Do you instantly know? Okay,
that's for me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'll just hear samples outside, bring them to the right people, and.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Ah, that's how it works. I like that you're into
oldies like that a little. That's some La Mexican shit
right there?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You feel me right right? I'm a New York Columbian
Puerto Rican. It's kind of adjacent on some shit. Yeah,
I'm actually I'm playing accordion now, so what Yeah that's
a you're gonna join a bond next Yeah, I'm getting
ready you.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Damn near Mexican, bro. That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Na, Man, we're here now, let's go. So, yeah, you're
going into it. It kicks off this Thursday in sant Ana.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yep, that's right. Yeah Friday. I'm gonna dance. I'm gonna
do my best. The choreographer wants me to work like,
oh boy, okay, doing that. I'm gonna do it good.
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What makes you feel good?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
We still have Madule dates backstage. Yeah, I love dates too.
I'm a big fan of dates and cottage cheese.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Wow. How do you know that? It's all my writer?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm a fan. Okay, okay, yeah, and I saw your writer.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm trying to switch it up with you now I'm
the writer. I just want like eggs, salmon, hard boiled eggs,
hard bulled eggs. I already had that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I love those.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What about like that's large white tees and you can
just shoot them to me. That'd be great for them.
They'll give them to you.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sure, maybe I should and then hooks me up. I
got you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That'd be nice.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Right now, you can ask for anything right backstage, Yeah
you can, yeah, and they'll give it to you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah. I've been trying to like think of what I
would want, but I don't know. Sometimes they just give
you like shitty stuff from the supermarket. Like I asked
for flowers and they come like yellow even though they're
supposed to be white, but.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
With the price tag still on it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh yeah, almost dead or fully bloom.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Some venues do go all out though, and really bring
good stuff. So what about some caviar, some caviar. I
should put that on the ride. Yea likes Caviar bumps
pretty good. I like it too.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, some boogie ship right there is that good.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't I had caviar, but it was like, uh,
it's already like it was packaged.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It wasn't necessarily like and.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's like salty.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it was all right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Not a fan, Yeah, not for you.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Not a fan. Yo, let's talk about it goes on. Man,
you kicked off the album with that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It goes on, it goes on.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Why start the project with that?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I saw a video some girls singing the sample of it,
and she was just like crying in the crowd, and
I just loved how it sounded right away. I sent
it to this guy Quincy, and he mixed it for
me and made a beat. It's kind of pretty straightforward,
but then I had someone else put drums on it.
(04:28):
I don't know, this is like an old song.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, it's got that feel. I ask why I start
with that, because you know, I think the very first
song that kicks off the project's extremely important, just like
the last song, right. I think you know what you're starting,
what you end with is obviously something you have to
put a lot of thought into.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Right, Yeah, not even though it was just like an accident.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I feel like that's how the albums really come together.
It's just very natural flows. It's like, I don't really
think about it that much.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, it's good, just let it happen. So Serious was
just something that all right, we'll end it with serious. Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It kind of wraps up the whole story of the album,
though perfectly. It's just a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
That one scared me a little bit when I heard
the first time, just a little bit, just a little bit.
Is it true that guys make you that way? Because
you kind of allude to that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Are we at fault?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No all the time?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Just anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Not anymore? We used to you used to, but not anymore.
I think we've changed this man.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, I really do, in my mind get into these
like delusions and shop and just uh, I'm an emotional person.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah really same yeah, same, But it makes good for
I mean, it's good for writing music and creating music
right emotions exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But if you're the person I'm talking about and you
hear that, like, it's like, what the fuck is wrong
with this?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Dude's going?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Is it me right.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Have you ever had any any of the people like that?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The songs could have possibly been about hit you up
and be like yo, I know, yeah, No, it's all good.
They know yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The Estrange video looks dope to congratulations you. Yeah, it's
fun time.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It was a fun time.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's strange. Is it's deep?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The other one, bro, another weird Eys song. I don't know, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Weird, it deep. You called it weird. I wanted to
call it weird, but I didn't call it weird. I'm
glad you did.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's the one I have to work to do? What Yeah,
all right, just a little mix of everything.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, so we're gonna work with some weirdness. Nothing wrong
with that.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Ye have fun with that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You have to practice working.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, I'm a pro.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
That's right, yo, you know, nothing to worry about. Is
another song that stood out to us.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
An one?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah you had fun making that? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
My friend Billy, I'm gonna see him tomorrow. He's goaded.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Is this song that you already had that you've been
working on or is that was that fresh?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
From from top to bottom?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Most of it, it's all just like in the order
I made it again, just supernatural, Like the intro is
the first first one I did. The serious is just
the last thing I did.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
It's just like storybookshit, because a lot of artists will
have that whiteboard and stress over that ship, like you
know what I mean, and like we got a sequence
it just perfectly, and you seem to just like let
it happen.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, I don't know, Maybe I need to get a whiteboard.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Not too much stress. Too much stress.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You don't want to put too much thought into it,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, I know, yeah, I know it starts to feel
like work it is.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You don't funk with me? Who's that about?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah? That whole album.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I think it's a feeling, right, I think it's just
like something you think about.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right, And then I feel like love always reflects just
anything in life, like like the work or your family
or whatever. You know, it's all kind of you could
put it towards anything and it will still makes sense.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, it doesn't have to be a specific person, but
you write to that point of view, right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Like right, I mean in life, knowing really gives a
fuck about you, like not as much as you would think,
not how you care about yourself. So if you expect
this type of love from people, you're just gonna get
led down right disappointing.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Disappointing, right, stop.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Me the sample on that so fired? Thank you. That's
just something Quincy sent me just organically.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
So you said you were walking around and you heard
a record and you bring it back here folks right
like this love for soul? I mean, I think that's
why a lot of us like that type of music.
First we were raised on it sort of right, But
then second of all, if you're emotional, it just you
could exudes emotion, you know, for some reason. Is that
why you're so drawn to it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, I'll just hear it outside. I'm like, damn, yeah,
just feeling this.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, Yo, you wouldn't date a guy that wears Air
Force ones?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Would I? What does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That random question? I thought I saw that it's on
the internet.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I have dated a guy who wore Air Force ones
and Jordan's and ship. I mean not from New York, so.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
That's like New York because that's a staple, right, but
you know out here, I don't know if if it's
like that in New York maybe not, but out here
a guy in all Black Air Force ones is a no, no, right, yes,
that's that energy, that dark energy.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Somebody in Black Air Force one set on this chair.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I know it. We should have put a spark down
the guess before you took a ship on that chair.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Sorry, and I'm just kidding, We're kidding. No, no, I
don't know what that is. It could have been chocolate.
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably it was in their back pocket.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I guess that's yeah, that could be it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The backlock, the back pocket. What else gives you the ick?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
When it comes to dudes, you can be honest, tell
us maybe we need to know, maybe we don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Help us like fear of commitment, right, okay or anything.
It's like not serious. I'm a serious person. I want
everything to be very official and nice.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
So yeah, people that waste your time, et cetera. Right,
play games.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I don't like that. No lying, no games on my end?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Who will also say.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, facts, I am down.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I'm here with you. That's what I need. I don't need.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's whatever it's right when it happens, yeah, no problem,
no structure, just but the perfect thing will come naturally.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's all vibes God's planning.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I think you said that somewhere record.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Hey, there's a part in one of the records where
it says I want to get a dog, so I'm
not alone, so I don't walk alone. Did you get
a dog yet, because I think I saw one on
your story.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, that was the creative director's dogs. I didn't get one.
I'm allergic to dogs and cats.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I was just saying, perfect, that's why you're gonna kill
a cat in the song.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Right, So I can move in?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, so I can move in, Make make some room
for yourself. You got a birthday coming up?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What am I doing? I'm gonna be on tour. I'm
probably gonna be tired. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Just you got to celebrate it somehow.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Right, Yeah, in the bus you should do something. I
don't know. You guys could all come if you want
more down stupid party.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah. Yeah. April sixth aries, Yeah, what do you guys?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Fire?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Leslie is our expert on that. Describe aries people too.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I don't really know a lot about never. Taurus is
pretty close to it's as for fire sign, yeah, and
you guys are the first sign of the astrology. So
you guys are the leaders have that energy?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What else? What else about energy?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Very artsy like I have a lot of aries friends.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We have a temper.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, temper, stubborn, impulsive, driven, that's a good thing. It
depends on like what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's all of it. That sums it up right there,
that's who we are. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That sounds like a good time.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You read horoscopes? Are you into that? You're like Garcia.
Garcia thinks it's a bunch of bulls.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I just think it's a bunch of anything that you know,
everybody is like believing together is gonna some stuff is
gonna be real. You know.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah, it kind of almost makes it makes it way
into your consciousness and people.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Plus the stars in the moon affect the ocean, so
like how would it not affect us?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
That's true. I don't know, that's true.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's true, Yo, last day. Talked to us about last day.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Last day, I was in a ruba. I was on vacation,
and I thought it was the last day, but it wasn't.
But then I was just on the beach and I
was thinking, like like every day could be my last day. Though,
like I could die on the plane. I could literally
just like it could all be over. I gotta be
more grateful and just be happy and appreciate. But it's
(13:37):
already you know, to do that, it's like, so that's
what it is, just like a reminder. Yeah, every day
could be your last day.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yes, you could all die today. Guys, this is true.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's fucked up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's it's it's very morbid to think that way, but
it's it's true.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I guess, right, Yeah, but I've never died before, so
I don't know if that really happens.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You never know.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
You're here, you know, we don't have the right kind
of insurance.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And it would be good for publicity though.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That would be crazy, crazy for us, you know, wild you.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Won't have to talk if you died today.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So let's not die, right, Let's not die.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Let's live, man, let's live. Continue making new music? Are
you recording music daily?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah? All the time. There's a piano in my airbnb,
so I'm just like playing, trying writing always. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Growing up, what did your parents listen to around the house?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What did they listen to? Like, my mom listened to
like a bunch of house music like Amy and like
Eminem and like Wu Tang. But she'd be like just
type of music. It's like it'll give you a headache.
It's like strong. But I don't know. Cool ship from
the early two thousands. And what about your dad? I
(15:01):
don't know. I don't know. My dad liked that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sane.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
But when I did like reconnect with him, he would
just listen to just straight Christian music and like he's
just fully just Christian.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh boy, yeah did you did you understand it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You know, I get it. He wants to be forgiven.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Ah okay, cool can't be mad at that, I guess, yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What did he say about like your you know, career
taking off?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And he was very proud of me, and he was
really happy and what is that word? Supportive? He was great.
He told me a bunch of stuff. He was sick
and like he couldn't speak anymore, so he just wrote
on a board and he would just be like be
a hypocrite, like you can do anything, Dada. I went
(15:58):
sober and like it was lit so.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
God bless. Yeah that's that's not easy.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Good for you, man.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
How long since I turned twenty one. I'm about to
turn twenty five. So goodo wow, ventilations.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That's huge, Sober gang sober sounds so happy about it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's not terrible, right, No, Yo.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The wheel experience must have been wild. You were on
that wheel for ten hours.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, it was. It was wild. It's pretty crazy. I
don't know. I was just sweaty.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say it like like after the
fifth hour, you were you like, Okay, what am I doing?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
After forty minutes, I was like, what am I doing?
This is hello, dumb?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You gott out right.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I've been doing this, but yeah, I have to get
it done.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It was a lot easier sitting in the box for sure, right,
Yeah is the wheel? That's cardio? My gee, that's work.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah. I was drinking electrolyte, so they kept on bringing
me bottles. But I don't think you're supposed to have
that many, So I don't know. Something happened the day after.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It says a lot about you, though, If you were
bored after forty minutes or tired after forty and you
went fully ten.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
What am I supposed to do? Everybody was looking Yeah, Yeah,
it's very like that.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You finished. It's great, man.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, it was an expensive thing to do.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Mm hmmm. Could you run a marathon?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Could maybe? I mean if you did that for ten hours,
you can run a marathon. Yeah, for sure, David Goggins. Anyway,
maybe I wasn't really walking the whole time, but people
kept on coming in and then I just felt like, fuck,
I have to just keep going.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
If people are watching, you gotta do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, exactly. That's actually messed up, like says a lot
about our industry and all that stuff too. It's like,
you know, the girl came and she was like, there's
like three thousand people on the stream right now. I
literally stood my ass up and kept on going. But
if if I thought there was no one watching, it's like,
I don't really care. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
So that man commitment.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yeah, man, if someone's watching, you feel me, that's great.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If no one's watching, I would have laid down, take
a break, bro, someone's always watching.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yo. The cover? What are you holding there on the cover?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It's a jacket. Okay, what did you think it was?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You know what we were We were taking a few
guesses in here.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, somebody thought it was a huge bag of weed.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know. It looks like a jacket that's been
through some ship though.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Facts, Yeah, what is that symbolize?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Again? Just like some coincidental thing that I don't know.
He was just there and yeah, I just had met
somebody for the first time. We went to their studio
and took this picture and then I just used it
for the cover.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Easy, easy word.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Easy exactly everything, very easy.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
To work with.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I am.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, yeah, bro tell me the truth. Bro, blink twice
if she's l.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
That's good though. That's you know, that's good for the
people around you. It's good for your mental health too,
I think, right, because we can all overthink.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I should be more like, you know, more of an asshole,
but I'm not. I'm just chill.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, well there's time for that, I guess, right. Yeah,
maybe maybe on the next album will be an asshole.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Facts. That's one. I'm happy. I'm gonna be happy and
enthusiastic and positive.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's right, Alexa Gates. The new album I Am available
on all streaming platforms.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Visuals are up as well. Elite Vessel. I thought that
was a very dope project as well. What's changed since then?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm in LA. I did Elite Vessel in New York.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
All in New York.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, and then this kind of like all in La.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Okay, so this is the LA album facts sounds like
it now now now Yo?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It almost you know, because it's got that vibe. It's
got that vibem. Yeah, that's dope, man. Was that what
was that?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Was that a decision that you made intentionally or was
that just something that happened again, something that happened. Yeah,
that's awesome yo. And then the tour kicks off this
Thursday and Santa Anna at the Observatory Annointed.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Is crazy as well.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah? Is that one of your favorite songs?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I don't have any favorites. They are like my kids.
It's all great.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
When you have kids, you'll have a favorite.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Wait do you have kids?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I have kids. I have two kids.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, and you have a favorite.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, you know, I wouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That, but it's the older one.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The older one is is easier. Yeah yeah, yeah, the
older one is easier.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah. Well, I don't know. I wouldn't tell my kids that.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I'm not telling my kids that you're making me say this,
but I would never tell them in person.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
My mom tells me, really, what did she say? She says,
I'm her favorite. Sorry, no, I'm kidding, but she she
just says that to both of us, right.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
She says to you, Yeah, that's what I would do too.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Whoever gives her more?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, right there, right, My grandma.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Was horrible because she has one favorite grandchild and she
would tell all the rest of twenty of them that
you ain't ship.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's the other raise.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
She's a g at least she told everybody, and she
didn't like lie about her.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Nah, but come on, yo, that's crazy. That's traumatic.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Step it up.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Step it up as a child, damn it, step it
up as a human.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Ye know, in school wasn't necessarily your thing either?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Huh No, not really.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Why did you just find yourself confused by it all?
Or were you just you know, you like important right?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Unimportant exactly because there's just it's like jail, like just
a bunch of people, and you're always like, oh, like
you're like a number, it's like next like whatever, like lunch,
like you're in a.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Desk and very structured.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah. Plus it wasn't really like the best school, so
you know, it's even worse than those like zone schools
and shit, literally it's like jail.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
New York schools are jail.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah facts hmmm.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Out here, they're not necessarily I don't know. Maybe they
that it's normal to us. It depends where, it depends where.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I think it's harder in New York though, because everything's inside,
like we have at least outside because the weather's good.
You could go get some sun, invite them and d
and be outside, like in New York if it's shitty
weather and you're trapped inside for everything, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But I think school is good. People should be in
school and learn and know how to read. I know
that that's something that kids are struggling with now because
of social media cursive too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
They should know how to write cursive.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know, I know how to write cursive.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I went to an enter what is it like I school?
I don't know, But in my younger years I actually
learned like a lot more than like regular schooling. Just after,
like I went to high school, it was like.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You checked out.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, it was like something like everybody in like gray
sweats and.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Just like the Jamma gang all day rocks was your mom?
Okay with that decision. No, oh, she didn't know at first. Issue.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well she's happy now, that's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, you had a career, you know you did fine
for yourself, right, I think you knew who you were
or what you wanted to be, who you wanted to
be then, right, right, so you made that decision. It's tough.
It's tough. You know, it's not for a parent too.
Can you imagine like my kid walked up and said like,
I don't know, I think I'm done with school. I'm like,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know, I hit him in the mouth, hit him
in the face.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
No, I'm not hitting my kid in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But but we can.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Talk about it. You know I was hitting the mouth
me too.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, I was hit in the face. They broke my
glasses in half on my face.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Who by by an adult?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
My mom?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, same, My dad would hit me like
a I.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Came out really great. Sister didn't get hit.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And now she's doing and what's wrong with your sister?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
She's really great too, right, I know. I guess it
all works.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, but she could have got beat a little more. Huh. Yeah,
you saying we're both trying to incriminate.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
We were kind of talking about.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
That before before you came in, you know, like some
of the sad boy or sad girl energy and like
some of that comes from up upbringing, you know what
I mean, Like when you were fucking up and you
got hit or you were told you ain't ship, you
know what I mean, and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
I mean that kind of makes you internalize your emotions.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
And you know, I think we turn to music sometimes
to heal some of that, right.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Or weed or both.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
M hm, yeah, is it all coming back to you
right now?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Thought provoking stuff. I mean, it's nice to you know,
be put into the corner and think.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Sometimes listen, there's a beauty there. There's beauty in being uncomfortable.
There's a beauty and difficulty bring difficulty back, my gee.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
And even in silence, like our kids now, they don't
know how to be silent.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Every someone's got to be in front of their face
all the time, like they just can't be bored, right.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Absolutely. I feel really grateful that I was born in
the generation that wasn't fully all that way. Like we
I had Instagram and I had a phone, but it
wasn't like as entertaining as it is now, you know.
So I did have time to be bored and to
you know, smoke weed and like look at a wall
and just to like wonder about things.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And m hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, I don't know how it is now. Even for me,
I struggle like not being all on my phone all
the time.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So yeah, we're kind of addicted to it. It is
what it is. Let's of Gates. Thank you very much
for stopping by. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I am the album all streaming platforms. Let's get us
the Cruise Show.
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bread me like that could cause.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
It for be like, oh okay, acting like.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And I swear it's just so much. I'm always craving it,
sug and one of us just star My Desson overna
stop four shots, four hundred chip bees.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Probably gotta take a fast ship for alive.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I only know what that means. A little bits really
exactly a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
M faking.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I got ideas about you making a move on me
to the latency.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It is a cruise show on Real ninety two three.
Let's get it like you. Gates is on the cruise
shows with it. Yeah. Intro by Nico Blitz.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Right there, it's great sounds fire, what someth man?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What's going down?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What's going down? I'm going on tour. I'm doing rehearsals.
I'm really tired, not going on.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I'm the tired, right, I'm tired of answering questions.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
No, I'm ready to answer questions.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, No, I feel you. I am is out. Congratulations,
I am is very Uh. It's got a lot of
soul to it, right, it's sold out facts. Yeah, love
that you do your own.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Production, do I Na, Na, not on that project.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Not on that project.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So when you start picking out beats, right, you start
picking out songs that you like?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is that a crazy process for you? Do you instantly know? Okay,
that's for me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'll just hear samples outside, bring them to the right people, and.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Ah, that's how it works. I like that you're into
oldies like that a little. That's some La Mexican shit
right there?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You feel me right right? I'm a New York Columbian
Puerto Rican. It's kind of adjacent on some shit. Yeah,
I'm actually I'm playing accordion now, so what Yeah that's
a you're gonna join a bond next Yeah, I'm getting
ready you.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Damn near Mexican, bro. That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Na, Man, we're here now, let's go. So, yeah, you're
going into it. It kicks off this Thursday in sant Ana.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yep, that's right. Yeah Friday. I'm gonna dance. I'm gonna
do my best. The choreographer wants me to work like,
oh boy, okay, doing that. I'm gonna do it good.
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What makes you feel good?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
We still have Madule dates backstage. Yeah, I love dates too.
I'm a big fan of dates and cottage cheese.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Wow. How do you know that? It's all my writer?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I'm a fan. Okay, okay, yeah, and I saw your writer.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm trying to switch it up with you now I'm
the writer. I just want like eggs, salmon, hard boiled eggs,
hard bulled eggs. I already had that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I love those.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What about like that's large white tees and you can
just shoot them to me. That'd be great for them.
They'll give them to you.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sure, maybe I should and then hooks me up. I
got you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That'd be nice.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Right now, you can ask for anything right backstage, Yeah
you can, yeah, and they'll give it to you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah. I've been trying to like think of what I
would want, but I don't know. Sometimes they just give
you like shitty stuff from the supermarket. Like I asked
for flowers and they come like yellow even though they're
supposed to be white, but.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
With the price tag still on it.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh yeah, almost dead or fully bloom.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Some venues do go all out though, and really bring
good stuff. So what about some caviar, some caviar. I
should put that on the ride. Yea likes Caviar bumps
pretty good. I like it too.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, some boogie ship right there is that good.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't I had caviar, but it was like, uh,
it's already like it was packaged.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It wasn't necessarily like and.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's like salty.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it was all right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Not a fan, Yeah, not for you.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Not a fan. Yo, let's talk about it goes on. Man,
you kicked off the album with that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It goes on, it goes on.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Why start the project with that?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I saw a video some girls singing the sample of it,
and she was just like crying in the crowd, and
I just loved how it sounded right away. I sent
it to this guy Quincy, and he mixed it for
me and made a beat. It's kind of pretty straightforward,
but then I had someone else put drums on it.
(04:28):
I don't know, this is like an old song.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, it's got that feel. I ask why I start
with that, because you know, I think the very first
song that kicks off the project's extremely important, just like
the last song, right. I think you know what you're starting,
what you end with is obviously something you have to
put a lot of thought into.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Right, Yeah, not even though it was just like an accident.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I feel like that's how the albums really come together.
It's just very natural flows. It's like, I don't really
think about it that much.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, it's good, just let it happen. So Serious was
just something that all right, we'll end it with serious. Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It kind of wraps up the whole story of the album,
though perfectly. It's just a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
That one scared me a little bit when I heard
the first time, just a little bit, just a little bit.
Is it true that guys make you that way? Because
you kind of allude to that.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Are we at fault?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No all the time?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Just anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Not anymore? We used to you used to, but not anymore.
I think we've changed this man.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, I really do, in my mind get into these
like delusions and shop and just uh, I'm an emotional person.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah really same yeah, same, But it makes good for
I mean, it's good for writing music and creating music
right emotions exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But if you're the person I'm talking about and you
hear that, like, it's like, what the fuck is wrong
with this?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Dude's going?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Is it me right.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Have you ever had any any of the people like that?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The songs could have possibly been about hit you up
and be like yo, I know, yeah, No, it's all good.
They know yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The Estrange video looks dope to congratulations you. Yeah, it's
fun time.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It was a fun time.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's strange. Is it's deep?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The other one, bro, another weird Eys song. I don't know, it's.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Weird, it deep. You called it weird. I wanted to
call it weird, but I didn't call it weird. I'm
glad you did.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's the one I have to work to do? What Yeah,
all right, just a little mix of everything.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, so we're gonna work with some weirdness. Nothing wrong
with that.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Ye have fun with that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You have to practice working.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, I'm a pro.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
That's right, yo, you know, nothing to worry about. Is
another song that stood out to us.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
An one?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah you had fun making that? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
My friend Billy, I'm gonna see him tomorrow. He's goaded.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Is this song that you already had that you've been
working on or is that was that fresh?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
From from top to bottom?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Most of it, it's all just like in the order
I made it again, just supernatural, Like the intro is
the first first one I did. The serious is just
the last thing I did.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
It's just like storybookshit, because a lot of artists will
have that whiteboard and stress over that ship, like you
know what I mean, and like we got a sequence
it just perfectly, and you seem to just like let
it happen.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, I don't know, Maybe I need to get a whiteboard.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Not too much stress. Too much stress.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You don't want to put too much thought into it,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, I know, yeah, I know it starts to feel
like work it is.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You don't funk with me? Who's that about?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah? That whole album.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I think it's a feeling, right, I think it's just
like something you think about.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Right, And then I feel like love always reflects just
anything in life, like like the work or your family
or whatever. You know, it's all kind of you could
put it towards anything and it will still makes sense.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, it doesn't have to be a specific person, but
you write to that point of view, right.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Like right, I mean in life, knowing really gives a
fuck about you, like not as much as you would think,
not how you care about yourself. So if you expect
this type of love from people, you're just gonna get
led down right disappointing.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Disappointing, right, stop.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Me the sample on that so fired? Thank you. That's
just something Quincy sent me just organically.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
So you said you were walking around and you heard
a record and you bring it back here folks right
like this love for soul? I mean, I think that's
why a lot of us like that type of music.
First we were raised on it sort of right, But
then second of all, if you're emotional, it just you
could exudes emotion, you know, for some reason. Is that
why you're so drawn to it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, I'll just hear it outside. I'm like, damn, yeah,
just feeling this.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, Yo, you wouldn't date a guy that wears Air
Force ones?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Would I? What does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That random question? I thought I saw that it's on
the internet.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I have dated a guy who wore Air Force ones
and Jordan's and ship. I mean not from New York, so.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
That's like New York because that's a staple, right, but
you know out here, I don't know if if it's
like that in New York maybe not, but out here
a guy in all Black Air Force ones is a no, no, right, yes,
that's that energy, that dark energy.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Somebody in Black Air Force one set on this chair.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I know it. We should have put a spark down
the guess before you took a ship on that chair.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Sorry, and I'm just kidding, We're kidding. No, no, I
don't know what that is. It could have been chocolate.
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably it was in their back pocket.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I guess that's yeah, that could be it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The backlock, the back pocket. What else gives you the ick?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
When it comes to dudes, you can be honest, tell
us maybe we need to know, maybe we don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Help us like fear of commitment, right, okay or anything.
It's like not serious. I'm a serious person. I want
everything to be very official and nice.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
So yeah, people that waste your time, et cetera. Right,
play games.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I don't like that. No lying, no games on my end?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Who will also say.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, facts, I am down.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I'm here with you. That's what I need. I don't need.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's whatever it's right when it happens, yeah, no problem,
no structure, just but the perfect thing will come naturally.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's all vibes God's planning.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I think you said that somewhere record.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Hey, there's a part in one of the records where
it says I want to get a dog, so I'm
not alone, so I don't walk alone. Did you get
a dog yet, because I think I saw one on
your story.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, that was the creative director's dogs. I didn't get one.
I'm allergic to dogs and cats.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I was just saying, perfect, that's why you're gonna kill
a cat in the song.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Right, So I can move in?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, so I can move in, Make make some room
for yourself. You got a birthday coming up?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What am I doing? I'm gonna be on tour. I'm
probably gonna be tired. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Just you got to celebrate it somehow.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Right, Yeah, in the bus you should do something. I
don't know. You guys could all come if you want
more down stupid party.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah. Yeah. April sixth aries, Yeah, what do you guys?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Fire?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Leslie is our expert on that. Describe aries people too.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I don't really know a lot about never. Taurus is
pretty close to it's as for fire sign, yeah, and
you guys are the first sign of the astrology. So
you guys are the leaders have that energy?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What else? What else about energy?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Very artsy like I have a lot of aries friends.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We have a temper.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, temper, stubborn, impulsive, driven, that's a good thing. It
depends on like what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's all of it. That sums it up right there,
that's who we are. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That sounds like a good time.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You read horoscopes? Are you into that? You're like Garcia.
Garcia thinks it's a bunch of bulls.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I just think it's a bunch of anything that you know,
everybody is like believing together is gonna some stuff is
gonna be real. You know.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah, it kind of almost makes it makes it way
into your consciousness and people.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Plus the stars in the moon affect the ocean, so
like how would it not affect us?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
That's true. I don't know, that's true.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That's true, Yo, last day. Talked to us about last day.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Last day, I was in a ruba. I was on vacation,
and I thought it was the last day, but it wasn't.
But then I was just on the beach and I
was thinking, like like every day could be my last day. Though,
like I could die on the plane. I could literally
just like it could all be over. I gotta be
more grateful and just be happy and appreciate. But it's
(13:37):
already you know, to do that, it's like, so that's
what it is, just like a reminder. Yeah, every day
could be your last day.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yes, you could all die today. Guys, this is true.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's fucked up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's it's it's very morbid to think that way, but
it's it's true.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I guess, right, Yeah, but I've never died before, so
I don't know if that really happens.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You never know.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
You're here, you know, we don't have the right kind
of insurance.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And it would be good for publicity though.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
That would be crazy, crazy for us, you know, wild you.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Won't have to talk if you died today.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So let's not die, right, Let's not die.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Let's live, man, let's live. Continue making new music? Are
you recording music daily?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah? All the time. There's a piano in my airbnb,
so I'm just like playing, trying writing always. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Growing up, what did your parents listen to around the house?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What did they listen to? Like, my mom listened to
like a bunch of house music like Amy and like
Eminem and like Wu Tang. But she'd be like just
type of music. It's like it'll give you a headache.
It's like strong. But I don't know. Cool ship from
the early two thousands. And what about your dad? I
(15:01):
don't know. I don't know. My dad liked that.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sane.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
But when I did like reconnect with him, he would
just listen to just straight Christian music and like he's
just fully just Christian.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh boy, yeah did you did you understand it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You know, I get it. He wants to be forgiven.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Ah okay, cool can't be mad at that, I guess, yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What did he say about like your you know, career
taking off?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And he was very proud of me, and he was
really happy and what is that word? Supportive? He was great.
He told me a bunch of stuff. He was sick
and like he couldn't speak anymore, so he just wrote
on a board and he would just be like be
a hypocrite, like you can do anything, Dada. I went
(15:58):
sober and like it was lit so.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
God bless. Yeah that's that's not easy.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Good for you, man.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
How long since I turned twenty one. I'm about to
turn twenty five. So goodo wow, ventilations.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That's huge, Sober gang sober sounds so happy about it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's not terrible, right, No, Yo.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
The wheel experience must have been wild. You were on
that wheel for ten hours.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, it was. It was wild. It's pretty crazy. I
don't know. I was just sweaty.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say it like like after the
fifth hour, you were you like, Okay, what am I doing?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
After forty minutes, I was like, what am I doing?
This is hello, dumb?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You gott out right.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I've been doing this, but yeah, I have to get
it done.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It was a lot easier sitting in the box for sure, right,
Yeah is the wheel? That's cardio? My gee, that's work.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah. I was drinking electrolyte, so they kept on bringing
me bottles. But I don't think you're supposed to have
that many, So I don't know. Something happened the day after.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It says a lot about you, though, If you were
bored after forty minutes or tired after forty and you
went fully ten.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
What am I supposed to do? Everybody was looking Yeah, Yeah,
it's very like that.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You finished. It's great, man.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, it was an expensive thing to do.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Mm hmmm. Could you run a marathon?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Could maybe? I mean if you did that for ten hours,
you can run a marathon. Yeah, for sure, David Goggins. Anyway,
maybe I wasn't really walking the whole time, but people
kept on coming in and then I just felt like, fuck,
I have to just keep going.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
If people are watching, you gotta do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, exactly. That's actually messed up, like says a lot
about our industry and all that stuff too. It's like,
you know, the girl came and she was like, there's
like three thousand people on the stream right now. I
literally stood my ass up and kept on going. But
if if I thought there was no one watching, it's like,
I don't really care. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
So that man commitment.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Yeah, man, if someone's watching, you feel me, that's great.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If no one's watching, I would have laid down, take
a break, bro, someone's always watching.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yo. The cover? What are you holding there on the cover?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It's a jacket. Okay, what did you think it was?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You know what we were We were taking a few
guesses in here.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, somebody thought it was a huge bag of weed.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know. It looks like a jacket that's been
through some ship though.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Facts, Yeah, what is that symbolize?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Again? Just like some coincidental thing that I don't know.
He was just there and yeah, I just had met
somebody for the first time. We went to their studio
and took this picture and then I just used it
for the cover.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Easy, easy word.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Easy exactly everything, very easy.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
To work with.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I am.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, yeah, bro tell me the truth. Bro, blink twice
if she's l.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
That's good though. That's you know, that's good for the
people around you. It's good for your mental health too,
I think, right, because we can all overthink.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I should be more like, you know, more of an asshole,
but I'm not. I'm just chill.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, well there's time for that, I guess, right. Yeah,
maybe maybe on the next album will be an asshole.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Facts. That's one. I'm happy. I'm gonna be happy and
enthusiastic and positive.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's right, Alexa Gates. The new album I Am available
on all streaming platforms.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Visuals are up as well. Elite Vessel. I thought that
was a very dope project as well. What's changed since then?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm in LA. I did Elite Vessel in New York.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
All in New York.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, and then this kind of like all in La.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Okay, so this is the LA album facts sounds like
it now now now Yo?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It almost you know, because it's got that vibe. It's
got that vibem. Yeah, that's dope, man. Was that what
was that?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Was that a decision that you made intentionally or was
that just something that happened again, something that happened. Yeah,
that's awesome yo. And then the tour kicks off this
Thursday and Santa Anna at the Observatory Annointed.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Is crazy as well.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah? Is that one of your favorite songs?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I don't have any favorites. They are like my kids.
It's all great.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
When you have kids, you'll have a favorite.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Wait do you have kids?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I have kids. I have two kids.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, and you have a favorite.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, you know, I wouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
That, but it's the older one.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The older one is is easier. Yeah yeah, yeah, the
older one is easier.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah. Well, I don't know. I wouldn't tell my kids that.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I'm not telling my kids that you're making me say this,
but I would never tell them in person.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
My mom tells me, really, what did she say? She says,
I'm her favorite. Sorry, no, I'm kidding, but she she
just says that to both of us, right.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
She says to you, Yeah, that's what I would do too.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Whoever gives her more?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, right there, right, My grandma.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Was horrible because she has one favorite grandchild and she
would tell all the rest of twenty of them that
you ain't ship.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's the other raise.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
She's a g at least she told everybody, and she
didn't like lie about her.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Nah, but come on, yo, that's crazy. That's traumatic.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Step it up.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Step it up as a child, damn it, step it
up as a human.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Ye know, in school wasn't necessarily your thing either?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Huh No, not really.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Why did you just find yourself confused by it all?
Or were you just you know, you like important right?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Unimportant exactly because there's just it's like jail, like just
a bunch of people, and you're always like, oh, like
you're like a number, it's like next like whatever, like lunch,
like you're in a.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Desk and very structured.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah. Plus it wasn't really like the best school, so
you know, it's even worse than those like zone schools
and shit, literally it's like jail.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
New York schools are jail.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah facts hmmm.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Out here, they're not necessarily I don't know. Maybe they
that it's normal to us. It depends where, it depends where.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I think it's harder in New York though, because everything's inside,
like we have at least outside because the weather's good.
You could go get some sun, invite them and d
and be outside, like in New York if it's shitty
weather and you're trapped inside for everything, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But I think school is good. People should be in
school and learn and know how to read. I know
that that's something that kids are struggling with now because
of social media cursive too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
They should know how to write cursive.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know, I know how to write cursive.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I went to an enter what is it like I school?
I don't know, But in my younger years I actually
learned like a lot more than like regular schooling. Just after,
like I went to high school, it was like.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You checked out.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, it was like something like everybody in like gray
sweats and.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Just like the Jamma gang all day rocks was your mom?
Okay with that decision. No, oh, she didn't know at first. Issue.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well she's happy now, that's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, you had a career, you know you did fine
for yourself, right, I think you knew who you were
or what you wanted to be, who you wanted to
be then, right, right, so you made that decision. It's tough.
It's tough. You know, it's not for a parent too.
Can you imagine like my kid walked up and said like,
I don't know, I think I'm done with school. I'm like,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know, I hit him in the mouth, hit him
in the face.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
No, I'm not hitting my kid in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
But but we can.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Talk about it. You know I was hitting the mouth
me too.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, I was hit in the face. They broke my
glasses in half on my face.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Who by by an adult?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
My mom?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, same, My dad would hit me like
a I.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Came out really great. Sister didn't get hit.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And now she's doing and what's wrong with your sister?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
She's really great too, right, I know. I guess it
all works.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, but she could have got beat a little more. Huh. Yeah,
you saying we're both trying to incriminate.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
We were kind of talking about.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
That before before you came in, you know, like some
of the sad boy or sad girl energy and like
some of that comes from up upbringing, you know what
I mean, Like when you were fucking up and you
got hit or you were told you ain't ship, you
know what I mean, and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
I mean that kind of makes you internalize your emotions.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
And you know, I think we turn to music sometimes
to heal some of that, right.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Or weed or both.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
M hm, yeah, is it all coming back to you
right now?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Thought provoking stuff. I mean, it's nice to you know,
be put into the corner and think.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Sometimes listen, there's a beauty there. There's beauty in being uncomfortable.
There's a beauty and difficulty bring difficulty back, my gee.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
And even in silence, like our kids now, they don't
know how to be silent.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Every someone's got to be in front of their face
all the time, like they just can't be bored, right.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Absolutely. I feel really grateful that I was born in
the generation that wasn't fully all that way. Like we
I had Instagram and I had a phone, but it
wasn't like as entertaining as it is now, you know.
So I did have time to be bored and to
you know, smoke weed and like look at a wall
and just to like wonder about things.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And m hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, I don't know how it is now. Even for me,
I struggle like not being all on my phone all
the time.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So yeah, we're kind of addicted to it. It is
what it is. Let's of Gates. Thank you very much
for stopping by. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I am the album all streaming platforms. Let's get us
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