December 31, 2025 • 25 mins
Best of 2025- Artists of the Year - 803 Fresh Talks 'Boots On The Ground', The Rise Of Southern Soul. Recorded 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is t j n V. Just hilarious.
Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We got some.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Special guests in the buildings.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Indeed, you got eight O three Fresh home team and.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Young guy here in the building yourself. Welcome fellas, y'all
feeling man.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Where the fans at they now? If you don't know
Ato three Fresh, of course they got the record right now.
That's if you've been out and about, especially in the South,
especially HBCU Boots on the Ground on their song.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Congratulations boys, that song.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Moving man, Thank you brother, appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
When did the song actually come out?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
December twenty four? That was like my crisis gift to everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Now, Charlemagne and live Charlan like that song been out
for three years. I'm like, Charlomage know what I was
talking about.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Just the whole line dance movement from South Carolina.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
It's definitely been going on more than three yeah, But
is it just started picking up more in it like
the past year and a half.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
People don't really get to see the line theres, especially
on the East Coast as much. But when I when
I DJ everywhere you get to see it. And I
remember I was a Charlotte and a girl came up
to me. It's like, can you play the Boots on
the Ground. I had no idea what she talking about.
It was a mob dip song.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was like, is that a mob deep Boots on
the line. I had no idea. It's out that Louis v.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Louis.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
He was like, yeah, I'm gonna send it to you
right now, send it to me. And then when I
played it, I see.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The went ups moving.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I said, you know what's crazy, it's crazy as it sounds.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
The current political climate kind of boosted the record too,
because I remember people started posting saying, you know, we
ain't tripping off what this administration is doing.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Black people are.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Finding joy learning new line dances, and it would always
be Boots on the Ground with the fans.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
It took everybody, like everybody's mind away from like the
you know, the current, you know stuff that's going on.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
So for me, it's like the unity in it. That's
what makes it more appeeling for me. You know, you
got thet the two year old, you got the eight
to two year old, you got the everybody I mean
Grandmama's auntie. That's what makes it more genuine for me.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Man, the dope think about it was a lot of
the line dre songs a lot older, like you're talking
twenty years older. Like, but when you go to a
family reunion or a wedding or a HBCU, it's always the.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Wabble wobble.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Electric slide before I let go and you played the
Beyonce version. And this is something fresh new, So let's
start from the beginning for people that don't know you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Who is eight or three fresh? Where are you from?
And how did you get into this this thing called
the music industry?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What's going on? Everybody? Al three?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
First, the kid live in the building man, listen from
a small town in South Carolina called Wagner, South Carolina.
One Stop signed one Stop, Like we all share the
same dog.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Most going to be bigger than Wagoner, Yeah, yeah's.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Going bigger wagon Man. But started off in the church man,
humble beginners. Man, started off in the church man singing
in the choir or whatever, you know, like the product
the sun, and left away from it, you know, I
went out and I started venturing into like more genres.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
I tapped in the pop, attacked in the R and B.
I wrapped a little bit and then I found something
so really southern. So found me man, been doing it
about a year and a half now, man, and it
actually saved my life.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Man, So explain to the people what suffering souls.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So the soul is a mixture.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It has a like a fine undertone mixture of gospel, blues, soul, all.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like mixed together, mianda together.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Man and us. It's only based in its auth but
when you hear it, it's like feel good music. When
you hear it's like that music that touch your bones
and they you know, it's it's a beautiful thing. You
just got to be in one of the like one
of the events to actually feel it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It changed the environment totally.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
You're saying, we advocate for a good time, we advocate
for unity in that and so that's why I I
chose to piggyback on that genre the most.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, just saved your life. How were you into before?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
You know, with being in the rap culture, you said
you have to you know, adapt to that, you know
that rapping environment. When I came to southern soul, you know,
I was battling some stuff, you know what I'm saying,
and it pulled me out of that because of the
good feeling that it had. You're saying, make for me.
Then my mama was she was able to be proud
of it. You know, when I'm rapping, she don't want that.
She couldn't have to understand some of the stuff. So
(03:58):
when she first when she heard my very first the
soul song that I dropped the car all night long, man,
and I got that first confirmation from him, I already
knew then that this was a genre for me.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Do you remember the first record that that made you say, oh,
like the one that touched your soul? What's something the
soul record touched your soul as.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Far as mine?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, just in general.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Shuts out the King George Man, he's from down my
way as well. Man. He definitely kicked the door down
for us.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Man, Keep on Rolling is like one of those that
you know, really really really punched me, you know, and
it gave me even like some inspiration.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
You know one of those brothers I mean from South Carolina,
And I'm saying he keeped the door with like whye
open for us? And when I heard that song, I'm saying,
I automatically knew that this was the type of JENM
that I wanted to be in.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Were you were you surprised how fast this record card on?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I mean, cause it's it's everywhere and you know, and
people are learning to dance quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
When did you realize how big the record was?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Man? I woke up one morning h checked my TikTok.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I mean, I had so many notifications on TikTok and
I GeV you're saying, I thought somebody had died. So
when I checked it, whatever, I've seen the video. The
video was you know a spot now my way called Sbar.
You know, it's a it's a it's a mecca for
like the line dance you're saying. So I seen that
and it was like maybe twenty videos. I want to sleep,
and I woke up it was like five hundred videos,
(05:23):
you know what I'm saying. I knew at that point
right then that it was I might have a little something,
you know what I mean. And over the course of
time now wasn't being but three months almost four months. Man,
it is past me. So right now I'm playing catch
up to the song. Everybody have been trying to put
a face with the music.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So here I am good on.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I feel like that's what is Luther King George. I
feel like that's what he hasn't done yet. He hasn't
put a face to his music because everybody listens to
you know, at least down South, you see people play
a lot of King George music.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
He a young dude, thirtything, all right, yeah broth.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Okay, yeah, but I'm saying I feel like he hasn't
done that yet.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I mean, timing is everything, especially for me. I mean,
look how long I've been doing music. I've been doing
music for over twenty years. As far as sudd and soul,
I dropped five songs before Boots on the Ground and
then it picked up, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So I mean time is everything.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
So y'all, y'all define stay tuned, y'all, gon see a
lot more of him and a lot more to the
Southern soul front coming.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
When I noticed it got big was when I seen
kids doing it, you know, it from old people to kids.
It was everybody got these kids doing it, and it's something.
It's feel good. It's like music that you had the
family reunion and stuff like that. Did anybody try to
like reach out about signing you or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Mercy ig been blowing up Angler crazy. It's definitely been crazy, man.
But you know, we started this company. Shouts out to
the Snake Eyes Music group.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Man.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
We started this company, you know, from the bottom up.
You know, we came with a vision. It was just
a vision. And I think that we've done more in
a year than a lot of folks have done.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And like five seven years are.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You are you signed to a major or no? You're
doing everything independent. We all independent, so you get everything
that you Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We've been there. I'm proud of us, man, I ain't
gonna lie proud of us, because you know, we all.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Learned from each other. You're saying as we move, we learned,
we grow and shuts out the young guy man. You know,
that's why I brought him. He's one of the United
Fronts that were staying with as far as Southern Soul.
And they they accepted me with open arms, man, and
they had been doing it, you know, pride to me,
but they showed me the roles.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
They definitely wouldn't stint your game. And I can appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
So everything independence. So we're gonna I'm entertaining something, but
you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right now, how long have you been young guy? Young guy?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Man, I've been young guys for for a long time,
thirty years. I told her. We was saying for change
my nine the uncle guy in a man of man.
That would be crazy because folks see me, they're saying,
you know you you're a rapper, Like, no, they're not.
Then they stay. I get on stage and I'm saying
some soul for ship and they were like damn. You know.
(08:00):
But I kind of kept my name back when the
younger day, when I was a rapping man. So I
come when I jumped into music, my story kind of,
you know, similar to his. You know I've been I've
been rolling in the southern soul game probably about it
finish two and a half years now. And power of
social media. I had a record that you know, I
was singing in the garage and posted it and changed
my life, you know what I'm saying instantly, So yeah, man,
(08:22):
So I kind of I was tapped in on the
rap side. You like him, man came up in the church.
You know what I'm saying, try different things. So far
as you me physically doing music, man, I stepped away
for music I about fourteen years. So when I finally
just made up my mind, like hey, fin get back
in the studio, get it rolling. You know what I'm saying, proficially,
record me a song, sit down and that that record.
You know what I'm saying. Two record later, I was
(08:43):
driving trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Man.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I ain't drove a truck almost a year and a
half now.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Man, you stepped down just because of the frustration, you know,
coming from South Carolina. Man, I don't know if people
even realize that there's so many people in South Carolina
who do music, whether it's rap, whether it's singing, but
it's hard for people from South Carolina to get that break.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So you just had got frustrated from Mississippi.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Man, So it was you know what I'm saying, it's
worth so h from.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Uh the at least y'all got y'all got band in
krick though yeah you know we ain't had one yet.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Y'all got Peter Poplo Man, that's North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I tried, but you got frustrated with the music.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You no man for showman, because when you when you
come where we come from. Man, you don't have the
resources like that. You know, years ago I moved to Atlanta.
I was gonna, you know, try to be around when
you're not around a music scene, like a music scene
where you know Atlanta. When I moved to Atlanta, man,
they got an open mic on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
They got you got studios everywhere you can neet where.
You got a lot of people that can that can
(09:40):
connect what you're trying to do. And SIP ain't really
got that. So you think about a big Krick. Big
Krick came out of me. Uh, you know, shot the Creek.
He came out there. Creek is a one stop shot,
write his own music, produce his own music, the whole nine.
So you know what I'm saying, just yeah for real.
So like you know, you got you gotta have a
little bit more musciple behind you just to get out there.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know from the South Yoking.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
Man, we met a couple of coupleout two years ago.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I think my very first show out there, that is
I think that next Mississippi, Man, my first show. Kind
of nervous you're saying me personally, you know, I had
just thought it with some song. Soro came. He hollered
at me, saying he gave me that little pep talk
or whatever you're saying. I show up my shoulders and
did it.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
He came to me like, man, like, young guy, Man,
what I because I was kind of moving pretty good, man,
you know what I'm saying. I had a record that
was that was keeping me busy and he was like, man,
what what what I gotta do? Advice can you give me?
Was like, man, you know, keep grinding, bro, You're gonna
get that one, and you gonna know you got So
when I heard that Boots on the Ground, I called him.
I said, you getting ready to be original? You know
(10:43):
what I'm saying. When I knew it from the first
ten seconds ten seconds of the song, I was like, man,
that's this finna go crazy. And now to see you
look on social media shack dancing to it, you got yeah, like, man,
that is crazy. You know what I'm saying. So it's
it's a blessing. And man, I just proud of my
brother and were just trying to keep it going.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
What inspired Boots on the Ground though, Like like when
you sat down and said you heard that beat and
you're like, this is what I want to write about.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Man, I tell the story all the time. Man, Listen,
I had a show in Phoenix City, was in the
back of the van. Whatever, say it like this. I
had my had experience. I had a chance to experience
my first trail ride last year. Went to trail ride.
You saying a couple of ladies had fans or whatever.
It was hot, so I you know, they got fans,
so uh.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I got a.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Chance to go to my second trail ride line and
see no fans. So I pulled the question where them
fans at? You know what I'm saying. So with boots
on the ground, boots on the ground is already aligned.
That's terminology you're saying. So you know when they say
boots on the ground, you know it's about to have
a party. We just to a down type of deal.
So I just really merged the two ideas and it
became a good marriage.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
What's the trail ride for the people who don't.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Know, Listen, man, trail ridse is you know ATVs horses
You saying that, uh line, desc it's a whole like
combination of all good things. It's definitely a coach, it's
not really just an event, you know what I mean.
And that's why I feel like, uh, Southern soul and
line dance is a perfect mixture, you know what I mean.
It's a great marriage.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
It piggybacks off of one, piggybacks off of the other.
And if you ever come to the trail right down
and there, man, I promise you can have a good time.
You might get a little dusty, which I promise you
gonna have a good time.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Now, every time you make a song, is it a
line song?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Oh no, okay, see uh see, that's one thing I
didn't want to get called in. I didn't want to
get caught in, you know, just being the line the line.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
At the boot at the boot nigga. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
And I've been thinking about you're saying names for like
a EP or album whatever you're saying, and I really
wanted to be versatility because I want to show them
on all skills.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I got differ skills music.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But you could do it like you remember how Jamaine
Dupre did back in the day, like he.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Had the the All the what was it called it,
The the Beat All Stars where it was just one
album just doing all the uptemper talking about like the
when he had a whole album or that and then
he had a whole album, different ways of doing things,
So you could do that like an anthem like that.
Because your HBC you it's gonna be crazy this week's
spring flings, homecomings all that. They should start booking you
(13:04):
now to try to get the cheapest prices.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Possabo schrazy, you got to show tomorrow? What is tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
I fly tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. You booked on
a Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
I know you don't want to just fall into the
line dance, uh, you know, genre of music.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But it's like nobody has.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Made any that's they're great since all like the five
that we got like but none since then, and it's
like it's it's kind of hard to do like you
know what I mean. So for you to just come
up with one and just do it just off of
(13:52):
what you felt, you gotta do that more.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I'm tired of that. Tell people like I felt like
my opinion, I feel like lion dances like the new disco. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. It's a big thing in
a Black culture that you know what I'm saying, we're
just trying to shine light on because you got you
got people who y'all. You know, y'all from the see it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Man.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
It makes people from the see that.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I get me some boots fan had.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
It's just it's a culture that they shine a light
on so people can experience. So it's just lying dances.
It's been around for a while, but like this an't
got bigger. Man, they got to be seven thousand people
out there.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
African music too, African music has it, has it as well.
Dance like Jerusalem is a line dance.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, that's the thing though the artist like, it's not
like you created the dance.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
No, you see that's that's the sweetest thing about it too.
You said, oh, you didn't create the dance.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The people I didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
They choose it. They choose it whether it's going to
be you said a lot dance to it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
When they see that on TikTok, it was like four
or five different dances to it. What I'm saying, I
reposted one shouts out to trade little When I what
was that? Everybody took on you, I'm saying to that
one because it was real easy.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It wasn't to me a ish you know, to me,
it got back.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I'm that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
That's it's like the cursive of blindness.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That got you got your profile.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, devil not intermediate anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You have to learn your own dance basically, yeah, and
I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So you just picked that one.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It was like, this is the one we got rocking
because if twenty people said different dances, that's why I said,
and everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Being sync that people chose it. Man, Boots on the
Ground was not intended to be a lot of dance song.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It was just blessed to be that way, even with
the fan bang bang, like.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know something that you do when you hat.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
And I didn't know that fans, like the fans were
like a big part of the you know, the trail
scene until I made the song with it, and now
here like you know, ten twenty different song with fans,
now what I'm saying. So it definitely is a part,
like a big important part of the culture. So I
think I just revived it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Why not the church fan the church fan too. I
think that the sales on Church fans is at an
all time half right now.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, Church fans.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
You know Amazon, when when I first came up with
the with the song or whatever, they were just cracking fans.
If you go on Amazon right now, they Boots on
the Ground fans, hm hm, you got the little.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Biton got fans.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What I was getting.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I was like out of here and got this on
the ground fans, you know what I'm saying. So it definitely
has been impactful to the culture.
Speaker 10 (16:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I'm just proud to be a part of it.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
They're gonna be waiting for for them t fans, I'll
tell you that.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah, out there right now.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
But everybody's gonna be waiting for new music. Do you
got more after Boots.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
On the Ground take something.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I got so much music, I'm saying, And I got
music like before I got you know, our previous catalog.
I got five songs that I dropped. Like I said,
I've only been in a year and a half, you
know what I mean. But as far as the catalog, man,
I got a widespread catalog that's getting ready to come.
It was just the timing was waiting on, you know
what I mean. So I think it's the perfect time
for everybody to see me. And you know what I
got the offer versatility is coming.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
What's the toughest challenge about being an artist from South Caroline?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
H The weight that's on my back, you're saying, because
not only do I stall, I mean, yeah, boost and
the ground is for me, but I stand with a
lot of weight that I'm carrying as far as like
southern so as a whole, because see, this is what
my main part is. And I ain't gonna lie. This
is the reason why I came here. You saying, morning,
I want to make Southern soul that main genre. You
know it's being you know, supplid like it's been like
(17:38):
undertone for so long, and you know that Chipland circuit
has been going on, Like you got greats that came
through that Chitlan circuit, like Tyrone Dave, It's Marvel, See's Changed.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Brown, There's Muddy Waters.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
All these guys become under that Chitlin circuit man, and
it hasn't really had a catalyst for it has been
brought to the front. So I take myself to be
a martyr that he was saying. I want to be
able to display that as being a main genre. And
showing that, you know, we coming with the United Front.
I got Sew Meka, Joe Quail out there, I'm saying,
grown ass woman, I got Frank Johnson out there. You
can hate on me. I got a young guy right here.
(18:08):
You know what I'm saying, Like, take here. These are
all very impactful songs to the culture, and when I
bring my boots on the ground, I want to bring
them as well. So that's probably like the biggest thing
as far as like, you know, I'm carrying that weight
and I want to be a good advocate for them.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Well, you know, you got to get yourself all the
way through the door first, you know what I'm saying, Like,
That's that's why I think a lot of people falter
a little bit because they want to represent for the
whole state and they want to bring everybody with them,
and usually all the people end up weighing them down
before you get to where you need to be.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I think that with me, how I present myself, how
I care myself. I care myself as you know a
you know, he's he's a strong front by himself. You know,
it's just I want to be a good representative for him,
you know, it's not that I'm pulling them up.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You're saying.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
The way that I walk, my character is what you know,
it puts it out there like, oh oh, I like him.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Let me see what they got going on. You know
what I'm saying. I let my walk you were saying
speak for me.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I mean it's I can line to have it in a
moment right now. You got trapped, Dicky.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, man, the traplan you know Black Zach Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Man, little balls rest in peace speaking now, because like
it's a lot of people doing it. But I really
love what the Southern soul is doing because that's a
whole different genre. And we call it the Chitlin circuit.
Well really, what I call it is the heart and
soul of Black America definitely, bro, Like that's what all.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
The majority of Black people in America are in the South.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Don't advocate for violence, man, we advocate.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
For unity like good time.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
And you know what I'm saying, you just got to
pay attention to a lot of this music, man. And
it's like real life relatable stuff, bro. And it ain't
you know, fabricated. You know what I'm saying, it's real
life relatable things. And I think that's why people gravitate
towards it a little bit more because I'm able to
you saying, oh yeah, I'm going through that right now,
you know what I mean. So I think that's why
everybody did gravitate towards it.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But it's definitely a movement.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Man, If you had to pick one song that best
represents you that's not Boots on the Ground, what would
it be?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You know, that's a tough one. Shout man.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
One you ain't got out you.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Yeah, I don't know, you know, because like all of
them is like a representation to me.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You said, I feel all of them, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (20:08):
So y'all just stay tuned. Man, ain't y'all just I
got I got so much that's coming behind me. I
don't even know how to pick it, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
You're gonna get these fatten you get these.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We got I think we got them.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Stamp Okay, I think you got them stamp man.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I was looking here. Yeah, you're right. And the prices
up sixteen hours.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
You know, I'm inavertently employing people that I don't have
to hire it, you know what I mean. Everybody selling
Boots on the Ground shirts everybody's selling fans or whatever.
I'm saying. This was something that nobody had thought about.
They wasn't tapped into it. So everybody is able to
make money. So I just feel like I'm an employer.
You know, I gave everybody I'm saying something that you
can make their money off of. And you know that's
what hit me the most too. You know, Hey, I'm
(20:49):
helping you out.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
You got to teachers to dance for you leave, man,
you gotta show that somebody put the song on.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I will say this though, do it.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm saying these oldest niggas.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
First of all, it's for everybody. It's for all age groups,
old to the young.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
All right, HBC, bring Lauren how to do this?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
You're trying to guys, we got our mechanic coming in here, mechanics.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We're gonna get under the hood of her wig. God
damn come on, who don't want to learn to dance?
Don't say in that direction to damn hard because.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You must know.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Because we're trying to keep.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And everybody trying to keep the lace.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Come on, yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Teacher, you're gonna lead us fresh.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Your wig.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Did you say you got to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I just learned. Who's gonna lead us? You're gonna lead us?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Man, I try something, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That's why he keep the one.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That you know you shot?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Why are you.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The man?
Speaker 7 (22:16):
The god, the fel I never seen the guy gooskay.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You gonna doing the wait? Wait, don't know what tired.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
My god to.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Back like it was going where I came.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
That's too old for me.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Right who so proud he get?
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Wait a minute, now, a right all the way all
around and you know I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Confuse me.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
A metaphor, that's what I.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
May. Back school.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Let me come in way too much? Kid, I can't
from the child you get in.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
This.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It is that the instructional version dropped the deck. Okay, alright,
where where all dsp what you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
So he tells you how to do it?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And then I'm tired of here knees here Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
On YouTube, man, they got an instructure I was looking, but.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
We tell them where to follow you. Eight on three fresh, it.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Will be press the kid Live, Billy. You can follow
me on all streaming platform everywhere. Man, this type eight
on three Fresh. You said you can get my music
from a munic. Spotify your local bootleg man fleet market,
you can get them every where. I definitely appreciate y'all
and listen, man, Man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Man, listen.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Always love for the home team.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You're definitely putting soccer line on the meppers will yes
what you're doing? DJ envied, Man, I appreciate you. You said
it's just layer that depinite appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
How you pretty?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Young guy?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Go young, I'm gonna follow you up.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Man, follow me on all platform man, young guy, I'm
pretty much the same on everything. Checked me out, don't
all music streaming platforms. Like we got a lot coming
man twenty twenty five, we're gonna finish it out. Next
year's gonna be even bigger. Man. Like I said that
feature to representing Mississippi, Man, South Carolina. We're just all
trying to put it together, man, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Albody guys, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Breakfast Club Morning, everybody is t j n V. Just hilarious.
Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We got some.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Special guests in the buildings.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Indeed, you got eight O three Fresh home team and.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Young guy here in the building yourself. Welcome fellas, y'all
feeling man.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Where the fans at they now? If you don't know
Ato three Fresh, of course they got the record right now.
That's if you've been out and about, especially in the South,
especially HBCU Boots on the Ground on their song.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Congratulations boys, that song.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Moving man, Thank you brother, appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
When did the song actually come out?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
December twenty four? That was like my crisis gift to everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Now, Charlemagne and live Charlan like that song been out
for three years. I'm like, Charlomage know what I was
talking about.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Just the whole line dance movement from South Carolina.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
It's definitely been going on more than three yeah, But
is it just started picking up more in it like
the past year and a half.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
People don't really get to see the line theres, especially
on the East Coast as much. But when I when
I DJ everywhere you get to see it. And I
remember I was a Charlotte and a girl came up
to me. It's like, can you play the Boots on
the Ground. I had no idea what she talking about.
It was a mob dip song.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was like, is that a mob deep Boots on
the line. I had no idea. It's out that Louis v.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Louis.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
He was like, yeah, I'm gonna send it to you
right now, send it to me. And then when I
played it, I see.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The went ups moving.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I said, you know what's crazy, it's crazy as it sounds.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
The current political climate kind of boosted the record too,
because I remember people started posting saying, you know, we
ain't tripping off what this administration is doing.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Black people are.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Finding joy learning new line dances, and it would always
be Boots on the Ground with the fans.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
It took everybody, like everybody's mind away from like the
you know, the current, you know stuff that's going on.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
So for me, it's like the unity in it. That's
what makes it more appeeling for me. You know, you
got thet the two year old, you got the eight
to two year old, you got the everybody I mean
Grandmama's auntie. That's what makes it more genuine for me.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Man, the dope think about it was a lot of
the line dre songs a lot older, like you're talking
twenty years older. Like, but when you go to a
family reunion or a wedding or a HBCU, it's always the.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Wabble wobble.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Electric slide before I let go and you played the
Beyonce version. And this is something fresh new, So let's
start from the beginning for people that don't know you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Who is eight or three fresh? Where are you from?
And how did you get into this this thing called
the music industry?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What's going on? Everybody? Al three?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
First, the kid live in the building man, listen from
a small town in South Carolina called Wagner, South Carolina.
One Stop signed one Stop, Like we all share the
same dog.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Most going to be bigger than Wagoner, Yeah, yeah's.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Going bigger wagon Man. But started off in the church man,
humble beginners. Man, started off in the church man singing
in the choir or whatever, you know, like the product
the sun, and left away from it, you know, I
went out and I started venturing into like more genres.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
I tapped in the pop, attacked in the R and B.
I wrapped a little bit and then I found something
so really southern. So found me man, been doing it
about a year and a half now, man, and it
actually saved my life.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Man, So explain to the people what suffering souls.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So the soul is a mixture.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
It has a like a fine undertone mixture of gospel, blues, soul, all.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like mixed together, mianda together.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Man and us. It's only based in its auth but
when you hear it, it's like feel good music. When
you hear it's like that music that touch your bones
and they you know, it's it's a beautiful thing. You
just got to be in one of the like one
of the events to actually feel it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It changed the environment totally.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
You're saying, we advocate for a good time, we advocate
for unity in that and so that's why I I
chose to piggyback on that genre the most.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, just saved your life. How were you into before?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
You know, with being in the rap culture, you said
you have to you know, adapt to that, you know
that rapping environment. When I came to southern soul, you know,
I was battling some stuff, you know what I'm saying,
and it pulled me out of that because of the
good feeling that it had. You're saying, make for me.
Then my mama was she was able to be proud
of it. You know, when I'm rapping, she don't want that.
She couldn't have to understand some of the stuff. So
(03:58):
when she first when she heard my very first the
soul song that I dropped the car all night long, man,
and I got that first confirmation from him, I already
knew then that this was a genre for me.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Do you remember the first record that that made you say, oh,
like the one that touched your soul? What's something the
soul record touched your soul as.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Far as mine?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, just in general.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Shuts out the King George Man, he's from down my
way as well. Man. He definitely kicked the door down
for us.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Man, Keep on Rolling is like one of those that
you know, really really really punched me, you know, and
it gave me even like some inspiration.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
You know one of those brothers I mean from South Carolina,
And I'm saying he keeped the door with like whye
open for us? And when I heard that song, I'm saying,
I automatically knew that this was the type of JENM
that I wanted to be in.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Were you were you surprised how fast this record card on?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I mean, cause it's it's everywhere and you know, and
people are learning to dance quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
When did you realize how big the record was?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Man? I woke up one morning h checked my TikTok.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I mean, I had so many notifications on TikTok and
I GeV you're saying, I thought somebody had died. So
when I checked it, whatever, I've seen the video. The
video was you know a spot now my way called Sbar.
You know, it's a it's a it's a mecca for
like the line dance you're saying. So I seen that
and it was like maybe twenty videos. I want to sleep,
and I woke up it was like five hundred videos,
(05:23):
you know what I'm saying. I knew at that point
right then that it was I might have a little something,
you know what I mean. And over the course of
time now wasn't being but three months almost four months. Man,
it is past me. So right now I'm playing catch
up to the song. Everybody have been trying to put
a face with the music.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So here I am good on.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I feel like that's what is Luther King George. I
feel like that's what he hasn't done yet. He hasn't
put a face to his music because everybody listens to
you know, at least down South, you see people play
a lot of King George music.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
He a young dude, thirtything, all right, yeah broth.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Okay, yeah, but I'm saying I feel like he hasn't
done that yet.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I mean, timing is everything, especially for me. I mean,
look how long I've been doing music. I've been doing
music for over twenty years. As far as sudd and soul,
I dropped five songs before Boots on the Ground and
then it picked up, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So I mean time is everything.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
So y'all, y'all define stay tuned, y'all, gon see a
lot more of him and a lot more to the
Southern soul front coming.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
When I noticed it got big was when I seen
kids doing it, you know, it from old people to kids.
It was everybody got these kids doing it, and it's something.
It's feel good. It's like music that you had the
family reunion and stuff like that. Did anybody try to
like reach out about signing you or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Mercy ig been blowing up Angler crazy. It's definitely been crazy, man.
But you know, we started this company. Shouts out to
the Snake Eyes Music group.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Man.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
We started this company, you know, from the bottom up.
You know, we came with a vision. It was just
a vision. And I think that we've done more in
a year than a lot of folks have done.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And like five seven years are.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You are you signed to a major or no? You're
doing everything independent. We all independent, so you get everything
that you Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We've been there. I'm proud of us, man, I ain't
gonna lie proud of us, because you know, we all.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Learned from each other. You're saying as we move, we learned,
we grow and shuts out the young guy man. You know,
that's why I brought him. He's one of the United
Fronts that were staying with as far as Southern Soul.
And they they accepted me with open arms, man, and
they had been doing it, you know, pride to me,
but they showed me the roles.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
They definitely wouldn't stint your game. And I can appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
So everything independence. So we're gonna I'm entertaining something, but
you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right now, how long have you been young guy? Young guy?
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Man, I've been young guys for for a long time,
thirty years. I told her. We was saying for change
my nine the uncle guy in a man of man.
That would be crazy because folks see me, they're saying,
you know you you're a rapper, Like, no, they're not.
Then they stay. I get on stage and I'm saying
some soul for ship and they were like damn. You know.
(08:00):
But I kind of kept my name back when the
younger day, when I was a rapping man. So I
come when I jumped into music, my story kind of,
you know, similar to his. You know I've been I've
been rolling in the southern soul game probably about it
finish two and a half years now. And power of
social media. I had a record that you know, I
was singing in the garage and posted it and changed
my life, you know what I'm saying instantly, So yeah, man,
(08:22):
So I kind of I was tapped in on the
rap side. You like him, man came up in the church.
You know what I'm saying, try different things. So far
as you me physically doing music, man, I stepped away
for music I about fourteen years. So when I finally
just made up my mind, like hey, fin get back
in the studio, get it rolling. You know what I'm saying, proficially,
record me a song, sit down and that that record.
You know what I'm saying. Two record later, I was
(08:43):
driving trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Man.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I ain't drove a truck almost a year and a
half now.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Man, you stepped down just because of the frustration, you know,
coming from South Carolina. Man, I don't know if people
even realize that there's so many people in South Carolina
who do music, whether it's rap, whether it's singing, but
it's hard for people from South Carolina to get that break.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So you just had got frustrated from Mississippi.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Man, So it was you know what I'm saying, it's
worth so h from.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Uh the at least y'all got y'all got band in
krick though yeah you know we ain't had one yet.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Y'all got Peter Poplo Man, that's North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I tried, but you got frustrated with the music.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
You no man for showman, because when you when you
come where we come from. Man, you don't have the
resources like that. You know, years ago I moved to Atlanta.
I was gonna, you know, try to be around when
you're not around a music scene, like a music scene
where you know Atlanta. When I moved to Atlanta, man,
they got an open mic on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
They got you got studios everywhere you can neet where.
You got a lot of people that can that can
(09:40):
connect what you're trying to do. And SIP ain't really
got that. So you think about a big Krick. Big
Krick came out of me. Uh, you know, shot the Creek.
He came out there. Creek is a one stop shot,
write his own music, produce his own music, the whole nine.
So you know what I'm saying, just yeah for real.
So like you know, you got you gotta have a
little bit more musciple behind you just to get out there.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know from the South Yoking.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
Man, we met a couple of coupleout two years ago.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
I think my very first show out there, that is
I think that next Mississippi, Man, my first show. Kind
of nervous you're saying me personally, you know, I had
just thought it with some song. Soro came. He hollered
at me, saying he gave me that little pep talk
or whatever you're saying. I show up my shoulders and
did it.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
He came to me like, man, like, young guy, Man,
what I because I was kind of moving pretty good, man,
you know what I'm saying. I had a record that
was that was keeping me busy and he was like, man,
what what what I gotta do? Advice can you give me?
Was like, man, you know, keep grinding, bro, You're gonna
get that one, and you gonna know you got So
when I heard that Boots on the Ground, I called him.
I said, you getting ready to be original? You know
(10:43):
what I'm saying. When I knew it from the first
ten seconds ten seconds of the song, I was like, man,
that's this finna go crazy. And now to see you
look on social media shack dancing to it, you got yeah, like, man,
that is crazy. You know what I'm saying. So it's
it's a blessing. And man, I just proud of my
brother and were just trying to keep it going.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
What inspired Boots on the Ground though, Like like when
you sat down and said you heard that beat and
you're like, this is what I want to write about.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Man, I tell the story all the time. Man, Listen,
I had a show in Phoenix City, was in the
back of the van. Whatever, say it like this. I
had my had experience. I had a chance to experience
my first trail ride last year. Went to trail ride.
You saying a couple of ladies had fans or whatever.
It was hot, so I you know, they got fans,
so uh.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I got a.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Chance to go to my second trail ride line and
see no fans. So I pulled the question where them
fans at? You know what I'm saying. So with boots
on the ground, boots on the ground is already aligned.
That's terminology you're saying. So you know when they say
boots on the ground, you know it's about to have
a party. We just to a down type of deal.
So I just really merged the two ideas and it
became a good marriage.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
What's the trail ride for the people who don't.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Know, Listen, man, trail ridse is you know ATVs horses
You saying that, uh line, desc it's a whole like
combination of all good things. It's definitely a coach, it's
not really just an event, you know what I mean.
And that's why I feel like, uh, Southern soul and
line dance is a perfect mixture, you know what I mean.
It's a great marriage.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
It piggybacks off of one, piggybacks off of the other.
And if you ever come to the trail right down
and there, man, I promise you can have a good time.
You might get a little dusty, which I promise you
gonna have a good time.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Now, every time you make a song, is it a
line song?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Oh no, okay, see uh see, that's one thing I
didn't want to get called in. I didn't want to
get caught in, you know, just being the line the line.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
At the boot at the boot nigga. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
And I've been thinking about you're saying names for like
a EP or album whatever you're saying, and I really
wanted to be versatility because I want to show them
on all skills.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I got differ skills music.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But you could do it like you remember how Jamaine
Dupre did back in the day, like he.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Had the the All the what was it called it,
The the Beat All Stars where it was just one
album just doing all the uptemper talking about like the
when he had a whole album or that and then
he had a whole album, different ways of doing things,
So you could do that like an anthem like that.
Because your HBC you it's gonna be crazy this week's
spring flings, homecomings all that. They should start booking you
(13:04):
now to try to get the cheapest prices.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Possabo schrazy, you got to show tomorrow? What is tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
I fly tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. You booked on
a Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, that's what's up.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
I know you don't want to just fall into the
line dance, uh, you know, genre of music.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But it's like nobody has.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Made any that's they're great since all like the five
that we got like but none since then, and it's
like it's it's kind of hard to do like you
know what I mean. So for you to just come
up with one and just do it just off of
(13:52):
what you felt, you gotta do that more.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I'm tired of that. Tell people like I felt like
my opinion, I feel like lion dances like the new disco. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. It's a big thing in
a Black culture that you know what I'm saying, we're
just trying to shine light on because you got you
got people who y'all. You know, y'all from the see it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Man.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
It makes people from the see that.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I get me some boots fan had.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
It's just it's a culture that they shine a light
on so people can experience. So it's just lying dances.
It's been around for a while, but like this an't
got bigger. Man, they got to be seven thousand people
out there.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
African music too, African music has it, has it as well.
Dance like Jerusalem is a line dance.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, that's the thing though the artist like, it's not
like you created the dance.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
No, you see that's that's the sweetest thing about it too.
You said, oh, you didn't create the dance.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
The people I didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
They choose it. They choose it whether it's going to
be you said a lot dance to it or not.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
When they see that on TikTok, it was like four
or five different dances to it. What I'm saying, I
reposted one shouts out to trade little When I what
was that? Everybody took on you, I'm saying to that
one because it was real easy.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It wasn't to me a ish you know, to me,
it got back.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I'm that's a lot.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
That's it's like the cursive of blindness.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
That got you got your profile.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, devil not intermediate anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You have to learn your own dance basically, yeah, and
I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So you just picked that one.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It was like, this is the one we got rocking
because if twenty people said different dances, that's why I said,
and everybody.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Being sync that people chose it. Man, Boots on the
Ground was not intended to be a lot of dance song.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It was just blessed to be that way, even with
the fan bang bang, like.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know something that you do when you hat.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
And I didn't know that fans, like the fans were
like a big part of the you know, the trail
scene until I made the song with it, and now
here like you know, ten twenty different song with fans,
now what I'm saying. So it definitely is a part,
like a big important part of the culture. So I
think I just revived it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Why not the church fan the church fan too. I
think that the sales on Church fans is at an
all time half right now.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, Church fans.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
You know Amazon, when when I first came up with
the with the song or whatever, they were just cracking fans.
If you go on Amazon right now, they Boots on
the Ground fans, hm hm, you got the little.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Biton got fans.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What I was getting.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I was like out of here and got this on
the ground fans, you know what I'm saying. So it definitely
has been impactful to the culture.
Speaker 10 (16:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I'm just proud to be a part of it.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
They're gonna be waiting for for them t fans, I'll
tell you that.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah, out there right now.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
But everybody's gonna be waiting for new music. Do you
got more after Boots.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
On the Ground take something.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I got so much music, I'm saying, And I got
music like before I got you know, our previous catalog.
I got five songs that I dropped. Like I said,
I've only been in a year and a half, you
know what I mean. But as far as the catalog, man,
I got a widespread catalog that's getting ready to come.
It was just the timing was waiting on, you know
what I mean. So I think it's the perfect time
for everybody to see me. And you know what I
got the offer versatility is coming.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
What's the toughest challenge about being an artist from South Caroline?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
H The weight that's on my back, you're saying, because
not only do I stall, I mean, yeah, boost and
the ground is for me, but I stand with a
lot of weight that I'm carrying as far as like
southern so as a whole, because see, this is what
my main part is. And I ain't gonna lie. This
is the reason why I came here. You saying, morning,
I want to make Southern soul that main genre. You
know it's being you know, supplid like it's been like
(17:38):
undertone for so long, and you know that Chipland circuit
has been going on, Like you got greats that came
through that Chitlan circuit, like Tyrone Dave, It's Marvel, See's Changed.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Brown, There's Muddy Waters.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
All these guys become under that Chitlin circuit man, and
it hasn't really had a catalyst for it has been
brought to the front. So I take myself to be
a martyr that he was saying. I want to be
able to display that as being a main genre. And
showing that, you know, we coming with the United Front.
I got Sew Meka, Joe Quail out there, I'm saying,
grown ass woman, I got Frank Johnson out there. You
can hate on me. I got a young guy right here.
(18:08):
You know what I'm saying, Like, take here. These are
all very impactful songs to the culture, and when I
bring my boots on the ground, I want to bring
them as well. So that's probably like the biggest thing
as far as like, you know, I'm carrying that weight
and I want to be a good advocate for them.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Well, you know, you got to get yourself all the
way through the door first, you know what I'm saying, Like,
That's that's why I think a lot of people falter
a little bit because they want to represent for the
whole state and they want to bring everybody with them,
and usually all the people end up weighing them down
before you get to where you need to be.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I think that with me, how I present myself, how
I care myself. I care myself as you know a
you know, he's he's a strong front by himself. You know,
it's just I want to be a good representative for him,
you know, it's not that I'm pulling them up.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You're saying.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
The way that I walk, my character is what you know,
it puts it out there like, oh oh, I like him.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Let me see what they got going on. You know
what I'm saying. I let my walk you were saying
speak for me.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I mean it's I can line to have it in a
moment right now. You got trapped, Dicky.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, man, the traplan you know Black Zach Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Man, little balls rest in peace speaking now, because like
it's a lot of people doing it. But I really
love what the Southern soul is doing because that's a
whole different genre. And we call it the Chitlin circuit.
Well really, what I call it is the heart and
soul of Black America definitely, bro, Like that's what all.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
The majority of Black people in America are in the South.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Don't advocate for violence, man, we advocate.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
For unity like good time.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
And you know what I'm saying, you just got to
pay attention to a lot of this music, man. And
it's like real life relatable stuff, bro. And it ain't
you know, fabricated. You know what I'm saying, it's real
life relatable things. And I think that's why people gravitate
towards it a little bit more because I'm able to
you saying, oh yeah, I'm going through that right now,
you know what I mean. So I think that's why
everybody did gravitate towards it.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But it's definitely a movement.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Man, If you had to pick one song that best
represents you that's not Boots on the Ground, what would
it be?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You know, that's a tough one. Shout man.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
One you ain't got out you.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Yeah, I don't know, you know, because like all of
them is like a representation to me.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You said, I feel all of them, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (20:08):
So y'all just stay tuned. Man, ain't y'all just I
got I got so much that's coming behind me. I
don't even know how to pick it, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
You're gonna get these fatten you get these.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We got I think we got them.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Stamp Okay, I think you got them stamp man.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I was looking here. Yeah, you're right. And the prices
up sixteen hours.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
You know, I'm inavertently employing people that I don't have
to hire it, you know what I mean. Everybody selling
Boots on the Ground shirts everybody's selling fans or whatever.
I'm saying. This was something that nobody had thought about.
They wasn't tapped into it. So everybody is able to
make money. So I just feel like I'm an employer.
You know, I gave everybody I'm saying something that you
can make their money off of. And you know that's
what hit me the most too. You know, Hey, I'm
(20:49):
helping you out.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
You got to teachers to dance for you leave, man,
you gotta show that somebody put the song on.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I will say this though, do it.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm saying these oldest niggas.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
First of all, it's for everybody. It's for all age groups,
old to the young.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
All right, HBC, bring Lauren how to do this?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
You're trying to guys, we got our mechanic coming in here, mechanics.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We're gonna get under the hood of her wig. God
damn come on, who don't want to learn to dance?
Don't say in that direction to damn hard because.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You must know.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Because we're trying to keep.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And everybody trying to keep the lace.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Come on, yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Teacher, you're gonna lead us fresh.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Your wig.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Did you say you got to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I just learned. Who's gonna lead us? You're gonna lead us?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Man, I try something, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That's why he keep the one.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That you know you shot?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Why are you.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The man?
Speaker 7 (22:16):
The god, the fel I never seen the guy gooskay.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You gonna doing the wait? Wait, don't know what tired.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
My god to.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Back like it was going where I came.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
That's too old for me.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Right who so proud he get?
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Wait a minute, now, a right all the way all
around and you know I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Confuse me.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
A metaphor, that's what I.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
May. Back school.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Let me come in way too much? Kid, I can't
from the child you get in.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
This.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
It is that the instructional version dropped the deck. Okay, alright,
where where all dsp what you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
So he tells you how to do it?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And then I'm tired of here knees here Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
On YouTube, man, they got an instructure I was looking, but.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
We tell them where to follow you. Eight on three fresh, it.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Will be press the kid Live, Billy. You can follow
me on all streaming platform everywhere. Man, this type eight
on three Fresh. You said you can get my music
from a munic. Spotify your local bootleg man fleet market,
you can get them every where. I definitely appreciate y'all
and listen, man, Man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Man, listen.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Always love for the home team.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You're definitely putting soccer line on the meppers will yes
what you're doing? DJ envied, Man, I appreciate you. You said
it's just layer that depinite appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
How you pretty?
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Young guy?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Go young, I'm gonna follow you up.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Man, follow me on all platform man, young guy, I'm
pretty much the same on everything. Checked me out, don't
all music streaming platforms. Like we got a lot coming
man twenty twenty five, we're gonna finish it out. Next
year's gonna be even bigger. Man. Like I said that
feature to representing Mississippi, Man, South Carolina. We're just all
trying to put it together, man, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Albody guys, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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