July 19, 2023 • 32 mins
Almighty Jay joins Mike Mills, Young Jas and J Mac for Episode 2 of Clearly Cultured! Almighty J talks about how he got started playing Grand Theft Auto, the formation of YBN, his early rap career, relationships with Blac Chyna, DreamDoll and a risky situation in New York. Stay tuned for a special announcement at the end!
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You are now tuned in to Clearly Cultured!
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The moment is here.
Episode two of Clearly Cultured.
We're back.
Shout out to everybody that's been showing love
on interview one with that Mexican OT.
So you know we had to follow up
with an awesome episode number two.
We are out here with the one and only,
Almighty Jazz.
It's me.
This one is gonna be a good episode.
Again, make a shout out to my family.
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We got Young Jazz.
And J-Mac from 97, 9 the Box.
Without further ado,
let's get in episode two.
Woo!
We're gonna let you start with a question.
All right, so let's bring it back to the beginning.
All right?
So J, let me ask you.
Getting into the industry, 2014.
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Yeah.
You love playing video games.
You go and it's a game that I love too.
Grand Theft Auto.
Right.
As you're playing on there, who do you end up meeting?
I met Namir.
Why are we in Namir?
What is that?
Y'all know him as that now.
Absolutely.
So when you meet Namir through Grand Theft Auto,
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have y'all met in person yet?
Or did y'all only meet through the games?
Nah, I was 14.
He was like 12 or 13.
So we was still like kids.
We just like connected and like kept in touch.
So when you first got started.
Wait pause, because for those who are not gamers,
like how did y'all connect on the game though?
Yes, yes.
We had like mutual friends like on a game
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and we just ended up like running into each other
and like a party, you know like Xbox 360,
they had parties.
Yeah.
So we, we had seen her like yelling back and forth
at each other and then I was like, man, I like this kid.
Cause he was so like young like his little head
like the young boys all like, we was kids,
but I was older than him.
So I was like, bro, I like this kid.
And then I just ended up just connecting with him like that.
That's crazy.
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So it started, really started as, as like as a gaming,
like a gaming thing.
And then it blossomed into the music side.
We'll get to that part next.
When did you end up meeting in person?
2017.
So you're gaming for basically three years straight.
Yeah.
Vibing out.
You're like, man, I like this dude.
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He's cool.
You're vibing out.
How does it, how does this evolve into the music?
So we, we was both like making like, like some kids
making music.
Like I wanted to be a rapper when I grew up.
Like that's, I always knew I wanted to rap.
And he was doing the same.
So we used to always just like send each other like music
back and forward, like dropping on YouTube.
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Like my, and like I was in high school.
I was a sophomore junior, which was dropping music
back and forward to each other.
And then he ended up blowing up.
He dropped the rubbing out the paint song.
And that shit went like crazy overnight.
And he had called me.
He's like, bro, I'll have my first show in Alabama.
I want you to come.
I said, I ain't never even left gals before.
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What?
I was like, I go.
So I ended up going, but I met him like in person.
Like it wasn't weird.
And it was like, I already knew him like.
Hold on, hold on.
You just make it seem like it was easy for you to get down
there. How did you get down there?
Somebody bought you a plane ticket or you drove?
No, so my homeboys that went school with,
like we was out for the summer.
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They're like, let's just draw to Alabama.
I think it was like eight hours or something like that.
Like or something cause they're like six, eight hours.
We just drove to Alabama.
That is insane.
And when did you move to Houston?
I ain't moved like to Houston, Houston until like 2019.
But I'm from like Galveston County.
So I grew up there my whole life.
OK, so you from Galveston?
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Are there any rappers in Galveston that we don't know?
Because I've been living in Houston all my life.
I've never heard of anybody from Galveston making it as big
as you.
The only person that's from like my side of town
I'm from Peso, Peso.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't know he's from Galveston.
Yeah, he from Texas.
What?
That's right.
That's right.
When you meet people, you be telling them you're from Galveston.
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You say Houston because I feel like.
I be saying Houston because people don't be knowing like.
Well, only people like, oh yeah, Houston.
I was like, all right, I'm from like Galveston County.
I just didn't know if you knew Houston.
Like that area now.
But people be like, what is Galveston?
Like when I used to tell them like where I'm from,
they'd be like, what's Galveston?
Like what's Texas?
Like they didn't know what that was.
Did you like like go into the beach growing up?
Were you a beach guy?
No, I really didn't like going to Galveston for real.
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When I was younger, I didn't like going there.
I stayed on like our side of the town, like the mainland and Galveston is the island.
So you got to take the long causeway to the Galveston.
Right.
I ain't like going on that side.
Wow.
So who were some of your influences growing up since you could hear Houston Radio all the time?
Did you even know that I was on Houston Radio?
No, I did.
I did know you was on Radio.
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No, because when I first met him, I didn't know he was from here.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just like, I love this cat, but I didn't know he listened to the radio.
Who was on the radio when I was, it was you.
It was a Kiati and a man had a morning show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I never knew that all this time.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
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Is it true that you were going to go to the Navy?
Yeah, I was.
So when I graduated high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do for real.
Like my mom was getting mad because I was getting troubles.
She's like, you see your ass in the Navy.
I went to like the programs, everything I signed up, I swore in everything.
But I was in this program called Delay Intro Program.
So I really wasn't in the Navy until I actually deployed.
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So I was like, fuck it.
I ain't going no more.
I didn't want to go.
And my mom was like, what you going to do?
I was like, I'm asking to be a rapper.
If my my Navy recruiter and everything like these to leave voicemails on my phone,
like you dumb as hell.
Like you ain't never going to be sitting like the Navy is all you got.
You ain't got nothing but the Navy without the Navy, you ain't going to be sick.
I like, fuck it.
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I don't want to do this no more.
I want to be a rapper.
You knew what you wanted to do.
Yeah.
So have you saw that recruiter?
Yeah.
So my recruiter I end up meeting.
I'm in a meeting.
You know how your high school had career day and like people come to the school
and they tell you about their career and trying to get so the Navy recruiter
ended up being like a recruiter for high school.
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I went back to my high school in like 2020 and I ended up seeing him on career day.
What did he say to you?
He was shaking his head like, I like, then I remember he told me I was never going
to be sick, bro.
I like shit I am.
And I was like, I appreciate you for that.
And it was all a lot though.
I ain't feel no type of way about it.
What do a lot of people that you went to school with think about you being a big
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artist now?
Oh, no.
I feel like it's crazy because like they just be like, I was just in school with him.
I like crazy.
Like even when I go back home, sometimes I go back home.
I go chill like with the kids and stuff where I grew up where I grew up at.
And it just be crazy.
But I'll be just trying to show them like I'm regular still like, y'all, I'm just
somebody with an A.
Right.
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Still inspire them, give them some words of advice.
And a lot of your family still lives out there.
It's awesome.
And speaking of family, now I know you got a big check and it was worth $20,000.
And I heard that you spent it in like three or four days.
Now what did you spend it on?
I wasn't used to that.
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I was just buying clothes.
I think I went to the strip club and do that shit.
I did all type of stuff with that money.
It was gone fast.
Okay.
What did your mama say about that?
She ain't care.
She ain't care.
Has anybody in your family asked you for money?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course.
But like my family, I always be like giving them money to take care of them.
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Okay.
So how do you deal with that?
You're coming from a small town and when you live in the small town and go back to the
small town, you have people who always want to pull you back.
Yes.
So how do you deal with it?
Oh, no, I just feel like I done been through like a lot like in the industry and I just
figured out how to just navigate with me.
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Ain't nothing crazy.
Like yeah, my family like I get them like listen, but I know when somebody like just
being extra, I'll be like, hell no.
And you come up in the industry like so young since such a young age, what game would you
give to like people that are coming up in the same shoes?
Like so what's something that you did not expect that you learned?
Really I would just tell people to be consistent.
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You just got to be consistent because in the industry, it's a new rapper that come on air
day, but like, man, who is it?
Where he from?
But he hot and like really use social media like TikTok, all that like that's like a big
part in like the music right now.
Like music really not even about if you already like listen to music.
It's not really about if you good or not.
It's about if you know how to stay in a spotlight, stay relevant, like your image, you got to
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just sell it.
I feel like now when label sign artists, they don't even be trying to sign artists.
Like damn, he's lyrical.
Let's sign him.
No, like he has a social media presence and people are listening to him like let's sign
him.
So I would say just make your mark like in social media for sure.
It's the marketing side because at the end of the day, even though you're an artist,
you're also a brand.
And the two now are symbiotic.
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You know, I mean, look at Travis Scott.
You know, he is not just Travis Scott.
He's Travis Scott, the brand too.
Same with Drake.
You know, a lot of these big guys too.
You know, the brand goes hand in hand now with the artist.
And what's your favorite platform using at all the TikTok, Instagram, YouTube?
What do you feel or what do you feel is the best to use even for an up and coming artist?
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I would say TikTok.
I would come out of short.
It's kind of like easier to catch a break on there.
You got like a dance or like a sound or like a 10 second little audio that people do something
to it.
And what's one of your favorite like up and coming artists right now?
On the TikTok side, I ain't a lot too rare.
We going crazy.
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I'm sure.
Yeah, I'm doing it.
He go crazy.
So I'll be doing that.
Okay.
Did you make a conscious effort to get off all the blocks?
Because at one particular point, I would open the block every day you were on the block.
I mean, it was something talking about you, whether it was from New York to Cali to Houston.
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They were talking about you and it just seems like you stepped back for a minute.
I just kind of felt like it came up growing up.
I was always in the block for the wrong shit, bro.
Like I used to get mad at them, but I couldn't have had to get mad at myself like Shayram
on.
I used to go crazy on there.
I remember they had me blocked on Instagram at one point.
Shayram read you block.
I used to cuss them out so bad every time they post me and then I end up sending them in Atlanta
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when they had the BT wars in Atlanta.
And then we ended up like talking and then like, it's like, no, I ain't nothing like that.
It's just our job.
But no, I just kind of like step back because I felt like I was in the media for the wrong
shit.
It wasn't being more about music and it was just about everything else but music.
So I just chilled out.
Was it something that happened in particular where you were like, all right, I need to
chill?
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No, no, I just kind of feel like, like he's saying like it was like every day or something
like every day.
And I was like, oh my God, I'm tired of seeing this shit.
I'm gonna say some names and I just want you to say one word what you think.
Corday.
Fire.
Fire.
Black China.
Fire.
Trio Burger.
I haven't had it but I heard it's fire.
I want to try it.
I might go there when I leave here.
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Rappelot.
Fire.
You said one word if you want to say that.
He's giving you the word.
Fire.
He's joining.
I mean, he asked, you know, some important questions.
I saw you guys recently reunited on stage and stuff.
That was really cool.
Yeah, we did.
So, uh, man, I may have had like a father.
I mean, I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to say that.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
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Man, I may have had like a fallout.
We didn't see each other like three years or talking like three years.
Was that long?
Yeah.
Was it a creative fallout?
Why?
No, I was like some behind the scenes shit that had went on.
Don't tell me it's an over no warm.
It was a manager.
No, no.
It had a part to do with it.
It was just like business didn't mix with like the friendship and everything and stuff
and fallout.
Because we all got together when we were kids.
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So, we knew each other.
But we really didn't know each other like personality wise.
Like we were still growing up like from kids.
So like everything just started to like get out of control.
He wanted to go do this.
We wanted to do that.
Like it was some different.
So we just like fell out.
And it wasn't really like no crazy fallout.
Like I hate this thing.
I'm gonna do this to it.
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Like it was like that was just like from a business standpoint.
Like you want to go here, we gonna go here type of shit.
But he ended up having a show in Vegas and I've been Vegas now.
So he called me and was like,
I got a show I got to perform at this festival in Vegas.
You should come like, fuck it.
I'll just go.
And then that's how that happened.
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What?
That was the first time you had talked in the three years though.
So you were just like, fuck it.
Yeah.
Put it aside.
It was no hard feelings.
Right.
It was never no hard feelings.
Like we had like a little argument or whatever, but it was like no hard feelings.
Like at the end of the day, like we are made this happen with each other.
Yeah.
So like it's never going to be no hard feelings.
Like and when y'all came up together, what I was reading was that y'all
initially blew up doing Xbox freestyles.
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Yeah.
So tell me a little bit about that.
So we used to like freestyle on the game.
Did y'all really freestyle or were y'all rapping and writing it down?
You know, like, you know, I am the freestyle.
Yeah, no, no, no, you untouchable.
But you know, like, you know, like when little kids freestyle,
they'd be a bunch of boys.
Like, this little kid saying, OK, it was something like that.
Like, but like the little community we was in was all kids.
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So they liked it.
So it just ended up happening like that.
So that's really where the music started to really start to overshadow
the aiming because then y'all start doing music on there through that platform.
And next thing you know, it catches like wildfire.
And now, like, I see a lot of stuff now, like, you know,
how everybody now want to grant that photo service.
Isn't it got to serve, isn't it got to serve?
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Right.
I just didn't like the fact like when we first came out, like,
and it was like, damn, these kids met up, let's play grant that photo together.
Everybody's like, man, these niggas lame as hell.
These lads kids like me listening to these things.
They playing a game like the same people that used to say that be the same.
Like people in our DM like, hey, bro, I'm starting to grant that
photo service. I can help me do this.
They want the rappers like real rappers like you be like, damn, like free.
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Like, but like we just that's it for us.
Because like we really like we're really like the first person
that they ever known to like do some shit like that.
I'm not going to lie.
It's the first time I've ever heard about it, too.
And then I got a question for you because J.
Mack brought it up when you asked you about rap a lot.
Now, how did you end up meeting rap a lot?
Oh, so I signed a deal with James McMillan.
His name is James McMillan.
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He's from New York Hill, lawyer.
Him and J. Prince senior, they got like a joint venture together with James Label,
which is now called Art at War.
And that's how we got tied in with like rapper like so J.
J. Prince on a percentage of James McMillan label.
Oh, wow. So yeah.
So so you ended up meeting the father first.
Yeah, I knew James Prince here first.
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Unbelievable. I'm just curious.
You don't even seem like you want to rap anymore.
Do you want to rap anymore?
No. You seem like you more into
games and the business side.
No, for sure.
When I was just, I just took a step back, bro.
Like it was a lot.
It was a lot to me, bro.
Like I just had a process and it grew up.
Yeah. Like, you know, a lifestyle happening.
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Like I got a kid, like everything.
So it's just like.
Speaking of that, so how do you deal with it?
Have you took care of your mental health?
Because mental health is something very serious.
And a lot of young black people, black men,
don't take care of their health.
Have you talked to somebody?
Yeah, no, for sure.
So like everybody around me, like even like my manager,
to my friends and all that, I'm the youngest,
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like they all in their thirties and stuff.
So like I just keep people like that around with that.
Be like, no, are you doing this wrong?
Where are you doing this?
Like people that been there and seen shit before me.
So that's kind of like how I just like keep doing it.
Like and they keep me on top of my shit.
Like, no, you need to keep doing this
or you need to keep doing that.
So yeah, that's really like,
but like mentally, I'm cool.
I'm straight.
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How old is your kid?
How old is your kid?
Four?
He about to be five.
Yeah, he turned five in September.
Okay.
That's unbelievable.
Is he already into music a little bit too?
Yeah, he ain't a rapper.
What?
What he call himself, Sir Houston, Sir Galston?
No, he just call himself Sir.
And Sir, he like call himself Sir,
he be like, yeah, Sir.
So he's really, yeah.
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Girlfriend?
Me?
Yeah.
Nah.
I mean, I'm asking the questions
that the ladies gonna wanna know
because after the black China, you was like, hey,
I was outside.
Nah, I'm chilling.
How was that relationship by the way?
Cause that was a lot, that was all over social media.
How did y'all meet?
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I was cool.
I'm cool with P. Ditty son, Chris Chacones.
So he had a party in LA.
It was like 2018.
And he was like, come to my party.
You know what I'm saying?
I had a party tonight.
So I came and she ended up showing up
and we was drinking or whatever.
Like everybody was drunk.
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I'm like, yeah, the worst thing she could tell me is no.
I'm not gonna shoot at her.
Yeah.
I went over there at first.
She's like, you funny as hell.
Like you were funny.
Like you funny.
She's like, how old are you?
I'm like 18.
And she's like, I like your young ass.
Wow.
12 year difference, right?
At the time?
11.
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11?
What was it like getting 11 year older?
I don't know to the outside world.
Like people was looking at her like, damn,
what is she doing here?
But like to me, like more like, it wasn't even really like,
dang, she was more like my friend for real.
And she like put me on game like with a lot of shit
that I've been seeing now.
Like she really was like a girlfriend.
Like big sister slash like,
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cause she was really like putting me up on game or shit.
Cause she cook?
Yeah, no, she's not a cook for sure.
Yeah.
And what about the relationship with dream dog?
Now that was like, that was like girlfriend, girlfriend.
She was like, she's really my girlfriend.
But like, no, she was cool too.
Now you still talk to both of them?
Oh, I got to China probably like three months ago.
And she doesn't always be like hitting me up,
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like checking on me and shit like that.
I ain't talking to women a minute.
And I feel like she,
I don't feel like she's in a better spot too.
Cause she's sober now, right?
Yeah.
And what do you, what do you think about that?
Her giving up everything.
I think it's good, bro.
I think it's good.
China used to get crazy.
But like seeing her do like that.
And I even told her like,
I'm proud of you like for your life.
I'm so surprised that shooting is sucked up
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at being such a young age and going to Hollywood.
And that didn't suck you up.
Like the drugs, the alcohol, the women.
I'm surprised that you can come and be so calm
here in this interview.
See, no, I like,
I was always scared to do drugs, bro.
Like even when I first started smoking,
like I was scared to do that.
I was like, yeah, like,
even when I first started drinking,
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like people used to like pass me shots and shit.
I used to go like.
I was like, hell no, I don't even want to know
what it feels like to be drunk.
But like, so the drug shit,
that shit was never a problem.
Cause I was like, hell no, I ain't doing that.
I mean, at one point in time,
I did have a problem like women and shit, bro.
I was just chasing it.
Like chasing it.
I want her, I want her, I want her.
And like, I just kind of fell back
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like doing my music and all that shit.
But then I just came to my senses like,
man, this shit on me, nothing like,
I need to do what I'm supposed to do.
Do you really prefer fake booties over real ones?
Oh no, I think my, it changed.
Yeah, you said that it was a year ago though.
I was like, I'm ready to some face it.
Okay, what you want to turn around?
No, because, oh my God.
I think it's going to change.
Is your booty real or is it fake?
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No, my booty is real.
You gotta get her phone with you, man.
Go get your phone.
I'm gonna get your phone.
I'm gonna get your phone.
I'm gonna get your phone with you, man.
He said a year ago that he prefers a fake booty.
So I just wanted to know the reasoning why.
Y'all are stupid.
Go get your phone.
This is not.
This is not your interview time.
So I'm just wondering why.
Yeah.
Your phone. Just cause it's bigger?
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Oh no, I think that was some young nigga shit
I would just say.
Oh, he's mature.
Yeah, I was.
It's an opinion I could.
I ain't really feeling that.
Just for jokes.
Oh man.
Almighty with the side eye.
Now did you also start your own label?
Yeah.
It's called N2L, which means nothing to lose record.
How's that going?
It's good.
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How many artists you got?
I got one, his name Guapo.
Oh cool.
Yeah, he from Guapo Guapo?
No, he from, no, not him.
Another Guapo?
He from Ralph Ruffin.
I bet.
How does Guapo, the one that you signed?
29.
He older than you guy, dog.
I mean, it's awesome.
He's still in Gabaston?
Yeah.
Cool.
He's been moving around though.
That's the thing is you put in other people on.
You've been experienced.
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You've done this for a while now.
Now, one thing I do want to ask you,
because it's something like you said,
that's in social media.
Situation in New York.
All right.
Take us to that day.
Right.
I was in Houston and I was talking a dream at the time.
We just first started talking.
And she stayed in New York.
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Man, she's like, just come to New York.
I'm going to be in New York for a couple days, whatever.
I was just going to go out there.
So I went out there and one of my partners.
And I stayed at this hotel in Manhattan.
It was called like A&C Hotel at the time.
They shut down.
But it was like one of the best hotels that man had.
Because it was like, it looked like apartments.
And I checked in.
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When I was checking in, it was just weird the whole time.
Because I was just catching a vibe.
You know how the vibe is.
I'm like, damn, it's weird in here.
But I ain't think nothing of it.
And so I don't know if y'all know,
Bay Swag, he's one of my man's from New York.
So I'm like, hey, I'm in New York.
Come pull up on me, whatever.
He came and pulled up on me.
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Earlier before that, I went out with TJ.
I'm cool with TJ.
So we went to Saks.
He's like, I got a show tonight.
Let's go to Saks, whatever.
So we went shopping at Saks.
And he ended up running into some niggas
he was into it with from his side of town.
Why he was with me.
Oh, no.
But you know how it is.
Like, shit, this is my partner.
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I'm with him.
So it's whatever he on.
I'm on that.
Like, it is what it is.
Like, that's just how I was expecting somebody to have my back, too.
So we in a fight at Saks.
We got in a fight at Saks.
It was like, it was like three of them.
Maybe we was deep as hell.
It was probably like 10 of us.
So we fought at Saks.
This was early in the day.
Oh, my goodness.
We fought at Saks.
We ended up doing whatever that was.
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All went out several ways.
I went back to my hotel room.
While the fight ended up hitting the internet,
like the Saks fight ended up hitting the internet.
Everybody in New York was seeing it.
So a motherfucker that worked at my hotel
was cool with the niggas that we got in the fight with.
Oh, lordy.
Back door.
That's crazy.
So they ended up seeing me walk in the hotel by myself.
I was walking in the hotel.
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And I guess they put the play together.
Like, man, damn, bro, he's staying over here.
So some time ago, I was chilling in my room.
And they swagged at me getting there.
My other man, Hennaday Trav, Trav signed to him.
I think it's a meek, naff.
Hennaday Trav, NBB.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
So Trav ended up showing up to my room.
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So I sent my man downstairs to get Trav.
But he didn't know what Trav looked like.
So he went downstairs and grabbed a random nigger.
Oh, no.
But the nigger that he grabbed ended up
being with the niggas that they were sending to come set me up.
It was crazy.
What?
So he grabbed a random nigger from downstairs in the lobby.
It was like, hey, you are almighty.
The nigger was like, yeah.
He just said, yeah.
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So he bought him upstairs in my room.
So he walked in the door.
I'm like, I put him to sign.
I'm like, man, who is this nigger?
He was you?
He like, here, no, this is what you tell me to go get.
We got slap.
I'm like, nigga, he ain't with me.
He's not Trav, like I don't know him.
So he sent them back downstairs to Trav and they're getting up.
I tell them, like, yeah, man, these niggas just bought a random nigger.
We ended up getting into the room or whatever.
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So I'm like, man, I'm hungry.
Let's go to Empanada Mama's.
That's the little Empanada spot in New York.
Really good.
Yeah.
So we all went to Empanada Mama's.
We got an elevator.
We was in the elevator.
This shit crazy, bro.
Because the same niggas kids keep coming, keep seeing them.
Like, why the fuck do I keep seeing these people?
So they get in the elevator.
So one nigga tried to spark a conversation, but I'm just peeping niggas energy.
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He sparked a conversation.
He like, hey, ain't you brown?
Like, yeah, he like, man, my nigga rap.
I'm like, yeah, for real, like I take my take bro information.
I'm saying, send some music.
Let me hear this shit.
Cause I'm always down here and somebody music.
Yeah.
So I'm like, yeah, let me hear this shit.
He like, so the other nigga end up like smirking, like, like grilling my man's like an elevator.
So he's looking like nigga.
Like, what you looking at me like that for?
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Like they like, aw, it ain't nothing.
So then they let it go.
So I went and ate at an empanada mama's and we pulled back up to the hotel at this time.
Like, man, I'm tired cause everybody else trying to go to the club.
So like, nah, often to go to sleep.
I don't even feel like going nowhere.
So try them.
Like, you sure you don't want us to go upstairs, which you just walk you upstairs.
I'm like, hell no, I'm good.
Man, as soon as I hit the door, it's like a nigga.
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He opened the elevator door.
I mean, he opened the door to the hotel cause like it's like the revolving door.
And then it's like a door that you open, right?
So I opened and he like, it's like a big ass.
And he like, like, bro, you good?
I'm like, yeah, what you mean?
I'm like, why you ask me that?
And he was like, aw, it ain't nothing.
So this shit like a movie.
So the other door open, the same thing that just asked me am I good?
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He like, hey, y'all, he here.
What?
Yes, I'm like, what the fuck do you hear me?
And then I just hear like, like niggas is running.
So like, I got on my drench and everything.
So like, I'm like, hell no, I'm like this.
I'm trying to like, like, took my shit.
And it's niggas like swinging at me.
So I'm just like, fuck it.
Like I have my back and I just start swinging back.
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How many, how many you think, how many you think it is?
We end up seeing like the footage and shit out there happen.
It was 21 niggas.
No way.
Yeah, it was 21.
Like that as 21.
So what they end up saying was, because we end up asking the hotel and shit,
like how y'all allow all these people in here to do the, I'm saying to do shit like that.
So what they were saying was, they had got two rooms and they was having like a party
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or some shit in the room.
The hotel was like, oh, we ended up kicking them out.
They room because they was having a party in there.
So everybody ended up being in the lobby.
It was 20, it was 21 of them.
And you're by yourself.
Yeah, I was by myself.
And shit, they fucked me up.
I mean, I mean, against 20 people and everybody Tyson, you know, I could do it.
I remember I was getting stabbed and all type of shit.
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Man, you survived.
Cause that one particular point, I didn't know if you were going to live to be 24.
Yeah.
Or 25.
I was so scared for you.
I'm like, man, this cat might not make it.
How long did it take you to recover?
I'm out of cover was quick.
The doctors at the emergency room, I went to, they did a good job at like stitching me up
and shit.
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I see them shit online was like, I had 300 stitches where I got like only had like 14
stitches.
Like that was good at what they was doing.
But like, it was so fucked up.
The police, they were trying to get me to like, tell us something like we know something
like when they was taking me to the ambulance, cause the police got him back in the ambulance.
I'm like, bro, I don't know.
Like, I don't know these people.
Like if I was to see them right now, I wouldn't know.
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And there was like, if you don't tell us something about to put you out the ambulance,
like put me on the ambulance.
I'm bleeding out my family.
They were telling you that?
Yes.
They was like, we're going to put you out the ambulance.
If you don't tell us something, I'm like, bro, I don't have nothing to tell y'all.
I don't know.
So shit.
That's what it was.
So someone had used a knife.
Yeah.
They were stabbing with like bottles.
Like they broke a bottle.
They were stabbing with like a knife.
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They got cut in my back, like on my face.
How many times did you get stabbed?
Seven.
Seven times?
Damn.
But the niggas end up getting caught.
It's so crazy.
The niggas end up getting caught on a Rico case.
They was just like chipping out.
They ended up shooting an off-duty police officer.
So they was like, all right on the radar.
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I ain't even know him.
I ain't know nothing about it.
God, dogger.
So they took the chains while they want to hold the whole thing happening.
And then we happened from there.
They took the chain, nigga end up making a music video and waving my chains in the video.
And going on.
They got this shit in New York called a CC show.
It's like an Instagram live, but it's like some messy shit.
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Like where it was like pop.
They would have like 10,000 viewers and shit.
Everybody in their fabulous meek meal.
Like everybody would be tuning in watching.
So the niggas, they did the shit the same night.
They end up going up there.
They had my ID.
Like they had my driver license, like my chains, all that shit.
And them niggas end up getting caught like that.
The police was in the line and they end up getting caught.
From social media.
Social media.
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Jumbies.
Got them caught like that.
The police was in the Instagram live and ended up catching them.
When that moment happened, did you have a combo with Jay Prince about it?
Yeah.
So I had flew back to Houston and he was like to come to the house.
We just had a deep ad conversation on like how to move.
Like you can't be moving like that.
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You better than that.
Like you posted had these people with you.
Like just like protect the brand type shit.
Because at the end of the day you were by yourself, but you just wanted to go back to
room because you were tired.
Right.
I was going to sleep.
I didn't think nothing of it.
Because at the end of the day, you know, you still feel like you're a regular individual.
But at the end of the day, you know, that as I say, being a rapper nowadays is one of
the most dangerous.
For sure.
You got target on your back everywhere.
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Like it might be somebody in here that don't like me and I don't even know them.
Right.
Right.
But like when you walk out of your office and rob this nigga down, I said, I don't even
know you bro.
Like I ain't never did nothing to you.
That's shit crazy.
Did that was that kind of like a wake up call to as far as like, let me kind of step back
a little bit and kind of read, you know, because I was moving.
I was moving crazy.
I used to be like in Miami and shit in the club by myself.
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Like, like round people, I don't even know.
But after that, I'm like, hell no, I don't move like that no more.
That's crazy.
So how did you get to Las Vegas?
Because that's where you keep on talking about right now.
Yeah.
So I used to live in LA, but LA started getting crazy, like crazy, super crazy, like crying
like crazy in LA.
Like I wanted to still be on the West Coast and close to LA, but not in LA still.
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So Vegas was the next close thing.
It's like a 30 minute flight to LA.
So and in Vegas is cheaper.
And I'm cool with like David Haney, Floyd Mayweather, Suns and shit.
So like Vegas ain't out of the ordinary.
Blockboy JB stand Vegas, Polo G got a house.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
So I still like in a loop out there where everybody and you like the boxing stuff too.
Right.
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I'm in a boxing for sure.
Yes.
Who's your favorite fighter right now?
I ain't gonna lie like Devin.
Devin is tough.
What do you think about your Vonte and Shakur?
I like that fight too.
That's gonna be a big fight.
I say Devin because like I get to see more with Devin.
Like you know I'll be there when he training, when he's sparring.
Like I get to actually like be tuned into the boxing.
He's a very personable dude too.
Yeah.
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Really, really humble.
I mean he's an undisputed champion though.
You got all the belts now.
I like Marlon Mell too.
Yeah.
Tough.
Are you still gaming?
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
I'm still being a gamer.
For all the people who don't know how to game like myself.
What's the first step in gaming?
I would say buy a PC.
Okay.
A lot of people think console gaming is like, I don't like console gaming.
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Like when y'all see like the Grand Theft Auto with like the custom shit and all that,
that's on PC.
Like they might have like some Houston closet clothes or something in a Grand Theft Auto
server.
Okay.
Okay.
So since you're schooling me on this, I see this dude, I think his name is Kai.
He's supposed to be the biggest gamer.
Yeah.
He's the biggest streamer on Twitch.
You playing Twitch?
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Yeah.
Exclusively on kick?
Yeah.
Exclusively on kick.
So they paying checks like that to play games?
Kick giving out NBA contract.
What?
They gave this dude a name.
Aiden, he got 150 million for two years.
Bruce got 80 million for two years.
Annoying.
I don't know if y'all know.
Annoying, he from Houston.
His name is Annoying TV.
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He's a stream on kick.
He got 4 million for two years.
Like they gave him.
Hold on.
Let me just look at it.
They gave him out basketball.
What's the most popular game that you would say?
Game in Washington.
I'm gonna say Grand Theft Auto.
Okay, still?
Call of Duty.
So almost 10 years later, that's the game that you're still on.
Crazy as fuck.
Grand Theft Auto 5 been out since 2013.
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They have not came out with another one and that game is still the number one most played
game right now.
Wow.
That is unbelievable.
I think that's how we ended right there, huh?
Yeah.
What do you have some new music that's dropping?
I do.
Well, I'm working on an album right now.
I'm gonna put it out probably beginning of next year.
Okay.
Yeah, I got some crazy shit on one.
Is it already done?
Nah, I haven't.
Still in the process.
You got some good features on there too?
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Yeah, I'm working on features right now.
You haven't named for it yet?
No, not yet.
It's all new.
I just started working like last month.
Okay.
Two or to go with it too?
Yeah.
Gotta go.
You going back outside then?
Yeah, I gotta be outside.
Back outside, boys.
Got to be.
Yes.
I love it.
Well, listen, man, we really appreciate you taking the time to come vibe with us.
Guys, y'all better let us know in the comments what you think about this one.
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Also to our felt was amazing.
Jay Mac jazz.
What do y'all think?
Of course.
A great.
God's a vibe man.
It was a vibe.
It's a vibe man.
Kili Kulture checking out.
Thanks again to almighty Jay.
You are now tuned in to Clearly Cultured!
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The moment is here.
Episode two of Clearly Cultured.
We're back.
Shout out to everybody that's been showing love
on interview one with that Mexican OT.
So you know we had to follow up
with an awesome episode number two.
We are out here with the one and only,
Almighty Jazz.
It's me.
This one is gonna be a good episode.
Again, make a shout out to my family.
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We got Young Jazz.
And J-Mac from 97, 9 the Box.
Without further ado,
let's get in episode two.
Woo!
We're gonna let you start with a question.
All right, so let's bring it back to the beginning.
All right?
So J, let me ask you.
Getting into the industry, 2014.
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Yeah.
You love playing video games.
You go and it's a game that I love too.
Grand Theft Auto.
Right.
As you're playing on there, who do you end up meeting?
I met Namir.
Why are we in Namir?
What is that?
Y'all know him as that now.
Absolutely.
So when you meet Namir through Grand Theft Auto,
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have y'all met in person yet?
Or did y'all only meet through the games?
Nah, I was 14.
He was like 12 or 13.
So we was still like kids.
We just like connected and like kept in touch.
So when you first got started.
Wait pause, because for those who are not gamers,
like how did y'all connect on the game though?
Yes, yes.
We had like mutual friends like on a game
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and we just ended up like running into each other
and like a party, you know like Xbox 360,
they had parties.
Yeah.
So we, we had seen her like yelling back and forth
at each other and then I was like, man, I like this kid.
Cause he was so like young like his little head
like the young boys all like, we was kids,
but I was older than him.
So I was like, bro, I like this kid.
And then I just ended up just connecting with him like that.
That's crazy.
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So it started, really started as, as like as a gaming,
like a gaming thing.
And then it blossomed into the music side.
We'll get to that part next.
When did you end up meeting in person?
2017.
So you're gaming for basically three years straight.
Yeah.
Vibing out.
You're like, man, I like this dude.
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He's cool.
You're vibing out.
How does it, how does this evolve into the music?
So we, we was both like making like, like some kids
making music.
Like I wanted to be a rapper when I grew up.
Like that's, I always knew I wanted to rap.
And he was doing the same.
So we used to always just like send each other like music
back and forward, like dropping on YouTube.
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Like my, and like I was in high school.
I was a sophomore junior, which was dropping music
back and forward to each other.
And then he ended up blowing up.
He dropped the rubbing out the paint song.
And that shit went like crazy overnight.
And he had called me.
He's like, bro, I'll have my first show in Alabama.
I want you to come.
I said, I ain't never even left gals before.
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What?
I was like, I go.
So I ended up going, but I met him like in person.
Like it wasn't weird.
And it was like, I already knew him like.
Hold on, hold on.
You just make it seem like it was easy for you to get down
there. How did you get down there?
Somebody bought you a plane ticket or you drove?
No, so my homeboys that went school with,
like we was out for the summer.
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They're like, let's just draw to Alabama.
I think it was like eight hours or something like that.
Like or something cause they're like six, eight hours.
We just drove to Alabama.
That is insane.
And when did you move to Houston?
I ain't moved like to Houston, Houston until like 2019.
But I'm from like Galveston County.
So I grew up there my whole life.
OK, so you from Galveston?
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Are there any rappers in Galveston that we don't know?
Because I've been living in Houston all my life.
I've never heard of anybody from Galveston making it as big
as you.
The only person that's from like my side of town
I'm from Peso, Peso.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't know he's from Galveston.
Yeah, he from Texas.
What?
That's right.
That's right.
When you meet people, you be telling them you're from Galveston.
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You say Houston because I feel like.
I be saying Houston because people don't be knowing like.
Well, only people like, oh yeah, Houston.
I was like, all right, I'm from like Galveston County.
I just didn't know if you knew Houston.
Like that area now.
But people be like, what is Galveston?
Like when I used to tell them like where I'm from,
they'd be like, what's Galveston?
Like what's Texas?
Like they didn't know what that was.
Did you like like go into the beach growing up?
Were you a beach guy?
No, I really didn't like going to Galveston for real.
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When I was younger, I didn't like going there.
I stayed on like our side of the town, like the mainland and Galveston is the island.
So you got to take the long causeway to the Galveston.
Right.
I ain't like going on that side.
Wow.
So who were some of your influences growing up since you could hear Houston Radio all the time?
Did you even know that I was on Houston Radio?
No, I did.
I did know you was on Radio.
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No, because when I first met him, I didn't know he was from here.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just like, I love this cat, but I didn't know he listened to the radio.
Who was on the radio when I was, it was you.
It was a Kiati and a man had a morning show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I never knew that all this time.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
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Is it true that you were going to go to the Navy?
Yeah, I was.
So when I graduated high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do for real.
Like my mom was getting mad because I was getting troubles.
She's like, you see your ass in the Navy.
I went to like the programs, everything I signed up, I swore in everything.
But I was in this program called Delay Intro Program.
So I really wasn't in the Navy until I actually deployed.
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So I was like, fuck it.
I ain't going no more.
I didn't want to go.
And my mom was like, what you going to do?
I was like, I'm asking to be a rapper.
If my my Navy recruiter and everything like these to leave voicemails on my phone,
like you dumb as hell.
Like you ain't never going to be sitting like the Navy is all you got.
You ain't got nothing but the Navy without the Navy, you ain't going to be sick.
I like, fuck it.
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I don't want to do this no more.
I want to be a rapper.
You knew what you wanted to do.
Yeah.
So have you saw that recruiter?
Yeah.
So my recruiter I end up meeting.
I'm in a meeting.
You know how your high school had career day and like people come to the school
and they tell you about their career and trying to get so the Navy recruiter
ended up being like a recruiter for high school.
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I went back to my high school in like 2020 and I ended up seeing him on career day.
What did he say to you?
He was shaking his head like, I like, then I remember he told me I was never going
to be sick, bro.
I like shit I am.
And I was like, I appreciate you for that.
And it was all a lot though.
I ain't feel no type of way about it.
What do a lot of people that you went to school with think about you being a big
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artist now?
Oh, no.
I feel like it's crazy because like they just be like, I was just in school with him.
I like crazy.
Like even when I go back home, sometimes I go back home.
I go chill like with the kids and stuff where I grew up where I grew up at.
And it just be crazy.
But I'll be just trying to show them like I'm regular still like, y'all, I'm just
somebody with an A.
Right.
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Still inspire them, give them some words of advice.
And a lot of your family still lives out there.
It's awesome.
And speaking of family, now I know you got a big check and it was worth $20,000.
And I heard that you spent it in like three or four days.
Now what did you spend it on?
I wasn't used to that.
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I was just buying clothes.
I think I went to the strip club and do that shit.
I did all type of stuff with that money.
It was gone fast.
Okay.
What did your mama say about that?
She ain't care.
She ain't care.
Has anybody in your family asked you for money?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course.
But like my family, I always be like giving them money to take care of them.
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Okay.
So how do you deal with that?
You're coming from a small town and when you live in the small town and go back to the
small town, you have people who always want to pull you back.
Yes.
So how do you deal with it?
Oh, no, I just feel like I done been through like a lot like in the industry and I just
figured out how to just navigate with me.
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Ain't nothing crazy.
Like yeah, my family like I get them like listen, but I know when somebody like just
being extra, I'll be like, hell no.
And you come up in the industry like so young since such a young age, what game would you
give to like people that are coming up in the same shoes?
Like so what's something that you did not expect that you learned?
Really I would just tell people to be consistent.
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You just got to be consistent because in the industry, it's a new rapper that come on air
day, but like, man, who is it?
Where he from?
But he hot and like really use social media like TikTok, all that like that's like a big
part in like the music right now.
Like music really not even about if you already like listen to music.
It's not really about if you good or not.
It's about if you know how to stay in a spotlight, stay relevant, like your image, you got to
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just sell it.
I feel like now when label sign artists, they don't even be trying to sign artists.
Like damn, he's lyrical.
Let's sign him.
No, like he has a social media presence and people are listening to him like let's sign
him.
So I would say just make your mark like in social media for sure.
It's the marketing side because at the end of the day, even though you're an artist,
you're also a brand.
And the two now are symbiotic.
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You know, I mean, look at Travis Scott.
You know, he is not just Travis Scott.
He's Travis Scott, the brand too.
Same with Drake.
You know, a lot of these big guys too.
You know, the brand goes hand in hand now with the artist.
And what's your favorite platform using at all the TikTok, Instagram, YouTube?
What do you feel or what do you feel is the best to use even for an up and coming artist?
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I would say TikTok.
I would come out of short.
It's kind of like easier to catch a break on there.
You got like a dance or like a sound or like a 10 second little audio that people do something
to it.
And what's one of your favorite like up and coming artists right now?
On the TikTok side, I ain't a lot too rare.
We going crazy.
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I'm sure.
Yeah, I'm doing it.
He go crazy.
So I'll be doing that.
Okay.
Did you make a conscious effort to get off all the blocks?
Because at one particular point, I would open the block every day you were on the block.
I mean, it was something talking about you, whether it was from New York to Cali to Houston.
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They were talking about you and it just seems like you stepped back for a minute.
I just kind of felt like it came up growing up.
I was always in the block for the wrong shit, bro.
Like I used to get mad at them, but I couldn't have had to get mad at myself like Shayram
on.
I used to go crazy on there.
I remember they had me blocked on Instagram at one point.
Shayram read you block.
I used to cuss them out so bad every time they post me and then I end up sending them in Atlanta
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when they had the BT wars in Atlanta.
And then we ended up like talking and then like, it's like, no, I ain't nothing like that.
It's just our job.
But no, I just kind of like step back because I felt like I was in the media for the wrong
shit.
It wasn't being more about music and it was just about everything else but music.
So I just chilled out.
Was it something that happened in particular where you were like, all right, I need to
chill?
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No, no, I just kind of feel like, like he's saying like it was like every day or something
like every day.
And I was like, oh my God, I'm tired of seeing this shit.
I'm gonna say some names and I just want you to say one word what you think.
Corday.
Fire.
Fire.
Black China.
Fire.
Trio Burger.
I haven't had it but I heard it's fire.
I want to try it.
I might go there when I leave here.
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Rappelot.
Fire.
You said one word if you want to say that.
He's giving you the word.
Fire.
He's joining.
I mean, he asked, you know, some important questions.
I saw you guys recently reunited on stage and stuff.
That was really cool.
Yeah, we did.
So, uh, man, I may have had like a father.
I mean, I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to say that.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
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Man, I may have had like a fallout.
We didn't see each other like three years or talking like three years.
Was that long?
Yeah.
Was it a creative fallout?
Why?
No, I was like some behind the scenes shit that had went on.
Don't tell me it's an over no warm.
It was a manager.
No, no.
It had a part to do with it.
It was just like business didn't mix with like the friendship and everything and stuff
and fallout.
Because we all got together when we were kids.
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So, we knew each other.
But we really didn't know each other like personality wise.
Like we were still growing up like from kids.
So like everything just started to like get out of control.
He wanted to go do this.
We wanted to do that.
Like it was some different.
So we just like fell out.
And it wasn't really like no crazy fallout.
Like I hate this thing.
I'm gonna do this to it.
(12:03):
Like it was like that was just like from a business standpoint.
Like you want to go here, we gonna go here type of shit.
But he ended up having a show in Vegas and I've been Vegas now.
So he called me and was like,
I got a show I got to perform at this festival in Vegas.
You should come like, fuck it.
I'll just go.
And then that's how that happened.
(12:23):
What?
That was the first time you had talked in the three years though.
So you were just like, fuck it.
Yeah.
Put it aside.
It was no hard feelings.
Right.
It was never no hard feelings.
Like we had like a little argument or whatever, but it was like no hard feelings.
Like at the end of the day, like we are made this happen with each other.
Yeah.
So like it's never going to be no hard feelings.
Like and when y'all came up together, what I was reading was that y'all
initially blew up doing Xbox freestyles.
(12:46):
Yeah.
So tell me a little bit about that.
So we used to like freestyle on the game.
Did y'all really freestyle or were y'all rapping and writing it down?
You know, like, you know, I am the freestyle.
Yeah, no, no, no, you untouchable.
But you know, like, you know, like when little kids freestyle,
they'd be a bunch of boys.
Like, this little kid saying, OK, it was something like that.
Like, but like the little community we was in was all kids.
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So they liked it.
So it just ended up happening like that.
So that's really where the music started to really start to overshadow
the aiming because then y'all start doing music on there through that platform.
And next thing you know, it catches like wildfire.
And now, like, I see a lot of stuff now, like, you know,
how everybody now want to grant that photo service.
Isn't it got to serve, isn't it got to serve?
(13:29):
Right.
I just didn't like the fact like when we first came out, like,
and it was like, damn, these kids met up, let's play grant that photo together.
Everybody's like, man, these niggas lame as hell.
These lads kids like me listening to these things.
They playing a game like the same people that used to say that be the same.
Like people in our DM like, hey, bro, I'm starting to grant that
photo service. I can help me do this.
They want the rappers like real rappers like you be like, damn, like free.
(13:51):
Like, but like we just that's it for us.
Because like we really like we're really like the first person
that they ever known to like do some shit like that.
I'm not going to lie.
It's the first time I've ever heard about it, too.
And then I got a question for you because J.
Mack brought it up when you asked you about rap a lot.
Now, how did you end up meeting rap a lot?
Oh, so I signed a deal with James McMillan.
His name is James McMillan.
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He's from New York Hill, lawyer.
Him and J. Prince senior, they got like a joint venture together with James Label,
which is now called Art at War.
And that's how we got tied in with like rapper like so J.
J. Prince on a percentage of James McMillan label.
Oh, wow. So yeah.
So so you ended up meeting the father first.
Yeah, I knew James Prince here first.
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Unbelievable. I'm just curious.
You don't even seem like you want to rap anymore.
Do you want to rap anymore?
No. You seem like you more into
games and the business side.
No, for sure.
When I was just, I just took a step back, bro.
Like it was a lot.
It was a lot to me, bro.
Like I just had a process and it grew up.
Yeah. Like, you know, a lifestyle happening.
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Like I got a kid, like everything.
So it's just like.
Speaking of that, so how do you deal with it?
Have you took care of your mental health?
Because mental health is something very serious.
And a lot of young black people, black men,
don't take care of their health.
Have you talked to somebody?
Yeah, no, for sure.
So like everybody around me, like even like my manager,
to my friends and all that, I'm the youngest,
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like they all in their thirties and stuff.
So like I just keep people like that around with that.
Be like, no, are you doing this wrong?
Where are you doing this?
Like people that been there and seen shit before me.
So that's kind of like how I just like keep doing it.
Like and they keep me on top of my shit.
Like, no, you need to keep doing this
or you need to keep doing that.
So yeah, that's really like,
but like mentally, I'm cool.
I'm straight.
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How old is your kid?
How old is your kid?
Four?
He about to be five.
Yeah, he turned five in September.
Okay.
That's unbelievable.
Is he already into music a little bit too?
Yeah, he ain't a rapper.
What?
What he call himself, Sir Houston, Sir Galston?
No, he just call himself Sir.
And Sir, he like call himself Sir,
he be like, yeah, Sir.
So he's really, yeah.
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Girlfriend?
Me?
Yeah.
Nah.
I mean, I'm asking the questions
that the ladies gonna wanna know
because after the black China, you was like, hey,
I was outside.
Nah, I'm chilling.
How was that relationship by the way?
Cause that was a lot, that was all over social media.
How did y'all meet?
(16:18):
I was cool.
I'm cool with P. Ditty son, Chris Chacones.
So he had a party in LA.
It was like 2018.
And he was like, come to my party.
You know what I'm saying?
I had a party tonight.
So I came and she ended up showing up
and we was drinking or whatever.
Like everybody was drunk.
(16:39):
I'm like, yeah, the worst thing she could tell me is no.
I'm not gonna shoot at her.
Yeah.
I went over there at first.
She's like, you funny as hell.
Like you were funny.
Like you funny.
She's like, how old are you?
I'm like 18.
And she's like, I like your young ass.
Wow.
12 year difference, right?
At the time?
11.
(16:59):
11?
What was it like getting 11 year older?
I don't know to the outside world.
Like people was looking at her like, damn,
what is she doing here?
But like to me, like more like, it wasn't even really like,
dang, she was more like my friend for real.
And she like put me on game like with a lot of shit
that I've been seeing now.
Like she really was like a girlfriend.
Like big sister slash like,
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cause she was really like putting me up on game or shit.
Cause she cook?
Yeah, no, she's not a cook for sure.
Yeah.
And what about the relationship with dream dog?
Now that was like, that was like girlfriend, girlfriend.
She was like, she's really my girlfriend.
But like, no, she was cool too.
Now you still talk to both of them?
Oh, I got to China probably like three months ago.
And she doesn't always be like hitting me up,
(17:41):
like checking on me and shit like that.
I ain't talking to women a minute.
And I feel like she,
I don't feel like she's in a better spot too.
Cause she's sober now, right?
Yeah.
And what do you, what do you think about that?
Her giving up everything.
I think it's good, bro.
I think it's good.
China used to get crazy.
But like seeing her do like that.
And I even told her like,
I'm proud of you like for your life.
I'm so surprised that shooting is sucked up
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at being such a young age and going to Hollywood.
And that didn't suck you up.
Like the drugs, the alcohol, the women.
I'm surprised that you can come and be so calm
here in this interview.
See, no, I like,
I was always scared to do drugs, bro.
Like even when I first started smoking,
like I was scared to do that.
I was like, yeah, like,
even when I first started drinking,
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like people used to like pass me shots and shit.
I used to go like.
I was like, hell no, I don't even want to know
what it feels like to be drunk.
But like, so the drug shit,
that shit was never a problem.
Cause I was like, hell no, I ain't doing that.
I mean, at one point in time,
I did have a problem like women and shit, bro.
I was just chasing it.
Like chasing it.
I want her, I want her, I want her.
And like, I just kind of fell back
(18:43):
like doing my music and all that shit.
But then I just came to my senses like,
man, this shit on me, nothing like,
I need to do what I'm supposed to do.
Do you really prefer fake booties over real ones?
Oh no, I think my, it changed.
Yeah, you said that it was a year ago though.
I was like, I'm ready to some face it.
Okay, what you want to turn around?
No, because, oh my God.
I think it's going to change.
Is your booty real or is it fake?
(19:03):
No, my booty is real.
You gotta get her phone with you, man.
Go get your phone.
I'm gonna get your phone.
I'm gonna get your phone.
I'm gonna get your phone with you, man.
He said a year ago that he prefers a fake booty.
So I just wanted to know the reasoning why.
Y'all are stupid.
Go get your phone.
This is not.
This is not your interview time.
So I'm just wondering why.
Yeah.
Your phone. Just cause it's bigger?
(19:25):
Oh no, I think that was some young nigga shit
I would just say.
Oh, he's mature.
Yeah, I was.
It's an opinion I could.
I ain't really feeling that.
Just for jokes.
Oh man.
Almighty with the side eye.
Now did you also start your own label?
Yeah.
It's called N2L, which means nothing to lose record.
How's that going?
It's good.
(19:45):
How many artists you got?
I got one, his name Guapo.
Oh cool.
Yeah, he from Guapo Guapo?
No, he from, no, not him.
Another Guapo?
He from Ralph Ruffin.
I bet.
How does Guapo, the one that you signed?
29.
He older than you guy, dog.
I mean, it's awesome.
He's still in Gabaston?
Yeah.
Cool.
He's been moving around though.
That's the thing is you put in other people on.
You've been experienced.
(20:06):
You've done this for a while now.
Now, one thing I do want to ask you,
because it's something like you said,
that's in social media.
Situation in New York.
All right.
Take us to that day.
Right.
I was in Houston and I was talking a dream at the time.
We just first started talking.
And she stayed in New York.
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Man, she's like, just come to New York.
I'm going to be in New York for a couple days, whatever.
I was just going to go out there.
So I went out there and one of my partners.
And I stayed at this hotel in Manhattan.
It was called like A&C Hotel at the time.
They shut down.
But it was like one of the best hotels that man had.
Because it was like, it looked like apartments.
And I checked in.
(20:48):
When I was checking in, it was just weird the whole time.
Because I was just catching a vibe.
You know how the vibe is.
I'm like, damn, it's weird in here.
But I ain't think nothing of it.
And so I don't know if y'all know,
Bay Swag, he's one of my man's from New York.
So I'm like, hey, I'm in New York.
Come pull up on me, whatever.
He came and pulled up on me.
(21:10):
Earlier before that, I went out with TJ.
I'm cool with TJ.
So we went to Saks.
He's like, I got a show tonight.
Let's go to Saks, whatever.
So we went shopping at Saks.
And he ended up running into some niggas
he was into it with from his side of town.
Why he was with me.
Oh, no.
But you know how it is.
Like, shit, this is my partner.
(21:32):
I'm with him.
So it's whatever he on.
I'm on that.
Like, it is what it is.
Like, that's just how I was expecting somebody to have my back, too.
So we in a fight at Saks.
We got in a fight at Saks.
It was like, it was like three of them.
Maybe we was deep as hell.
It was probably like 10 of us.
So we fought at Saks.
This was early in the day.
Oh, my goodness.
We fought at Saks.
We ended up doing whatever that was.
(21:54):
All went out several ways.
I went back to my hotel room.
While the fight ended up hitting the internet,
like the Saks fight ended up hitting the internet.
Everybody in New York was seeing it.
So a motherfucker that worked at my hotel
was cool with the niggas that we got in the fight with.
Oh, lordy.
Back door.
That's crazy.
So they ended up seeing me walk in the hotel by myself.
I was walking in the hotel.
(22:16):
And I guess they put the play together.
Like, man, damn, bro, he's staying over here.
So some time ago, I was chilling in my room.
And they swagged at me getting there.
My other man, Hennaday Trav, Trav signed to him.
I think it's a meek, naff.
Hennaday Trav, NBB.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
So Trav ended up showing up to my room.
(22:36):
So I sent my man downstairs to get Trav.
But he didn't know what Trav looked like.
So he went downstairs and grabbed a random nigger.
Oh, no.
But the nigger that he grabbed ended up
being with the niggas that they were sending to come set me up.
It was crazy.
What?
So he grabbed a random nigger from downstairs in the lobby.
It was like, hey, you are almighty.
The nigger was like, yeah.
He just said, yeah.
(22:57):
So he bought him upstairs in my room.
So he walked in the door.
I'm like, I put him to sign.
I'm like, man, who is this nigger?
He was you?
He like, here, no, this is what you tell me to go get.
We got slap.
I'm like, nigga, he ain't with me.
He's not Trav, like I don't know him.
So he sent them back downstairs to Trav and they're getting up.
I tell them, like, yeah, man, these niggas just bought a random nigger.
We ended up getting into the room or whatever.
(23:18):
So I'm like, man, I'm hungry.
Let's go to Empanada Mama's.
That's the little Empanada spot in New York.
Really good.
Yeah.
So we all went to Empanada Mama's.
We got an elevator.
We was in the elevator.
This shit crazy, bro.
Because the same niggas kids keep coming, keep seeing them.
Like, why the fuck do I keep seeing these people?
So they get in the elevator.
So one nigga tried to spark a conversation, but I'm just peeping niggas energy.
(23:42):
He sparked a conversation.
He like, hey, ain't you brown?
Like, yeah, he like, man, my nigga rap.
I'm like, yeah, for real, like I take my take bro information.
I'm saying, send some music.
Let me hear this shit.
Cause I'm always down here and somebody music.
Yeah.
So I'm like, yeah, let me hear this shit.
He like, so the other nigga end up like smirking, like, like grilling my man's like an elevator.
So he's looking like nigga.
Like, what you looking at me like that for?
(24:03):
Like they like, aw, it ain't nothing.
So then they let it go.
So I went and ate at an empanada mama's and we pulled back up to the hotel at this time.
Like, man, I'm tired cause everybody else trying to go to the club.
So like, nah, often to go to sleep.
I don't even feel like going nowhere.
So try them.
Like, you sure you don't want us to go upstairs, which you just walk you upstairs.
I'm like, hell no, I'm good.
Man, as soon as I hit the door, it's like a nigga.
(24:26):
He opened the elevator door.
I mean, he opened the door to the hotel cause like it's like the revolving door.
And then it's like a door that you open, right?
So I opened and he like, it's like a big ass.
And he like, like, bro, you good?
I'm like, yeah, what you mean?
I'm like, why you ask me that?
And he was like, aw, it ain't nothing.
So this shit like a movie.
So the other door open, the same thing that just asked me am I good?
(24:46):
He like, hey, y'all, he here.
What?
Yes, I'm like, what the fuck do you hear me?
And then I just hear like, like niggas is running.
So like, I got on my drench and everything.
So like, I'm like, hell no, I'm like this.
I'm trying to like, like, took my shit.
And it's niggas like swinging at me.
So I'm just like, fuck it.
Like I have my back and I just start swinging back.
(25:08):
How many, how many you think, how many you think it is?
We end up seeing like the footage and shit out there happen.
It was 21 niggas.
No way.
Yeah, it was 21.
Like that as 21.
So what they end up saying was, because we end up asking the hotel and shit,
like how y'all allow all these people in here to do the, I'm saying to do shit like that.
So what they were saying was, they had got two rooms and they was having like a party
(25:32):
or some shit in the room.
The hotel was like, oh, we ended up kicking them out.
They room because they was having a party in there.
So everybody ended up being in the lobby.
It was 20, it was 21 of them.
And you're by yourself.
Yeah, I was by myself.
And shit, they fucked me up.
I mean, I mean, against 20 people and everybody Tyson, you know, I could do it.
I remember I was getting stabbed and all type of shit.
(25:56):
Man, you survived.
Cause that one particular point, I didn't know if you were going to live to be 24.
Yeah.
Or 25.
I was so scared for you.
I'm like, man, this cat might not make it.
How long did it take you to recover?
I'm out of cover was quick.
The doctors at the emergency room, I went to, they did a good job at like stitching me up
and shit.
(26:17):
I see them shit online was like, I had 300 stitches where I got like only had like 14
stitches.
Like that was good at what they was doing.
But like, it was so fucked up.
The police, they were trying to get me to like, tell us something like we know something
like when they was taking me to the ambulance, cause the police got him back in the ambulance.
I'm like, bro, I don't know.
Like, I don't know these people.
Like if I was to see them right now, I wouldn't know.
(26:37):
And there was like, if you don't tell us something about to put you out the ambulance,
like put me on the ambulance.
I'm bleeding out my family.
They were telling you that?
Yes.
They was like, we're going to put you out the ambulance.
If you don't tell us something, I'm like, bro, I don't have nothing to tell y'all.
I don't know.
So shit.
That's what it was.
So someone had used a knife.
Yeah.
They were stabbing with like bottles.
Like they broke a bottle.
They were stabbing with like a knife.
(26:58):
They got cut in my back, like on my face.
How many times did you get stabbed?
Seven.
Seven times?
Damn.
But the niggas end up getting caught.
It's so crazy.
The niggas end up getting caught on a Rico case.
They was just like chipping out.
They ended up shooting an off-duty police officer.
So they was like, all right on the radar.
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I ain't even know him.
I ain't know nothing about it.
God, dogger.
So they took the chains while they want to hold the whole thing happening.
And then we happened from there.
They took the chain, nigga end up making a music video and waving my chains in the video.
And going on.
They got this shit in New York called a CC show.
It's like an Instagram live, but it's like some messy shit.
(27:39):
Like where it was like pop.
They would have like 10,000 viewers and shit.
Everybody in their fabulous meek meal.
Like everybody would be tuning in watching.
So the niggas, they did the shit the same night.
They end up going up there.
They had my ID.
Like they had my driver license, like my chains, all that shit.
And them niggas end up getting caught like that.
The police was in the line and they end up getting caught.
From social media.
Social media.
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Jumbies.
Got them caught like that.
The police was in the Instagram live and ended up catching them.
When that moment happened, did you have a combo with Jay Prince about it?
Yeah.
So I had flew back to Houston and he was like to come to the house.
We just had a deep ad conversation on like how to move.
Like you can't be moving like that.
(28:21):
You better than that.
Like you posted had these people with you.
Like just like protect the brand type shit.
Because at the end of the day you were by yourself, but you just wanted to go back to
room because you were tired.
Right.
I was going to sleep.
I didn't think nothing of it.
Because at the end of the day, you know, you still feel like you're a regular individual.
But at the end of the day, you know, that as I say, being a rapper nowadays is one of
the most dangerous.
For sure.
You got target on your back everywhere.
(28:42):
Like it might be somebody in here that don't like me and I don't even know them.
Right.
Right.
But like when you walk out of your office and rob this nigga down, I said, I don't even
know you bro.
Like I ain't never did nothing to you.
That's shit crazy.
Did that was that kind of like a wake up call to as far as like, let me kind of step back
a little bit and kind of read, you know, because I was moving.
I was moving crazy.
I used to be like in Miami and shit in the club by myself.
(29:03):
Like, like round people, I don't even know.
But after that, I'm like, hell no, I don't move like that no more.
That's crazy.
So how did you get to Las Vegas?
Because that's where you keep on talking about right now.
Yeah.
So I used to live in LA, but LA started getting crazy, like crazy, super crazy, like crying
like crazy in LA.
Like I wanted to still be on the West Coast and close to LA, but not in LA still.
(29:26):
So Vegas was the next close thing.
It's like a 30 minute flight to LA.
So and in Vegas is cheaper.
And I'm cool with like David Haney, Floyd Mayweather, Suns and shit.
So like Vegas ain't out of the ordinary.
Blockboy JB stand Vegas, Polo G got a house.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
So I still like in a loop out there where everybody and you like the boxing stuff too.
Right.
(29:47):
I'm in a boxing for sure.
Yes.
Who's your favorite fighter right now?
I ain't gonna lie like Devin.
Devin is tough.
What do you think about your Vonte and Shakur?
I like that fight too.
That's gonna be a big fight.
I say Devin because like I get to see more with Devin.
Like you know I'll be there when he training, when he's sparring.
Like I get to actually like be tuned into the boxing.
He's a very personable dude too.
Yeah.
(30:07):
Really, really humble.
I mean he's an undisputed champion though.
You got all the belts now.
I like Marlon Mell too.
Yeah.
Tough.
Are you still gaming?
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
I'm still being a gamer.
For all the people who don't know how to game like myself.
What's the first step in gaming?
I would say buy a PC.
Okay.
A lot of people think console gaming is like, I don't like console gaming.
(30:28):
Like when y'all see like the Grand Theft Auto with like the custom shit and all that,
that's on PC.
Like they might have like some Houston closet clothes or something in a Grand Theft Auto
server.
Okay.
Okay.
So since you're schooling me on this, I see this dude, I think his name is Kai.
He's supposed to be the biggest gamer.
Yeah.
He's the biggest streamer on Twitch.
You playing Twitch?
(30:49):
Yeah.
Exclusively on kick?
Yeah.
Exclusively on kick.
So they paying checks like that to play games?
Kick giving out NBA contract.
What?
They gave this dude a name.
Aiden, he got 150 million for two years.
Bruce got 80 million for two years.
Annoying.
I don't know if y'all know.
Annoying, he from Houston.
His name is Annoying TV.
(31:09):
He's a stream on kick.
He got 4 million for two years.
Like they gave him.
Hold on.
Let me just look at it.
They gave him out basketball.
What's the most popular game that you would say?
Game in Washington.
I'm gonna say Grand Theft Auto.
Okay, still?
Call of Duty.
So almost 10 years later, that's the game that you're still on.
Crazy as fuck.
Grand Theft Auto 5 been out since 2013.
(31:30):
They have not came out with another one and that game is still the number one most played
game right now.
Wow.
That is unbelievable.
I think that's how we ended right there, huh?
Yeah.
What do you have some new music that's dropping?
I do.
Well, I'm working on an album right now.
I'm gonna put it out probably beginning of next year.
Okay.
Yeah, I got some crazy shit on one.
Is it already done?
Nah, I haven't.
Still in the process.
You got some good features on there too?
(31:50):
Yeah, I'm working on features right now.
You haven't named for it yet?
No, not yet.
It's all new.
I just started working like last month.
Okay.
Two or to go with it too?
Yeah.
Gotta go.
You going back outside then?
Yeah, I gotta be outside.
Back outside, boys.
Got to be.
Yes.
I love it.
Well, listen, man, we really appreciate you taking the time to come vibe with us.
Guys, y'all better let us know in the comments what you think about this one.
(32:13):
Also to our felt was amazing.
Jay Mac jazz.
What do y'all think?
Of course.
A great.
God's a vibe man.
It was a vibe.
It's a vibe man.
Kili Kulture checking out.
Thanks again to almighty Jay.
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