Fresh out after serving four years in juvenile detention, rising Staten Island drill artist Debo (@Debo2Oppyy) pulls no punches in this candid conversation about his journey, controversies, and future plans. With seven months of freedom under his belt, he's wasting no time reclaiming his spot in the local music scene.
Debo dismisses swirling rumors about incidents during his incarceration with a casual shrug, calling them just "jail work" while revealing how he beat an attempted murder charge through what he describes as a case of mistaken identity. His matter-of-fact approach to discussing serious subjects reveals a young artist who's been through the system and emerged with clear-eyed determination to move forward.
The conversation shifts between musical aspirations and street realities as Debo discusses his upcoming tracks "Every Opp Shot" and "Response, Part 1," alongside his selective approach to features. "I'm not a fan," he states bluntly, establishing his confidence in his own abilities while setting boundaries around collaboration. When pressed about relationships with other Staten Island gang members, Debo maintains clear distinctions: "We're not the same thing. They are a different unit." His respect remains reserved for a select group of peers including Marsha SB, CP, and Mouladi, while dismissing older generation artists from the borough.
Whether you're familiar with Staten Island's evolving drill scene or simply appreciate raw, unfiltered artist perspectives, this conversation offers a window into the mindset of a young creator navigating the complex intersection of music, street life, and personal growth. Subscribe now to hear more authentic stories from artists on the rise.
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Episode Transcript
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Live from the gutter, my boydebo.
What's the word?
What's the word?
What's the?
Word talk to me, talk to me,all right, first introduce
yourself, let them know who theytalk to where they can follow
you, and everything hold on, letme fix this real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hold on, nah, you good, we suck, yeah.
Yeah, I'm steady now.
I'm steady now.
What's the word?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, talk to me, introduce yourself, let them
know where they can find you onsocial media.
You know what I'm saying how toget in contact with you, listen
to your music and whatnot.
Can find you on social media.
You know what I'm saying how toget in contact with you, listen
to your music and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Niggas can find me on YouTube IG Devo2Oppy, 2wise
YouTube, devobola.
We got a page called Two SideEntertainment.
They can catch me and the guysthere.
It's just a movie, alright,everything going out.
I'm just about to drop some newshit soon.
What?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
you working on.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Right now I'm just working on something.
Right now I'm trying to do alittle feat with some niggas
from all around and shit to getmy shit started back up again.
Good right, other than that,I'm just focused, locked in
trying to get this money in thestudio.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
All right.
I know there's been rumors andallegations that you got cut
while you was in jail.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I wanted to talk to you about that it's been a
little rumor, but that shitain't about nothing.
No asshole niggas did that andit's like no asshole niggas did
that.
It was not like shit happenedand it was repercussions
behindiggas did that.
It was not like shit happenedand it was repercussions behind
what they did and shit, but itwas like it was in the king,
though.
You know what I'm saying.
(01:51):
That's jail work, but I ain'tnever do bad.
You know what I'm saying.
That was no scratches, none toomajor, none too crazy.
They know my body, though.
That's nothing Real shit.
All that little mention shit.
They just keep mentioning that.
That's nothing.
I ain't really tripping overthat.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, so how long have you beenhome now?
(02:14):
Seven months now.
I've been home seven months.
I just did four.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And what you did four for Possession of fire on, and
you beat a charge too right.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You said what you hear me, yeah, what you said.
Say it again my fault.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Nah, I said you had beat a charge too right, Tell me
about that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, I had the AM, but it was not some, it was some
other shit like mistakenidentity type shit.
They thought I was somebodyelse, so I took it to Grand
Jilly, spanked it at Grand Jilly.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And that was a 10 murder, right yeah, but you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I don't like toping on that shit.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't like talking on thatshit.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, so you did four years.
What spots you was at.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I was straight juvenile.
I did all juvenile time butevery, every niggas know me.
I'm known in every borough,from older niggas to younger
niggas.
I'm very known.
I did four years in juvenilebut I was with a lot of niggas
that came from Wrights Island,came from up north, came down.
You know what I'm saying.
I was, I was really in tune andyou was.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You was banging in jail too, of course, the same
shit you banging now.
Yeah, all right, that's what Ilike to hear, all right.
So I know you like the youngface of the drill music when it
(04:00):
comes to you know Staten Islandrap and shit like that, and I'll
be listening to your songs.
You'll be smoking on a lot ofdeads.
You ever had to deal with anyconsequences or repercussions,
any backlash for that?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Nah, nah, nah.
That's just straightentertainment for the streets.
Man, I don't got.
That's just entertainment forthe streets.
There ain't no repercussions oranything behind it, because
it's just music.
I'm saying there ain't nothingbehind that, it's just straight
music behind that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's all it is, it's just music okay, I seen an
interaction, an interestinginteraction on Instagram the
other day between you and La andI wanted to ask you about that.
I see you said I thought it wasno beef, mr Ski, and he said
(04:56):
you're being delusional again.
What did he mean by that?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know what he meant by that, but I don't know
like everybody put on a facadewhen they went other people, so
I don't know what he.
I don't know what this newcharacter he unlocked about.
I don't know, but I don'treally type shit.
I don't know what he talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So do you be going back and forth with Any rappers
in Staten Island specifically?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, a few, but they're not relevant though.
They trying to Look they wasalready home.
Look, they was home.
They had enough time to gettheir shit together.
I'm home now.
So it's like Now they feel likethey got competition.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
now I'm saying yeah, facts, facts, that's all it is.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
They never argue, man Never back and forth, they just
know they got competition.
Now.
This is not the same.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Did you ever go at it with the OS niggas?
Did you ever go back and forthwith them?
Rap-wise.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Nah, I don't even know they rap.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, you know they got a.
They got a label.
I think it's like only thestrong survive or something like
that, like I'm not sure whatthat means.
But um, yeah, they got a label.
Bop bop dropped a song.
Bopito, uh, I seen yeah, bopbop ball.
He dropped a few songs I seenon YouTube and then you have I
seen Moolah.
(06:37):
I think you know KG is a partof that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't really be listening.
I don't listen to niggas fromoutside.
Niggas is garbage, so unlessit's my niggas I don't listen to
it.
But they gotta to go tune intothat new CP though.
That new CP, the menace, that'sthat pain.
They got to go tune into that.
That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What's the name of the song you got with him?
Catch Us a Basket.
Yeah, Catch Us a Basket.
I just heard that that's thesong I should.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
But me and CP got some more shit coming.
We just about to drop.
We about to drop some shit.
We about to shoot some shitnext week.
Me and CP got some shit whaty'all about?
To shoot a video to so I'mabout to repost it on my
Instagram response.
Part one it's me, cp and Bolaniall Staten Island artists.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, what's your relationship with Tico?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
there's no relationship like I don't really
hit your mic with the bass,like that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I don't know, taff, that I don't know Tef either.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know him like that.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, you know, from the outside, looking in, it
looks like y'all are all a partof you know the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And what is that, matt?
It's different levels.
It is different things.
We're not the same thing.
They are different.
They are a different unit.
(08:27):
You know what I'm saying.
I don't really know too muchabout them because I don't
really talk to them like that.
They're a different unit.
You know what I'm saying.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't really know too muchabout them because I don't
really talk to them like thatyeah.
Yeah, I don't interact withthem like that Type of shit.
You know how that shit gothough.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, I already know.
So the four years you did injail.
Well, you said it was all injuvenile.
Did you have a smooth bid orwas you getting in trouble?
Was you getting tickets?
How was your bid?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
My bid was sweet.
It was sweet.
I had a few altercations.
I had a few altercations.
I had some broken things.
I had few altercations withsome SIDs.
I done had a few altercationswith some Brooklyn things.
I had some altercations withalmost every borough.
That's jail work, though that'snot town work.
I don't really care about that.
That's what you're supposed todo.
(09:24):
Everything I was doing I wassupposed to be doing Just
standing up while O2, that's allit is are you on post release
supervision?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
yeah, yeah, yeah how much time do you have?
A little minute, how much?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
time do you have for your papers?
A little minute, a littleminute.
I'm on there for a littleminute.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, so what can we look forward to from 2OP this
summer?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
A lot of music videos , a lot of music videos and a
lot of just a lot of Boss Dawnshit, young Dawn shit.
That's all there is.
I don't see I'm supposed to be.
I'm dropping.
I'm supposed to be shooting avid two vids actually next week.
I'm supposed to be trying to dotwo vids next week, or shit.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Let me see how that go, though are you open to to
features or any artists or howdoes that work with you?
Like how do people get afeature from 2oppy?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
you, you get a feature, you get.
I ain't gonna lie, I'm doingfeatures with any.
I ain't gonna say let me notsay anybody cause man I don't
like.
I ain't gonna say let me notsay anybody because me I don't
like, I ain't no fan, yo, I'mnice.
I don't need a feature to proveI'm nice, I go.
You know what I'm saying.
But it's like I'm doingfeatures with niggas, but it's
like this shit whack, I'msending it back respectfully, or
(11:03):
if I don't like it.
I'm sending it back.
I'll tell you to do it again ifyou can't get it right.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That's when you what artists in Staten Island do you
fuck with, like do you listen to, would you say you do support,
you are a fan of?
I want my brothers to supportall right, we had some technical
(11:33):
difficulties, but we back tooppie.
Um, yeah, I was asking you, uh,um, who are you a fan of?
Music wise in staten island?
Like whose music do you fuck,with the bros you going in and
out bro, you can hear me now.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I said the bros .
Really, to be honest, like it'sa few niggas, it's a few, it's
a few rappers like Marsha SB,marsha CP, marsha Mouladi well,
it's a lot of, it's a lot ofrappers.
Eg House it's a lot of rappers.
Eg House it's a lot of rappersI I can say I'm a fan of, to be
(12:15):
honest, like my brothers, like Idon't really and I fuck with
and I fuck with the west C-Dothe got good music.
Lil Rain yeah, facts, I don'treally I ain't a fan of my music
.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You don't fuck with like Tyrone Briggs, who that you
don't know who, tyrone?
What about C-Black?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's a different type of generation of music.
That shit is bullshit.
Something making me talk ofbullshit?
Well, I ain't gonna say okay,oh, that nigga be trying to
bullshit stuff.
I fuck with niggas music, butsometimes when you talk that
bullshit I can't listen to ityeah, I feel you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I feel you.
You all coming from a differentgeneration, for sure, but but I
would say, like you know, cBlack and Tyrone Briggs those
probably my top two artists inthe city right now.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Everybody got their own opinion.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, everybody, you know what I'm saying.
To each his own.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, everybody got you know what I'm saying.
To each his own.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, everybody.
So outside of music, you'vebeen home seven months.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
What else you got going on?
I ain't going to lie, I'm justout here chilling and fucking
niggas bitches and getting thisbuddy shit.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I like to do.
Yeah, when you called me thismorning, you was just leaving
from a special mission, right?
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's different, it's a different lifestyle on this
side.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, so the next song that you got coming out,
what you said is the name of it.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
The next song that's coming out is Every I've Shot.
It's called Every I've Shot byB-Doli, but then the next video
is going to be with B and theLone Bros.
It's called Response, part 1.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, any mixtapes or albums dropping this summer?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Nah, not yet, not yet , not yet.
I'm drop a little some moresingles and then work on
something like that a projectokay, alright, well, it was a
great interview with you.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You know, I'm looking forward to hearing, you know,
more of your music and seeingmore of your visuals and what
you put out there.
I'm about to chop this up andI'm I'm gonna to chop this up
and I'm going to put it out forthe 50th episode of LFTG Radio.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Alright, say that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I appreciate you being a guest.
Say that I'm honored to come uphere.
Yeah, sure, alright, man,alright, see you soon.
Alright, say that.
Alright, buddy, alright man.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Alright, see you later.
Alright, buddy.
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