December 13, 2024 • 26 mins
What if staying true to yourself in the hip-hop industry could make all the difference? In our latest episode, we sit down with Faraji Jacobs, also known as Raji, to uncover his inspiring journey from a nine-year-old aspiring rapper to a pivotal figure in B-More's DIY music scene. Learn how a chance encounter with Buffalo and joining Black Sheep Refugee provided the community and collaboration that catapulted his artistic growth. Together, we explore the pressures artists face in maintaining authenticity amidst a saturated industry, and the crucial role of self-acceptance in personal evolution.
Our conversation doesn't shy away from the complexities of balancing creativity with commercial success. We dissect the dynamics between independent artists and major labels, weighing the merits and challenges of each path. Faraji shares his insights on maintaining creative control, emphasizing the power of unique talent in an industry often driven by trends. This episode serves as both a reality check and motivation, reminding listeners that while the music world is demanding, it's filled with opportunities for those willing to put in the work.
To lighten the mood, we wrap up with a spirited rapid-fire Q&A session, capturing the essence of our guest's personality through fun and candid responses. From choosing between mountain vistas and beach getaways to revealing his love for Star Wars and Prince, Faraji shares his lighter side, proving that humor and genuine connections are as important as artistic integrity. Join us for this engaging episode, where respect for diverse perspectives and staying true to oneself take center stage!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
No, I'm not, and I ain't one for no answers.
Yeah, it's like she's always ina bind, sheesh.
Somehow he slipped and hitrewind.
What'd he say?
Rewind, rewind, rewind, zoom,zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yo no ice cream.
Love you dog.
Hey, hey yo.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What's up, baby I?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
got my man.
Yeah, girl, tell him who youwant.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hey man, what can I say?
I go by Faraji Jacobs, somecall me Raji, some call me the
black sheep, goat, whatever.
I got many different names, butit's only one face and one man,
one life and one God.
We here, baby, we're AWOL.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The man, yo yo, I'm so grateful to have you here and
for us to be able to connect ona level that you know involves
some.
Some thought you know we hadthat we had to talk about this a
little bit.
Before you know, we sat in theseat and I think, yeah, you know
, it's all about trying to getsome sort of message across or,
(01:21):
you know, some sort of idea outto the world.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Absolutely Otherwise.
What are we talking about,right?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
you know we, we got to be out here.
You know what?
I mean experimenting and tryingwith things and dude, tell me
you know, tell me a little bitabout your, your history as an
artist itself and like, maybelike, were you ever part of,
like, any groups or anything?
Like that or did you?
You know were you a singer.
So you know, yes, yeah, yeah,no, no dig, that's cool, that's
cool.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So I started out, um, my cousin was a rapper.
He taught me how to rap.
He taught me how to count bars.
When I was nine he wrote myfirst couple of verses for me
and I, like rehearse, rappedthem and then I started writing
my own verses.
From there, okay, and throughthe years, it just, you know,
progressed.
I had little acquaintances withcertain people, but a pivotal
moment was probably when I metmy homie buffalo, who's like a
(02:07):
pioneer in the diy music scenein baltimore, like just through
spots and places that we built afoundation through, and he
asked me if I wanted to be apart of black sheep refugee and
I told him, nigga, I've been ablack sheep all my life, so this
is a no-brainer hell yeah, I,hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I feel that.
I feel that Let me ask you,like when that happened, like yo
, how did that make you feel?
To, like you know, kind of likebe a part of something that you
knew like was greater thanyourself.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It felt like I found my squad.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It felt like I found my team.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yes, because before that I was going hard as fuck
myself, like by myself and youknow what they say, cliche or
not, like nobody can do thewhole job by themselves, or
whatever the phrase is.
Because I was working hard,like through and through sending
emails, doing shows, but itwasn't quite connecting, because
I wasn't a part of somethingthat was a growing network or
like a family or an energytransfer, where something was
(02:59):
making sense.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was simply just rapping.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So when I linked with him and he already had a little
bit of motion and he alreadyhad a natural confidence and he
knew how to bring peopletogether and grow things, yeah,
it took me to the next levelbecause I already had a certain
skill and a certain passion.
Okay, so I just needed to bealigned with something that was
already confident and building.
Yeah, for sure, because I wasalready trying to do it, but you
know you can't do it byyourself.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So right and I think right.
There's times where, like we'reexperimenting and we're trying
with different things, you knowyou're making that studio in the
closet.
You know, some of the mostawesome moments of my life
occurred in those crappy the rawshit, right, you know, I mean
like those crappy little studios, like those are where what I
mean, like those crappy, it'sthe rawest ones little studios
(03:45):
always those are where, like youand the homies from like and
here's the crazy thing like,then there's like kids out there
, like Peep, you know, and wholike can take a sound and like,
really, peace be upon that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Peace be upon him, oh man.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But yeah, you know it , it takes a certain type of
person to be able to, I guess,really kind of bear their soul
and like put it, put it outthere and like trust that it's
going to be accepted, right Goshman tell me about like, maybe
like acceptance, like selfacceptance, you know, and like
things that you are, you know,having to go through, maybe like
(04:29):
each day or like you know uh, Idon't know throughout a period
of time where you've really hadto be either accepting of like
yourself or like the situationaround you oh man, where do I
start?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
uh, I I've been.
I've been like learning andgrowing through that my whole
life.
So I went through phases as akid, growing up into a young man
, being overly accepting ofthings I probably shouldn't
accept, just to be a peoplepleaser.
Then I had to rearrange that tounderstanding that I need to be
pleased with what I'm a part ofand it needs to be pleasing in
(05:01):
general.
I can't just be trying toplease something and just be so
accepting and it needs to bepleasing in general.
I can't just be trying toplease something and just be so
accepting.
So you got to be careful whenyou're accepting, because you
got to make sure you'reaccepting the right shit yeah,
if that makes sense.
Dude, you can't be pleased ifwe're respecting perspectives.
Yeah, if you heard me say youheard me, yeah, I smelt you all
right, cool, but yeah, you knowstuff like that.
(05:22):
But more into me, growing intoa man, is also learning to just
be overall understanding which,even if I don't want to fully
accept everything aboutsomething, I know how to let
things be and to just naturallyaccept, even if I don't agree
with every little part of it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Let me ask you this Because it all comes together.
As far as the landscape ofmusic, or like, let's like,
let's get a little bit closer,but like hip-hop, you know, like
yeah, how do you?
You know, what are you seeingand what are you analyzing right
now out of that and and and howis it helping you?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
be creative?
Are you saying, like, what am Ianalyzing about?
Like hip hop overall, just?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
basically like the state of hip hop itself and
where you feel it is with likecurrent social media and things
like that.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So for the past couple of years, maybe like a
little bit before COVID, upuntil now, I feel like we're in
like a weird double edged swordplace where it's like DJ Drama
used to say we can go up or wecan go down, so because it's a
lot of oversaturation.
But we're also in a place where, when the ground is pretty like
flat and plain, there's spacefor new shit to grow.
(06:37):
So I feel like there's a lot ofspace for some new great things
to happen, because I feel like,through time, in any aspect of
life, once something has beenhappening, it happened and it
runs the course.
There has to be oh, you're mybet, they it has to be something
coming next.
It has to be something newcoming next.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So I feel, like.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I feel like we in a great place right now.
Other than a lot ofoversaturation, but I think
there's a lot of space forcreativity.
And what a lot ofoversaturation, but I think
there's a lot of space forcreativity.
And what is saturation to you?
Saturation is most of thetastemakers being don't hold the
mic oh, don't hold it yeah Idon't think.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think it's going to react to the sound that, like
you know like a little okay,that asmr that finger touch.
I see what you're trying to do,but you know what?
Okay, I got you, I got you, I'mused to rapping and holding the
mic on stage.
No, no, no, you're good.
I want us to be able to hearyou as clear as possible
absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Wait what?
Rewind me back?
What was the last question?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
okay, the last question was about like
self-acceptance after thatthough after that we got to
after that oh, you said, I gotit the saturation, saturation,
what is saturation?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Saturation, to me, is the same thing being overplayed
, overused, most artistsseemingly not being willing to
take new chances and go withwhat's safe and what's already
working.
But little do they know.
The people who pioneered thatactually took a chance, so it
might not even work for them thesame way because it's already
(08:06):
been done and it's oversaturated.
I think we should get back to aspace where everybody is taking
risk on being authentic and notjust trying to do what works,
because when we got too muchoversaturation, everything
sounds the same, no one'sfeeling so inspired and we could
have people saying shit likehip-hop on the decline, when
there's a lot of creative asspeople out here who could feel
like shit.
(08:27):
Yeah you ain't heard this newshit I'm working on like right,
I'm about to drop this snippet.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You ain't heard this and then that makes you think
about all the other people whoare out there, you know, doing
the same thing.
Yeah, yeah, so we got to becareful.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The people who are already relevant.
I think they should be leadingthe way by showing they're not
afraid to take risk and still becreative, and not just trying
to keep feeding us the same, thesame pizza every night, every
right that's happens on rightthat microwave, yeah, yeah yeah,
different crust, right, youknow, but that's what I think
oversaturation is.
But other than that, I thinkhip-hop is in a great state
(09:02):
because, through artists likeDrake, kanye West, kid Cudi, bob
, lil Wayne, young Thug, itopened up an opportunity for all
of us to be creative in a newway.
So I think everyone should takeadvantage of the foundation
that that set up to justspringboard off and just keep
being creative, keep beingauthentic, keep pushing the
(09:24):
envelope.
Let me ask you this I don'twant to look or sound like
nobody, but I'm always inspired.
I ain't too cool to be, inspired, but we all individuals, baby I
hear that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I hear that Listen.
So let's talk about.
It's kind of wild when I'mscrolling and I'm seeing people
like all different kinds ofartists and like I have like
some of the local friends youknow that are are making a wave,
and then you have some likeindependent artists that are
(09:56):
like they're really good,they've got teams for social
media.
You know like you can tell theythey they got some of their
stuff really together.
You know, um, as opposed tolike the major you know label
route, you know and and thethings that are included with
that you know what I mean.
So, like, where do you sit?
Like you know it, you know inthe, the landscape of that.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So I try to be as as uh, as well-rounded and as
optimistic as possible andseeing pros and cons.
So I feel like there's a lot ofraw, authentic, great reasons
why people could and shouldpossibly stay DIY, doing it
yourself and independent,because nothing can really
(10:41):
hinder your creativity, nothingcan really hinder your vision.
You have complete creativecontrol.
I think sometimes not in everysituation leverage.
If you don't have enoughleverage with a label and then
you might need them a littlemore than they need you, that
might hinder your creativity andthey might tell you do this
style, focus on this more,because this is what'll sell how
(11:04):
can, like a billion dollarindustry need anything from me?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
because we have the thing that they don't have they
have the money.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They have the money, they have the machine, they have
the means, they have theresources.
We have god-given raw musicaltalent, talent.
We have the one thing theydon't have and it will.
They'll never be able to takethat from us.
They can't take it and put it inthe jar and put it on the shelf
they gotta wait for artists tocome along and discover it, and
we just gotta hope that thatartist is, you know, savvy and
(11:36):
uses the power of discernment tomake the most of a situation
man I love, because that's whatI would like to do.
That, yeah, that's how I wantany artist to do that, because
we all the same, for sure, weall artists it feel, it feel.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You know, I feel connected in ways sometimes
where I'm just like I'm kind oflike amazed by you know what I
mean.
Like I sit back and I'm like,I'm like man, I'm like all the
things that like had to happen,like before, like this thing,
this, this like, and we reallyjust had to show, we just had to
show up, set a few things up.
You know what I mean.
We got these like resourcesthat were like, yeah, these
(12:12):
little tools that were used, andI kind of, like, you know, put
things together and it's wilddude.
I'm, I'm so grateful that wecan do this.
You know me too.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But not to take away from our grind, because I know
you personally, my brother, yougrind hard.
Just because we got things inplace that can seemingly make it
an easier start doesn't mean wedon't put in our work Because
we put our heart into this shit,we put our time into this shit,
we put time away from ourfamily trying to juggle working
and shit like that.
So we definitely put a lot intothis shit, no matter how
(12:43):
seemingly easy it is.
Because one could argue and Idon't mean to cut you off- no,
not at all one could argue thatonce upon a time back in the day
before, there was all of thistechnology and resources and you
can just use your phone youcould just get discovered by
someone and they could justchange your whole life, like
Whitney Houston getting found insome random club by Barry Gordy
(13:03):
or Clive Davis or whoever.
So there's pros and cons to thepast and the future and the
present.
We should just all just embraceit all for what it is and keep
moving, for sure, yeah.
You know earlier we were talkingabout, you know kind of like
culture itself and you know likewhat creates culture and what
(13:27):
is the embodiment of a culturethe embodiment of a culture, I
would say, is the people thatare a part of it, the people
that represent it, the peoplewho who say what's okay, what's
not okay, the people who makethe music, the people who enjoy
the music, the people who are apart of the history, of building
(13:50):
the foundation of whatever thatculture is, whether it's black
culture, music culture, blackmusic, culture together or
whatever.
At the end of the day, it's allculture.
So you know, I think those arejust the important things the
people who built it, the peoplewho support it, the people who
keep the history alive, thepeople who tell the stories of
it, the people who wear theclothes.
The people who keep the historyalive, the people who tell the
(14:13):
stories of it, the people whowear the clothes, the people who
promote the music and make themusic.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's all the things that make up culture.
As far as what we're talkingabout, what role do you see
yourself providing for theculture that you are behind?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The role I play is loving the culture, embracing
the culture, being a part of itthrough being a fan of it and
being grown up through it, andnow getting to a point where I
can make music that representsit, I can wear clothes that
represent it, I can speak myperspective and it represents
(14:48):
the culture.
You know what I mean I'mfeeling, so that's how I feel.
Like we all can play that role,but me particularly.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, no, that's dope dude I you know it's really
cool because when I have a gueston here I like to try, and you
know we we want to be surfacelevel for and you know we want
to be surface level for sometime.
But then there's, like you know, we want to dig man, we want to
get deep every now and then youknow, and I want you to kind of
really like tell me an originstory from you know, hearing and
(15:25):
knowing you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I know like you fill many different boxes for sure
and um I want you to kind of,you know, tell me you know, like
, maybe like an experience, ormaybe a relationship, or, or, or
you know a, a story that reallymaybe molded you, you know, and
(15:46):
like, really like, turned youinto the, the, the artist and
the person that you are today soI think it would have to be me
doing a lot of uh grinding andthings on my own and then me
linking up with a major label,thinking that it was about to
change my life because of theresources and the millions of
(16:07):
dollars that they had and thethings that they could do for me
, but then going through thatsituation situation and
realizing that if all the piecesaren't connected, even if
there's money and resourcesinvolved, it doesn't mean this
is going to be the time where Iblow up.
And literally months after that,in the process of that, like I
told you earlier, I linked upwith my homie, buffalo, who was
(16:29):
doing it himself, and in a yearafter that we got more done than
I got done with the label.
So it's all timing andappreciating the perspective of
where you're at and justappreciating, keeping your head
down and keeping going, becauseI thought, because the label was
here, that it was my time.
But once that flopped for asecond, I felt like damn, I
(16:51):
guess this might not be it forme.
Yeah, then I linked up with myhomie, who we were doing it out
the mud and I got more done thanwhat I thought a label could do
for me.
So it's not about.
It's not about what you thinkis gonna work.
It's about simply what worksand when it works.
As long as you stay in the game, something's going to work damn
(17:11):
, I, I love the, the point thatyou're making with that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Seriously, you know, um sure I want you to give me,
you know, give me some, somefinal thoughts that you want to
leave.
You know, the, the viewers withum, maybe like uh, I don't know
, maybe like something likecrazy, like interesting about
yourself or like I don't knowjust like something that you
want to leave everybody withbefore we do.
You know the one or twosegments at the end here.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You know what I like this call.
You know I want to be funnyguys.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I've been making music my whole life, but I want
to be funny.
Well, ok, I want to be funny.
Oh, been making music my wholelife, but I want to be funny.
I want to be funny, oh waitwho's this yo?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
this is Faraji the young Faraji.
Wait, wait, wait yo.
This is alright.
Listen, I got somebody who'sreally got something?
They gotta tell you and they'vebeen wanting to tell you this
for a while.
Okay, so, dude, he Get your Allright, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Love you.
Listen, bro.
I know you love being on SpaceMountain, but stop daydreaming
so much.
There's some more life.
There's some more life.
You got to see you can'tdaydream the whole time Some
more life.
You got to see you can'tdaydream the whole time and
don't stay in your head thewhole time.
Buddy, you got to get in thegame.
You got to do some things.
Don't think about what youshould do.
(18:38):
Just try to start and don't.
He's saying yeah, yeah, yeah,and I feel like he's kind of
spacing out and not hearing meright now, but I will say this
bro, I know you got a large-assapple head on your skinny body,
but don't worry, one day thatbody is going to fill out and
you're going to be adecent-looking guy.
See you in the future.
(18:58):
Baby, we got this.
We end up being everything wethought we was.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hey, yo, you got this baby boy.
Love you both.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Y'all understand this , that's wild, ain't it awol, my
dog man dude, you know what?
Okay, this is fun.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So we're doing rapid, we're doing yes, we are doing a
rapid fire segment here, okayit's a off the cuff.
Okay, it's sorry I had to pullthis one on you.
You.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know what I mean.
No, let's do it, I'm all aboutit.
This is what it's about, baby.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, you ready.
Okay, here we Put 100 secondson the clock.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Mountains or the beach Beach.
Oh, coffee or tea, tea, easily,easily, teasily.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Star easily, easily star wars or star trek, uh, star
wars, I don't know shit aboutstar trek.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, I know favorite favorite friends cast member
favorite friends cast member.
Yeah, phoebe, I'm gonna goright, I got to, got to.
Are you ready?
Doritos or pringles?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Pringles.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, you ready, stack them.
Gotta stack them up.
All right, spinners orSpreewells.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Spreewells baby.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Come on now.
Gotta get them.
Gotta get them.
Okay, here we go, here we go.
Okay, I'm loving it, yo, if youcould spend 24 hours with any
celebrity or musician popularmusician who would it be?
Who would it be?
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yep, would it be.
Who would it be?
Yep, yep, damn, get him, gethim, let's see, let's see, let's
see anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yep, come on 24 hours .
Dude say it, let's hear itrapid fire, rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, prince oh, prince, oh,
all right.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
All right, taking that one to heart, all right.
What's one thing you've alwayswanted to do, but haven't yet?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Learn how to swim properly.
Okay, all right well.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I had to do it and tread water.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay, Just so we're clear.
I'm a grown-ass man.
I'm glad you realize that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, if you could pick any season all year round.
What would it be?
Summer, winter, spring or fall?
I'm going gonna go tail in thesummer.
Oh, tail, a tail in the summer,for sure.
I like that.
I like that response.
Okay, uh, east coast or westcoast?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
east coast baby.
Oh, I don't know about the westcoast all day repping home.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, favorite subject in school favorite
subject in school?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
yep, english.
Oh, my worst, my worst baby.
You know, I hear that.
I hear that for sure okay, youready um name two two pokemon,
two pokemon charizard zap uhfuck say it go, come on, uh,
blast toys, I'm gonna go okay,nice, nice, nice, I went easy I
(21:43):
couldn't conjure my favorites.
All right, best, duo Best duo,I'm going to say me and my
brother Buffalo Nice.
I like that Easy money Pluggedup.
All right, what's?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
my spirit animal.
What's your spirit?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
animal.
Yeah, something very fast andvery active Got him.
Like a giant squirrel.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That was kind of disrespectful in a way, but I'm
not going to.
No, I'm totally.
You're very active, bro, areyou All right?
I'm totally messing with you.
All right?
You ready?
What's the one thing you can'tlive without the one thing I
can't live without.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, come on.
Laughter, big laughter, oh lovethat excellent that's like the
main ingredient of my shit okay,favorite color purple, got him.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, new testament or old testament?
Old testament straight up, thatwas a test.
Okay, okay, okay, planes trainsor automobiles.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's crazy.
I'm going trains, baby.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Oh damn.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Real quick.
I used to ride trains by myselfback and forth from Baltimore
to New York to visit my dad.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Amtrak baby Trains all day Trains, all day, all day
.
Thomas the Train all that youready?
Okay, if all that you ready.
Okay, if, thomas, if you hadthomas to train with you right
here, right now, and and youwere to let him listen to one
song, what would it be?
And he had to listen to it forthe rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm gonna go system prescriptions.
I don't know why.
That's right.
Oh, I felt it.
I felt it.
Yeah, nice, another shamelessplug you got to.
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Speaker 2 (23:31):
System Prescriptions by Faraji here.
Okay, you ready.
Most unique instrument, mostunique instrument.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm gonna go steel pan oh, 25 Steel pan on the
board.
I'm gonna go with steel panDing.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Last movie.
You saw Last movie.
You saw Last movie.
I saw Yep Bad Boys 3.
Oh, there we go, which isbetter than people might have
thought.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Bad Boys 3.
All right, I love that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Or the last Bad Boys.
Bad Boys Legends Never Die.
Whichever one was, the last onethat came out.
Yeah, dude, I'm not getting thenumbers right, but the last
newest one as duos go, you know,as far as duo to mike, lowry
and marcus baby, you don't getno better than that.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
All right, you ready.
Uh, favorite kind of flower,favorite kind of flower.
Tell them what your favoritekind of flower cannabis nah oh
no, no, perfect, all right.
Daytime or nighttime, nighttime, nighttime, nice, all right,
you ready.
If you could have onesuperpower, what would it be.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well, I'm going to go anime, but it's kind of like a
superpower.
I'm going to go Shadow CloneJutsu Because it's like if I
could make 29 other versions ofmyself, I could get so much done
.
You know what I'm saying?
My baby mama could be pleased.
I could be in the studio, Icould be kicking the soccer ball
(24:52):
with my son, I could be holdingmy other infant son, I could be
in the kitchen cooking, I couldbe on stage.
I could be doing everything.
So many different, so many.
It's 30 of me.
I'm gonna go shadow conejiu-jitsu oh, dude, I love that.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Let me ask you this one.
It's a little more deeper, youdon't have to rapid fire this,
but how would you definepersonal success?
Personal success, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Waking up every day and being pleased with yourself,
not being too hard on yourself,treating yourself just as well
as you think you should treatanother individual.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Man Personal success.
That hit home for sure bro Comehere.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, love you, dog.
You no shallow answers there,baby love you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I got one last one for you before we depart.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Okay, coconut or pineapple coconut, oh all right,
no pineapple here you wentstraight for it easy.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
No thought, all right , put that on the board for
coconut bang bang bang, rapid,fire rapid.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Thank y'all, rabbit fire Raji.
Right rabbit, fire Raji in thehouse.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Thank you so much for being here, dog, my dog.
I love you.
Man, Notice what we do.
Baby I love everything aboutyou and the artist that you're
becoming and how you're able tonavigate the waters of life
itself.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Absolutely and still.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
As creative as possible and even down to just
small things like the way youdress and the way you think.
I mean, that's not a smallthing, that's a large thing.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
But all the things that are involved with you
becoming the human that I knowand that we know you're meant to
be, so I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Okay, I just got one thing to say, bro, I'm just out
here respecting perspectives.
Yo hey, one thing to say, bro,I'm just out here respecting
perspectives.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yo hey, I'm just out here respecting perspective.
How do we end this yo on thecount of three?
We tell these mofos to respectour perspective.
All right, one, two, three yorespect our motherfucking
perspective, bang you.
No, I'm not, and I ain't one for no answers.
Yeah, it's like she's always ina bind, sheesh.
Somehow he slipped and hitrewind.
What'd he say?
Rewind, rewind, rewind, zoom,zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yo no ice cream.
Love you dog.
Hey, hey yo.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
What's up, baby I?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
got my man.
Yeah, girl, tell him who youwant.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hey man, what can I say?
I go by Faraji Jacobs, somecall me Raji, some call me the
black sheep, goat, whatever.
I got many different names, butit's only one face and one man,
one life and one God.
We here, baby, we're AWOL.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The man, yo yo, I'm so grateful to have you here and
for us to be able to connect ona level that you know involves
some.
Some thought you know we hadthat we had to talk about this a
little bit.
Before you know, we sat in theseat and I think, yeah, you know
, it's all about trying to getsome sort of message across or,
(01:21):
you know, some sort of idea outto the world.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Absolutely Otherwise.
What are we talking about,right?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
you know we, we got to be out here.
You know what?
I mean experimenting and tryingwith things and dude, tell me
you know, tell me a little bitabout your, your history as an
artist itself and like, maybelike, were you ever part of,
like, any groups or anything?
Like that or did you?
You know were you a singer.
So you know, yes, yeah, yeah,no, no dig, that's cool, that's
cool.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So I started out, um, my cousin was a rapper.
He taught me how to rap.
He taught me how to count bars.
When I was nine he wrote myfirst couple of verses for me
and I, like rehearse, rappedthem and then I started writing
my own verses.
From there, okay, and throughthe years, it just, you know,
progressed.
I had little acquaintances withcertain people, but a pivotal
moment was probably when I metmy homie buffalo, who's like a
(02:07):
pioneer in the diy music scenein baltimore, like just through
spots and places that we built afoundation through, and he
asked me if I wanted to be apart of black sheep refugee and
I told him, nigga, I've been ablack sheep all my life, so this
is a no-brainer hell yeah, I,hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I feel that.
I feel that Let me ask you,like when that happened, like yo
, how did that make you feel?
To, like you know, kind of likebe a part of something that you
knew like was greater thanyourself.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It felt like I found my squad.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It felt like I found my team.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yes, because before that I was going hard as fuck
myself, like by myself and youknow what they say, cliche or
not, like nobody can do thewhole job by themselves, or
whatever the phrase is.
Because I was working hard,like through and through sending
emails, doing shows, but itwasn't quite connecting, because
I wasn't a part of somethingthat was a growing network or
like a family or an energytransfer, where something was
(02:59):
making sense.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was simply just rapping.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So when I linked with him and he already had a little
bit of motion and he alreadyhad a natural confidence and he
knew how to bring peopletogether and grow things, yeah,
it took me to the next levelbecause I already had a certain
skill and a certain passion.
Okay, so I just needed to bealigned with something that was
already confident and building.
Yeah, for sure, because I wasalready trying to do it, but you
know you can't do it byyourself.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So right and I think right.
There's times where, like we'reexperimenting and we're trying
with different things, you knowyou're making that studio in the
closet.
You know, some of the mostawesome moments of my life
occurred in those crappy the rawshit, right, you know, I mean
like those crappy little studios, like those are where what I
mean, like those crappy, it'sthe rawest ones little studios
(03:45):
always those are where, like youand the homies from like and
here's the crazy thing like,then there's like kids out there
, like Peep, you know, and wholike can take a sound and like,
really, peace be upon that guy.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Peace be upon him, oh man.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But yeah, you know it , it takes a certain type of
person to be able to, I guess,really kind of bear their soul
and like put it, put it outthere and like trust that it's
going to be accepted, right Goshman tell me about like, maybe
like acceptance, like selfacceptance, you know, and like
things that you are, you know,having to go through, maybe like
(04:29):
each day or like you know uh, Idon't know throughout a period
of time where you've really hadto be either accepting of like
yourself or like the situationaround you oh man, where do I
start?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
uh, I I've been.
I've been like learning andgrowing through that my whole
life.
So I went through phases as akid, growing up into a young man
, being overly accepting ofthings I probably shouldn't
accept, just to be a peoplepleaser.
Then I had to rearrange that tounderstanding that I need to be
pleased with what I'm a part ofand it needs to be pleasing in
(05:01):
general.
I can't just be trying toplease something and just be so
accepting and it needs to bepleasing in general.
I can't just be trying toplease something and just be so
accepting.
So you got to be careful whenyou're accepting, because you
got to make sure you'reaccepting the right shit yeah,
if that makes sense.
Dude, you can't be pleased ifwe're respecting perspectives.
Yeah, if you heard me say youheard me, yeah, I smelt you all
right, cool, but yeah, you knowstuff like that.
(05:22):
But more into me, growing intoa man, is also learning to just
be overall understanding which,even if I don't want to fully
accept everything aboutsomething, I know how to let
things be and to just naturallyaccept, even if I don't agree
with every little part of it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Let me ask you this Because it all comes together.
As far as the landscape ofmusic, or like, let's like,
let's get a little bit closer,but like hip-hop, you know, like
yeah, how do you?
You know, what are you seeingand what are you analyzing right
now out of that and and and howis it helping you?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
be creative?
Are you saying, like, what am Ianalyzing about?
Like hip hop overall, just?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
basically like the state of hip hop itself and
where you feel it is with likecurrent social media and things
like that.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So for the past couple of years, maybe like a
little bit before COVID, upuntil now, I feel like we're in
like a weird double edged swordplace where it's like DJ Drama
used to say we can go up or wecan go down, so because it's a
lot of oversaturation.
But we're also in a place where, when the ground is pretty like
flat and plain, there's spacefor new shit to grow.
(06:37):
So I feel like there's a lot ofspace for some new great things
to happen, because I feel like,through time, in any aspect of
life, once something has beenhappening, it happened and it
runs the course.
There has to be oh, you're mybet, they it has to be something
coming next.
It has to be something newcoming next.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So I feel, like.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I feel like we in a great place right now.
Other than a lot ofoversaturation, but I think
there's a lot of space forcreativity.
And what a lot ofoversaturation, but I think
there's a lot of space forcreativity.
And what is saturation to you?
Saturation is most of thetastemakers being don't hold the
mic oh, don't hold it yeah Idon't think.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think it's going to react to the sound that, like
you know like a little okay,that asmr that finger touch.
I see what you're trying to do,but you know what?
Okay, I got you, I got you, I'mused to rapping and holding the
mic on stage.
No, no, no, you're good.
I want us to be able to hearyou as clear as possible
absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Wait what?
Rewind me back?
What was the last question?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
okay, the last question was about like
self-acceptance after thatthough after that we got to
after that oh, you said, I gotit the saturation, saturation,
what is saturation?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Saturation, to me, is the same thing being overplayed
, overused, most artistsseemingly not being willing to
take new chances and go withwhat's safe and what's already
working.
But little do they know.
The people who pioneered thatactually took a chance, so it
might not even work for them thesame way because it's already
(08:06):
been done and it's oversaturated.
I think we should get back to aspace where everybody is taking
risk on being authentic and notjust trying to do what works,
because when we got too muchoversaturation, everything
sounds the same, no one'sfeeling so inspired and we could
have people saying shit likehip-hop on the decline, when
there's a lot of creative asspeople out here who could feel
like shit.
(08:27):
Yeah you ain't heard this newshit I'm working on like right,
I'm about to drop this snippet.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You ain't heard this and then that makes you think
about all the other people whoare out there, you know, doing
the same thing.
Yeah, yeah, so we got to becareful.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The people who are already relevant.
I think they should be leadingthe way by showing they're not
afraid to take risk and still becreative, and not just trying
to keep feeding us the same, thesame pizza every night, every
right that's happens on rightthat microwave, yeah, yeah yeah,
different crust, right, youknow, but that's what I think
oversaturation is.
But other than that, I thinkhip-hop is in a great state
(09:02):
because, through artists likeDrake, kanye West, kid Cudi, bob
, lil Wayne, young Thug, itopened up an opportunity for all
of us to be creative in a newway.
So I think everyone should takeadvantage of the foundation
that that set up to justspringboard off and just keep
being creative, keep beingauthentic, keep pushing the
(09:24):
envelope.
Let me ask you this I don'twant to look or sound like
nobody, but I'm always inspired.
I ain't too cool to be, inspired, but we all individuals, baby I
hear that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I hear that Listen.
So let's talk about.
It's kind of wild when I'mscrolling and I'm seeing people
like all different kinds ofartists and like I have like
some of the local friends youknow that are are making a wave,
and then you have some likeindependent artists that are
(09:56):
like they're really good,they've got teams for social
media.
You know like you can tell theythey they got some of their
stuff really together.
You know, um, as opposed tolike the major you know label
route, you know and and thethings that are included with
that you know what I mean.
So, like, where do you sit?
Like you know it, you know inthe, the landscape of that.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So I try to be as as uh, as well-rounded and as
optimistic as possible andseeing pros and cons.
So I feel like there's a lot ofraw, authentic, great reasons
why people could and shouldpossibly stay DIY, doing it
yourself and independent,because nothing can really
(10:41):
hinder your creativity, nothingcan really hinder your vision.
You have complete creativecontrol.
I think sometimes not in everysituation leverage.
If you don't have enoughleverage with a label and then
you might need them a littlemore than they need you, that
might hinder your creativity andthey might tell you do this
style, focus on this more,because this is what'll sell how
(11:04):
can, like a billion dollarindustry need anything from me?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
because we have the thing that they don't have they
have the money.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They have the money, they have the machine, they have
the means, they have theresources.
We have god-given raw musicaltalent, talent.
We have the one thing theydon't have and it will.
They'll never be able to takethat from us.
They can't take it and put it inthe jar and put it on the shelf
they gotta wait for artists tocome along and discover it, and
we just gotta hope that thatartist is, you know, savvy and
(11:36):
uses the power of discernment tomake the most of a situation
man I love, because that's whatI would like to do.
That, yeah, that's how I wantany artist to do that, because
we all the same, for sure, weall artists it feel, it feel.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You know, I feel connected in ways sometimes
where I'm just like I'm kind oflike amazed by you know what I
mean.
Like I sit back and I'm like,I'm like man, I'm like all the
things that like had to happen,like before, like this thing,
this, this like, and we reallyjust had to show, we just had to
show up, set a few things up.
You know what I mean.
We got these like resourcesthat were like, yeah, these
(12:12):
little tools that were used, andI kind of, like, you know, put
things together and it's wilddude.
I'm, I'm so grateful that wecan do this.
You know me too.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
But not to take away from our grind, because I know
you personally, my brother, yougrind hard.
Just because we got things inplace that can seemingly make it
an easier start doesn't mean wedon't put in our work Because
we put our heart into this shit,we put our time into this shit,
we put time away from ourfamily trying to juggle working
and shit like that.
So we definitely put a lot intothis shit, no matter how
(12:43):
seemingly easy it is.
Because one could argue and Idon't mean to cut you off- no,
not at all one could argue thatonce upon a time back in the day
before, there was all of thistechnology and resources and you
can just use your phone youcould just get discovered by
someone and they could justchange your whole life, like
Whitney Houston getting found insome random club by Barry Gordy
(13:03):
or Clive Davis or whoever.
So there's pros and cons to thepast and the future and the
present.
We should just all just embraceit all for what it is and keep
moving, for sure, yeah.
You know earlier we were talkingabout, you know kind of like
culture itself and you know likewhat creates culture and what
(13:27):
is the embodiment of a culturethe embodiment of a culture, I
would say, is the people thatare a part of it, the people
that represent it, the peoplewho who say what's okay, what's
not okay, the people who makethe music, the people who enjoy
the music, the people who are apart of the history, of building
(13:50):
the foundation of whatever thatculture is, whether it's black
culture, music culture, blackmusic, culture together or
whatever.
At the end of the day, it's allculture.
So you know, I think those arejust the important things the
people who built it, the peoplewho support it, the people who
keep the history alive, thepeople who tell the stories of
it, the people who wear theclothes.
The people who keep the historyalive, the people who tell the
(14:13):
stories of it, the people whowear the clothes, the people who
promote the music and make themusic.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's all the things that make up culture.
As far as what we're talkingabout, what role do you see
yourself providing for theculture that you are behind?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The role I play is loving the culture, embracing
the culture, being a part of itthrough being a fan of it and
being grown up through it, andnow getting to a point where I
can make music that representsit, I can wear clothes that
represent it, I can speak myperspective and it represents
(14:48):
the culture.
You know what I mean I'mfeeling, so that's how I feel.
Like we all can play that role,but me particularly.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, no, that's dope dude I you know it's really
cool because when I have a gueston here I like to try, and you
know we we want to be surfacelevel for and you know we want
to be surface level for sometime.
But then there's, like you know, we want to dig man, we want to
get deep every now and then youknow, and I want you to kind of
really like tell me an originstory from you know, hearing and
(15:25):
knowing you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I know like you fill many different boxes for sure
and um I want you to kind of,you know, tell me you know, like
, maybe like an experience, ormaybe a relationship, or, or, or
you know a, a story that reallymaybe molded you, you know, and
(15:46):
like, really like, turned youinto the, the, the artist and
the person that you are today soI think it would have to be me
doing a lot of uh grinding andthings on my own and then me
linking up with a major label,thinking that it was about to
change my life because of theresources and the millions of
(16:07):
dollars that they had and thethings that they could do for me
, but then going through thatsituation situation and
realizing that if all the piecesaren't connected, even if
there's money and resourcesinvolved, it doesn't mean this
is going to be the time where Iblow up.
And literally months after that,in the process of that, like I
told you earlier, I linked upwith my homie, buffalo, who was
(16:29):
doing it himself, and in a yearafter that we got more done than
I got done with the label.
So it's all timing andappreciating the perspective of
where you're at and justappreciating, keeping your head
down and keeping going, becauseI thought, because the label was
here, that it was my time.
But once that flopped for asecond, I felt like damn, I
(16:51):
guess this might not be it forme.
Yeah, then I linked up with myhomie, who we were doing it out
the mud and I got more done thanwhat I thought a label could do
for me.
So it's not about.
It's not about what you thinkis gonna work.
It's about simply what worksand when it works.
As long as you stay in the game, something's going to work damn
(17:11):
, I, I love the, the point thatyou're making with that.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Seriously, you know, um sure I want you to give me,
you know, give me some, somefinal thoughts that you want to
leave.
You know, the, the viewers withum, maybe like uh, I don't know
, maybe like something likecrazy, like interesting about
yourself or like I don't knowjust like something that you
want to leave everybody withbefore we do.
You know the one or twosegments at the end here.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You know what I like this call.
You know I want to be funnyguys.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I've been making music my whole life, but I want
to be funny.
Well, ok, I want to be funny.
Oh, been making music my wholelife, but I want to be funny.
I want to be funny, oh waitwho's this yo?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
this is Faraji the young Faraji.
Wait, wait, wait yo.
This is alright.
Listen, I got somebody who'sreally got something?
They gotta tell you and they'vebeen wanting to tell you this
for a while.
Okay, so, dude, he Get your Allright, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Love you.
Listen, bro.
I know you love being on SpaceMountain, but stop daydreaming
so much.
There's some more life.
There's some more life.
You got to see you can'tdaydream the whole time Some
more life.
You got to see you can'tdaydream the whole time and
don't stay in your head thewhole time.
Buddy, you got to get in thegame.
You got to do some things.
Don't think about what youshould do.
(18:38):
Just try to start and don't.
He's saying yeah, yeah, yeah,and I feel like he's kind of
spacing out and not hearing meright now, but I will say this
bro, I know you got a large-assapple head on your skinny body,
but don't worry, one day thatbody is going to fill out and
you're going to be adecent-looking guy.
See you in the future.
(18:58):
Baby, we got this.
We end up being everything wethought we was.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Hey, yo, you got this baby boy.
Love you both.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Y'all understand this , that's wild, ain't it awol, my
dog man dude, you know what?
Okay, this is fun.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So we're doing rapid, we're doing yes, we are doing a
rapid fire segment here, okayit's a off the cuff.
Okay, it's sorry I had to pullthis one on you.
You.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know what I mean.
No, let's do it, I'm all aboutit.
This is what it's about, baby.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay, you ready.
Okay, here we Put 100 secondson the clock.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Mountains or the beach Beach.
Oh, coffee or tea, tea, easily,easily, teasily.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Star easily, easily star wars or star trek, uh, star
wars, I don't know shit aboutstar trek.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Okay, I know favorite favorite friends cast member
favorite friends cast member.
Yeah, phoebe, I'm gonna goright, I got to, got to.
Are you ready?
Doritos or pringles?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Pringles.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, you ready, stack them.
Gotta stack them up.
All right, spinners orSpreewells.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Spreewells baby.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Come on now.
Gotta get them.
Gotta get them.
Okay, here we go, here we go.
Okay, I'm loving it, yo, if youcould spend 24 hours with any
celebrity or musician popularmusician who would it be?
Who would it be?
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yep, would it be.
Who would it be?
Yep, yep, damn, get him, gethim, let's see, let's see, let's
see anyone.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yep, come on 24 hours .
Dude say it, let's hear itrapid fire, rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, prince oh, prince, oh,
all right.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
All right, taking that one to heart, all right.
What's one thing you've alwayswanted to do, but haven't yet?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Learn how to swim properly.
Okay, all right well.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I had to do it and tread water.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Okay, Just so we're clear.
I'm a grown-ass man.
I'm glad you realize that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, if you could pick any season all year round.
What would it be?
Summer, winter, spring or fall?
I'm going gonna go tail in thesummer.
Oh, tail, a tail in the summer,for sure.
I like that.
I like that response.
Okay, uh, east coast or westcoast?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
east coast baby.
Oh, I don't know about the westcoast all day repping home.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, favorite subject in school favorite
subject in school?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
yep, english.
Oh, my worst, my worst baby.
You know, I hear that.
I hear that for sure okay, youready um name two two pokemon,
two pokemon charizard zap uhfuck say it go, come on, uh,
blast toys, I'm gonna go okay,nice, nice, nice, I went easy I
(21:43):
couldn't conjure my favorites.
All right, best, duo Best duo,I'm going to say me and my
brother Buffalo Nice.
I like that Easy money Pluggedup.
All right, what's?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
my spirit animal.
What's your spirit?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
animal.
Yeah, something very fast andvery active Got him.
Like a giant squirrel.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
That was kind of disrespectful in a way, but I'm
not going to.
No, I'm totally.
You're very active, bro, areyou All right?
I'm totally messing with you.
All right?
You ready?
What's the one thing you can'tlive without the one thing I
can't live without.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, come on.
Laughter, big laughter, oh lovethat excellent that's like the
main ingredient of my shit okay,favorite color purple, got him.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, new testament or old testament?
Old testament straight up, thatwas a test.
Okay, okay, okay, planes trainsor automobiles.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's crazy.
I'm going trains, baby.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Oh damn.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Real quick.
I used to ride trains by myselfback and forth from Baltimore
to New York to visit my dad.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Amtrak baby Trains all day Trains, all day, all day
.
Thomas the Train all that youready?
Okay, if all that you ready.
Okay, if, thomas, if you hadthomas to train with you right
here, right now, and and youwere to let him listen to one
song, what would it be?
And he had to listen to it forthe rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm gonna go system prescriptions.
I don't know why.
That's right.
Oh, I felt it.
I felt it.
Yeah, nice, another shamelessplug you got to.
If you don't know about it,check it out.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
System Prescriptions by Faraji here.
Okay, you ready.
Most unique instrument, mostunique instrument.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm gonna go steel pan oh, 25 Steel pan on the
board.
I'm gonna go with steel panDing.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Last movie.
You saw Last movie.
You saw Last movie.
I saw Yep Bad Boys 3.
Oh, there we go, which isbetter than people might have
thought.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Bad Boys 3.
All right, I love that.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Or the last Bad Boys.
Bad Boys Legends Never Die.
Whichever one was, the last onethat came out.
Yeah, dude, I'm not getting thenumbers right, but the last
newest one as duos go, you know,as far as duo to mike, lowry
and marcus baby, you don't getno better than that.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
All right, you ready.
Uh, favorite kind of flower,favorite kind of flower.
Tell them what your favoritekind of flower cannabis nah oh
no, no, perfect, all right.
Daytime or nighttime, nighttime, nighttime, nice, all right,
you ready.
If you could have onesuperpower, what would it be.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well, I'm going to go anime, but it's kind of like a
superpower.
I'm going to go Shadow CloneJutsu Because it's like if I
could make 29 other versions ofmyself, I could get so much done
.
You know what I'm saying?
My baby mama could be pleased.
I could be in the studio, Icould be kicking the soccer ball
(24:52):
with my son, I could be holdingmy other infant son, I could be
in the kitchen cooking, I couldbe on stage.
I could be doing everything.
So many different, so many.
It's 30 of me.
I'm gonna go shadow conejiu-jitsu oh, dude, I love that.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Let me ask you this one.
It's a little more deeper, youdon't have to rapid fire this,
but how would you definepersonal success?
Personal success, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Waking up every day and being pleased with yourself,
not being too hard on yourself,treating yourself just as well
as you think you should treatanother individual.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Man Personal success.
That hit home for sure bro Comehere.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, love you, dog.
You no shallow answers there,baby love you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I got one last one for you before we depart.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Okay, coconut or pineapple coconut, oh all right,
no pineapple here you wentstraight for it easy.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
No thought, all right , put that on the board for
coconut bang bang bang, rapid,fire rapid.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Thank y'all, rabbit fire Raji.
Right rabbit, fire Raji in thehouse.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Thank you so much for being here, dog, my dog.
I love you.
Man, Notice what we do.
Baby I love everything aboutyou and the artist that you're
becoming and how you're able tonavigate the waters of life
itself.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Absolutely and still.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
As creative as possible and even down to just
small things like the way youdress and the way you think.
I mean, that's not a smallthing, that's a large thing.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
But all the things that are involved with you
becoming the human that I knowand that we know you're meant to
be, so I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Okay, I just got one thing to say, bro, I'm just out
here respecting perspectives.
Yo hey, one thing to say, bro,I'm just out here respecting
perspectives.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yo hey, I'm just out here respecting perspective.
How do we end this yo on thecount of three?
We tell these mofos to respectour perspective.
All right, one, two, three yorespect our motherfucking
perspective, bang you.
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