Celebrating Season Five: Nostalgia, Musical Adventures, and Greye Jaxson’s Inspiring Journey

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Speaker 1 (00:45):
Ladies and gentlemen, we are live.
Well, no, we're not live, we'repre-recorded because this is
dropping as a recording.
It is not 2025 yet, but we arehere at the TNT Podcast, dj Turn
Up, dj Tanaka, and we have aspecial guest in the building.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hold up wait, this is season Five, season, five
Season, five Season, five.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yes, Tanaka, just before we introduce our special
guest.
Did you think we'd make it thislong?
Why, or why not?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I really had no expectations.
You did yeah you know I'msaying right, you're kind of you
feel me just riding away rightto play happy and see where it
go right.
But yeah, but yeah.
We five season rocking.
Now, you know, going down.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, big Oof.
Yeah, it's been a long timecoming, but, ladies and
gentlemen, it really has been along time coming because we got
a special guest in the building.
I've known this man for a verylong time and it's crazy.
It feels like I've, I feel likeI haven't really known you for
that long, but I've known youfor a very long time.

(01:48):
He formerly went as Buckeye,but now he goes as Gray Jackson.
Gray Jackson, how are you doingtoday, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
What's up turn up.
Hey my brother.
What's up Tanaka?
Yeah, no man, I'm glad to be onhere.
I remember when you first beganthis joint, so, oh yeah, yeah,
you already know showing loveand, uh, watching it grow.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
she's dope yeah, appreciate you.
Appreciate you rocking with us.
Fun fact, tanaka what's down?
My first, my first uh timegoing to um all american for my
first time, djing there my car,my car wasn't working.
He took me to my first gig.
He took me for the first time,first time, first time, that's.
That's how deep I don't evenknow, if you remember that, but
it was a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That was like that to my first gig.
He took me for the first time,first time, first ever time.
That's how deep y'all are.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I don't even know if you remember that, but it was a
long time ago.
That was my first time, Can we?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
put a year on it 2016 .

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh 2016.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Spring break 2016.
I was going to say 2015, but2016.
That was 2016.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Ah, because we met Faded Radio, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Was that 2015 or was that 2014?
Had to be 2015, bro.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's when I was with Alon at the time.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
So that's 2015, so hey, 2025, that's 10 years.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Whole decade.
Did a dime out of shit, manyeah.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Tanaka, how you feeling man?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's DJ joining us.
Yeah, I'm a little tired.
This is not usual, normaloperating hours like that.
Nah, we cooled up, man.
Um, yeah, man, just celebratingthe holidays.
You feel me?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
yeah, I feel that so how's the holidays been for you,
sir?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
shoot, it's great, I finally got some eggnog.
You like I got to tell y'allfor I was sn Sanago was out here
on a mission you hear me Likeall these folks was sold out of
eggnog.
I'm like, damn, I'm trying topull up with the deuce.
You feel me Trying to mix thatdick, but I couldn't even find
no eggnog.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was sold out but I finally got me.
You find it on Christmas.
I feel like it's kind ofimpossible.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's old?
I would think so.
She had to hit that jointstraight.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I would think that's damnnear impossible.
But, mr Jackson, how was yourholidays?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
You know everything is good.
Actually, you know, I recentlydon't celebrate pagan holidays
anymore, but you know, so it'sjust another day, just spending
time with you, know myself andthose who love me.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
I ain't mad at it, but, mr Jackson, let's catch up.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I feel like we have I'm a teacher, I need the full
breakdown.
So Faded Radio.
He was a guest on there andthat's how y'all so yeah, he was
a guest.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I was the DJ Shout out to faded radio, shout out
chief and um.
Who was the um?
Who was the co-host at the time?
Do you remember?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
yeah, it was a dude who smoked, weed a lot that
could be anybody.
That could have been anybodyyeah, do you remember what he
looked?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
like was he dark skin ?
Was he?
Was he heavyset?
Was he not heavyset?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
you know, wow, I just remember smoking with him,
smoking Smoking with him.
Okay, that could have beenanybody, anywho.
Yeah, shout out to Fader Radio,yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
So he was one of the guests and I feel like a week or
a month went by, or somethinglike that, and he hit me up.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
He was like he's looking for a DJ, and I was
there.
I don't even know what it was,but he wasn't just a DJ.
He was involved and I was justlike oh snap.
It would be nice to have a DJon the team because I'm a rising
artist.
At the time I was just nowreleasing music and then I went

(05:25):
to talk to him like hey, bro,how would you like to be on a
team and DJ for me at shows?
and stuff, and then we justbegan booking a whole bunch of
shows together in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Had you had a DJ before, or was he the first one?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh yeah, he was my first DJ.
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
And Turn Up.
Was this your first artist youworked with for real?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I feel I don't remember if Eddie shout out to
Dead Fresh Eddie.
I don't remember if he wasbefore.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
He was after.
I remember you met him after wehad met, so it was Jim that was
the host this guy Jim.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Shout out to this guy Jim.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
I was trying to figure out if it was Eddie or if
it was Jim, but you saidsmoking weed, so that could have
been either one of them.
So, yeah, so shout out to Eddie.
Yeah, I feel like, because Idon't remember working with
anybody else Buck would probablybe the first one.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
By the way, y'all going to hear me go back from
Gray to.
Mr Jackson to Buck, I'm talkingabout Gray Jackson, by the way.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm just full disclosure.
I still call him Buck.
Yeah, I was just telling him.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
You're the only person that still calls me Buck
or Buckeye, which you know Ifucks with, though I'm like yo
because you know, yeah, he wasthere.
You know, hey, I mean everyevent we did with schools, with
you know.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
and then merch, he probably still got some Buckeye
wear.
Yeah, I still got the shirts.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, yeah.
So how many?
If you were to estimate, howmany shows have y'all done
together?

Speaker 3 (06:49):
More than 10.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I feel like definitely double digits.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Oh dang, Definitely double digits.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
From schools to little, I mean to yeah festivals
, we did like two festivalstogether In Charleston the
Cooper River Bridge.
Run, yeah the run.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I forget.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
And then together um, in charleston, the uh, cooper
river bridge, run the run, Iforget.
And then the sweet arbor musicfestival remember that where it
was like, yeah, because that wasmy birthday in atlanta, yeah,
oh, yeah, yeah, I think y'allwere 20 at the time and I uh got
y'all that.
Rumors shout out to rumors ohyeah, hey crazy.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh good times that's crazy, but yeah that yeah that's
so.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
how did the whole process go as far as figuring
out the performance?
Did you guys rehearse or goover track lists, track sets or
stuff like that?

Speaker 3 (07:35):
So at first.
See, that's why he always wentabove and beyond real shit.
I would tell him what songs Iwant and he would, on his dj
software, make a whole tracklist for me and set list and I'd
be like, and with the mixing init and shit.
I'm like oh, shit, okay and then, yeah, we never used to
rehearse, though we never usedto have rehearsals until like

(07:57):
2022, when actually, when youknow, I rebranded as gray jacks
and that's when we actuallybegan like rehearsing and, uh,
having meetups and shit, butJackson, that's when we actually
began rehearsing and havingmeetups and shit.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, because that's when they had the band.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yep, that's when we got the band together.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Play the band.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So he actually had someone playing the guitar.
He had a drummer.
Oh, you had a live band, that'sfire.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
She also played keys, and then it was me and Mo on
the vocals Melodic, shout,melodic, shout out Melodic.
Yep, shout out Melodic.
And then DJ on the ones andtwos and yeah, it was oh man,
and we.
I remember we opened up forEars oh snap.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
You know on Eardrum Records and shit yeah, eardrum
Records.
So we actually what was that at?

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Was that at Kai's and Ko's?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Kai's and Ko's.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
And yeah, it was a lounge like a newer lounge Was
it Marietta.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, it was in Marietta actually.
Oh damn, yeah, it was in.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Marietta.
Oh, actually it was Kai's andKo's, I don't know, but it was a
lounge in.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Marietta.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, and yeah, we actually, like you know, sold
the most tickets of that show,so we stole the show as a
headliner.
And then, yeah, we were theonly one that had a I vaguely
remember.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, so wait, hold on.
Is that the one?
Is that the one where you likewere like the first, you were
like the first one or twoperformances and then like, as
soon as you left, everybodyactually, that was at a few of
our shows.
Yeah, that was a few of ourshows upstairs and like you,
like you were, I think you wereperforming downstairs, and then,
like we were, then we went tothat was Smith's cause, where we

(09:30):
was didn't have an upstairs anddownstairs.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
So different show, but yeah, no, but we, that's
when we were all matching me.
You melodic.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Timmy and Isaiah had a love lace, had the matching
red and I had the yellow andthen, yeah, one with the band.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
We stole the show.
But actually funny about it,ears showed some love and
actually gave me a feature forthe low after that night I still
haven't released yet.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's dope, though Damn, that's fire man yeah it's
a lot of history, man.
For sure, a lot of historythat's so.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
But let's because I saw something and I just I
wanted to get you, I wanted toget like the backstory, if we
can I don't know if you signedon NDAs or nothing like that,
but the Kai, the Kai thing, whatwas that about the Kai?

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh, kai Sinat, the kai.
Uh, oh, kaisa, not, yeah, yeah.
So actually I did post a um areaction video on my youtube
gray jackson at gray jackson.
But um, yeah, so honestly, bro,like um, you know, I got three
kids.
My oldest was in disney at thetime and I was watching my two
youngest just me and them at thecrib.
I was in my drawers one day,actually just chilling, you know
they run around playing andthen all of a sudden, I see a
molly world shout out, the mollyworld cast.

(10:48):
And she I'm at the crib.
I was in my drawers one day,actually just chilling, you know
, running around playing, andthen all of a sudden, I see
Molly World Shout out to MollyWorld casting.
She made a casting post lastminute rush call.
We need two males and a chanceto win with a major YouTuber and
a chance to win a car.
It didn't have who it was orwhat car, and this is right.
After I had sold my Honda my2014 Honda Civic to catch up on
my mortgage.
I was falling behind on mymortgage, on my crib and shit,

(11:10):
and I sold my Honda and wasriding my bike all around the
city to work and shit.
And then you know, I'm like oh,a free car Shit, I don't even
care if it's a Prius Like let'sgo.
And then I get there on set andthen everybody's like oh, you
know, it's Kai Sanat, kai Sanat.
I'm like, oh, shit.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I didn't know, and they interview him.
So let me ask you this bud, didyou know who that was?
Because, I'm not going to lie,I didn't know who that was until
my little brother told me whoit was.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, I didn't watch him, but I knew of him.
He tag-teamed with Mr Beast, sohe had Mr Beast's credit card
on him.
Actually he was showing us theywent half on the Hellcats, wow.
But yeah, and we get there andthen they're interviewing us
like, oh, tell us why you wantto win a Hellcat.
I'm like, oh, a Hellcat.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right, it's not a Prius.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Right, but yeah, and then you know we get to playing
which hey, the whole video is onhis channel too.
It's a competition of 20 of us,20 of us competing and squid
game type, shit, musical chairs,like you know, blindfold game.
Yeah, craig, did you actuallywatch the video so?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I didn't watch the video, but the fact that I'm not
going to do a spoiler I'm goinggonna let you finish it but the
fact that you like went farenough that it's like, I'm like
wow like he's really doing thisshit.
But yeah, no, I I haven't had achance to watch it, but and it
wasn't scripted, like you know,because I keep it real.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
If it was scripted that shit was not scripted.
We was on set for seven hours,that you know, but it was not
scripted um and you know yeah um, when I won and shit, he was
like you know, I'll pay for thetaxes and everything, and and
that's when it's like, oh, okay.
So it's like a real gift.
And then see me the other guywho won there was uh, they gave

(13:00):
away two hellcats.
The other guy, he never droveoff the lot with it me.
I took it home and I drove itfor two weeks.
I was enjoying it for two weeksand mine was the Red Eye
Hellcat, the wide body, it had797 horses on it.
So yeah, the Red Key was RedKey, mode 797.
I mean, you know, get whiplashfrom hitting the gas.

(13:23):
You know what I'm saying.
This shit was awesome and youknow I was just telling I binge
watched the Fast and Furiousmovies.
Then I never got into, like yo,that shit got me into cars, bro
.
You know I went into cars.
I mean I had a Honda.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
And I, yeah, exactly.
But getting that Hellcat, I'mlike, oh shit, like that shit,
damn, that's crazy.
So you won, oh yeah, no, and Iwon the whole thing.
That's what I said.
I didn't want to give thespoiler, I wanted him to tell
the that's crazy, the wholething.
Like I couldn't, even if Iwanted to avoid instagram.
I couldn't, because I just keptseeing oh, how the fuck did he

(14:02):
even get on this?
And so, yeah, that was, thatwas dope.
I was like, wow, that's crazy Iain't this.
I even told my little brother Ieven told my little brother,
because my little brotherwatches the uh the kai joint.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I was like you remember that artist I used to
work with?
He was like yeah, he was likeyeah, he won this kai's wait.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
He was with kai and I was like yeah, he's with kai,
oh, yeah, he does the videosyoutube I'm like'm like oh okay,
cool, I guess so you still gothim with.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
No see, yeah, that's actually I didn't drop my part
two yet, but I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I mean, there's no spoilers necessary.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
But yeah, no, I did trade it in, but I got two cars
for the price of one.
Trade in then and then you knowa little bit so, but I traded
it in, for I got a 2010.
Nissan Altima.
It's a two-door coupe with thered interior, white, you know
it's got the 3.5 liter V6.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
And then I had a 1990 Corvette.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
But I just sold that too recently because you know,
yeah, but see, and I sold itmore than what I bought it for.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
So it's like you know , oh, you good yeah but
everything worked out with itthough for real, yeah, that's
dope.
That's hard, that's cool.
Yeah, out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Hey, just from you know, like that's why I tell
people like yo never give up,because the day you give up, the
next day you're going to breakthrough.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Like you know.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
That's why you know pressure, but sitting in my
drawers with my kids I'm like noworries.
And then that shit came out ofnowhere.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, nah for sure.
And especially once you saidMolly, I was like, oh yeah,
molly.
Actually I don't know if youremember her Back at a show in
2016,.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I was wearing a green shirt when we performed with
Freako that day.
It was a show we did withFreako, oh, and she was there,
and that's the first time I evermet her, so it's like small
world For real.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It was actually crazy about that small world that was
the she had did the show with.
She had did the Faded show forus the day I quit, the day I
quit the Boys and Girls Club.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh damn, so I remember her.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, her and somebody else.
So yeah, she definitely.
I remember Molly all the timebecause I remember I'd see her.
She would do like call castingfor like models and stuff and
I'm like whoa, and these arelike for like major artists.
Yeah, legit, yeah, yeah, likehey we need like girls for Pee
Wee Longway.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, Whoa Like okay.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Right, so For sure she's still.
Well, obviously she's stilldoing it, cause yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh yeah, I got a couple Opportunities with her
too.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, shout out to Molly.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
So I gotta ask man, when you were at that Hellcat,
you like you hit that Tripledigit on that, on that.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Oh, I was flexing, you know, you got to man For
sure For sure the very firstnight.
I took it home.
I took it home, I took it homeon a Friday night and literally
me, mo and Chris went out and yo, we raced this Maserati the
first night.
The Maserati tried me right andthen you know, and then me
coming from behind, I'm likehold on, hold on, what the fuck

(16:55):
am I in right?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
now.
I'm in a Hellcat right now,right.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
And then, oh yeah, I went about 126 and it took off
on the Maserati.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
And you said Chris was with you.
So I know Chris is a littlehell demon.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Anyway they were more lit than me.
A Moe over there, like that'show you're supposed to drive,
that's how you know they hypingme up and shit.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I done rode with Chris a couple times and he done
pushed his car.
So, yeah, I can only imagine hewas in there like what, what Do
something.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
So yeah, I can only imagine.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
But yeah that's dope, man, that's dope.
All right, I guess.
One more thing before we moveon, let's talk about it Tanaka,
nice and slow.
Nice and slow, nice and slowNumber four.
Nice and slow how did you feelabout it, man?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
um, I enjoyed it.
You did.
Uh, I was having, I was havingto see everybody something for
hey got dressed up andeverything.
Um, you know I, I know that youknow I had to check the
temperature on the streets.
You did.
It's a little, it's a little,it's a little mixed, mixed
reviews, but it's all love,though, like I, you know, I
don't take no offense to it andI mean I take a lot of factors

(18:05):
into consideration.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
You got to Because out of context it just sounds
crazy.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
You know, like I don't take too much to heart,
but also you know, be aware of,like, what they talking about,
Right.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
I feel that.
So the thing about that is like, when it comes to because I've
heard your feedback, yeah, whenit comes to certain stuff like
that, I kind of feel like it'sout of our that's out of our
hands.
We can't really do nothingabout that.
Especially when it comes tostuff like everybody was kind of
just mid, like everybody waskind of like folks weren't
really doing nothing, like wegave you an opportunity to.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
If y'all don't want to do nothing, hey, that's what.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Y'all don't want to do, nothing, but but that's like
you know, because, like theyeven said that it was more just
like chill, like it was cool.
So I mean I'm not opposed tothat you did so, okay.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
So they weren't saying that that was an issue.
They said that that was likethey were cool with it.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, like, like it was just.
I mean, I guess, compared tothe other ones, you know, maybe
it just wasn't as hype, you know, or whatever.
But um, like you said, that'snot really in our control.
You know we, we set the stagefor y'all folk.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
You can't just be like hey, get free, like what,
like that's fucking weird, like,but not exactly.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
But yeah y'all should throw me on the next one though
, because them shits be lookingfun oh, yeah, yeah, I got some
idea.
I remember you hit me up wheny'all was doing the very first
one.
You know about the After partyJoining the old like you know
retro joints that I got and I'vebeen making A whole bunch of
retro Like you know, r&b, lovetype shit Lately too.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
So Let me know, man, we still, we still, I know you
still Sitting on after party.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now, so but yeah, yeah, hey, who knows, though
buckeye coming back?
Hey, let me know, shit, let meknow I'm still playing.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
You know it's crazy.
I'm still playing, moneyfalling and I think I can tell
you right now it is still like,out of the thousands of songs
that I play, it is number.
Let's see, hold on.
I think I can tell you, out ofall the thousands of songs, if,
if I can find oh, there we go,here we go.
You play at the strip clubright Yep.
Out of all the songs.

(20:10):
Okay, I can tell you 7,299songs.
It is number three.
Wow, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
The third most played .

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Third most played.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
And see, I recorded that song in 2016.
Oh damn.
And I recorded it as Buckeye,but yeah, it's released as Gray
Jackson, but that one wow.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, but yeah, I remember when he first let me
hear the song, I was like thisis the one.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
This is the one, this is the one, this is the one,
this is the one.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Absolutely.
But yeah, man, I think that'sabout it.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
We gonna move on to the uh question.
How did you feel about nightslow?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
how did I feel about it?
Oh I, I felt great.
Yeah, I ain't gonna lie.
The only thing I'd have anissue with is, like every five
seconds I was gonna tap on myshoulder as I was trying to lock
into the dj, but other thanthat, it was great.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Nah, yeah so yeah, it was great, it was cool yeah,
anything else before we uh moveon?
I think that's it.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
All right, so what we got for the question of the day
?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
The question of the day as far as new artists, how
do you determine what factorsyou look for as far as whether
this person's legit?
You're going to check them outand all that.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Gray, you want to?

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, that's a good question.
I mean, I would say originality, Like you know, not trying to
sound like somebody else andjust being original with.
You know your story and yourimage.
You know Wordplay, you know nottalking about the same things
like about ops, and you knowflipping the birds and shit.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, I feel that.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Because, you know, in this day and age it's like I
don't know.
I feel like it's differentdiscovering artists.
You know It'd be like TikTok,youtube and all that.
So it's like a real briefglimpse, like you might scroll
some and see some.
You feel me Like what's goingto make you check that artist
out, as opposed to you justkidding and pushing and check

(22:30):
the whole song.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, um, I would say I don't know.
I still like, I feel like I'mstill pretty old school when it
comes to stuff like that.
Like I feel like I don't knowand we, we play music so much
that it's like I don't know.
I feel like we do itdifferently.
But I feel like if I hear asong, if I hear a song, I'm like
whoa, okay, hold on, who isthat guy?
right and then I'll like check,I like check out the person's

(22:53):
joint, like I'll probably saythe furthest back, the furthest
back I could think of as beingan old head and thinking like,
okay, like these new folks islike kind of like just whatever.
I remember this was probablylike six or seven years ago and
I had heard they played kingthey played king von in the um
in the strip club, and I waslike I don't know who this is,

(23:14):
but this, this littlestorytelling thing he's doing,
is actually pretty dope.
I might have to, I might have tocheck him out.
Um, and then um, and then itwas actually funny.
Uh, buck actually put me on touh Russ, oh, I think it was
around the same time and he wasyeah, let me hear it, do it
myself Too many.

(23:35):
And it was, um, what they want,what they want which is
actually crazy Cause.
that's like a song of the dayfrom like, I think like season
four, season three, I don'tremember.
But, um, yeah, a song of theday from like being like this is
season four, season three, Idon't remember.
But um, yeah, and so likethat's what made me give him a
try, because I was like it'sthree songs like hit, like all
three are hitters like I, withall three of the songs, so like
stuff like that I it was just, Idon't know, I feel like it's

(23:56):
just songs like so more recently, nice and slow, I was doing
research for nice and slow.
The guy, uh, I asked about Iforget his name Tone Tone,
somebody.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
He was an R&B artist, tone Stith.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Tone Stith.
Yeah, I heard a song he hadcalled Smokin' in the Parking
Lot.
I was smokin' in the park orsomething like that, and I was
like, okay, I'm about to checkhim out.
So yeah for me.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I feel like it dope, I'll be like all right, let's
get, let's get another shot,let's give it another shot, got
you?
Yeah, that type of so if thesong is dope, but they don't
have like a lot of followers andthat doesn't.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh, okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, I don't care, because I know some people be
looking for like the blue checkand all that.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I don't want to reel it out too much, but I ain't
gonna lie the, the what's the,because I feel like we talked
about this off air the, um, the.
What's the word I'm looking for?
Like the blue check doesn'treally mean anything anymore
like you could buy a blue checknow, like you can't even earn it
anymore, like you have to buyit.
So like the I forgot what wordI used, but like it's gone down,

(25:02):
like the blue checks, I don'tcare.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Or the value of it.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Value.
There you go.
That's why you hear gray.
The value of blue checks havegone down drastically, very much
so If you have a good song, Idon't care if you're doing
stadiums or doing karaoke.
If it's a dope song, it's adope song.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Definitely For sure.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Definitely feel that, what about you?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Pretty much the same way I recently.
I'm a big Light Jennings fan sohe had posted one of these
young artists and he was like Idon't usually do this like that,
but you could tell that bruhspeaking that real, you know
what I mean.
I listened to the song.
I'm like damn Homes, actuallyhard for real.

(25:52):
I rap with him.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
And who is this?
Do you remember the?

Speaker 2 (25:55):
name.
His name is like Chino, chinosomething.
Yeah, I got to look it up, buthis name is Chino though.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Is he a rapper or a?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
He kind of blended.
I ain't going to lie to that Imean, it was a singing song,
though, that he had made.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
So if you could compare him to anybody if you
could who would you compare himto?
Like the closest, he ain't gotto be exactly like.
But if you were to mesh a wholebunch of artists together, who
would you compare this person to?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Damn, that's a good question.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
He got kind of a.
That's why he stuck out,Because I was like damn yeah,
like he don't, he wasn't like.
Because I was like damn yeah,Like he don't, he wasn't.
He wasn't like cause he wastalking about some real stuff.

(26:55):
That's why I feel like you knowwhat I'm saying, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Also, the big point he made is one of the artists
that he really likes postedabout him.
So that credibility and that'swhy I like yo when you do make
it the big artists.
It is important to show love tothe other artists because your
following is going to, you know,fuck with them and give them a
chance just because they likeyou.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
So, yeah, that's what's up, no, that's hard.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Are there any new artists that you're listening to
?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, not new, but see, I recently got on to Tory
Lanez from the Alone at Promalbum.
That's like one of my favoritealbums ever right now which is
like he made it in, like 1987.
Like it takes place.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Is that the one we got the?

Speaker 2 (27:36):
wig on yeah, yeah, yeah, the whole character.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
It was storyline crazy.
He dropped a deluxe versionwith 12 more songs or 10.
But yeah, no, I just recentlygot on to him and then I started
listening to his old shit.
I'm like, oh shit, I neverreally listened to him, but now
it's like, you know, I fuckswith him and I didn't realize
how many hits was actually him.
I'm like, oh, I didn't knowthat was him.

(28:00):
Yeah, yeah right, you know, butas far as like new up and coming
, I mean with like, uh, tylerdavis, shout out, tyler davis,
he's um up and coming and man,he, you know, one of the hardest
rappers out right now as far asyou know wordplay.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
What was his?
Um?
What was his artist name?
The um, the dark skin guy.
I forget his name.
I remember he had a song calledblue collar.
Do you remember his name?

Speaker 3 (28:24):
he performed with him at the um, oh yeah, moon, moon,
moon, yeah.
J list really everybody thatdid shows with us ray rockman j
list.
Like you know, they're all uhand they're all different genres
.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
You know right, yeah, moon is dope, he, he definitely
gives me isaiah rashad vibes,definitely.
But um yeah, speaking of rap,we we got anything else to talk
about before we move on I'm justwhy, yeah, let's talk about it
no, I just curious, you know.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Uh well, great jackson, what.
What's some of the influencethat that you listened to?
You know I'm saying growing up,or just music wise and all that
, yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
So I mean growing up you know my dad, you know um,
best of both worlds beinginterracial, I got to listen to.
You know all types of shit rockon my mom's side.
My dad really raised me on thelike old school r&b, hip-hop, so
like a lot of uh, new editionboys demand stuff like that.
But then he also liked uh,hip-hop and being in ohio they
listened to a lot of west coast.

(29:29):
So like my dad, listened tomore West Coast over East Coast.
So you know Tupac and you knowSnoop Warren G, all that back
then.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
And you know.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Bone Thugs sounded like West Coast type vibe, but
they, you know, from Ohio too.
And then, like you know, a lotof rock Like soft rock was my
shit Like Three Do too, but um,and then, like you know, a lot
of rock like soft rock was myshit like three doors down green
day, um, you know, um, blink182, stuff like that and then
like me, I kind of just like tomerge them all, like you know,

(30:01):
and and then, like my favoriteartist all times, k cuddy.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
So you know he's like okay, word, you know, has his
own genre.
Like you know what's yourfavorite cuddy project, would
you say oh man on the moon, oneeasy hands down, yeah you had to
ask.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Hands down, man on the moon onebut that whole trilogy is yeah,
it's lit and you know, um,definitely a huge inspiration.
And then michael jackson withthe short films and shit like
that.
So you know I got a lot thatI'm working on this, uh, you
know, but a lot of inspirationfrom, you know, kid Cudi,
michael Jackson, and then what Igrew up on, the old school R&B,

(30:35):
the old school shit Like youknow I feel that what inspires
you to pick up the mic, and youknow what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Start like making music for yourself.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
That's like my, one of my biggest forms of
expression.
So like literally um, and andthen like through storyline.
I always like movies and actingshit too, so real creative with
my wordplay, and you know I puteverything in a story and um,
sometimes I dramatize it,sometimes I may, you know, it's
just like whatever I want in theform of expression.

(31:05):
And, yeah, it definitely helpsme.
Just, you know um, it helpsmanage stress and it helps, like
you know, just with moreinspiration too.
So, how old were you when youfirst started?
See, that's funny, because Iknew I could rap my whole life
Like I've always been musicallyinclined.
I always just heard beats andshit different.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Like, I remember like .

Speaker 3 (31:29):
LL Cool J back when I was uh, you know uh living in
ohio, my dad used to take me tothe library with him and I used
to just listen to the youtubelaunch.
It wasn't even like it was likea launch and it was like you
know, like with the big assblock computers and shit, with
the headphones that come yeah sobut, um, yeah, like you know,
ll koojay and 50 cent, I reallylike young, but yeah, I was

(31:53):
always just rapping along withthat and rapping.
And you know, yeah, it all beganrapping.
I couldn't sing for shit atfirst, right, like the voice was
cracking my little brothercould sing and he used to make
me mad because it was like, ohokay, but I can rap though, like
you know, so, yeah, I startedoff rapping.
You know, I didn't know how touse my voice.
Yeah, I feel that.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
So what made you make the verge into singing?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Well, I learned how to sing.
You know, I taught myself howto sing and it's like I just
began and then again like, asI'm growing and evolving, my
music's growing and evolving, soyou know I'm.
And then I began to like theretro shit more than the newer
music made.
So I'm like listening to thatagain.
I'm like yo.
I used to think some of thiswas boring when my dad played.

(32:37):
I'm like yo.
This, the shit right here andthen you know they talking.
All you know love andpositivity and shit too.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's crazy.
You said I literally had thesame type of situation that way
because my dad used to play allthat old school, like you know,
saying I'm like damn, I used to.
You know, when you young youare trying to hear like the hot
shit, yeah.
But then I like I've revisitedthe auto old museum, like down
this really that yeah, that'scrazy anyway, that I just had to

(33:08):
check in with that.
You know, just see thebackground.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
You know what I'm saying yeah, for sure, just talk
about that when did you come tothe A?

Speaker 3 (33:15):
I moved in 04.
I was turning 9 when I movedhere so yeah, I was in Ohio
first parts of my life.
Like you know, akron area.
I actually lived by LeBron atone point when he had the white
Hummer and shit.
But yeah, so you know he's inohio, moved here, been here ever
since, but ready to leave nowfor sure.
Yeah, I hear that.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
So where's your next move?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
um, maybe somewhere out of the country, but who
knows?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
what was?
What would you say likestylistic, how's the different,
like in ohio, compared to likeor just like, the environment,
the field?
Well, definitely the weather,the weather.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Oh, very much.
So.
The weather, oh yeah, youremember that.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
What's up, turnover and everything is hella close,
like you can literally walkeverywhere, everywhere.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
you don't need to drive Like if they say, it's
five minutes away.
It's five minutes away here,like oh yeah it's five minutes,
it's like 20 minutes when yousay five minutes there, you mean
like five minutes, what's up,what's up.
You know.
When you say five minutes there, you mean like five steps, like
literally.
It's like right up the street,like you can look at it at the
house, like from the house.
Everything is close, close andweather.
That's what I would say.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, but see in Ohio and me being from there, it's
like we don depressing.
You know I'm saying so, um, andI noticed that the more and
more I visited and you know, goback home, every time
everybody's, all you know,gloomy and shit and I'm like, oh
my gosh, like you know what'sgoing on.
And then, yeah, there's not alot of sunshine and yeah, the

(34:43):
weather, yeah, it snows a lot.
You know, you got to go um,salt your driveways and scrape
your windshields in the morningbefore work and shit, wake up an
hour early to do that, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
I hear that Last one, what's three spots food-wise
that we had to if we ever go toOhio, that we got to check out.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Well, okay, and I'm going to go off of before.
I became vegan.
Yeah, but in Ohioio, goodness,all right.
So I would say it's, uh, thisplace called, or, where I'm from
, small town called saboro's.
It's like a hole in wall like,yeah, uh, chicken and jojo spot.
I don't even know, you know uh,people down south don't call
them jojos, they call thempotato wedges.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
But you know up north , jojos, you know me, but uh,
yeah that.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
And then, uh, swenson's, they're like the, the
northern, in and out burgerstype shit, but it's like
different, you know, with moreonions and shit, but it, you
know, it tasted good right, youknow it's been like four years
since I ate it and then um three, oh man, I don't know.
The pizza is way better outthere.
So any like real hole in thewall pizza spot is way better

(35:53):
than, you know, georgia pizzafor sure.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I feel that what inspired the vegan move?

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Just you know growing spirituality and also like meat
, just wasn't sitting right withme and you know, I just, and
one step at a time, um, you know, had a little community.
I was uh following that, uh didthe same thing and then also
becoming a personal trainer andnutritionist as well, just

(36:21):
learning more, connecting morewith my body, you know,
prioritizing my health so youfelt like a difference once you
made that, once you made thechange to being vegan.
Yeah, definitely, like you know,for me, a lot of mental clarity
with it.
A lot of you know like no more,like bloating less mucus in the

(36:42):
body, things like that.
And you know, healing myself,like I'm, you know, I tore my
own meniscus.
Healed that naturally throughdiet and just movements and a
good workout regimen.
But yeah, and being holistic, Idon't like the doctors.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
If it's so, Nah, it's real man.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Well, there you go.
Both of y'all can relate tothat.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Are you holistic too, man?
Yeah, I mean, I just be tryingto have the natural, you know
remedy as opposed to.
It's weird because I went tothe doctor you know about
something and then they gave mesome pills and then like I got
even more sick Exactly you knowwhat I'm saying.
So I was like, all right, bro,I ain't need.
It's like a waste of money.
Like I lost money spending youknow buying this, and then like,

(37:29):
going to see the doctor andy'all ain't really tapping and
tapping.
Y'all just, you know, got aprotocol that y'all following.
So I just like you know whatit's all a business.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Let me just handle it on my ownand do some research for real.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
I was going to say you can always finesse that.
Hey, they tell you what's wrong, you figure it out yourself
yeah that's how I do it, butteach us on.
But um, yeah, so we uh ready tomove to the next segment.
All right, ladies, gentlemen,we're gonna move on to the uh

(38:30):
next segment, which is, uh,guess, the bars.
So what we do?
If you don't know that yourfirst time listening, if this is
your first time listening,that's crazy, it's fifth season
you're not listening.
But, um, ladies, gentlemen,what we do is we have some bars
that we read out to y'all and um, try to figure out who it is.
And then, once we're donereading it, we rate it on the f
scale, which is from five to onefire, ferocious, flat, flat,

(38:53):
frisbee, fecal, easy for me tosay.
And, yeah, we try to figure outwho it is.
If we know who it is, we try touh, well, we let us let y'all
know who to um, when the firsttime we heard said song um, how
you want to uh do this, tanaka,are we?
Um, oh, we all do three as well.
So, yeah, but how you wanna, wewon't start.

(39:14):
I'll start it off.
Let's see if we can find, seeif we can find also book.
So you guys would just pullfrom here.
I got, I got all theinformation, but okay, let's see
.
All right, first one look nigga,what you think this is.
You treat me like a, like arandom chick you you done forgot

(39:37):
who introduced you to rocks andpopping, all that christian
shit, who let you hit it fromthe back any way you like, and
any debts I can pay the price.
I thought I was a chick.
You uh would make your wife andnow a bitch can't even stay the
night.
Um, it's trina, trina.

(39:58):
What's the name of that song?
Here we go, is that it?
Yeah, okay, cool bet.
Um, it was cool.
Uh, I can, I can catch the vibe.
Um, it was I.
I give it a, I give it a, Igive it a flat, I give it a flat
.
But I can also note that thesong is not for me, but I give

(40:23):
it a flat.
3.1.
Yeah, it's cool.
The first time I heard this Idon't remember the first time I
heard this.
I don't remember the first timeI heard this song, but I do
remember when I heard this, Iwas like, oh damn, trina still
makes music.
Like that's, that was.
That was my thing.
I was like, oh shit, that'swhat's up.
Trina still make music and it'sstill relevant.
Like I remember this song.
Like all the girls sing here wego, here we go again.

(40:46):
Now you're yeah, all the girlsare singing it and all that.
So yeah, it was cool, it wasalright, but um Bet Alright cool
.
So Tanaka here.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Boy done.
Read up for real Right.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Welcome back to Welcome back to box.
Alright, let's see what we got.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
And Jordy on Pirelli, Make a movie.
Out the getty With my ring andmy confetti.
I'm Kobe Bryant, ready Pinkrose and chronic smell.
While I'm stumbling out thetelly, I'm so fly, I'm so fairy,
and the way I flow is very Gin.
Sewer machete where my pencilmove is deadly.
Platinum band, platinum bezzy.
Make a straight girl out oflezzy Magazine.

(41:27):
Mac Benz keep my windows likethe Prezzy.
That's a lot of ezies, A lot ofezies.
Yeah, this is cool.
I don't know who this is,though I ain't gonna count.
It's entertaining.

(41:51):
I get a flat Ferocious.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
You have.
You have like a Shot in thedark, half court, full court
shot.
I guess we could be.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Nah, I ain't got no.
Sound like some like.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
French Montana shit.
If I had to just Throw a wildguess, yeah I don't think french
montana is as he.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
I don't think I'm not gonna, I don't think he has the
ability to do that.
But that's just me personally.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I don't think so, but yeah I'm gonna just say 90s
artists, 90s artists.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
okay, well, I'll, I'll give, I'll give buck, like
a quarter of a point, becausethey're from the same state,
it's actually Lloyd Banks.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
That was Beamer, benz and Bentley.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Have you ever heard of that song?
Oh, yeah, duh.
I guess I just come from there.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
I mean nobody thinks about the song.
So it's like Right, yeah.
So that shows you, just keepyour mind to whatever, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
What was the first time you?

Speaker 1 (42:53):
heard.
That's so crazy, like that washis like comeback.
And that's crazy that youpicked trina and you pick lloyd,
and I picked trina, you picklloyd banks.
Because I thought the exactsame thing.
For that I was like, oh damn,yeah lloyd banks still makes
music and it's relevant.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Okay, because we were , we weren't up there beamer
benzin bentley, beamer benzinbentley.
So yeah, because when heitExactly Wait was he still in
G-Unit?

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Wait for this.
Yeah, he was, yeah, but he wasjust so out there that it was
like I didn't even know he wasstill in G-Unit.
I thought he was independent.
I don't think anybody in G-Unitwas even in the video.
It seemed like it was more likeDipset video, vaguely.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
yeah, I'm going off of memory, I'm not gonna lie, I
don't remember now, that wascrazy, though that was correct,
because I was in new york likewhen when he dropped it.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
So all right, all right, look what we got all
right facts, whole game hittingup my phone because my hooks
beats and my raps only reason Ipick up because my family need
the cash.
I just stumbled on my ex's page.
That ass is getting fat Dreams.

(43:58):
I used to chase, stoppedrunning, so now y'all are
getting lapped.
I don't know why I want to sayDrake, but I know I heard this
line before.
Goddamn.
But I mean wow.

(44:19):
I could actually relate to thelyrics though, especially like
with the.
You know the family, the.
You know, yeah, ex shit man.
But I would say, yeah, x shitman.
But I would say, yeah, Iwouldn't give it a full
ferocious, I'd say like a 3.5.
3.5.

(44:40):
Yeah, a 3.5.
But yeah like man.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I don't know why I want to say some Drake shit
right now.
So no, you're wrong, not goingto lie Buck, I'm kind of
disappointed in you.
So no, you're wrong, not goingto lie Buck, I'm kind of
disappointed in you.
That was Russ, that was doingmyself.
Oh no, wow, that's funny.
Oh, dang.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Buck, that's funny as hell.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Dang Buck, and that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
You picked it.
I know we talked about it.
It literally was just talkingabout random too.
Yeah, wild that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
I ain't gonna.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
I'm disappointed wow, I mean, I haven't heard that
song, you know, I know it usedto be my favorite yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
So let me ask you this so when?
How did you discover russ?

Speaker 3 (45:23):
um, from the, I don't need her, I don't need him fuck
it up, but but it was like, uh,like I seen a snippet of it
somewhere or something, and thenlike yeah, it caught my ear,
and then I just went and foundthe video on youtube and then,
and then I just listened to moremore yeah, yeah and, yeah, his

(45:44):
voice, and you know like, yeah,he was like rapping and singing
at the same time, which?
You know, yeah, I fuck someshit like that right, I feel.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I feel that, yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah, when you told me aboutthe deal with myself, I was like
, wow, yeah, I actually fuckwith him.
Hopefully he can actually makesomething out of this.
Wow, that's crazy.
Yeah, that is right there foryou.
All right, let's see Round twoTruthfully it.

(46:13):
All right, let's see round twotruthfully.
It's family.
It's family till it can't.
It can't be gang till it.
Ain't twins but it dependsbrothers until something is
uncovered.
Dogs until the lifting of thefog.
I always got you turns into.
Well, I never thought you.
Years, years of the camaraderiesuddenly disappears.
Also, like you never were here.
Unconditional love, veryconditioned when push come to

(46:37):
shove, all that talk of talkingbullets suddenly feel foolish
bullets.
With him, turn to ad campaigns.
You gotta pull it.
That was interesting.
Um, I don't know who this is.
I'm gonna get this.
Uh, yeah, this is another flat,ferocious.
Um, I would.
I want to say dmx.

(46:57):
It sounds like some dmx.
I feel like.
I feel like it's dmx because,just because of all the the gun
talk and he says dogs.
But then again, I don't.
I don't think dmx is spellingdogs d-a-w-g.
I don't know.
That just doesn't sit right withme.
So if it ain't DMX, it'ssomebody from the south, just
because of the dogs, the dogspelling, so Tanaka who we got.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
This is Jack Harlow Gang, gang, gang.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Ah, yeah, I think I know that.
Yeah, I don't think I know that.
Um, yeah, I don't think I'veever heard of that.
What's your thoughts on Ganggang, gang Tanaka?
I actually haven't heard, I wasjust picking random shit,
speaking random Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, I haven't heard it either.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
You listen to Jack Harlow Um.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
I mean, you know, sometimes Like I DJ, sometimes
too, and we're going to talkabout that too.
But I play him because.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
I see a lot of people like him.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Yeah, I feel that up and zip it, stand over stove,
soup it up and whip it.
I'm a chef that cook up ways tomake me rich.
Clothing line recipe.
I make it rich.
Then why test, make a hustle?
Nervous, got a problem?
Don't call me, I ain't customerservice.
Okay, okay, um, I could f withit, man, I could F with it, man,

(48:31):
I could F with it.
Yeah, I'm gonna give anotherFlat, ferocious man can we like?

Speaker 1 (48:42):
can we get worse or better?
Flat, ferocious, any guesses I?

Speaker 2 (48:48):
could do the flow.
That's why I stand over Stolesoup.
Nah, I ain't got no guesses,none.
Don't know who this is.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
This is Fabulous.
This is a song called Hustler'sPoster Child.
Have you ever heard of thatsong?

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Nah, I haven't Haven't heard of Hustler's
Poster Child't.
I haven't heard of Us Live'sPosted Show.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yeah, me neither.
So I guess we both pickingrandom shit, alright.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
I got the homies.
They could only mean the worldto me.
And they ain't coming back home.
They in the cemetery.
I wish I made this up.
It was a fairy tale.
I know the kingpin's on thename is legendary.
They smoke crack right now.
This ain't a Tyler Perry.
This real rap, real life.

(49:48):
It's very necessary, all right.
So I mean you've got to be atrap artist.
In my opinion, but I like I mean, if we're talking like, yeah, I

(50:08):
would say I'll say anotherthree5 because it's like you
know, it's like I could almostjust feel what they're talking
about for real, and you knowit's not the basic wordplay.
You know a little, something,something, but when it comes to
who it is, man dang, I don'tknow what y'all be choosing.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
That's why I leave it up to y'all.
That's why I leave it up toy'all.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
That's why I leave it up to y'all.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
But actually it does sound like an early 2000s line
or something like that.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Excuse me y'all, I'm still trying to find it.
Where the fuck are you?

Speaker 3 (50:53):
And again, if you mention Tyler Perry, it's got to
be after 2010 or something, huh?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah, true, true.
I would think I don't know.
Honestly, I don't know, becausewhen did he make his first
movie?

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Or the first one that went popular Was it Madea.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Yeah, the Diary of a Black Woman, or something.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Oh, okay, yeah, I don't even know what year that
came from.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, I don't know anything about that.
Let's see.
Oh, there you go, all right, sothis is well.
You were right.
This trap rapper is Future.
He's off a song calledPermanent Scars.
Are you familiar with PermanentScars?
Rapper is Future.
He's off a song calledPermanent Scars.
Are you familiar with PermanentScars?

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Never heard it.
Yeah me neither.
I feel like Future has a lot ofsongs.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, he just he's one of those artists that's kind
of like Youngboy.
He just puts out music.
It's not quality over quantity,it's quantity over quality.
He's just putting out shit Justnon-stop.
Especially with that.
But the thing about future isvery interesting, like he'll
have like his audience sayingthe dumbest shit ever and like

(51:56):
it's like like that plutoski,like can you imagine thousands
and putting thousands ofcoachella people?
Like that's crazy to me, that'svery crazy to me.
But yeah, well, all right, cool, let's wrap this up.
Number three Last one Straightup.
Shit is real and any day couldbe your last in the jungle.

(52:19):
Get murdered on a humble Gunswill blast, niggas tumble.
The corner is a hot spot fullof made criminals.
Who cares guzzling beers?
We all stare out of towners.
They better break north beforewe get four pounders and take
their face off.
The streets is filled withundercovers, homicide chasing

(52:41):
brothers, the D's on the rooftrying to watch us and knock us,
and the killers coppers, evencome in helicopters this sound
like another Up North rapper.
Yeah, this sounds like anotherUp North rapper.
Yeah, I guess a flat.
It just kind of was what it was, just street talk.

(53:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm going to say somebody fromthe LOS, because he said the Ds,
or he's from Detroit, sosomebody from Detroit, or one of
the locks, somebody from Dblock, I don't know who.
We got Tanaka.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Nas represent.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Nas is one of those artists that I mean, I know is
lyrical.
I just I'm very, very minimalon my Nas knowledge.
I'm not gonna lie very minimalon my Nas knowledge.
I'm not going to lie Veryminimal on my Nas knowledge.
There you go, sir.
Alright, let's wrap this up.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Big slow on prescription meds.
I just pulled up with theChristian years, told the bitch
to get the new Hermes.
I don't know nobody.
I'm stressed Four months.
I was on the X.
If you don't know about it,don't guess.
Sounds really depressing.

(54:05):
Yeah, this is going to be afrisbee flat.
Frisbee flat.
He asked for it to move.
It's moving.
All right, let's see.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yeah, this is going to be a frisbee flat.
Frisbee flat.
He asked for it to move.
It's moving.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
All right, let's see Big on the.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Yeah, I don't know who this is man, but yeah, if
you had to take an educated, ifyou were to take a half-court
shot, guess who are we goingwith?
Who does it sound like?
Who's in that studio makingthat, making that lyric right
there?
Future definitely sounds like afuture bar.
Definitely sounds like uh, uh,oh.

(54:46):
So, tanaka, this is actuallyyour favorite rapper, yeet
Narcotics.
Are you familiar with Narcoticsby Yeet?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
No, I've only heard maybe two or three Yeet songs,
so I don't know too much aboutYeet.
My roommate swear he like.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
The greatest of all time.
Yeah, I ain't going to lie,he's rocking stadiums.
I'm not going to lie, I don'tknow how, but I mean I never
knock anybody making their money, buck.
What are your thoughts on Yeet?
Never heard of him Really,really, like really.
You've never heard any music oranything.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Well, I mean see, with people like that, who I
don't know, by name.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
I mean, unless they got a super popular song
everybody knows, which is odd,because he does like really big
shows, but I can't tell you notone song.
Okay, he had a song on thedrake album.
The last drake album called Idon't give a fuck.
That's like the only, that'slike the only like song I could
think of.
But I feel like, if you're notlike I don't know, 25 or younger
, maybe like 24 or younger, Ifeel like you really don't,

(55:47):
because, yeah, I'm very minimalon my own and then I feel like
he is like a cult kind of.
He's like a Playboi Carti.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
He's like a Playboi.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Carti Ken Carson, like those kind of rappers, Like
really distorted beats and justit's.
Yeah, I don't know, Not for me.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Yeah, that makes sense, yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
All right.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
last but not least, Hopefully it's something I know.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Right, yeah, alright.
Last but not least, hopefullyit's something I know Right,
well, we gave you something youwouldn't know.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Oh my gosh, I know right, alright, alright, I got
two for two.
Come get a Kawhi Leonard Bitch,real trap.
Nigga, true corner bender, bigmoney spender, 50k and a
sprinter.
I'm a big baller like I playfor the clippers.
Gucci mixed with prada, redmarnie slippers.

(56:37):
Fell in love with designer.
I stay in neiman marcus, 13footer.
Yeah, come get a james harden,you know it's funny, funny.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Okay, obviously I'm looking at who it is, but as
soon as you said the last part,I would have been like oh yeah,
I know exactly who this is, assoon as you said that last part,
because he does that shit allthe time.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Oh gosh, if I had the flow it'd be yeah, but yeah,
I'll give it a frisbee, um, butI don't know why it looks like
some future shit again.
But yeah, trap, okay, yeah, thetrap stuff.

(57:23):
Yeah, uh, uh, but okay, well,based off of that, it's not
future.
So, uh, yeah, I don't know, Idon't listen to trap music like
that man.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Yeah yeah, well, that was actually um, boss man d low
was interesting about boss mand low.
He's like one of the first traprappers that I know about.
I don't know, maybe y'all cantell me differently, but he's
one of the first trap rappersthat doesn't really talk about
murder.
Like, he doesn't really.
He's like a lot, he's like flextalk.
If you listen to a lot of hismusic, it's just flex talk.

(57:57):
It's just money and girls andjust it's very interesting how
he's able to avoid like like Ijust find it interesting.
I feel like somebody wastalking about that.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
What about like the Texas rap, like Paul Wall, mike
Jones and them, like they trapbut not really like A bunch of
murder shit like that?

Speaker 1 (58:17):
I don't really see them as trap, though.
I don't know.
How do you feel about that?
I guess I never thought aboutthat, but I don't know.
I don't see.
I just see them as I don't know.
Wait, where's Boss man D-Lofrom?
Is he from Texas?
Because if that's the case,then that would make sense.

(58:38):
I guess no, he's not from Texas.
He's not from Texas.
Is he from here?
I want to say he's from.
Florida.
Now that's very interestingbecause they straight to talk
about murder.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Yeah, he's from, like tallahassee port salamo.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
That's what I'm saying like trick daddy, plies
like rick ross, gunplay, likeall them.
I feel like they were likestraight talk about murder, but
it's, I don't know.
I just find that interesting,find that very interesting, but,
um, cool, yeah, that was, guessthe bars.
We're gonna move on to, um,what we got next, the hall of
fame.
Right, hall of fame, all right,y'all.

(59:41):
So the Hall of Fame.
For the people that don't know,we all picked something
different and we have it.
Go on the Instagram page Y'all,go vote, shout out to everybody
that participated.
The last one was nice and slow.
You had I don't even rememberwhat you had.
What did you have?
I don't remember.
I just remember Drip had thatthing that looked like karina, I

(01:00:02):
guess, whatever that shit was,and, surprisingly enough, that
shit won.
So drip is now three.
And oh, congratulations, djdrip, you are now three.
And oh, in the hall of fame.
So, um, for the people thatdon't know what the hall of fame
is like, I said you just pickwhatever you want and we gonna
nominate it and put it on theHall of Fame nominee list.
But here's some stuff to giveyou an idea of what the Hall of

(01:00:26):
Fame is.
You can literally just pickanything you want.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
It's not a list on what we're choosing from no, no,
no, you can pick whatever youwant, those are Hall of Famers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
The TNT Podcast Hall of Famers.
It's just different.
Just give you an idea.
I'm telling you.
It's random, you can pickyourself if you want to, if you
want to.
But um Tanaka, you started off,I guess, since you can't even
remember your fucking nomination.
Um.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
It's literally just random shit, but yeah, ow,
that's all it's literally somelame shit.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
But yeah ow oh damn.
Let me see I'm trying to thinkwhat we said I'm.
Let me see I'm gonna nominateum comedian.
There's a mixtape inside.
I'm going to nominate CommunityNerds, mixtape Messiah series.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
You said what one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Mixtape Messiah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Mixtape Messiah yeah, okay, then why are we
nominating that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
That was kind of the real first mixtape joint I kind
of even ventured into you knowwhat I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
So, okay, let me ask you this For the Chameleonare
mixtape did you already know whohe was at the time?
Oh, okay.
So this wasn't like oh, who wasthe new artist?
Oh, it was Chameleonare.
Let's check it out, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
I was like I don't know, I know riding blew up and
all that, but I was on himbefore riding.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
You were on him when Lil Flip turned it up.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Yeah, I actually really fucked with Kamenier
actually.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
He was always dope to me.
He's a smart businessman to saythe least.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
I used to be a clown.
All my partners was not effingwith Killeen.
They felt like he was corny, sothey was rocking with Slim Thug
.
But the mixtape Messiah Series,that was just him rapping over
different beats.
Oh, so like his drought yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
That's interesting.
So like what would you say islike some standout songs that
you remember from off thatmixtape, that and what was it?

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
was just interesting.
Well, he has nine of them.
You know I'm saying nine, yeah,but um, it was just interesting
how?
Uh, because you know, chameleonwas kind of like melodic too,
like he could also have that.
Yeah yeah, so he used toincorporate that over like beats
as well, you know so.
But I do remember he had madelike a.

(01:03:12):
He had made a record where hebasically just impersonated like
a whole bunch of rappers, solike he would copy, like like
their style and all that just tolike basically rap how they
will rap.
So I just thought it wascreative because I was like damn
, like he over here, just andwhat year would you say this was
?

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
yeah, I was gonna say before hip-hop police or after
hip-hop police if you probablywere on the same song.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Okay, I did fuck with hip-hop yeah, that was so
creative, yeah yeah, the factthat he was able to bring out
slick, rick and all god, I waslike damn he brought yeah, slick
rick, but then doing the voicesin the song of the the
detective and the news reporter.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
But yeah, see, like, yeah, I fuck with shit like that
yeah, I definitely.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Yeah, I fuck with A comedian there and even as a
person Like that Before we, Idon't want to Reel it out too
much, but yeah, so, yeah.
So I'm gonna go Completely leftwith it and I'm gonna go with A
show that I actually Put you onand now it's like your favorite
, your favorite adult Cartoonshow.
So, without all that being said, my nominee for the TNT Podcast

(01:04:21):
Hall of Fame is Aqua TeenHunger Force.
That was probably like myfavorite show growing up.
I don't know if you guys haveever seen this show, but it's a
show about a fry, a shake and, Ithink, like a meatball or
something like that, and it'sthe dumbest show ever.
Have you ever heard of AquaTeen Hunger Force?
I'm not sure he's like the wayhe said I'm not sure he's like,

(01:04:45):
I'm concerned, are you okay?
Do we need?

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
that like it's not no happy tree friends type shit,
is it?

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
oh, whoa boy, talk about a bro, please.
Why did you bring?
I forgot about that show, bro.
Okay, I don't want to reel itout too much, but there is one
episode of Happy Tree Friendsthat I remember and it was I
think it was the moose.
The moose had the tree fall onhis legs and then so like he was
trying to scoot out, but thenall he had was a spoon and he
was just like going on his legs.

(01:05:15):
I'm like yo and I'm like yo andhe's like bleeding.
I was like, yeah, no, that's itfor me.
That's pretty great, that's itfor me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
But anyway yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
So I Continue.
Hunger Force is about somefries, a shake and a meatball
and they move across the streetfrom this guy and then it's just
a whole bunch of just randomshit.
If you know, you know, that'sprobably one of the longest.
I'd probably say, besides RobotChicken, it's probably one of
the longest-reigning shows onAdult Swim.

(01:05:43):
That's what I'm going to gowith.
I'll continue Hunger Force.
If you know, you know.
If you don't, I recommend yougo find out.
I'll continue Hunger Force.
That's my nominee for thePodcast Hall of Fame Gray
Jackson.
What do we got?

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
I'm going to nominate the indigo blue, red-eyed,
wide-body Hellcat.
You know what I'm saying and Igot it pinned on my first
picture pinned on Instagram.
So yeah, I'm going to nominatethat man.
You know Need for Speed got mein the cars.

(01:06:18):
It, you know, flexed on a lotof broke, a couple necks you
know, I can only imagine andit's like yeah you know it's
relevant, kaisa, and I just hada birthday not too long ago, so
happy birthday, yeah and um,yeah, it was a real dope
experience.
I'm like, hey, I'm gonnanominate that that's yeah,
that's, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Would you ever imagine in a million years that
you would have that car?

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
I would have never guessed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
I don't predict shit, but it's like yo.
I could see a whole bunch ofways it could have happened, and
that's not one of them.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
No, no, no, yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
That's real.
I'm glad you told us about thewhole.
Like he even said that he wouldcover the taxes I'm glad you
told us about the whole.
He even said that he wouldcover the taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
It was like for real, for real, it was a real deal.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
It wasn't no.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Hidden fees.
You got this, but hey, we needlike 10,000.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
It was real smooth process.
It didn't require Too muchPersonal stuff.
He he covered it, gifted it andit was Just smooth.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
That's hard, that's dope, that's hard.
Well, shout out to Kai.
Shout out to Kai For sure.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Seems, really Seems, like a pretty, pretty smooth,
authentic guy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Shout out to him.
He really acts like Kevin Hartin person.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Does he really?

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
They're very similar yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
We've got to meet Kai, Wellcool.
Well, that wraps it up.
So I forgot what you oh, whatwas the name of it?
Again, I forgot the mixtapejoint you called it oh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Mixtape Messiah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Mixtape Messiah.
So we're going to put MixtapeMessiah versus the Hellcat,
versus the AquaZine Hunger Force.
We're going to put it on theInstagram page.
Y'all go vote for that.
See who the first inducteeclass of 2025.
You got to put Red.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
Eye Hellcat, I'm going to get all that
information from you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
I'm not a car person, so I was going to get a picture
.
I was going to ask you what the, as a matter of fact, I was
going to ask to send me thepicture of you with the because

(01:08:58):
is going to be a song from 2016.
I'm not 2016, actually 2013.
There's a song by 2 Chainzcalled Fork Tanaka are you
familiar with?
Are you familiar with that song?
Fork, fork, oh yeah yeah,that's off the based on a true
story, to the chains, yeah, thechains, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
I'm trying to think of the record, though.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
I'ma get to that.
Gray are you familiar with?
Are you familiar with?
I guess that would be 2013,that would be Wait.
Well, let me back up.
Are you familiar with 2 Chainz?
I mean, obviously you'refamiliar with 2 Chainz,
everybody knows 2 Chainz, but doyou listen to 2 Chainz?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Like I definitely like a lot of his songs.
Actually, is that the same?
That the birthday song was onthe album, that the birthday
song?

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
No, I think that was or Used To.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Used To with.
T-pain or is T-Pain on?

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
it no, no, no.
Used To, I think, is the NewOrleans one, that's with Drake
and Wayne.
Oh, no, no, no, my bad, my bad.
That's the one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's doingthe Hot Boys.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
I still like that.
Yeah, he's doing the NewOrleans vibe.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
No, I think Me Time was, I think Fed's Watching,
Fed's Watching and somethingelse.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
Yeah, but no, that era I'm different Fed's Watching
.
Yeah, Was that the?

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
same.
Come on, no, that wasdefinitely I mean, but me, me
and I mean, uh, based on a truestory.
One and two Basically came outLike year, like year after each
other, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Me time.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
Oh yeah, you're right .
Used to, used to and Fezwatched.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Okay, so yeah, no, when he said the chains on the
album I pictured that Cause it'son my, on my shit, but uh, I
don't think I know that songspecifically but I definitely
like it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
So have you heard the album?

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Songs off of it.
Yeah, but not the whole thing,Not like all the way through the
tight joint.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Okay, after that, well, all right.
Well, this song is actually theintro.
So when the song came out, Iwas probably I think I was a
year into the Boys and GirlsClub and I was a year into DJing
no-transcript.

(01:11:07):
You know both boston and allthat talk.
So that type of talk.
Someone came out when thisalbum came out, september 10,
2013, when the album came out,and that's when I first heard
the song.
It was released under def jam.
His song song, according to RapGenius, is OD to the Trap, with
him talking about how he had adream that rap didn't work and
he basically had to do what hehad to do to make it end in

(01:11:28):
something.
The music video looks like he'sin a trap house wearing two
thousand outfits, with a lavish,flashy-style outfit and wearing
a white beater.
P-nasty, mike Will, are theproducers.
Before I go any further, tanaka, do you know any?
We obviously know who Mike Willis, but do you know PNasty?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Yeah, he's one of the .
He's one of the, I think,in-house producers at Ear Drum.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
That's actually crazy that we were just talking about
Ear Drum.
That's actually crazy that wewere just talking about uh ears
um um fork by two chains who haduh, generally received positive
reviews from music critics.
The critics often praise twochains lyrical development uh,
hello, he's going to saydelivery.
Nothing uh of his witty wordplay, punchy word line, boastful

(01:12:19):
style mike will made it is.
Production is frequentlypraised for his hard-hitting
beats and infectious energy.
The song's memorable hook isoften cited as a contributing
factor to his success.
While some critics may pointout, the song's lyrical content
primarily focuses on materialpossesses, possessions and

(01:12:40):
extravagant displays of wealth.
It is generally acknowledged asa fun and entertaining track
that showcased 2 Chainz'ssignature style, one of the like
forefathers of 2010s trap music.
I'd highly recommend you hearFork.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
That's Turn Up's album of the day is gonna be g

(01:13:40):
herbo.
Uh, humble beast.
Um, this was his debut debutproject.
He has like mixtapes before andstuff like that, but this was
like his official album.
Um, it was a solid project.
I don't know if if it'snecessarily his best work, but

(01:14:01):
it definitely had its moments.
Just as far as blending thestreet stuff with the, I don't
know, I feel like out of thatwhole Chicago movement at the
time that had blew up, I feellike he was my favorite just
because he had that storytellingaspect and it wasn't just all

(01:14:23):
drill.
Drill music, you know Right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
And this is when he was.
I feel like it's a stupidquestion because you said his
name.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
But is this?

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
when he was G Herbo.
Or is this when he was Lil Herb.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Yeah, I think that's when he made the change.
Oh gotcha, that's when he madethe change.
Oh gotcha, that's when he madethe change with the name.
But yeah, he had the singlecalled red snow and that joint
was like that was the single offthe album yeah, that was, that
was the lead single.
he had two other singles,everything with little oozy, and
I like, um, I'm not sure how Ifelt about those records.

(01:15:01):
I think one of them I effedwith, but the other one not so
much, just because it was alittle more commercial.
But I mean I understood why hedid it.
But really the album cuts likeMalcolm and Crown with Bump J
and then Four Minutes of Hell,part 5, like I don't know he be,

(01:15:23):
he be going in like when hewants to, you know, what I'm
saying Red Snow, though I feellike is the is the banger,
though, like I remember, I hadput that song in the mix that I
recorded, like at the time.
So but, yeah, I alwaysappreciated G Herbo, especially
on this project, for being ableto balance the street stuff with

(01:15:45):
just like storytelling, youknow.
And so, yeah, he kept it.
He kept it for the most partmainly Chicago producers, you
know DJ L C-Sick, luca Vialli,yeah, so, but yeah, man, if you

(01:16:06):
guys want a good street Chicagostreet rap, you know, definitely
check it out.
Yes, album of the day, man.
So let me ask you this have you?

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
have you heard all those G Herbal's albums and you
already know what.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
I'm going to ask you I wouldn't say I heard all of
them.
I've heard a good handful ofthem.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Uh, because he's had a lot of like collaborative
product projects recently youknow, what I'm saying wait.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Well, who um south side?

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
okay yeah, so so from the ones you have heard what
would you, where would you put?
Where would this be?

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
oh, it's a solid project.
I'd probably you know middle toupper.
You know, what I'm saying.
He definitely switched up hisstyle more recently.
I feel, just as far as I don'tknow, kind of more to like a
trap sound and I don't know howI feel about it, just because

(01:17:00):
when he came in the game he hadkind of like a street soul sound
.
You know, I'm saying like, didhe really?
Yeah, like some of the, some ofthe production, like it was
like I mean, of course, the beathit, but it was like it had
some soulfulness to it, you know, and he was like he was good
with the storytelling, sointeresting.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I kind of skipped over.
Uh, little herb to g herbo um,honestly and truthfully, the
only little herb song that Iknew and I wouldn't even really
count that was um shy rack, andanything else after that I just
kind of, yeah, skipped over yeah, I feel it shout out G Herbo.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Shout out to G Herbo.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
All right, so we're going to get into this.
So we got two more segments, sogreat.
This is what we usually do whenwe have guests.
We have this joint called OpenTopic, where the topic's on you.
If you have a topic, anythingyou want to talk about, anything
you want to promote Anything.
You want to Anything, anythingyou want to talk about you want

(01:18:02):
to be controversial.
You don't want to becontroversial, you know.
Whatever you want to talk about, the floor is yours.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Hmm, you know what I mean.
You know, since we've beentalking about originality and
different genres and you know,soulful, yeah, like I do have a
single I'm I'm getting ready torelease um and it's called
reassurance and um, there'sactually a short film with it

(01:18:29):
too.
So, um, you know, again, I toldyou at the beginning, michael
jackson was one of my, you know,with the short films and shit,
he had so many and um, so, whichalready got the script written
and we're, you know, just gottafilm it now.
But, um, yeah, it's a lot ofretro, like like inspiration on
it too, but this one is like a,like a very up-tempo, um, I

(01:18:55):
would say like a mixture of likefive different genres soul, r&b
, hip-hop, um, like a pop andlike a, you know, with rock
melodies too, because, you knowI love rock too and just like
those uh, punk like melodies incertain parts and um, just all

(01:19:16):
mixed into one, blended into one, and then you know being
different with the short filmand uh like that, just to give a
storyline and tell a story, butalso about something important
reassurance, which is good forcommunication and relationships,
and even with yourself, reallyinternally, to give yourself

(01:19:37):
reassurance and love on yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
Right, okay.
So let me ask you this so thisshort film, is it just that one
song in that short film, or isit like a collective of other
songs that you just haven't, youjust don't want to talk about
yet?

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Yeah, no, this is actually going to be a
standalone short film all byitself, no project which we'll
alone short film all by itself,no project, um, which will just
set up.
You know how I wrote.
It's gonna set it up, for youknow, I mean I could continue it
, I could, uh, you know,backstory it, whatever okay,
that's dope, that's dope.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
So do you have a uh, guesstimated time that you're
gonna release this?

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
um, honestly, like I would like to release the song
within the next I'd say three tofour weeks.
We're going to begin filmingthe short film first thing in
January.
Get the song going, get somecontent behind it and build it
up.
It's different.
It's even different than whatGray Jackson has out right now.

(01:20:42):
It's another growth spurt, forreal, just a different sound.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
I feel that If you need any actors, you can hit up
your boy Tanaka.
He's getting into his actingbag.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
You too, what you mean.
I've been seeing you.
I don't know about me, you'vealways been in there too.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
What you mean, I've been seeing you.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
I was about to say what you saying.
I don't know about me.
You always been in there too.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
I'm retired, oh whatever, I was going to ask you
what inspired Gray Jackson?
How'd you come up with the name?

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
Yeah, wow, that's actually like a lot.
Of you know, I put a lot ofthought into it because, like
with Buckeye, I didn't reallycome up with that name.
Like you know, this other guywas in a first group where he
came up with it.
He didn't really fuck with melike that, but he came up with
it and it made sense at the timeand I fucked with it.
But when I thought of GrayJackson, yeah, like I was
rebranded and you know I wantedsomething that was just original

(01:21:34):
, just me.
And you know, all my kids' namesare color, so it's like and
then it's like I knew if I had ason.
I didn't have a son at the time, but I knew if I had a son I'd
want to name him Gray, like thecolor Gray, right, which his
name actually is Gray, but thecolor G-R-E-Y.
And you know, mine, I spell itdifferent Gotcha, g-r-e-y-e.

(01:21:55):
I didn his name and shit, right, but at the same time, like
when I think of gray spelledthat way, I just, you know, I
feel like it's very um, like, uh, like I think a gray mist, gray
fog, like you know, it's veryadaptable.
You can you know you coulddisappear like a ghost.
You can come out of nowhere.
You can, you know uh you know,change it up, um, and then you

(01:22:17):
know, jackson, it's like Jackson, it's like yeah, again, like
it's not like all from MichaelJackson.
But obviously I wanted it to bespelled different and, honestly
, sons of Anarchy is a TV show Ilove.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
I've heard.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
Yeah.
Super dope though.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
But the main character, his name is Jackson
Teller and he spelled it J-A-X.
Character, his name is ajackson teller and he spelled it
j-a-x.
So you know like that's where.
And then I put it together andI should look hard, sound hard.
I remember in miami one daythis you know, and this guy
asked me I was networking.
He said what's your name?
I'm like gray jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
He said oh shit, that should sound famous.

Speaker 3 (01:22:56):
I'm like oh shit, it does it does so it just man, and
then it just fit, it flows, andI love it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
That's hard, that's hard,that's hard.
Well, y'all be on the lookoutfor that man.
When you drop it, we'll post iton our page.
Y'all got to show love, oh yeah, for sure, we making movies now
man.
So yeah, that's making movies.
I ain't mad at it.
Well, while we're moving on, weactually.

(01:23:26):
This next one is actually gonnabe about you too, so we're
gonna talk about a little bitgray.
So you became a dj.
Where did that come from?

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
you know it came from not wanting to really work a
nine to five.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Amen to that.
I'm glad you bought it.
Come on in, man, the water'sfine, that's what I'm talking
about and because I'm a musiclover.
So I'm like yo.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
How would that shit not be fun for a music lover,
and especially me knowing allgenres too?
So, like I DJ at the whitecrowds, I DJ at the black crowd,
oh yo, even like BollywoodIndian joints, even like
bollywood indian joints, I'vedone you know quinceañeras and
stuff like you know um.
So, yeah, loving music.
And then also, like, I had aninterview with the corporate dj

(01:24:06):
company and yeah, that's where,like um, I was just like yo.
Okay, let me make this jump.
I know you know watching turnup and everything.
I'm like because I alwaysthought you know turn up, turn
Up and everything I'm likebecause I always thought you
know Turn Up.
I'm like yo, yeah, he standsout more than any DJ I've
witnessed.
Like reading the crowd and youknow what I'm saying, but yeah,

(01:24:29):
I was just like yo I love musicand this is more fun.
Let me do something that's morefun for me Facts Facts, facts,
wait.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
So what's the DJ name ?

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
DJ Light Eyes.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Wow, that's dope.
You got any um.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Well, you know what I'm gonna hold that.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we'regonna get into a DJ talk.
So we got four seasons worth ofquestions.
So what we're gonna do is we'regonna throw some of these old
questions at dj light eyes andwe're gonna see we got five of

(01:25:05):
them.
So we're gonna see, uh, whatyour question, what your answers
is to some of these so for djtalk um turn up.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
It's a real simple, you know question Do you think
we should?
You're in trouble, I love it,let's do it.
I don't even know what to putyou up.
As.
Do you think we should createDJ tags that say DJ Turnup does
not take requests?

(01:25:36):
Please do not approach DJTurnup.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
Just dancing is highly suggested so, dj light
eyes, there was a, there was avideo he had saw.
Well, it was going around andit was a guy that had a um, uh,
a drop like a sample that whenpeople would come, he would just
play it.
This dj is not taking requests.
Please go or do something.

(01:26:01):
It was something like that.
Would you get the drop likethat?
Why or why not?

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
That's hilarious.
No, I wouldn't, but I don'teven know.
Yeah, no, he learned somethingnew every day.
That's funny.
I would have never even guessedthat that was a thing.
But no, me personally mean, Icould, like I can understand now
, especially djing.
Now it's like yo, you know,like early on my early dj phase

(01:26:26):
I was like, oh yeah, cool, okay.
Now I'm like, yeah, but youknow, uh, I already got a set
yep, but if they come, you know,money talks too oh no, for sure
but, but yeah, that, yeah,that's funny.
I wouldn't do that all right.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Question number two DJ.
A little DJ talk.
It's probably going to bepretty brief.
Got a question for you, tanaka.
What's that?
It's on the sync button.
You with it or are you againstit?
So Light Eyes, the sync button.
Are you with it or are youagainst it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
Oh, I love using that , especially if it's like within
6 BPM with each other, yeah.
Now, hey, you know, yeah, ifit's over like 6 to 8 BPM, I
don't fuck with it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
And.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
I find different ways to mix it in, but when it's
close BPM, yeah, I fucks with it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Yeah, I know that's probably some new DJ shit, but
love it okay, dang bro you liketo you?

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
do you sync button bro?

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
outrageous, beautiful , all right, number three we're
gonna move on dj talk, dj talkmight be uh short.
This time it's really gonnafall into the dj etiquette side,
and then even we're gonna geteven granular.
This is gonna do not even we'regoing to get even granular this
is going to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Do not say that you're about to leave and expect
me to push up your record.

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
Okay, so DJ Light Eyes.
So here's the situation, right?
Well, as a matter of fact,tanaka, I'll let you get because
you went on a whole rant thatepisode.
I love it Because man, thesituation right?

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Well, as a matter of fact, tanaka, I'll let you get
because you went on a whole rant.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
that episode I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
I don't F with that, bro.
They be asking, so they'll askyou for a request and then
they'll come back and they'll belike yo, I'm about to leave,
can you play my song?
I don't know, that joint justiris-ed me already because, like
bro, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Have you ever had a situation like that?

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Are you talking about with an up-and-coming artist?

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
No, okay, so quick scenario so you're DJing and
somebody comes to you asking fora request, and so you're like
okay, I'll get to it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
Probably like five, ten minutes later.
Hey, that song I requested.
Can you play it now?
I'm about to leave, look at me.
Yeah, no, I mean, unlessthey're like hey, yo, here's a
20 or a 40, can you play it now?

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
No, no money.
Yeah, they're just coming up toyou.
Hey, I'm about to leave, canyou play it now?

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
Oh yeah, no, like that, nah, nah, it don't revolve
around you, like you know.
That's what I'm sayingespecially if you leaving, like
you're leaving, so I'm gonnakeep them happy real quick, yeah
, as you're leaving right likewhat.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
Like, yeah, I ain't gonna lie.
Yeah, he went on a whole rungood man, it's gonna be blowing
my.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
I feel, you cause they be.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
They be using all these like manipulative
techniques to try and get theirsong played, yeah, but I ain't
seen it a lot yet.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
So I'm sure that I'm aware of it.
Now it's coming.
It's coming.
Here we go.
All right, number four.
We're going to move on to DJtalk.
So so, breezy, I got a questionfor you.
Mm-hmm, customer comes up toyou and says, hey, can you play

(01:29:49):
this song, but can you mix it inwith this song and then mix it
in with this song, and then mixit in with this song?
How do you feel about acustomer requesting how you mix
the music?

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
dj light eyes yeah, doing too much too much right?

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
no, there are people that do that, like there have
been people.
I'm not gonna say whom the djis or who the person was, leave
names out but there are peoplethat have sent lists of songs to
mix with each other.
That's immediate no for me.
Wow, like immediate, likethat's like that's like multiple
requests yeah, it's like hey,can you do this?

(01:30:30):
But then mix it in with I'mlike oh yeah, I'm.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm alreadyiffy with song requests.
Tell me how to mix right it'slike, yeah, I feel you oh,
that's like you're bound to getslapped.
I'm not gonna lie like thatshit like that shit is uh, yeah,
definitely all right, last one,just keep moving.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
Uh, dj talk, so tanaka I got a question for you
what's about me?

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
it's probably gonna be brief, but how did you come
up with your logo?
So Light Eyes?
Well, I mean, I guess I don't.
Do you have a logo for yourLight Eyes?

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Actually, you know, like Light Eyes was just born,
like a couple months ago, solike no.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
Okay, so I guess you could tell us how you came up
with your logo for Buckeye andif you have a great Jackson, my
personal training business, yeah, all my businesses, cause I
have multiple businesses.
So, logos.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
They just, you know, like honestly, they just come to
me.
Like you know, now with greatJackson, it's like see this
butterfly on my arm.
I actually my butterfly grayJackson, uh logo is.
I sent them this tattoo on myarm and they literally made my
logo off of that.
So it's, like you know, a lotof it has meaning and
sentimental meaning and, likeyou know, different, like

(01:31:45):
inspiration things, so like withDJ Light Eyes.
It hadn't came to me yet butlike you know, yeah, I got hazel
eyes.
I want to do something, like youknow, obviously, with that, but
it'll come to me.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
Yeah, I feel like you can do something with the eyes
or something.
I feel like you can dosomething with the eyes or
something.
Yeah, I feel like that would bedope, but so yeah.
So, basically, so, with allyour different logos, they just
all kind of did the same thing.
They just all came to you andyou were like there you go, go
ahead and make it For sure.
Dope.
That's dope, dope, dope, dope.
All right, well, schedule.
Um, if you want to know myschedule, you can follow me on

(01:32:19):
instagram.
Uh, my schedule should be up atthis time.
At the time I'm recording it isnot up because it's not 2025
yet, but if you follow me oninstagram, dj turn up with two
u's on both of the turn in theup, you follow me and my
schedule will be up.
Uh, dj light eyes.
You got any uh gigs coming up?
Um, by the way, this is postedjanuary 1st, so anything after

(01:32:41):
that right actually.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Yeah, no, we're um just in the works right now a
book of some shows for, um, youknow, 2025, um, you know, got a
few venues.
I'm talking to things like that, private events but yeah, uh,
nothing announced yet nothingannounced yet.

Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
All right, knock what we got, what we got coming up
uh 19th and 26 gonna be, uh, sosunday, a chat fever on the left
.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
I think it's the 11th and whatever the second
saturday is, y'all should knowabout that.
Y'all should know that about.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Yeah but actually since, um you know, if y'all
like uh karaoke, y'all can uh,you know, uh, come see me every
Monday at Parma for karaoke,there you go Karaoke.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
There you go, man Right, hey, anything there you
go, go ahead, let them know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
What is it?
Parma, what is it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
Yeah, it's a tavern in Beaufort, Parma.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Tavern Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
Got you, got you to go to on Monday.
That's the spot.
Beaufort, not too far.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
There it is.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:33:45):
Cascade Sunday on the 5th.
Back on Cascade Back by populardemand.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Then Metro Diner Friday.
I got to get you plugged into.

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
Metro Diner too.
Yeah, I'm going to get you inthere Into Metro Diner too.
Yeah, I got to get you in there, Especially now that I know you
do karaoke.
So how long have you been doingkaraoke, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
Like six months now, six months yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
Yeah, I feel that.
Yeah, I feel like you'd be agood mix for Metro.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
You know I'm natural on the mic too.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
Yeah, yeah, of course , yeah, yeah, of course.
That's what made DJing easier,too Easier, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
And that's the thing though, yeah, and that makes it
easier for you to get more gigs,because there's a lot of DJs
that DJ but don't like to talkon the mic, so that makes it
easier for you too, becauseyou're coming with that For sure
, because you're coming withthat for sure thanks.
Yeah, that's dope, that's dope.
Well, ladies and gentlemen,that sounds like it is a wrap.
Tnt podcast gray jackson, akabuckeye, aka everything else.

(01:34:49):
Appreciate you for having us,gray hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
It's good to see y'all growth and, like yo, y'all
really on your shit.
Man got to.
You know, uh, it's like I'mlearning as I'm, you know,
learning about music with y'all,because, yeah, yeah, I know
y'all real music lovers and shittoo.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
So, um, oh, yeah, man , we got to collab again,
absolutely, absolutely all right, y'all tnt podcast, we are out,
thank you.
Outro Music.

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