August 12, 2024 • 27 mins
Houston's own ZILLA FATU is the hottest name in indie wrestling. With professional wrestling fans waiting to see if (or when) he'll sign to the WWE and/or join the Bloodline. Fatu is the son of late wrestler, UMAGA. Cousin to Roman Reigns, the Uso Brothers and more. We share his life story of formerly being incarcerated, carrying the legacy of his father in his finishing move, doing music, growing up as one of the only Polynesians in Houston and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right you ready, all right, ready, all right, Sash
you with Twoe's on air.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Think so much for tapping in with us.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We should have also, uh go ahead down. I heard
radiopstream us at the Red talkback Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I got a homie in the building with me. A
lot of people are.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you're a big fan of wrestling, you already know
who this person is because he has so much chatter
about him on every social media app.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But please walk into my show, zelifive two.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Men, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know, getting ready for this Saturday?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Listen to what's going tone? What's going on Saturday for everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
So we got my one year anniversary for wrestling at
Reality Wrestling this Saturday at the Texas Arena, So make
sure you guys pull up. Doors are open at seven pm.
They say that tickets are sold out online, so make
sure you guys come. There will be general admission tickets
at the Dome.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So the way we just talked about it, the way
that we found each other is funny.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
But I made a TikTok a while ago and I
was like, I don't see no Simons out in Houston
because I moved here, like what six years ago?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Got to be more specific and what was you doing
in was you?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, what do you mean? What were you doing in
the video? You just you just said that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I think if I made like a couple of it,
it's someone where I went to AGB and I was like,
when you're the only smooning Houston. I was gonna start
fruit and everybody and everybody was like, yes, I was
in the fruit out and I was just like, we're
the only simoning Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Everybody was like, that's a lie. They got have been
UNBLI I'm the north side. I got to I got
homie oh on the south side. I was like, all right, cool.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Didn't know because I got so so much like engagement
from the video.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I didn't know that you followed me from there.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Then like months later, my nephews were like, oh, there's
this wrestler.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Dude from there, like he's from Houston, Like you look
him up. He's cool. And they gave me your thing
and it said you already followed me.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I was like, oh, okay, okay, And then that's when
I d M you. We started talking. He's like, yeah,
you know you know, I'm like cool, like, you know,
come up here. And then the funny thing is before that,
I had to tell me she up here a few
months ago before the video dropped, and she had mentioned you,
but I just didn't put two.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And two together.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
She's like, yeah, I'm a homie Zilla is He's in there?
And then I was like, oh, that was Hill. Listen,
that is the universe bringing us together, bro like in
the in the weirdest of ways, in the weirdest of ways.
But but everyone who does not know, I want to
ask different stuff than when everyone else asks you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm been looking at your interviews.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I know everything is about wrestling for the wrestling heads,
but I want to do this for people just to
know you on a personal level. And a lot of
ladies be asking about you too, about information.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
See see what's going on? What's happening? So numbers.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So number one, we got to congratulate you because you
are you won your first championship.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, and then how did that match? Like, how did
to go? What happened?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Was you know me that for him?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Was it was all love, you know, shot out to
New York and shout out to the promotion called h
Og that's based out over there, for giving me the
opportunity to broadcast my talent. So I was really nervous,
you know, before going out there, because I knew that,
you know, this.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Was for the Belt.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
But afterwards it was it was it was kind of
like deja vu.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It felt like you know, this was supposed to happen, yeah,
or it felt like it was it already did happen,
you know, but that that day just marks the first
to mini of belts to come.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So yeah, how long did it take it together? How
many matches had you already done?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh? Man, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I won't say like nineteen right or twenty Yeah, yeah,
between nineteen and twenty three.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I don't sense.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Now you got me thinking I'm about to go back
tonight to figure out how many matches I got, But yeah,
I know I don't have any more.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't have no more than twenty five, so I
know it's like between that range.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, Okay, and how many have you been How many
actual tag team matches did you do with Jacob?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh shot to my bro, Yeah, Jacob I did like
six seven others. Yeah, I was his last. I was
one of his last matches before he got signed.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So yeah, is it a dream of yours to be
a tag team again in the future with him?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, yeah. Who wouldn't want this morning? Wherewoth on your team?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Who wouldn't want the most dangerous someone like, come on.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Bro, he's one of the He's one of the ones.
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It hit different just having them there with me, you know,
and a lot of people don't know it was Booker
T and Jacob. That plays a big role. Well, shouting Bijamin,
that plays a big role on where I'm at.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Today, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So shout out to Jacob for you know, just giving
me the right knowledge and just taking me under his
tree and just guiding me and giving me just the
right just how do you say advice? Yeah, on how
to do certain stuff in the ring, So shot out
to him.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is it like I talked to you about this a
little before.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Is it like intimidating, not just because of who your
family is, but kind of like walking into all this
like recognition, like even when you're out it somewhere like
you were somewheer this weekend and people.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Just had like a paparazzi like TMC.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was like here.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Like is that like intimidating? Are you just kind of to.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You know, like one thing about me, Like, I embrace
it and it's all love, you know. And not only that,
I'm also a fan of the product too, you know,
you know, I'm a wrestler.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And all this.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm still you know, I'm still fan shocked when I
see Jeff Hardy. But yeah, I'm a big fan of
what I do, and I love what I do and
I'm happy, you know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So yeah, that's blessed.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I did see that A lot of people say when
they post something like oh it just Mezilla at the
airport or something like that, They're like, he's so down
to earth and he talks to everybody, he's so nice
and everything. I see you in your TikTok lives or
you like you'll join a TikTok live and like talk
to everybody pretty much. Do you ever feel like it
gets a little too overwhelming sometimes or not yet?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No, No, mermousis like I told you, I enjoy what
I'm doing, and uh, just to kind of like twist
it a little bit, I also try to put myself
in these fans shoes too, you know, I wouldn't want
my faith wrestler giving me an attitude or not want
to take a picture with me.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You know, I wouldn't want that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So whenever I'm you know, interacting with certain with certain fans,
it's like I embrace that moment.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm in the moment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And not only that, I just want to give love
and since I think you know already like with our culture,
with some more culture, that's what we built off of.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
We're built off you.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Know, love and and respect and loyalty. That's that's our foundation.
So that just comes with you know, the best damn
mom in the world. Shot you know, having her, you know,
and shout out to the whole you know, my family,
you know, for for raising me as a young man.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So yeah, now he got a pretty pretty huge, you
know following, like he's pretty well known definitely the wrestling world,
definitely in Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, you know, he got his video of.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Vixing credits or his Candy man Can credits. Shout to
tell me, Shia, but is this the path that was
always do you feel like you're a product of like
your family, like this was always what you were gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Do no, I mean not really.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
But at the same time, wrestling is always was always
gonna be there, you know what I mean. Like with
my uncles, my cousin they always tell me, like, you know,
wrestling is always gonna be even with my dad, you know,
just to give you guys a little you know, insight
on that, my dad didn't want none of us do wrestling.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know. We used to have meetings, you know, every week.
You know, he used to be.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He used to be like, you know, I don't want
you guys doing wrestling. You know, if anything, I need
you guys to do something that's better than me, you know,
which is that's everybody, that's every parents, you know, they
always want their kids to be better. But with me,
it's just different, you know. But I know he knows
what's going on, you know, I know he understands.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Why I chose to do this.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But like I said, I'm happy, you know, because it
just brought me closer to who he was.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So yeah, is that was that more of a motivating
factor when you you.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Know, got But at the same time, it is kind
of hard because you know, sometimes in my head I'd
be like, damn man, I wish he was here, you know,
or what or if I did this, what would he
thought about it?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
You know?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
So yeah, sometimes it does, you know, getting emotional at
some points, But like I said, I'm just happy, you know,
just meeting new people down the way, and not only that,
just hearing different stories about my dad. So yeah, my
dad was you know, one of a.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Conso what I do.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
What I've learned about you is that we talked about
things we would have done if we weren't here.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Is that you did try to do music. Are you
what you wanted to do music?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
First where did that? Where did that switch? Where you're
like and let me, let me just focus on So.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And this is with my story, y'all. Like I'm not
saying just do one thing or just focus on one thing.
But when I came home and I started doing music
for a little bit, but the opportunities with wrestling, it
just kept popping up, you know what I mean. And
like I just sat down with my mom one time
and I was like, you know, I might, I might
you know, do this, and she looked at me like
(09:05):
are you for really? But yeah, I just feel like
it was this wasn't planning like, yeah, it wasn't planned.
So I feel like with me just focusing on one thing,
another door is gonna open up. You know what I
mean to something that I do want to do, not
(09:25):
saying that wrestling not you know, now, I want what
I want to do, but there's multiple things I want
to do, like acting, music, like I want to I
want to dig my hands in a lot of stuff. Fashion,
you know, all that modeling, all that.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So I was just about to ask that. I was like,
I was like if.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I was just about to ask that, because I was like,
I know that you guys have like entry songs and
stuff like that, like you're gonna make your own you
gonna collab with somebody.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Or is that something that you want to do.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And then even when I look on your TikTok or
your Instagram, like you had one video You're in black
and white, you got like you're dressed up, and I
was like, this is.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Nig good thing. Your model.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You had a white top, You're on a car, but
it was like some promo video, but you're like dressed up.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It looked like like a GQ shoot.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Put me over tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Nah, I don't, but I feel like nowadays, like sometimes
you can't start off doing multiple.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Things, you know, like what you you was doing music,
announcing and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Like yeah, but I say, like my story is just different,
you know. I just wanted to focus on one thing. Yeah,
you know, and that's wrestling right now. And and I know,
you know, once I master this or get this down,
I feel like they say you can't, you won't be
able to be a master in wrestling. But I feel
like it's my opinion. I feel like you can master wrestling.
But once I do that, you know, obviously y'all jump
(10:43):
into the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So yeah, so but to you, what is the master wrestling?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That mean? Like you win one belt? To like, what
is that for you? When are you the master of it?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Obviously yeah, yeah, you're just winning belts, but not only that,
just just submitting a legacy, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And the words.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
If I wrestle for five years and I retire, people
be okay with that because I did a lot within
those five years, you know what I mean. It wouldn't
be like, oh no, he shouldn't retire. He got still,
you know what I mean. So I just want to
be one of those very few wrestlers that like master this.
I feel like there's there's other like Booker t. He's
one of the but he's humble. He's not gonna call himself, like,
(11:22):
you know, a master of this. But I feel like,
you know, he's like my master splitter, you know, like
that for real, Jacob.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So for those who don't know as well, who might
just be to just not learning about you.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You come from a pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Big family, bro, I know, because we're still trying to
figure that out. But you come from a pretty big family,
a pretty long blood line that has history in wrestling.
And I'll see your brother Jacob Tho So Brothers, Raines
the Rock like.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
A few dog. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We could be here all day. Do you have any.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Nervousness about living up to the family bar to extend
expectations to extent?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Sometimes just like yeah, like when I go out there,
because I know for a fact there's already expectations of me,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
So I feel like yes and no, uh sometimes and no.
The reason why I say no is because like sometimes
I go out there and like ones, you know, I'm
just one of the ones. That's just how you know,
that's just how I think. But other than that, sometimes,
you know, I just remain humble, you know, remain humble,
like I said, just being related to all these legends
and future legends.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's just the cherry on top.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Uh, but I would say investing, you know, Zilifi too,
you know, the main one investing.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
You know that story. Don't try to like focus.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
On connected to everything that's just compared.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Nothing wrong with that, None wrong with that. Right now,
I'm just figuring out myself.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I'm sure you've already because you're your finishing move is
like your dad's finishing move, right, It's like, yeah, so
I'm sure you know, but I'm sure you've already gott
in comparisons or whatever. Now.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
One thing, the reason why I do that, sister, Uh,
I always gonna I'm always gonna pay hummage to my pops,
you know, but I do it a different way. I
don't know if you're watch any of my matches, but
my dad he does like he'll choke you and then
spike you. Like with my spike, I can catch you,
like with you jumping off you know the top, I'll
catch you. Try to do something to me, I'll just
(13:25):
catch you out of nowhere, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So I try to like, uh re, how do you
say it? What you can speak?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
In?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Rebrand my pop school?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I feel like I did that, you know? So yeah? What?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Something else I knows about you is a lot of
your posts that you put music on, a lot of
it has Nipsy on it.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And did you just get all money in tattoo?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I did? I got it on my arm?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, yeah, I fucking love Nipsey hustle my entire life.
What is Nipsey like everyone who is a fan of
his to the point that to the point that like
you get a tattoo of him, like like he means
that much to you?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
How what did Nipsey help you get through?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Like how we get there? I just want to break
down everything.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't think nobody knows about why, like how Zilla
and Nipsey, you know, came together. So I want to
say this, I'm gonna keep it all the way with honey.
I did not know Bro before he died, you know,
I was in jail right, But after he died, like
the day after, they played all his music right and
I literally sat in myself and listen to all this
man's music like in jail radio, you know with headphones and.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Tablet things or the tablet things you don't have.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I wasn't there for that. I just came home for that.
They just started at like the last two years. Yeah,
so when I was in there, Yeah, so they played
all his music. Uh, and I listened. One thing about me,
I like listening, you know, and he he spoke a
lot of realism in his lyrics. Now you know, nowadays
you know it was about killing all this other stuff,
you know, nonsense, But uh, with him, it was just
about life. And at that moment, that's what I needed.
(15:06):
I needed life. I needed I needed hope. So uh yeah,
I started investing in my time in him and knowing
trying to get to know who he was.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I read his book. I read everything right, like
there's not.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
One thing that you say, and then yeah, that's that's
what I was about. Say So I started watching the
interviews and uh, he just inspired me to, uh just
be real with myself, my family, take care of my family,
take care of the ones that around me, create a team,
come up with a plan, come up with a solution,
(15:39):
and and chase after your goals and once you accomplished that,
create another goal and keeping.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Not only that had fun. Yeah, Nip taught me that.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Nip taught me all of that just being locked up
since you know what I'm saying, I needed that I
was at the lowest point of my life, right.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So boom fast forward.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Uh yeah, with this marathon continues that message right there.
It just resonates with me and I and I'll never forget,
you know, when I first heard his music and all this,
like I'll never forget that feeling that I got, like
I was my damn Like I want to be like
him or I want to share the same message that
he was sharing to other people. And that's how that's
(16:16):
how I connected. So then then yeah, I just that's
why you guys hear me within nim So's he definitely
he's played a big rod where I'm at too today
as far as outside of wrestling too.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So yeah, what is like, I'll say, we can say
at the same time, what is your favorite project of
his projects?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Might I Saw Some Boy Too?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I like Saw Some Boy too?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Uh man, I like the one I like Saw Some
Boys one, Let's Do Let's Go one.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
But my favorite song it got to be racks in
the middle.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You don't, I like it, but my mine when I
first moved here, so in my story, like when I
got my promotion here, I used to be in Calsation.
When I got my promotion here, I used to listen
to Down was a Great with Kirko on the way
here all the time, and then I listened to That's
when Victory Lap Drops. So I listened to Dedication right
(17:09):
and all those like Sucker Proof and stuff. But there's
only a few that will make me cry. No, is
there one of those for you? You like he's saying
some real stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Grinding all my life. Okay, I feel like I feel
like that song is about me. He's speaking about me
in that song. I feel like he is.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Not a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know everybody we had I don't know if you
were out, but like when he did pass away, we
have like a whole balloon release thing at the park
like me and trade the truth.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And other people.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And it's crazy because before he passed people knew about him,
but they weren't. He wasn't getting his flowers, you know,
like people are like, you know whatever, he.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Wasn't exactly stuff like if you if you go watch
the Young the interview, gonna ask him like why you
ain't you know, why you ain't got no change?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Or why yeah I ain't work about that. I'm on land.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
You know, Land don't lose value, you know. So all
that bro he gave, he gives a lot of people games.
Still to this day you can go back and watch
his interviews and still learn something.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Is there anything that he inspired you to read? Because
it's really big in books, you know self self, Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
No, not as far as me. I'm also I like
burying so got books. So yeah, no, I like Robert Green.
But also just like you know, I like a lot
of self help books, you know, as far as me
reading like about like Harry Potter, Like that's cool, but
I'm not. I'm not really big into like, you know,
the non fish. I ain't you know, nothing against that,
but I'm a really big on self help books. So yeah,
(18:38):
Robert Green, Robert Green is my favorite author right now.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, so yeah, he made the thew in the production.
Yeah that guy I was I was saying that Napoleon Hill, the.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Guy who made the.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Prosperity Bible. Yeah, that's a good one. You know, you
guys go get some of that year.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So staying on music, you got Nip up there. Top
three rappers.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Right now, I got no cap. You know what it
is you do?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why are you saying now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Because he's younger, you know what I'm saying. That's why.
So I'm gonna site him.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Obviously, you got Nip up there, and uh you got
as far as right now, jam money back yo.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So he's gonna say boss Man, boss Man is up.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
There is up there. I forgot it.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
He's newer though, yeah, but yeah boss Man, but on
the daily. Yeah, those are like my top the old Wayne.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
See Carterotoon, bro Cardotoon.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
And I got a little island music to you know,
shout to him all my islands right there.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Bug. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying,
Korean you heear me? How god lie? You know? Shots
all my islanders that's putting on right now?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Okay, Top three Houston rappers.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Okay, let's get it. I got souts up there. I
got d Baby up there.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I got you know d Baby right yeah, Okay, I
got uh you know him right?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, I work in music. Talk about you said you
said the third one was Travis Scott.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, okay, I thought you would say like a og
because you're from the North Side.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You said it's slim or something.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I mean, I just slim, Yeah, I just slim zero
and all that. But I'm talking about like on the daily.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah, like the baby, you know, but I always
jam the og.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Like when I when I had my my matching here
Houston at the Houston premiere around.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, I came out to zero. Okay, yeah, yeah, I
like little flip toe. Yeah. I might come out to
that game over, you know, the next time.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Hell So, even as much research as I've done on you,
we follow each other and I'm trying to find I've
scoured social media see what they're talking about about you,
you know, what people are excited about.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
There's still some things I would have not been able
to find.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And I want to know if you are willing to
share that because I see.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
A lot of nobody doesn't know about me.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Man, that's hard too, because I'm I'm when I came home,
I was already an open book for yeah like.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That because he does have a YouTube channel to that,
you know.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, that's another thing too, that that I'm uh that
I'm inspired to do is YouTube. And the reason why
is because I give people the process. I give people
the journey. You know, when I came home, it wasn't
no handout, you know, it wasn't no I here's something,
here's uh you know this money go.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Get you whatever you want. It wasn't none of that,
you know.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I had to grind for what I got right now,
and just to give people the feeling of being part
of something, it means a lot, you know. And not
only that I'm inspiring young kas, I'm inspiring just people
around the world, and that that right there just means
a lot to me too and my mama.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So yeah, that's also important because on like Instagram, you
only see the it's the highlight reel, like you see
the good moments, but you don't see the in between.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Like, well, if you got my work, you see the
ups down, you know, maybe a little booger in my nose.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm just keeping it, okay, So let's let's do this
real quick. I'm gonna do Zilla's Top ten where there's
certain things.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
You have to pick.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's like an either or that, Okay, So number one,
you out late night in Houston, what a burger or
waffle House.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Oh, I don't fell out.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That's a hard question.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But hey.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
All my taste is gonna be mad. But I'm going
with that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean this, this white house more of experience. I'm
not you know, I'm not mad at it. Whataburger is
just like okay, cool? But like w House, you gonna
see something.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Water big, Waterburger big out here. I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I don't, uh do you prefer Waderburger over like other
burger chains?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Though?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Like if okay, so say that if I go to training, right,
I did like four or five hours of wrestling training
where I'm gonna go to water Burger, get that petty
meal with extra male you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
But if I'm like, you know what I'm saying, we
don't turn the well, it's two am in the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Were hungry, you know what I'm saying, Something cheap, something
you know, with good quality. We're going to wall and
that's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
There ain't no, there are no other options. So you're
not swinging by the taco bell that like, no, no,
not any of those places. Okay, So number two, if
you gotta.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Go both chicken heads, do you know who that is? No,
I got you. We're gonna okay side.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
He heard about it? Okay, yeah, all right? Number two
two games.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I know they're in different seasons if they were ever
at the same time. Texans are the Astros.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Texans to see c J, to.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
See who's your favorite player on the Texans, to.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
See the whole team.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But yeah Stefan did, okay, yeah, okay, Andre Johnson. I've
seen Andre Johnson at one of the practices. Man, I
wish I was there.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Three. You spend most of your time on YouTube or
TikTok YouTube.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Hello you tube cutting the check for your boys, or
you and.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Your brother Jacob or the USO twins.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Mmmm. You about to get me in trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That's why perfect questions, About to give me the trouble
to ease, about to give me an out of heat.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
But now I'm me and come.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
On, okay, yeah, ship LEAs or any other donuts, but Chrispy.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Kreme Dunk Donuts really upper ship LEAs.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Come on, I thought you, come on.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I thought you okay, okay, but I think y'all you
from Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Everybody's everybody riodes firsus.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
All right, So did you ever go to Astra World
when it was here.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Okay, did you ever go to Disney? I did, like
one time, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Okay, so we're gonna skip that question because you don't
got the you don't have the experience. Would you rather
spend your time late now on the north side of
the south side?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
North side? North side?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Where are some places you actually frequent up there when
you're not training chicken heads?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Have you seen the way chicken heads? Like? How how
it looks like the whole.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Bro it's it's it's a nice big piece of land
and it has chicken heads and chicken hea. I'm not
going to sit here and tell you guys that mean
you go look it up. But it's multiple like little
small vendors right, different types of food.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's a family friendly, you know, you can bring your kids,
you know, got the drinks you know, if you drink
or whatever. And it also has a what is it called,
like a goat cart thing next door.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So yeah, it has everything.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Okay, we're gonna check that out since you just talked
about chicken heads and chicken whatever. So Texas thing that
I learned when I moved here was people dip their
chicken tendors and gravy. I still think that's weird. But
chicken tenor is in gravy or ranch use it.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I'm some on. We love mayonnaise, so I put that
muggin and mayonnaise and catch up.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
That is true. I do love me. Come on some
pink songs? Okay? Last one is our one? Beyonce or Meghan?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Damn?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
What not?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
The reason why I say it's they both from the city.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
You know what I'm saying. So it's like, you rather
go to Megan? Come on now, all my hot girls,
and I.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Said, ain't thrown enough ass show?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
All right? Let me know what Megan here next time? Yeah,
let me know what she here. I'm trying to get
on the track with her.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
All right, Man, listen, we don't he already. You didn't
oversay it.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I just helped kept you here a little too long.
But I appreciate you coming up here. You got your
your match coming up this Saturday, which will be the
first wrestling match that I ever go to in my life.
So let's let's see how that happens. But what else
do you want to share with anyone listening? Like, where
can they follow you? Where can they get your merch.
Where can they keep you know? What's your next match?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
After Saturday?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Where are you going to be?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
All my socials is under one name which is Zila
FHA to z I l l A f A tu.
If you guys want to go figure find my merch,
it's also at Zila FA to Merch. The link is
in the bayo and not only that, the link is
also in my personal page Zila FA two. So go
tap in and once again this Saturday at the Texas
Arena makes you guys tap in. The tickets are online
(26:58):
and yeah Geno mission tickets at the.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Dough And until then, when we see him in his
nest match or being video of Vicent in his next
music video, we will support. Until then, it's Aston with
twos on our heard video that's
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Give Me in Trouble, What me you got Give
All right you ready, all right, ready, all right, Sash
you with Twoe's on air.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Think so much for tapping in with us.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We should have also, uh go ahead down. I heard
radiopstream us at the Red talkback Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I got a homie in the building with me. A
lot of people are.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
If you're a big fan of wrestling, you already know
who this person is because he has so much chatter
about him on every social media app.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But please walk into my show, zelifive two.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Men, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know, getting ready for this Saturday?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Listen to what's going tone? What's going on Saturday for everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
So we got my one year anniversary for wrestling at
Reality Wrestling this Saturday at the Texas Arena, So make
sure you guys pull up. Doors are open at seven pm.
They say that tickets are sold out online, so make
sure you guys come. There will be general admission tickets
at the Dome.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So the way we just talked about it, the way
that we found each other is funny.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
But I made a TikTok a while ago and I
was like, I don't see no Simons out in Houston
because I moved here, like what six years ago?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Got to be more specific and what was you doing
in was you?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Like?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, what do you mean? What were you doing in
the video? You just you just said that.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I think if I made like a couple of it,
it's someone where I went to AGB and I was like,
when you're the only smooning Houston. I was gonna start
fruit and everybody and everybody was like, yes, I was
in the fruit out and I was just like, we're
the only simoning Houston.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Everybody was like, that's a lie. They got have been
UNBLI I'm the north side. I got to I got
homie oh on the south side. I was like, all right, cool.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Didn't know because I got so so much like engagement
from the video.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I didn't know that you followed me from there.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Then like months later, my nephews were like, oh, there's
this wrestler.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Dude from there, like he's from Houston, Like you look
him up. He's cool. And they gave me your thing
and it said you already followed me.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I was like, oh, okay, okay, And then that's when
I d M you. We started talking. He's like, yeah,
you know you know, I'm like cool, like, you know,
come up here. And then the funny thing is before that,
I had to tell me she up here a few
months ago before the video dropped, and she had mentioned you,
but I just didn't put two.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And two together.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
She's like, yeah, I'm a homie Zilla is He's in there?
And then I was like, oh, that was Hill. Listen,
that is the universe bringing us together, bro like in
the in the weirdest of ways, in the weirdest of ways.
But but everyone who does not know, I want to
ask different stuff than when everyone else asks you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm been looking at your interviews.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I know everything is about wrestling for the wrestling heads,
but I want to do this for people just to
know you on a personal level. And a lot of
ladies be asking about you too, about information.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
See see what's going on? What's happening? So numbers.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So number one, we got to congratulate you because you
are you won your first championship.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, and then how did that match? Like, how did
to go? What happened?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Was you know me that for him?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Was it was all love, you know, shot out to
New York and shout out to the promotion called h
Og that's based out over there, for giving me the
opportunity to broadcast my talent. So I was really nervous,
you know, before going out there, because I knew that,
you know, this.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Was for the Belt.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
But afterwards it was it was it was kind of
like deja vu.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It felt like you know, this was supposed to happen, yeah,
or it felt like it was it already did happen,
you know, but that that day just marks the first
to mini of belts to come.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So yeah, how long did it take it together? How
many matches had you already done?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh? Man, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I won't say like nineteen right or twenty Yeah, yeah,
between nineteen and twenty three.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I don't sense.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Now you got me thinking I'm about to go back
tonight to figure out how many matches I got, But yeah,
I know I don't have any more.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't have no more than twenty five, so I
know it's like between that range.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, Okay, and how many have you been How many
actual tag team matches did you do with Jacob?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh shot to my bro, Yeah, Jacob I did like
six seven others. Yeah, I was his last. I was
one of his last matches before he got signed.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So yeah, is it a dream of yours to be
a tag team again in the future with him?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, yeah. Who wouldn't want this morning? Wherewoth on your team?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Who wouldn't want the most dangerous someone like, come on.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Bro, he's one of the He's one of the ones.
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It hit different just having them there with me, you know,
and a lot of people don't know it was Booker
T and Jacob. That plays a big role. Well, shouting Bijamin,
that plays a big role on where I'm at.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Today, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So shout out to Jacob for you know, just giving
me the right knowledge and just taking me under his
tree and just guiding me and giving me just the
right just how do you say advice? Yeah, on how
to do certain stuff in the ring, So shot out
to him.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is it like I talked to you about this a
little before.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Is it like intimidating, not just because of who your
family is, but kind of like walking into all this
like recognition, like even when you're out it somewhere like
you were somewheer this weekend and people.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Just had like a paparazzi like TMC.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was like here.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Like is that like intimidating? Are you just kind of to.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
You know, like one thing about me, Like, I embrace
it and it's all love, you know. And not only that,
I'm also a fan of the product too, you know,
you know, I'm a wrestler.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And all this.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm still you know, I'm still fan shocked when I
see Jeff Hardy. But yeah, I'm a big fan of
what I do, and I love what I do and
I'm happy, you know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So yeah, that's blessed.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I did see that A lot of people say when
they post something like oh it just Mezilla at the
airport or something like that, They're like, he's so down
to earth and he talks to everybody, he's so nice
and everything. I see you in your TikTok lives or
you like you'll join a TikTok live and like talk
to everybody pretty much. Do you ever feel like it
gets a little too overwhelming sometimes or not yet?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
No, No, mermousis like I told you, I enjoy what
I'm doing, and uh, just to kind of like twist
it a little bit, I also try to put myself
in these fans shoes too, you know, I wouldn't want
my faith wrestler giving me an attitude or not want
to take a picture with me.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You know, I wouldn't want that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
So whenever I'm you know, interacting with certain with certain fans,
it's like I embrace that moment.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I'm in the moment, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And not only that, I just want to give love
and since I think you know already like with our culture,
with some more culture, that's what we built off of.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
We're built off you.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Know, love and and respect and loyalty. That's that's our foundation.
So that just comes with you know, the best damn
mom in the world. Shot you know, having her, you know,
and shout out to the whole you know, my family,
you know, for for raising me as a young man.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So yeah, now he got a pretty pretty huge, you
know following, like he's pretty well known definitely the wrestling world,
definitely in Houston.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, you know, he got his video of.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Vixing credits or his Candy man Can credits. Shout to
tell me, Shia, but is this the path that was
always do you feel like you're a product of like
your family, like this was always what you were gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Do no, I mean not really.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
But at the same time, wrestling is always was always
gonna be there, you know what I mean. Like with
my uncles, my cousin they always tell me, like, you know,
wrestling is always gonna be even with my dad, you know,
just to give you guys a little you know, insight
on that, my dad didn't want none of us do wrestling.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You know. We used to have meetings, you know, every week.
You know, he used to be.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He used to be like, you know, I don't want
you guys doing wrestling. You know, if anything, I need
you guys to do something that's better than me, you know,
which is that's everybody, that's every parents, you know, they
always want their kids to be better. But with me,
it's just different, you know. But I know he knows
what's going on, you know, I know he understands.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Why I chose to do this.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But like I said, I'm happy, you know, because it
just brought me closer to who he was.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So yeah, is that was that more of a motivating
factor when you you.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Know, got But at the same time, it is kind
of hard because you know, sometimes in my head I'd
be like, damn man, I wish he was here, you know,
or what or if I did this, what would he
thought about it?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
You know?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
So yeah, sometimes it does, you know, getting emotional at
some points, But like I said, I'm just happy, you know,
just meeting new people down the way, and not only that,
just hearing different stories about my dad. So yeah, my
dad was you know, one of a.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Conso what I do.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
What I've learned about you is that we talked about
things we would have done if we weren't here.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Is that you did try to do music. Are you
what you wanted to do music?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
First where did that? Where did that switch? Where you're
like and let me, let me just focus on So.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And this is with my story, y'all. Like I'm not
saying just do one thing or just focus on one thing.
But when I came home and I started doing music
for a little bit, but the opportunities with wrestling, it
just kept popping up, you know what I mean. And
like I just sat down with my mom one time
and I was like, you know, I might, I might
you know, do this, and she looked at me like
(09:05):
are you for really? But yeah, I just feel like
it was this wasn't planning like, yeah, it wasn't planned.
So I feel like with me just focusing on one thing,
another door is gonna open up. You know what I
mean to something that I do want to do, not
(09:25):
saying that wrestling not you know, now, I want what
I want to do, but there's multiple things I want
to do, like acting, music, like I want to I
want to dig my hands in a lot of stuff. Fashion,
you know, all that modeling, all that.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So I was just about to ask that. I was like,
I was like if.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I was just about to ask that, because I was like,
I know that you guys have like entry songs and
stuff like that, like you're gonna make your own you
gonna collab with somebody.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Or is that something that you want to do.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And then even when I look on your TikTok or
your Instagram, like you had one video You're in black
and white, you got like you're dressed up, and I
was like, this is.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Nig good thing. Your model.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You had a white top, You're on a car, but
it was like some promo video, but you're like dressed up.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It looked like like a GQ shoot.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Put me over tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Nah, I don't, but I feel like nowadays, like sometimes
you can't start off doing multiple.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Things, you know, like what you you was doing music,
announcing and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Like yeah, but I say, like my story is just different,
you know. I just wanted to focus on one thing. Yeah,
you know, and that's wrestling right now. And and I know,
you know, once I master this or get this down,
I feel like they say you can't, you won't be
able to be a master in wrestling. But I feel
like it's my opinion. I feel like you can master wrestling.
But once I do that, you know, obviously y'all jump
(10:43):
into the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So yeah, so but to you, what is the master wrestling?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That mean? Like you win one belt? To like, what
is that for you? When are you the master of it?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Obviously yeah, yeah, you're just winning belts, but not only that,
just just submitting a legacy, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And the words.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
If I wrestle for five years and I retire, people
be okay with that because I did a lot within
those five years, you know what I mean. It wouldn't
be like, oh no, he shouldn't retire. He got still,
you know what I mean. So I just want to
be one of those very few wrestlers that like master this.
I feel like there's there's other like Booker t. He's
one of the but he's humble. He's not gonna call himself, like,
(11:22):
you know, a master of this. But I feel like,
you know, he's like my master splitter, you know, like
that for real, Jacob.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So for those who don't know as well, who might
just be to just not learning about you.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You come from a pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Big family, bro, I know, because we're still trying to
figure that out. But you come from a pretty big family,
a pretty long blood line that has history in wrestling.
And I'll see your brother Jacob Tho So Brothers, Raines
the Rock like.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
A few dog. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We could be here all day. Do you have any.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Nervousness about living up to the family bar to extend
expectations to extent?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Sometimes just like yeah, like when I go out there,
because I know for a fact there's already expectations of me,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
So I feel like yes and no, uh sometimes and no.
The reason why I say no is because like sometimes
I go out there and like ones, you know, I'm
just one of the ones. That's just how you know,
that's just how I think. But other than that, sometimes,
you know, I just remain humble, you know, remain humble,
like I said, just being related to all these legends
and future legends.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's just the cherry on top.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Uh, but I would say investing, you know, Zilifi too,
you know, the main one investing.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
You know that story. Don't try to like focus.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
On connected to everything that's just compared.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Nothing wrong with that, None wrong with that. Right now,
I'm just figuring out myself.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I'm sure you've already because you're your finishing move is
like your dad's finishing move, right, It's like, yeah, so
I'm sure you know, but I'm sure you've already gott
in comparisons or whatever. Now.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
One thing, the reason why I do that, sister, Uh,
I always gonna I'm always gonna pay hummage to my pops,
you know, but I do it a different way. I
don't know if you're watch any of my matches, but
my dad he does like he'll choke you and then
spike you. Like with my spike, I can catch you,
like with you jumping off you know the top, I'll
catch you. Try to do something to me, I'll just
(13:25):
catch you out of nowhere, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So I try to like, uh re, how do you
say it? What you can speak?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
In?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Rebrand my pop school?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I feel like I did that, you know? So yeah? What?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Something else I knows about you is a lot of
your posts that you put music on, a lot of
it has Nipsy on it.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And did you just get all money in tattoo?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I did? I got it on my arm?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, yeah, I fucking love Nipsey hustle my entire life.
What is Nipsey like everyone who is a fan of
his to the point that to the point that like
you get a tattoo of him, like like he means
that much to you?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
How what did Nipsey help you get through?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Like how we get there? I just want to break
down everything.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't think nobody knows about why, like how Zilla
and Nipsey, you know, came together. So I want to
say this, I'm gonna keep it all the way with honey.
I did not know Bro before he died, you know,
I was in jail right, But after he died, like
the day after, they played all his music right and
I literally sat in myself and listen to all this
man's music like in jail radio, you know with headphones and.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Tablet things or the tablet things you don't have.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I wasn't there for that. I just came home for that.
They just started at like the last two years. Yeah,
so when I was in there, Yeah, so they played
all his music. Uh, and I listened. One thing about me,
I like listening, you know, and he he spoke a
lot of realism in his lyrics. Now you know, nowadays
you know it was about killing all this other stuff,
you know, nonsense, But uh, with him, it was just
about life. And at that moment, that's what I needed.
(15:06):
I needed life. I needed I needed hope. So uh yeah,
I started investing in my time in him and knowing
trying to get to know who he was.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And I read his book. I read everything right, like
there's not.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
One thing that you say, and then yeah, that's that's
what I was about. Say So I started watching the
interviews and uh, he just inspired me to, uh just
be real with myself, my family, take care of my family,
take care of the ones that around me, create a team,
come up with a plan, come up with a solution,
(15:39):
and and chase after your goals and once you accomplished that,
create another goal and keeping.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Not only that had fun. Yeah, Nip taught me that.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Nip taught me all of that just being locked up
since you know what I'm saying, I needed that I
was at the lowest point of my life, right.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
So boom fast forward.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Uh yeah, with this marathon continues that message right there.
It just resonates with me and I and I'll never forget,
you know, when I first heard his music and all this,
like I'll never forget that feeling that I got, like
I was my damn Like I want to be like
him or I want to share the same message that
he was sharing to other people. And that's how that's
(16:16):
how I connected. So then then yeah, I just that's
why you guys hear me within nim So's he definitely
he's played a big rod where I'm at too today
as far as outside of wrestling too.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So yeah, what is like, I'll say, we can say
at the same time, what is your favorite project of
his projects?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Might I Saw Some Boy Too?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I like Saw Some Boy too?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Uh man, I like the one I like Saw Some
Boys one, Let's Do Let's Go one.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
But my favorite song it got to be racks in
the middle.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You don't, I like it, but my mine when I
first moved here, so in my story, like when I
got my promotion here, I used to be in Calsation.
When I got my promotion here, I used to listen
to Down was a Great with Kirko on the way
here all the time, and then I listened to That's
when Victory Lap Drops. So I listened to Dedication right
(17:09):
and all those like Sucker Proof and stuff. But there's
only a few that will make me cry. No, is
there one of those for you? You like he's saying
some real stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Grinding all my life. Okay, I feel like I feel
like that song is about me. He's speaking about me
in that song. I feel like he is.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Not a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know everybody we had I don't know if you
were out, but like when he did pass away, we
have like a whole balloon release thing at the park
like me and trade the truth.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And other people.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And it's crazy because before he passed people knew about him,
but they weren't. He wasn't getting his flowers, you know,
like people are like, you know whatever, he.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Wasn't exactly stuff like if you if you go watch
the Young the interview, gonna ask him like why you
ain't you know, why you ain't got no change?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Or why yeah I ain't work about that. I'm on land.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
You know, Land don't lose value, you know. So all
that bro he gave, he gives a lot of people games.
Still to this day you can go back and watch
his interviews and still learn something.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Is there anything that he inspired you to read? Because
it's really big in books, you know self self, Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
No, not as far as me. I'm also I like
burying so got books. So yeah, no, I like Robert Green.
But also just like you know, I like a lot
of self help books, you know, as far as me
reading like about like Harry Potter, Like that's cool, but
I'm not. I'm not really big into like, you know,
the non fish. I ain't you know, nothing against that,
but I'm a really big on self help books. So yeah,
(18:38):
Robert Green, Robert Green is my favorite author right now.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Okay, so yeah, he made the thew in the production.
Yeah that guy I was I was saying that Napoleon Hill, the.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Guy who made the.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Prosperity Bible. Yeah, that's a good one. You know, you
guys go get some of that year.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So staying on music, you got Nip up there. Top
three rappers.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Right now, I got no cap. You know what it
is you do?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Why are you saying now? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Because he's younger, you know what I'm saying. That's why.
So I'm gonna site him.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Obviously, you got Nip up there, and uh you got
as far as right now, jam money back yo.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So he's gonna say boss Man, boss Man is up.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
There is up there. I forgot it.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
He's newer though, yeah, but yeah boss Man, but on
the daily. Yeah, those are like my top the old Wayne.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
See Carterotoon, bro Cardotoon.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
And I got a little island music to you know,
shout to him all my islands right there.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Bug. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying,
Korean you heear me? How god lie? You know? Shots
all my islanders that's putting on right now?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Okay, Top three Houston rappers.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Okay, let's get it. I got souts up there. I
got d Baby up there.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I got you know d Baby right yeah, Okay, I
got uh you know him right?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, I work in music. Talk about you said you
said the third one was Travis Scott.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, okay, I thought you would say like a og
because you're from the North Side.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You said it's slim or something.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I mean, I just slim, Yeah, I just slim zero
and all that. But I'm talking about like on the daily.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah, like the baby, you know, but I always
jam the og.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Like when I when I had my my matching here
Houston at the Houston premiere around.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, I came out to zero. Okay, yeah, yeah, I
like little flip toe. Yeah. I might come out to
that game over, you know, the next time.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Hell So, even as much research as I've done on you,
we follow each other and I'm trying to find I've
scoured social media see what they're talking about about you,
you know, what people are excited about.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
There's still some things I would have not been able
to find.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And I want to know if you are willing to
share that because I see.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
A lot of nobody doesn't know about me.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Man, that's hard too, because I'm I'm when I came home,
I was already an open book for yeah like.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That because he does have a YouTube channel to that,
you know.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, that's another thing too, that that I'm uh that
I'm inspired to do is YouTube. And the reason why
is because I give people the process. I give people
the journey. You know, when I came home, it wasn't
no handout, you know, it wasn't no I here's something,
here's uh you know this money go.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Get you whatever you want. It wasn't none of that,
you know.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I had to grind for what I got right now,
and just to give people the feeling of being part
of something, it means a lot, you know. And not
only that I'm inspiring young kas, I'm inspiring just people
around the world, and that that right there just means
a lot to me too and my mama.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So yeah, that's also important because on like Instagram, you
only see the it's the highlight reel, like you see
the good moments, but you don't see the in between.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Like, well, if you got my work, you see the
ups down, you know, maybe a little booger in my nose.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm just keeping it, okay, So let's let's do this
real quick. I'm gonna do Zilla's Top ten where there's
certain things.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
You have to pick.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's like an either or that, Okay, So number one,
you out late night in Houston, what a burger or
waffle House.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Oh, I don't fell out.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That's a hard question.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But hey.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
All my taste is gonna be mad. But I'm going
with that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean this, this white house more of experience. I'm
not you know, I'm not mad at it. Whataburger is
just like okay, cool? But like w House, you gonna
see something.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Water big, Waterburger big out here. I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I don't, uh do you prefer Waderburger over like other
burger chains?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Though?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Like if okay, so say that if I go to training, right,
I did like four or five hours of wrestling training
where I'm gonna go to water Burger, get that petty
meal with extra male you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
But if I'm like, you know what I'm saying, we
don't turn the well, it's two am in the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Were hungry, you know what I'm saying, Something cheap, something
you know, with good quality. We're going to wall and
that's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
There ain't no, there are no other options. So you're
not swinging by the taco bell that like, no, no,
not any of those places. Okay, So number two, if
you gotta.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Go both chicken heads, do you know who that is? No,
I got you. We're gonna okay side.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
He heard about it? Okay, yeah, all right? Number two
two games.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I know they're in different seasons if they were ever
at the same time. Texans are the Astros.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Texans to see c J, to.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
See who's your favorite player on the Texans, to.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
See the whole team.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But yeah Stefan did, okay, yeah, okay, Andre Johnson. I've
seen Andre Johnson at one of the practices. Man, I
wish I was there.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Three. You spend most of your time on YouTube or
TikTok YouTube.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Hello you tube cutting the check for your boys, or
you and.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Your brother Jacob or the USO twins.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Mmmm. You about to get me in trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That's why perfect questions, About to give me the trouble
to ease, about to give me an out of heat.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
But now I'm me and come.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
On, okay, yeah, ship LEAs or any other donuts, but Chrispy.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Kreme Dunk Donuts really upper ship LEAs.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Come on, I thought you, come on.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I thought you okay, okay, but I think y'all you
from Texas.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Everybody's everybody riodes firsus.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
All right, So did you ever go to Astra World
when it was here.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Okay, did you ever go to Disney? I did, like
one time, I think.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Okay, so we're gonna skip that question because you don't
got the you don't have the experience. Would you rather
spend your time late now on the north side of
the south side?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
North side? North side?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Where are some places you actually frequent up there when
you're not training chicken heads?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Have you seen the way chicken heads? Like? How how
it looks like the whole.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Bro it's it's it's a nice big piece of land
and it has chicken heads and chicken hea. I'm not
going to sit here and tell you guys that mean
you go look it up. But it's multiple like little
small vendors right, different types of food.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's a family friendly, you know, you can bring your kids,
you know, got the drinks you know, if you drink
or whatever. And it also has a what is it called,
like a goat cart thing next door.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So yeah, it has everything.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Okay, we're gonna check that out since you just talked
about chicken heads and chicken whatever. So Texas thing that
I learned when I moved here was people dip their
chicken tendors and gravy. I still think that's weird. But
chicken tenor is in gravy or ranch use it.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I'm some on. We love mayonnaise, so I put that
muggin and mayonnaise and catch up.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
That is true. I do love me. Come on some
pink songs? Okay? Last one is our one? Beyonce or Meghan?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Damn?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
What not?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
The reason why I say it's they both from the city.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
You know what I'm saying. So it's like, you rather
go to Megan? Come on now, all my hot girls,
and I.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Said, ain't thrown enough ass show?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
All right? Let me know what Megan here next time? Yeah,
let me know what she here. I'm trying to get
on the track with her.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
All right, Man, listen, we don't he already. You didn't
oversay it.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I just helped kept you here a little too long.
But I appreciate you coming up here. You got your
your match coming up this Saturday, which will be the
first wrestling match that I ever go to in my life.
So let's let's see how that happens. But what else
do you want to share with anyone listening? Like, where
can they follow you? Where can they get your merch.
Where can they keep you know? What's your next match?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
After Saturday?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Where are you going to be?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
All my socials is under one name which is Zila
FHA to z I l l A f A tu.
If you guys want to go figure find my merch,
it's also at Zila FA to Merch. The link is
in the bayo and not only that, the link is
also in my personal page Zila FA two. So go
tap in and once again this Saturday at the Texas
Arena makes you guys tap in. The tickets are online
(26:58):
and yeah Geno mission tickets at the.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Dough And until then, when we see him in his
nest match or being video of Vicent in his next
music video, we will support. Until then, it's Aston with
twos on our heard video that's
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Give Me in Trouble, What me you got Give
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