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September 16, 2025 13 mins
THE BIG PODCAST - BIG Interview With D Smoke On New Album 'Wake Up Supa," I.C.E. in LA, and Missing The Pop Out With Kendrick Lamar
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Big Boy's neighborhood on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
He is in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Wake Up Super is the new album D Smoke in
the Neighborhood. Hey man, So the album is wake Up
Super What does that title mean?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Wake Up Super is is an awakening for gangsters and lovers.
You know, it's me narrating from an unconscious standpoint, being
sleep walking through inglewood without being aware.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
So I get to early on in the album, I
talked my you know, I narrate some of what I
experienced when I had to be on foot. And then
as the album progresses, it's there are spiritual elements and
beautiful like it's D Smokes Aquimini, you know what I'm saying,
Like with live instrumentation, with verses, like with lyrics, with

(00:47):
the features and bringing out the best in everybody. I
believe Dog got the best dog verse that I heard
in a minute. You know what I'm saying. On on
my project na NAE's on my project going Crazy. Russell
went crazy on my project Lucky Day. You know, I'm
hesitant to ever let somebody start off the song.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a feature.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You gotta wait your turn but no lucky day. It's
like I talk in the intro, then I handed over
to him and he blesses it.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
You know so?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
And you write so well too, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And I was a writer first. I had to learn
how to rap versus you know what I'm saying. My
Jesus year was my first year in the game, in
the game as a rapper. But at nineteen I wrote
never for Jahim and I wrote songs for the pussy Have.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
This conversation, did we did?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
My yeah, I was a writer for on.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
When you write for Pussycat Dolls and when you write
for Joahim, how on do you feel you are.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
At that moment in the moment super yeah, you know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
But it's like for us, and this isn't everybody's story,
but for us, the politics of the music industry didn't
put us back in the rooms after we gave some
people hits. And there were times where we wrote a
song and people was like, oh, we love that idea,
and then they take the concept and give it to
tricky and a dream and like you write it with
this concept, like were like for real, y'all told us, y'all,

(02:06):
we know you did that yeah, and so that's what
that kind of propelled us in the artistry more like okay,
for sure gonna we're gonna have a leverage.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
If you want something done, do it yourself kind of
thing too. Telling Hey man, do you get frustrated from
that though?

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Too?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Because to me, you are extremely talented and I mean
like extremely talented, bro. And there's some people without shade
that it seems like they're not ass you know, so
when you see someone that's extremely talented it all it
feels like there's something that's being pushed uphill a little

(02:43):
bit more than something that's just going downhill, and it's like, oh,
it's just working.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why do you stay so true to who you are
and the way that you want to do things and
the way that you want to sound and even when
you talk about the album, you know, the different instruments.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I you know what I'm saying, like, because my artistry
is about what I want to do and how I
want to leave it when I'm no longer doing it,
you know, and before before I made it, whatever that means.
You know, people look at me like you will arrived,
and I'm like, man, I'm getting started, right, But before

(03:20):
I made it in that sense, I already felt successful.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I was a school teacher.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I was good at what I did. You know
what I'm saying, So were your school teacher? Smoke for
seven years as a Spanish teacher, then three more years as.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
A sub or.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Where did you learn Spanish?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
First at Inglewoodhide, inn u Cla and Costa Rica and
then with the homies, I learned Spanish. Those were like
where I took classes, but I learned Spanish everywhere.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Smoke, we got to come back.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
We got more to talk to talk to you about
y'all con team to hang out with us in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
We got more with D Smoke in the Neighborhood, Big
Boys Boys Neighborhood on demand.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
For more, subscribe to our YouTube channel, big Boy TV
and check out Radio big boy dot Com.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Big Boy's Neighborhood. He is in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Wake Up Super is the new album of D Smoke
in the Neighborhood and Man being from Inglewood and just
being so so turf conscious and also being culturally conscious
as well. When you look at what's going on in
La right now, Bro, when you when you look at
because you blew you grew up Brown. I'm just talking
about with with ice and with you know, and with

(04:24):
the you know, running people down and deportations. Bro like
you you cut from a different cloth as with Sure
what what's your feeling on that smoke?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
It's it's.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's embarrassing, you know what I'm saying, Like outside of
like so many Americans a lot of a lot of
times have such a and I'm American of course, have
a superiority complex where if we look at the history,
like everybody came from somewhere, the only the only people
that have the irony is that one Mexican.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
By blood are part Native. What are we talking about?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
So if we trace it back down the line the lineage,
there's more of a right to be here, and all
of the rights that we give Native Americans partially should
be give given to the Mexican community, the Latino community.
So it just doesn't make sense to me that part
is hurtful. And you kind of alluded to to like

(05:29):
if you want to learn Spanish, you could just step outside, right.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
I always called it.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's not a foreign language, it's domestic than a mug,
you know what I'm saying. It's here, you know, so
and it's been here, you know, and of course it's
not like the native language of Native Americans Spanish itself,
but you know, if we talking about who belongs where,
you know, there is a very real argument that Mexicans

(05:56):
have a historical right to be here, you know, and
so that part of it is just like it's painful
to see, especially when they're the violations of human rights,
the brutality, people dying because the way in which they
were handled, you know, caused their heart to start like
what are we talking about? You know, So that's just

(06:19):
something that's difficult to watch. And the irony is that
a lot of times people who carry that that history
of immigration leaving a place and traveling and what that
journey meant, you know, have such a wealth of experience
and a healthy perspective that, like as my experience as
a teacher to students that more recently came from another country,

(06:43):
they come with such a sense of purpose that they're
far more contributors to every space they go to because
they don't take these opportunities lightly, like they'll go to
the worst school and gain the most whatever knowledge is
to be gained from there there in there to get it,
you know, Like I always say, there's a curriculum that
you have and there's also the game that you could

(07:04):
you could gain, right, And the students who are the
best they know that once you finish your homework, the
teachers don't talk to you like like there's the same hierarchy, like, oh,
you're a student, I'm a teacher. Now they talk to
you like, hey, we collaborators.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
We you know, same level.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let me give you the real game, you know, And
that's where the real learning comes in, the stuff in
between the lines. But it's the students that have those
experiences that come from other places that are like really
contributors to to the space more so than the people
who are just kind of entitled and we're all guilty sometimes.
I come from a good family, so I dodn've been
in there, like man, forget.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
School, right, you know. And that's that's from a straight
a student. But you know, I just hate to see
it though.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, yeah, Smoke, we got to come back.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
We got more to talk to talk to you about
y'all conteam to hang out with us in the neighborhood.
We got more with d Smoke in the neighborhood Big Boys.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
This is big Boy on Demand Real.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Ninety two three, LA's new home for hip hop Big
Boys Neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
He is in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Wake Up Super is the new album of d Smoke
in the Neighborhood.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
What did you think when you saw those pictures of
Kendrick popped up where he's taking classes at UCLA?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Oh man, I'm just proud. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Everybody?

Speaker 4 (08:11):
That person.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I thought you was about to ask me? What did
I think when they did the pop up in Inglewood
the day that I the day that I performed at
the Hollywood Bowl.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
So I'm at Hollywood Bowl, the biggest crowd.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'm open enough for tea pain, biggest audience I've ever
performed in front of, got my own set and everything.
And I'm watching from my phone that they in Inglewood
and every rapper in LA is there. And Kendrick said
Inglewood like five times?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
What up?

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Inglewood?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
What I do?

Speaker 4 (08:45):
And I'm like, man, I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
To get to the house.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
But I'm performing in front of seventeen thousand people, So
it's like it's not a loss.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
But let me tell you what's messed up about that?

Speaker 1 (08:55):
When because the pop I was like, Thursday.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
That.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
What you mean now?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
So that means that that's the stuff where you're like,
oh man, we got te Pain Hollywood Ball. When is
that that's like six months from now?

Speaker 5 (09:10):
You know?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
So you signed Ben Ben? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Man, hurting and proud at the same yeah, man, ambiguous
tears falling on.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
People are like, man, he's really into his music.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Like there's some other going on everybody. But when I say,
you say smoke.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Man, So so do you know that there's a movement
going on in eagle Wood in real time? Or is
it the next day that the PopOut goes out and
you're like, oh man, I.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Didn't realize it was kind of the day of when
I was like, everybody start hitting me.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah you over here, smoke where you at?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Man?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
When I'm back, I'm off for Hockling Man, No we
on Manchester, you know what?

Speaker 5 (10:09):
And Prairie I know exactly what I'm like diagonally across
from the sister.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh man, O, hey man, let me tell you home
and you know, because you don't heard it from everybody,
but just for me personally, man, I showed my that night.
Oh my god, bro, I wore an outfit that I
haven't wore since that night because I was acting a
fool on stage when he went into not Man, we
went into not like Us. I was like, if he
do this on one more time, I'm on that stage,

(10:39):
and then.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I heard that.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
This is me. I never pulled my camera out, you
know what I'm saying, And like us.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
It was but you know, it was a moment. Sorry,
I was watching it from my phone, man, and I'm
going to tell you, proud and hurting. I love you
and I love you, bro.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
But if I had been at the Hollywood Ball, I
would have left.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
You gotta know this energy, man, Yeah, that was what
I was.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
At, was a concert, yea. What happened at the Forum
at the same time was a moment in history. And
it's just it's just the truth, you know what I'm saying,
and not just hip hop history in history, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
And so I was and it was in Inglewood, you know,
and so man, shoot, if I could have i'd have left,
you know what I like.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
But you know what they always tell people, man, I
never go watch somebody else work when I'm supposed to work.
You know what I'm saying. I never go watch like
I'm working. You know what I'm saying. That was working,
you know what I'm saying. Not me, I was having
a good time. It was like, you know, it was amazing.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
You know what I'm saying. It was just it was
just one of those moments.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Man.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
But damn hey he sometimes that's how the cookie crumble.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, bro, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I'm saying d smoke definitely one of the thank you
for coming into the neighborhood once again. New album is
Wake Up Souper. Make sure you guys go ahead and
get that thing. You can watch this entire interview in
case you missed any of it. It's right there Big
Boy TV our YouTube channel. As you're watching, hit that
subscribe button. You'll continue to hang out with us in
the neighborhood Big Boy's Neighborhood. Eadies, you're pining a big

(12:20):
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Speaker 2 (12:23):
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Speaker 4 (12:27):
I've dated some guys that are questionable when I go
for personality. Most of the time, I will say most
medium ugly guys do have personality.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
They are funny. I have personality. I'm funny. Jesus, what
are you saying?

Speaker 1 (12:41):
What I'm saying that at least you know that you're
not attracted anyone in the room because you just walk in.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thank you for listening. It is upon a big boy,
big boys neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
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Speaker 2 (12:55):
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Speaker 4 (12:57):
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Speaker 1 (13:00):
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