D&A Live - Season 2, Episode 18 " ANTHONYXJOHN"

D&A Live - Season 2, Episode 18 " ANTHONYXJOHN". Hosted by Danny & Althea. Tonight's guest is Rap Artist ANTHONYXJOHN. D&A Live is aired live from Paradise Studios NY via the Strong Island Entertainment Network. www.strongisland.com

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Episode Transcript

(00:14):
How and we are Danny and altheaDNA Live. I mean, I'm a
little flustered today. You know,I'm so happy today because it's Happy Mother's
Day to everybody out there. Itwas really nice today. It was so
sunny and a little bit of achill, but um, it was really
nice. But I'm welcome everybody.I know you all hung out with your

(00:37):
mommy's today and everything. But it'seight o'clock and it's a DNA livetime.
So who we are? Oh herewe go? Go? Ahead, let
anybody know we're up to Okay,Well, first of all, I want
to give a shout out. UM. It has nothing to do with the
DNA and live show. It hasactually do with the Advocate. Oh here
we go, because it was avery interesting interview that UM last week with
UM two police officers, Mike Dowdand Mike Palazzo. I hope everybody watched

(01:03):
it. We did see that therewere plenty of viewers out there and out
of state, and I just wantedbecause that was a really an insightful interview
with those two gentlemen, and Ijust hope you guys follow them. So
with that said, every Friday andSaturday nights. Danie also does The Advocate

(01:25):
from ten to eleven pm. Healso does the Advocate Mix where people can
submit him music the DJ Energetic Musicat gmail dot com. But you guys
gotta remember, someone's got to bepositive music. It's got me music I
like. If I don't like yourmusic, I'm throwing me. You know
it's he's being honest because a lota lot of people have been submitting and

(01:47):
when we say clean edited radio editversas and warnings, I've said this again.
If you guys send me the recordand the record has cursing in it,
don't send it again. Don't sendit again because I'm not playing it.
And yeah, I don't know.Maybe and you know it's it's it's
easy to bleep one word, butum no, no no, But when
it's the entire song, yeah no, you know you can't. You just

(02:13):
can't. Um. But again,you can submit those songs to DJ and
jetic Music at gmail dot com.Another thing I wanted to be shout out
to Tampa, Florida too, becausethe Advocate will be playing in Tampa,
Florida and we will be reaching overtwo point seven million people on that Tampa
Florida. So much love to everybodyon nine oh four, nine oh four

(02:36):
w w RC. It's a goodlook. If you got that right,
I would be impressed. No Idid, okay, because you know,
no, because you know why,because there's so many you're laughing over there,
but you know I'm right, becausethere's so many other radio stations.
He remembers all the call letters,and I don't necessarily remember them. Are
the only ones I really know areWTSX one or four point nine and power.

(02:58):
Yeah, okay, see I forgotI forgot the power. There you
got. But again, we're acquiringother radio stations, so we I am.
We have California, right, Okay, can I break it down on
Okay, California, Indiana, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, let's all count
people. We don't have to countCaribbeans, the uk uh Tampa. Now.

(03:24):
So we got Tampa, Florida,and New York, New York and
this show right here. So that'seleven eleven we got. We actually got
one more coming up, but I'mwaiting for that to be done. So
I got twelve all together. Okay, cool? What twelve is the magic
number? Well, it doesn't exactly. That's good. That's good. Yeah.
Now I'm calming down people. Yeah, please calm down. Oh and

(03:47):
make sure every single Tuesday Thursday succumbto oh yeah list. I need artists
to start coming down there. Man, come before I am, because you
guys are coming down there. Iam going to be spending your rady,
your song. It's gonna be ona live broadcast. So come on,
people, come down, let mehear some of your music and let's jam

(04:08):
out. Just hit him up onInstagram. That's all you gotta do.
Um. But also I wanted tothank again. Remember my my, my
beautiful friend Kiki I told you about. Okay, she did it once again.
This girl. I put it onmy IG post again. She always
shows the love for me and myfamily. And she went again to go

(04:31):
see my mom and she put flowersand a happy Mother's Day balloon. So
thank you, thank you. She'sthe best. I love that girl,
and she's always you know, veryShe's a genuine soul. So I just
wanted to shout her out again.With that said, also I wanted to
note that this show is starting toreally grab really good people, like the

(04:56):
person that we got coming up next, and I met him through of course
I met him through you. Um, but he was impressive and I saw
him on the cipher with you andRick and I don't know the other gentleman's
names, so don't you know,don't look at me like that. And
I just thought he was really good, and I asked him to be on

(05:16):
the show. Um he is artist, he is, and his name is
Anthony X John. Oh, Anthonyx John and is in the studio with
his boy out and um, whenwe come back, um you'll meet him.
So stick around, stick around,you reready know we'll be right back
on DNA Live. You say it'sso like sensual, Yeah, but to

(06:04):
bring your a game, this isghost Ship. I needed to start in
line. So this is my startingline. And take the starting five and
make you start. Invite BOE threetoo many off A side shows off them
dice slow, all the mics,Froe bums and Mike Flow is yo body?
Where shopper is mine? Number puckingPine If you talking my nose,
I'm a bright no never missus.Spot you will, mister spot Doll Mason,
I'm anna Dougle, Mike Bone motorbike Goals. Brother Mince Bone had

(06:26):
an ike go called a light self. I'm a walking white load. I've
been looked the room munky like BoteMoe. Why don't so of Mike?
But she saw the my whole world, singing in the brain, hitting up
the high nose, walking type boatsand them diagnosed fucking psyche go with a
mic Go a Mike, go,Mike, call all the mic co I
ca call yeah, bitch, Idon't play bars. I'm so gay for
this systems like James Charles gonna saypause, It's okay, y'all. I'm
gonna great y'all like I say y'allavertel law. So I'm well off and

(06:47):
the pcha can get any better.I'm a ball of baby pull them bringing
renders in the bi polar with amexical place like Disney Weather in the mout
come, and I'm in the middleof the outcome. Is I'm in the
middle now, she said, inthe middle. If she think I'm played
the man, she's been a whetheryou and this your mental You have no
words for me When I'm spitting riddlesin a fit of phrase, nothing can
suesching me like I'm an riddle.You get seeing you like that? Bish
I tended windows bro rather's got acombination of selessing money on their lives and

(07:08):
pages, and it's funny. Hadthe less conversation you got will see the
more conversation, and I swear toless. Let the money talk the more
conversation. My observation is kind ofrage. It's like the more times that
you make a frame, the moreconversation. Now, let that sink in
and absorb it like a roof feetand a drink in. I got my
links in my LinkedIn by it wasyou LinkedIn. I'm Jerry Lawler with a
three count. I'm a changin.Try your instincts unless it comes to the

(07:28):
trigger spot because a tight squeeze.Better think then, I don't drop the
ball. I dropped the gems whenthe main king x ja, I'll shut
it down like a wink man,I said, egg j bish, no
action they act in that right.I popped in, was copped in pop
fols get popped on popcorn. Isizzle pop rocks, m m m m

(08:28):
m check lic check lice. Wereback at it again. We can't lose

(09:16):
all cool and we're back. Yeahover here, man, you already know,
but you know what before we startwith him? Okay, I wanted
to say something because we obviously wewere watching the video of the Cipher with
you and Danny and Rick and that. And the one thing I must say
about Danny when it comes to otherrappers, right, I can tell if

(09:39):
he likes them, you know whatI'm trying to say. I can tell
if he's really in the groove withthem, because if you, if you
guys, if you want to replaythat video again at home, right,
all you could do is see Dannygoing like this, you know he's really
he was vibing with you. Sothen that's what I know. I'm like,
yeah, that's the guy. Yeah, it's crazy punch lines man really

(10:00):
does like with his cadence. Seethe thing about me is I listened to
the Cadence. Three things I listenedto. I listened to the delivery,
the Cadence same thing basically but alittle different Cadence delivery and um and the
way they the way that you likebasically, your your style, the way

(10:20):
that you look. So you camein with that that shirt with what's his
name that just passed off and Ilooked at him, I looked at um
Rick, and I'm like, herewe go. So what do you mean.
I said, he's gonna kill it. That kid. I don't even
know who he is, but Isaid, just the way that the demeanor
and the way that you put yourself, I was up. And then when

(10:41):
I heard it, I was like, yep, you seperated confidence and that's
what I liked about it. AndI wasn't even there. But when Danny
came home and he said, yeah, you gotta go check out the site
and them, and I'm like,okay, fine, And you were the
first one obviously that came up.And I'm sitting there going, oh,
I'm like uh, and Danny hasto go last. I'm like, I

(11:01):
don't know how he's gonna do that, but I'm like, okay, I
mean he did great. But stillI was looking at him going hmmm.
And then you know, I'm watchingthe other guy, the other guy,
you know what that But that withthat side, for everybody was different.
Everybody had their own what do youcall that? Yeah? Yeah, everybody
had their own style. And it'svery rare for me to be impressed because

(11:24):
I don't want to be mean,but a lot of them just sound all
the same. Yeah, you know, and you can't pull them out.
You know, but you. I'mlike, oh, there's there's Anthony.
Thank you. I actually haven't heardthat that verse in a while. And
then after showed me, I waslike, damn, I really killed that
and yeah, and both of youand both of you were like this,
I know, I know, andboth of you were like stopped. Didn't

(11:45):
look because he said me and itwas just talking to your BiPOL of like
disney Weather. Yeah, I wasplace like disney Weather. Yeah. I
was like, oh, like Icrate Like when he said that line.
I looked at Rick. I'm like, okay, this is what the fuck
I gotta go. I can't okay, you know what. You can curse
on the ciphers, but you can'tcurse on the show as we can.
Okay, whatever, anyway, different, so um, if anything, Yeah,

(12:07):
obviously you're in the Long Island native. Yeah, and you're only twenty
five years old. Only twenty five. I feel like I'm forty five.
Yes, you go, here wego. I'm going to yell at you
for this, Please don't. You'retwenty five years old. Yeah, yeah,
that's what he just said. Yeah, my body's breaking down and I

(12:30):
have a job, so it sucks. Well, I mean I can't.
I can't. Yes, you can. He's twenty five years old. He's
a lyricist like this, man,get your ass on the goddamn mike and
keep going. We gotta hear listen. Man, First of all, you
do the challenges, right, soyou confuse everybody with the challenges, because
every day I pull up and it'slike, let's do another challenge to the

(12:52):
famous rapper. Let's do every famerapper. Okay, let's do the Long
Island challenge. My talks at athome that's out there with or a mastick
to occur to. I was likethis, motherfu like, yo, do
your homework. Man. He alwaysdoes when it comes to this, he
does his homework. When when whensomebody is great, you know, and
deserves to really get their flowers,really deserves for all the good work,

(13:16):
I wat blush, blush now,But I'm saying, like, the mindset
that you have is basically amazing.Oh yeah, you really can't curse in
this thing, because I forgot wean optimum. Now you know, it's
okay, we can bleep. There'stwo bleeps there, but we're fine.
Yeah, make sure though, becauseit's an optimum, so it's on TV.

(13:37):
No, we can't. Okay,so you're giving me mixed signals.
Originally, I know, don't doubtyou know. It's not my fault.
I mean, well, it iskind of my fault, but that's you
know what. Let's just move on. It's my fault. Okay. So,
um, obviously where were you Whatwere the influences that you had growing
up? We were talking a littlebit about it before. Um, Little
Wayne and Eminem are really my twobiggest influences. As soon as I heard

(14:00):
Lollipop on the radio by Little Wayne, I'm like, I want to be
like that? Fucking do I do? I? Do? I know that
song? Do I know that songthat sounds like he said he wanted to
be like that guy. Oh okay, but I didn't. Lollipop All right,
now I'm gonna break your heart realquick. Oh here we go,
bring my heart. Lollipop was actuallyme by a guy named Royalty and Royalty

(14:24):
or when he came up with thatstock because he had the old one.
I remember him in my space andall of a sudden, I guess a
little Wayne in them. I don'tbelieve it. Yeah, he made it
a lollipop. I don't believe it. And I don't mean changed the whole
thing little Wayne when he got it. Oh okay, so you're saying it
was like kind of the idea camefrom royalty. Yeah, wow, the
original, right idea came from royalty. The reason why I know that is

(14:46):
because I studied Um, I studiedRoyalty back then too. Like there's a
lot like one thing about me,man, the reason why I was so
good at my craft and good atwhat I do. I do my homework.
Yeah, I can tell because youget one thing about being an MC
one thing about being an artist.If you know your homework right, there
ain't nobody to stop you because youalready know what you're gonna come against,

(15:09):
right. You know. Other ways, if you know the people that are
out there and their styles and stuffand you watch them, yeah, you
basically know what your competition is.But it's not really a competition. But
you know the people think about him. I could ready see you're different.
Yeah, totally. And I reallydo like your music. I played it,
did I think. Just tell everybodythat might get mad at me.

(15:31):
But in the Advocate mix, youwere the longest one I played, and
I didn't stop. I wanted toplay you again and a new my program
records like, yeah, it's nota problem. No, look, I
want you to do that because Iwant to help your name gets seen.
Well. I actually got a newsong coming out Millie Bobby Brown. It's

(15:52):
called give Me a Clean Radio Edit. Do you understand clean at It?
Yeah? I guess yeah, Okay, yeah, you guys they don't.
I mean, I think I waseven talking about that to someone the other
day and I was like, Ithink, oh, but though these submissions
that he gets from for the Advocatemix and stuff like that, and he
like he can get like thirty orforty songs and we had to throw away

(16:14):
like twenty of them. Yeah,because like people are just I mean,
everybody gets mad at me. ButI'm going to them and I'm telling them,
listen, man, I can't playthat. Yeah, and you promote
that too. It's not like youkeep it up right now, it's I
can't. I can't. Like I'mnot gonna look, I'm not gonna sugarcoat
it. I'm not gonna lie toanybody. My fans can see this.
Do not send me no music that'snot done or mixed correctly, or has

(16:40):
curse words. It's you gotta understandit's a violation from me. Yeah,
I play it, I get violated. It's like a ten Yeah, we
do ten thousands. You get aviolation violated, like I get yelled up
at my boys and then and thenand then I get called from the sea
whatever seven and they go, theydo they actually do find you for that

(17:00):
ten thousand dollars. Yeah, it'syou mess up bad. I've seen people
get that. One guy thought hewas slicky, has seventeen curse words in
this thing with Djel. You gotfifty thousand dollars fine, yeah, Jesus,
and you got to pay for itbecause in your contract it says if
you don't follow this follow this rule, this comes out of your check.
Fifty thousand dollars. Bro. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know

(17:21):
where the that's for two minute clip. Wow, I'm sorry, I just
stressed. We're getting finds up thewazoo today. You don't know, you
have no idea I'll pay for thatone. No, no, okay,
but um okay, let's get backto your career. When did you decided
to first stop rapping? It hasto be high schools. That has to
be like ten years, No,really. Um. Yeah, And I

(17:44):
didn't start like taking it seriously untillike two years ago, I would say,
And that's when I really started likegaining traction on my TikTok. I
have like forty thousand followers. Iknow, my god, I saw.
Is it from the challenges? Alot of it is from the challenges?
Yeah, what was the challenge thatbasically got you bought up to like like
the highest Shower? It was actuallythe Rappers Challenge? So okay, Bobby,
can we first play? I wantto do the tattoo one because I

(18:07):
like the tattoo one. It wasonly like twenty four seconds, but I
like that one. So if wecan get the tattoo one first and get
that rolling, that would be nicerapping using only my tattoos. Let's go.
Let's go rap God like him Jesusacross me. Then you gonna find
out what a beasism using my bodyyard just to come body also and make
sense of my stars to speaker topdown on my name, make you Baalti
and nisus that you should take notesto follow when me just just follow my
footsteps. I rose from the boxthat they put me in. Then I

(18:30):
came up from beneath who in myheart, and it's making some demons that
I try to leave in the darkcovered. Now I got the angels of
all colorism. I like, isa movie your blockbuster? But that's where
this ain't no game, no Mather, your brothers. I got done.
And how long have you been doingthose for now ridiculous challenges? Yeah?
Say about two years? What madeyou? What made you start? I
actually saw this other TikToker, hisname's Thorpe. He's done. He does

(18:52):
something similar, So I kind ofjust did what he did, but I
adapted it to my own style becausehe does sports teams. I don't really
do sports teams, okay, SoI just wanted to do with my own
style, and I went with therappers challenge. My girlfriend actually gave me
the idea. Oh kind of Godfor her, but um yeah, and
then shout out to the girlfriend,Yes, Elena, what's your name?
Elena? Oh? I love thatname. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty

(19:14):
name, Elena. I like thatone. Thank you, you're welcome.
Um. But so in other words, yeah, because I and when I
went on to your ig, Isaw all the ones, the challenges and
stuff like that, and like andpeople like people are trying to test you.
Oh, test me all the time. I get negative comments all the
time time, right all the time. And then I get people saying,
oh, do this, do this, do this, And realistically I can't

(19:37):
do everything that's requests. Yeah,um, but you know I love to
do it, so it's you know, when I can, I will,
oh yeah because I but I lovethe challenge to say what he does.
And then the Lebron James one wasdope. The woman did you did one
sports? Yeah? Yeah, nowhe killed it with that. I didn't
see that. Yeah, no,no, I was watching them Lebron and
again yeah, okay, let's let'syou know, I do listen to your

(20:00):
stuff because it treats me because it'sdifferent. So I'd like to hear that.
And then because he has that,I love his voice. Do we
have like a you do have likea radio voice? You know I've heard
that before. Actually you do actuallyhave. And then and then if it's
so different than what I like tooabout you is when you went on that

(20:21):
guy's show which Troma was that itwas Joe. Yeah, that was a
good experience. That was fun.I was laughing because he went on Joe
Kozo's show, right, and thenhe was like killing it too, and
it was like, oh, youdo the challenges and then I ate one
of those hot chips or whatever,and it was literally like I was burning.
Oh you mean that show when theymake you eat? Oh? God,

(20:41):
Like when you were on there,you probably like, mom, man,
they didn't make it too much.I wanted to do it. No,
no, no, what I'm sayingthey make back in your head,
You're like, oh, let's sayno, and they make it. They
make it like a big deal whenyou eat the chip. No, I
knew it would be hot. Yeah. Yeah, I was hoping for the
best, Like I wanted to beviral worthy. So I mean it didn't
go quite go viral, but youknow it did good. So so how

(21:03):
like what, um, like,how far? How far do you see
yourself going? Like, let's sayfive years from now, where do you
see yourself like, you know inthe industry? Um, I know,
besides coming back on our show toshow us your platinums and stuff. Yeah,
well that basically got either way.If I gotta go major, I
gotta go independent. Um whatever wouldyou prefer to do? Independent or most

(21:26):
likely independent? Yeah, but ifthe right deals on the table. You
know, I'm never gonna say noto an opportunity that fits me best to
right. See, the thing iswith label when it comes to labels,
I'm realizing that I'm seeing the twentiesshould be the label catching year. So
like during your twenties right now,twenty five, that should be the catch
it. Yeah, because the labelcan catapull you right now, a label

(21:48):
when you hit thirty in the certainage, yeah, I can. But
at the end of the day,you got more wise, so you know
where that money goes instead of whenyou're younger. Yeah, they're the ones
that teach like when if you watchthem correctly, they will teach you.
And my thing is, now you'retwenty five and you're ranking up there labels
right now, if you feel it, you can go the independent round and

(22:11):
just build yourself over with its starting, or you could sit down with a
major label. If the label likesyou, the label will take you,
but the label is going to takea little bit. So basically, say
you want to put out a singleright now, twenty five, right,
the label will take you away maybeuntil twenty seven. So you got to
figure out do you want to benow or do you want to be later?

(22:32):
Well, I'm always working, soit's it's not like a stop or
start process. It's always just likeI'm dropping stuff as much as I can
physically can, and you know,if it catches a label's ear, then
it does. Yeah, it's Ijust find it so hard these days for
people to really succeed. I meanbecause it's especially in the rap industry because

(22:53):
I feel like there's just so manyrappers, so much talent too. Like,
yeah, I go scrolling on Iand TikTok all the time just looking
up rappers, and I'm like,man, there's so much great time.
I think, Yeah, but there'ssomething that I just look and I'm like,
I don't. I don't get it. I just don't. And then
some of those people are the onesthat get propelled for some reason. So

(23:15):
yeah, it's a little it's Ithink it's just like a little bit of
a mix and match at times,you know. But I mean there are
a lot of people I do like, but um, like one of the
person sets on the show right now, so you um with that said,
because I wanted to show the otherrappers challenge that was my favorite, So
can you play it? Bobby?Plea. I just searched up a list
of rappers and here's the list Igot. Yeah, you didn't them in

(23:41):
the bank and even to get paidand throw no shade if you got a
big name to the dawn like yeahyou when we make you feel a little
leg waye but you said the lovelboy late Drake. But we have like
J A t Z two plocks.They have a bad day, have them
late and this lay this may bethe great like nas with you the first
take over. Yeah, if you'retalking about me, I'm a dog.
We like snoop because of me nextto each other. You see double G
two deep. Yeah, that's beenin this rock. They all like damn

(24:03):
like Hendrick Lamar, notorious Big.I'm the biggest and badest of voice.
So she get me a joke withsome ice Keetum Colder and y'all. Yeah,
then I mention she ain't got noflaws. We own a bedding flaws.
She worried about the X Man gettinggrizzly up. Papa Ben nicky Manah
shedn't leave him coques for police.Sama, he talking a rapper who actually,
Bob, they all need a doctor. I'm docing Nama Andrea Andrea talking
through k A Law did rappers onflaws. I charge with him work,
I'm judging your brand. If youcharge for a feature, it won't leave

(24:26):
a dent and can pay. Manymen can mess the descent, but see
me. I want nothing less.Someone to the next up on DMX,
but I won't DMMEX. So don'tyou know messak your mess of chicken INSLAMI
I'm going to JET. I mean, I don't know you just right there.
Yeah, he just DMX, butI won't dm X. Got damn.

(24:47):
I just enjoy he and you cantell he's like really like so into
it. He's just like you know, but he really reminds me of you.
And I don't mean to make youlook like an old man to see
the fifth the I I'm so sorry, honey. No, I'm gonna agree
with you. He reminds me ofthe videos that with the hat when I
was when you were a young guywas saying, oh my god, you

(25:10):
know what I'm saying. And I'mlooking at him and I'm actually seeing him.
You know, Bobby, what doyou think? Now? Don't ask
Bobby, but Bobby, I thinkBobby would agree with me because when I'm
looking at him with that same thatI have the same weird kind of flow.
And I realized that too when Iwas looking. I think that's what
it trigued me about you, isthat you have the same kind of flows
with me. Yeah, because likeour cadence is, we don't hit the

(25:33):
punchline yet we do the tongue twist. We flip it so it's a one
two snap, and then that's howI hit. When I saw that,
I'm like, damn man, becausenot a lot of people come aster that,
you know, because it's something todo with the brain patterns and the
waves, so you can't master that. That's why when I saw that,
I'm like, yo, this one'tlook at I didn't want to say it.
I'll wait for somebody to tell youI got that from right now that

(25:55):
that's Eminem. Basically I've been listeningto Eminem for my whole life. He
kind of reminds me of him,and that I didn't look because taking my
man become when that's in. Butthe thing about too is you got kind
of like i'm gonna say this,kind of like Drake weird because when you
go, hey, taking him down, he's a big influence of mind to
But it's pretty dope because if yousee it, it's different levels because every

(26:19):
you know, every generation just getsbetter and better and better and better than
the next generation, even in sports, so you always take a look like
I always look hip hop as asport. So when I was hearing him,
and I'm hearing him, and I'mhearing him, and I'm hearing him,
and I'm here, I'm hearing thecadence. Okay, so the cadence
is scaring me because when I'm hearingthe cadence, I'm like, whoa,
because that's something that I would doright now if I was younger. Oh

(26:41):
and now because he's so old,he's like ready for It's not that it's
not that it's not the stop stop. It's not that two different eras.
So I don't like, if youlisten to like little Baby right now,
right, I'm gonna going to takemy man. But Ben, it's hard
for somebody in my era that hada different type of like feel into this

(27:03):
to be like, okay, Icould do that style like I want to
do it. It's not like wedon't want to do it, it's kind
of like should we do it?Because it looks weird. Yeah, no,
you're right, you're right on that. I'm don't telling me it's right
on that. It is being serious. Like if I go to him and
I go, hey, taking acouple of people who wanted my man,
be getting me something, Hey,that's jacking his error. Okay, oh

(27:25):
okay, you know that's what I'msaying. It's like jacking his error.
That's what I like about here becauseit's like two points. Oh look at
that, you know that's two points. Oh. So that I heard of
was like, oh, I didn'twant to say nothing. I was waiting
for somebody to say that to me. I'm like, this sound like me
when I was younger. Well,he kind of reminded me. I'm sorry
when I was looking to have oldtapes and stuff like that. Yeah,

(27:48):
she was like, listen the tool, but that the way I would flow,
like taking the people who wanted myman beginning it so that she said,
so I went when I first heardyou, I'm like that's yeah.
I'm like that's two point oh,that's two point out. Oh yeah.
He was like the what is it, like the beta version or whatever,
and then alpha comes in and thenyou know it's just like Microsoft word,
right, So you just wanted tosmack the crap out of everything. No,

(28:10):
no, I'm not saying it.No, I'm not saying no,
but I'm you know. My questionto you, though, is do you
have any new product to me orhim? Oh? Okay, you're done,
I'm time. Okay. Yeah.I have this song called Millie Bobby
Brown coming out on Friday, okay, um, And it's based off of
the actress Millie Bobby Brown from StrangerThings, Stranger Things everything she plays.

(28:33):
Now I don't watch, Yes youdid, because remember I don't. Okay,
remember our friends, the ones thatdid the Halloween and they did the
Stranger Things, Yes exactly, that'swhy again. But they knew it.
They knew the show. I didn'tknow the show. Okay, okay,
go ahead. Yeah. So it'skind of like a half lyrical melodic drill
record because I want to because Ikind of like drill, but there's not

(28:56):
a lot of lyricism in it,so I kind of wanted to inject that
into it. And you know,the drill style kind of comes from the
UK, and I'm a big StrangerThings fan, so it kind of makes
sense to like put Millie Bobby Brownin the Forefront. I could do a
lot of like eleven punch lines andshit like that, and you give us
something here now if you want,I mean no pressure that hold off.

(29:18):
Let's hold off because I'm actually meetingher too, meeting her Saturday. I'm
gonna show her the song. Okay, No, all right, So I
want to now I want to putyou into into game drilled me. Drill
wasn't event in the UK. No, it wasn't invented, but it was
popularized there. Yeah, it was. That style was popularized. You ready
for this? It actually came outand people don't realize that. But I

(29:40):
think UM Chicago was originated as drill. They weren't. Nineteen ninety two inside
Um, where was it? Whereis Yo? Gotti? From Memphis,
Georgia? Memphis? Memphis were thefirst ones that actually had a sound in
drill? Was it? Nineteen ninetytwo? Guy needs oh Flow? The
reason why I found that out isbecause the ogs put me on game.

(30:03):
Okay, when they put me ongame, They're like, no, that
that sounds been in forever. Ishould kid out of here. Nineteen ninety
two, Homeboy put the record onthis Dude from nineteen nine sounded just like
the Cats from Now and what's hisname? Uh? So fly, I'm
not so put me on. I'mtelling you he's like a like an encyclopedia
of rap. It's nothing. Yeah, you know, you know it's funny

(30:26):
though, right when you say athomeboy, it's like me, someone put
a heart right there. Oh really, you guys maybe should do something together.
Well you actually did. I meanyou did the cipher to gather murdered
the Yeah you did? I knowyou look he did, he did.
That might be one of the bestshit I've ever written. The best.
Remember, I'm sorry, you know, okay, okay, so um,

(30:52):
I think no with that cipher theother guys were good. I'm not.
I'm not not not. It's justsomething different, like when you were bipolar
like this any weather. It's like, come on, man, it's like
on that line, yeah, becauseyou don't hear it. When do you
hear? Name one line that yousaid, Like, that's what I want
to say. Every line that everybodysaid was already recyclable. I never heard

(31:14):
a rap ever say a bipolar likeDisney Weather. Yeah. I was like,
there's a lot of lines like that. I caught that right, and
I'm looking and I'm like, whoa, he really loved that line. He
does, he said itself. Butyou got to analyze it. Yeah,
you got to analyze it. Eventhough everyone's like, yeah, that was
a quick line, it's not aquick line because the lines that stick out

(31:37):
the most is something that nobody's eversaid before. Yeah, and it's bipolar
in a magical place like Disney Weather, so talking about like her. Yeah,
you know, so it's more thanit was a game. I always
thought that was one of the blackestbar is. Actually I'm not gonna line
that ever. You know who oneof the wackest bars? Too big pun
stuck in the middle of a littlewe know every middle man I am to

(32:00):
do it did, but think aboutthat. So now this is the only
reason why I'm bringing that up isbecause you know, if you think of
something his whack the fancy thing,that's that's like your best line. Yeah,
So like that's one thing I justwanted to bring on that I didn't
I see that. Um, butis there any of the line besides the
Disney one that you were impressed withor were just nos impressed a challenge?

(32:22):
Oh yeah, he's done. Sohow many challenges Have you done? Oh?
I don't know. It's got tobe at least over twenty because I
do all the Marvel movies every timethey come out, Marvel movies, the
MCU, they're like the big superI know, I dude, trust me,
cannot challenge me with marvels, allright, So yeah, I do
every one of those. Have youdone the Avengers? Yeah? Oh my

(32:45):
god, please really all of them. Basically give me a little bit of
Avengers. I don't remember so manyof them. Oh wow, I feeling
like I am in h you're losingthe two point up Hello to the two
point No no, no, no, I love. What are the categories?

(33:05):
Have you UM done in the challenges? There's an NBA, there's UM,
I've done DC, I've done thenew Mario movie Mario Guy. What
do you think about the movie?I loved it. It was really Yeah,
we're talking about Mario. So whatwhat's the name? Complained about it?
Uh? Um? What's the name? Is complained that that wasn't like
the original voices? Oh? Serious? Well, you can't listen to the

(33:27):
original voice for two hours, like, and that's gonna get a little annoying
in you're Yeah, that's true,you know. But I was asking you
because you saw it. I wasgonna go see it. But she's gonna
yell at man, are you aMario fan? And you guys Mario?
No? I like Mario. Ilike Mario Sonic. Did you play it
as a kid? You'll you'll getsomething out of it? Really? Yeah,
I'm more of Um, I don'tknow. I I just don't do

(33:51):
those type of movies. Um.He can go with you and go see
Mario. And I've seen it threetimes or two times already, I'll go
a third times. It's me audio, really and what is the what is
the girls? It was? Actually? Is it Princess Peach? Yes?
Is that the same one with DonkeyKong? Yes? Yes? Am I?

(34:14):
Oh okay, so now are youoriginal the originals? Yeah? You
know. Now I'm getting schooled byyou two. This is saying we were
you know, we like the game. I'm not. I I yeah,
I used to love Donkey Kong.And um, I'll say something, but
then I'll meet it's a little crazypac Man. Yeah, pack it up,

(34:38):
very funny. She's laughing because she'sI'm about to say but all right,
so now do you feel like thisthe project that you got now right,
I mean from the years that youdid music, right, do you
feel like you basically just now you'refeeling like this is your time? Definitely,
definitely, because I'm I mean lastyear, I was working in an

(34:59):
accounting job that I just didn't like, and I'm like, I was going
back to school for teaching, andthere was there was a gap where I
could just take off, like Icould quit my job and just work straight
on music. And if I'm gonnado this, I'm gonna do it.
You gotta go away again now.So I did that. I built my
following on TikTok, and I justfeel like, if you know, like

(35:20):
I said, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.
So just keep being persistent and justkeep working. That's it. That's
the name of the game. Thename of the game is be Seen.
Yeah. I never stopped. Isort of got I've worked on this song,
like, because I'm mix and engineermy own stuff too, and I've
worked on this song. This songhas been giving me headaches for so long.
Oh my god, that's when youknow it's gonna be good, though,
yeah, and I'm I put somuch effort into this song, so

(35:44):
like I just I just love todo it when it ready to come out
and stuff like that. You cangive it to him and we'll break it
again too, all right, youknow, to get mixed. There we
go. And with that said,um, we're gonna go to commercial.
They can move back more with AnthonyX. John. You put your hands

(36:28):
up right now. We're inside ofwar with ourselves. You're America. We're
gonna wake up from this. We'rethe real Americans out man. You blinded
and you blind, you just sendto inside your own Everyone but tens love
you, but messing you whooping homes, laughing without the way you can't even

(36:49):
afford the food, and everybody lookingat you acting so rude. They thinking
that they love you. Your skin, that's what they see. They don't
understand the melitant one of the feet, but the good that they got.
They just play for each other,civil war and trying to come for us,
you one another. But I wokeup last night I kinda talked to
my kids and tell them, listen, we gotta march, and what do

(37:09):
we get? You laughing? You'recrying? You ain't when you're feeling the
staming and saying went all the time. They just demon was standing maybe you
inside the cars ain't don't want tosee you at they leave you, lockdoors,
bringing your jowers on the the likeyou what they want to try and
put you inside what the lickersment theblack because want you win the year and
it's a cop screaming likes us nowwe'll listen and were thinking prices and putting

(37:32):
that too there become crashing the crisisnow they hat didn't tell the way how
they even look. They try tolock us down, trying to play the
book, want to get it churnevery time, trying to get it book
over shopt you ain't got us here, but loves they trying for churning that
very close with the phone next toeach other's years. But when my social

(37:52):
distance singles honey years. They tryto act you like we ain't one inside
of home. We acting like thatwe ain't one the wayside and we're back.

(38:30):
Can I get some fun questions inhere now? Well? I want
to ask him one quick question.Okay, where do you get the name
from? Uh? It's my firstand middle name. Yeah. Hello.
I went on another podcast forgetting thepodcast actually, and he's he's like,
oh, you should put an xtionbetween that, and that's basically came out
better. Yeah, Anthony x John, Yeah that's pretty cool. Yeah,

(38:53):
it sounds like a superhero. I'mserious. So let me get some fun
questions, lady. Oh okay,these are my well yeah, I like
getting into fun questions, so well, I don't. I don't like putting
everybody on the spot, but Iwill, but I won't do it.
No, No, I don't getnervous when I get called on in class.
Don't do that. Okay, say, um, so how do you

(39:15):
balance your personal and professional life?Um? See that wasn't a bad question.
No, how do I balance it? Well? I kind of just
work work, work, work,work during the day, and then during
the weekends. Uh, you know, I'll spend some time with my girlfriend
and then that's okay. But likeyou know is you see, you got
to have that woman hello in yourlife that understands it too, so you

(39:38):
know, when it works that way, it's so much easier than somebody who
just like needs all your time.Yeah. No, my girl is very
very much like do this. Isupport you. Shout out to Elena.
We love you girls. That's thekind of that's the kind of people that
you know you want to be involvedwith it that not only support that mesh

(40:00):
in with your lifestyle, and youknow, I mean I meshed in with
him for the last four years.Yeah, there you go. It works
that way. She wants to killme half the time? No, not
you see it used to be allthe time. But you know, you
know your moments. Um. Soalso what inspires you particularly about your song
material or is it like you justdo you really like just doing the rapper

(40:22):
challenges or um? I enjoy them? Um, Realistically, I wouldn't want
more, you know, to focuson the stuff that I wouldn't want to
write about. Um, But thatcauses traction. So I kind of want
to get that to cause traction moreto my other right other music. But
I you know, I enjoy everythingI write. You know, you can

(40:42):
put me on a Barney song andI would love to write to it.
Yeah that's Barney, So that's whowill go crazy. Yeah, but could
you too rap about Barney right now? Was she easy for styler? So
no, he's not a freestyler easy, No, don't I'm not gonna I

(41:07):
said Barney was a crackhead. No, that was a lie. He's a
dinosaur, but everybody else was justhigh. If you talk about these words,
then you never get it by That'swhy Baby Bop want to smack me
in my eye. Okay, that'sfunny right the way that I spit.
So I'm back now inside of theDNA show when nuts, Oh there we
go. Okay, was pretty coolon the Barney Show. And then put
him on the Barney get him inthe costume. I'm gonna I would die

(41:30):
to see him in the costume.Um, you know, don't give him
any ideas, please. I wasthinking see the clown because I could sound
like him. Okay, gotta doit now now. Next question, Um,
is there any stand out memorable momentin your music career back that you

(41:50):
know kind of like helps you?Um? When I freestyled for Funk Flex
in the YouTube studio, that wasjust you know, out of this world
experience, just being in the presenceof like a legend like that. Yeah.
Um, and and I absolutely bodiedit. And when was that?
When was that done? Um?Twenty eighteen? Oh wow, I want
to say, yeah, one ofFacebook competition one of his flex we trust

(42:13):
competitions, and I performed for himat his birthday bash right Boogie and Richie
Kid, and then he had meon his YouTube studio to freestyle and it
was just amazing experience. That isreally cool. Did you know funk flex
uns? Okay? Um, nextone is there? Ah? Wait,

(42:36):
that's mine. Have you ever diedon stage? Died? Yeah? Like
croaked? Yeah, like she meansbasically get nervous or anything like that,
like just get like the nervous.Yeah, I get nervous all the time,
you know, pop up. No, No, I'm not talking nerves.
I'm sorry, I'm fucking You hadsomething set right, you had something
planned, You got on stage andnothing happened, Like have you everybody just

(43:00):
like it would blank out? Yeah, like yeah that never happened. But
I've gotten so drunk to where Idon't know my own lyrics. Yeah,
it was bad. Good thing.I was performing with a singer that she
could just like singer but off butoff, so she kind of helped me.
But I was just kind of freestyle. Like I said, I'm not

(43:21):
a good freestyler. So it wasn'tIt wasn't good. So what was the
Like? Okay, so is itit's freestyling. Is there a comp Like,
I don't know how to explain that, how to expat I want to
write that out in my head.Like, is freestyling more geared for rapp
than just writing it down? Itdepends on, like what you're talking about

(43:45):
underground. A lot of cats doa lot of freestyling because freestyling is another
way to express themselves in art.Writing. I like like when him said,
writing is more kind of like freestylingis more like out there, anything
goes. Writing is more kind oflike being organist controlled a yeah, But
technically freestyling is writing because you're writingin your head right, so like you

(44:06):
could you could put it into anywhich man that you want. But when
somebody it's weird because freestyling is kindof like you could you could do it
in two ways. You could doit, is what he like. You
could be a writer and remember yourrhyme. No one's gonna know the difference,
or you're gonna just freestyle. Okay, that's basically what it is nowadays
too. Not many rappers really actuallyfreestyle, Like if you go up to
funk flex or you know, youknow they're bringing a verse that they already

(44:29):
they have to. Ok. Yeah, but but I mean, it's not
like it's not a bad thing,right, It's not like if you can't
freestyle. It's just all it isis just being prepared and ready to go.
That's it. The only thing Idon't like about written some people do
they try to read off their phone, and it's like, you know,

(44:52):
you want to see the whole thing, like you want to see somebody just
the movement you read off the phone. You're like taking a couple of people
who I don't see him do that. I didn't say that, but what
I'm saying is and he's dope,dope, you know what you say.
But I'm saying, artist, isthat read off the phone? I can't
stand because some people do that.Again, some of the you know,

(45:13):
FM stages that we work with,some of the artists read off the phone
and say it's a freestyle. Butagain it's hard to notice when there's no
cameras on them. Oh okay,I see what you mean. But um,
but a lot of people like like, oh, there was one in
particular, I don't want the namenames. He was like, you know,
he's a freestyle of freestyler. Andthen I noticed, like you said,

(45:37):
he was reading it, and I'mlike, freestyle is something that's off
the cuff, right off your head. It's nothing written, that's it.
It's a topic of like, youknow, just like the you know,
I can I can throw a wordto him like other rappers have done.
Right, you do the word challengeand you know, you throw them the
word peach and then boomhees. Thisis not something that he's prepared for.

(46:00):
This is not something it's not thatI'm from. I'm from an era where
it was kind of like throwning yourface. So it was kind of like
years ago. You go to alabel and have to ride for about forty
five minutes without Charles Hamilton, mayberap for forty five minutes without I remember
that story two story, forty fiveminutes without sobbing. Wouldn't even get on
a record one. Yeah, that'scrazy you, That's that's the error that

(46:22):
we were from. Man, it'syou can't even mess up neither. I
ain't getting the record then, Okay, no, it's a different era now
it is different. I love thisquestion. Remember the last time you looked
at me funny, but this wasa good question. What is your favorite
song? To get down with now. I don't mean like get down with

(46:42):
it. Oh yeah, you know. I'm talking about like if you're in
the car, listen to it andyou're in the convertible, it's sunny out.
What music are you like playing onthe radio? Well music are you
bumping? Stop? Okay, I'lldo I'll do two answers okay all the
time, and then I'll do rightnow. So all time is anything Usher.
I'm a big Usher guy. Getout of town. Oh wow,

(47:07):
you I mean, it's not evenlike get down with the type song.
But you know you gotta Ben andBurne just gets me. I don't even
care, Like, but if youwant to, you know, if you
want to get down with it,I guess you could say caught up.
Oh yeah, kind yeah, Iremember that song. Yeah he is,

(47:28):
I mean, but no offense,I shure. He's just so talented.
Oh my goodness's incredibly I'm not sayingnothing. I remember that saying. I
remember when he beat Chris Brown andChris Brown broke his whole rod drofe.
But isn't it something that in thenews about something about with Chris Brown and
Usher recently? I don't anything aboutthat fight over yes, Taylor, there

(47:51):
was something in them. You don'thave to watch TV anymore. You can
get all your news from ig.Yeah you know what I'm saying. And
I saw something about that um withChris Brown, something with Usher at a
at a Rose skating ring or something. All I know is those two always
versed each other because Chris Brown.There was a report I think in two
ten where Usher al showed him likehe could dance better than him and sing

(48:15):
and Chris went into his wardrobe withtit up, the whole wardrobe because incredible.
Well, Jamie Fox said that hedid like a back flip but he
was like sixteen years old and fluover him Jamie Fox to show that he
can actually really want Oh, andmy prayers are out with Jamie Fox because

(48:35):
he's like, you know, comeon, Jamie, you gotta pull through.
Brother. Yeah, we love him. I love him so so I
too. Yeah that's so cool.What made you like like Usher? It's
like you just like the flow orthe voice was My brother used to play
him a lot in the car whenmy brother's eleven years older than me.
So um, I would hit inthe backseat as like a you know,
young and and he would just bumpit a lot. And that's kind of

(48:58):
where you know, I get myusher love for I like that, man
shout out to us. Shut yousaid another song? What else song?
I'm a big I'm a big popguy. So I'm on Miley Cyrus's flowers
right now? What what you do? Not look like a Miley Cyrus?
I'm sorry. I grew up watchingHannah Montana. Oh I ain't even ashamed

(49:20):
of it either. No Montana tooright here? Yeah? Boy? Actually
they dated Miley when he was inFlorida for a little bit. Really went
on a date. Okay, wedon't have to I mean, like,
you know, inquiring mine. No, but we don't have to do that.
I just wanted to get to him. Okay, memories, Okay,
let's stop im so no now,yeah, don't do that. Don't do

(49:45):
that. No, I'm kidding.Um so away for music. Like,
what do you like to do whenyour free time? Besides get drunk?
I like to play basketball? Okay, there we go basketball, Here we
go? He plays? Are youskinny? Yeah? That's where I'm headed
right now. I'm getting a littleOh Jesus, you know, these two
are acting like they've been around forlike thirty years. Listen, if you're

(50:07):
up on that stage. Right,you're up on the stage, you grow
about like twelve years, Like everybirthday. I grow at least twelve more
a year, seventy I know bynow eighty five, eighty five. Learn,
Oh god, It's just music goesin such a fast right pace,
and sometimes you can even catch upto it. Like right now it's twenty

(50:29):
five. He's in the best time. Better get yourself back and say you
better gives yourself on stage. Comeput you on stage. I'm trying to
get ready. Just get ready thisweek. Advocate mixt this week. Okay,
you don't have to yell into themic, dude. Um So,
if anything, what are we whoproduces your beats? I usually just find
YouTube beats honestly, because I havea really picky ear, and like,

(50:52):
I won't write a song unless Iabsolutely love it, Like I'm talking about
an official release. If it's likea challenge or something like that, then
I can get down with it.But um, I have to find the
beat and it has to hit myears. I have to know it's the
one. Yeah, an official song, So how many like? Um,
I don't even know what My nextquestion would be, because this is my

(51:12):
question. Okay, go ahead.When you're writing, right, yeah,
what it? What? It is? Basically your tactic when you write,
I sit on the toilet and Ijust I'm not even lying either, Like
I got bottot problems and I siton the toilet and I just just put
on a beat and I write,Well, I don't write, I type,
but yeah, and I said there, Yeah, I'm not even frightened.

(51:36):
Oh god, seriously, yes,seriously, And where do you do
yours? Sir? Me? Yeah, I don't even know what's his name.
Puts on a beat and I mighthate the beat, but because I'm
angried, I got something to say, I just jump on. No no
offense. Actually, I mean we'vesaid, we've actually said, have said
this, told us this story beforebecause um, his first album, Regenerated,

(52:00):
Um, that was an album thatwas made after we broke up.
Oh yeah, yeah, I brokeup with him that night. I'm so
proud to say it. I brokeup with him and he went out to
the studio and made that album.I dragged during the studio. He came
back dragged me and says, Igot you. You know you got to
you gotta hear this. You gottahear this. And we went to the

(52:22):
studio and they played back all thetime. No, no, no,
you were there, you were sleepingon the couch. I didn't. I
did that. I did that.I did that in two hours, right
in front of her. Both listen. I did twelve records in two hours,
right in front of her, readyto go. Yeah. I came
from pain, right, Yeah,came from pain, fed upness and had

(52:43):
it because I had I was workingwith somebody that we were basically about to
sign the deals, get the dealsto the major's project, about to go,
but then at the end they pulledback. So I was already angry
about yeah. Yeah. So whatI did was it took this regenerated album
and went crazy like all um allhip hop rope missed the December because I

(53:04):
release fifty records in one month.Yeah that's work. I was angry.
Hey, who's he was very angry. Yeah. When he gets angry,
he comes up with really good stuff. So it's not like I want to
try to get a mad angry sometimes. But sometimes I say to myself,
maybe let me find something that Ireally beat him off, you know,
and make him so mad and he'slike I'm going to the studio like okay,

(53:27):
saying the door come back, soI'm making don't make ad he's just
gold. Well that's right. Itell my girlfriend I told her to break
up with me one day, justout of the blue, so I can
go round. How even you canwrite some good stop you know, sob
crying love kind of stuff, youknow, I like kind of struggled to
find inspiration sometimes. Yeah, whenI when I was in like, well,
if you wanted to swap you orsomething in me, tell you in

(53:49):
the barbage. I mean, youknow, I could take but we could
take away the toilet. We couldtake away the toilet. That wouldn't really
make you ask me up. Iknow that'll mess him up for weeks.
Man, don't do that. Thatis so I can go on my own
bathroom too, So yeah, don'tdo that. God bless him, and
God bless him. You guys,look at al poor Alice like turning red

(54:13):
over there. Oh so you hearit everything? He hears it all the
time. Is that it? Soyou guys have been friends for a long
time or yeah, go ahead,now how long are you talking about?
Since I was born? He's andoh god, bless you. Oh so
you know the pain of growing upwith him? Oh I get it.
Yeah, well you know the painof growing up with me. But exactly

(54:36):
so we should start our own club. But with that said, with that
said, I wanted to um reiterateAnthony x John on ig and you can
tell everybody where to find you onFacebook and Instagram. Is that Is that
all the same Anthony everything? Yeah, Anthony x John on everything, TikTok

(54:57):
Facebook, YouTube. Um, nowyou go look at the cam clapper.
You know, clapper is a newone. What is clapper? It's like
a US rip off of TikTok Okay, we gotta look at that. Um.
And also when you're when is thatnew song coming out Millie Brown Millie
Bobby Brown coming out Friday this Friday. Yeah, all right, make sure

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you guys go when you guys downloadBobby Brown, it's spelled Millie x Bobby
x Brown. To man. Hereit goes with the X. I'm telling
y'all it's gonna be hot. I'mgonna be playing I'm an Advocate. Yeah,
let's row. I'm gonna be playingit on the Advocate Power one on
four point nine North Carolina. Allthat I'm gonna be spinning it. This

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kid is gold, yeah, becauseyou know what it is? This man
no, because I mean it's perfectthat it's being dropped on Friday, so
Friday night he'll be playing it onthe Advocate. So that's a good thing.
You should give it to me too, because the Ship Club and stuff
is on Tuesday Thursday. God giveme like an exclusive. Yeah, give
me your girlfriend's number. We're gonnaneed to talk. So with that said,

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I want to thank you again forcoming on the DNA Live Show.
Thank you all for bringing him here, and if anything, just please keep
checking him out Anthony x John Andwith that said, peace out everybody.
See you next week, and HappyMother's Day. Every Mother's Day. Bye
bye bye Ma La