December 8, 2025 • 27 mins
Lecrae & Miles Minnick bring that Gospel swag through and talk about their new albums and how it feels seeing Gospel Rap on the rise and getting respect they deserve!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, yeah, all right, we're trying to do that with method.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let's do it. Let's give me a mic check.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'll make sure your levels my check one, two on two.
Let's get to it are four.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Five, eight, ten, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The math was math and to me, yeah you feel me?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Man, right back at it. Your favorite cut and dre
on one of us six cam yell, please may area.
Welcome to this show. Christian hip hop artists Miles Minnick
and look craye. What's happening, brothers? How y'all doing?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Man?
Speaker 6 (00:33):
You already know what it is in the in the
prayer area?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes it is today, it's the pray area.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I had an artist come up here actually before and
they started off the interview with a prayer.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Would you brothers like to start off y'all interview with
a prayer? Oh? Have y'all ever did an interview started
off the interview with the prayers? This is yall first time,
it's my first time.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, man, to kick it off. If this is first time,
to let them.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Care for eyes and heads closed? Oh my bad?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Yeah that I'll be giving us that Baptist of Pentecostal
prayer either, bro.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We need to get in and out.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm gonna play like the food hot. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
God, we thank you so much for this opportunity fall.
We pradise you blessed his interview. We pretty you bless
everybody in the Bay Area under the sound of our voices,
and God, we prayyed this segment will inspire and impact those.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Who need to hear it in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Amen,
that's interview.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, the right way.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's how you know it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Let's talk about it, man, Bothy Brothers got some new
albums on the way, of course. I'll start with you,
Miles miny yours. You just announced today today, you understand me,
Cousin Dre the first one with this info right here. Rosa.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's a very Bay Areas.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Feel, Yeah, via dol Rosa. Yeah, yeah, so that's dope.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Man, tell me the meaning of it. How did you
kind of it come across and all of that?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No, for sure, for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So Va de la Rosa is the name of the
road that Jesus walked on when he was carrying his cross.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You know what I'm saying. It's it's translated into the
pathway and suffering. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But but what I learned is oftentimes pain producers purpose.
Even if you look at Jesus' story like it was
painful walking on that road, but once he got that
got to that cross, he fulfilled his purpose and I
benefited all of us. And so I'm trying to let
everybody know you be gonna do something right now, but
it could get greater later if you just submit it
into the Lord's hands. You feel me and the slappers
on there, we got to keep the sneak on there.
(02:35):
We got a Kamai on there, Geasy on there, mister
fab on there, and some surprises on there.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I got a few questions first one to be do
you feel like that's your story as well, that you've
been through some pain and some suffering to you know
that's why you got this name of the album, or
how you can come about you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Perc ro like me being the teenage father, cars getting
shot up, my brother and out of jail. Daddy was
was was on the bottom. My mom left when I
was two years old.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Really went through a lot going up in West Pittsburgh, California.
But it wasn't until I ran into Jesus bro that
he really like snatched me out of the situation I
was into.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Notjesus from around the.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Block, Yeah, the real Jesus Jesus.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, not the Taco truck. You know what I'm saying.
But yeah, he turned my paint into purpose for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Now you like you say you born and raised in Pittsburgh, California.
For you as a Gospel of Christian rapper, how does
it feel like? How was you able to get all
of these Bay area guys you say you got missed
the fab you got you gotta keep the.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sneak, real old school three times crazy?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
How did you get these guys to cross over into
your lane and meet you in the middle of where.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You were at?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I mean cousin Dre, Like we really make slats for
the salt. Yeah, you feel what I'm saying. So they
was really fans of the movement first, like he Foy
tapped in just random, Keith tapped in the boy Like
everything that's happened organically, you know what I'm saying, Because
like I'm not just trying to speak Christianese or or
preach to people. I'm just existing as who I am.
(04:09):
I'm somebody that grew up in the Bay and somebody
that love God. But you're gonna hear both. You're gonna
hear the culture in Christ.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's all. It's it's easier to relate to you.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I feel like in all of these rappers, I don't
care who you are. You could be the most gangstous
person in the world. You believe in the Lord.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Who you You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So it makes sense for when you get a nice
miles many coming across these Bay Area streets and it's like,
come on, let me go here and jump on that.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
To me flap and its slap.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Absolutely, man, be on the lookout for that Bay Area
August twenty ninth. Now let's get to this nice young
brother next to you, man in the bill, and y'all
know who he is. He don't need no introduction. Look
great on your temp studio album. I mean people, most
people don't get that far in the game.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Good brother, listen, listen now when you know you know
how to if you don't play around, you stay around.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You did what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, really, let's talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
What's the name of the album I see it's dropping
August twenty second.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, August twenty second. Reconstruction you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
And reconstruction is just about you know, it's a mix
on one end of the spectrum. You gotta you gotta
think about it from the perspective of like every every
person can be restored, every person can be rebuilt, but
lives can be reconstructed too.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sometimes stuff get messed up and you need to be reconstructed.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
But also, you know, we reconstructing faith, we reconstructed finances,
we reconstructed families.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You did what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So we we tapping into all of that because you know,
a lot of times people would just throw me in
a little or this is a Christian box and he
throws you in to throw you in the box instead
of realizing, like, I'm a whole man. I got perspectives
on a lot of different things. And if you if
you pay, if you pay attention, if you limt me
your ear, I'll give you some game.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, that's play it right there. And what can folks
expect from you? On his night on his tenth album,
It's hears Me? What can folks expect from you? On
his tenth album that they didn't get nine albums in Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I mean, you know when you think about remember uh'en
too short? Was you know, getting it? Getting how to
getting this good? Hes like our own album number two,
my favorite song, and he was on ten. He's like,
I'm trying to give you some game. I've been around
this thing for a minute if you pay attention. And
I listened to that album and I picked up a
lot of game from it. You you know what I'm saying.
So you're gonna learn a lot from it. You're gonna
be able to find some healing, some celebration.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I got some I got some legends on there. I
got t I got killed Mike, you know to talking
talking that talk. I got some incredible producers I got
But then I go all slide over to another side
with John Bellion and some some other type of joints,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So we just mixing up.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
We having fun musically artistically, and I'm gonna take people
through a journey.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I ain't gonna lie for this. A question for both
of you all.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Do you guys feel like Christian hip hop is finding
this respect in the hip hop community. I see a
lot of people like, excuse me if I say his
name wrong, like d One is it? He been pushing
that that a jenny and I respect it. You see
other religious you see the Muslims, they stick together. They man,
we muslim shout out to the Oxen.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So it feel good.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Seeing some Christian brothers come up, you know, and putting
our religion on notice and putting everybody, hey, man, we
were leaving Jesus too.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Man, we can rap over here too.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But do you guys feel like is y'all getting some
respect around these hip hop parts?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I feel like it's grown, you you know what I'm saying.
I feel like it took a minute, but it's grown.
I've been putting in work for a long time. And
those who in the real ones who messed with me,
they mess with me and I respect them. You know,
Forty been rocking me for years, so I give him credit,
you know, But they shout out to y'all.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
You know, Camio, you know they showed me love back
in the day too, so you know, you know how
to break some barriers. But I don't feel like it
got respected until more recently. And now I see Miles
and Miles can just he can just take off and
he can do all of them records like talk about
Camaya to about you know what I'm saying, kick all
of them and it's like it ain't even a question.
You know, back in the day, I used to have
to beat on doors like come on, bro, and they'd be
(07:52):
like listen, they actually you.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Know what I mean. So to see it go from
that to this is a blessing for me.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You know, I mean, you did summer Jim No, look crap,
I think I don't want to say this, but I
might be right. I'm hoping I'm right where you like
the first hip hop Christian artist to do a summer jam.
Absolute because I know you did on the summer gym
like seventeen or what I think what his young brother
to do it that we got to talk about for surely,
(08:21):
But first answer the question that then we get I'm
excited now you know I'm moving past, but what's your take?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
How do you feel about it? And then we move on.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
From no no, I definitely agree with with crag Man,
like like, up until recently, we haven't seen Christian rap
songs on mainstream platforms like that.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You know what I'm saying, and not just not just being.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Tolerated, but celebrated, you know what I'm saying, Like out
of nowhere, our song Method is literally being played all over.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
The KML right now. We play that that religiously, yes
we do, and keep this too.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Method was a number one Sinxam song in l A
for for weeks, which means people.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Heard it like what song is this now?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Which means the Bay need to come on with it.
That's what it means, need to be another one SAMN
song in the Bay.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I ain't gonna lie, lie, Yeah, I was like, how
how is La getting to it?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Before the soil was?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But I'm so glad that we're here talking about it
now because man, what we are seeing recently is like
it's being it's being pushed by by all these platforms,
dog when it comes to radio and when it comes
to award ceremonies, all kinds of stuff. It's not even
being this scene as old Christian music. It's me seen
as music music, which really is what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know, that's really what it is. What inspired you
to be an artist, to be an artist in general?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Rapper?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I guess yeah, I grew up in a musical family.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Like all my cousins was rappers and singers, producers, right,
So I was like introverted kid in the Kona watching
my uncle trom my grandma garage into a studio.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, like all the production going on.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Then eventually my fifteenth birthday, I was sparking up and
it started a freestyling.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
My cousin's like, bro, you trashed up. Just stop. I
kept going and now they all getting tickets to my festival.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So how does that feel like that you would the
one that blew up? Everybody else was doing it before you,
The cousins, your uncle, they was rapping and then you
came along and then you start rapping. What when did
you cross over from rap to Christian gospel rap?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, I know you wasn't Christian wrapping fire and one up?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Now you know what? You know what?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You know what's funny for a minute, for a minute
that now you know what's funny.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Senior year of high school.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Uh, one on six came Yell sponsored a talent show
at my high school and the judges was Christians. And
I said, if I'm gonna do this talent show, I'm
gonna win it. Let me do a Christian rap song
because I was going to church a little bit at
that time. Then I did it, the school went stupid,
and I won the talent show, and I feel like
that was a sign from God for me to start
to like change my path a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is that when you started rapping it for the Lord basis,
that's when I was completely open to it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And then I dove deeper into the church, and I
feel like, you know what I'm saying, God, let me
do that path for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Got you? I got a question for you, mister lu Craze.
You went.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You went a semi viral about a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Man Young thumb god Brother posted online.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Man, if you are ratting a rapper, you might well
go gospel, and you responded, I'm paraphrasing here, Yeah, I mean,
but basically you kind of felt the way, young brother.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Why the snitches gotta go gospel? That's what I say.
What do we we? What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You did what I'm saying? So, I mean, in a sense,
I guess we witness protection over here. I don't understand
what we're trying to say, but to me, it was
just kind of like it's like man, the way it's like,
is that how you feel about us? Like, oh, throw
them snitches over there, this whack over there's trash over there, like,
get rid of this. We ain't the garbage dump. You know,
(11:54):
this ain't this. This ain't the garbage. It's a garden.
You see what I'm saying. We growing, We're thriving over here.
You know you have come over here, thug, you more
than welcome. Come on here, Come on, yeah, come over
here and get some.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Of this and grow.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yeah, that's really what what I'm But so that's the
page that I'm on, you know what I'm saying. Now
on the flip side, yeah, uh, you know, we accept
all kinds of degenerates and and people that nobody else
wants to rock with. You know, Jesus accepted the prostitutes,
the tax collectors, all of that type of stuff. So
you know, we we for everybody. But at the same time,
don't look at this as a garbage can. It's a garden,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
So, yeah, but was in the but now yeah, shout
out the thug. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
We didn't we didn't talk in person, not totand we
didn't talk to person. But I'm but I'm down.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You know what I'm saying. It's all love, you know
what I mean. We can we can, we can chop
it up.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I ain't gonna lie. That'd be a hard song right there, Miles,
Mini and the Craze. I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That can me yell when it come out? Just show me,
shot me out in the verse somewhere like cousin Drey.
Let's talk about it, man, you got this glow fast.
You've been doing your thing with it for the past
few years. Good brother, where did it start from? And
how do you feel seeing it sell out year after
(13:08):
year to now?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What's this year four? Let's talk about it, man.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
We're trying to bring something special to the Bay Area.
You know what I'm saying. I feel like for a
long time there was a lot of shows popping off,
but it wasn't nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
For like the whole family.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You did what I'm saying where you can still get
that hyphee that turned up energy. But you can bring
your grandma in, your son in and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You don't got to worry.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
About somebody set tripping on you. You know what I'm saying,
or nobody being drunk and belligerent. You did what I'm saying.
So we started in Antioch. For the first two years
sell out BAM BAM, Castro Valley. The third year sold
out BAM. This year we added more tickets at three crosses,
everybody knowing them three.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Everybody know when you're coming through Casto Valley, you know
what to the right the three crosses.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know exactly where it's at. Right, everybody know what
the three crosses at.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So this year we low key like over capacity in
that joint, which shows.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Allegedly he allegedly you know, fire Marshes coming through.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But what shows me that people gotta got an appetite
for something new.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, to provide that I got an appetite for something.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I'm tired of hearing everybody dying on tracks and in
the same thing. You know, me and my homeboys got
to think no hip hop before twelve o'clock saying, because
you know you want to wake up and it cleans
your spirit. I don't know, you know, some people might
do it with gospel, you know, I mean whatever, whatever,
but I'm tired of every time you turn on something
they dying.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let me let me, let.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Me need to listen to what we cooking in.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
We got much, we got music from Sunday to Sunday.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead, matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Cousin, right man, I don't know if you if you
celebrating your wife birthday tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Pull up?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Okay, okay, yeah, he gave me some tickets too. I'm
gonna see what's something. I'm definitely on white time. But
if she, if she ain't, I'm pulling up. I'm coming
rock with you off the show for show. I also
want to talk about that. Uh, you just got honored
by the mayor in Pitburg. Bro, I ain't gonna lie.
That's major, right there. Man, You're doing something so positive
that it feels I mean, I can only imagine how
(15:05):
you feel. I'm definitely about to ask you how you
feel about it, but just to imagine to be honored
by the city that you represent. Of course, you repped
the Bay and beyond to everybody else, but to have
your hometown represent you, how did that that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's a dream of me, man, an actual dream, like
those are the same streets and I used to tag
up with graffiti same streets I was out sell drugs
and the same streets I would cut school in and
just you know, act a fool. But now it's the
same streets. I get to inspire, you know, and make
a difference in an impact, like like what means more
than that? You know I'm saying nothing. That's that's why
(15:40):
we hear. You know what I'm saying to change our
narrative into something positive.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And so for the mayor and.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The whole city council to do a proclamation a whole speech,
it looked like that was giving me a sentence. And
now like if you if you watched the video, I
was at the podium like this we hear about declare nervous.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
But it was special.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The city popped out, my family popped out, and man,
we get to make history.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Man, Jesus name bros. Far straight up, that's dope.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
What has this good brother sitting to your left taught
you about this game that you are.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Now part of?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh man, he taught me a lot, And I think
I think it's especially especially meaningful to me to even
be around him because the path that I'm on, I
feel like he pioneered it. You feel what I'm saying,
like he being like a faith based rapper, but in
secular spaces, like I've seen him do it without any blemishes,
without scandals, without falling off, and like falling into any
(16:33):
any kind of thing that can sabotage him. You feel me,
So he taught me, Like even when we went to
the Jordan party for All Star weekend, I'm like, how
do you handle yourself in these these kind of environments?
He's like, man, never go alone, Never stay longer than
you need to. You know what I'm saying. Never change
who you are, Like, continue to be that light and
light lights up the room. You did, you know what
I'm saying. Never What he always says is to never
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be a thermometer. Be a thermostat. Thermometers are dictated by
the temperature of the room, but the thermostat sets the
temperature of the room.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You feel me, And so that's what you remember back
in school. You have to do a little snappy could you?
Could you stay strong at a Diddy party?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Here we go. You wanna you want an exclusive right now?
That's what you want?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
And all been at them Diddy parties, but not them
Diddy party I ain't been in no freak off.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I'm gonna tell you straight up.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
When I was the one that you walk into a
Diddy party, everybody you know, they Mama is in there,
it's the media is in there. But now I ain't
gonna cap you down. I ain't gonna lie to you.
I went inside the house. It's a velvet rope and
a security guard.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't know who went over.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Who got beyond that rope.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I don't know. I never made it past the rope.
And if I would have got invited, I would have said.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I'm good, straight up man. And then same question for you,
lu Craze, what is it about this young brother to
you're right that you like that? You know you you
already solidified and it's here game.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You don't need. You know what I'm saying. You on
your temp studio album here on his debut first album.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
What is it that you like about Lucrae that you see?
You know that you know he's a god feeling brother,
He means it. You know, everybody believe in the Lord.
But I'm a center, y'all pray for me. I'm not
all the way there yet, know, But what is it
about this young brother Miles Minic that you like, bro,
you know.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
The thing about it is is you know it's my responsibility,
you know what I'm saying, Like to who much has
been given, much is required and you don't. You don't
gather up everything just to hold it on to yourself.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
How many Grammys you gotta win, how many awards you
gotta get, how many you know what I'm saying, platinum albums?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Like what when are you gonna be satisfied?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
You not?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
So if you don't find a way to pay it
forward and push it on, you know, it dozes with you.
And that's why we see a lot of our favorite
artists start going crazy and losing their mind because they
so self indulged and wrapped up in theyselves that when
stuff they don't know what else level to get to,
you know, I mean one, That's why my man.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yay is like yo, I mean maybe I'm God.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I must be God, because they ain't nowhere, there's nowhere
else to go.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You did what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So it's like, man, if you don't start giving back,
If you don't start, you know, humbling yourself and helping
other people get up.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What's your purpose?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Man?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What you here for? So for me, I just look
for somebody with the three seeds. Man.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
You know, character, You gotta have the right character. You
gotta be somebody who is ain't caught up in no nonsense.
You know what I'm saying that I can trust you,
you know, Cadence, you got to be able to keep up.
You know what I'm saying. We got a Cadence. I'm
moving my miles. I shot him a record. He hit
me right back, crazy verse. I said, oh, let's do
another one. Oh, let's do another Cadence. Hey, we're hitting
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the station. Boom boom. Hey we're doing this boom boom, Cadence.
And then lastly, man, capability, Man, are you capable? You know,
do you really got the skill? Even a Bible saying
a Bible that says, uh, he says, praise the Lord
with the heart, raise them with the lyric, praise him skillfully.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
God care about skill some.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Time you feel you praise.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So that's what that's really what it come down to.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Man, And that's what I think he demonstrates. And so man,
and then he just he just a real one. So
it's kind of like, man, why would you not invest?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You did?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Here go cousin dre again. So we got a collab
album on the way.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Oh get will soon dropped?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You did we do? We?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We did already we did it, just dropped.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You know what I'm saying, Come on, you my favorite cousin.
Man listen, hey, man, you know on the earth Lord
made this for all of us. Yeah, yeah, here you go. Right.
I told you'all ain't got no mind. Here you your
favorite cousin. Understand what you might have did?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, yeah, I said, you go for it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You might have just prophesied Part two.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Plan Come on, part come on part two on the way,
I got some records sitting hey, listen, planning to see
I got some for the and you know, we learned
a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And now people might want to jump on the bandwagon
after they see that the work that got put in,
after they see the method went up.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh, now you want to Now you want to get
that firse to me on time?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You know, because it's cool too.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Before it was.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Cool too, like all they over there rapping about the Lord.
Oh that's what's up now? It's cool to wrap about.
Appreciate you brothers making it cool to wrap about Jesus. Yes,
it's all the last question for you. I could do
this all day, I swear yo, yo.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Your ideal gospel collab is with who.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh like like within the genre of gospel or like
just anybody.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Your idea whoever, it gotta be a gospel arty.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I don't care if it's whoever Didrich hadn't give me one?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Whoever, I got to give you a two for two
for one. I want Kirk and Justin Bieber. You know
Justin Bieber sing worship music.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I've seen. I've seen clips online and stuff in
him in church singing Justin Bieber on the I'm sue
up beat.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
That viral for saying that, Kurt Franklin Justin Bieber, I
am sue upbeat.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
We might got an AI that I know you heard
the ukon Justin Bieber song on that heading you going, yankee,
I'm like, hold on, suite, let me use that joint
for an actual record with just Come on, man, that's wow.
You never know what do man, You never know for
real for that hard for show for show you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Man, I'm this is gonna shock people.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
But I didn't grow up listening to gospel music like that,
so I'm all hip hop.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
I wasn't raising the church. When I, like I found God,
I was like I was straight off the block with it.
So for me, it was kind of like I was.
I never really listened to gospel music, so I don't.
I tapped in late like Stump was like the first
gospel song I for real heard, like by Kurk Frank.
So I still to this day in my mind, gospel
is a genre with a certain sound, and I love
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the sound.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But the message of gospel is more important. Yeah, wrap
it up.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I don't care. I want to hear the message of
gospel on a selly Sell and mac Drake.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You feel what I'm saying, Like, yeah, I want to
hear that message in that form, that package. So that's good.
You know that's what I would want to hear. You
did what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
How do both of y'all feel about hip hop artists
winning gospel awards? I know a few, like Ddrich had
a few people came out speaking about Gloilla winning at
the BT Awards.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
How do y'all feel about that. Right we talked about that,
I feel away.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'll be honest with you. I feel away. Let me
tell you why I feel a way.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I feel a way that gospel artists are crying about
about an award that is given away by non gospel
entities BT and and gospel.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
So why y'all, why.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Y'all mad about them giving away an award? It ain't
dang gospel. They gave it away an award. Like It's
like if I decided to give away a country music
award tomorrow, the country music they're gonna be mad at me, Like,
why y'all mad at me? I don't If you don't
think I know country music, don't be mad at me
for giving it to Miles Minnick for Best Country Album.
They're gonna say, now on the flip side. On the
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flip side, I understand. Gospel is like, Hey, this is
our genre, this our sound. Can you respect our sound
and put somebody in the seat to vote. Well, if
they don't vote like you want them to vote, then
don't respect that space. But don't cry because somebody that
you don't respect gave your ward away.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think that's a good take.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You know, and the flip side of that, a lot
of people who are upset are the same ones who's
not submitting their music on time anyway on time, on
the same ones who are unwilling to be in the
circles or even be at the awards ceremonies, Like, how
are you demonizing a industry that you want to be
celebrated by?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know? To me, it's like, I don't know, but
I stand with crayon that.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Though I ain't mad if k L decided to give
away a Christian rap award and my name ain't mentioned,
I ain't gonna be mad at y'all and be like,
well somebody ain't informed them.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's all good, straight up man. I appreciate you brothers.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Man sliding through y'all get out there and get you
some glow fast tickets or trying already sold out.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Right, trying to be scalping outside.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You ain't lying.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You have a couple of t shirts them, man, Miles Mini,
appreciate you, good brother man. We're supporting you out here
in the Bay area. Cam me out for show your
cutting Dre big Vin Rick Lee. We're playing that method
man right now for surely, for surely you pray. Man,
keep up the good work you're doing. Man, keep this
young brother under your wing, man, keeping guided the right way.
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You know, this is a dangerous industry that we're in
for real, for real, man.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The last thing we gotta say too, Yeah, we're going
on tour and we got a show in San Francisco
at the Reason. See, we put a date on it,
so we need everybody to come through it. Know of them.
Bird hold on, drum roll please or go dumb roll please.
It is no November eleventh, November.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The Reason see breaking news, Breaking news.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Y'all gotta here first, man, y'all gonna check out the
new album dropping in August two, August twenty ninth. The
name of the album is Via Dela Rosa, Via Dela Rosa,
how do I say, stands me and then look crazy?
Your album dropping on August twenty second.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
To name Reconstruction. Go get that, Go.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Get that, man, and of course you get it for free.
On the iHeart Radio ad We're out the door.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Peace now you straight father.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
In the name of Jesus God, we think it's so
much for us opportunity. God, we pray that you blessed
came yell, and everybody involved we prayed at you, blessed
his interview, allow us to inspire somebody out there and
impact the people that needed the most. Father, we prayed
this goals according to your will and that your life
time is right throughout the bay to the rest of
the world.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And Jesus Name, Amen, Amen, please pay for me, Lord,
but we just pray for Drake.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
God.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
We thank you for the voice that you giving him
in the position that you put him in. And God,
none of us are where we want to be. But
Lord God, you can put us in a position to grow.
And Lord, I pray that you the rest his heart.
Lord God, and just draw him closer to you. Lord,
remind him that you're not on a porch mad at him,
but you're on a porch welcoming him home, saying we
want you here.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
So, God, whatever he may be dealing with family, friends, life, work,
whatever may be, Lord, I pray that you would ease
the tension, let him know that he has a father
in heaven who loves him and is willing to walk
with him through anything and everything. Lord, we thank you
for him.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
In Jesus Name, Amen.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Amen,
Yeah, yeah, all right, we're trying to do that with method.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let's do it. Let's give me a mic check.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'll make sure your levels my check one, two on two.
Let's get to it are four.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Five, eight, ten, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The math was math and to me, yeah you feel me?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Man, right back at it. Your favorite cut and dre
on one of us six cam yell, please may area.
Welcome to this show. Christian hip hop artists Miles Minnick
and look craye. What's happening, brothers? How y'all doing?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Man?
Speaker 6 (00:33):
You already know what it is in the in the
prayer area?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes it is today, it's the pray area.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I had an artist come up here actually before and
they started off the interview with a prayer.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Would you brothers like to start off y'all interview with
a prayer? Oh? Have y'all ever did an interview started
off the interview with the prayers? This is yall first time,
it's my first time.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, man, to kick it off. If this is first time,
to let them.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Care for eyes and heads closed? Oh my bad?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Yeah that I'll be giving us that Baptist of Pentecostal
prayer either, bro.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We need to get in and out.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm gonna play like the food hot. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
God, we thank you so much for this opportunity fall.
We pradise you blessed his interview. We pretty you bless
everybody in the Bay Area under the sound of our voices,
and God, we prayyed this segment will inspire and impact those.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Who need to hear it in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Amen,
that's interview.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, the right way.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's how you know it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Let's talk about it, man, Bothy Brothers got some new
albums on the way, of course. I'll start with you,
Miles miny yours. You just announced today today, you understand me,
Cousin Dre the first one with this info right here. Rosa.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's a very Bay Areas.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Feel, Yeah, via dol Rosa. Yeah, yeah, so that's dope.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Man, tell me the meaning of it. How did you
kind of it come across and all of that?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
No, for sure, for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So Va de la Rosa is the name of the
road that Jesus walked on when he was carrying his cross.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You know what I'm saying. It's it's translated into the
pathway and suffering. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But but what I learned is oftentimes pain producers purpose.
Even if you look at Jesus' story like it was
painful walking on that road, but once he got that
got to that cross, he fulfilled his purpose and I
benefited all of us. And so I'm trying to let
everybody know you be gonna do something right now, but
it could get greater later if you just submit it
into the Lord's hands. You feel me and the slappers
on there, we got to keep the sneak on there.
(02:35):
We got a Kamai on there, Geasy on there, mister
fab on there, and some surprises on there.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I got a few questions first one to be do
you feel like that's your story as well, that you've
been through some pain and some suffering to you know
that's why you got this name of the album, or
how you can come about you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Perc ro like me being the teenage father, cars getting
shot up, my brother and out of jail. Daddy was
was was on the bottom. My mom left when I
was two years old.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Really went through a lot going up in West Pittsburgh, California.
But it wasn't until I ran into Jesus bro that
he really like snatched me out of the situation I
was into.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Notjesus from around the.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Block, Yeah, the real Jesus Jesus.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, not the Taco truck. You know what I'm saying.
But yeah, he turned my paint into purpose for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Now you like you say you born and raised in Pittsburgh, California.
For you as a Gospel of Christian rapper, how does
it feel like? How was you able to get all
of these Bay area guys you say you got missed
the fab you got you gotta keep the.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sneak, real old school three times crazy?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
How did you get these guys to cross over into
your lane and meet you in the middle of where.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You were at?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I mean cousin Dre, Like we really make slats for
the salt. Yeah, you feel what I'm saying. So they
was really fans of the movement first, like he Foy
tapped in just random, Keith tapped in the boy Like
everything that's happened organically, you know what I'm saying, Because
like I'm not just trying to speak Christianese or or
preach to people. I'm just existing as who I am.
(04:09):
I'm somebody that grew up in the Bay and somebody
that love God. But you're gonna hear both. You're gonna
hear the culture in Christ.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's all. It's it's easier to relate to you.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I feel like in all of these rappers, I don't
care who you are. You could be the most gangstous
person in the world. You believe in the Lord.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Who you You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So it makes sense for when you get a nice
miles many coming across these Bay Area streets and it's like,
come on, let me go here and jump on that.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
To me flap and its slap.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Absolutely, man, be on the lookout for that Bay Area
August twenty ninth. Now let's get to this nice young
brother next to you, man in the bill, and y'all
know who he is. He don't need no introduction. Look
great on your temp studio album. I mean people, most
people don't get that far in the game.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Good brother, listen, listen now when you know you know
how to if you don't play around, you stay around.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You did what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, really, let's talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
What's the name of the album I see it's dropping
August twenty second.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, August twenty second. Reconstruction you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
And reconstruction is just about you know, it's a mix
on one end of the spectrum. You gotta you gotta
think about it from the perspective of like every every
person can be restored, every person can be rebuilt, but
lives can be reconstructed too.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sometimes stuff get messed up and you need to be reconstructed.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
But also, you know, we reconstructing faith, we reconstructed finances,
we reconstructed families.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You did what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So we we tapping into all of that because you know,
a lot of times people would just throw me in
a little or this is a Christian box and he
throws you in to throw you in the box instead
of realizing, like, I'm a whole man. I got perspectives
on a lot of different things. And if you if
you pay, if you pay attention, if you limt me
your ear, I'll give you some game.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, that's play it right there. And what can folks
expect from you? On his night on his tenth album,
It's hears Me? What can folks expect from you? On
his tenth album that they didn't get nine albums in Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I mean, you know when you think about remember uh'en
too short? Was you know, getting it? Getting how to
getting this good? Hes like our own album number two,
my favorite song, and he was on ten. He's like,
I'm trying to give you some game. I've been around
this thing for a minute if you pay attention. And
I listened to that album and I picked up a
lot of game from it. You you know what I'm saying.
So you're gonna learn a lot from it. You're gonna
be able to find some healing, some celebration.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I got some I got some legends on there. I
got t I got killed Mike, you know to talking
talking that talk. I got some incredible producers I got
But then I go all slide over to another side
with John Bellion and some some other type of joints,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So we just mixing up.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
We having fun musically artistically, and I'm gonna take people
through a journey.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I ain't gonna lie for this. A question for both
of you all.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Do you guys feel like Christian hip hop is finding
this respect in the hip hop community. I see a
lot of people like, excuse me if I say his
name wrong, like d One is it? He been pushing
that that a jenny and I respect it. You see
other religious you see the Muslims, they stick together. They man,
we muslim shout out to the Oxen.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So it feel good.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Seeing some Christian brothers come up, you know, and putting
our religion on notice and putting everybody, hey, man, we
were leaving Jesus too.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Man, we can rap over here too.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But do you guys feel like is y'all getting some
respect around these hip hop parts?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I feel like it's grown, you you know what I'm saying.
I feel like it took a minute, but it's grown.
I've been putting in work for a long time. And
those who in the real ones who messed with me,
they mess with me and I respect them. You know,
Forty been rocking me for years, so I give him credit,
you know, But they shout out to y'all.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
You know, Camio, you know they showed me love back
in the day too, so you know, you know how
to break some barriers. But I don't feel like it
got respected until more recently. And now I see Miles
and Miles can just he can just take off and
he can do all of them records like talk about
Camaya to about you know what I'm saying, kick all
of them and it's like it ain't even a question.
You know, back in the day, I used to have
to beat on doors like come on, bro, and they'd be
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like listen, they actually you.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Know what I mean. So to see it go from
that to this is a blessing for me.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You know, I mean, you did summer Jim No, look crap,
I think I don't want to say this, but I
might be right. I'm hoping I'm right where you like
the first hip hop Christian artist to do a summer jam.
Absolute because I know you did on the summer gym
like seventeen or what I think what his young brother
to do it that we got to talk about for surely,
(08:21):
But first answer the question that then we get I'm
excited now you know I'm moving past, but what's your take?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
How do you feel about it? And then we move on.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
From no no, I definitely agree with with crag Man,
like like, up until recently, we haven't seen Christian rap
songs on mainstream platforms like that.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You know what I'm saying, and not just not just being.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Tolerated, but celebrated, you know what I'm saying, Like out
of nowhere, our song Method is literally being played all over.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
The KML right now. We play that that religiously, yes
we do, and keep this too.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Method was a number one Sinxam song in l A
for for weeks, which means people.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Heard it like what song is this now?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Which means the Bay need to come on with it.
That's what it means, need to be another one SAMN
song in the Bay.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I ain't gonna lie, lie, Yeah, I was like, how
how is La getting to it?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Before the soil was?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But I'm so glad that we're here talking about it
now because man, what we are seeing recently is like
it's being it's being pushed by by all these platforms,
dog when it comes to radio and when it comes
to award ceremonies, all kinds of stuff. It's not even
being this scene as old Christian music. It's me seen
as music music, which really is what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know, that's really what it is. What inspired you
to be an artist, to be an artist in general?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Rapper?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I guess yeah, I grew up in a musical family.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Like all my cousins was rappers and singers, producers, right,
So I was like introverted kid in the Kona watching
my uncle trom my grandma garage into a studio.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, like all the production going on.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Then eventually my fifteenth birthday, I was sparking up and
it started a freestyling.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
My cousin's like, bro, you trashed up. Just stop. I
kept going and now they all getting tickets to my festival.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So how does that feel like that you would the
one that blew up? Everybody else was doing it before you,
The cousins, your uncle, they was rapping and then you
came along and then you start rapping. What when did
you cross over from rap to Christian gospel rap?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, I know you wasn't Christian wrapping fire and one up?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Now you know what? You know what?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
You know what's funny for a minute, for a minute
that now you know what's funny.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Senior year of high school.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Uh, one on six came Yell sponsored a talent show
at my high school and the judges was Christians. And
I said, if I'm gonna do this talent show, I'm
gonna win it. Let me do a Christian rap song
because I was going to church a little bit at
that time. Then I did it, the school went stupid,
and I won the talent show, and I feel like
that was a sign from God for me to start
to like change my path a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is that when you started rapping it for the Lord basis,
that's when I was completely open to it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And then I dove deeper into the church, and I
feel like, you know what I'm saying, God, let me
do that path for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Got you? I got a question for you, mister lu Craze.
You went.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You went a semi viral about a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Man Young thumb god Brother posted online.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Man, if you are ratting a rapper, you might well
go gospel, and you responded, I'm paraphrasing here, Yeah, I mean,
but basically you kind of felt the way, young brother.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Why the snitches gotta go gospel? That's what I say.
What do we we? What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You did what I'm saying? So, I mean, in a sense,
I guess we witness protection over here. I don't understand
what we're trying to say, but to me, it was
just kind of like it's like man, the way it's like,
is that how you feel about us? Like, oh, throw
them snitches over there, this whack over there's trash over there, like,
get rid of this. We ain't the garbage dump. You know,
(11:54):
this ain't this. This ain't the garbage. It's a garden.
You see what I'm saying. We growing, We're thriving over here.
You know you have come over here, thug, you more
than welcome. Come on here, Come on, yeah, come over
here and get some.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Of this and grow.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Yeah, that's really what what I'm But so that's the
page that I'm on, you know what I'm saying. Now
on the flip side, yeah, uh, you know, we accept
all kinds of degenerates and and people that nobody else
wants to rock with. You know, Jesus accepted the prostitutes,
the tax collectors, all of that type of stuff. So
you know, we we for everybody. But at the same time,
don't look at this as a garbage can. It's a garden,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
So, yeah, but was in the but now yeah, shout
out the thug. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
We didn't we didn't talk in person, not totand we
didn't talk to person. But I'm but I'm down.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You know what I'm saying. It's all love, you know
what I mean. We can we can, we can chop
it up.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I ain't gonna lie. That'd be a hard song right there, Miles,
Mini and the Craze. I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That can me yell when it come out? Just show me,
shot me out in the verse somewhere like cousin Drey.
Let's talk about it, man, you got this glow fast.
You've been doing your thing with it for the past
few years. Good brother, where did it start from? And
how do you feel seeing it sell out year after
(13:08):
year to now?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What's this year four? Let's talk about it, man.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
We're trying to bring something special to the Bay Area.
You know what I'm saying. I feel like for a
long time there was a lot of shows popping off,
but it wasn't nothing.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
For like the whole family.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You did what I'm saying where you can still get
that hyphee that turned up energy. But you can bring
your grandma in, your son in and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You don't got to worry.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
About somebody set tripping on you. You know what I'm saying,
or nobody being drunk and belligerent. You did what I'm saying.
So we started in Antioch. For the first two years
sell out BAM BAM, Castro Valley. The third year sold
out BAM. This year we added more tickets at three crosses,
everybody knowing them three.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Everybody know when you're coming through Casto Valley, you know
what to the right the three crosses.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know exactly where it's at. Right, everybody know what
the three crosses at.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So this year we low key like over capacity in
that joint, which shows.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Allegedly he allegedly you know, fire Marshes coming through.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But what shows me that people gotta got an appetite
for something new.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, to provide that I got an appetite for something.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I'm tired of hearing everybody dying on tracks and in
the same thing. You know, me and my homeboys got
to think no hip hop before twelve o'clock saying, because
you know you want to wake up and it cleans
your spirit. I don't know, you know, some people might
do it with gospel, you know, I mean whatever, whatever,
but I'm tired of every time you turn on something
they dying.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let me let me, let.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Me need to listen to what we cooking in.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
We got much, we got music from Sunday to Sunday.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead, matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Cousin, right man, I don't know if you if you
celebrating your wife birthday tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Pull up?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Okay, okay, yeah, he gave me some tickets too. I'm
gonna see what's something. I'm definitely on white time. But
if she, if she ain't, I'm pulling up. I'm coming
rock with you off the show for show. I also
want to talk about that. Uh, you just got honored
by the mayor in Pitburg. Bro, I ain't gonna lie.
That's major, right there. Man, You're doing something so positive
that it feels I mean, I can only imagine how
(15:05):
you feel. I'm definitely about to ask you how you
feel about it, but just to imagine to be honored
by the city that you represent. Of course, you repped
the Bay and beyond to everybody else, but to have
your hometown represent you, how did that that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's a dream of me, man, an actual dream, like
those are the same streets and I used to tag
up with graffiti same streets I was out sell drugs
and the same streets I would cut school in and
just you know, act a fool. But now it's the
same streets. I get to inspire, you know, and make
a difference in an impact, like like what means more
than that? You know I'm saying nothing. That's that's why
(15:40):
we hear. You know what I'm saying to change our
narrative into something positive.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And so for the mayor and.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The whole city council to do a proclamation a whole speech,
it looked like that was giving me a sentence. And
now like if you if you watched the video, I
was at the podium like this we hear about declare nervous.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
But it was special.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The city popped out, my family popped out, and man,
we get to make history.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Man, Jesus name bros. Far straight up, that's dope.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
What has this good brother sitting to your left taught
you about this game that you are.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Now part of?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh man, he taught me a lot, And I think
I think it's especially especially meaningful to me to even
be around him because the path that I'm on, I
feel like he pioneered it. You feel what I'm saying,
like he being like a faith based rapper, but in
secular spaces, like I've seen him do it without any blemishes,
without scandals, without falling off, and like falling into any
(16:33):
any kind of thing that can sabotage him. You feel me,
So he taught me, Like even when we went to
the Jordan party for All Star weekend, I'm like, how
do you handle yourself in these these kind of environments?
He's like, man, never go alone, Never stay longer than
you need to. You know what I'm saying. Never change
who you are, Like, continue to be that light and
light lights up the room. You did, you know what
I'm saying. Never What he always says is to never
(16:56):
be a thermometer. Be a thermostat. Thermometers are dictated by
the temperature of the room, but the thermostat sets the
temperature of the room.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You feel me, And so that's what you remember back
in school. You have to do a little snappy could you?
Could you stay strong at a Diddy party?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Here we go. You wanna you want an exclusive right now?
That's what you want?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
And all been at them Diddy parties, but not them
Diddy party I ain't been in no freak off.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I'm gonna tell you straight up.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
When I was the one that you walk into a
Diddy party, everybody you know, they Mama is in there,
it's the media is in there. But now I ain't
gonna cap you down. I ain't gonna lie to you.
I went inside the house. It's a velvet rope and
a security guard.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I don't know who went over.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Who got beyond that rope.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I don't know. I never made it past the rope.
And if I would have got invited, I would have said.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I'm good, straight up man. And then same question for you,
lu Craze, what is it about this young brother to
you're right that you like that? You know you you
already solidified and it's here game.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You don't need. You know what I'm saying. You on
your temp studio album here on his debut first album.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
What is it that you like about Lucrae that you see?
You know that you know he's a god feeling brother,
He means it. You know, everybody believe in the Lord.
But I'm a center, y'all pray for me. I'm not
all the way there yet, know, But what is it
about this young brother Miles Minic that you like, bro,
you know.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
The thing about it is is you know it's my responsibility,
you know what I'm saying, Like to who much has
been given, much is required and you don't. You don't
gather up everything just to hold it on to yourself.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
How many Grammys you gotta win, how many awards you
gotta get, how many you know what I'm saying, platinum albums?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Like what when are you gonna be satisfied?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
You not?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
So if you don't find a way to pay it
forward and push it on, you know, it dozes with you.
And that's why we see a lot of our favorite
artists start going crazy and losing their mind because they
so self indulged and wrapped up in theyselves that when
stuff they don't know what else level to get to,
you know, I mean one, That's why my man.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yay is like yo, I mean maybe I'm God.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I must be God, because they ain't nowhere, there's nowhere
else to go.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You did what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So it's like, man, if you don't start giving back,
If you don't start, you know, humbling yourself and helping
other people get up.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What's your purpose?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Man?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What you here for? So for me, I just look
for somebody with the three seeds. Man.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
You know, character, You gotta have the right character. You
gotta be somebody who is ain't caught up in no nonsense.
You know what I'm saying that I can trust you,
you know, Cadence, you got to be able to keep up.
You know what I'm saying. We got a Cadence. I'm
moving my miles. I shot him a record. He hit
me right back, crazy verse. I said, oh, let's do
another one. Oh, let's do another Cadence. Hey, we're hitting
(19:48):
the station. Boom boom. Hey we're doing this boom boom, Cadence.
And then lastly, man, capability, Man, are you capable? You know,
do you really got the skill? Even a Bible saying
a Bible that says, uh, he says, praise the Lord
with the heart, raise them with the lyric, praise him skillfully.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
God care about skill some.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Time you feel you praise.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So that's what that's really what it come down to.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Man, And that's what I think he demonstrates. And so man,
and then he just he just a real one. So
it's kind of like, man, why would you not invest?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You did?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Here go cousin dre again. So we got a collab
album on the way.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Oh get will soon dropped?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You did we do? We?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
We did already we did it, just dropped.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You know what I'm saying, Come on, you my favorite cousin.
Man listen, hey, man, you know on the earth Lord
made this for all of us. Yeah, yeah, here you go. Right.
I told you'all ain't got no mind. Here you your
favorite cousin. Understand what you might have did?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, yeah, I said, you go for it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
You might have just prophesied Part two.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Plan Come on, part come on part two on the way,
I got some records sitting hey, listen, planning to see
I got some for the and you know, we learned
a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
And now people might want to jump on the bandwagon
after they see that the work that got put in,
after they see the method went up.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh, now you want to Now you want to get
that firse to me on time?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You know, because it's cool too.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Before it was.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Cool too, like all they over there rapping about the Lord.
Oh that's what's up now? It's cool to wrap about.
Appreciate you brothers making it cool to wrap about Jesus. Yes,
it's all the last question for you. I could do
this all day, I swear yo, yo.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Your ideal gospel collab is with who.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh like like within the genre of gospel or like
just anybody.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Your idea whoever, it gotta be a gospel arty.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I don't care if it's whoever Didrich hadn't give me one?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Whoever, I got to give you a two for two
for one. I want Kirk and Justin Bieber. You know
Justin Bieber sing worship music.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I've seen. I've seen clips online and stuff in
him in church singing Justin Bieber on the I'm sue
up beat.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
That viral for saying that, Kurt Franklin Justin Bieber, I
am sue upbeat.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
We might got an AI that I know you heard
the ukon Justin Bieber song on that heading you going, yankee,
I'm like, hold on, suite, let me use that joint
for an actual record with just Come on, man, that's wow.
You never know what do man, You never know for
real for that hard for show for show you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Man, I'm this is gonna shock people.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
But I didn't grow up listening to gospel music like that,
so I'm all hip hop.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
I wasn't raising the church. When I, like I found God,
I was like I was straight off the block with it.
So for me, it was kind of like I was.
I never really listened to gospel music, so I don't.
I tapped in late like Stump was like the first
gospel song I for real heard, like by Kurk Frank.
So I still to this day in my mind, gospel
is a genre with a certain sound, and I love
(23:05):
the sound.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But the message of gospel is more important. Yeah, wrap
it up.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I don't care. I want to hear the message of
gospel on a selly Sell and mac Drake.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You feel what I'm saying, Like, yeah, I want to
hear that message in that form, that package. So that's good.
You know that's what I would want to hear. You
did what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
How do both of y'all feel about hip hop artists
winning gospel awards? I know a few, like Ddrich had
a few people came out speaking about Gloilla winning at
the BT Awards.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
How do y'all feel about that. Right we talked about that,
I feel away.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'll be honest with you. I feel away. Let me
tell you why I feel a way.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I feel a way that gospel artists are crying about
about an award that is given away by non gospel
entities BT and and gospel.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
So why y'all, why.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Y'all mad about them giving away an award? It ain't
dang gospel. They gave it away an award. Like It's
like if I decided to give away a country music
award tomorrow, the country music they're gonna be mad at me, Like,
why y'all mad at me? I don't If you don't
think I know country music, don't be mad at me
for giving it to Miles Minnick for Best Country Album.
They're gonna say, now on the flip side. On the
(24:14):
flip side, I understand. Gospel is like, Hey, this is
our genre, this our sound. Can you respect our sound
and put somebody in the seat to vote. Well, if
they don't vote like you want them to vote, then
don't respect that space. But don't cry because somebody that
you don't respect gave your ward away.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think that's a good take.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You know, and the flip side of that, a lot
of people who are upset are the same ones who's
not submitting their music on time anyway on time, on
the same ones who are unwilling to be in the
circles or even be at the awards ceremonies, Like, how
are you demonizing a industry that you want to be
celebrated by?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know? To me, it's like, I don't know, but
I stand with crayon that.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Though I ain't mad if k L decided to give
away a Christian rap award and my name ain't mentioned,
I ain't gonna be mad at y'all and be like,
well somebody ain't informed them.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's all good, straight up man. I appreciate you brothers.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Man sliding through y'all get out there and get you
some glow fast tickets or trying already sold out.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Right, trying to be scalping outside.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You ain't lying.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
You have a couple of t shirts them, man, Miles Mini,
appreciate you, good brother man. We're supporting you out here
in the Bay area. Cam me out for show your
cutting Dre big Vin Rick Lee. We're playing that method
man right now for surely, for surely you pray. Man,
keep up the good work you're doing. Man, keep this
young brother under your wing, man, keeping guided the right way.
(25:44):
You know, this is a dangerous industry that we're in
for real, for real, man.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The last thing we gotta say too, Yeah, we're going
on tour and we got a show in San Francisco
at the Reason. See, we put a date on it,
so we need everybody to come through it. Know of them.
Bird hold on, drum roll please or go dumb roll please.
It is no November eleventh, November.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The Reason see breaking news, Breaking news.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Y'all gotta here first, man, y'all gonna check out the
new album dropping in August two, August twenty ninth. The
name of the album is Via Dela Rosa, Via Dela Rosa,
how do I say, stands me and then look crazy?
Your album dropping on August twenty second.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
To name Reconstruction. Go get that, Go.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Get that, man, and of course you get it for free.
On the iHeart Radio ad We're out the door.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Peace now you straight father.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
In the name of Jesus God, we think it's so
much for us opportunity. God, we pray that you blessed
came yell, and everybody involved we prayed at you, blessed
his interview, allow us to inspire somebody out there and
impact the people that needed the most. Father, we prayed
this goals according to your will and that your life
time is right throughout the bay to the rest of
the world.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And Jesus Name, Amen, Amen, please pay for me, Lord,
but we just pray for Drake.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
God.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
We thank you for the voice that you giving him
in the position that you put him in. And God,
none of us are where we want to be. But
Lord God, you can put us in a position to grow.
And Lord, I pray that you the rest his heart.
Lord God, and just draw him closer to you. Lord,
remind him that you're not on a porch mad at him,
but you're on a porch welcoming him home, saying we
want you here.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
So, God, whatever he may be dealing with family, friends, life, work,
whatever may be, Lord, I pray that you would ease
the tension, let him know that he has a father
in heaven who loves him and is willing to walk
with him through anything and everything. Lord, we thank you
for him.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
In Jesus Name, Amen.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Amen,
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