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Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yo, yo Yo, what us up? Guys.

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DNA and firing in his pen. He studied the business,
mastered the craft, and lived in the underground until it
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is proof that discipline plus passion equals power. And now
he's letting the world know it's his time. You're not

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Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready?

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Well, let's go, let's go, all right, all right again,
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Speaker 5 (02:54):
Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes and
into the minds of these human beings, you know, the
ones that are out there giving it. They're all for me,
for you, and for the world well, ladies and gentlemen,
with the mic in one hand and a guitar in
the other. L ninety nine is proof that versatility is

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more than a buzzword. It's a lifestyle representing the DMV.
His roots run deep, from his grandfather's legendary persuasions legacy
to his own grind in the underground circles and the
Brooklyn stages. His new single Pop announces his arrival with speed, precision,

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and authenticity, with universal Bungalow distribution and a catalog ready
to explode. His time is now, So please join me
in saying welcome friend to our ninety nine. Yo, Yo, yo,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yo. What's up to Metrius?

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Man?

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Appreciate the intro? Man, How you doing pretty good?

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Man?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Are you doing good?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Doing good? Man?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah? Man, blessed to be here, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
M Yes, sir, yes, sir Man. Before we get into
pop and your musical journey, what's been on your heart
and my elected? Bro? You know what's funny, bro?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I mean you know today nine to eleven, as you said,
you know my family has a lot of the roots
from New York ward, from New York, Brooklyn or you know,
uptown or from Ireland. You know, I got family owned
throughout the city, and I had a lot of family.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
The other day, I had a lot of family At
nine to eleven. That day, my uncle and my.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Aunt actually both passed years ago from cancer. And you know,
I feel like they got it from the debris that
they were breathing in on this you know. So that's
that's really what's been on my heart and mind right
now today.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Uh But but you know, besides.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
That, man, just always blessed, always thankful to be here.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
You know, you're going to get one life to live, man,
you got to make the most of it.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
So you know, every day I wake up with that mindset,
just trying to be blessed, trying to move forward and progress,
not only myself for my.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
Family, but the culture too. So yes, sir, man, and
the culture definitely needs it, bro, We definitely need it. Yeah, Man,
Charleston White was just down here in my hometown and
things didn't go as according to play. So you know,
it's more so a cultural theme and the culture argument,

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and it just it just comes down and we have
to move forward, man. You can't just keep focusing on
things in the past. We just gotta That's all I'm
gonna say about that. But you know, pop feels yeah, yeah, man,
Pop feels like both a statement and a showcase. So
what inspired this energy, man? And how did the track
come together? So?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know, so when I made Pop, it actually came
differently than a lot of my other songs that I made.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Like most of a lot of the time, when.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
I make a song, I'll already have a beat, you know,
because I'm also producer. I produced all my music, so
Pop I produced as well.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
And I already had that beat, you know.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I already have a bet made, and then I'll write
them to it or vice versa.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
I'll have some lyrics every day and I'll just be writing,
so like I'll write in eight.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Here, I'll write a sixteen here, make a song.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
You know, and then I'll put the beat with those lyrics.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
But this one I specifically sat down it was like,
all right, I'm gonna do this type of song on
this type of beat that I'm gonna produce right now,
and I'm gonna do it all in one session. And
it's kind of that's kind of how it came to be,
you know. And with the energy on the track. In
terms of my lyrics and my flow. The flow, I
don't really know where.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
It came from.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Like it kind of just like I don't know. I
just started spending real fast on it was like, okay,
this is this, I'll stick with this box and then
the lyrics. You know, It's like I'm trying to basically,
like you said it, showcase to the world, this is
my this is one.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Part of me.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
This is a part of who I am truthfully as
a nine nine Like this is really a part of
my psyche, my experiences, my overall personality.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
But then also just showing, you know, I can have
fun too. You know, there's some.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Fun lyrics in there. There's some serious lyrics. You know,
there's some self.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Empowerment lyrics, you know what I mean. So like that's
kind of the whole process that I went into making
that song, you know.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
For sure? For sure, man, you mentioned that you produce
your tracks to which came first for you production or vocals.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
So it's actually funny because I really can't pinpoint. It's
like to be complete out.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
I think I think that the first beat that I
ever made, I was probably eight or nine.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
You know, something like that, eight or nine years old on.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
The old iPad, you know, I made I made a
little beat on this little app called beat maker Pro,
you know, old old school on the iPad, and I
made that. But that was kind of right around the
time I started writing my first little rhymes, like I
really you know, and I played guitar, been playing guitar.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Some six. Music is just in my blood man, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
So, like i'd say, on a professional level, definitely started
with production on the professional levels, but behind the scenes,
I was always releasing my own stuff and.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Writing my own songs, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
And then I kind of just gained more confidence in
what I was creating, and I was like, you know what,
I'm gonna really go harder as an artist, as a
solo artist, rather than producing.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
And I kind of melt it, you know, I melt
it too.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
So it's now people really know me as don n nine,
the artists more so than the producer. But yeah, man,
I produced. I produced all my music. I produced for
other people.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
So wow, man, that's incredible, especially at such a young
age six seven eight. Man, at six years old, I
was probably into karate and power rangers. I wasn't thinking of.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Music, you know, So yeah, but you know what's funny
is you know I'm I'm I'm a real versatile cat though,
you know, so like I definitely it's so funny you
said karate. Actually did. I started karate when I was seven.
I started karate when I was seven. I made it
all the way up a brown belt, made up to
a brown belt, but I was excelling too fast, so
you know, I saw you get by the big kids.

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I got a couple of concussions. I adn't like it,
so I was like, I'm done with this. You know,
stop doing that. Play sports. You know, I played baseball, basketball,
football at you know, man, I'm.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Very I got a lot of layers to me, you
know what I mean? But yeah, man, like.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
If I wasn't cool a kid activity or something, you know,
a sport or something like that, I was at home
with that guitar brother, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
You know what I'm saying. I was at home.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
So it's like there's many layers to me.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
But you know, for sure, me, hey man, that's so cool. Man, Like,
you do have a lot of layers and some things
that they'll tell you in karate, like when you reach
a certain level, you got to compete on that level
no matter what age you are. It's kind of like
when you play video games and you advanced skill wise,
they kind of match you with other players that's in

(09:24):
your bracket, right, exactly right. Yeah, So at six seven
eight man, you are immersed in music. How did you
get to that point?

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Is that your parents.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Doing that or just you maybe saw something on TV,
went to a concert and just decided that you wanted
to do that.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
So, you know, it was like so like you, like
you announced on my grandfather was in the persuasions of
a cappella legendary group from Brooklyn. You know, they're on
the a Cappella Hall of Fame and all that, you know,
very very renowned group. And you know, everybody in my
family somewhat musically inclined, to be honest, like my mom sings,
my sister sings, my aunt my auntie sing, you know,
my uncle's played instruments. I mean, it's it's crazy, like

(10:06):
the music really runs in my blood and I really,
like I was, it was just a part of my life,
you know what I'm saying, Like if it wasn't being
nurtured in terms of you know, God and being holy
because I.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Also grew up in a very faithful home.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
You know, if it wasn't that or being taught, you know,
lessons about what it means.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
To be a good human being. And you know, if
it wasn't that, man, it was music being played.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
You know, I grew up on jazz. I grew up
on real, real jazz.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Miles Davis, Uh Flonely, it's monk, you know, John Coltrane.
You know, so like rhythms and music has just always
been in my essence. So you know, it's just been
a part of me.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
So is there like a family collaboration, you know, like
Jackson five poetries right ready, But.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I wish, I wish ain't nobody, you know, it's it's
actually you all a serious But it's funny.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Because my you know, think about it.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
My grandma pot my granddad came up in the sixties
and the seventies, you know, so you know, they didn't
have no good contracts and all that, so you know,
we didn't we didn't see nothing from that except he
lived an experience and it was great, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
So uh, it was actually.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Frowned upon moving forward after him for us to really
following that. But after I had of talked to my moms,
you know, talk to my moms. I was like, look,
I'm gonna really do this. I'm gonna do it the
right way. She's like, I go to school and learn
how to really do it.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
So I did.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I got I got two associates and music business and
audio production. So that's that's really what gave me the
confidence to go and do it for real, because you know,
we kind of shunned it like it's all in us before.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
We didn't really pursue it because we were like, nah,
we ain't, we ain't doing that, and you know what
I mean. So but yeah, man, yeah, man, Like you mentioned,
you got a deep academic and business background in music
degrees and audio production and music business. How does that
knowledge shape the way you operate now as an artist?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
You know, it really has shaped me because you know,
when I first started like it just dropping musical SoundCloud
and everything, I thought that was all I needed. I
was like, man, it's my name on it, right, That's
that's copying.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
So you know, I had to.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Learn how to own my stuff, how to own my name,
trademark my name, own my own production company, copyright my music.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
So it really it shaped me to be able to
able to do whatever I really want in the music
and feel confident and free that it's mine.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
It's mine.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I don't have to do, you know, worry about somebody
taking it or me not being able to do whatever
I want with you know. So that's really that's really
more so he gave me the confidence to go any
route I wanted it.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
You know.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yeah, man, you'd be surprised the amount of artists that
don't know anything about master's copyrights or trademarking a name.
What lessons do you think more young artists should take
from that?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
What I really because I was that artist, you know
what I'm saying When I started at like eighteen nineteen,
I didn't know so like as as an artist who's
yet like seventeen eighteen nineteen two coming up right now,
I would really say YouTube university, like on some real
like real talk like YouTube university. Man, go on YouTube,
type in how do I get my master's on? How

(13:11):
do I trademark my name? How do I become an
incorporated LLC?

Speaker 5 (13:15):
How do I do this?

Speaker 4 (13:16):
That YouTube?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Everybody that's on YouTube and putting out these channels, Man,
they know what they're talking about. And then also my
thing is if you're skeptical that they don't, give it
a try.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
See see what some of them are saying.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Give it a try, see if it's you know, see
if it's legitimate.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
And that's for real though, because I think that that's
so important for indie artists because it gives you a
better footing. If you do get blessed and lucky enough
to get a major or a distribution deal or a
record deal, you.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Know, you're already going into it with some dollars.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
So you know, man, you write your own, your own songs,
make your own beats, handle your own engineering. You wear
a lot of hats. What's the hardest part about wearing
all those hats?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
You know?

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Really the hardest part, man, is trying.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
To be the best at each That's what the hardest
part is.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Like.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
And even in my life, like even in my own
person like growing up and everything, like I was very
very good at everything, I never felt like I was
the best at anything. So for me, it's like it's
a very unique thing with music where it's like I'm
I'm I always go into any musical setting as if
I am the best, Like I don't care who's in
the room.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
I'm the best.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
But at the same time, within that the layers in
that though, you know.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
So within those layers is like you said, the engineering, producing,
the writing, the recording, you know, all that.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
So for me, it's like I just.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Try to look at it, like, okay, balance out your time,
try to keep stuff. You know, if you focus on
it for an hour, do the engineering for an hour,
maybe take a break, go.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Back, look at look at it, look at the beat
if you want.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
To rearrange the beat or something.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
So I kind of just try to space it out,
you know, take a deep breath, take some time with it,
because if you try to do it all at once
and juggle it all.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
At once, it's it's it's too hard, bro, It's impossible, basically,
you know what I mean son talking about that burn out?
It's a burnout. How do you know when to outsource.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
When it doesn't sound good enough? You know what I'm saying,
Like for real or like that, you know what I mean. Like,
I'm not the type of person. I always go in confidently,
but never arrogantly or cocky. I'm always willing to hear critique.
I'm always willing to hear advice, you know. So for
me it's like and then especially with me, you know,
like I said, Bro, I grew up on the best
music ever made.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
So for me, it's like, I know what I'm going,
I know where I'm trying to get to, but if
it don't hit right in my ear, i don't care
if I made it or not, I'm gonna be like, nah,
I got to send it to an engineer.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Now, I gotta have my bro look over that.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
You look over the words.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Tell me, you know I ain't done that in a minute,
you know what I'm saying, Like, oh, you know, but
you know what I'm saying. So like I really learned
how to be completely humble with it to be and
I'm humble in general. Like I'm just like, man, look
give me critique, you know what I'm saying. So for me,
it's like, if it don't sound right to me, I
don't care what I gotta do. I'll pay an engineer,
I'll pay a produce. Most of the time, I make
my own beats, but I'm definitely open to work with others.

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And really that's more so because I know what I
want to hear specifically, but.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
You know what I mean. So yeah, if it's not
good enough, I'm an outsource career, just sir, man. A
lot of artists I come across think that, you know,
having mainstream deals or mainstream exposure is the only way
to go. I ran the underground circuit for a number
of years in Atlanta, Mississippi, where I'm actually from Florida, Louisiana, Texas.

(16:28):
You name it, and man, it was the best time
I ever had. In your experience, you also navigated the underground.
How do you see that scene shaping the industry now?
With you know, popular avenues like the Bea to Wars
going away, other avenues drying up as well. But how
do you see that shaping industry in the state that

(16:48):
it's in right now?

Speaker 3 (16:50):
You know, I really think when I look at the
era that we're in right now, the past ten fifteen
years or so, like I feel like it's been a
lot of pop pop, popcorn, microwave stuff. Like it's been
a lot of like we want to see a lot
of gimmis. We want to see them, you know, the
colorful hair and this and then that, And for me,
it's like I feel like right now in the underground,

(17:10):
especially where I'm doing it, Like I do a lot
in New York, and I do a lot in New
DMV and try to say that it's like these brothers, man,
and these sisters too, they got bars like they got yo.
It's different, like they got different level of talent, and
it's like yo, like they all the All you gotta
do is keep going with it because I see a
lot of people in the underground and yeah, man, you know,
I've been a couple of different statesmen in Atlanta, so

(17:32):
it's some different places in Florida's, you know, And.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
I feel like everybody gets a little too discouraged too early,
like you got to just keep them.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Like the industry right now, I feel like it's wide open, bro,
I'm gonna be real with you, Like I feel like
all that old stuff that was like, you know, hot
for the time and everything, it's kind of fading away.
I feel like people are really starting to sit back
and be like, man, we want to see an artist.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
We don't want to hear this nonsense no more.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
We want to see an artist that can give us versatility,
different sounds, different things, different messages, you know, And it's
just like, that's what I feel is open right now.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
So for the underground, I feel like it can push the.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Whole genre, you know, the whole industry to really get
back to field music.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
That's how I feel about it.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Not to say that there has been great stuff over
the past fifteen years, but you know in general what
I'm saying, you know, so I think the underground can
definitely shape it move before you.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Know, Yeah, I definitely feel the same way al nine nine.
I feel like the era of WWE rap music and
hip hop it is over with and got to worry
about the gimmick, you know. But guys, it's time for
some music. We have popped by Al nine to nine,
and then we'd be right back to put him in
our traditional hot seat to see if he wants to

(18:38):
perform for us. He could rab, he could sing, do
some spoken word, tell the joke, tell a story from
his life, player instrument, gives him advice, or do nothing
at all. That is cool as well, But for right
now here, it is pop, stay tuned, stalk.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
With these niggas.

Speaker 9 (18:56):
Man fucking niggas, act like as that it ain't that
for real, shut out the real, shut up the family
man okay, pop. Most of these niggas ain't living the
way that they say they'd be living in Blah. Stay
with my niggas. They keep it up with them up under.
They find the in Guah always the mission they fit in.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Boy digits.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
We ain't trying to get in there top. You see
that we winning you mad. You ain't get us some
now you just bit your man PI. Laugh at you
niggas the way you be tripping. Let childs and the women,
yeah fives love it. They gwenn and they dripping. As
soon as we walk in the building. There rob my
niggas be pivoing and getting the chicken the blae star
ribbing weed pot on. Any for a nigga that thinking
the sweet what really for nigga? Is not my Nigga's
official They don't pack a pistol. You used to pack
a pistol. Never got is You're gonna come and get

(19:33):
you if it's something, Nigga's gonna send the blitz for
your signe. If it's a problem, nigga, we can get
it popping any time. I mean with guys that Gohama
sids got a bunch of nines and they down slided
the killers and moves.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
My niggas is Wheelers was hooping and turn of the
party and making a move. I say, how she looking?
She looking in throughs. She's liking the way that I dudes,
I told her that Booty was looking so juice as
you told me. I'm reading some boots I know. My
feeling says, getting you brustless tool right after the move.

Speaker 9 (19:54):
We make a film, make it hot byby making pop.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Don't want to stop, just get up on the side.
We've been like a pop maybe fucking rock bring a
fucking mayad, asked Clay. They they asked fat want to
hear smack when you.

Speaker 9 (20:03):
See running pop out all night and might just busting sidey.
It really be like that when you were a mad nigga.
I'm beginning such a child though, ain't none this new
to me? Nigga like Man's motherfucking niggas Man Pot. Most
of these niggas ain't living the way that they say
they'd be living in Glah staying with my niggas. They
keep it up with them up under. They find the
in Guah always the mission. They fined by digits. We

(20:25):
ain't trying to get in there. Top you see that
we winning. You may you ain't getting something now you
just bit your man PI. Laugh at you niggas the
way you be tripping. Let childs and the women yeah
fives love that they green and they dripping. As soon
as we walk in the building, there rock. My niggas
be pivving and getting the chicken the bliggy star gripping
weed pot on ninny for a nigga that thinking the
sweet one really for nigga is not. Let me break
it down for you real quick, niggas. Niggas say this
your niggas and bitches. I used to kind of want

(20:46):
to fit in which it. Then I realized niggas lyeing
they ain't worth my motherfucking time. Niggas ain't whitting my
niggas begetting from math what's to the birthplace of bitsiness? Yeah,
I know they'd be hating the way that I'm living
my name and keep getting bigger. Yeah, my pockets give rich.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You niggas get sick, don't try to re screet the tripper.
If so niggas are tripping on, lifted and clip them
and leave them with the fish. It's by the time
that I did this, so walking starf building the kingdom
from my kind licks. We used to be hitting, but
now we make music. Go host of making millions. Ship
about to start trippling them, win and winning. Then I'm
coming back to kicking bit. You thought that you literally
you ain't on ship without the fucking kid. This about
to get sticky.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
I'm back to an elect when I kept the sticky.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Seems like every time I try, motherfuckers take my kindness
for a week to seeing him believed. They couldn't have
dreamed it. Put the piece together.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
Now I'm like, Bate, got a plan, No gotta playing
b Get that bitch, get on the fucking knees, get
the nigga mad, have him spinned bad.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Got them tried. Now we write a tat tat gun pot.

Speaker 9 (21:30):
Most of these niggas ain't living the way that they
say they'd be living in Glah. Stay with my niggas.
They keep it up with them up, but of they
fan the in Guah. Always the mission they fined, boy digits.
We ain't trying to get in there top. You see
that we winning you man, you ain't getting some now
you just bitching man. Hi, laugh at your niggas the
way you be tripping lectures in the women.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah fives love it.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
They grinning, they dripping. As soon as we walk in
the building.

Speaker 9 (21:47):
There rock my niggas be pivving and getting the chicken
the blaky star, gribbing wheed pot on nty for a
nigga that thinking the sweet what really for.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Nigga is not nine god.

Speaker 9 (21:57):
Born a legend man now only once in my circle,
real deal family, like for real. If you ever felt
some type of way, boy, my shit, you saved from
the start for nigga Ben fake Ben a snake the
fuck oh man, I don't really win.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
All right, all right, welcome back again. That was popped
by al nine nine. Let's go ahead and bring them back.
Yo yo yo, welcome bag your back live with us
and in our hot sheet. Are you going up a
far for us?

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yes, sir, man, I got a little some feeling.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, alright, cool, cool.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Ready when you are all right man at little little freestyle,
I got, you know a little something, So alright, jimmy out.
While the world do more hating than loving, First they
stay with the devil, then they hate when they fuck
him mentally, rearrange all the fake from the brothers, so
respecting this game. Ain't no shame of my thuggers. Gotta
swallow pride to ride with the enhanced crew. Nigga's gonna

(22:58):
slide to die. Hit him with being and boot sticks
out the window. Gets sick because now they can't prove
it's still under God. But it happened just how we
plan too. I got something to say. This is a
family announcement. I was on the ground, and I loved
the groups that I was around. The fear of losing
it all would be the truth that you drowning, proof
that making it large can lead the fruits from a pound.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
He went from sticking them baskets to picking up castles.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
He went from living on mattresses with sticks in the
cabin hustle, worked for God and his kin. Like the past,
he worked to be a better man, to better than daddy.
Older generation try to lead.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Us all on the right path. White students looked at
its different.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
He in the right class, swallow all his proft his
mom still let the light pass follow through my rhymes
and the scars cut like a night slash, been down
and out, then on and up. Now run around ignoring sluck,
ignoring what's the law to while man him hear of
recording love industry booth on my ends make do might
be gone, but I'm free in o mku uh.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
He made it in two days. That's an industry plan.
He acting like he made but we did.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
He can't.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
They solid to them days.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
When you stick what you can't fear of missing your
dream you much as pay the advance, the fear of
getting big the same as losing it all.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Man, you win now you ain't gotta prove it no more?

Speaker 3 (23:59):
See yes stay? Who was the game that the legends
of Lord? Then the stry's so faked? Don't all the
girls from the boys New rap used to excite me
kind of entice me. Mumble rap niggas is whack and
they don't light things me. I'm gonna step back and
rap with this lightning and might miss some balls before
my niggas on time. Watch some snake boys who running
around with faked floyds. Hit you for a meeting, and
now you want it from Drake Tors should have never
let him inside, let him take con watch the loudest

(24:21):
morn in the bunch.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Resally just make noise.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Salute dove, Dove dough Man appreciate.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
That a hey Man Fire Fire.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
So, man, you shot this music video and it shows
you at the Brooklyn Pier and also in front of
a Biggie mural. Why were these locations important than you? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Man, you know it's the roots, man, you know, it's
the roots.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Actually, my auntie, my teacher, she actually went to school
with Big Man. She went to the school Chris, you know,
so to say, you know, it's real rooted, it's real rude.
My roots runs deep in Brooklyn, in New York. Sof
had to have do it in a homeland man.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
You know, so for show for Shure Man and you
said that, uh, pop was written with no thought process
for the flow, just the need to get your message out.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
How do you.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Balance like instinct versus scrupture in your creative process?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
So, you know, man, it's kind of like it's kind
of like I think about how Mike Michael Jackson used
to say it, like, if I'm trying to deliver a message,
the sound that goes with those words and the cadence
of my flow, you don't deliver.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
That message better.

Speaker 9 (25:34):
You know.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
It's as simple as that.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
So for me, it's like, if I'm.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Gonna say something more so uplifting. You know, not ask
me necessarily aggressive or you know, standing on stuff. I'm
gonna do it to a different type of beating. I
might do it on a boom back flow. I might
do it on a little slower tempo.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
No, a little less aggressive of a cadence. Uh and delivery, but.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
You know, so that's that's really what GUIDs me. More so,
it's more so the rhythm and the melody and the
and the BPM. You know that that that dictates how
I'm a delivery, You know me?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Right? Which one do you trust more? The instinct or
just your creative process?

Speaker 3 (26:08):
You know what I would say, I trust also my
instinct because the creative process is gonna help me to
deliver that instinct better. But like off top, I'm gonna
always go with the instinct off top because that's what
made me just start to write the song. Anyways, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (26:24):
So yeah, look at it if you know what I
mean by creative process, like you're professionalism, Like you know,
you have like like an engineer, you engineer track, so
you have a certain formula of how you approach to
mixing the.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Sound, right, you have certain stages, you put the track
through to get it to the final result. So I think,
you know, it may be the same. You may have
the same process when it comes to crafting the song,
like your professional point A to point B, point C
type of deal.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Gotcha? Okay, yeah, so you know what?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Okay from that lens Bro, it's kind of weird actually
because I would say in that instant, I actually trust
the the process way more, you know what I'm saying,
Like the instinct is cool and all that, but like
sometimes like especially for any engineers or producers who listening,
like you're going to say what I mean, one hundred percent,
if you listen to the same beat over and over
and over for two three four hours in the studio,
and you like, you get used to that sound, so

(27:18):
it's like you can't be you're you're kind of biased
to what you're hearing.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Like you you your your ears have gotten used to it.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
So it's like sometimes you got to take a break,
come back and relisten to it, and you're like, oh, okay,
gott to lower it at four hundred hearts, you know
what I'm saying, Like that that's kind of how it works.
So I would in that instant one hundred percent. Trust
the process more because your your your instinct. You you
still pay attention to it in that in that case
because you still know what you want to get to.
But you gotta go through that process. You gotta mix
you maybe remix it, you know, change some stuff you

(27:45):
know over some dB raised something you know, do to
different stuff like that, and that's gonna get you the
final product, which was the instinct.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
So it all works together.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
But absolutely, man, where can their listeners connect with you
on the internet and check out more music? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Man, so y'all can all follow me on Instagram. That's
why I mainly am. It's underscore big app formum of nine.
So it's underscore.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Big a L nine nine nine nine.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
And I got my music out on all.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Streaming platforms everywhere, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Title, Amazon and everything.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Uh you know, deezer, So I got my stuff out
and more come assume you know, yes, sir, Yes, there
and listeners. Just in case you need those links, I
will have them in the description of this episode and
in the show notes. So all you guys have to
do is just click the links and connect and jam out. Man.
Al nine to nine are very curious what does the
nine to nine represent.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
So a couple of different things, you know, off top,
it's really more so because that's like my spirit number, you.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
I learned about the mathematical.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Properties that nine hole and it's a.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Very unique number. You know. If you add it with
any number and then add.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
The result of that, you get the number.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
So nine plus four thirteen W three is four, you know,
so stuff like that, you multiply nine by two you
get eight two one plus eight is not you know.
So it's just stuff like that that got me interested
in it. And then I was like, oh, man, I
was born in September. I was born in nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
I'm like, now it's my number. Man. I'm like, I'm nine.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Man, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
It will work, yes, sir, hey man, don't take this
the wrong way. But you said you were from that
you grew up in the faith, and what do you
mean by that? Like Christian faith, Islamic faith and due faith,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
So I'm actually Jewish. My pops was born and raised
in Brooklyn and then went to Long Island and he's Jewish.
And my mom's was actually want to raise Catholic you know,
from Brooklyn, but then converted, converted j Dudyism, fell in
love with the religion, you know.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
And it's very interesting because we.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
As as the Jewish culture, we're very very accepted, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
We're very accepting of everybody, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
And I feel like I can be, you know, the
one of the leaders of the New School to be like,
hey man, we should all love each other and get along,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
So I feel like I can just I can bridge
that gap for everybody don understand each other.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
My Christian brothers, my Muslim brothers, my Hudu brothers, you know,
Buddhist brothers. We all gotta we all got to work
together because we all children are the God.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
So you know that's how you know, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
I read and practice the tours, so I know not
to curse at you or to hate a Jew.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Uh as a sell that Hebrew. But yeah, but man, uh,
you know, I would.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Call myself like a professional prodigal son. I ran away
from the face so many times, but through God's grace,
I'm back back back in the fold. Uh. So that
brings me to my next thing, like numerology isn't in
the Bible at all.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
So how do you?

Speaker 5 (30:54):
How do you? How do you?

Speaker 4 (30:59):
How do you?

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I don't know what to say, man, but I know
what I'm trying to ask. I just don't know how
to put it in words like how do you justify
like believing in numbers?

Speaker 12 (31:09):
That's not really a part of your studies, your spiritual studies.
So it's interesting through right because like I said, you know,
I'm a versatile person in many aspects, you know what
I'm saying, So even when it comes to my spirituality,
it's like I kind of find a way to Okay,
I'll put it this way, Like I always say between
zero and one hundred percent, there's all.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
That ninety nine point ninety nine repeating in it, you
know what I'm saying. So for me, like I don't
look at nothing absolutely black and white. There's always a
gray area. So I kind of take the faith in
my spirituality in different lenses.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I feel like the way that the universe connects and
the way that the energy that you put out is
what you get back, I feel like that is universal,
you know.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
I feel like that we could be eons away, just
like how it is right here on earth.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
And I also feel like I also feel like all
of us if we try to look at things from
a different lens of just what we know, then we
can bridge the gap of not understanding the other person,
you know what I'm saying. So it's like if we
if I can learn more about Okay, so this isn't
this is the way that you all operate and believe
and carry through life with faith, and this is how

(32:16):
I do it. Let's try to bridge that gap and
we can come to a better understand you know. So
I kind of mold them together. I kind of meld
them together where it's like numerology again, I take it
in bits and pieces, you know what I'm saying, Like
I take my faith in bits and pieces, and I
take numerology and bits and pieces.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
I take the culture and bits and pieces, and I kind.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Of meld it all to make it into my own
little thing that helps me operate to be as beneficial
to you know, be as beneficials as society as I can.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
You know, yes, sir, yes, sir man, you are veilid,
very intelligent brother, very well spoken. I appreciate the conversation
with you man, and you're absolutely right, Bro, appreciate you
appreciate it. Bro, Yes, sir, yes, sir, all right, listeners,
our nine to nine today gave us and it authenticity
and vision. We unpacked Pop. You know it's his Chicago style,

(33:05):
trap fire that he's that he's brought on this track,
explore his family's legacy, the versatility, the business acumen, and
looked ahead at the future singles and projects. I think
he's gonna drop one every two months. And to everyone listening,
support Al nine to nine by screaming pop, watching the
video and following his journey as he drops new singles

(33:27):
every two months. And don't forget to subscribe to Vigilances Radio.
Leave us for ratings. You can buy me a coffee
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has been a complete honor. You're not just a verse,

(33:49):
You're not just versatile. You are undeniable, bro, and you've
earned some fans on this side, and we'll be following
your journey.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
I appreciate you a lot, bro, for real, I really do.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
All.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Shout out to everything you'll doing, man, shout out the
Vigilanti radio piece of love everybody. Man, Yeah, Man, more
coming and you're gonna see just like how I was
talking about the layers, it's gonna come out in the trash.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Song's gonna be a little different.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
So I'm very excited to share myself with the world
and uh speak of love always.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
Man. Appreciate you, bro, Appreciate you man. Looking forward to it.
Thank you you.

Speaker 7 (34:20):
Peace, peace, piece to all, and I am the host.
I think that rooms are.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Beyond mostly living water.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
They say they be living in block saying my niggas,
they keep it up with them up that we are
here this. We ain't trying to get in there.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Getting some Now.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
You just get your flat with your niggas, do the
reations walking the building. There my niggas be getting given.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
In the suite, working for niggas.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
My nigga's official pistol. I used to back of pistols.
Never got it.

Speaker 9 (35:01):
You're gonna come and get you with niggas gonna send
outside like it's the problem.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
We can get it popping any time. God like stock,
got a bunch of nimes and.

Speaker 7 (35:09):
To kill the moves my niggas he was and maybe.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
To see she's looking making she's like in the way
that I don't I.

Speaker 10 (35:16):
Told you that was looking so juicy bot film making hop,
make it pop on the stop, get up looking like
a poor brings.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Want to hear smack when running pop it all night
and side.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
We all are counting to step into your purpose and
your passion. You're listening to be vigils. He's radio line,
my heart radio, providing you with an opportunity.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Most of these niggas live in the way that they
say they be living in blah. Stay with my niggas.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
They keep it up with him a bundant fan always
the mission they failed about. We ain't trying to get
in there to you see that we winning. You may
you ain't get us some now you're just bit your man.
Laugh at you niggas the way you've betripping. Let your
and the women facts love they going and they drip
in as soon as we walk in the building.

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