October 3, 2025 • 35 mins
Step into the sonic world of XTINE 🎶✨, the rising alt-pop visionary blending raw emotional depth with cinematic soundscapes. Inspired by artists like Sia, Sleeping at Last, and Björk, XTINE transforms personal battles—bullying, learning struggles, depression—into powerful lyrical storytelling. Her new single “Nobody Stays” 💔🌌 dives deep into themes of love, loss, and mental health, resonating with anyone who’s wrestled with impermanence. From early encouragement by Sia herself to her fearless journey of self-expression, XTINE is proof that art heals, inspires, and unites. 🔥 Tune in as she opens her heart and shares her story on Vigilantes Radio Live.
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The frequency of the fearless.
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You know, sometimes greatness is inherited, sometimes.
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It's earned through the grind, and sometimes it's both.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Today's guest has music in his DNA and firing in
his pen. He studied the business, mastered the craft, and
lived in the underground until it was possible, are impossible
not to notice him.
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Proof that discipline plus passion equals power. And now he's
letting the world know it's his time. You're not just
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This is revival for your mind, body, and spirit. This
is Vigilantes Radio Life. My name is Coach Deani, and
(02:01):
change is possible.
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Are you ready?
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Are you ready? Are you ready radio? Are you ready? Well,
let's go, They'll go.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
All right, all right again, Welcome to the show. You're
listening to vr L.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
That's Vigilantes Radio Live right here on iHeartRadio, and I
am your host, Beanie. Our interviews are designed to go
beyond music, news, books, art, acting, films, technology, education, entrepreneurship, entertainment,
and sometimes even past that thing that we call the ego.
(02:54):
Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes and
into the minds of these brilliant human beings, you know,
the ones who 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 proved that
(03:15):
versatility is 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
(03:35):
arrival with speed, precision, and authenticity, with universal Bungalow distribution
and a catalog ready to explode. His time is now,
So please join me in saying welcome friend too, our
ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yo, Yo, yo, welcome to the show. Yo. What's up
to Metrius? Man to appreciate the intro? Man? How you
doing pretty good? Man? Are you doing good? Doing good man? Yeah, Man,
blessed to be here, Thanks of them, Yes, sir, yes,
sir Man.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Before we get into pop and your musical journey, what's
been on your heart and mind?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Electing Bro? You know what's funny, Bro?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
I mean you know today nine to eleven, as you said,
you know, my family has a lot of the roots.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
From New York World, from New York, Brooklyn, or you.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Know, uptown or from island. You know, I got family
on too, out the city. I had a lot of family.
The other day, I had a lot of family At
nine to eleven that day, my uncle and my 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 the same you know. So
that's that's really what's been on my heart and mind
right now today.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
But but you know, besides that, man just always blessed,
always thankful to be here. You know. You know, you
go only get one life to live, man, you gotta
make the most of it.
Speaker 7 (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 and my family, but the culture too.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
So yes, sir man, and the culture definitely needs it, bro,
We definitely need it.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, Man. Charleston White was just down here in my hometown.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And things didn't go as according to play. So you know,
it's more of a cultural theme and the culture argument,
and it just it just comes down and we have
to move forward, man. We can't just keep focusing on
things in the past. We just gotta That's what I'm
gonna say about that. But you know, pop feels yeah, yeah, man,
(05:35):
pop feels like both a statement and a showcase. So
what inspired this energy, man? And how did the track
come together?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
You know, so when I made Pop, it actually came
differently than a lot of my other songs that I made.
Like most of a lot of the time, when I
make a song, I'll already have a beat, you know,
because I'm also producer.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I produced all my music, so Pop I produced as well,
and I already have that beat, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
I already have a beat made, and then I'll write
some to it or vice versa.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I'll have some lyrics every day and I'll just be writing,
so like I'll write in eight here, I'll write a
sixteen here, make a song, you know, and then I'll
put the beat with those lyrics.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
But this one I specifically sat down was like, alright,
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.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And it's kind of that's kind of how it came
to be, you know.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
And with the energy on the track in terms of
my lyrics and my flow.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The flow, I don't really know where it came from,
Like it kind of just like I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
I just started spending real fast on it was like, okay,
this is this I'll I'll stick with this box and
then for the lyrics, right, you know, it's like I'm
trying to basically, like you said, it's showcase to the world.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
This is my this is one part of me.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
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. But then also
just showing you know, I can have fun too. You know,
there's some fun lyrics in there. There's some serious lyrics.
You know, there's some self uh empowerment lyrics.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You know what I mean. So like that's kind of
the whole process that I went into make an that song,
you know for sure?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
For sure, man, you mentioned that you produce your tracks
to which came first for you production or vocals.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So it's actually funny because I really can't pinpoint it, like,
to be completely honest, I think that the first beat
that I ever made, I was probably eight or nine,
you know, something like that, eight or nine years old
on the old iPad, you know, I made I made
a little beat on this little app called beatmaker Pro,
you know, old old school on the iPad, and.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I made that.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
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.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
And playing guitar some six music is just in my
blood man, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
So, like i'd say, on a professional level, definitely started
with production on a professional level, but behind the scenes,
I was always releasing my own stuff and writing my
own songs, you know. 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.
And I kind of melt it, you know, I melted too.
(07:59):
So it's like, now people really know me as down
nine 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.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I wasn't thinking about music, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
So yeah, but you know what's funny is, you know
I'm I'm a real versatile catthough, 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 to a brown belt, made up to a brown belt,
but I was excelling too fast, so you know, I
started getting by the big kids. I got a couple of concussions.
(08:42):
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
very I got a lot of layers to me, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
But yeah, man, like if I wasn't.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Cool a kid activity or something, you know, a sport
or something like that, I was at home with that
guitar brother, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm saying I was at home. Yeah, you know. So
it's like there's many layers to me. But you know,
for sure, hey man, that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
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 advance
skill wise, they kind of match.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You with other players that's in your bracket, right exactly,
bro Right.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, So at six seven eight man, you are immersed
in music. How did you get to that point? Is
that your parents doing that or just you maybe saw
something on TV, went to a concert and just decided
that you wanted.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
To do that.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
So you know, it was like so like you like
you announced, like 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's 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 also grew up in a very faithful home.
You know, if it wasn't that or being taught, you know,
lessons about what it means.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To be a good human being. And you know, if
it wasn't that, man, it was music being played. You know,
I grew up on jazz.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I grew up on real, real jazz, Miles Davis, Floneous 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 always 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 7 (10:52):
I wish, I wish ain't nobody, But you know it's
it's actually on a serious It was funny because my
you know, think about it, My grandma, 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. So, uh, it was actually frowned upon moving
(11:14):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I'm gonna do it the right way. He's like, I
go to school and learn how to really do it.
So I did.
Speaker 7 (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,
but we didn't really pursue it because.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
We were like, nah, we ain't. We ain't doing that,
and you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
So but yeah, man, yeah, man, Like, 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 7 (11:55):
You know, it really has shaped me because you know,
when I first started, like it just dropping me sound
Cloud 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 learn.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
How to own my stuff, how to own my name,
trademark my name, own my own production company, copyright my music,
you know.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So it really it shaped me.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
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 7 (12:23):
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 it gave me the confidence to go any
route I wanted in 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 7 (12:49):
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 an artist, who's yet
like seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty on right now, I would
really say YouTube university, like on some real like a
real talk like YouTube university. Man, go on YouTube, type
in how do I get my master's on? How do
(13:11):
I trademark my name? How do I become an incorporated LLC?
How do I do this? That YouTube? 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, see
see what some of them are saying.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Give it a try. See if it's you know, see
if it's legitimate.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And that 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 know, you're already going.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Into it with some knowledge.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
So you know, m h man, you write your own,
your own songs, make your own beats, handle your own engineer.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You are a lot of.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Hatsh what's the hardest part about wearing all those hats?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
You know? Really the hardest part, man, is trying.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
To be the best at each That's what the hardest
part is, is it? Like and even in my life,
like even in my own person like growing up and everything,
like I was very very good at everything.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I never felt like I was the best at anything.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
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, I'm the best.
But at the same time, but that there's layers in
that though, you know. So within those layers is like
you said, the engineering, producing, the writing, the recording, you know,
all that. So for me, it's like I just try
(14:36):
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 back, look at look at
look at the beat if you want to rearrange the
beat or something.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
So I kind of just try to space it.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
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 at once, it's it's
it's it's too hard, bro, It's impossible, basically, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
So mething about battle out, it's a burnout. How do
you know when to outsource.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
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 copy 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, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So for me, it's like, I know what I'm going.
I'm nowhere I'm trying to get to.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
But if it don't hit right either in my ear,
I don't care if I made it or not, I'm
gonna be like, nah, I got to send this to
an engineer.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Now, I gotta have my bro look over that. You
look over the words.
Speaker 7 (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
other produce and really that's more and so because I
(16:01):
know what I want to hear specifically, but you know
what I mean, So yeah, if it's not good enough,
I'm an outsource career.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Just sir, man.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
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,
you name it, and man, it was the best time
(16:29):
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 Too, Wars
going away, other avenues drying up as well. But how
do you see that shape and industry in the state
that it's in right now?
Speaker 7 (16:49):
You know, I really think when I look at the
era that we're in right now, like the past ten
fifteen years or so, like I feel like it's been
a lot of pop pop popcorn, Mike way of stuff,
Like it's been a lot of like we want, we
want to see a lot of gimmicks, we want to
see them, you know, the colorful hair and the end
of this and then that. And for me, it's like
I feel like right now in the underground, especially where
(17:10):
I'm doing it, like I do a lot in New York,
and I do a lot in the 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.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yo, like they all the All you gotta do is
keep going with it. Cause I see a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
In the underground and yeah, man, I you know, I've
been a couple of different statesmen in uh in Atlanta,
so it's some different places in Florida's you know, And
I feel like everybody gets a little too discouraged too early,
Like you gotta just keep 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
(17:48):
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 if this nonsense, no more.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
We want to see an artist that can give its
versatility different sounds, different things, different messages, you know. And
it's just like that's what I feel is open right
now for the underground.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I feel like it can push the whole.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Genre, you know, the whole industry to really get back
to field music.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 7 (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 know.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, I definitely feel the same way. Al nine nine,
I feel like the era of WWE rap music and
hip hop is overwhelt you gotta worry about the gimmick,
you know, But guys, it's time for some music. We
have pop by L nine nine, and then we'd be
right back to put him in our traditional hot seat
to see if he wants to perform for us.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
He could rap, he could sing, do some spoken word.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Tell him a joke, tell a story from his life,
player instrument, gives him advice, or do nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
That is cool as well, But for right now here
it is pop. Stay tuned.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
I don't my far from.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
The guy spell lad.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Library of nsaid, I never choose each draped Valvell hot kiss,
the plain lovers clove, the f.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
High I john my spell.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
H all right, all right, welcome back again.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
That was popped by out nine. Let's go ahead and
bring him back.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yo yo yo, welcome bag your back, live with us
and in our hot seed.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Are you going up a far for us? Yes, sir man,
I got a little some for you, old man. Yes,
I had alright, cool cool, ready when you are.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Alright man, little little freestyle, I got, you know, a
little something, so alright, chiming out while the world do
more hating than loving. First they stay with the devil,
then they hate when they fuck him mentally rave rearrange
all the faith from the brothers who respecting this game.
Ain't no sham of my Thuggers gotta swallow pride to
ride with the enhanced crew. Nigga's gonna slide to die.
Hit him with bamboo sticks out the window. Get sick
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because now they can't prove it's still under God.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
But it happened. Just have him planned to. I got
something to say. This is a family announced.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I was underground and I loved the groups that I
was around, the fear of losing it all would be
the truth that you drowned. This proof that making it
lost can leave the fruits from a pandy. He went
from sticking them baskets picking up caskets. He went from
living on mattresses with sticks in the cabin, hustle work
for God in this can like the past. He worked
to be a better man, do better than daddy. Older generation,
try to lead us all on the right path. White
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students looked at as different. He in the right class,
swallow all his profits. His mom still let the light pass,
follow through my ryms and the scars cut.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Like a night slash. Been down and out, been on
and up.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Now run around ignorre slock, ignoring what's the law to
while man here recording Look industry booth for my ends
make do might be gone, but I'm free and no
mku u. He made it in two days. That's an
industry plan. He acting like he made but we did.
He can't They solid to them days. When you stick
with you can't. The fear of missing your dream you
much as pay the advance. The fear of getting big
the same as losing it all. Man, you win now
(22:36):
you ain't got approve it no more. See us they
choose the game that the Legends of Lords. The industry
is so faked. Don't all the girls from the boards
New rap used to excite me kind of entice me.
Mumble rap niggas a is whack and they don't like
things me. I'm gonna step back and rap with this
light and it might miss some balls before my nigga's
on time. Watch some snake boys who running around with
faith for it hit you for a meeting and now
you want it from Drake. Tory should have never let
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him inside to let him take coorn. Watch the loud
of swarm in the bunch really just make noise. Salute dove,
Dove dough man, appreciate that. Hey man, fire fire.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
So man, you shot this music video and it shows
you at the Brooklyn Pier and also in front of
a Biggie mural.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Why were these locations important to you? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Man, you know it's the roots, man, you know it's
the roots. Actually, my auntie, my Tech, she actually went
to school with Big Man. She went to school Chris.
You know, so it's like, you know, it's it's real rooted,
it's real ruts. My roots run deep in Brooklyn, New York,
so had to had to do.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It in the homeland, man, you know, so for show
for sure? Man, and you said that.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Pop was written with no thought process, with the flow,
just the need to get your message out. How do
you balance like instinct versus scrupture in your creative process?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
So, you know what, 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 is don't.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Deliver that message better? You know, It's as simple as that.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
So for me, it's like, if I'm gonna say something
more so uplifting, you know, not as necessarily aggressive or
you know, standing on stuff, I'm gonna do it to
a different type of beat. I might do it on
a boom back flow. I might do it on a
little slower tempo, you know, a little less aggressive of
a cadence and delivery. But you know, so that's that's
really what gouds me. More so, it's more so the
rhythm and the melody and the and the BPM you
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know that that that dictates how I'm a delivery.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
You know what I mean? Right, which one do you
trust more? The instinct or just your creative process?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
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 to start to write the song anyways, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
So yes, kind of look at if you know.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
What I mean by creative process, like you're 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 sound, right, you have certain
stages you put the track through to get it to
the final result.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
So I think, you know, it may be the same.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You may have the same process when it comes to
crafting the song, like your professional point A to point D,
point C type of deal.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Gotcha? Okay? Yeah, so you know what? Okay?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
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'all going to say, I mean one hundred percent if
you listening 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 it's
(25:56):
like you can't be you're you're kind of biased to
what you're hearing, like you you're you're ear have gotten
used to it. So it's like sometimes you got to
take a rate, come back relsten to and you're like, oh, okay,
gotta 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
(26:16):
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
know over some dB raised and something you know, do
some different stuff like that, and that's gonna get you
the final product, which was the instinct.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You know, So it all works together, but.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Absolutely, Man, where can our listeners connect with you on
the internet and check out more music?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Man, so y'all couldn't all follow me on Instagram That's
where I mainly am. It's underscore big al four UM
and nine. So it's underscore b I G A L
nine nine nine nine. And I got my music out
on all streaming platforms and everywhere, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Title,
Amazon and everything.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Uh you know, gzer so I got my stuff out
and uh more comeing soon, you know, Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
And listeners, Just in case you need those links, I
will have them in the description of this episode and
in the show notes.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So all you guys have to do is just click
the links and connect and jam out. Man, L nine
to nine. Are very curious. What does the nine to
nine represent?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
So a couple of different things, you know, off top,
it's really more so because that's like my spirit numbers, you.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Know what I mean. I learned about the mathematical properties
that nine.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Hole and it's a very unique number. You know, if
you add it with any number and then add the
result of that, you get the number. So nine plus
four thirteen one plus three is four. You know, so
stuff like that, you multiply nine by two, you get
eighteen one plus eight.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
It's not you know.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
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.
I'm like, now it's my number.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I'm like, I'm nine, man, you know what I mean?
So it work?
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yes, sir, hey man, don't take this the wrong way.
But you said you were from the you grew up
in the faith, and what do you mean by that?
Like Christian faith, Islamic.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Faith, and do fase you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
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 to Judaism, fell in
love with the religion, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And it's very interesting because we.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
As as the Jewish culture, we're very very accepting, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We're very accepting of everybody, you know.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
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 4 (28:48):
So I feel like I can just I can bridge
that gap. Everybody understand each other.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
My Christian brothers, my Muslim brothers, my Hindu brothers, you know,
Buddhist brothers.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
We all got to We all gotta work together because
we all children are the God. So you know that's
how you know? Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I read and practice the tours, so I know not
to curse at you or to hate a you, uh
as a fellow Hebrew. But yeah, but man, uh, you
know I would 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 folds.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
So that brings me to my next thing, Like numerology
isn't in the Bible at all, So how do you?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
How do you? How do you? Uh? How do you?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
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?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Like believing in numbers? That's not really a part of
your studies, your your spiritual studies.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
So it's it's interesting though, right because, like 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 spiritual 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 that ninety
nine point ninety nine repeating in it, you know what
I'm saying. So for me, it's like I don't look
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at nothing absolutely black and white. There's always a gray area.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
So I kind of take the faith and my spirituality
in different lenses. You know.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
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. I feel like that if we could.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Be eons away just like how it is right here
on earth.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
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 I
can learn more about Okay, so this is this is
the way that y'all operate and believe and carry through
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life with faith, and this is how 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, trying to 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 4 (31:09):
I take the culture and bits and pieces, and I.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Kind of meld it all to make it into my
own little thing that helps me operate to be as
to you know, be as beneficials as society as I can.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
You know, yes, Surio, Yes, sir man, you are valid,
very intelligent, brother, very well spoken.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I appreciate the conversation with you, man, and you're absolutely right, Bro,
appreciate you appreciate it, Bro, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
All right, listeners, our nine to nine today gave us energy,
authenticity and vision.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
We unpacked Pop. You know it's his Chicago style, trapped
fire that he's that he's.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Brought on this track, explore his family legacy, the versatility,
the business acumen and looked ahead at the future singles
and projects. I think he's going to drop one every
two months. And to everyone listening, support AL nine nine
by screaming pop, watching the video and following his journey
as he drops new singles every two months. And don't
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(32:27):
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. I appreciate you a lot, Bro, for real,
I really do. Shout out to everything y'all doing. Man,
shout out the Vigilanti Radio, peace and love everybody.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Man.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Yeah, Man, more coming, and y'all gonna see, just like
how I was talking about the layers, it's gonna come
out in the trash.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Every new song's gonna be a little different.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
So I'm very excited to share myself with the world
and uh peace of love always.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Man.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Appreciate you, bro, appreciate you man. Looking forward to it.
Thank you you. Peace, peace, man, Peace to all.
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ninety nine.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yo, Yo, yo, welcome to the show. Yo. What's up
to Metrius? Man to appreciate the intro? Man? How you
doing pretty good? Man? Are you doing good? Doing good man? Yeah, Man,
blessed to be here, Thanks of them, Yes, sir, yes,
sir Man.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Before we get into pop and your musical journey, what's
been on your heart and mind?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Electing Bro? You know what's funny, Bro?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
I mean you know today nine to eleven, as you said,
you know, my family has a lot of the roots.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
From New York World, from New York, Brooklyn, or you.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Know, uptown or from island. You know, I got family
on too, out the city. I had a lot of family.
The other day, I had a lot of family At
nine to eleven that day, my uncle and my 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 the same you know. So
that's that's really what's been on my heart and mind
right now today.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
But but you know, besides that, man just always blessed,
always thankful to be here. You know. You know, you
go only get one life to live, man, you gotta
make the most of it.
Speaker 7 (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 and my family, but the culture too.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
So yes, sir man, and the culture definitely needs it, bro,
We definitely need it.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, Man. Charleston White was just down here in my hometown.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
And things didn't go as according to play. So you know,
it's more of a cultural theme and the culture argument,
and it just it just comes down and we have
to move forward, man. We can't just keep focusing on
things in the past. We just gotta That's what I'm
gonna say about that. But you know, pop feels yeah, yeah, man,
(05:35):
pop feels like both a statement and a showcase. So
what inspired this energy, man? And how did the track
come together?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
You know, so when I made Pop, it actually came
differently than a lot of my other songs that I made.
Like most of a lot of the time, when I
make a song, I'll already have a beat, you know,
because I'm also producer.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I produced all my music, so Pop I produced as well,
and I already have that beat, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
I already have a beat made, and then I'll write
some to it or vice versa.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I'll have some lyrics every day and I'll just be writing,
so like I'll write in eight here, I'll write a
sixteen here, make a song, you know, and then I'll
put the beat with those lyrics.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
But this one I specifically sat down was like, alright,
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.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And it's kind of that's kind of how it came
to be, you know.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
And with the energy on the track in terms of
my lyrics and my flow.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The flow, I don't really know where it came from,
Like it kind of just like I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
I just started spending real fast on it was like, okay,
this is this I'll I'll stick with this box and
then for the lyrics, right, you know, it's like I'm
trying to basically, like you said, it's showcase to the world.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
This is my this is one part of me.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
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. But then also
just showing you know, I can have fun too. You know,
there's some fun lyrics in there. There's some serious lyrics.
You know, there's some self uh empowerment lyrics.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You know what I mean. So like that's kind of
the whole process that I went into make an that song,
you know for sure?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
For sure, man, you mentioned that you produce your tracks
to which came first for you production or vocals.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So it's actually funny because I really can't pinpoint it, like,
to be completely honest, I think that the first beat
that I ever made, I was probably eight or nine,
you know, something like that, eight or nine years old
on the old iPad, you know, I made I made
a little beat on this little app called beatmaker Pro,
you know, old old school on the iPad, and.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I made that.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
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.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
And playing guitar some six music is just in my
blood man, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
So, like i'd say, on a professional level, definitely started
with production on a professional level, but behind the scenes,
I was always releasing my own stuff and writing my
own songs, you know. 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.
And I kind of melt it, you know, I melted too.
(07:59):
So it's like, now people really know me as down
nine 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.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I wasn't thinking about music, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
So yeah, but you know what's funny is, you know
I'm I'm a real versatile catthough, 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 to a brown belt, made up to a brown belt,
but I was excelling too fast, so you know, I
started getting by the big kids. I got a couple of concussions.
(08:42):
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
very I got a lot of layers to me, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
But yeah, man, like if I wasn't.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Cool a kid activity or something, you know, a sport
or something like that, I was at home with that
guitar brother, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I'm saying I was at home. Yeah, you know. So
it's like there's many layers to me. But you know,
for sure, hey man, that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
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 advance
skill wise, they kind of match.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You with other players that's in your bracket, right exactly,
bro Right.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, So at six seven eight man, you are immersed
in music. How did you get to that point? Is
that your parents doing that or just you maybe saw
something on TV, went to a concert and just decided
that you wanted.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
To do that.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
So you know, it was like so like you like
you announced, like 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's sing, you know,
my uncle's played instruments. I mean, it's it's crazy, Like
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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 also grew up in a very faithful home.
You know, if it wasn't that or being taught, you know,
lessons about what it means.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
To be a good human being. And you know, if
it wasn't that, man, it was music being played. You know,
I grew up on jazz.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I grew up on real, real jazz, Miles Davis, Floneous 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 always 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 7 (10:52):
I wish, I wish ain't nobody, But you know it's
it's actually on a serious It was funny because my
you know, think about it, My grandma, 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. So, uh, it was actually frowned upon moving
(11:14):
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.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I'm gonna do it the right way. He's like, I
go to school and learn how to really do it.
So I did.
Speaker 7 (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,
but we didn't really pursue it because.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
We were like, nah, we ain't. We ain't doing that,
and you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
So but yeah, man, yeah, man, Like, 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 7 (11:55):
You know, it really has shaped me because you know,
when I first started, like it just dropping me sound
Cloud 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 learn.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
How to own my stuff, how to own my name,
trademark my name, own my own production company, copyright my music,
you know.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So it really it shaped me.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
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 7 (12:23):
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 it gave me the confidence to go any
route I wanted in 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 7 (12:49):
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 an artist, who's yet
like seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty on right now, I would
really say YouTube university, like on some real like a
real talk like YouTube university. Man, go on YouTube, type
in how do I get my master's on? How do
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I trademark my name? How do I become an incorporated LLC?
How do I do this? That YouTube? 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, see
see what some of them are saying.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Give it a try. See if it's you know, see
if it's legitimate.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And that 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 know, you're already going.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Into it with some knowledge.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
So you know, m h man, you write your own,
your own songs, make your own beats, handle your own engineer.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You are a lot of.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Hatsh what's the hardest part about wearing all those hats?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
You know? Really the hardest part, man, is trying.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
To be the best at each That's what the hardest
part is, is it? Like and even in my life,
like even in my own person like growing up and everything,
like I was very very good at everything.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I never felt like I was the best at anything.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
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, I'm the best.
But at the same time, but that there's layers in
that though, you know. So within those layers is like
you said, the engineering, producing, the writing, the recording, you know,
all that. So for me, it's like I just try
(14:36):
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 back, look at look at
look at the beat if you want to rearrange the
beat or something.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
So I kind of just try to space it.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
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 at once, it's it's
it's it's too hard, bro, It's impossible, basically, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
So mething about battle out, it's a burnout. How do
you know when to outsource.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
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 copy 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, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So for me, it's like, I know what I'm going.
I'm nowhere I'm trying to get to.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
But if it don't hit right either in my ear,
I don't care if I made it or not, I'm
gonna be like, nah, I got to send this to
an engineer.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Now, I gotta have my bro look over that. You
look over the words.
Speaker 7 (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
other produce and really that's more and so because I
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know what I want to hear specifically, but you know
what I mean, So yeah, if it's not good enough,
I'm an outsource career.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Just sir, man.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
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,
you name it, and man, it was the best time
(16:29):
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 Too, Wars
going away, other avenues drying up as well. But how
do you see that shape and industry in the state
that it's in right now?
Speaker 7 (16:49):
You know, I really think when I look at the
era that we're in right now, like the past ten
fifteen years or so, like I feel like it's been
a lot of pop pop popcorn, Mike way of stuff,
Like it's been a lot of like we want, we
want to see a lot of gimmicks, we want to
see them, you know, the colorful hair and the end
of this and then that. And for me, it's like
I feel like right now in the underground, especially where
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I'm doing it, like I do a lot in New York,
and I do a lot in the 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.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yo, like they all the All you gotta do is
keep going with it. Cause I see a lot of people.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
In the underground and yeah, man, I you know, I've
been a couple of different statesmen in uh in Atlanta,
so it's some different places in Florida's you know, And
I feel like everybody gets a little too discouraged too early,
Like you gotta just keep 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
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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 if this nonsense, no more.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
We want to see an artist that can give its
versatility different sounds, different things, different messages, you know. And
it's just like that's what I feel is open right
now for the underground.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I feel like it can push the whole.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Genre, you know, the whole industry to really get back
to field music.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 7 (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 know.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, I definitely feel the same way. Al nine nine,
I feel like the era of WWE rap music and
hip hop is overwhelt you gotta worry about the gimmick,
you know, But guys, it's time for some music. We
have pop by L nine nine, and then we'd be
right back to put him in our traditional hot seat
to see if he wants to perform for us.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
He could rap, he could sing, do some spoken word.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Tell him a joke, tell a story from his life,
player instrument, gives him advice, or do nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
That is cool as well, But for right now here
it is pop. Stay tuned.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
I don't my far from.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
The guy spell lad.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Library of nsaid, I never choose each draped Valvell hot kiss,
the plain lovers clove, the f.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
High I john my spell.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
H all right, all right, welcome back again.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
That was popped by out nine. Let's go ahead and
bring him back.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yo yo yo, welcome bag your back, live with us
and in our hot seed.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Are you going up a far for us? Yes, sir man,
I got a little some for you, old man. Yes,
I had alright, cool cool, ready when you are.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Alright man, little little freestyle, I got, you know, a
little something, so alright, chiming out while the world do
more hating than loving. First they stay with the devil,
then they hate when they fuck him mentally rave rearrange
all the faith from the brothers who respecting this game.
Ain't no sham of my Thuggers gotta swallow pride to
ride with the enhanced crew. Nigga's gonna slide to die.
Hit him with bamboo sticks out the window. Get sick
(21:39):
because now they can't prove it's still under God.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
But it happened. Just have him planned to. I got
something to say. This is a family announced.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I was underground and I loved the groups that I
was around, the fear of losing it all would be
the truth that you drowned. This proof that making it
lost can leave the fruits from a pandy. He went
from sticking them baskets picking up caskets. He went from
living on mattresses with sticks in the cabin, hustle work
for God in this can like the past. He worked
to be a better man, do better than daddy. Older generation,
try to lead us all on the right path. White
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students looked at as different. He in the right class,
swallow all his profits. His mom still let the light pass,
follow through my ryms and the scars cut.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Like a night slash. Been down and out, been on
and up.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Now run around ignorre slock, ignoring what's the law to
while man here recording Look industry booth for my ends
make do might be gone, but I'm free and no
mku u. He made it in two days. That's an
industry plan. He acting like he made but we did.
He can't They solid to them days. When you stick
with you can't. The fear of missing your dream you
much as pay the advance. The fear of getting big
the same as losing it all. Man, you win now
(22:36):
you ain't got approve it no more. See us they
choose the game that the Legends of Lords. The industry
is so faked. Don't all the girls from the boards
New rap used to excite me kind of entice me.
Mumble rap niggas a is whack and they don't like
things me. I'm gonna step back and rap with this
light and it might miss some balls before my nigga's
on time. Watch some snake boys who running around with
faith for it hit you for a meeting and now
you want it from Drake. Tory should have never let
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him inside to let him take coorn. Watch the loud
of swarm in the bunch really just make noise. Salute dove,
Dove dough man, appreciate that. Hey man, fire fire.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
So man, you shot this music video and it shows
you at the Brooklyn Pier and also in front of
a Biggie mural.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Why were these locations important to you? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Man, you know it's the roots, man, you know it's
the roots. Actually, my auntie, my Tech, she actually went
to school with Big Man. She went to school Chris.
You know, so it's like, you know, it's it's real rooted,
it's real ruts. My roots run deep in Brooklyn, New York,
so had to had to do.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It in the homeland, man, you know, so for show
for sure? Man, and you said that.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Pop was written with no thought process, with the flow,
just the need to get your message out. How do
you balance like instinct versus scrupture in your creative process?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
So, you know what, 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 is don't.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Deliver that message better? You know, It's as simple as that.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
So for me, it's like, if I'm gonna say something
more so uplifting, you know, not as necessarily aggressive or
you know, standing on stuff, I'm gonna do it to
a different type of beat. I might do it on
a boom back flow. I might do it on a
little slower tempo, you know, a little less aggressive of
a cadence and delivery. But you know, so that's that's
really what gouds me. More so, it's more so the
rhythm and the melody and the and the BPM you
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know that that that dictates how I'm a delivery.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
You know what I mean? Right, which one do you
trust more? The instinct or just your creative process?
Speaker 7 (24:46):
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 to start to write the song anyways, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
So yes, kind of look at if you know.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
What I mean by creative process, like you're 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 sound, right, you have certain
stages you put the track through to get it to
the final result.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
So I think, you know, it may be the same.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You may have the same process when it comes to
crafting the song, like your professional point A to point D,
point C type of deal.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Gotcha? Okay? Yeah, so you know what? Okay?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
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'all going to say, I mean one hundred percent if
you listening 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 it's
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like you can't be you're you're kind of biased to
what you're hearing, like you you're you're ear have gotten
used to it. So it's like sometimes you got to
take a rate, come back relsten to and you're like, oh, okay,
gotta 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
(26:16):
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
know over some dB raised and something you know, do
some different stuff like that, and that's gonna get you
the final product, which was the instinct.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You know, So it all works together, but.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Absolutely, Man, where can our listeners connect with you on
the internet and check out more music?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Man, so y'all couldn't all follow me on Instagram That's
where I mainly am. It's underscore big al four UM
and nine. So it's underscore b I G A L
nine nine nine nine. And I got my music out
on all streaming platforms and everywhere, Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Title,
Amazon and everything.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Uh you know, gzer so I got my stuff out
and uh more comeing soon, you know, Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
And listeners, Just in case you need those links, I
will have them in the description of this episode and
in the show notes.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So all you guys have to do is just click
the links and connect and jam out. Man, L nine
to nine. Are very curious. What does the nine to
nine represent?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
So a couple of different things, you know, off top,
it's really more so because that's like my spirit numbers, you.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Know what I mean. I learned about the mathematical properties
that nine.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Hole and it's a very unique number. You know, if
you add it with any number and then add the
result of that, you get the number. So nine plus
four thirteen one plus three is four. You know, so
stuff like that, you multiply nine by two, you get
eighteen one plus eight.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
It's not you know.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
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.
I'm like, now it's my number.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I'm like, I'm nine, man, you know what I mean?
So it work?
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yes, sir, hey man, don't take this the wrong way.
But you said you were from the you grew up
in the faith, and what do you mean by that?
Like Christian faith, Islamic.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Faith, and do fase you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
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 to Judaism, fell in
love with the religion, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And it's very interesting because we.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
As as the Jewish culture, we're very very accepting, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We're very accepting of everybody, you know.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
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 4 (28:48):
So I feel like I can just I can bridge
that gap. Everybody understand each other.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
My Christian brothers, my Muslim brothers, my Hindu brothers, you know,
Buddhist brothers.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
We all got to We all gotta work together because
we all children are the God. So you know that's
how you know? Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
I read and practice the tours, so I know not
to curse at you or to hate a you, uh
as a fellow Hebrew. But yeah, but man, uh, you
know I would 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 folds.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
So that brings me to my next thing, Like numerology
isn't in the Bible at all, So how do you?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
How do you? How do you? Uh? How do you?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
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?
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Like believing in numbers? That's not really a part of
your studies, your your spiritual studies.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
So it's it's interesting though, right because, like 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 spiritual 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 that ninety
nine point ninety nine repeating in it, you know what
I'm saying. So for me, it's like I don't look
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at nothing absolutely black and white. There's always a gray area.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
So I kind of take the faith and my spirituality
in different lenses. You know.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
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. I feel like that if we could.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Be eons away just like how it is right here
on earth.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
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 I
can learn more about Okay, so this is this is
the way that y'all operate and believe and carry through
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life with faith, and this is how 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, trying to 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 4 (31:09):
I take the culture and bits and pieces, and I.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Kind of meld it all to make it into my
own little thing that helps me operate to be as
to you know, be as beneficials as society as I can.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
You know, yes, Surio, Yes, sir man, you are valid,
very intelligent, brother, very well spoken.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I appreciate the conversation with you, man, and you're absolutely right, Bro,
appreciate you appreciate it, Bro, Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
All right, listeners, our nine to nine today gave us energy,
authenticity and vision.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
We unpacked Pop. You know it's his Chicago style, trapped
fire that he's that he's.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Brought on this track, explore his family legacy, the versatility,
the business acumen and looked ahead at the future singles
and projects. I think he's going to drop one every
two months. And to everyone listening, support AL nine nine
by screaming pop, watching the video and following his journey
as he drops new singles every two months. And don't
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share this show with your circle. AL nine to nine,
it's been a complete honor. You're not just a verse,
(32:27):
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. I appreciate you a lot, Bro, for real,
I really do. Shout out to everything y'all doing. Man,
shout out the Vigilanti Radio, peace and love everybody.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Man.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
Yeah, Man, more coming, and y'all gonna see, just like
how I was talking about the layers, it's gonna come
out in the trash.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Every new song's gonna be a little different.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
So I'm very excited to share myself with the world
and uh peace of love always.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Man.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Appreciate you, bro, appreciate you man. Looking forward to it.
Thank you you. Peace, peace, man, Peace to all.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
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