In The Field with OfficialJL
In The Field with OfficialJL
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In The Field with OfficialJL

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Air Date: Aug 14, 2023 91.3FM WVKR-

This week Lady D & Erin Boogie link up with OfficialJL as he reflects on the reciprocal connection he shares with his fans, and the balance between his solo music career and his videographer work as JLShotThat. He also reveals his exciting plans for the future, demonstrating that an artist's journey is always evolving.

Throughout the conversation, it becomes evident that music is not just a career for OfficialJL, but a passion that has guided his life's trajectory. From his personal struggles and triumphs to the complex process of music creation, his story serves as an inspiration for aspiring artists and music lovers alike.

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Chapters

00:00 - Artist Interview

10:06 - Discussion on Music Creation and Inspirations

18:34 - Album Production and Decision-Making

26:00 - Reflection on Music and Future Plans

Transcript
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This segment of In the Field Radio is brought to you by Tattoo Shop Radio, culture Shock, wapter Music FM, powered by ZenoFM, with additional monitoring through online radio box.

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It's In the Field Radio y'all.

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Everything's real in the field On 91.3 FM WVKR.

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Welcome back to In the Field Radio.

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I'm Erin Boogie.

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I'm here with Miss Lady D.

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What's going on?

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And we have special guest official JL in the building.

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All right, so for our guests who might not be familiar with you, can you just give them a little bit of a background about who you are and what you do?

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It's long story.

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You kind of got to leave me there.

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I don't it's too much to talk about.

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Well, you have quite the resume.

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You're an artist, a producer, an engineer, a songwriter or any videographer.

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Is there anything you can't do?

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I'm still trying to figure that out.

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So what came first?

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What did you get into first?

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Music.

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I guess I know you're probably like what, what about music?

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Probably, yeah, it was just me getting in the booth, I think my uncle from here from town and I just loved it.

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I knew, I knew what.

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That's what I wanted to do.

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And so how did you segue from that into engineering, songwriting, all those things surrounding it?

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Right, so the engineering came next and that came about because, you know, as a struggling artist you can't afford studio times Sometimes, you know.

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So I just it was me and my cousin, my cousin Fools.

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Rest in peace.

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He, you know, he just invested in buying a computer.

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And I'm lying, it was King Face first.

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I'm sorry, king Face rest in peace.

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Same thing, but King Face was actually he's the one who bought a computer and it's like studio equipment and we just like it's like we just don't figure it out on our own type kind of figured it out.

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Actually, I'll shout out my voice stacks for A-stacks for, you know, making me a engineer, start engineering my own stuff.

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Because he told me a couple of things about an EQ and I was just intrigued and I was like, all right, if he can do it, I can do it type, you know time.

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So that's how it started.

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Pretty much Producing it goes hand in hand.

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So, like I guess you know, the way producers are perceived nowadays are kind of mist and screwed, because a lot of people think it's a producer's a beat maker, but it's not the case.

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Producer is somebody who stands on with the whole entire project, it's well, which is like a song or this song at hand, and you know, either the person does make a beat, they don't have to make a beat, they still be a producer.

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But yeah, pretty much it all goes hand in hand.

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Producer could be vocal producing.

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You know what I mean.

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It can be a lot of different producing, you know what I mean.

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Like just say, for instance, I had an artist here the other day at my house and I'm vocal producing her.

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You know, I didn't make the beat, but I'm vocal producing, you know what I mean so yes, that's all those hand in hand.

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Is there anything else you feel you're missing from your repertoire that you want to get into?

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Um, yeah, being on a Forbes list.

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I hear that, I super hear that.

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What made you start taking music seriously?

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Again.

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Well, we're going to get into that.

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So yeah, I was like well, but then you went and you're doing videographer stuff and you're just now circling back to and it was your gap in between.

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And it's crazy.

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It's crazy.

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Um, life, man, life, life.

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That's the only way I can kind of put it right now Life life's.

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You know, at point in time you got to figure out what am I going to do.

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You know what I mean, like, what am I going to do?

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Am I about to keep going to the same thing, be down and, you know, expect things to come to me?

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Or am I going to go out there and get it?

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But at the same time, do I have the resources to do this?

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Or, do you know, do I have the power and energy to do that?

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You know, and just the way the universe led me was to two videos.

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I've always I guess I've recently started to notice in hindsight that it was always like cameras is always in my life, because my mother's always taking pictures of us as kids and she will always keep shoeboxes and pictures and I always looked at them.

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But I'd never knew that like that was something I would do in the future.

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You know what I mean, or something I would even take a like into.

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But I guess you know, like I said in hindsight, I can remember always seeing my mother snap in pictures and being intrigued that a picture came out of it.

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You know what I mean.

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Like an actual picture, like still.

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So like as an artist us as artists we don't know when to stop.

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You know what I mean.

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We don't know when to stop and realize that it's enough.

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Meaning doing music, like recording music.

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You know what I mean.

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Like we don't know when it's enough, we don't know what's the right hit, we don't know if this is the song everybody's gonna like.

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You know what I mean, but we always have, we always have doubts, of course, because we don't know.

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It's like everything, everything that we do is old to us and new to you, but we don't know that.

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You know what I mean.

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We think it's old because it's us hearing ourselves over and over, and then we like that I did that last week, I'm gonna just go do something now, do something new.

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You know what I mean.

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And that's the cycle that's gonna keep repeating until you figure out that you got to stop.

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You got to stop.

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Like you have to stop and focus on everything else, especially as an independent artist.

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You know what I mean.

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I'm talking as an independent artist, not an artist that has a team behind him or her.

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They have a team so they don't have to do as much.

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But if you're gonna come out as an independent artist, you're gonna have to know that you're gonna have to Go through all of this.

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Already too Well.

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So in a drop, what June 19th I saw?

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June 19th is my brother, my brother's birthday.

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He passed.

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Everything about this project is very sentimental and everything about this project means something to me.

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You know what I mean?

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Like it's just really deeper than what it looks like.

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Everything is way deeper than what it looks like.

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All in a surface it's like an iceberg.

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Like an iceberg.

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Well, I read the press release, like the bio, like before I heard the project.

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And then I hear the project, I'm like, oh, this doesn't sound like typical rapping on here.

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And I was like, oh, I like this.

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And then so I Can I just cut it in and say the same thing happened to me?

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The same thing happened to you.

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Yes, like when I read the press release, I was expecting one thing and when I turned it on I got something totally opposite and was pleasantly surprised.

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Yes, I heard, nobody sent me.

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Is that a PR problem?

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You got to tell me.

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No, no, I think it was.

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I think that's cool, yeah, yeah, and it especially if both of us felt that way, I'm sure that's exactly what's going to happen to other people that open it and listen to it.

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But especially, you know you're working with and I guess you're working with drill rappers and that sort of thing.

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So it was like that's the kind of vibe I was expecting, because that's what everybody's doing in the city.

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And then I read your inspirations of Michael Jackson and Jagged Edge and Bracentiller and I was like, oh OK, that's really dope.

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And then I put the music on and it was not drill, which was a breath of fresh air, because that's what everyone was doing and I was like, oh OK, those inspirations make much more sense to me now.

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That was really cool.

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I'm about to see Michael Jackson Jagged Edge.

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My favorite track is Let it Be.

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Wow.

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See, if you listen to the words, I was like this is not supposed to sound like this.

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I loved it.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

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Yeah, all you.

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The video too.

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The video is like that typical New York City summer vibe, like the whole thing was just working for me.

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Thank you so much.

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That's it.

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It's just something I've seen.

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It's part of the life.

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These guys are amazing man.

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They've been helping me throughout my whole career, even as a director.

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It came full circle.

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Everything is just coming full circle.

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That's awesome.

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Let's talk about some of those things about the project that you said were very intentional and beneath the surface.

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Yeah, start at the fact that it's already two.

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I mean already one already.

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The next thing was released 10 years ago, so this is a decade anniversary type thing.

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If you see the cover I don't know if you guys see my You've never seen already one coming?

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Yeah, because that pitch is no longer alive.

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So that's the only place.

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Yeah, that's amazing.

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It's insane when people go for mix tapes now.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I don't think people don't know.

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Yeah.

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I'm looking at the problem.

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Let me see if I can find it and just put it in this boot chat, because this will make all the sense in the world.

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Oh yeah.

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Oh, I see yeah.

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That doesn't make sense.

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OK, so now that's the first cover.

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Oh, I see the L.

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All right, you can see the L, so you get, so you're starting a company.

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I don't know if you have to say much Like I don't know, but I do at the same time, because even even those, there are more intricate pieces.

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You know what I mean.

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So, as you can see, already it's passed it around the back and it's cartoonized, so that to me, showed a little immaturity.

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You know what I mean Like so I'm going to.

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That's what you're going to love it Right.

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So I wanted to show growth, I wanted to show evolution, just by showing my actual self and showing that I'm being vulnerable, I'm being who I say I am at the same time as owning up to it.

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You know what I mean, because a person could say there's somebody, but but I'm there I was, that I was me stepping out of my shell, because anybody who knows me knows I'm introverted as hell.

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So I'm really just stepping out of my shell and doing what I'm doing, what I love.

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And if you see, obviously already two Roman numerals takes up the L's that was something cool at those school and as well as the new already cover, the background already is where, spray painted by my like my right hand man, who's like my creative director, and it's like you know it just means so much to me.

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He's like one of the most creative people I know and I I love the fact that he was the one who actually broke those words and actually look, as you can see, it's merch.

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I was about to say I was like that would be cool on merch yeah.

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So, so, yeah, we know that.

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And then I don't know if you've seen the video she going on.

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Ok, god, is that all took place at the photo shoot for the cover, and you?

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Know, like I think I'm going to start, but yeah, pretty much, yeah, that's pretty much a lot, that it's just a bit.

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But, like, once again, june 19th is my brother's birthday, my late, my late brother's birthday, so I wanted to, you know, put it out on his birthday as well.

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To, you know, pay homage.

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That's a beautiful thing About who is that?

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Let's talk about production.

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Oh yeah, please Definitely want to give my guys some praise.

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First of all, lucid Lucid on the beats.

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He's the one who produced the shit going on and I guess we can say that that's the record that kind of resparks my fire, my flame, you know I mean.

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So Lucid Lucid dreams.

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He's a.

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He's a friend of mine I've met through a mutual friend Rich Stars he was I'm not sure I was working with I love Rich Stars.

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The world.

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How do rich stars get here?

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The world what's?

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That crap, I shot his video.

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So I mean I did.

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I did way more than that with Rich Star.

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Me and Rich Stars have a long history.

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So I got serious.

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Yeah, we have projects together, like it's, yeah.

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But um, yeah, I met Lucid to Rich and, um, he just kept in contact with me.

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It was one time when I started coming back I was just like yo, bro, just send me beats, please, please, send me a pack of like 90 beats.

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Ok, let's go.

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So I just, I heard I heard that one beat and I'm like I did that.

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That's something to tell me he loved it.

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I actually originally had an artist on it but I named Arson White.

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He's my really good friend and we kind of wrote the song together.

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Not really, you know, it was just bouncing ideas and you know, I just wrote the song and all for melodies, kind of sort of you know, and I don't write it.

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I just recorded this song off of melodies.

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And he wrote a verse.

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You know the verse is dope.

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He's a fine artist but for some reason I felt like it needed more.

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So I hit up a couple of people.

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I hit my boy, tgf Liar.

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I actually put a verse on it.

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He put a dope verse on it and I was still, you know, I was still in partial.

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I was just like I don't know how I feel about this.

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You know what I mean.

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I'm just like, so I just kept it where.

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It was just an open verse and I cut it short.

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So it was just me, my hook, my first verse in the hook, and I cut it short and I just previewed it on on Instagram and it was well received.

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So I'm like I might have something.

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You know what I mean and I didn't think too much about it.

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You know, I just let life happen.

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And then, you know, I've met my day-to-day manager right now.

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He wasn't my day-to-day manager then, but he was a person who interviewed me as JL Shot, that you know.

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But he found out that I did music.

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So when he heard the record, he was like yo, bro, playing like.

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He was like you're playing, like if I was, if I was you, if I had your talent, like I would not be wasting it.

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You know what I mean.

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He would always tell me every day like you, bugger, he'll send me like the song.

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Like bro, listen to this, like what's wrong with you.

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So he always encouraged me.

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So he was like yo, just do me a favor, just just finish this off.

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And just finish this off.

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I was like you know what, let me just try to finish the song.

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Like, because I remember I had an open verse.

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I'm like I'm just doing it, it's just me, just take everybody on.

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So I'm like all right.

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So I said all right and I did it.

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And I did it and I sent it back to him within an hour or less and he was just in love, mom blowing, and I ain't gonna lie, I was out from that.

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That was a big step for me, because that was one of my biggest things as an artist.

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Even back then.

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I would always do incomplete records, always do incomplete records.

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You know what I mean.

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Like, when I did the record and I heard how full it sounded, how complete it sounded, I was just like yo, I can do it.

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You know what I mean.

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Like I can do this, like I can really do this, like, and I don't have to be worried that I have to get a beat your own to complete the record, I can literally just do this myself and I can take no time and actually not wait for anybody and actually get something done.

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You know what I mean, like it's just sparked like a whole like, do this.

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You know what I mean.

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Like it sparked that up, you know what I mean.

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And then, randomly, I'm playing Call of Duty.

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One day, as they say, I shouldn't have been doing girls or whatever, you should be doing more productive things, but this time it's going to be productive.

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I'm playing Call of Duty and I meet a guy on it and he's like yo bro, can I send you a beat for five Like?

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Yeah, of course.

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Follow me on Instagram, whatever, whatever.

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Through Xbox.

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Well, PlayStation.

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He hit you up through PlayStation.

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Don't insult me.

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I ain't given Xbox that shot.

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It's 20 PS or nothing.

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So you have a new PlayStation name in the chat.

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I'm hilarious.

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I may or may not play PlayStation.

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But yeah, so he posting like snippets of me doing music and he, you know, he called me with it and he's like yo, bro, you do music.

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I'm like, yeah, he's like I do beats that sound like the beats that you're doing, because he knew I was getting them on YouTube so I can send you some beats.

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I can send you a pack.

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I'm like I can send them.

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I'm not thinking nothing of it, because I literally get beats from producers all day, but not from me.

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It's usually for like five-year artists that I work with.

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You know what I mean.

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Right.

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Where you got the first beat I heard.

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I didn't even listen for like three seconds.

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I loaded it straight up into Pro Tools and I just put my headphones on it, just spewed out.

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You know, it was just spewing, just going, just going Finished the record, sent it off to them and it was mind-blowing Not that excited, he was mind-blowing.

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So this guy named Seymour Beats.

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So now he's like yo, bro, I'm going to send you a whole new pack, bro, I'm going to send you 10 more beats, right?

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So it was something I noticed about.

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I'm Asian, my mother's been to me, so this is like a stereotype, but I'm just joking.

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At the same time, but I noticed patterns.

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You know I'm a pattern guy, you know what I mean.

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So we gambled and shit, yeah, you know what I mean.

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But I noticed patterns.

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You know what I mean.

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And it was.

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It was a thing.

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He collabed with every beat.

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It was a collab, it wasn't just him.

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So it said Seymour X, somebody.

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You know what I mean.

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But it was a pattern that every beat that I was choosing said two of the same names Seymour X, jim, and this is throughout like 13, 14 beats.

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So I'm like all right, so something has to be up with Seymour and Jim and me.

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You know what I mean.

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I'm like yo, so I hit Seymour, I'm like yo.

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Bro, can you just send me a whole batch of beats with just you and Jim?

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You know what I mean.

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Just like.

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Whatever you have to do together, he's like all right, cool.

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But Jim quit three years ago and he's an architect now, so does that make a big difference.

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Jim, what Jim?

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No, Jim An architect?

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you know no.

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He's like, so he's like we wasn't placing beats, bro.

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I'm like, just ask him, you know, and just just seriously, he's like you know what?

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It is a good chance that he might come back Because you know it's a dope record and you are JL Shatay, no, no, and where they're from, jl Shatay is way bigger than I am out here, Like they're from the UK.

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You know what I mean, you know how, how.

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You know instrumental pop and Favio out there, you know.

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So they actually know who I am, you know what I mean.

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They actually respect my work.

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And he asked me up to next day, just ecstatic, yo bro, jim is back, jim is back.

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He said, you know, make a whole new.

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He said we gonna make a whole new Peck to you tonight.

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I'm like.

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I'm like, I'm like I sent it over, did you?

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keep his job.

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Yeah, he kept his job.

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He just he kept his job.

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Jim was ready to risk it all.

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Yeah, he wasn't, but um he, um.

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So they made me a new Peck.

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But like, from there on, obviously I just kept going, just kept going, just kept going.

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I recorded probably like a good 16, 17 records, I think it was like seven of them.

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That was just like really standing out to me.

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It was just like so solid, like fully completed.

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I mixed them to a part of me, to a point that I really liked the way it sounded and initially I was going to put out, I was going to put one more record on it as a bonus or as an interview or an outro of my cousin.

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My cousin is an artist named Castle.

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He's OD, like OD, like OD, od.

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I can't even say how OD is and I'll show you how OD is.

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Is the reason why he's not on my album?

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Because no no, I'm going to explain it.

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I'm going to explain it.

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I'm going to.

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I know it sounds weird, but I'm going to explain it.

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So the record he had, he sent it to me.

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It was from the same producers, seymour and Jim.

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I sent it to him to be because I knew he was going to buy it.

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So he did it and he sent it back and I'm just like what the?

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It's like, just crazy, like like fire, and I literally didn't know what to do.

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I couldn't follow him, I could not follow him and I told him I'm like, because I can't follow what you did, but like you go to eat, like I can't do nothing to even compare.

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You know what I mean.

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So he's like nah, you know, we joking, it's really my cousin, so we talk all the time.

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So it's just like.

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He's like yo, bro, just do it, bro, just do it.

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So I'm like in my head, I'm like I am, I'm gonna do it.

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But every time I try, nothing comes out.

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Nothing comes out.

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Like I swear to God and I don't.

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I didn't understand.

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But I do believe in one thing in my life and if it's anything, it's this is just like just energy and universal law.

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You know what I mean.

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I studied these types of things, because that's the only thing that really actually that I have proof of working in my life you know what I mean and proof of you know just of it being real, because my energy and my intuition never lies to me.

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So what I did, I called him and I was like yo, bro, I'm like cause they send me, just send me the record, or just you on it and cut it short.

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I'm like, don't worry about me, like I don't have to be on it.

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He was like yo, bro, cause I really want you on the record.

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So I'm saying like all right man, in my head I'm still like all right man, I'm gonna just hop on the record.

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Deadline's coming, deadline's a week away.

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You know what I mean, but I'm still in my head like I'm gonna get it done.

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You know what I mean.

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If I didn't do it, it's not supposed to happen.

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So I just kept it off.

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So that's really what happened with that record.

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You know what I mean.

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And it was another record on there.

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It was a record with me and my two boys, drew Beano and Wooty.

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Their group called Mess Boys and they had this slogan called perform and I did a song, I did a record and the hook was like I had the word perform and I was like, oh, it'll be smart to put them in.

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You know what I mean, cause that's their thing.

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So I put them in it and I actually loved the record a lot.

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My manager loved the record.

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So we you know we were initially gonna put it on the album.

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So this was like literally like the final track was was everything that's on it right now, plus this one record called perform.

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I did a rollout to where I would just roll up on people, put up on people and I'm gonna play my music and my.

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These are all people who that only know me and shoot that.

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You know what I mean.

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So they don't even know it.

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So I'm literally just about to get a raw reaction on camera.

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Whatever happens, happens and I'm gonna post it.

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You know what I mean.

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Like that was my rollout in my head.

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You know what I mean Like, cause I don't lose Either way.

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If they don't like it.

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I'll probably still get views and people.

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Somebody might like it.

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You know what I mean.

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Like it was very successful, but it was a recurrent thing that that one record was the only record that some people didn't like.

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You know what I mean.

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So I'm like, all right.

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So I was a very skeptical.

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But then I had a meeting with Al von Miller, which is a very good friend of mine.

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I used to, I used to perform for him back in the day when he used to work shady records.

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He said these words I'll never forget.

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He said, bro, if you take that one record off, perform, if you take that record off your album, this album will be a classic.

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And I said, all right, I got to take this off.

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I got to take it off and this is from a person I respect.

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You know what I mean.

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Like he's been in the industry forever.

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You know what I mean and I respect him.

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I say I got to take it as much as I want it on there, I got to take it off.

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You know what I mean.

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The world is telling me to take it off.

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The universe is telling me to take it off.

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And I took it off.

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And then even.

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Don't rule out the world yeah, the universe.

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But even in the future you guys will see like it was really a reason that I took it off, because I tried to shoot this video three times in a row.

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This is after I released, because I was gonna put it out as a single, just like to show love.

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I tried to shoot this video three times and all three times it didn't happen because of some really weird.

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So I'm like, oh right, this song is not even supposed to come out.

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You know what I mean, and what it is is because that's the only song that was on my EP with negative energy.

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You know what I mean.

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Everything else is good vibes, you know what I mean.

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So it's just higher vibrates and so much, so much.

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It's like everything to do with this project is so deep that I get emotional every time I talk about it.

00:25:02.849 --> 00:25:07.048
But I'm not gonna get emotional right now, but it's just because throughout that's great.

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Everyone cries with us, yeah.

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So throughout, like my rebirth I guess I do wanna call it a rebirth because I think everybody lives the story of Jesus but I think you know, during my rebirth so many miracles happen Like every day.

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I can't even tell you how many miracles happen, you know.

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Damn, I am like emotional, but yeah.

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Yeah, take a minute.

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It tells you, like that's the way that you're supposed to go.

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Yeah, but shout out to you for being in tune with the energy and for listening.

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Not everyone listens.

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But yeah, just like so much good stuff happening.

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That's incredible.

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That's awesome yeah.

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Sorry, you don't need to get a second.

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You don't have to be sorry, you don't wanna.

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Like you wouldn't have it any other way, Like would you change anything about how you got here, Nah nah, I wouldn't.

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What would you say to the official JL that like dropped already the first one 10 years ago?

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If you could go visit him and say something to him, what would you say?

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Sure, I don't know.

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I would say thank you for making me me, thank you for making me who I am now.

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I had to learn, you know.

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Usually people are like I would tell them don't do this, don't do that.

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You're like totally fine with it.

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You're like thanks.

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Gotta learn.

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You can't regret, gotta learn.

00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:49.345
Yeah, cause that person not already made you who you are on already too?

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I mean, you don't know like which song people are gonna like and which song did you think was gonna be the favorite?

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Let it be, it just had a real happy vibe.

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That's why, like bouncy, my personal favorite was Tell Me what you Want, cause that was the first record that I did from the big, from the V-Tex, and it means a lot because I literally during the whole time, you know I just got a relationship and I just let it go.

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I just let it all.

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Just let it all out on wax.

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Tell me what you want is literally all everything I felt at that moment, like everything I felt at the moment.

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You know, Everything on this album is everything I felt at that moment, Like I was a million percent vulnerable, which I've never been really in my music.

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So well in my life, not even my music.

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In my life period I've never been vulnerable.

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So just me, you know, taking that leap of faith as well.

00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:54.946
What do you think it was about being vulnerable?

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That connected with your fans or connected with the audience?

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The realness, I mean the relatability.

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You know what I mean.

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:06.983
The resonance is just like everybody goes, everybody has gone on.

00:28:06.983 --> 00:28:09.644
You know pun intended, it's because it's so relatable.

00:28:09.644 --> 00:28:18.028
You know, every word I'm saying is something that I'm sure everybody's been through or going through or know somebody who's going through.

00:28:18.028 --> 00:28:24.310
If a person could connect to your words, then that's, you know, that's the power, and I just connect.

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I think I just connected with my inner emotions and, like I said, vulnerability and just let it go, just let it come out.

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You think relatability is missing from music nowadays?

00:28:37.980 --> 00:28:41.106
No, I think vulnerability is, I think it's just.

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I think, yeah, well, I don't know, honestly, because everybody just wants to be somebody you know, the last person that's going viral and nobody's you know truly genuine, showing who they truly are, because they think that those people are people that people want to see, because they're the ones who get the numbers.

00:28:57.423 --> 00:29:04.709
So they're gonna try that, instead of just thinking like maybe being me might be better than being him.

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What do you got coming up next?

00:29:06.662 --> 00:29:07.056
Do you have?

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Are you gonna be doing like performances and stuff Like the album's out?

00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:11.398
What are we going to do now?

00:29:12.934 --> 00:29:14.779
Of course, like honestly performing is.

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:21.065
You guys will learn my listening session I literally put on a theatrical performance.

00:29:21.065 --> 00:29:26.567
It's like that's literally my thing, that if it's not just recording performing.

00:29:26.567 --> 00:29:29.595
Like I said, michael Jackson, my favorite artist in the world you know what I mean.

00:29:29.595 --> 00:29:33.511
Like every inspiration I have is from that guy.

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You know what I mean.

00:29:34.074 --> 00:29:36.482
Like, in performing, I can put on a show.

00:29:36.482 --> 00:29:41.564
Like I know how to capture emotions you know what I mean, as you can see in my videos.

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Like I know how to make a person feel it so I can make you hold your breath.

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You know what I mean and I could do that just because I know how to, and that's just.

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I think that's a gift to mine.

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Like, even when I perform on black out, sometimes I don't even remember it.

00:29:55.042 --> 00:30:07.182
Like sometimes, like what happened, especially because I catch a lot of anxiety Like I'll just like feel like I'm black enough, but I'll actually black out for a moment, but then come back and it's just like it's going well.

00:30:07.182 --> 00:30:07.723
You know what I mean.

00:30:07.723 --> 00:30:08.546
It's going really well.

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You know what I mean.

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This girl, I get right back into it.

00:30:10.351 --> 00:30:11.580
You know what I mean.

00:30:11.580 --> 00:30:14.111
But I really love performing.

00:30:14.111 --> 00:30:22.301
I really love performing, and every time I perform, I perform in a live band as well, so I'm always going to give me experience, or I'm going to give you experience.

00:30:23.055 --> 00:30:24.541
Anything coming up with the live band.

00:30:24.815 --> 00:30:41.968
We have another one coming up in the Sultan Room, which is a venue that I really love, that I'm going to put on a hell of a show in August and will more than likely be continuous, like every month thing, a series, like it's something that goes on every month type thing.

00:30:41.968 --> 00:30:42.653
You know what I mean.

00:30:42.653 --> 00:30:44.160
I'm always going to try to please.

00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:46.863
I'm a people, please, but I'm a people please.

00:30:46.863 --> 00:30:48.428
Are the please myself so selfish?

00:30:48.428 --> 00:30:50.381
So don't, don't think I'm giving you much.

00:30:52.516 --> 00:30:53.259
I totally get that.

00:30:54.035 --> 00:30:58.163
So you're going to balance JL, shot that with official JL this whole summer.

00:30:59.267 --> 00:31:01.400
I've been trying, yeah, I mean I've been doing it.

00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:01.923
I've been successful.

00:31:01.923 --> 00:31:05.559
Honestly, it's been only helping me, it's only been a benefit.

00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:12.115
Honestly, a lot of people that I work with understand that I understand music now you know what I mean.

00:31:12.115 --> 00:31:15.275
So they understand that I can put out a visual and I can look good.

00:31:15.275 --> 00:31:18.924
So if I can make myself look good, you got to know I can make yourself look good.

00:31:18.924 --> 00:31:22.082
Yeah, but yeah, it's only, it's only been a hope.

00:31:22.082 --> 00:31:25.051
It's definitely helping because you know I'm going broke.

00:31:25.051 --> 00:31:25.515
You know what I mean.

00:31:25.515 --> 00:31:33.186
Like being an artist costs a lot of money and nobody understands, but it's just you know.

00:31:33.186 --> 00:31:34.813
So you know the videos help.

00:31:34.813 --> 00:31:35.315
You know what I mean.

00:31:35.315 --> 00:31:40.247
If I need that money that's coming in to support my dream, which I try to teach.

00:31:40.247 --> 00:31:42.221
You know the youth around me as well.

00:31:42.815 --> 00:31:52.261
So, being that it's the 50th anniversary of hip hop, we're reflecting back, but we're making the people that we interview really reflect back on themselves, not just the top moments in hip hop.

00:31:52.261 --> 00:31:56.006
So what are the top five videos that you've shot in your career?

00:31:57.798 --> 00:32:09.075
I think it's like your big trip War Weddy, just because of, I think, what he was like a really good experience with me like being a director.

00:32:09.075 --> 00:32:16.920
I was like my first step into like just directing, because I didn't VP that, I just directed that one.

00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:30.680
So I think, ready to get to number four and number five, I'll probably say, yeah, my video for sure, word One of my videos, let it be probably.

00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:36.016
I guess, even though I created the record, I'd spark like the record, but it's all the same, you know.

00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:40.864
I was wondering about that Like did you have your team shoot your video?

00:32:41.859 --> 00:32:45.319
Yes for sure, definitely Full circle.

00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.261
You know, I knew, I know, they know how to.

00:32:48.261 --> 00:32:51.945
You know, we have chemistry, there's no reason to change it, you know.

00:32:52.086 --> 00:32:52.630
Yeah, definitely.

00:32:52.630 --> 00:32:53.859
You guys have done some big videos.

00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:56.142
If you could collab with anybody, who would it be?

00:32:56.776 --> 00:32:57.799
Like in what sense?

00:32:59.434 --> 00:33:01.423
Video, music production.

00:33:01.423 --> 00:33:04.304
Just who are some goals that you have that you would like to collab with.

00:33:05.198 --> 00:33:07.101
Some goals Okay, some is better than one.

00:33:07.101 --> 00:33:08.380
That's just rough.

00:33:08.380 --> 00:33:13.179
But obviously Drake, everybody is gonna say Drake, yeah, I'm not for sure.

00:33:13.179 --> 00:33:15.844
Drake was a huge inspiration to me as well.

00:33:15.844 --> 00:33:20.926
So Drake, like her, I absolutely love her.

00:33:22.098 --> 00:33:22.761
Everything about her.

00:33:22.761 --> 00:33:23.222
I love her.

00:33:23.655 --> 00:33:25.000
Lauren Hill, for sure.

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.183
Chris Brown huge, huge inspiration.

00:33:28.183 --> 00:33:35.220
Quentin Tarantino if I could ever step foot next to that man like that would be amazing.

00:33:36.155 --> 00:33:37.220
He's definitely a goat.

00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:40.020
Will Smith, he's a really really.

00:33:40.020 --> 00:33:42.125
He's actually one of my mentors.

00:33:42.125 --> 00:33:44.795
Obviously I don't know him, but he's definitely one of my mentors.

00:33:44.795 --> 00:33:47.442
Like I take so much from him.

00:33:47.442 --> 00:33:50.040
His words are so powerful.

00:33:50.040 --> 00:33:59.154
When he said, like your greatest gifts or achievement is on the other side of fear, that changed like my whole mind frame.

00:33:59.154 --> 00:34:05.682
Like just those words, as simple as it can sound, it's so complex and it literally changed my whole mind frame.

00:34:05.682 --> 00:34:07.388
I just stopped being scared.

00:34:07.388 --> 00:34:07.815
You know what I mean.

00:34:07.815 --> 00:34:11.684
Like once you understand that fear is what's holding you back.

00:34:11.684 --> 00:34:19.556
You know you just got to overcome that and literally those words was that's all I needed, you know.

00:34:19.556 --> 00:34:23.106
So things like that you know, people that you know inspired me.

00:34:23.574 --> 00:34:26.605
Are there any producers that you'd like to work with For Beats?

00:34:27.275 --> 00:34:31.414
Yeah, troy Taylor, troy Taylor, the goat, I definitely want to work with him.

00:34:31.414 --> 00:34:32.539
I actually hit him up.

00:34:32.539 --> 00:34:39.925
I DMed him right before I dropped my P and I said, well, we'd follow each other, just because I only know him through his daughter.

00:34:39.925 --> 00:34:42.061
His daughter's a videographer as well.

00:34:42.061 --> 00:34:43.358
Shout out to Kyla and the pre.

00:34:43.358 --> 00:34:45.344
But we follow each other.

00:34:45.344 --> 00:34:46.045
And I just hit him up.

00:34:46.045 --> 00:34:51.541
I'm like yo, you know, I really look up to you, I really admire your work.

00:34:51.541 --> 00:34:54.503
It would be a dream, you know, for me to work with you.

00:34:54.503 --> 00:35:04.505
I know you only know me as, like a director, but I'm putting out my EP and, you know, hopefully you listen to it and you know we work in the future.

00:35:04.505 --> 00:35:05.760
And I just left it at that.

00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:08.581
I didn't look at the message, I didn't see if you've seen it or not.

00:35:08.581 --> 00:35:09.639
I just left it at that.

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:12.358
I mean, if the station of this pharmacy, you know.

00:35:12.358 --> 00:35:15.746
So Hopefully I've been working for each other.

00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:17.164
And then one last question.

00:35:17.164 --> 00:35:20.907
As a female fronted radio show, we like to highlight extraordinary women.

00:35:20.907 --> 00:35:23.585
So who's a woman that made a huge impact on your life?

00:35:25.210 --> 00:35:25.791
My mother.

00:35:25.791 --> 00:35:30.507
I don't wanna say anything more about that.

00:35:30.507 --> 00:35:37.666
Nobody else knew the impact of my mother's Shout out to mom, Always shout out to mom.

00:35:39.099 --> 00:35:42.887
All right, and then just let everybody, let all our listeners know where they can follow you.

00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:47.443
I'm Fishy Jail, instagram official Jail or Jail shout out to that.

00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:50.987
Well, I saw in your bio you had I'm not an official Jail.

00:35:50.987 --> 00:35:52.585
It was like I'm not Jail, shout that.

00:35:54.179 --> 00:35:55.967
I'm gonna get to that soon too.

00:35:55.967 --> 00:36:00.226
That's a whole new market in Schenel's Goldberg, but I'm gonna get to that soon.

00:36:00.226 --> 00:36:03.067
Everything's just Fishy Jail Jail shout that.

00:36:03.067 --> 00:36:09.585
Honestly, it's confusing and I have to figure out what I'm really gonna do, because it is hurting me.

00:36:09.585 --> 00:36:25.947
I can't lie, because a lot of people hit me up like I can't find your music because they're all certain from Jail's Shout that I'm more known as Jail's Shout that than as a Jail, so it is hurting, but at the same time, that's what I've decided to do and I think the plan is still gonna work.

00:36:25.947 --> 00:36:29.128
I'm just gonna go through it until it boosts itself.

00:36:29.188 --> 00:36:32.128
Otherwise, Well, thank you for taking the time out of your day to sit with us.

00:36:32.128 --> 00:36:33.385
This was a really dope interview.

00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:35.365
Thank you so much for having me.

00:36:35.365 --> 00:36:39.291
I actually really I'll keep it a million percent with you.

00:36:39.291 --> 00:36:45.527
I really was not about to do this and, as you can see, I'm sitting in my bed right now and I really was not feeling good at all.

00:36:45.527 --> 00:36:53.467
I was, I think I had this stomach problem called pancreas titus and like sometimes I have a problem with eating.

00:36:53.467 --> 00:36:58.809
You know, I don't eat too much because I'm always doing things and sometimes it's strange as it sounds I think it's eat.

00:36:58.809 --> 00:37:04.545
So I was feeling I wasn't feeling good and I told my managers I'm like I don't wanna do this interview.

00:37:04.545 --> 00:37:12.050
But I said, all right, this is the life I chose, so I gotta do anything and actually I'm very happy that I did it.

00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:13.364
Oh, that makes us really happy.

00:37:13.364 --> 00:37:15.826
Yeah, that's really.

00:37:15.826 --> 00:37:17.985
It means a lot to us when we hear that from artists.

00:37:17.985 --> 00:37:19.686
Thank you so much for pushing through this.

00:37:19.686 --> 00:37:21.407
Like I said, this was a super dope interview.

00:37:21.407 --> 00:37:22.885
I think we learned a lot about you.

00:37:22.885 --> 00:37:26.628
I can't wait to come see you with a live band.

00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:28.945
Oh, yes, you're gonna love it.

00:37:29.820 --> 00:37:32.865
And I don't know if there anything else you wanna tell our listeners before we get out of here.

00:37:34.139 --> 00:37:35.907
Oh, yeah, be able to look out for Ambrack.

00:37:35.907 --> 00:37:51.342
Ambrack is a TV series that me and three other very creative entrepreneurs from Queens of African descent I guess you would say of color we came together and joined.

00:37:51.342 --> 00:37:52.065
Forrest is.

00:37:52.065 --> 00:37:53.389
We're all dope.

00:37:53.389 --> 00:37:58.467
I mean Kayla Bill she's a dope producer from ABC, nbc, box Box.

00:37:58.467 --> 00:37:59.786
She's known for a lot.

00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:03.389
Corey King-Foy he's known for her producing power.

00:38:03.389 --> 00:38:09.802
He's known for being on power as an actor as well and during his own movie, the Greener the movie then we had.

00:38:09.802 --> 00:38:13.507
And for the author he was known for being an outstanding author.

00:38:13.507 --> 00:38:17.090
It's selling over 250,000 books out of his own trunk.

00:38:17.090 --> 00:38:22.628
Yeah, we just like put together this project called Ambrack, which is called my Smell Backwards.

00:38:22.628 --> 00:38:24.726
A lot of people, though they were like, what's this I need?

00:38:24.726 --> 00:38:26.907
Well, it's called my Smell Backwards.

00:38:26.907 --> 00:38:36.427
It's some really interesting thing because it's so community driven and community based and family Oriented.

00:38:36.427 --> 00:38:42.826
Everybody's volunteering, everybody, and we have a cast of over 50 something people and a crew of over 40.

00:38:42.826 --> 00:38:45.606
So everybody's volunteering.

00:38:45.606 --> 00:38:49.983
I mean we believe in something, something that's great, something that's bigger than all of us.

00:38:49.983 --> 00:39:03.702
So, with my creativeness when shooting music videos, corey's professionalism when he's on set shooting SNL and Power, and Kayla's spunk and everything that she brings.

00:39:03.702 --> 00:39:11.079
She brings everything, she's the glue and with his amazing writing and his amazing imagination, you know what I mean.

00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:13.367
So put all this together.

00:39:13.407 --> 00:39:17.449
so, ambrack, Don't, can't wait.

00:39:17.449 --> 00:39:22.628
Yeah, that sounds really it sounds like it's something that is drastically needed.

00:39:22.628 --> 00:39:25.385
All right well, thank you again.

00:39:25.940 --> 00:39:27.726
Thank you guys again so much.

00:39:27.726 --> 00:39:31.088
I appreciate you guys for even paying attention.

00:39:31.088 --> 00:39:34.344
Yes, a lot of people don't even pay attention.

00:39:34.344 --> 00:39:36.806
Thank you guys for paying attention to me.

00:39:36.806 --> 00:39:40.144
Man, I'm not gonna let you guys down as long as you guys keep watching.

00:39:50.699 --> 00:39:52.547
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00:39:52.547 --> 00:39:53.804
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00:39:53.804 --> 00:39:56.266
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00:40:00.985 --> 00:40:01.889
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00:40:01.889 --> 00:40:03.565
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00:40:03.565 --> 00:40:08.766
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00:40:08.766 --> 00:40:09.943
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00:40:09.943 --> 00:40:11.007
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00:40:13.327 --> 00:40:16.385
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00:40:16.385 --> 00:40:19.286
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00:40:19.286 --> 00:40:21.764
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00:40:21.764 --> 00:40:25.003
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00:40:25.003 --> 00:40:31.172
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