Club 520 Podcast - Club 520 - Skilla Baby & Jeff Teague share love for Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant & Lil Wayne

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

We’re back with Season 2, Episode 61 of Club 520 where Jeff Teague and the guys are joined by rapper Skilla Baby to discuss all things rap music and basketball. Skilla reveals his favorite NBA players of all time such as Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Kyrie Irving, and Ja Morant, as well as shows love for the rappers who have influenced his life the most like Lil Wayne and Meek Mill. #Club #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, we back. Another episode of Club 520 Podcast. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wells. Special guest to my left. We're going to introduce my man's last, but to my far left, we got my dog, Bishop B. Hand out the prayer leaves.

How you doing, Nasty? Cool, Nasty. Let's get to it. Now, Skill, I know you done seen a lot of things. You know, obviously, we know you keep your feet right. Have you ever seen the Black Forces with the white laces? No, I never. You got the song, you know what I'm saying?

The Black Force activity. Have you seen that type of activity before? No, I never seen that. Fuck that. I got something for you. Oh, you starting off with gifts? God, my nigga. Period. something for you. Oh, you starting off with gifts? Got my name on here. Just for the record.

Oh! Yeah! You got the white laces too? I'll fuck with you, Nasty. You feel me? That's the real activity right there. Yeah, that's his show. Love, bro. Love. For sure, for sure right there. Yeah, that's his show. Love, bro.

Love. For sure, for sure. To my right, my dog, Young Nacho. Young T, how you doing, man? I'm chilling, bro. I'm really shitty because I ain't had them bottle, though. They ain't never gave me no black forces. I got you, so I got you.

Dwight was with the black lights. That was nasty as hell. For his birthday. I took care of my nigga. That's a fact, though. That's for real. Nah, but I'm chilling, man. I'm glad we got my guy in the building.

I'm going to let you do the intro. For sure, man. We got a young, up-and-coming legend from the D, you know what I'm saying? Midwest love of the building. Skillet Baby. What's happening with you? Appreciate you pulling a 520, my boy. Appreciate you, bro.

For sure, man. Obviously, man, we got to talk about a lot of different stuff. Obviously, we know why you in town. You got a show. You got a project coming out real soon. Tell the people what you got coming, man. Project April 26th, the coldest. Yes, sir.

On the way. You just dropped a single. Know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. How's that feel, man, to like, obviously, your songs go crazy. Obviously, we know you charting. But like for you, your music so far, because you in the streets and you on every girl TikTok, that is fire.

Yeah. That is fire. I mean, I ain't really purposely do that, though. I just love, you feel me? Love the yes. But you can tell. That's why you got it. That's why you call it a yes?

A yes. I got it. I put that in my pocket, too. A yes. Okay. Because I don't be wanting to call it in one way or the other. It's like the yes. I'm rolling with it.

That's a good little price. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I like that. I's a good, that's a good little price point. Yeah, yeah. I like that. I can't say my wife killed me. Let me stop. Let me stop, bro. She gonna kill me, bro. That's scary ass nigga.

Spice it up, nigga. Yeah, you right. She's Spanish, so I gotta color something up. What's yeah in Spanish, nigga? What's yeah in Spanish? Yeah. Sí.

Oh. Color my sí. with you in Spanish yeah C I love how everybody is like nigga I ain't know no Spanish I was waiting for one of y'all to tell me niggas kill me I can like name my language niggas

niggas know one word C nigga hell no alright man this shit. Niggas know one word. See, nigga. Hell no. All right, man. Family of the pie. Sada done told us, man, you one of the nicest on the court

with this hoop shit, man. Is it true? I be doing that. I be doing that. Nah, he said you was like that. I said, damn, like that for real? We had Sada at a game. Sada was cool.

He said you was the one, though. No, I be doing that. I believe you. I used to think I was going to go though. No, I be doing it. I believe you. I used to think I was going to go to the league when I was a kid. But then life hit you and you be seeing niggas with trainers and shit. Oh, yeah. So you didn't have no trainers at Oak Park when you was playing up there? Uh-uh.

You was just straight up. Yeah, I was just going off strictly just muscle memory. Like, niggas be—that's how I knew, like, I wasn't going to the league. Niggas be in that bitch 24-7. And then you got to think that shit be political, too. Like, they choose niggas as a kid, like, who going to the best AAU team. They granddaddies and daddies been selling dope with the coaches and shit. You feel me? Nah, I'm just saying. You ain't never want to play with the family? I wanted to play with the family. I had a cousin playing with the family, but you got to think,

like, them niggas already had their 10th. Yeah. Like, they locked in. Like, you feel me?

For sure, yeah. Them niggas be locked in from 6U. Nah, that's a fact. That's true, that's true.

You see all them, you see everybody from like 6U, like you said, till you get in high school. I played against the same team, like Kalen Lucas

and all them niggas. I was on that same team growing up. Yeah. It's crazy. And what's crazy is, like you said, from a basketball standpoint, even now, like Detroit, y'all wave and music, especially in rap right now. It's crazy.

It's been going on super heavy last couple years. Like, how does it feel for you to be like, now you up here, like you helping pushing that charge? And like you said, everything you're doing is obvious. It's organic. You ain't forcing nothing. You're just speaking on what you're living. Like, how does it feel to get that impact and the love from just being you?

That should be refreshing for real. I think we all come from the same place. So when you make it out that hole and it be like a bunch of crabs in a bucket and like, you got to think like Detroit a place where either they fuck with you or they don't. Like, you place where either they with you or they don't like you feel me they love you or they don't you feel me that should be like that so when you make it out that and you'll be like all the going on the street going on you'll be like damn this crazy like i can't see why be even mad rappers i can't even get mad no more i can't even get mad i'd be mad for a minute my little and i'd just be over it like damn i'm really

living state to state doing what i want i can't even get mad and that's all right man because like you said taking advantage of an opportunity like you said detroit show love today city regardless of what's going on you can see see that with y'all sports teams. Because I got homies who still call me about Pistons games and listen, respect to the Pistons,

but I saw what y'all did last year. Damn. They suck right now. They suck right now. That shit kind of bold, though. It's depressing.

Is it fucking the city up? Yeah, it ain't fucking the city up, but like, man, you got to think the Lions went 0-16. Yeah. The Pistons went 0-24 or some shit like that.

Like, why us? The Lions went crazy this year, bro. You know how many seasons it took for them to come back? I know, bro. I know, bro. But enjoy the moment, Nasty. You got to enjoy the moment. But you got to think, like,

they be names like L.A. Nigga, both of their teams going crazy at one time. Yeah. Nigga, it was for the longest. Like, all we had to support was the Tigers and the Red Wings. The Red Wings going crazy. I think that ain't no urban shit. That ain't for us.

You feel me? You feel me? That shit be crap. That's for Jeff and them people. The Spanish crap. So, you have to chill the fuck out, man.

I'm trying to put you on today, bro. We got guests, bro. No, respect, respect. Now,

when did it start taking off for you though, bro? When did you feel like, damn, I'm damn near like a star for real now? Like,

you remember that moment where that special city you was in where you was like, damn, all these motherfuckers know my song and I ain't even know that.

I ain't really like, I ain't really, I don't think I had that moment yet, but I felt like it was taking off when Travis Scott just called me

out of nowhere and asked me to go on tour with him. Like, for the end of his tour. I'm like, damn, I get to perform

in stadiums. Offset on there too? No, offset tour was by itself. Okay. Offset on there too? No, Offset tour was by itself. Just me, Offset, and Sleazy World. Travis Scott had his own tour. I was wondering why he called me out of all niggas. Yeah, this shit going.

That's a big time artist. What's that feeling like, performing in a stadium? That shit crazy. I didn't hit, in high school, I didn't hit game winners. That shit give me that, I didn't hit like, in high school, I didn't hit game winners. Like, that shit like, give me that.

Like, you feel me? That rest like, when you walk in, you get butterflies like at the tip off. Like, you feel me?

Like, you know, every game, like, I don't care who you is. If you competitive, like every real game, you got that butterfly

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And hear how leaders like Anjali are carving out space and shaking things up a bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Are you really hooked? Yeah. Yeah, I'm for your own. You hooked for real. He threw that in there. Yeah, he hooked for real. They got his game winners. Yeah, I was about to say, I got hooked. Yeah. Yeah, you on for your own. You hooked for real. He threw that in there. Yeah, he hooked for real.

They got hit game winners. Yeah, I was about to say, I got one game winner. And they showed my real last episode. Y'all can run it back if y'all want. That's hard. Shout out to Kyrie. Yeah, shout out to Kyrie. But yeah, like you said, man, it's crazy how Detroit

showed love to its own. I saw, you know what I'm saying, you performed at the halftime. How was that feeling? You know what I'm saying? Until you grew up loving, like, all right, I'm going to you performed at the halftime. How was that feeling, to know what I'm saying, until you grew up loving, like, all right, I'm going to make the attraction today? That shit was cool.

But, you know, like, them crowds be kind of... They don't be doing shit. Like, I did. I had to jump in the bleacher door type of shit to make them yell and that bitch like...

That shit be cool. You feel me? But especially on the losing team, that shit don't really feel... Damn. Like, you feel me? Yeah. If we was, like, if we was, like, winning, it that shit don't really feel like, you feel me? Yeah. If we was like, if we was like winning, it'd be cool. But like, I ain't gonna lie, like,

this basketball right now, basketball ain't like early 2000s. So unless you like on a winning team, you got Winby or Jokers, the stadiums not even feel like this shit. That shit be weak to me. Nah, I like old, old basketball better than the new basketball, even though a lot of these niggas be really skilled. But these niggas don't play defense or nothing. This nigga real hooper. Nah, real hooper. Who's your favorite hooper?

Who's your favorite hooper? My favorite hooper was Kobe. But, like, I'm a Kyrie fan. I'm a Steph fan. How's the game? Like, older niggas. I like Tim Duncan, KG. I like the Rondo for a minute.

Like, you feel me? Shout out to Rondo. Rondo. And you know what's crazy is, I ain't gonna lie, you was one of my favorite niggas out of college like ever. Like way before. Oh man, I appreciate that. I ain't gonna lie.

Like, I used to, I really thought you was gonna be like the best point guard in the league I swear to God I let you down fuck you let me down no I'm just saying

like how you was going like nigga floater crazy mid range crazy I ain't gonna lie like

I me I thought you should've went top 10 I think you went 19 yeah I hurt it's cool though but I appreciate that for sure I thought you should've went top 10 I think you went 19 yeah that got hurt it's cool though but I appreciate that

for sure yeah I thought you should've went top 10 I appreciate that no stopping going it was crazy he couldn't stay out of Cheetah he was in the strip club

and shit playing it crazy he had a hell of a balance who was he bro he had a hell of a balance no you know I love your career bro you were my favorite

nigga in the league you and Sheil you feel me but I had to Skilla didn't know he had a crazy package a bounce no you know I love your career bro you were my favorite nigga in the league you and Shell you feel me but I had to Skilla didn't know he had a crazy package though I ain't gonna lie your package was crazy

yeah yeah yeah no I'm talking about that's what we call it in Detroit my wife tell me that but it's true no hell no

I was just saying your game was crazy Skilla you can't show niggas little C how they do this right here was crazy nah how they do This right here Was crazy Nah he was cold

Nah for real Nah he was cold Because I feel like You ain't never come wide Like you was Stop go Boom boom Yeah

Damn That was real fundamental Wasn't it Nah he was He was That's respect Your crossover Look like Allen Iverson statue

Hell nah Why they do that to A.R. Bruh You see that The wide Like the wide Nah his statue They made for him in Philly What it look like Allen Iverson's statue? Hell no. Why they do that to A.I., bro? Did you see that? Dwight. Like Dwight. Nah, his statue they made for him in Philly. What it look like?

A trophy. Gary Coleman on that motherfucker with braids. It's like this big, bro. A statue. They should have put his ass outside that bitch bitch. It is. It's outside. It's this big.

It's this big, bro. Nah, real shit, bro. His Amy Petrofer bigger than his statue. They did him dirty, bro. He supposed to have the one like Kobe. I think the league hate A.I., though.

Like, some of the, like, I think not like the players, like, it just seem like they don't show him as much love as he supposed to get.

Yeah, he supposed to get. True. I feel like they don't really show my nigga love. That was my original favorite player. Me too.

A.I. My original favorite player. So, I think, like, that nigga should get major love. And you know what? I agree with that because a lot of times it had to take players to say, nah, A.I., for them to start, like, even embracing it. Because a lot of times they'd be like, damn, y'all going to skip over Allen Iverson?

Like, we just didn't see this? Like, we didn't live through this, bro? Nah, he was— Like, he was really one of the, like, small guards that I ever just seen, like, take over and take a team there by himself down there. Like, you feel me? Y'all facts. I just. Him and IT. What?

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, him and IT. Him and Isaiah. Yeah, I'll give you that. Both of them. Yeah. Who your favorite player now, though, in the league? I know you said you don't really fuck with the new niggas.

No, I fuck with the new niggas, I fuck with the new niggas but it just the league as a whole like it just like everybody scoring 50 and shit like I don't really respect it but like

Ja like Ja like he like that to me like he just give me excitement like that nigga

when that nigga show up it's just like that nigga like and his jumper not even like pure like

I like my favorite players but everything he just like, that nigga like, and his jumper not even like, pure like, I like my favorite players, but, nigga, everything he just, like his game, his competitiveness, like I like that. He got the AI,

Bob. Ant like, that nigga crazy. Yeah, Ant Cole. Ant Wicked. Yeah. Yeah,

Ant Wicked. Like, man, he talk shit. I like them type of niggas, like, you poppin' shit. You don't care who you is,

he poppin' shit at Brian. Like, he, that's the type of niggas. Like, you popping shit. You don't care who you is. He popping shit at Brian. Like, that's the type of niggas I like. You feel me, son? If you had to compare your game, who you say you would play like? Good question, bro. I'm more of a... I ain't going to lie. I don't know.

Like, I'm more of a... I would say, like... A true holiday type nigga. I ain't going to say, like... Oh, that's solid. No, I'm like, I play defense. I get the ball nigga. I ain't going to say like. Oh, that's solid. No, I'm like, I play defense. I get the ball around. I can knock down shots.

Like, I ain't going to say I'm not athletic at all. I just got good IQ. Like, pass the ball. I'll get it there. That's respect. He said he was a stretch four. Yeah, I was the first stretch four. That nigga 5'8".

You run the pick? Hey, he got to run a pick and roll. No, no. He's moving the forces. Wait, no. Me and Skillet pick and pop.

Hey, Dasty. Hey, motherfucking Sada, go set another screen. Go set the damn screen. You put Sada in the corner. Sada Bruce Moore. Shout out to my nigga. That's a movie like that.

You knocking that down, though. I'll have to pick and pop. You knocking that down. I'm knocking that down. 15-footer. Hila Marcus-Audrey's off the pick and pop you knocking that down I'm knocking that down 15 footer Hila Marcus Aldridge off the pick and pop Chris Webber

Chris on the court not off the court I'm a player don't be Chris Webber in the with the time out I'm just hitting y'all by call

I ain't gonna lie I think that's why they wanted to take they shit away that is bro I agree. He freaked out. They started looking at all that type of shit on Chris Rivers.

Hey, man, and that's crazy. It took all until last year for all of them to go back to campus, just for Jawan Howard to get off campus. That's crazy. That's a big part of black culture history and Michigan history, period. Like the Fab Five, bro. The Fab Five. But niggas was mad at him for that, bro.

He was bogus for that. Calling the time out. But that time out was crazy. Come on, bro. He forgot, bro. It's pressure, bro. That time out was crazy, though. It was crazy, but it's pressure, bro.

He just forgot. I ain't going to lie. Like, when you, like, in the culture like that, and you popping it like that, and you're all supposed to be the Fab Five. Come on, Skilla. And you don't know like, like. In the heat of the moment.

That pressure different, bro. And he a coach now. That's false. That's pressure different, bro. False. But like. I'm agreeing with Skilla. Bro, you fucked up a moment, bro.

He did, but that pressure was different, bro. And they was playing Carolina. It ain't like they was playing some bums, though. All right, bro. That ain't no reason why a nigga call a timeout. Nigga don't care

if he was playing Pike. You got to know what's going on in the game for sure. I was going to ask you, Coach, if your kids did that in the game. Thank you, DJ. That's your timeout. I know I'm sure you would probably be a little hot. I ain't going to even yell at them. It's just a mistake, bro.

I'm going to tell them after timeout. Like, we don't got no more. You the best player on the team, though. I mean, he was. You the best player on the team. He was getting paid. All that shit was going through his head. Oh, though. I mean, he was the best tagger on the team. He was fucked up. He was getting paid. All that shit

was going through his head. Oh, no. I'm supposed to get 50,000 after this. Nigga, he's thinking about the 50,000. He forgot ain't no more timeouts.

Oh, that 50,000 definitely wouldn't have when he called that timeout. We might give you 10. I'm glad I did, but shit, he was fucked up. Respect. I wanted to ask you, like, when you started rapping,

like, who was somebody that you grew up, like, listening to that made you want to rap? Lil Wayne. Yeah. Lil Wayne, my greatest rapper of all time. Meek Mill, he made me want to rap. That's interesting. Like, them type of niggas made me want to rap for real, for real.

Like, I ain't going to lie. It just, I felt like, like, everything them niggas was saying just touched, like, young niggas, I felt like. Yeah, I fucked with Wayne heavy growing up. That's all we used to play with, like, 06, 07. What's your favorite Wayne tape? I'm a mixtape Wayne nigga. Yeah.

But, like. No Sillin'. No Sillin' gotta be my favorite, but I don't really like how Wayne perform now. He be performing all the commercial shit. Like, when he came to Detroit, niggas want to hear all that No Sillin' shit, the drought shit, like all that.

Drought 3. Niggas want to hear all that. Like, I don't think he realized niggas really fancy you. yo, yo, yo, mixtape days,

like, it was crazy. Yeah. I think he should have a different playlist for his city. Like, nigga,

if you in Salt Lake City. Play, play lollipop. Yeah, play lollipop, bro. But if you in Detroit, bro, go ahead and run that swag surf. For sure.

Freestyles. Man. The likes to sing word for word with you. The likes of me coming back on made me want to spin the draw three again. Because that was one of the hardest Wayne. The I Can't Feel My Face freestyle is one of the hardest Wayne freestyles. So y'all got Wayne that's having the greatest mixtape run in Redditor. Yeah, yeah.

Him and Gucci. Like, I feel like him and Gucci just, this mixtape run in rap history. Yeah, yeah. Him and Gucci. Like, I feel like him and Gucci just, those mixtape kings, like, you can't even. Yeah. What? Gucci got 5,000 mixtapes. Gucci got some classics, though, too, out of them tapes, too. The movie.

Classics out them mixtapes. The movie is hard. It's one of them ones. The best mixtape, though, is Trapper Dye. Jeezy is mixtape. The Gays or Girls? Come on, bro. I'm older, though. Trap or Die was there.

I ain't gonna lie. Jeezy come to Detroit like four times a year. Like, niggas love that. He come about three here. He make a stop. He go, one, two, three, four. Three here.

And I go every time. Swear to God, they go every time. And that's why, like, it's dope to see you, like, get to that level because the Midwest, especially in that,

when we fuck with somebody here, we fuck with you for life. Like, we just talking off camera. Bootsy and Webby, you got a show in that for the rest of your life, dog. Bootsy and Webby come here. I swear to God,

they book me all the time. Nah, you good for life. You good. You got a bag here forever. You in here, you won. We ain't just saying that because you here and all that. Because we don't say that

to everybody, bro. You straightening. They be fucking with me. If you ever need a little quick, you hear me? I ain't just saying that because you're here and all that. Because we don't say that to everybody, bro. You're straightening. Maybe fuck with me. If you ever need a little quick, you hear me? I ain't going to lie. Let's go. Christmas on the way, my nigga.

Pull up. I was so surprised coming here because I thought it was going to be super country. This shit be gone when I come here.

Y'all got pretty shit. Pretty yeah, yeah. Pretty shit here. Pretty seats. I ain't going to lie. You hear me? got pretty shit. Pretty, yeah, yeah. Pretty C. I ain't gonna lie. You hear me? The pretty C. You got chill, man. She gonna be on my head when I get home, man.

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And he called me about all the rappers. Shout out to Matt. They know me. I listen to everything 07 and down. I'm like stuck in the 90s or some shit. I don't know. And he was like, nah, Unc, this the one. This the one.

He kept playing your song. And he came over to my house. I got a little party at my crib all the time. He kept playing your shit. He was like, yeah. And then the first time you came here, he wasn't even old enough. I snuck him in.

And then today, he like, Un-huh, where the tickets at? Say, nigga, damn. Bitch, I think about something. You got a job? That shit, man. Malcolm is your day one fan, for sure. Malcolm's my boy. He was in Miami.

Come on, bro. He was on. Yeah, he was on. He was on real day ones, for sure. Shout out to your nephew. Shout out to your nephew. He about to be geek. He about to post this on Instagram.

Go on, say, shout out to Malcolm. Malcolm is his name. Shout out to my boy, Malcolm. We locked it for life. You know that. Go on, say, shout out to what Malcolm is his name. Shout out to my boy Malcolm. We locked it for life. For sure, for sure. He about to clip it up like crazy. Man, he about to show everybody this 12 times. For sure.

Look, obviously, we know what I'm saying. You get into it, you on the road. What's been some of your favorite cities, your favorite moments, like being on stage or like even just the process

of going city to city? I mean, New York, my favorite city. Okay. I just like how they move down there. Dress lingo, be crazy. I love the Spanish culture. I love like they got multicultural though.

Yeah. They got the Jamaicans down there, the Dominicans. I just love how they multicultural. My second favorite city had to be New Orleans. Great city. I love, like, performing. I like Indiana. I like Midwest

because they just know me more. Like, it's just, but the East Coast starting to know me. I'm trying to get, I like, I like the country shit, but, like,

like, down south and shit, but they ain't really familiar with me right now, so I don't really know how to move through the country. Like, I ain't never ain't never been to Alabama and all that shit. Or East Coast and Midwest though. I be loving that shit. Rob Markman You got to go to Washington Heights in New York. You ever been out there?

Lil Yachty Oh, you talking about where all the Dominicans and shit at? Rob Markman I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Lil Yachty Going this summer. Rob Markman Just take a ride through there, man. Lil Yachty Pretty C's. Rob Markman I'm going. Pretty C's. They told me to though. Lil Yachty I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Rob Markman I'm just saying. Lil Yachty I'm just saying. Rob Markman I'm just saying. Going this summer. Just take a ride through there, man.

Pretty seas. I'm going. Pretty seas. They told me to, though. But I'll always be going in the winter. I got to go in the summer. I want to go to one of them Dykeman games, though. Yeah, you go in the summer, huh?

I ain't going no more, but I used to go. You ain't never played at Dykeman? Yeah, I was supposed to play. Didn't make it. I got caught with one of them. There you are. DNP. I was supposed to show up to the game.

One of them seeds. It was a bad game. It was a good time, man. Thought that was supposed to be the best point guard in the league. I told you. Oh, he is with the keys. I was young, man. Pretty safe. I thought that was in the wrap, Nasty guard in the league. I told you. Oh, he is with the keys. I was yelling, man. Pretty safe.

I thought that didn't wrap, Nasty. I ain't going to lie, though. Like, I ain't going to lie. Like, I ain't just saying that because I'm here. I used to watch the Wake Forest games. Like, I was really awesome. I'm a Chris Paul fan, but I think you're the best thing that came through Wake Forest. I agree, bro.

Wholeheartedly. I fuck with CP, too. I fuck with CP. My nigga was better than CP at Wake. Ooh, okay. For sure. For sure. For sure.

Because, like, I think so. I'm rolling. Because I think, like, at Wake, like, CP, like, I just felt like even in the beginning of his career, like, he wasn't scoring that bitch like you. Nah, he wasn't scoring that like you like you want to score like he wasn't that's why you could i feel like he was better than him because at wake though because that he was scoring that like he was scoring that at a high clip for sure was scoring that yeah i was a scorer man nba would take that from you but they'll strip you of your powers man don't even worry about it yo NBA stories

we having me through when you was talking about pushing Brian that shit was crazy that boy had death threats from pushing Brian man I still get

them death threats that's why your career is over I'm like it's cool brother you got it my dog that's crazy as hell I gotta ask you

how was it the first time you heard your song on the radio? The radio, that shit was crazy. I ain't gonna lie. Because you go so long chasing it, you'll be chasing it, and you'll be like, man, I can't not go outside without hearing my shit. That shit, that shit, just that feeling just be crazy, even though, because radio still mean a lot. People try to downplay it, but it's still people get in the car and listen to that shit.

So it's like, when you hear that shit, especially when I be in different regions and shit, I be like, damn, that kind of crazy that they, because I still be trying to move like I'm regular and shit. So when I be hearing that shit, it just be like, I be trying to move like i'm regular and so when i be hearing that and just be like i'll be trying to be humble but i'll be like damn this really crazy like you know because you gotta think just like going to the league it's it's even more trying to rap and like that like go to the studio not like like that like everybody make a song hell yeah and then even for you like like you said, to hear your stuff, especially in the city,

you coming from a place where a lot of people were getting in the rap scene, but now, like, now you creaming the crop. But like you said, your shit going crazy. Like, we was talking about the TikTok shit, like, not even to be funny, but like, for you to have the anthem that women want to get dressed to, or for them to have the songs that they want to put their content to, well, that's major. And people trying to downplay radio, that's major. And people try to downplay radio.

That's for people who can't get on the radio. If you want to get on the radio, you have to want to. And if you can get that shit on there, you stay. And that's like we was talking about joking with the nap shows. You come to nap, you good. You good for life. Once you get that consistent radio play, now you got new audiences, bro. It's up. Nah, your song,

I ain't gonna lie, I hear that motherfucker every day. And never mad at it. Every day. I'm it. I ain't going to lie. I hear that motherfucker every day. And never mad at it. Every day. I'm like, I ain't never mad at it. I'm like, damn. Especially one of the homies, one of our podcasts, the girl podcast. Oh, that's they shit.

Oh, that's they shit. For sure, for sure. They be banging that motherfucker. I'm like, they be getting ready for they show playing. I'm like, hey, man, turn that shit down. But they go crazy. How'd that collab with you and Carisha come about? Oh, that shit, shit.

I be working on. I love her. I be, for one, sizzle my mans. Like, that's my homeboy. So I be working on music with her. Like, you feel me? Yeah. So I was really just working on her music at first with her,

but then I just, they wanted me to play her a record, so I'm like, I'm going to just play this for you. I just had a hook on it. I really didn't like the song. All the girls, like, I don't really be listening to that. Like, that ain't really my type of shit. But they wanted me to play her that, so I played it for her, and she liked it.

So she put her shit on there. And then that's just how that happened. Got a hit, bro. I fuck with that. How that shit feel though when you only think it's a hit? It's really like a throwaway to you. It's just some shit I was doing. And then that shit.

That shit be crazy because you really bust your own bubbles. You feel me? And you just try some shit. The shit that you think going to go really don't be going. That shit be blowing my mind. Like, I ain't gonna lie. That shit just be weird.

Like, how it go, like, I ain't gonna lie. For sure. If it's an artist that you could have on a song that you haven't got yet, who are some of them artists you would like to collab with? Lil Wayne. We gotta have that Weezy song, bro. What's up? Yeah, yeah.

My dream feature, Anita Baker, though. That's my favorite artist of all time. That makes sense why you like Wayne, too. Yeah. Like rappers, I can do music with rappers now. That should be easy. But I just want to work with all the old school artists for real that I grew up listening to.

Like my daddy was older, so I listened to all the old shit. So I love to work with 50 Cent and niggas like that. Like that shit was, I didn't get richer. I tried one of my favorite. Oh yeah, Elite. For sure. Yeah. And another thing I got to give you credit on,

and I love that YouTube gives us these moments, music videos, the content, like niggas still watch music videos all day on YouTube. Yeah. And y'all should be fired. And I appreciate that. Because a lot of people don't even be taking the time to even do that shit no more.

I just did a video with DaBaby, and he just opened my, I think he one of the most creative people ever. Like he just opened my eyes on like how that shit really go. Like, and he just take his time, spend a lot of money on his videos and make sure everything right. And that just made me appreciate the process so much more because I've learned so much just being around him and that shit just was cool to me. Like how he take his time and he really hands on and made me time and he really hands on

and made me want to be more hands on with it yeah he got the best videos in the game he be directing them too right yeah I ain't gonna hold you

he was wanting to put me on the baby a long time ago like beforehand and even with the music being different his creative side is crazy that nigga is gonna be around he can just be on some

Hype Williams shit for the rest of his career if he wants to yeah I put niggas on 21 21 the baby was crazy for sure for sure when he had the diaper on yeah that was that was South by Southwest but when he dropped his career if he wants to. Yeah, I put in his own 21. 21, the baby was crazy. For sure, for sure.

When he had the diaper on. Yeah, that was South by Southwest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when he dropped that 21 tape. I was there when he did that. For real? Mm-hmm.

Yeah, that was, I was promoted, bro. That's some promotion for real. But that made me listen to his shit, though. You feel me? My people, we was out there and I seen that shit.

I tapped in. He was walking down the street like 50 deep, diaper on. Yeah. I seen him. DMX was down there, too. DMX was walking seen that shit, I tapped in. He was walking down the street like 50 deep, diaper on. I seen him, DMX was down there too. DMX was walking around that bitch like he was normal. I'm like,

this nigga DMX just walking around this bitch normal. That's everybody down there. Nah, for sure. For sure. Man, we know you gotta get to a show.

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