No Jumper - 500raxx on Turning Down Labels, Working with Tyga, Love Life & More

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

500raxx is going up!! She talks about Tyga, PNB Rock, Kalan.FrFr being one of her biggest inspirations, and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 500raxx on putting together her debut album and talks features...4:40 500raxx on her first time ever making a song in high school because she liked someone and didn't know how to tell them 6:35 Gina exposes 500raxx's first artist name "Camille" 8:40 500raxx talks transferring to a lot of high schools  11:20 500raxx on her first song under her new artist name and what made her decide to choose 500raxx as her artist name 13:02 500raxx on how the collab with Tyga came about and what the studio sessions was like 16:50 500raxx speaks on working with PnB Rock and possibly having the last music video with him 19:45 500raxx on Kalan.FrFr being one of her biggest inspirations and really being a huge fan of his 22:47 Gina asks 500raxx if the girl who used to work at Panera Bread knew she would get all of these features 24:50 What is it going to take for 500raxx to take a deal from a label? 26:50 500raxx on what she learned from all of these label meetings 28:29 500raxx on putting T-Pain on the remix of "Dump Truck" if Tyga wasn't on it and her thoughts on how "autotune f*cked up the game" 30:48 500raxx on if any men in the industry have made "offers" to further her career 38:05 500raxx reacts to getting booked for Rolling Loud for the first time ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's the deal? No Jumper. Coolest podcast in the world. It's your girl Gina views almighty suspect. And we got that beautiful 500 wrecks in the building. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Five hundred racks, man. It's a boy. I'm just right. I'm barely misses right now. Yeah. How are you feeling today? I'm good, bro. I'm nervous. I'm glad to be here, bro. I appreciate y'all. You nervous? Let me tell you a secret. I'm nervous, too.
Starting point is 00:00:25 I have a little anxiety attack. First three minutes of the interview, but it eventually goes, way. Yeah, I'm hoping for that to ease all. Y'all, y'all hope you're hoping for, I'm hoping for, to settle in like, what's that? You feel me slouching that motherfucking little bit. I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. Take your shoes off. I know, it's cold as a bitch in here. I got on layers. What's going on? It's 500 racks. I'm good, bro. I've been chilling, man. I've been getting this project together. I've been trying to really make it a masterpiece, man. Every time I think it's done, I go back like, no, that's not it. So you're a perfectionist.
Starting point is 00:01:00 That exactly when it comes to the music. At first I used to, I mean, I still make it just because I like it. You know what I'm saying? But now it's like since everybody else is listening to it. I'm like, I got the critics that's really, you feel me? Like, all right, let me just get up in this bitch for real, for it. Can you, are you able to tell us who on the project? Yeah, I got P&B on there.
Starting point is 00:01:21 I got 70s on there. That's my shit, y'all. That P&B track. That's far. I got that. Yeah, IP. A big P&B, man. P&B, we got SETI Hendricks.
Starting point is 00:01:35 I'm trying to get Kaelan up on there like that in. I'm trying to get Blue Books on there like that in. Really, that's it. It's my debut album. And it's just, you feel, me it's about to be a masterpiece that I could tell you for sure. Can we get a name or are we doing too much? Yeah, that's not supposed to say we got a title? Yeah, I'm about, I'm, damn.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Y'all got through the first time I get a title. Come on. No jumper. Nothing about that. Yeah, bro, it's called based off emotions. Based off emotions because that's really what it is. And I'm really good for putting down exactly what I meant to say or exactly how I feel when I say that.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Like when you hear a song that is that, you're going to know that that's that like that. Like, what you mean by that? Because I said what the fuck I meant. Like, you feel that shit. You just, you're going to feel that shit. It's each one, whether it's a vibe or it's like I'm in my feelings, you're going to feel that shit.
Starting point is 00:02:29 You're going to feel that shit. You're going to feel that shit. and you still go through that shit. Well, let's do some time traveling. I want to go back. I want to talk about your upbringing. What was it like for you growing up? I grew up on the East Side of Compton.
Starting point is 00:02:44 It was real. I didn't grow up like poor, poor. But, you know, the regular, like, I had enough. I got into a bunch of different shit. Like, you know, everything a regular kid does, yeah. I got into music early. My mom put me in the choir. She was trying to make sure that.
Starting point is 00:03:05 My mom got mixed in. My mom's Mexican and my dad's black. So she was trying to make sure that we were as culturally involved in everything as much as possible. And she knew that church was one of the ways that people did that or our people did that. So every time we went somewhere, she put us in the course. She put me in the choir. You got siblings? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:22 I got two sisters, three brothers. I mean, three sisters, two brothers. Okay. What's the order? Which one are you? Oldest, youngish? Middle child. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:31 Yeah, the black sheep, the show, when you're seeing me to saw, you're going to be like, oh, that's the one. Did you go to a Hispanic church or a black church? I've gone to both. I was in all the call. Every time I went to one, it wasn't quite regardless, but I've gone to Hispanic churches and black churches. Yeah, I resonated more with the black churches, but only because they got the gospel music, for real, for real. Really touch your soul in there. Oh, yeah, sometimes I was going to say a bad word, but you feel, you know.
Starting point is 00:04:00 Does the Mexican background in that culture, has that had any influence on your music? Not yet, but I'm definitely want to incorporate it eventually. I'm not, unfortunately, I'm not fluent in Spanish. I was going to ask, you speak Spanish to learn. I do enough to get by for show, and I can hold a conversation, but I can't get, like, not a passionate conversation, unfortunately, but I'm still looking to make that possible. You could get there. I'm young enough.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Little rosetta stone. Yeah, I got the apps and everything. I still, you feel, you trying to talk to my grandparents. I'd be telling my mom, like, some days I'll just wake up, like, just talk to me in Spanish today. So you can soak some game. Mm-hmm. I feel that. Did you know that you were going to become a musician, or were you just in the choir just for fun?
Starting point is 00:04:43 No, I didn't know I was going to become a musician. But when I was in the choir, I was like, I could do this for real. Like, everybody was playing. One, I don't play with the Lord, too. I was just good at it. So I just, you feel me, I wasn't about to, if I'm good at, I'm not about to play with it. So I was just good at it. And, no, I didn't know.
Starting point is 00:04:59 The first time I ever made a song was, the first time I ever made a song was because I like this person and I didn't know how to tell him that I liked them. Aw, it was a love song. What age was this? Aw. Aw. No. He was like, so everybody, I made it. What age?
Starting point is 00:05:20 I was a freshman in high school, so 13, turning 14. Yeah. I made a song. It felt, something told me. me like I heard it like make a song so I made a song and it was actually cool the experience was cool like I said exactly what I meant how I felt like how I felt uh everybody liked that shit except for that person like it was like why would you make this I don't like you like where that nigga how that make you feel in my DMs like a mark that man fuck that nigga and she
Starting point is 00:05:54 joker nigga you saw to you should have liked the song big big 500 wrecks nigga Yeah. So how do they make you feel when he didn't like the song? It for sure threw me off, because that's the only reason I made that shit, but everything, like, the reaction that I got from everybody else, and then how, like, the process was, like, the whole time making it, I was, like, I was interested, and it takes a lot, it don't take a lot to get me, for me to take interest in something, but I got to, if I don't,
Starting point is 00:06:26 if I don't like it, I'm not going to do it. And I was really, like, the whole time. I was in it. I was like, it was like therapy for you. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it was. You used to go by Camille.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Oh my God. I'll throw up right now. Oh, shit. Yeah. You used to go by Camille. You see me? This is what I do. You just get.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Fire. At what point did you make the change? The fuck. That's the song, too. That's the song. Did you play the song? I know everything. She's with the Norwar.
Starting point is 00:07:06 We know it all. You with the what? That's the narwar where he just pull out some shit from your history. I'm not fucking with you, Gina, because I don't heard about Nordwar. Put it out. I'm not fucking. I might have some more shit in my hat. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:18 I'm just fucking with you. But at what point did you make the decision to go from Camille to 500 racks? Oh, that shit really just knocked my fucking. Top off that you knew that. I didn't know. When I, when I, the first time, that was the first time I ever made a song and the only song that is under that name. Damn, okay.
Starting point is 00:07:44 I'm gonna tell you. Say it. Tell us. Come on. All right. Well, so, Camel is my middle name. That's really, that's all, that's all that. So I went with that.
Starting point is 00:07:55 I, I've never wanted my, my, my actual government, like my, my, my actual government, like, my first government name to relate to or have any part, like have anything to do with my alternative ego or my other life because it's just like, this is the music, I was using that to escape that. So, but I didn't know what to go by, nobody knew I was making music. It was the only song going up, like, so I was like,
Starting point is 00:08:19 I just went with Camille. And then I left that alone. Then after a while, I tried sports, I'm asked. What sport? Would you not hand coordinated? I'm assed basketball, tried soccer, I'm ass. I was decent at tennis. I did tennis for a minute.
Starting point is 00:08:40 Can you double that? Was this in high school or like teams? Where was you doing it at? Like you was going to like parks or you were playing for the schools? I went to a fuckload of high schools, bro. It's so unfortunate. I didn't even get to go to prom. I went to, I went to my first high school ever was Cabrillo.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Then I went to Polly. Long Beach. Yeah. then I went to this charter school in Compton. Then I went to this real small school in Linwood that was primarily Mexican. It's called Fireball. And I went to
Starting point is 00:09:12 I graduated from a continuation school. It's nothing wrong with that, but I just knew I wasn't supposed to be there. Like, every day I went there, like, you just, you better than this. Not that I was better than them, it was like, you know, when you know that you better, you feel, I mean, just do better when you know. In the situation? Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:09:27 So you was like Gus from recess. Just going around, going on all different schools. Why was you going to different schools? Was you moving around or was you bad? Like, what was it? I was about to give you a funny answer. No, I started off in Long Beach because it was just convenient for my mom. She worked in Long Beach at the time.
Starting point is 00:09:45 And I was supposed to go to Poly first, but I was an overclosed student. When you were an overflow student, they just got too many students at the time. So they send you to one of their local schools. Sister school? Yeah, and I got sent to Cabrillo. And I got into the desk. I got into a lot of shit that I was stupidly. Everybody's like, you know how everybody's like, oh, college or your experimental years?
Starting point is 00:10:07 I was like, yeah, high school, I just feel like that's that for me. Yeah, I agree. So I got into just some stupid shit. And then luckily, Polly just called back at a good time, so second semester is when I went to Polly. Second semester is when I went to Polly. Polly was, I didn't like Polly. I don't give a fuck. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:26 I didn't like Polly. I didn't fuck with Polly. They're moving around a lot affect your friendship growing up. Yeah, I don't, yeah. But then I always chose, I always chose the wrong people with friends anyway. Like, I always chose people that, that did what they wanted to do, but were funny as fuck. Like, so I was just with them because they was funny as fuck, or, like, or they were smart, but we're smart and, like, fucking street smart. Like, what do I need to know street smart?
Starting point is 00:10:56 I mean, like, you do need to be street smart. you need to be equally street smart as you are book smart but it's just like I'm in fucking I'm 13 right now bro and I don't get into no shit like right you basically just hanging with the raw crowd just trying to find yourself like we all are at that age you're trying to find yourself
Starting point is 00:11:11 I was also using school as an outlet too before the music like I just went to get away from home or from it like just I didn't you feel me but when I did my shit I did my shit but when I didn't feel like I just didn't do it okay so so when you changed your name to 500 racks what was the first song? It's called for me Is it still out?
Starting point is 00:11:34 Hell yeah. All right, all right, all right. That's it actually slap. So when you get your first song, what made you pick 500 racks? Again, I didn't want my name to be involved in any way like, Camille's one in a fucking middle. Yeah, no.
Starting point is 00:11:51 I've been thinking about changing. I've been thinking about changing my name too. Yeah, so I was just on, I went, I was looking for, I didn't know what to, I didn't know how people chose their names. I just, none of my nicknames was going to be that shit either because, no. So I went on Instagram just looking at different handles and, you know how sometimes the handle could look cool. Like that shit looked like that shit. So I found this, it was this person.
Starting point is 00:12:18 That's not the date. The Instagram don't even exist anymore. So I'm going to just say that shit. It was, the Instagram was 100 racks. And I was like, the handle look cool. But I'm about to up you a couple numbers and I'm about to up you a couple of numbers. So, like, so. I just toast five and it stuck.
Starting point is 00:12:34 This whole time I thought that was your feature price. You. Oh, when I... No, look, look. Because, so, this is when I got introduced to you. I was hosting an event that Cypress and Rose Cranesvic was throwing. And you performed with... You came out...
Starting point is 00:12:49 You came out with a group of, like, younger kids. I think... NCB and Benji? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Them niggins is harder! When I... So that night, I found...
Starting point is 00:13:00 That was crazy. But that's what I did when y'all performed. So I'm like, oh, my God, they're fucking stars. And then I found out how young you guys were. So I didn't even know at that time. I didn't know you guys were up and coming artists at that time. In my mind, y'all already on. The way y'all just came out, the music that, like, it was just literally fucking remarkable.
Starting point is 00:13:24 And I just knew right there. I'm like, oh, yeah, they're fucking, they're out of here. They're out of here. I say that all the time. She's so she's hella famous already. She's famous. You sound like she's hella famous already. It sounds like you've been doing music for a while.
Starting point is 00:13:34 Like, or you take a lot of time to perfect your craft, either or. Or both. I appreciate that. Yeah, we all appreciate that. Like, the whole, the style, the, the fucking name. Everything is just already just, it just, it's out of there. I know I'm in a presence of greatness. Yeah, for real, for sure.
Starting point is 00:13:54 So, fast forward. At some point, you link up with Tiger. Yeah. How did that try? transpire. Tiger just hit me. Like, he just hit me, he just DM me. But, and that's super late, bro.
Starting point is 00:14:10 He's, he's still, I still be DMing him hitting them up to that. I brought, I still appreciate you. That's like that's a big stamp. Shout to me. Yeah, sometimes he'll like the message. Sometimes, you feel me, he'll get back at me, you know, that's still, you feel me. But you feel me, we live different lives. But he's still super dope for that.
Starting point is 00:14:24 But he hit me. And around the time he hit me, first of all, I send everybody to my manager. He likes what his coach, him. But when he hit me around that time, it was a bunch of artists or a bunch of shit going around about bigger artists, DMing people and, like, getting their account. Scamina. Yeah, like, so I'm like, you're not about to get me. So you thought it was fake.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Yeah, I was like, I was being polite, but I straight up told him like, yeah, you can hit my manager though. You said it just like that. You're not about to scare me, Tiger, like, I'm not playing with you. I'm not going for nothing of that shit. Oh, you know what to scare me if it's real hit my manager and he did. And he told me about it. So, yeah. He probably thought you was those boozy shit, huh?
Starting point is 00:15:04 I was hoping if it was him, he wouldn't think that, though. Yeah. Because I'm not, you see me, I'm not like that, but you're going to hit my manager if it's real, though. Yeah, so, yeah, you hit me. Then he hit E, and then, yeah, we came to the studio. He already, when we walked in, he already had his verse laid out. Definitely did what Tiger did. Like, that's a, you know, that's a solid Tiger verse.
Starting point is 00:15:29 That's just his thing. He said my name in it, you know, I was hype. Like. That's fine. And he's the remix. Mm-hmm. So how long was the song out before Tiger Hopped on it? Or like a year?
Starting point is 00:15:40 Did he tell you how he heard about it? I believe. You remember? He did, but I don't remember. I don't remember. It's all good. I'm just out here like that for real. She said I'm doing big shit.
Starting point is 00:15:54 I don't know how to talk about it. What was that session like, though? It was cool. Just Incredible came through. And that's a solid guy. I like Justin credible. I like Justin. He just dropped his mixtape or his volume three mixtape that's hard. Yeah, I'm on there go check that out. You know, it's like the vibe. I'm not asking real. Um, just yeah, and he was just, we was just getting to know each other for real.
Starting point is 00:16:25 I was highest shit though. I was high as fuck in that session, bro. I was like, I had to apologize to him and he was, I just had to apologize to him. I'm like, yeah, you feel me? You know, I'm straight and I appreciate you like for everything, but I'm, you know, I'm just high. And he was, He was like, no, it's all good. Like, it's all good. Then we had to, yeah. How much more y'all got in the vote? Or y'all just did that one?
Starting point is 00:16:46 We just did that one, but I'm sure if I hit him like, hey, Tyga, you feel me? Can we work this out? You got to get him on the album. On the album? You got to get him on the album. You'll listen to that? You'll fuck at that? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Tiger is very much underrated. And I feel like he doesn't get the credit he deserved for the history he makes when we are discussing West Coast. so I'm not mad at Tiger being on everybody of them I want to hear facts I think that was good and you said a little earlier you said that you got rest in peace of the grade you got P&B Rock on
Starting point is 00:17:19 on release how did that how did that transpire PNB hit me too yeah damn that's just so he was just such a kind spirit it just like fucks him off like it just fucks him all hearts and time
Starting point is 00:17:33 He just hit me too Like, you know, he was real, he was real, he kept his ears fresh. Like, he was up on all the new sounds. That's fire. And luckily I was one of them. So he just hit me and blessed me with the sound. I used to listen to Broan High School. I was like, hell, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Hell yeah. But yeah, we locked it in. I sent the, I, as soon as he hit me, not that I had something immediately, but I did. Like, I, like, I had the perfect, I knew, like, it's going to be a bad. Ask Almighty. That motherfucker slap, bro. I'm jealous. People online.
Starting point is 00:18:10 Like, he didn't post this. Like, he was so excited to drop that shit, bro. He didn't post it. Bro. How long ago did you all make the track? I think I was in New York. Was I in New York when I made it? Like, that was a year ago, too.
Starting point is 00:18:23 Like, a year ago. Like, a year and some change, maybe. How long have taken them sent it back? Maybe, like, two weeks. Fire. So it was like an email thing, or did you ever get to connect? No, I, or yeah, he gave me his number and hit him. Oh, so y'all never met.
Starting point is 00:18:43 No, we shot the video. We got together. Oh, it's a video. Yeah. She's just so modest. Oh, yeah, so you know that. Hey, that's Gina. When I tell you, that's my shit, I play that shit every day.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Yeah, he sent me a video. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I shared it with, bro. He sent me a video singer. Like, he had this stink race and everything. I'm telling you, you're going to film me. Like even if you're not, even if you're not in your feelings, you're going to sing that motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Like you're in your feelings. I'm telling you, like, you're going to feel me. That's the going to. And you said this was last year. Hmm? You said this was last year? Yeah. So you could have one of the probably, like, latest videos that he didn't do.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Yeah. Wow. Bro. Are we getting it? Are we going to get it? Are we going to get it? Are we going to get it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:31 It's going to come? Because, you know, you know, label shit when people are, you know, when they leave, it get a little complicated. I was just asking for the fans at home, is it a chance that it's going to come out eventually? Yeah, by the grace of God it's going to get worked out. Fire. Absolutely. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Okay, and then I heard that, you know, back in the day, you wasn't. And she said, wait, what you're going to come with? She got nervous. Back in the day. Oh, no, fuck it with you. Stop fucking with me. Talk to me.
Starting point is 00:20:08 One of your biggest inspirations was Kaylin, for real, for real. Yeah. And you ended up tapping in. Y'all ended up doing something to give me. Bro, when I took, when I, first of all, first of all, I hate that people really take, like, people get so weird about people being, like, being called a fan as an insult. Like, nigga, that's what we make music for. Like, get out the, get up, get up what I want to think.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Yeah. But I'm really a fan. Like, I'm really a, I'm really a fan. He's just, he's the whole, that's a talented guy, bro. So, super cool and humble too. Yes, yes, that he is. I was super geeked. He was just, he's just real fresh, but he's, you know, he's older than I am.
Starting point is 00:20:47 So his music comes with more of it. So he talks about what I've been through, what I'm going to go through. He talks about what he has, what I want to have, what I'm, you from me, what I'm going to have. And then, you know, every other experience with experience, like, that's dope. And how he does it is just my favorite. Like him, him and Eric Billinger top two, top two for sure. But I met him. I linked with Kalen through Setti Hendrick.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Settie Hendrix is really a solid guy too. That's really my guy. But he had a session with Kalen. And he knew that I was a fan. So he was like, just slide through. And when I went, oh, yeah, I seen that clip. They had a, that shit obviously was not about me, bro. But they said, 500 in the song.
Starting point is 00:21:33 And I got a snippet up and I'll put it on my Instagram, I'm geek this fuck like, ah! But that shit was hard. That's it like 30 seconds, though. If you really listen to it, it's going to be a good song. But, yeah, I met him. And the whole time I was there, I was letting bro know, like, or not the whole time.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Like, you feel me? I was obviously having a session. Like, I wasn't. Yeah. But, like, you're hard, bro. And it was like, no, you hard. I'm like, no, you hard. It was good.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Like, that's how it went. How you connect with SETI? I was also a fan of SETI before I met him. made a song and I was I put at that time none of my none of the guys listened to SETI and then I put them on then we was all listening a bro for a minute and I made a song and he was like man it'll be hard if you guys had a feature and I was like damn I didn't even think of that but then again I made the perfect track and then sent it off to him and it took it took a minute for it to get back but that's when he you know he didn't know me we didn't know of each other but luckily
Starting point is 00:22:34 he started he started the shit on live so i jumped in that bitch soon as it turned on you could see that he was like okay oh and i was like yeah that's that's let i fuck that so all these amazing things just happening yeah did the girl who used to work at prenara bread shut the fuck up how does she i'm but the a hey hitting her with the shit hey this is a real journalist this what she do nah Did nobody get a real. Journal. Nah.
Starting point is 00:23:09 Yeah. Did the girl that used to work out Panera bread ever imagine getting all these features? You are funny as fuck. Go ahead. Did you ever imagine getting all these features from these people?
Starting point is 00:23:23 I'm not going to lie. Kaylin walked into Panera one time. I was like, I don't know I'm going to see you again. I didn't say that to him. But when he walked in, I was like, oh my gosh, that's Kaylin, y'all. Everybody that was in there was like, who's Kaylin? I was like, he was like, excuse me.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Y'all got mail. I was like, y'all got you right here. Did you tell him this story? Kaylin? Yeah. I brushed it by him, but again, we was in the studio, so you, for me, it was like, like, real impasse. See, that would make me fucking cry.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Yeah, shit like that's some shit that would make me cry. Yeah. I've had a lot of those moments, bro. Like, I got, one time I got prophesied to, it got prophesied to me that, you know what I'm. Maryland tune with the Lord. But it got prophesied to me that I would go to New York. And before I even, that was before I did music, before I did all of that.
Starting point is 00:24:10 And as soon as I found out what New York was, I knew I was going to New, like, I'm so infatuated with New York, just the lifestyle, like the vibe, everybody's aesthetic, like the energy is just, it's cool, like the fast life. I feel like a movie when you go. Yeah, and then. I like the niggas. Fucking, Gina. I feel like I was in the movie.
Starting point is 00:24:28 The Brickland niggins. Yeah. I'm a fuck with it all. Anyway. though. Yeah, I knew I was going to go. But when he prophesied to me, I was just like, not like, I know, but like, I know. But he was like, no, it's for a reason.
Starting point is 00:24:46 No, like, that's when the label meeting started in this shit. Like, so I was like. Speaking of label meetings. Talk about it. Talk about it. Talk about it. I heard that you be getting these crazy, like. life-changing offers.
Starting point is 00:25:06 Yeah, man. I do. And you be turning them down. What is going to take for 500 racks to take a deal? It's going to take everything that makes sense, and then everything else I want after that. And nobody's really willing to do both. So sometimes the money might be right,
Starting point is 00:25:33 but then the terms behind it. Yeah, sometimes the terms might be right, but the money to low. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, and, um, Bro, when I tell you my manager is like the magic man, like he didn't work it out. Like I really would have had the best like nobody seeing me. Nobody's touching me.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Like that would have had the best deal of what, 2021? Mm-hmm. But then he said he didn't see. You feel me? I got put on to a couple things. We both learning a couple things like. And then the one thing he said to me that was that is obviously, it makes sense, but I was like, so, like, so, like, he was like, bro. You already worth a billion million dollars.
Starting point is 00:26:15 They're going to give you this right now. You're going to be playing with this same money at the end of this contract because that's what you sign it for. And it's like all that and I'm still going to be fighting for ownership. Like, no, just stay independent. Like, I'm straight. That's amazing. Even then, I'm trying to stay as independent as well.
Starting point is 00:26:33 You feel that? That's amazing. That speaks to your character because, like, somebody like, you know, other artists, they might just jump on it and think like, shit, I might miss my chance if I don't do this right here, take the sacrifice, but your faith is strong. You know that what you want is going to come.
Starting point is 00:26:49 That's amazing. That's a fact, yeah. She's believing herself. Mm-hmm. I can dig it. What do you learn, though? What have you learned by going to all these meetings? Because if you, I heard you to turn down a lot of meetings.
Starting point is 00:27:03 So it's some shit you might, you're probably able to write a contract by this sign. Unfortunately not. But you tell me, if I get with my manager, you know what's cap you know get that shit up you know what's cap you know it sounds good and you know it's it ain't yeah and you can see what's cap because I feel like Elijah makes it a good like makes it a good but like I'm like at some point we're gonna have to meet like I'm not about to sign off something
Starting point is 00:27:27 or just okay something or just like yeah at some point we're gonna have to meet if I don't like your I'm real big on that too like if I don't like your energy I'm not fucking with you if I don't like the I'm not fucking with you like I'm you feel it when you're walking around right yeah like Yeah. I'm already, we've been in conversation for two minutes now. If I'm still unsettled or like feeling like you, you're trying to kiss my ass real hard.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Or like, you, you, I didn't, been, and I've been in meetings that was set up. Like, we didn't even know it. We thought we were going to go chill and they bust out, like, contract. Like, what is you? Hold on. Invite you for lunch. I got this record deal.
Starting point is 00:28:07 I'm going to be like, yeah, after a check. After a tech. People don't realize that. When you really give a fuck about your craft, like signing the deal is like signing your life away. And like if you're going to be, it has to be right. You know what I'm saying? People really give a fuck about their craft and their music.
Starting point is 00:28:23 That's like your life. That's your whole. That's like your baby. It's your music. I can't just give you this shit. You know what I'm saying? Like it got to be right. I want to do some bad podcasting real quick.
Starting point is 00:28:33 We already talked about Dumb Shrap. But if Tyga wasn't on the remix, who else would you have put on there? Or did you ever hear anybody else on it? It feels just your dream remix? My dream remix? I would have put T-Pain on there. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:28:51 That's fire. You know what I was thinking? E-40. Yeah, ooh, that shit with a slap, too. Because they got the, they got the faster. They got the faster version, you know? What made you want to pick T-Pain? What made you want to pick T-Pain?
Starting point is 00:29:07 I like T-Pain. T-Pain get real. Usher, you got Usher, young man. you got T-Pain messed up She's talking to that nigga He got T-Pain Talk to that nigga You got T-Pain messed up
Starting point is 00:29:22 He's feeling Tell him that he messed up R&B He just do what you can't Oh shit He just brought something new We're getting on on Definitely like the vibe was like Back then that would have been
Starting point is 00:29:34 Kaling and me I like that shit was so smooth Like I just Almost start singing on his voice So that's one of your influences too, T-Pay? Yeah, I know he would have came on there and really, and did some shit. But, like, it just, I'm real big on, like, I know the melodies would have been crazy. He's still pleasing to the ear.
Starting point is 00:29:57 Like, that shit would have been, that shit would have been crazy. What are your thoughts on what Usher said? Because there are a lot of people who feel like Autotune fucked up the game. Being that you use Autotune, what did you think? I mean, I don't think he fucked up the game because T-Pan can still. sing very well without autotune. Right. Right. So he was just, he was really just adding something new. And then he didn't hurt his, you hurt his feelings. That hurt my feelings, bro. Why would you
Starting point is 00:30:25 say that? I feel that. Because I feel like a lot of the time people don't realize like to sound really good in autotune, you have to know how to sing already. That shit don't just make you sound beautiful. We've just adapted to niggas who can't really sing on auto tune and we think it sound good. But when you really know how to see, you know what I'm saying? The auto tune just brings that motherfucker out that much more. You know what I'm saying? Ashanti just did an interview and she said
Starting point is 00:30:50 that she dealt with a very inappropriate producer who, um, he made an offer. He wanted to bribe her and to get, need some water. He tried to bribe her and to pretty much do this with me.
Starting point is 00:31:13 and, you know, my relationship. Yeah. Have you dealt with any men doing inappropriate things like that, like trying to bribe you or anything? Because I got a laundry bag full of them. No. Fortunately, I have not. My manager don't play that.
Starting point is 00:31:33 I don't play that. He is laying a nigga out. I can tell. You feel me? No, I don't play that. I'm all embarrassing. real fast. Yeah. Real fast, like, on some simple shit. I don't like the way you're looking at me. I'd be like, like, like, loud as shit, everybody in the, you, everybody running their business.
Starting point is 00:31:56 I'd be like, why you looking at me like that? I just blow the whole shit up because I don't, like, no. So you don't go for the making you feel uncomfortable? I don't, yeah, no, I hate being uncomfortable. That's the, that's the worst feeling ever to me. It's worse than pain to me. Because when you, like, pain, you could try to aid that uncomfortability. That's like, you can't fix that. you just, I'm uncomfortable. I can't, yeah. Especially if somebody else is influencing you being uncomfortable. It's another person.
Starting point is 00:32:22 Right. I'm not going for it. I'm not going for it. And I feel like it's hard for women in this area because most of the people with power are men. And a lot of the time, they'd be older men and they be weirdos. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like, for all the women out there, you stand your ground, you're going to get what you own. You don't got to just take whatever
Starting point is 00:32:40 they just throwing on the table to give what you need to get. You can stand your ground. you can still maneuver your way through this shit. There's plenty of successful women who, successful women who didn't have to do no type of shit like that. So you don't got to either. Yes. Who would, um,
Starting point is 00:32:53 who would you say your style is influenced by? What do you mean? Like your style? Like a hard dress? Mm-hmm. Um, me through. I still just wear what I like. I'm real simple.
Starting point is 00:33:08 I'm content with simple stuff. But like sometimes I like to throw some spice on it. Like, I guess this. I showed my brother what I was wearing. And he was like, Like, when you started wearing chains and sit on your car? And I was just like, I like it. You know, like?
Starting point is 00:33:20 I just, whatever I like, I just start, I've never been. I'm new to the whole getting, getting, like, I've been starting getting free clothes, but it's still fairly new to me. And before, like, I ain't been shopping in a long time. I mean, for me, I didn't been shopping a couple times recently, but, or not too long ago, but, like, I haven't been shopping in a long time because a lot of stuff gets, damn, I'm high. What you say to me?
Starting point is 00:33:47 What influences your style besides you? Yeah, no, no, that's just, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. See, that's that weed. All right, I'm going to chill out though. I was following you, though. All right. We were on it.
Starting point is 00:33:58 I appreciate it. We were trying to see when you was going to land that motherfucker. The motherfucker will. She was swerving in out of the land. The motherfucker. I was like, all right. Oh, my gosh. Oh, M.G.
Starting point is 00:34:15 That's good. J. funny um no just you feel me just simple shit and sometimes i like to switch it up sometimes i dress like real real real real comfortable and sometimes you feel me i'm cute naked so sometimes i like to you feel me yeah she'll throwing us off sometimes you feel me sometimes she'll come you feel me with her little swaggy shit and then you'll wake up on instagram and then she got the laser front you would be like whoa that's just so crazy i'm telling you they're gonna love whatever five i out you're talking about um so what's you more comfortable in though you feel
Starting point is 00:34:46 me like that. I'm obviously way more comfortable than I mean well I'm obviously always way more I'm comfortable in whatever I'm comfortable in like if it's something cute and feminine that I want to wear and that shit like I'm like I'm comfortable like I know it fits nice or whatever like and I know I look good like I'm not tripping or something going to go wrong or whatever like then I'm cool like you feel me I'm comfortable but like where I'm most comfortable is you know like the sweatsuit the shot at the comfortable shit like I'm comfortable right now but this is like I'd be wearing what you feel me what you're trying to be like right you see me what I'm doing. to be on her little comfortable shit, you know what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:35:20 I didn't dress like a bad bitch. I'd be seeing you on Instagram while we're looking stuff up. You know, I'm saying, you know, what's all more comfortable in? You know, when you come. You know, I like a titty up. I don't mind looking at a titty up. But it's not going to be mine for the most part. You know I like to show my tattoo.
Starting point is 00:35:41 They want me. They want me to get dressed in here. This flyer right now You came in this motherfucker fly But Gina would rather have her little Her little chest patch showing this shit Hey, either way it works You feel me?
Starting point is 00:35:54 Either way it fly do y'all thing How many tattoos you have? 21 21 21 When was your first? Yeah because I got more than my big sister now So if I would have hit you with
Starting point is 00:36:04 If I would have said So you got 21 tattoos Would you have thought I was like working for The police or something? Oh hell Gina That would have been a little too much That would have been the end of this interview
Starting point is 00:36:14 That would have been the end of this interview show. She's a fucking creep. She knew I had 21 tattoos. Because if you know, if you know that, that's not even the, nah, bro, that would have been the end of this. When you get your first tattoo? With my manager, my first tattoo, my first tattoo ever, my first tattoo ever, I got 500 stamped on me. How old was you? I was 18.
Starting point is 00:36:40 Okay. So you got your first one out of the adult. Your parents wasn't going for none of that. They wasn't going to find out. I felt that. Do you have any names on you? Ooh. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:36:52 You said, ooh, man. I had one on me. Oh, it's covered up. Oh. Nigger, gone. What if I know the name? I'm just fucking with you. Oh, that was going to.
Starting point is 00:37:05 Hey, you wouldn't believe I'd that was spin a goal. Oh, M.G. I'm just fucking with you. I don't know the name. Did you could tell us, though. You are your motherfucking minds. Which tattoo was the first one? Which tattoo was the first one?
Starting point is 00:37:21 Oh, you did. Oh, the 500. No, where? My bad. It's right here on the front of my ankles. Okay. Did that motherfucker hurt? No, I didn't hurt that bad.
Starting point is 00:37:29 Damn, shit by my bones, be hurt like a motherfucker. Yeah, my worst, bro. My worst tattoo, really, bro. This is the worst, this is the worst tattoo job ever that I got on my knuckles. Once you get to the hands? That's bad. Everything else was a six except for my pinkies, bro. Both of my pinkies was nice.
Starting point is 00:37:42 But this, right, this is a, this is a, This is just the worst tattoo job ever, bro. As soon as this shit, he'll look like it was fading. I'm getting numb. I need the numb in the thing. Oh, I mean, yeah, I'll be doing that. Well, I was going through something very traumatic when I got this one, so I didn't get nothing numb.
Starting point is 00:37:59 But my back, I had to get it numb. I feel you. I feel you hard. I feel you hard. I feel you. I feel you. I'm getting much. I ain't playing under that shit.
Starting point is 00:38:03 That motherfucker hurt. You're not doing enough? Oh, hell yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, um, you got booked for rolling loud. Yes, sir! Hell yeah Is this your first rolling out?
Starting point is 00:38:16 Yeah Wow How it feel That shit So Blue my Nigger That shit is so crazy
Starting point is 00:38:27 That shit is so crazy And they hit me too Like Everybody just be hitting me That shit so lit Bro is fucking rolling And what's crazy is My manager manifested
Starting point is 00:38:35 That shit He was like Bro December Like you You like I'm looking for that shit To be Rolling loud
Starting point is 00:38:41 You gotta get it done Like You put me And I'm thinking, you feel me, I'm mean, so I'm like, it's not impossible. Yeah. But me, Rolling Loud, bro, you're like, bro, you're getting that shit. See, if I'm getting booked for Rolling Loud, I got a PMB Rock feature, Sadie Hendrix, LinkedIn with Kalin. Put it on.
Starting point is 00:39:03 Tiger feature. I wouldn't get signed either. I feel you. You're doing all this shit independent. Because that's what they're going to do for you. You're just going to be in debt. Yeah. That's just.
Starting point is 00:39:13 what they're going to do for you. You and your team, you're already, to me it seems like y'all already got the formula and you already got it figured out. I would say independent too. I mean, I'm not saying if. Mm-hmm. If that 500, that billion come through, I ain't saying those times, but. 500 billion?
Starting point is 00:39:29 I'm like, I might fuck. I might fuck. I might be in the category. All of them, all them you visit the whole. Discography. They're turning around and Elon Musk around this motherfucker would a deal like that. Well, thank you for kicking it with us, man. We really appreciate him.
Starting point is 00:39:47 It's 500 racks. We need more female representation and music on the West Coast, so thank you for, because you're doing a phenomenal job. You're not just out here dropping all bullshit. Yeah, her shit's fire, and I don't like nothing. I don't like nothing. He thinks everything is trash. Facts.
Starting point is 00:40:04 I think everything is trash, but not, fire in the racks is fire, bro. And she's from here, so I'm supporting that shit. What can we expect? back. You sound there you set the albums on the way. Do you got maybe a season that is coming out there, maybe in the summer? I'm looking still for
Starting point is 00:40:21 no, I'm looking still for it to drop next month honestly. Oh, shit. It's coming. January, top of the year. Yeah, a lot of people have different, I've gotten different opinions on dropping on dropping around that time,
Starting point is 00:40:38 but I feel like no big head of shit just I am who I am. People have been anticipating the drop. Some people think they know who's on there. Some people, like, I just don't think it's going to feel. I got a really good feeling about the project, you know, and all of my music. Like I said, does what it does to you.
Starting point is 00:40:54 However, you think you're going to feel about it. But, like, I just think it's going to go very well, honestly. Well, I don't know who we need to talk to over at double XL, but in 2023, we need 500 racks on that double XL freshman cover.
Starting point is 00:41:11 Like, that shit happened. You know? All right. Well, thank you so much for tuning in to this episode with 500 racks, you know, Vues, Almighty Suspect. Like, share, subscribe, and we'll see y'all next time.

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