No Jumper - Azjah on Coming Up Out of Compton, Coming Out, Roddy Ricch Affiliation & More

Episode Date: January 23, 2023

Azjah talks about growing up in Compton, being independent, labels, behind the scenes of the industry, and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 Azjah on not wanting to be regarded as the "Queen of Compton" 5...:50 T-Rell on how much harder it is for a girl to be successful in the industry 8:00 Azjah on what it's like being in the studio with other dudes  9:30 Azjah on having the whole "package" as an artist 11:00 Azjah speaks on growing up in Compton, her brother doing time, and how she got into making music 13:20 Azjah says the there's only about 4 people she grew up with that isn't gone or in jail 15:02 T-Rell speaks on being numb to losing people 16:05 Azjah on Roddy Ricch coming from the same place as her and her family managing him 18:04 Azjah on wanting to help the people around her as soon as she gets in the position to do so 20:50 Azjah breaks down what it's like being a woman in hip hop 22:51 Azjah says that just because she likes girls, doesn't mean she likes every single girl 30:15 Hitmaka told her that getting dressed to go to the studio can affect your confidence and how the music comes out 36:20 Azjah on wanting to stay independent unless she's offered a deal that works well for her and being afraid of being "shelved" by a label 39:30 Azjah on recouping off of every album she's done while working with labels 40:00 Azjah wants to work with Lil Baby, gives her top 5 female artists, and T-Rell says he feels like Dej Loaf disappeared 45:20 Azjah on how there's never been a female artist to make it mainstream out of Compton  47:02 Azjah on Gina Views inviting her to a cypher 49:40 Azjah speaks on her parents reaction to her coming out and always dressing like a tomboy 54:40 T-Rell and Azjah agree that Saucy Santana got some bangers  ----- 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, man. T-Rowell, we back at it, you know what I'm saying? What's the deal? I got a special guest in the building. I got my own girl, Asia. What's the deal? Princess Accompton. We still doing that? Yeah. Are we going queen? Are we going princess? No, I'll never go queen. I'm good on that. Why you don't go queen? I just feel like it's too much. Like, when I got the name, it was like an accident for me to call myself queen. It's just like. So we ain't going to go all the way Beyonce with it? You know, in the mind, yeah, but not. I, I'm not. I don't want people calling me Queen of Compton. I think somebody already got by Queen of Compton, too. They do? So you went Princess and they said, fucking, I'm going Queen.
Starting point is 00:00:37 No, they was Queen first. I didn't even know I found out. Oh. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know that either. What's the deal? Man, none. What you've been out to?
Starting point is 00:00:48 I'm going to be to chill with y'all on time. Chill with me? Mm-hmm. And you all on two. I love it, but, uh... Yeah, what's the deal? Because I got right in here. Like, what's you trying to do?
Starting point is 00:00:59 You know what I'm saying? You know, dope jumper is crazy in here. So if you don't like nobody, you go ahead and say it's a comfortable place. And that's my... No. You know what I'm going to like? I haven't been thinking about coming up here, but I'm like, you know... It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:01:15 And I'm, you know, I'm chill. I'm kind of just shy. No, you can't come up in here, shy. I'm cool, though, you know. Coming up in here and shy ain't going to mix. That's why they said when T-Rit, you know, they said you was interviewing. I'm like, cool. Oh, you was happy?
Starting point is 00:01:28 I know you're going to talk about. So I'm like, I'm cool. Oh, yeah, I like that. You know what I'm saying? I like that. You know what I'm saying? A lot of fuck is being enjoying, you know, because, you know, I kind of trying to make it comfortable. I ain't trying to, like, interrogate it.
Starting point is 00:01:41 No, it's just chill, lay back. Yeah, too, home to me talk. Yeah. So, Princess of Compton. You know what I'm saying? What we've been doing, you know what I'm saying? Where are we at with it right now? Right now we just rebranding, rebuilding, you know?
Starting point is 00:01:57 I just dropped this song called G-G funk. It's been going. crazy. I got everybody doing their little C walk and a B walk and all that. So I just learned how to do it too, so that's where I'm at with it. Just trying to, like, have more of a relationship with my supporters.
Starting point is 00:02:12 I do shit at home now and just, y'all see me and my bonnet and my socks just regular. Why are we brand? I just feel like when I, when time for it came out, which is my biggest song. When it came out, it was just moving too fast for me. So I was taking in so many,
Starting point is 00:02:29 like opinions, you know? So now I'm at a stage where it's like I just be locked in with myself and like doing my own thing, creating my, my type of music, doing everything that I want to do. And that's why I feel like it's a rebrand for me. Oh, so you feel like, you know what I'm saying? I had a high song. This was fucking with me. Everybody's tapping in.
Starting point is 00:02:47 And y'all is, you know what I'm saying? Ficking my opinions up about everything. Yeah, everybody got an opinion. You know, everybody want to tell you what to change, you know, especially when you knew to all this industry. So I kind of took a step back and kind of, like, got to know myself again. So it was too much for you? The industry, the industry period, you felt like it was weighing on you.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I just felt like a lot of stuff was happening too fast. But I was enjoying it at the same time because, like, I only been doing this for a short period of time. So everything happened fast when time for it came out. I was getting, you know, put on rolling out stage, BET, which was good. But at the same time when you got all that coming at you at one time and you don't know nothing about the industry, you kind of got a like, sit back and be like, all right, hold on, let me get a steer this wheel.
Starting point is 00:03:34 You know what I'm at. You know what I'm at right now. I just learned a business, so I'm kind of like, I got my head on my shoulders this time. Like, what was the, like, thing that stuck out to you
Starting point is 00:03:43 that you felt like, you know what? I can't really deal with this. I'm out of here. It was just like, people wanted me to go pop. People wanted me to, it's always what people wanted.
Starting point is 00:03:57 And it was like, damn, what do Asia want? You know what I'm saying? Like, I did a freestyle. You need to rap more. All right, when I rap, man, you need to do some pop. It's like... Hold on, but you wasn't signed, though.
Starting point is 00:04:09 No, no. I had a distribution with Empire, but I'm saying, like, I was still trying to build my team because it was always me and my dad, my mom, my family. But I was letting people come in, management, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but you're supposed to let pops and all the people that's really there for you, you know what I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:04:25 tell you what, you know what I'm saying? I think we just was, like, intimidated. Like, we didn't think we had the power to know what to do. You get me, we always try to, like, lean on somebody else. And I feel like at this point of time, like, I trust my team with my life. Like, we build up so much knowledge at this point of time that we know what to do with it. You get what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:04:43 At the time, I was letting people come in because we felt like we didn't know what we was doing. Yeah. And then people, you have different people come around to kind of, it tangles stuff up, you know? Do you feel like you kind of, like, missed that boat? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Miss your call. not saying miss your calling, but just, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:05:03 Like, you were supposed to there, and that was your time, and do you feel like, you know what I'm saying, like it kind of fucked you up, that you kind of took a break off of it? No, I feel like, I don't ever feel like I miss my boat because I feel like I'm the type of artist, I'm going to have timeless music. But I do feel like during the pandemic, I kind of like, I was getting invited into parties,
Starting point is 00:05:22 and I just wouldn't go. Like, on top of me being scared of the career, I was one of the ones that was just staying the crib. Oh, okay. So you're one of them niggins. Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm already like anti.
Starting point is 00:05:31 You feel me? But that came around. Put it on. Look, I'm already a German fove. So when that came around, I really didn't go nowhere. So I feel like I missed my opportunities because of my own head, like not going to certain things. And I don't know. Hollywood shit, just in my own head.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Like, I can't do this, bro. Like, it's too much going on. I need to sit and understand. And I felt like that's when I took a break. And that's when I was like, okay, let me play catch up with myself real quick. And you know, like, and. And the game and a rap game, it's hard for females. Yeah, so you shouldn't be taking no break.
Starting point is 00:06:02 It's tremendously hard. Especially when you're not, you know what I'm saying, when you're like me. And I'm well for to get there. You make the traditional. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? The look and the, you know what I'm saying, the female that people are used to, you know what I'm saying, gravitating to.
Starting point is 00:06:19 So it's super hard, you know what I'm saying? When you coming out like you, you know what I'm saying? It's just like young in May. It's probably like, you know, He probably like one of the only ones. Mm-hmm. But then, you know, we all seen you on,
Starting point is 00:06:33 see it hit no stages and I seen you doing, you know what I'm saying, DJ heads and them and all of that. Like, niggas was like, okay, they're picking you. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:06:42 You feel I mean? It was just like, damn, it's like you gotta get in there when you get in there. Like, you know what I'm saying, when it hit you and it's that time, don't pass that shit up.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Exactly. That's the point. Yeah, but still, I ain't even going to lie, though, but still, even though,
Starting point is 00:06:57 Like even though whatever you did, you took a break, because you have to do that mentally anyway. I don't know what it is. If you feel like that's not it for you right now, you know what I'm saying? I got to take that break. Cool, fuck it. That's what I'm going to do.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Like, you actually got to do that. But if your music ain't good, though. You better get in there. Yeah, you better get in there and do it. If your music ain't good, but your music is actually really good to where you really, you could, you know what I'm saying? Get in there and wiggle in there.
Starting point is 00:07:26 and just do your thing. Yeah, I'm at a point where I'm like, I'm not, I'm going, like, I'm going hard. I'm not trying to take no breaks, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm playing ketchup with myself on time just to show people that I didn't miss my boat. You get what I'm saying? Like, the music is timeless, the music is there. So, you know, I got this song dropping with Blue Buck, so I don't think the city was, like, preparing for that. So I feel like once we pop out with that, too, and then I got some other stuff in the cut.
Starting point is 00:07:49 I'm really planning all my quarters. Like, I'm probably already in third quarter, mentally, though. So that's just where we're at with it right now. I would never take another break again, though. I mean, because when you hop in a studio with the dudes, you feel on me, like, you got swag. You feel like me, you get in there. Like, what's the, like, reaction when the niggas see you?
Starting point is 00:08:10 Like, you know what I'm saying? They're more receptive to what's going on or what? Yeah, they be respectful, of course. But I would say, I feel like it's always like a tug-of-war. Like, let me see what you could do. You get what I'm saying? Let me see how you, oh, let me see, I hear this about you, let me see how you act in the studio.
Starting point is 00:08:28 You know, it's always like a tug of war. But once we get through that vibe, it's like everything is just easy. It starts flowing. It starts flowing. Like, with the Blue Buck's though, we just, I just sent them the track, and they sent it back to me. But we always chopping it up, you get me. So we develop our own little friendship.
Starting point is 00:08:45 And they just had me come out at their show, and it was just like, oh, love. Then I met a, oh, GZeezy. It was love with him. I'm trying to work with him. I'm just trying to, like, shake hands at this point. and get people to get to know me because I feel like nobody knew the face of time for it.
Starting point is 00:08:58 They knew the song, but they didn't know who's this girl. Like, people still don't say my name right. That's crazy, bro. You really do it. I'd be saying that about a lot of artists too and especially a lot of artists from L.A. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Niggas don't know what you look like. Yeah, they know the music. You know what I'm saying? Niggins know the music, but they don't know who you is. Mm-hmm. And then when they get to know who you is, nigga, you're dirty. You know what I'm like,
Starting point is 00:09:23 Hey, you know. Put it together because y'all niggas don't be putting it together right. I'm not even going to lie to you, you feel me like? And it just be like, y'all niggas got to get the image together. It's a whole package. It's a whole package. You know what I'm saying? How do you feel about having that whole package together?
Starting point is 00:09:41 You feel like me like as a fucking artist? Because me personally, I think that shit is important as fuck. You know, I didn't know it was that important because I always been like laid back and I go somewhere and some sweats. You know, but when you. got people like I was at Ventra City and the little girl's on the roller coaster right and I took my hat off I don't ever take my hat off because sometimes I'd be having bad hair days so I took my hat off because the roller coaster she was filming me the whole time at Asia on the roller coaster her hair flying I'm like man I got to start really paying attention to how I step out the house
Starting point is 00:10:13 and how people see me you know so because I seen it I seen like damn like fuck yeah I'm seeing like you seen the song then they don't have to look and it do play a part you're You know, people take you serious when you got that look, you know, you got the image. But always be yourself at the same time, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, because I feel like everybody can't be Jay Cole. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? No, I'm serious.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Like, everybody, you can't just be out there like the music got to be stupid. And Jay Cole got the money to go do that. It's like, you know he got bank. Okay, this nigga don't look like it, but you know he got bank. Yeah, you know what it is. You can't not have bank and then look like you don't have bank. And it's just like. Nah, yeah, that shit don't match.
Starting point is 00:10:53 You got to, like, really had. the image together, you know what I'm saying? And I really think that shit is important, though, you know, for artists, man. A hundred percent. Yes, sir. You know what I'm saying? This is your first time here on, you know, on this platform, right? You know what I'm saying? So, um, let's start from the beginning, you know what I'm saying? Where am I from from Compton, California? Women's in Norms, to be exact. And so, yeah, I've been doing music for a short period of time, but I took it serious when I dropped. When my brother went to jail, my brother got incarcerated.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Free Chello, he got incarcerated. He got 80 years. And then that's when I started like really writing music. So I made this song called Time. I mean, the warm up, right? So my whole city, like, they was messing with that song. Like, oh, dang, you could, like, rap. So then I did time for her, and I just blew up.
Starting point is 00:11:41 So you got to think that's my second single, and it just went crazy. So it was just too much, like I said before. But after that, I came out with Spotlight. Then I dropped Princess Diaries. That was my first project. I did that with Empire. And I just dropped like little EPs, like, once a year, though. I didn't really, like, put out as much music as I should have.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Like, I got a lot of A&Rs that come to me, and they be like, man, I was about to sign you, but you stop dropping music at one point. Like, you just go ghost or, you know, so I felt that. So that's what I said right now. I'm just rebranding and just making sure I'm on top of the ball. Man, how was it growing up in Compton? It was cool. And the Wilmington, R.
Starting point is 00:12:17 If y'all don't know, you know what I'm saying? It's a project in Compton. You know what I'm saying? off Wilmington. I used to stay in a Sunny Cove. Oh, for real? I definitely did. You look like the type, though, like a Sunny Cove type, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:12:29 It's the type? Yeah. I was stugging in that motherfucker. I didn't know what Compton was. I found the house. We rented it out. We were stugging in that bitch, but you're young, though. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:12:39 You were figuring out. Spanketor you, you know what I'm saying? I know. I know. Yeah, he was sneaking to all the parties in the sunny coves. What? No, you're, yeah, we was going crazy in that motherfucker. But yeah, how was it growing up, you know what I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:12:53 in the Wilmington office? I really didn't go in there. I just stayed in the Sunny Coast. Yeah. Sunny South. It was cool. I feel like everybody's family. Like, we all call each other cousins.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Like, even as an adult, we'd be like, yeah, that's my cousin. Even though, like, in our mind, like, everybody else, like, you're not blood, but in our mind, it's like, we is blood. We grew up together. Like, we used to have little house parties. I go over there after school every day. Yeah, we just was bad, man. Ding don't ditch, basketball.
Starting point is 00:13:19 But it's like, everybody that I grew up. up with or that I've been around is in jail, dead, or, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's kind of like, it's like this now. So I still pop off. Your age, everybody is in jail or dead, like, the majority of the people that I grew up with, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Like, right now in the arms, it's probably about like four people that I grew up with since I was a kid that's still over there. That's crazy. And from my generation, you get what I'm saying? Yeah. But, like, my brother, like, that's somebody. I always hung out with the boys. I always hung out with the ones older than me, so my brother he in jail. Tatee, he dead. Wu, he died. His birthday was yesterday.
Starting point is 00:13:55 So, like, everybody that I grew up with it's not around like that. Like, did that shit take a toll on your door? You know, as a young shit, though, you know what I'm saying, living over there and fucking around over there? Yeah, when my um, when Wu died, my brother
Starting point is 00:14:10 got shot, I was about, I think I was 10 years old, so to experience that at that age, it was like... Damn. Yeah. That was my... And we called Wu, like our first heartbreak that was the first person we lost, like, in our generation, our group. So to experience that, it kind of changed me kind of like, now I'm with cautious. Like, I'm not a confrontational person.
Starting point is 00:14:30 Like, I could go there, but I'm trying not to because I see what could happen. Like, I lost everybody, so it's like I see how this world work. So I just be, like, scared to get close to people at the same time, too, because it kind of traumatized you, though, like, even growing through high school, like the people that was, I was around the high school, like, they're not, like, everybody just drifted off and not in a good way. Where a high school did you go to? I went to Paramount High.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, everybody, the neutrals went to Paramount. So I was at Paramount, but, you know. That's crazy to be traumatized. I mean, it's so crazy that for us in the ghetto, like, that this shit happens so, so, you know what I'm saying, at a young age, and it really kind of like, fuck with you. I ain't going to lie, you know what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:15:14 There's so much shit that happened to me, like, over the years and just being around in the ghetto. And, you know, when a nigga die, like, I don't cry. You get numb to it. I'm super numb to it. Like, oh, what's we call to die? I'm like, oh, all right. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:15:30 You feel, but it's like, okay. Like, shit, hey, tell his mama here. And then I'm going on about my day. You feel me? Like, and that shit kind of like, I had to ask for my own day. Like, is that shit? That shit can't be normal. Like, hey, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:15:44 Like, I see these niggas crying. I'm like, I ain't crying. You feel me? Like, that shit can't. kind of like fuck with you a little bit but then again i feel like you know it kind of mold you into like this different person and this stronger person i feel like we really like we really really meant to be out here with this shit you know what i'm saying and doing this shit especially if you got your head on your shoulders you understand like how you could be here today and going tomorrow you get me
Starting point is 00:16:08 yeah so i had to learn that shit early man well roddy rich is from over there too right yeah okay how close are you with roddy um you know my friend family manage him. His managers is my uncle. Oh, that's your uncle? Yeah, Byrd is my cousin and Dombot, my uncle. Shout out bird. Yeah, shout out Bird and Dombot.
Starting point is 00:16:28 So, you know what I'm saying? Do you ever ask the boy for a feature or what? No, I never asked him for a feature. You know, we'll probably talk to, like, Donbo and I'm like, what's good? Like, you know what I'm saying? But we ain't ever got to it, really. Oh, so you kind of, you're out there you want to work. Oh, yeah, we could work.
Starting point is 00:16:47 Like, you know, I'm not going to beg. nobody to work with me, you get what I'm saying? But if the opportunity come on, of course, I'm going to work with you. I mean, but close mouth don't get fed out here, you know what I'm saying, in this industry? So, uh, hold on, we can ask him right now. We can do it right now. So Roddy, what's the deal?
Starting point is 00:17:02 You know what I'm saying? Tap in with my girl. She, she hot out here. You know what I'm saying? Hey, fuck with her one time. It's y'all in the same place. I'm probably the same height. You know what I'm saying? you to death. It'll match up, my nigga.
Starting point is 00:17:21 You ain't nothing good. It's like, I fight to say. I'll fuck with my nigga though. No, yeah, it's all love. And like, that's family at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying? So it'll get to it when it gets to, like I say, that's family, you know. I've seen it all happen.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Yeah. I've seen it all happen. It'll get there, you know what I'm saying? But you definitely a close mouth don't get fed. And even if you ask the niggas is like, you know, cold shoulder at first, Niggas still keep you in mind, you feel I mean, niggas be wanting to see what you got going on first. Yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:17:53 Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of artists be feeling like they don't want to be the crutch. You know what I'm saying? But then again, I feel like when you, like, a new artist, like, it's kind of like shit, nigga, give me a booster real quick, nigga. Yeah, I mean, a booster is out of here. A booster will always help, but I used to be in my feelings about,
Starting point is 00:18:10 not even just like, bro, but I'm talking about, like, the people that I know that was helping other artists and they wasn't helping me. And now I'm like, bro, you got to do this shit yourself. Like, can't nobody really blow you up like that? They could give you a booster for sure, especially somebody in that position.
Starting point is 00:18:26 But it's like, I'm going to do it with or it out. That would be my mindset. Like, just go and do it, man. Just do your shit. So you've seen other artists helping niggas and leaving you like... I'm talking about, like, family. I've seen friends and people that was in better positions
Starting point is 00:18:40 and not even doing music. Just around in them rooms, you get what I'm saying? Like, just around the people that I need. to be around. And, you know, they always left me in the code, but that's what molded me into becoming who I am today. Yeah. You know, like, one thing people are going to say is I'm strong.
Starting point is 00:18:56 I kept it going, like, with no hand out, really. But I also feel like you do, you do got to go through that because the nigger don't owe you shit. Mm-hmm. I don't owe you shit. Say that again. Yeah, if I'm in that room and I didn't bring your name up, you feel me, don't be bad at me, nigga,
Starting point is 00:19:13 because I'm still trying to get to where I'm going. I'm trying to go. You ever have learned that too? Like, people, sometimes they don't help you because they can't. Because I can't. Because I had artists, my homies asked me, like, I need you to cost you. I ain't got no, I ain't even in that position to co-sign you, where it's going to go? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:28 You get me, but when I get there, for sure, I got you. But that's the same thing like with this shit. Yeah. Niggas is like, hey, bro, you got that motherfucker's up? And I'm like, bitch, I can't do nothing yet. Let me get in here first. And I can, I can wiggle it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:43 I can, hold on. You feel? You know, like, some niggas don't understand because you, you know what I'm saying? And some niggas just don't, they could be up there in that position. They just don't, that's not their style. They just don't want to, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Me personally, I know once I get to a certain level, like, if I ain't, I don't know fake shit.
Starting point is 00:19:58 Like, if it's love, if I show you love, especially when you show me love, I'm going to heaven. I don't owe you that. You don't owe me nothing, but it's just my heart, like how I am. You have to. You got to pull a nigga up, though. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, one thing on the West Coast. That's the problem, in a sense.
Starting point is 00:20:17 That's the biggest problem. Since, nigga, you feel me? The older days, like, pull me up. Like, let's just keep pulling each other up. Let's all make the bread. I'd be feeling like niggas learn from the older generation, and we don't have nobody teaching us. And then it just, you feel me?
Starting point is 00:20:35 It's just going to keep falling down. Niggas are just crabs in the bucket. Niggas don't even give a fuck. But if we keep pulling each other up, we good. I mean, it's only so many favorites. I can't do. for you. Exactly. Like, it's only so much I can do for you, but at least help a nigga out, though. You know what I mean? Yeah. But yeah, let's go back to the, um, um, you know, being a woman in hip hop and a
Starting point is 00:20:58 woman's, you know what I'm saying, how a woman is perceived in hip hop, you know what I'm saying? How do you deal with that? And you know what I'm saying? How are you like, how are you dealing with that? And how are you getting over that type of shit? Because I know the BBLs, you got to have ass. You got to to have big titty. You know what I'm saying? Like, they want you to have the wig on 19 weeks. Like, how are you dealing with that? I ain't really dealt with it.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Like, I don't really pay it too much attention. Like, I know people would be like, oh, you ain't made it to where you're supposed to make it yet because you're supposed to look like this. And I get that. That's the conversation sometimes. But I feel like if you keep working and your talent, speak for itself, like, if I have a song that go viral tonight,
Starting point is 00:21:42 especially you got TikTok now, who's going to stop? that really. No, but you can't stop it. It's the product got to sell. So regardless of how I look, the product got to sell first, you get what I'm saying? So all I could do is come in the room be fly, be myself and just chill and let shit the universe do what it's supposed to do. But I know I know what's expected of me though. I know like, you're supposed to look like this or you got to date this person or you got to do this. I don't get into the other. I come in the room with my uncle, my dad, and we do what we got to do and we chill and I make the best of it. So
Starting point is 00:22:14 Like, say if somebody asks me to come do a hook and they're trying to, or they feel like in their head like, man, she ain't cute to me or whatever the case is. I just go in there and do my job and do the best that I could do. And they come out hard and then them niggas be like, ooh, this shit hard though. So that's the reaction I get a lot of times. Just like people stub me at first like, oh, then they hear the work and they be like, oh, yeah, I fuck with you like. You look how you look, but I fuck with you though. You look how you look. That's the feeling I get from people, though, like because I'm-
Starting point is 00:22:41 You look how you look is just so fucking crazy. Like, yeah, we so fucking shallow. Yeah. Like, that shit is wild, though, bro. And they don't be wanting their girls around either. Like, it'd be weird. I don't know it. I wouldn't want it either.
Starting point is 00:22:56 Nick, you fly. It'd be weird. Yeah, and I mean? Like, hold on. But just because I like girls don't mean. I'm like, every girl, god damn, though. She is safe. Just because I like girls don't be like every girl.
Starting point is 00:23:10 She is safe. But that's funny, though. I mean, but if I was a nigga and I was a little. in there talking to you, I'd be like, shit, who's the baddest bitch? What's going on? Like, you got to go over there. Yeah, they'd be asking me for,
Starting point is 00:23:22 they be asking me for the females where they're at. You fucking lying. I swear to God. Where the ho's at? Yeah. You don't know. You don't know. You for sure don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:31 You for sure don't know. Like, you know, you want to go outside through COVID. You want to put your mask on. We can't ask you no questions. Well, I'm past them days. I'm chilling. That's tight, though. You feel me?
Starting point is 00:23:41 I fuck with it, though. I mean, you know, niggas just got to get comfortable. out here and you know what they're doing what they doing man I mean living in the ghetto too as a female and a woman in Wilmington arms too like is it was it different
Starting point is 00:23:56 like do niggas give you like more leeway because you a female or whatever the case may be because there's a lot of shit going on out here you know what I'm saying? Yeah niggas be telling oh yeah
Starting point is 00:24:08 niggas be doing all type of shit like you feel me like have you ever encountered a nigga just telling You feel like Yeah And snitching and shit like that Nogetto Yeah
Starting point is 00:24:18 Free little chello man He uh Shit There's a couple of snitches going around That's kind of what inspired my song Time for it It's just like I've seen it I seen
Starting point is 00:24:28 One of our friends Tell on somebody You know And it kind of broke up the crew But it had you looking Like you can't really Trust the people around you See me
Starting point is 00:24:36 I don't put myself in those situations But I've seen it You get what I'm saying I'm on the outside Looking at like a broding toe You can't tell on me Because I ain't doing nothing but I sent you telling my brother, you know.
Starting point is 00:24:47 But other than that, I got a lot of leeway. I would say 50-50 because who my brother is, my brother is a high head. Everybody know my brother. So anytime I had like an encounter, my brother come. But I was a girl. I was riding skates. I remember I beat up two boys over there on skates.
Starting point is 00:25:03 You know what I? So I was always, I had my own little, I had my own respect because my brother was whooping ass. I was whooping ass too in a sense. But I was beating up boys. Like I was fighting boys. Oh my fucking God So I always been
Starting point is 00:25:18 Rough and running edges So you coming through You squabbling niggas up Hey John Keyesman If you see this I love y'all So who you squabbled up over there Who got their ass with him?
Starting point is 00:25:32 I need to know They're twins huh They twins Little people Yeah they twin They were twins They don't stay over there No more
Starting point is 00:25:42 No yeah They're my people's, man. I just had to... Oh, y'all got your ass with my age. I didn't know that. They know the story, man. I was on the States, but they know the story, but...
Starting point is 00:25:52 Yeah. And I also... I... Dang. There's one dude he took off on me. I was sitting on the stairs. I caught him by the mailboxes in the front. Whipped on him, too.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I'm just... I ain't even, like, gas and... We was kids, though, man. We was, like, 12, man. We was kids. Nah, that's tight, though. I fuck with it, though. I was always respected.
Starting point is 00:26:13 like one of the dudes. Like, they ain't punking down to me and none, but at the same time, like, you're talking shit, you're getting a black matter real quick, me and you, all right, come on. You're funny for that. You're really funny, but I got to bring that shit up back to everybody, AD, everybody, black, dude. She was whooping niggas ass over there.
Starting point is 00:26:31 I would be able to handle that. On some skates. We was bad. We was bad. That's family, though. But let's get back to rebranding, my girl. You know what I'm saying? Rebranding.
Starting point is 00:26:40 You know what you're doing to rebranding? Um, I'm just putting out more music. I'm getting into myself more. You know, my problem is I always had like little insecurities. I'm the type to overthink. Like, even today, I was ready not to come because my hair, I got shrinkage, right? I just did my twist last night and I woke up. It was like all over the place.
Starting point is 00:27:00 I was like, I don't think I could do this interview today. I'll see, because that's the girl side. That's the girl side. And my dad and them don't understand that. They be trying to rush me. I'd be like, listen, I need like a whole day to make sure my hair cool. So the rebranded come in, I'm just trying to like make sure I'm secure myself, just love myself, put out music that I love, you know.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Just vibe with, like I said, my supporters, just kind of get more into the mix because I was so closed off. From the first time. For the first time. Yeah, because what's different from the first time to now? You know what I'm saying? Like, what are you rebranding the most? Just me as a person, just how I talk, how I carry myself.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Just, it's not just the music. It's literally just me, how I do business, like my expectations and what I expect out of this. I'm just really, like, in tune with myself. Like, I'm so locked in with myself right now that it wouldn't even matter if I failed at this shit. Because I'm so in tune with myself and I'm so comfortable with myself and what I'm doing. Like, I got the studio at my crib, now, I'm just locked in and I'm just ready to plant my seeds. So, re-branding is just like being a gardener and just planting your seeds and making sure everything is intact. All right, cool.
Starting point is 00:28:10 Now blossom. looking at it. Do you feel like you, overthinking shit sometimes? Yeah, I always overthink. I'm a big overthinker. Like, that's my, especially if I smoke some weed.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Oh, you're so overweight. Oh, yeah. Oh, you need to come back in here. I'm watching all my music videos. I might delete one. That's how fucked up it was for me. Like, you would delete a music video? I deleted like two music videos.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Ain't no motherfucking way. Those shit must have been free. Yeah, one of them was free. Yeah, it's not. I paid $4,000 for one. And it didn't come out right. That's another thing, too, being a female, like, these videographers
Starting point is 00:28:43 will play with you. And they be like, bro, you don't see, like, the people I be around like, you feel like we're playing with you. Like, that's the stuff I deal with. But I definitely deleted some videos just being high and just like, man, I don't, I'm a chubby right here. I don't like this. Oh, hell no, you need to come hang here
Starting point is 00:29:00 because I came this motherfucker, no hair cut. You know what I'm saying? I threw some glasses on out the cup holder, you feel? Through my jacket on. I'm like, we're in this bitch, you feel? I got some. My dad told me today, he's like, don't you start this. We start a new year. Don't start this because I don't.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Yeah, don't start that shit, man. I mean, just long as your shoes is clean. I mean, that's what I say. If your shoes is clean, you feel, and your fitness, you know what I'm saying, it's matching. Get out there, you feel what I'm saying? And you'll be straight. You feel me, don't. But don't overthink it, but your image is everything, though.
Starting point is 00:29:35 That's why I feel like if I get dressed, if I come today and I get a little dress, I feel good. Like, I can have a conversation with you. I ain't got to think too much. Yeah. I just try to make myself feel better. Even when I'm recording, I try to, like, make myself feel appealing to when I'm recording, I can feel myself, you know?
Starting point is 00:29:51 So you get dressed when you're recording? Sometimes I don't get dressed. Sometimes I just, like, go take a shower, put on a white t-shirt, some cool sweats with socks. I'll smell like my, you know what I'm saying? I be in there just so the mic can smell you. Yeah, like, hey, I really be putting on my sprays and stuff and not, because I want to be like, yeah, you smell good.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Like, you know what I'm saying? I ain't gonna lie, though, because when I tried to rap, I kind of covered that motherfucker with an outfit on. I'm like, well, shit, I gotta be looking like something. No, you know who told me that? You know who told me that? Yeah. I want to call him Young Bird, but what's his name now? Hitmaker.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Hit maker. He told us that we was at the studio Empire. Like, yeah, if you go to the studio, you feel good. You spend all, I spend some money on my outfit just to go to the studio. I'm like, yeah, but my studio at the crib. So a good outfit to me is some fresh new sweats, a fresh tea, and I'm good. Going out to the studio, yeah, I'm getting dressed. Oh, okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:30:44 Now, at first I wouldn't. But I understand that, though. I understand that because you got to pull motivation from somewhere. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You got to pull that shit from somewhere. Because if you ain't in the streets all day and all that, niggas is pulling up on you, the studio is the streets.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Yeah. So I got to have all my jury on. Yeah, I got to have a fit on. Niggas is falling through and then, you know, beat on. And then that's what we're doing. Mm-hmm. You feel I'm? You feel I'm?
Starting point is 00:31:08 Like, yeah, I understand that. You feel me? Definitely get more. motivation from the street still, but I ain't been hanging out like that either. So what's the recording process, man? What are we doing? I'm not a heavy smoker, but sometimes if I feel real good or I feel safe in my space, I'll smoke.
Starting point is 00:31:25 I light a candle. One thing I got to have is a candle lit and like a cappuccino. I got some cappuccino powder from Sam's Club. If you like cappuccino, I'm going to put you on. Oh, so you're bougie. Is that how I'm saying? I didn't even notice that. I was a thing.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Got candles in the cappuccino. I didn't heard it all. Hey, look, all I needed is, hey, don't get it twisted. Louisiana pack two, a snack pack too. But if I'm in the crib, man, I just need a candle, a little joint, and a cappuccino, I'm good to go. Like, I'm good to go. I'm good to go. Is your engineer everything to you?
Starting point is 00:31:58 Because I feel like engineers, it's like almost like producers. They don't get enough credit. Yeah, I love my engineer. Shout out to Crystal. And I just start working with somebody named Extendo. Shout out to Lode Grade. I got them from him. But I've been engineering myself.
Starting point is 00:32:11 But now I send a song out to extend though he mixed it sound crazy But before I was in the studio with Crystal I'm still in tune with her like we chop it up I want to have her come to the crib bless you But uh engineers I think they definitely are important because I've been around engineers and they just make me not like my music You know it's not too much fixing but at the same time it's the key that matter it's they they energy that matter It's like you don't know what you're doing Yeah I've been in studios where they just like press the button no energy so that's why I never you know how you go to a studio and they provide you you with an engineer, I don't do that no more. Are you coming with your own?
Starting point is 00:32:44 I'm gonna come on my owner. At this point, I'm gonna do it myself because a bad engineer will kill your mood, man. When they act like your shit is just weak or they just don't care, like, make you feel like damn, you be in the booth, like, you be looking at them for confirmation sometimes. Like, they just like,
Starting point is 00:32:59 like, man, all right, man, come on. I go like, because I didn't know how to articulate myself in that motherfucker. I didn't know, oh, what was what? I'm like, I want to sound like this. Like, and I got, look, I got the, I got the fucking, I got the music. I'm like, no, look, like this, this sound.
Starting point is 00:33:15 Look, listen, nigga. I know what you mean. You feel me? Yeah, I know what you mean. Look, press it. Like, oh, shit, I don't know. I'm like, oh, man, what the fuck you doing? Like, that shit will kill your vibe.
Starting point is 00:33:25 You feel me? Another thing that'll kill your vibe, though, is the producer. Or the beats. I don't like this. Yeah. That's my problem now, though. The beats. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:33 It's just like the beat pack. That shit has fucked me up. Like, the beat pack. I feel like people send me their leftovers. Or like. If I put out like a singing song, people just send me R&B, slow, slow, slow, slow. It's like, you see, I'm trying to find a mixture. I like uptempo and slow, mixed and one.
Starting point is 00:33:50 But that's why you got to find a producer and lock in. I got a couple I'm locked in with, but I just told my pops that we're going to do a session where we bring the producers inside because I never really work like that. I had them come inside and work around my vocals. You get what I'm saying? No, that's hard. I think that's going to be the best fit for me. That's hard.
Starting point is 00:34:10 I mean, I seen a couple niggas do that shit One was like school boy cute And I seen them like The vocals It's like a couple sounds And then now you got niggas building over the beat I'm like, what type of shit is this? Nigger on the keyboard
Starting point is 00:34:24 This nigga over here And then I'm like, damn, this shit cold You feel me? Like but you do, even if niggas ain't doing that Like it's producers out there That I really can lock in with you Like you were saying Yeah, he'd been sending me some shit
Starting point is 00:34:36 Like you should just lock in With just one nigga Lock in with one nigga and then tell him the vibe that you're looking for and then you work and then you fuck with a nigga and then it's kind of like your engineer. Yeah, the producer that made time for it I actually just like, because he was one of them guys
Starting point is 00:34:51 he's hard to get in contact with because he's not like a social media dude. So I always had a hard time like getting in contact with him. Like I brought the beat from him when I brought it and then I just did the song. But I don't even know if he know how big the song was. So I had to put him on game about it. And then we
Starting point is 00:35:07 told each other that we're going to lock in and he was like, man, I just want to lock in. I'm like, yeah, we're going to be on some missing and timbre and shit. We're going to go in there and just, because he got the sound that I feel like fits me the best. Because he did Don't Hit Me. I don't know if you heard that song. I got a song called Don't Hit Me.
Starting point is 00:35:20 He did that one too. And it's like the feeling on those where I was popping my shit. I'm like, I need you. Like, let's come in here and sauce one time. Yeah, but in your producer, though, how you do the splits? Because you know, these motherfuckers out here be crying. You know what I'm saying? Producer, they need their splits.
Starting point is 00:35:35 And they're getting their publisher deal with the whole little shit. Like, is you getting the. beats for free and you doing the puck and you doing that on that side or how you doing that shit even with time for it i paid it i paid for that beat and i only had to pay a hundred dollars for the exclusive because i got it early like you know i'm just he didn't know what i was going to do with that song either but i still put him on the split but my thing is like i said i ain't know too much about the game so me personally i don't really be tripping off the splits like if a producer like say if low or somebody was like man i let's let's work on this percentage i'm a
Starting point is 00:36:07 I ask my team like, hey, this sound cool. And they be like, yeah, that sounds cool. I'm with it. I ain't even going to give you a hard time. But I'm not going to let nobody fuck me over, you get on. Fuck you over for real. I'm not, I can't let nobody. I'm real leaning on things, but certain things when I see you trying to fuck me over, all right.
Starting point is 00:36:22 I turn it to a whole different person, you get me. Do you feel like you want to stay, like, as an independent artist or do you feel like you want to be on that major label and have that look? I feel like right now I'm staying independent just to build my leverage. But if I get the right deal, I'm going to take it. I know what I could do with it. Like, I know that if I get a certain deal and I know how to, like, maneuver with it,
Starting point is 00:36:43 like, we're going to make the right moves. My fear is getting stuck in a deal and getting shelved and all that. I'm not trying to get into that. You get me? Because I love this freedom of, like, just... Putting out when I want to put it out. Empire to stop me.
Starting point is 00:36:58 They didn't stop me. They didn't stop me. But I remember it was a time when I was like, okay, I dropped Princess Darius. I'm trying to drop another project. And it's like, they'll hold it. hold you off. Oh, you gotta get all this stuff done.
Starting point is 00:37:10 They'll hold you off. And it's a year past. Yeah. So in a way, you are, you know what I'm saying? But you're not. It's like, it was so much in between that. But I'm at a point where I could just, I could drop a song tomorrow. But I'm still moving strategic.
Starting point is 00:37:23 So it's just about like the right deal. Just coming my way, the right deal, making sense. Like, I know everybody going to fuck me over. You're going to get fucked in a deal regardless. But what do you think is in the right deal? Like, what do you think is like? Creative control. Creative control.
Starting point is 00:37:40 I don't want to be ever locked in for like five albums. And, you know, I kind of, I'm like a, yeah, let's do two albums and give me this. I'm good with, give me this and I'll take that and we do that. Like I had people offer me. I turned down, in a sense, I turned down like $300,000, right? But people think that's a lot, but it's not. And that was early on. That's not a lot because you got to think once you, you still got to pay the lawyer.
Starting point is 00:38:02 You still got to pay management. You still got to, I'm going to walk away with $20,000, right? 300,000, they still going to take it for marketing. I just wanted to be right. Like, I'm at a point where I need about 200, 300,000 in marketing, and I need about 150,000 just for me, two projects. I'm cool. That's cool for me.
Starting point is 00:38:21 That's cool for me because I know I'm going to get them projects done. No, Pop, pops, I need two millions. See, I'm not, look, I don't want to be in the hole for two million, though. We ain't going to be in a hole for two million because you're good. Now, I get you. You are great. He'd be on that, too, but I'll be here. You know, I'm like a step by step.
Starting point is 00:38:39 No, when we get to $2 million, it's time to work. No, for sure. It's always time to work. We get $200.000. It's always more. Gallery department shirts for show. It's more, though. For sure, but it's time.
Starting point is 00:38:50 I'm just good with just the creative control mainly. Yeah. Like, I'm just giving an example. But I'm good with the creative control and just having to say so. Yeah. And, yeah, the money got to be right, too. But like I said, I'm not a greedy person. That's my problem.
Starting point is 00:39:04 I'm really not a greedy person. And that is my problem in a way because I'm good with just good enough as far as financially. Yeah. That's just how I am. It's just not too much that I thrive for when it comes to.
Starting point is 00:39:15 So you're getting checks already from all. I get my distribution checks. Now they all come to me, but like say time for it. I don't get those checks. They go to Empire. You get what I'm saying? But they split it up for you?
Starting point is 00:39:27 Because I don't know how that worked. No, so I did three projects. I recouped every project with my last one, which was 103. But we're supposed to have our little sit down, you know, business and figure out that last one, because I'm sure I recouped that one as well. So once I recoup everything, then you get your split. So time for, then I'll get my checks.
Starting point is 00:39:44 But time for it's making, you know, make good money. I ain't really touched that yet. But before I got with Empire, I was getting like some, I was even getting checks then. I was getting like a thousand dollar checks, you know. It was only out probably about six months before I got with Empire. Yeah, that's cool. I mean. If you had a person, you know what I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:40:02 you wanted to work with right now, man, who would, would it be? Who would be your favorite artist right now? You'd be like, you know what? I need this motherfucker on the feature. As a whole? As a whole. Little baby. Little baby right now. I feel like a little baby, just personality-wise. Like, even when you watch the documentary, my family, like, you know what I mean, you, like, just how he acts, the way he carry yourself in, like, the morals he stand on. And then the music, fire. So I feel like he could do his thing, and I feel like I got something to go in with. I feel like we could make a bang. But if you come to L.A., who's the way? Who is.
Starting point is 00:40:35 Who would I want to work with LA, I think I would, right now, I really want to do some with Savi. We've been talking to. I just feel like, me and Savi, I feel like we could make some crazy time of this music because I like the things he talk about, like real-life situations, and he got that pain in his voice. I could bring that to where we could go up-tempo some good vibes. I just like Savi music right now.
Starting point is 00:40:57 That's great that you said it. That's crazy, man. You do what I'm saying? Gave me a little baby and Asavi, and Savi do got that pain in his voice. He do, he do. Definitely, I feel like he, he's one of my favorites. And Wally, them too. I really rock with them right now.
Starting point is 00:41:10 Wally, too. Yeah, I feel like Wally's different. And he did this thing too. But I fuck with Wally, too. Yeah. I feel like he's different. He's different. He real different.
Starting point is 00:41:18 That nigga told me he was homeless and he slept in the park. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, damn. And he was like, shit, I still go to the park every day. I'm like. Gonzales? Yeah, I'm like, we really love this shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:30 I'm like, I fuck with that nigga for sure. I'm like, I fuck with that nigga for sure. 9%. Top 5 female. in this motherfucker that you know what I'm saying that you fuck with it are you listening to right you talking about as a whole right who do I listen to I think Lotto is dope I liked her project Lotto is dope I always listen to Nikki like I listen to her old shit mostly like itty bitty piggy all that uh who else because I don't really listen I love that's love that's loaf music let's say
Starting point is 00:42:01 that I love Desloaf and could it be old too or new whatever missie Elliott for sure put her in there and Lauren Hill. Why do I feel like Dage Lowe just disappeared on us? What happened? I don't know. That was one of them ones that she was just, she got the sound. It just was hard. You know, when I met her too, I was, you know,
Starting point is 00:42:20 because everybody was trying to put us, you know, like, oh, you sound like Dash Load. I'm like, all right, cool. Because in the beginning, I agree. But I know in my head that I wasn't trying to, and this is just who I am, and that's the person I relate to. You give me, because even when she first came out with Cell,
Starting point is 00:42:35 So people in my neighborhood, I thought that was you. She wasn't even out long enough for me to copy. You get what I'm saying? But I know when I heard her, I'm like, this. This is me. Like this is the type of, you know, but I grew into my own sound. So when I met her, she told me something. Oh, I was sitting on top of the, you know how you sit on top of the couch?
Starting point is 00:42:55 It was in the club. I was sitting on top of the couch. I just performed. She was walking through like this. And we knew it was her because they had all the cameras in her face. She walking right with the mic and her. And she looked at me. Thinking like, what's she on?
Starting point is 00:43:07 But she looked and she like, okay, all right, cool. So she's shaking, she's like, yeah. So then she'd get off stage. She had her VIP section. They told me to come in there. I came in there. And she was like, man, like, what's up, man?
Starting point is 00:43:20 She's like, hey, I'm going to tell you something real quick that they don't make them like us. I'm like, so she'd get what I'm on. Like, you get what I'm saying? Like, it ain't like a copying thing. It's like we are similar to each other in every aspect. You get what I'm saying? So she was like, they don't make them like us.
Starting point is 00:43:33 I'm like, I feel what you're saying? But I was like nervous, right? Because there's love for somebody when I met her. It was like meeting your idol. You get what I'm saying? So I was like, I don't know how she's going to act. But she was cool. She took her hat off.
Starting point is 00:43:44 She had just got like the cheetah print hairstyle or something. She like, you like my hair? Like, I'm like, yeah, I like you. She's like, you smoke. I'm like, you smoke. I don't smoke at the time. Then I was like, you know what, man? I'm just tell you like straight up and I fuck with you, man,
Starting point is 00:43:54 keep doing your thing. Like, she's like, you know what? You're real as fuck. I like you. I like you. You ain't even asked me to follow you on Instagram. I'm like, no, it's just love like it is, you know, she put her number in my phone. And that was that.
Starting point is 00:44:06 Like, I really felt like it was a respect level. Because, you know, if you get somebody here, everybody telling you, this person copying you or y'all sounding like, it's going to be like, when you meet them, you're going to be like, you think you mean. I feel like she was one of them people, too, that's just like they wanted to change her. Definitely, I feel like that too. They was one to change her. And she laid back too as well.
Starting point is 00:44:26 You can see it. She real laid back too. Like, in this game, you got to be like, I'm not. taking no bullshit. You know, and my fear was like people going to think I'm a bitch, but I came to the conclusion like, man, y'all going to have to think I'm a bitch because y'all not going to just run over me at this point. Like, I'm going to have to just be a bitch.
Starting point is 00:44:41 So I definitely felt like that's something she went through. It's like just being laid back and letting people make their opinions, you get me. But you got to step into your zone. And I feel like, you see she been dropping, though. Oh, God. And I love that. And I'm like, yeah, we need, you know, we need more in the game, man. I feel like with female rappers, everybody would be like, oh, you sound like this.
Starting point is 00:45:00 person but they don't tell the niggas that nah they don't it's ligas that I know say they don't like to the females though how they do the females maybe it's a little bit more rough but all you LA niggins sound like they from Detroit damn it ain't even going to lie yeah I can't even get into the style really like that like I fuck with blue bucks I fuck with
Starting point is 00:45:21 HBK Jogies you know but other than that I can't really get into that but why do you feel like damn well I ain't gonna say why you feel like mainstream from Compton. You just said it's like, it ain't no female that came out of Compton. When you said that shit
Starting point is 00:45:35 and I was thinking about it. I was like, what? It ain't no girls that came out of Compton. I mean, you got Yo-Yo, but, uh... I mean, let's go to her respect to you know, yo-yo. Yeah, but these young, you know, younger, at the younger generation, where it's at? And I feel like it's too many niggas in Compton
Starting point is 00:45:52 but it has to not feel like they can't pull up a motherfucking girl, you know what I'm saying? No matter what it is, Pull her up and let's see what it do. Like, it's too many artists coming out of Compton. Definitely. You feel me?
Starting point is 00:46:06 Why you feel like, why you think, you know what I'm saying? Ain't nobody went mainstream, in your opinion. I just feel like we got to make mainstream music. That's one thing. Like I said, the product got to sell mainstream. And I really feel like I got the ability to do that. And I also feel like it's a few that I feel like, I feel like it's people that got the ability to do.
Starting point is 00:46:27 It's just like how much work you're going to put in. That's the first thing I think about when I wake up. It's like, man, Am I going to do this female from Compton that really do this shit? Like how much work you want to put in. And I just feel like it's the music. I feel like we got to have mainstream music. I can't think of an artist that's making mainstream crazy music.
Starting point is 00:46:45 But he included myself. Hold on. Every interview I have, this young lady comes in here and everybody screams her name. Gina, popular, man. Come on, Linda, dog. Are you doing this shit on purpose? You want to sit down, honey. your hair done.
Starting point is 00:47:02 You know what I'm saying? You want to sit down? Come on, dog. When she come in, you know time is up. I don't know if you're doing. He said, you got your hair done. I've got a limited time when she walked in this motherfucker. She's funny.
Starting point is 00:47:20 I love her to the cell. You know what I'm stupid. Let's go here with Genevues. As Genevues ever invited you to a cipher? Yeah. She did? I wasn't ready, though. I know Gina know that I wasn't ready.
Starting point is 00:47:32 I don't know. Honestly, she was working with my boy, Jarrett's Law. That's who I was rapping with at the time. He went to her show, and they were trying to give me to come up there, and I was just, like, nervous. A verse? I got a verse for you. I probably did.
Starting point is 00:47:47 I don't know, but I remember, like, he talking about, like, the whole cipher things. I... Let's talk about it. Dang. When was this? What yours is? It depends on the year. Hold on, my man.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Nah, I remember we've been... I've been trying to do a cypher with you for a minute. I remember we had a couple like ass-by-ass. Look, I don't believe it. Like, when are you going to come, dig it? So, Gina trying to get her for a cyber. If y'all can't hear, you know what I'm saying? She only got the verse because something happened.
Starting point is 00:48:24 Somebody got to kill the something. I don't know. I don't know. You know why you don't know. I don't know. I'm going to tell you why you don't know. Because you was lying like a motherfucker. Bigger!
Starting point is 00:48:40 I ain't going to never play with nobody life like that. She didn't want to go do that shit. I was telling me. You don't know. You got me sweating. I'm like, What the fuck? No, she's lying like a moment.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Let me get her off of. I'm going to get it. I'm going to go to our DM. Oh, no, let's transition to a part of that. Who died in 2017? Dogs? Oh, my God. Oh, she's a cold.
Starting point is 00:49:05 Hey, when I came here, I said, y'all ain't got no dogs, right? I do not fuck with dogs, man. You don't like dogs? I'm jumping on couches. You got the phobia? What happened? When I was little, man, my mom scared of dogs, too. So when I was little, she used to be walking me to school.
Starting point is 00:49:19 And the dog would come. She had jumped on top of the car, and the dog would be like, this. And she's going to get mad at me about this, too. And then another situation, I messed up my leg. I was like seven or eight, man, a dog started chasing us. She going to get in the car and lock the door. Yeah. My mom, like, she locked the door out of the, like, she kept blocking it and unlocking me.
Starting point is 00:49:37 I'm running around the car, the dog jump on top of me. But dogs in the ghetto is different, dog. Dogs in the ghetto is different. No, but I'm getting better. I'm glad you know here. I'm getting better. Living in the ghetto was moms and pops together or were they separate? No, they was together.
Starting point is 00:49:55 The whole, your whole younger life? Yeah, they, they was together. All right, I got to, I'm going to ask you this. Because how did they accept you, you know what I'm saying, coming out, you know what I'm saying, gay? Okay, I got you right here. My mom, she, uh, I think she has seen something, she had something on Facebook. I think I was flirting somebody on Facebook or something, right? So she's like, what's this, whatever?
Starting point is 00:50:21 So I forgot how that went, really. I know she found out, right? So she had a hard time at first, but she wasn't, it wasn't, like, hard like that. Like, she snapped out of it. Like, you know, I still love you, whatever. So she came in my room and she was like, I just got one question. Like, so I ain't going to get no girl babies or nothing. I was like, no, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:50:38 She's like, but how you know you don't like something? You never try to do it? I said, Mama, get out of my room? Like, you give you? Yeah. So she's like, all right, all right, I'm going to leave it alone. Like, she went tripping. And then my dad
Starting point is 00:50:48 I didn't tell him She kept telling me When you're gonna tell your dad When you're gonna tell your dad I'm like I didn't tell him So I had this girlfriend She was like coming around
Starting point is 00:50:56 My mom knew right So my mom loved my mom Could the girl Me and my dad We were gonna go get A battery for my car He's like Is that your girlfriend?
Starting point is 00:51:04 I was like yeah But were you dressing You were still dressing like You know what I always just like A tomboy though Like a tomboy Yeah I wasn't like
Starting point is 00:51:14 Two But I was always like just rough, like, yeah, I just was my regular self. And I feel like they, you ask them, like, maybe if they knew before, I don't think so. Like, I really don't think so. Like, I really don't think it was like, oh, we knew she was going to be. To what age, though, like 16, 17? Honestly, my mom and then found out I was, like, 20.
Starting point is 00:51:38 20? Yeah. I was, I wasn't, like, it wasn't in high school or nothing. Because, like I said, I always been to myself. Like, I didn't date, like, crazy, or I didn't. You know, I always just been to myself. I always just been time boy, I played basketball, and I also did cheer. Cheer was on accident, though.
Starting point is 00:51:52 So I always just been like, it was possible for me to not be game. You get what I'm saying? It was possible for me to be. It was like you couldn't tell, really. It's really just, it's just in you. Yeah. You know, I had a cindering situation with my oldest daughter, you know what I'm saying, and she has something, I don't know these kids are crazy.
Starting point is 00:52:13 She said something about some bisexual. Well, her mama start panicking. But, you know, I'm having to talk with her. But I really don't give a fuck what you got going on. You know, you got to school. You're doing this. You feel me? You're successful.
Starting point is 00:52:27 You got your head on straight. You ain't from trying to kill nobody. Right. Don't be a serial killer. Or don't be no sick, motherfucker. Yeah, like, you ain't doing that. I don't give a fuck. But, you know, that's just the older generation.
Starting point is 00:52:38 My motherfuckers really didn't know how to take that shit now. I think it's kind of like it's lighting up right now. It's super light right now. Because even right now, I'm like, damn. Even when I was scared about my mom, I'm fine. It still wasn't as lighted as it is now. It's like now it's just too much going on though. Now it's like I feel like the TV try to like make people think.
Starting point is 00:52:59 Persuade you to do something. You know, like feel like this like growing up, I didn't understand my emotions like that. It wasn't persuaded to me. Like it wasn't like you got to do this or it wasn't nothing that traumatic happened that made me like it was just like in me like this is just who I am. I never understood it. Then I got older and I was just like, okay. Like, I always was even uncomfortable with girls, like being around a girl. Like, I just never been like over sexual or nothing like that.
Starting point is 00:53:24 It's just I always been just. So when I realized like, damn, I'd be thinking girls is cute. Like, it was like, okay, because I wasn't attracted to. You get me like, it's just, they'd be like my homeboys. Yeah. So I never experienced too much of nothing. And then I just realized, okay, I think this is I like girls. Oh, this is what I.
Starting point is 00:53:44 This is what I. I like, like, yeah, this is what I'm doing. This is what? She's a bad one. Let me see, let me see. But my whole family, like, they, everybody treated me the same. Nobody treated me different. Literally, nobody, because I'm just real family-oriented, like, super type of my family.
Starting point is 00:54:04 No, that's good. That's great, I mean, I like to hear that, I mean, shit. And I feel like, you know, a lot of shit. They are trying to push a lot of shit on the kids. Yeah, that's what I do disagree with. They definitely try to. to push a lot of shit on kids, but it definitely, I feel like, it's in you, you feel me?
Starting point is 00:54:19 Like, you can't just really just transition that way. But I don't know. Some niggas it is, I don't know. But, you know what I feel like to that shit got to be in here. But, you know, it is lightening up a lot, you feel like. And I think that's a good thing. You feel what I think that's a good thing. And it just, and it got to be totally everywhere, just in hip hop too.
Starting point is 00:54:36 Like, niggas just need to kind of lighten up on the whole little everything. You know what I mean? Like, because it's like the saucy Santana shit. Like, I'm not going to lie. He got some bangers. He got some bangers. Hey, he got some bangers. Like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Oh, so, look. As I said, the product's selling. Look, that's crazy. But that's crazy, though. Like, I would never be like, hey, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, what's that? You feel me? You stupid.
Starting point is 00:55:05 If my girl showed me, she showed me the shit, I'm like, oh, no, that's wild. I don't know. You stupid. But it bangs, though. But the world is growing, though. You know what I'm saying? The world is wild. No, you're a real one.
Starting point is 00:55:20 It ain't easy up, but I don't know if it's going to ease up to what because the thing he got ass in the beard. So I don't know if it's going to go that crazy right now. Well, you didn't just like assing the beard, bro. He got out. Yeah, it's like, it's crazy, though. Stop seeing that. Like the world is the world to start evolving.
Starting point is 00:55:37 It's evolving. But you know what I'm saying? But, you know, everybody taking it like long time ago, that shit would have been out. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely. So hip hop is doing this thing, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:55:49 Yeah. But, yeah, man. Yeah, like, you know, Gina came up here and fucked my whole little shit up, you know what I'm saying? Because I knew it. Look, she's the... But yeah, before we get about it, you know what I'm saying? Let these motherfuckers know what you got coming next. All right, man, I got missed calls, volume two dropping out, dropping soon.
Starting point is 00:56:11 I got G-fund going crazy right now. Make sure y'all go stream that. And we're going to do an Asian friends concert. make sure you pull up. Pull up with Gina. She came to the last one. Oh, she came to the last one? Yeah, she came to the last one.
Starting point is 00:56:20 She don't invite me nowhere or do nothing outside of this shit. I'm going to invite you personally. But yeah, make sure y'all get ready for the. You hosting who mixed? Oh, yeah. That's really, right? See? She'd be just, hey, hold on.
Starting point is 00:56:32 Gina just be shouting out shit and don't be knowing the full thing sometimes. I'm seeing. I'm seeing that. That's why I told her to sit down. But yeah, make sure y'all go stream all that G-Funk out right now. Stay tuned for me in Blue Buck's record right in. Asia, Princess. Compton, follow me on Instagram, A-Z-J-A-H-U-U-U-U, and I want to give you something.
Starting point is 00:56:50 Hey, can y'all bring me the, uh, I want to give you a little. I don't know if you could fit a medium, but that's all I had left. It's the custom, uh, miscarred. Medium? I mean, I got some treats for you in the box, though. I can put it on, but I'm, uh, it's a scary stuff. You know, I'm trying to talk, you know what I'm saying? Just give it to them. But, uh, there's some treats in there for you, but yeah, that's it.
Starting point is 00:57:10 See, Ray, I appreciate you having me. Yeah. You open that one, you know, some treats in there. I don't know if you do edibles and shit, but I mean, you know, I just want you to enjoy yourself. Okay, I got some light. No, just something light, but yeah, Ms. Calls out right now. And that's what it is, man. That's all I got.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Yeah, T. Real came in here with that energy. Yeah. And we finished with that. All right, I appreciate you, man. Man, you know what I'm saying? I fuck with you, man. There go. My girl, Asia, don't worry about nothing.
Starting point is 00:57:48 You know what I'm saying? I'll catch her on all the whole little shit. What's your Instagram again? A-Z-J-A-H underscore. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And if you want to catch me other than this, you know what I'm saying? Catch back on fig.
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