No Jumper - Dreebo on How He Plans To Become a Legend, Staying out of Gang Politics & More

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

T-Rell sits down with Dreebo to speak on his come-up, playing football, relationship with Schoolboy Q, working with The Alchemist, Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt, and more! ----- 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!!! 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

All right, y'all, man. I'm back, man. T-Rail, man. I'm here with my homie Dribo, man. I told y'all, I was going to, like, well, everybody, I was going to start highlighting people, you know, and bringing motherfuckers up. I felt like it's important.

Bringing people up, I felt like, you know, I needed to shine a light on that, you know, put something else on their resume. You feel me? I just felt like you needed that extra boost. You know, you've been doing a lot out here in a music game. you feel me so you know I want everybody you know introduce my dribo my boy you know what I'm saying appreciate you for having me it's a blessing being up here man yeah on top of your

motherfucking ass talk about look nigger then brought money up two three times hey I got a poll time you know what I mean if I ain't lobbying for me then who's gonna do it I mean yeah you I'm saying niggas is fucking with you in this shit you feel me so I had to just on the basis of that too you know I had to go back you know what's saying see what's going on I'm like okay okay you know what I'm saying yeah you feel me niggas is bringing up his name for a reason but you know and it's and a nigga whore you feel me so yeah I appreciate yes sir I fuck with it man so you know what's up nigga what you got going man I got a lot of shit in the works um coming off a 365 last year I dropped the song a day for the whole year so that's kind of like my big thing right now I'm working

on the album I'm working on one produced by the census that's like my duo that uh produced shut the fuck up, one of my biggest records. And then I'm also working on the album that I produce and engineer myself completely. Man, you cold, man. Before we start getting into death of what you like doing right now, you know what I'm saying, we can start from the beginning, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. I'm from L.A.

I'm from L.A. lived in Mid-City, L.A. for like the first eight years of my life and then moved to West L.A. I pretty much grew up an athlete. So I was playing football from like seven years old up and through college. So, like, that was, that's who I was all throughout my regular life, played at Baldwin Hills, you feel me, went to Venice High School. That's where I met the homie tiny, you know what I mean. And I was playing football, went to college, played football.

And then in my junior year, that's when I, like, started dabbling with music. And I just make, like, bullshit songs on the side with the little iPhone, earphone, and garage band. And I just liked it. So I just, like, kept following that interest. And I just kept doing it more and more and more and realized, like, damn, man, I really liked this shit. And so I just kept doing what I like. It turned it to a passion and now we're here. So in college, you was like, you know what?

Fuck this shit. I ain't doing this shit, you know what I'm saying? So I'm going to do the music. Yeah, for sure. But there was a point where I thought about dropping out. And I talked to one of my brothers who actually did drop out and then go back and get his degree. And like, you know, he gave me a lot of good perspective during that time. So I ended up still finishing college and getting my degree and then pursuing music afterwards.

What did you get your degree in? Technical communication. Technical communication. Yeah, so it's like fucking like taking complicated verbiage and dumbing it down for like everyday use and shit like that. Oh, it's some bullshit. Yeah, a little bit. But I ain't go lie though. I don't do nothing in that field for real, for real, for real.

I know you don't, nigga. That shit taught me a lot though because no, like one of the biggest things about that degree is like being clear and concise in your messaging. And so I ended up making music So it's like that shit helped me in being able to like convey my message and my music You know what I mean and get to the point and like really convey my shit and know what I'm saying And what I'm trying to say and execute it Yeah so where was how did mom and dad feel about that? I mean my parents stay cool like I mean pops he's not tripping

He's like you know what I mean do you're not really tripping she's just like whatever you do may go do it a hundred and be great at it You know what I mean it wasn't really about like oh you got a degree so you got a degree so you got to go do X, Y, Z with your degree. It was kind of like, live your life. Oh, damn, that's cool. I mean, I like supportive parents, because most of these niggas that be rapping, parents be like, you know what, boy, you ain't for the, you know what I'm sure she probably felt that way at some point.

Like, my damn, this nigga would be a rapper out of all this shit, you feel? Yeah. What are moms? What profession is moms in? So, moms used to work in, like, bone mail transplant, like at UCLA. She retired now, though. But now we all collectively run. our family restaurant. We got a restaurant in Mid-City called Natural Art Jamaican Restaurant.

It's right on the corner of Washington and Fifth, and so we all just run that together right now. Damn, so y'all own a Jamaican restaurant? Yeah. A Jamaican restaurant. How's that doing? It's good. It's good. We survived shit, recession, pandemic. So, I mean, we're doing good. It was a little questionable at the beginning of the pandemic, but I know a lot of people who, like, either had to start go-fund means or clothes and stuff like that. We actually did better during that time, A lot of people came and started supporting even more. So it was super dope to see that. And just, you know, we're blessed to be able to keep going.

I mean, in those pandemic days, people were like, man, I lost money. I lost this. I lost that. And I was like, I ain't lose no money. You know what I'm saying? It was kind of like, it like made my hustle harder. And people were like support more. And, you know, I got the online shit.

So niggas was my online shit? Like, you know, so was y'all doing like the door dash? It was a nigga really fucking with it like that? Yeah. So we got lucky because I moved back to that. LA. I was living in San Francisco. I moved back to LA probably like five years ago or something like that. And when I came in, we had like our own delivery. We had a nigga who was just delivering. And then I came in and like implemented door dash, Uber eats, postmates, all that. So we kind of were a little bit ahead of it. And I did that maybe like 2017 or something like that. And so when the pandemic hit, a lot of people were trying to get that now. And it was like wait lists and you was on like hundred and something of wait list. So we kind of got lucky that we were already had that running. And then we were, we were, was kind of like hustling, getting, I was getting, like, our names on different little list, because this was right around the time when George Floyd passed, and it was like a bunch

of lists that just, like, black businesses to support in this Y&Z. So I was trying to make sure we get on every one of them lists. And, you know, exposure kind of just helped us stay, like, thriving. Do you use some of that, like, you use most of that money, like, to support your rap career? No. Well, I mean, I get paid from a year. But, yeah, basically, like, all, everything I get, I'm trying to reinvest into this shit because I believe I could go far. And you know, reinvesting, you doing this shit yourself. Yeah, I'm a one-man band.

You producing yourself. You're engineering yourself. Yeah, I got producers that I work with, but I do a lot of my production myself as well. Yeah, what have you done so far? You know what I'm saying? For other niggas as far as producing or writing, like, you know what projects have you been on?

Like, I want the people to, you know, really know what's up with you. Yeah, so I just recently was on Dame Dillard, Damien Lillard, I was going to call him Dame Dahl. But Dame Dahlia, Dame Lillard, whatever you want to call him, his last project. I was on a song called Home Team, where I did The Hook. A little bit earlier, I did a song with Larry June called Organic Pimpin. Both of those are past a million right now.

You produced on that? No, I was on it. Oh, you was on it? Yeah. Oh, you're on it. Yeah. You called. I'm featured on it.

And then I also did, I actually did a record with traffic earlier in my career on the Alchemist and Budgies, the good book, too. And that song ended up being the single on that project. And how did that relationship with Dame Dahlia come about? So I actually know his cousin. So when I was living in the Bay Area, when I got, so basically I graduated high school and I moved to the Bay Area. And when I was living in the Bay Area, this is fast forward.

I come back, go to school, come back. I'm working at this company doing like delivering hospital beds and shit. I'm doing music on the side, but you know, I got to eat. So I'm working doing this hospital bed company. I happened to be working with two of his cousins. And one of them made music. We just chop it up. We ended up being cool.

Fast forward. I moved to L.A. Like two years later, we always just kind of stayed connected. And so he called me one day. This was like 2019 or something like that. Maybe early 2020, something like that. He called me like Dame looking for a singer on this song. He sent me the record.

I did the hook on like a day and then sent it right back. And Dame was fucking with it. And then he ended up dropping it like a couple months later. and then full circle it ended up being on the album the following year. That's hard, you know what I'm saying? I want to let everybody know as far as being a rapper,

nigger, you can have a job. You can go to work. There's nothing wrong we're going to work and you see what happened when this nigga went to work. You know what I'm saying? Built a relationship was on the song with Dame Dala boom, you know what I'm saying?

And shit will grow like that. Relationships will grow just like that organically. You feel me? Like, Mom, you got to eat. Yeah, you got to eat. You got to do something because you just can't be. out here you feel me like that it ain't gonna just happen like it ain't gonna happen overnight it

ain't going to happen like so you gotta you gotta you gotta build it's brick by brick you definitely got a bill you know something that's super intriguing you know what I'm saying really why I got you in here that I really haven't seen nobody do is you know what I'm saying back to what you was saying you dropped a song every day yeah you know what I'm saying and this was a last year last year every day of 2021 this nigga dropped a song like you know the distinct team in here they say they'd be working but they ain't did that shit you feel me me nigger if y'all niggas might want to watch this shit y'all niggas this nigger outworking you niggas like bro like how the hell you find the motivation to drop a song

every day man it it actually stemmed from a nip and gary v interview that i saw on youtube in 2017 and they were kind of in the studio and they were just talking about like the future of music and gary v like one day is going to be a big time artist to drop a song every day and like never look back and that that idea was just intriguing to me and so I was like at that time I wanted to do it but I just like I never did it and then the pandemic hit and in the middle of pandemic I'm like fuck this should have been the year that I was doing that everybody in the house everybody on the phone so uh 2021 come around we like is the world going open up nobody really know so I was like fuck it I'm gonna do it this year and so January 1st was coming around I probably decided like the beginning of December.

And I was like, I went hard in the beginning of December. I'm just recording, recording, recording. And then January 1st come, I'm like, fuck it. Just gone. And I'm just every day, song, every day, every day, every day. Was you writing or was you freestyling? A little bit of both. So it's like, it was like waves.

So it would be like, at beginning of the year, I'm hot, I'm fresh. I'm ready to do it. So I'm knocking, knocking songs out. I'm finishing the month before the month. You know what I mean? And then as the year goes on, you know, You got life catching up. You got people passing and stuff like that.

It's just different things happen. And like the motivation slowed down. Sometimes it's low. Sometimes you got to force yourself to get in there and get a song. Sometimes you got it. And so it was just depending on how I felt. And that shit really just helped me hella as an artist just to be able to like go and create. Like it feels easier now now that I put myself through that like gauntlet.

Yeah, I mean, shit. It's probably pointing out of, I would have been like, man, fuck, I got a job. dude. I know you had the point. Man, it's sometimes when the song came out at 11 p.m. I'm like, I'm going to get this bitch out before midnight for sure.

It's rough. But I'm like, you know what I mean? I made sure I got one out every single day. Out of them 365, how many of you think is cold, though? Shit, honestly, over 80%. Over 80%. You feel like the motherfucker's dangerous.

It's a goal. It's a playlist on Spotify, Dribo 365. Tap in with it, you feel me? You could be the job. Oh, whew, nigger, that's crazy, homie. And you put this shit on Spotify for niggins will go. It's all original music.

I'm figuring, like, why niggins didn't pick this up, you feel me? I know your distro kid got a gang of bread in it. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool. It's cool. It's cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like, yeah, man, I think it's one of those things where it's like

this is a prep. Like, I think people are going to catch up to this as I continue to grow and continue to do more things and continue to drop. more and more records, and then they're going to go back. Like, oh, damn, this nigga did what? And then they're going to listen to it and be like, oh, shit, this nigga been going crazy. Yeah. Have you ever got frustrated chatting this music shit to where you feel like, you know what, man?

I don't know where I'm going. I feel stagnant. And, you know, this shit just ain't working for me. Yeah, for sure. I feel like that sometimes. You know what I mean? And I think that's just what comes with the territory. I just always remind myself that, like, a lot of, even just like the story I just told you about Dame Liller, like,

a lot of the shit that happened, it's just like, it got to be God, because it's like, what's the odds of I meeting that nigga and him choosing me to reach out to or, and then me being prepared for that opportunity to do that record the way I did it. You know what I mean? So it's like a lot of the things that happen to propel my career or just been milestones in my career growing.

It's been like, for me, God moments. And I'm like, this shit for a reason. I just got to keep going to do my part. How far has this music shit took you? So, you know what I'm saying? Like, I know you've been in a few rooms with motherfuckers, but yeah. Yeah.

What's your biggest moments in this shit? Man, my biggest moments. Oh, I think doing those two shows on Q's crash tour, that's probably some of my biggest moments, partly because, you know what I mean? I know Q and watching his trajectory and who he is and just being able to get on the same stage that I watched him kill right after.

Like, that was a big moment for me. So shout out to the homie T.F. and Q for sure. And if y'all don't know, you're talking about schoolboy Q, So how did you meet school boy? So I met Q through the homie tiny a long time ago. I mean, I know the homie since we was 14 and just kind of like knowing them over time, just being over there every now and then.

A school because you play football, like you said. You play football. Because they play football before y'all, right? They played at, did they play at Santa Monica? So Floyd played with my brother at Venice. At Venice, yeah. And then basically so how I meet Tiny, Floyd like, hey, Tiny, after practice, go find a nigga named Naim and go to his house.

And I'm like, so I'm like, all right, for sure. So basically after practice, the dick comes to me like, hey, you know you? I'm like, yeah, he's like, I'm supposed to go to your. Floyd said, I'm supposed to go. But I had already knew Floyd because my brother, he would be out of my house all the time. I'm like, that for sure. And then, you know, niggas been homies ever since because we got a lot of values that align. Yeah, so being on that tour, who took you on that tour, TF?

Yeah, TF brought me on that. Shout out my boy, T.F, man. How was getting that call? you know what, nigga, let's go on tour. Because, you know, we're from the 50s, and you know, a lot of us, not a lot of it, but a few of us is kind of famous, you know, and some of us, you know, still kind of living in regular life.

And we were just talking about this with tiny. We might wake up to a wild-ass call or a text. Like, hey, my nigga, shit, you ready to go to Scotland? Like, what? You know what I'm saying? So T. So T.F. hit you like, hey, you want to go a tour with school boys? Like, nigga.

I'm like, hell yeah. Yeah, what the fuck? You know what I mean? And I've been to, like, so many shows. Like, I went to the championship tour. I went to, like, a bunch of blank face shows. And, like, I've been around. So it's like, to have the opportunity to bust the stage was like, no brain.

And I know, whatever I got to do to be there. I'm there, nigga. Yeah, oh, God, and heaven, like, shit. You say, how many shows you did? No, we did two. Two shows. We did Oakland at the Fox Theater. And then we did the Wamoo Theater in Seattle.

Damn. Was they fucking with you? Yeah, it was lit. For sure, for sure. I did the whole, dude. Hands up, man, I'm going to meet, yeah. Because, I mean, I'm a performer,

you know what I mean? Like, I really do this too. So it's like, I'm prepared for any opportunity I get. Yeah. So, you know, I like my, my niggas that come up here, you feel me? And, you know, that really ain't got no, like, a gang ties. I wouldn't say gang ties, but they're not from a gang. And I always ask them, you know,

and I kind of appreciate it a little bit because, you know, I kind of feel like sometimes I wish I wouldn't have did that. shit so I can you know maneuver of my way through more shit without the politics you know it's like how did you you know what I'm saying do that you know I'm saying for yourself like how did you like you know maneuver away from that shit and not get caught up I think just being myself like I've always been somebody who kind of like I'm gonna do my thing and so it's like if I just I just always been myself being a solid individual been stand up never on like weird shit or just like playing a fence or nothing it was just like yeah this is me

And it's like the people that I connected with, you know what I mean? From the 50s, they're not on no like, well, you over here and they get put on. They just like, they accepted me for who I am and they fuck with me. And so I was able to just continue to be who I am and be solid. Yeah, I mean, because that's just how the 50s is. If it was across the tracks, it'd been another story. We just cool over there, you know, it's just cool. It's a family environment.

It's family oriented. Like, I really fuck with it too. Like, man, that's why you fall into certain shit. Then when you get older, it's like, oh, hold on. It's another little story, you feel me? But, you know, for the 50s, it was, you know, it was crazy. And being in the 50s, my, you know, musical, like, influences are, like, you know, it start getting crazy, you know what I'm saying?

We was over there partying, you know what I'm saying, house parties, niggas coming up and down the street, niggas was listening to a lot of different music, you know, fucking around over there. Like, what's their, like, music influences growing up? Man, I'm kind of like a little. the place I've because like I grew up fucking with what my mom listened to so it's like sundays cleaning house type shit she'll go from Tupac to Bob Marley to fucking Anita Baker you know I mean so I'm I'm really heavy on R&B that's one of my

big influences like Lupe Fiasco's my favorite rapper you know me so I got like a I got like a wide range of shit but as far as like influence in my music like Q definitely I think he he he uh influence me in the way that I approach this shit. You know what I mean? Elaborate. Just like this, like this nigger, like, it's the next level when you see him work. Mature.

It's mature. It's like, you know what I mean? It's like, people probably think he just have fun all the time, but it's like that niggily. And it's time to lock in. He locked in. Like the amount of records he record for his projects and shit and how he's like meticulous on the way he do shit is, is inspiring. So I take heed to that shit when I'm around it.

And just like Nate dogs, a huge influence. me, you know, that's where I get a lot of my melodies and singing stuff from. Yeah, like reggae, R&B, reggae, rap, those's my three. Who are you listening to right now, though, while you're moving around? Oh, man. Honestly, I'd be listening to Instrumentals. So, like, I'll be listening to, like, the Mike and Keys album, Midnight Mirage. Because I mean, I'm a one-man band, so I'm working.

So, like, a lot of times I just, I don't really want words. And then aside from that, I'd be listening to myself. I think there's a lot of dope people doing shit. You know, I listen to the homies like Bell, T.F. You know what I mean? Traffic and shit like that. But I think the city's in a good place for sure, for sure. But that's real rap, too.

You know what I'm saying? They're really rapping. You know, like, T.F. Bell, like, these niggas really coming with bars. You know what I'm saying? Like, then you got your niggas that's kind of ratchet, then you got your niggas that's kind of singing and doing your shit. Like, I know I'm trying to figure out like, how hard is it for you to be producing a record? then rap on it like

I always trying to figure out like how hard that shit was like that's crazy like you're a low-key genius I ain't gonna like you I mean it's hard for show but for me it's easy because like I don't I pride myself and being versatile so like I don't buy myself to no box I'm like so when I'm creating there

I might create some shit that sound right shit that sound left but like when I'm creating it if I'm producing the beat like I hear where I want to go right away and so it's like it's easy for me to come up with a hook or a melody or a verse or whatever. And so it's like, yeah, like, it kind of makes it a little hard for me to kind of fit in

in today's L.A. sound because it's like, I ain't talking about street shit, but I ain't talking about ratchet shit. I'm talking to, like, mature niggas who's like on some type of journey. You know what I mean? And so it's like, I think it'll all come full circle when it's supposed to. It's all about time. Do you feel like, you know, versatility is kind of a part of why L.A. is kind of still, like, stuck in that boxing. Motherfuckers not really fucking with us outside our region? I don't think that's a reason. I just think like it's timing.

You know what I mean? Because I feel like L.A. is in a good place musically. And I feel like we're like getting to that point where we can possibly take the torch back. If like everybody who's hot right now just continue going crazy. Like who? It's like the Kendricks, the blast, the Tart of the creators, the YG, the Kaylin, the Jason Cash, the Bells, the T.Fs, like the G. Perico's, like, everybody. Yeah, I mean. It is.

I don't know. For some reason, it just feel like it's always a politic with us or as, you know, the other, you know, states or West Coast or South. Don't kind of like pick up on us like that right now, you feel me? Like, we can't really get out of there like that. But I feel like Roddy Rich is in there, though. Ready, Rich for sure. You know what I'm saying?

He got out of there. I just wouldn't bring the name 50 pieces. I have to stop something. Yeah, and I mean, the niggas be getting up and that they do it. It's a lot of niggas. Like, I think LA is in a good place. I really do. Yeah, I think they are in a good place, too, man.

Sometimes I'd be feeling like, but then it'd be like the politics always trying to to hold a nigga back. This is the game politics always. Like, it's somewhere in there, you feel me, like to where you can't do shit in the kind of hold us back, you feel me, as far as that shit. But, yeah. Oh, yeah, the Kendrick album, you fuck with that? Yeah, that shit, all right.

I'm saying, like, you was here the other day. I'm saying I'm a niggins didn't want to. I'm like, I'm like, I've been hearing a lot of Kendrick slander, and I don't want to hear that shit. You feel me? Like, nah, hell, no, that shit is hard. That shit is hard as foot.

Just like, you know what I mean? I like the way he puts his shit out. You know what I mean? Like the art in his shit, the underlying shit that you probably don't know, but you create your own conclusion of. And then he also finds a way to make, like, music in the midst of the message.

Yeah. And that's kind of what I try to do in my shit, too. It's like, I want to be talking about some shit, but I want you to be able to slap that shit. shit too. Oh, God. And I like the family aspect of it. I don't like to you to share shit, you feel me, and your shit, you know what I'm saying?

Like, you got a family thing going on. Did you get married at a young age? Yeah, I mean, I guess 27 young, I guess. You still married? Yeah, I'm married right now. Oh, you call, bro. I don't get a fuck, man. I'll be doing my thing. You're called a nigga, man. How your

wife helping you out with your music career, man? She was, like, she, uh, she's shooting me with in the gym, you know what I mean? Like, she helped me any way I need. You know what I mean? And she, like, she was with me in the beginning and she's with me now. And she still believe in the vision the same way I do. Oh, she was helping you, she was helped managing you. Yeah, I mean, I've been with her for a long time. So does she still help you manage right now? Yeah, for sure. She's like, you know what I mean? Like certain shit, because like she's in her

own world. She's successful in her own right. And, you know what I mean? She's like my resource. I bounce ideas off her. If I need some shit ran or, hey, I need a, I need a, I need a, I need a lawyer for this contract for this place or whatever like you know what i mean she she held me down oh that's cool man i like that and i like hearing that i mean but you know me personally my wife got me fucked up you're not managing nothing with me you know what i'm saying get your ass about here you yeah i know what she's over when she managed you already it's d't you know more man she'd be in the emails man

trying to see you got her own shopped the homies email you feel me so yeah that's right I'd be like hey you want to send me to her then she takes through them to tell me the good ones any of your homies you got around you right now telling you whether not your shit is hot or not I'm like I know you can't be having no yes bed around you oh no for sure niggas gonna give you the real for sure

your wife be giving you the real too yeah for sure like nigga that shit whack sometimes well not like she'd be like she ain't gonna say it like Because that's not in her, but she's like that one. Like, she's like trying to lay you down nicely. I'm like, no, you tripping this shit hard. Yeah. But, you know, I'm the artist, so I think everything I make hard.

But, you know, sometimes you double back with fresh ears and you realize like, yeah, that one probably wasn't it. Where you see yourself in this music group in this music game? Man, I'm trying to be, I see myself as being, you know what I mean, one of the legends out of L.A. You know what I mean? One of the dudes who make a lot of the dudes who make a lot of the guy. a name for themselves who not only

put it on for the city but help you know what I mean bring niggas up do shit like what you're doing you know what I mean share my platform with other people and kind of give them opportunities as I get them yeah I like that man I hope you do become a legend you feel me because I'm like I think I had the interview I ain't gonna say

I had well fuck it I got the first interview because the other one you know what I'm saying nah hell no I'm like this now shout out to the other ones too though you feel no they was that was cool you know what I'm saying but now you I mean you're the biggest platform so far for show and like you know what I mean you you you reaching back and you know I mean and so to give you your flowers man I definitely appreciate what you doing I fucks

what you doing like I was telling you when I was up here for bail shit like I don't even think you realize how big what you doing is and that shit is huge real I mean no you just sitting here I've been doing a lot of shit for a very long time though just not this shit you know so I don't I kind of don't be looking at that shit like man like damn I don't really what I'm doing, you know what I'm saying? It's big, bro. Yeah, sometimes I'd be looking at a couple comments. I'm like, damn, that shit cold.

But then I look, I'm like, I just got to keep going because I don't want to dwell in the, you know, in the bullshit. And I don't want to get, you know, get hyped up. And I'm just trying to stay organic with this shit, you feel me? I was telling niggas the other day, I don't leave it. I'm glad I never even looked up to niggas. Like, I didn't even watch podcast, a nigga, or I wasn't on no, on YouTube and doing another that bullshit

nigga until I got here you feel me? And then it's just like now I'm like, I'm cool like I'm just being myself you know and I'm just I want to talk to my homies and niggas I know you know

yeah and you know like y'all I want to fuck with y'all and you know do that shit like that shit is tight because it's also like you ain't going in try to be something you saw you just came in

doing your thing and it's like take it to leave it and that's kind of like my approach to the music too like I understand everybody ain't going like everything or everything ain't for everybody.

It's going to be niggas that be like, ah, that nigger, we... But then it's going to be niggas who really see what I'm doing and like, oh, yeah, this nigga cold. Yeah. You have a DM niggas asking for a verse and niggas ain't hit you back yet? No, not really.

I don't think so. Because this music game cold. I probably like DM niggas trying to like, yo, what's up? I want to work type shit. But then I realize, like, that shit don't work like that. But you hear stories about how niggas be like, yeah, I was sending the 500 emails a day or whatever.

Like, that shit don't work like. How you see a nigga in the street? Like, what's the deal? Let me, you know what I'm saying? Let's connect. Let's text a nigga. Boo, boom. I'm going to get you the bird.

I'm going to do the niggins stop hitting you. Like, yeah, all right. Oh, yeah. I've probably, probably been through that a little bit. But I just look at it as like, man, it's all going to come full circle because I know where I'm going. And I know where I'm going to take this. That's cold, man.

That's cold. Like, when did you start thinking, like, you know what? I'm really going to be the best at this shit. Man, probably. I mean, early on, I knew I knew. I had something because I was just like, you know what I mean? Like basically the first song I made, that shit was, well, not the first song, but, oh yeah, it was the first song. First time I made it's called I'm already knowing I was in college and shit.

And then that shit was weak, but at the time, it was like I made it. And then one of my teammates shot a video for it. And then I'm walking around campus and everybody like, hey, Dreebo, I'm already knowing it on some shit. I'm like, all right, I might be on this stuff. So I keep going. And then I'd probably say like when I moved back in 2017, like, the day I moved back, Tiny hit me like, hey, I'm about to go to this studio session. You're trying to go.

I'm like, yeah, for sure. Like, this type of shit I moved back for it. Shit ended up being at the Alchemist House. And it's like, Action Bronson, Earl Sweacher, Q, all these niggins in there and shit. I'm like, damn, what the fuck? This is tight. You know what I mean? Somehow, some way, they was working on something.

They end up in some other room, and it ended up being me traffic and Budgie in the studio. And so we all just chopping it up. You know what I mean? Budgie plays some music. Traffic play some music. I play some music we all fuck with each other shit

and he's like hey I'm working on this project with Alchemist called The Good Book da da da da and then we end up recording the song which ended up being the single

and I'm like shit nigga yeah you feel of me that's just off just you know what I mean

like so I'm like yeah I'm on to something can ever hit you hit you about a verse or anything yet no I'm trying to get what that nigga's scalless

no I feel like can we try to throw a live in there Yeah, that thing is crying me up. I love your boy. He would be like, it's sober, weird. Nah.

Q, like, you know what I mean? He do bigger shit than a verse. Like, you know what I mean? Just the access alone has given me more than, you know what I mean, a verse. Just being in rooms hearing conversations, talking to him and shit, like, that shit means more to me than a verse. So I'm not even really tripping off a verse.

And I know it'll come one day. Yeah, I mean, being in those studios, being around all those musicians and, you know, like looking at the process. and looking that niggas right shit, but then looking that niggas not freestyling and changing the beat or just got the vocals and then changing the, putting the beat on around the vocal.

I'm like, what the fuck is this? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's a whole different type of process. Like, you got to appreciate that shit. And it changed the way you approach it, you know what I mean? And part of why I did 365 too because one time you told me like, you got to do this shit every day if you really want it.

And you know what I mean? It's like, damn, man. Like, that's real. Yeah. You know what I mean? Right. That's some real shit. Like, if you really want it, you got to do it every day.

And that's really with anything you're doing. And if you're trying to be great at it or if you're trying to like, like, perfect your craft, you got to do that shit every day. Yeah, I mean, and that's what, and rapping is expensive. I ain't going to lie to you. That shit costs bread. Like, so when I was rapping, like, I was, like, I could do it. But I was like, this shit getting this.

This studio sets. Boop, boom, boom, boom. And the homie's like, no. you can rap you know but that's why i learned how to do my own shit you know what i mean that's why i picked up the production and the engineering and i built like i got my own studio in my house and like i would book sessions and watch engineers and ask questions because i'm like yeah that's how i'm gonna get better at engineering because that's a whole separate craft in itself so like yeah you can rap but then it's like if you want to record yourself that's a whole different skill set you got to

and you taught yourself how to do that shit yeah that and just being in studios with dope engineers and ask some questions. Damn, like, that's cold, though, because engineering itself, like, you got to get that shit right. And I feel like, I feel like, engineers don't, like, get enough love. Yeah, they don't get enough love. Because if you don't got them, you don't got nothing.

Man, you feel me? Take some shit and make it sound like, damn. Yeah, because I know I was in there a couple times. I'm like, this ain't it. And the engineer, like, no, I got you. I got you, I got you, then put some little shit on them, you know what I'm saying? And it'll get cracking, you feel me? Yeah, for sure.

But yeah, man, I'm glad you in here, man. Again, I just wanted to share some light on you. I want to shed some light on my people, man, because I felt like you're doing great things. Man, recording a song, 365 days on me, a year. It's, like, super great. Got to be super talented. Appreciate it.

Your music definitely is, quality, you feel me? And yeah, man, I need everybody to tap in. Oh, my, nigger, you feel me? Make sure you tap in on my boy, so let them know what you got coming. and let them know everything about you, feel me, so they could tap in. West Coast Party dropped in July 1st, you feel me, my new single,

working on a project with the census, working on a project also produced by myself coming this summer. Yeah, man, follow me on all social platforms at the homie driebo. Shop thehomies.com for the merch, you feel me? Don't forget your pack, you feel me? Oh, no, it's with my bag.

Don't worry about it. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, man, I appreciate you having me. Hey, you know, it's crazy, too, funny story. I've been watching for a long time, so, like, you probably don't remember. I think I told you this before, too, but I was at your all-white boat party. What? When I was, like, 16.

How the fuck you get in there? Yeah, exactly. Shout out my nigga Tyne. Yeah, we're my nigga, man. Was you there? He was there. Yeah, he was there. We was just young in that motherfucker like, oh.

Oh, nigga, I was turning up in that motherfucker. I ain't even going to lie. That's a different T-REL. I was like, I was like, I got. I got to tell this thing about that for sure. I've been watching for a long time. We were thirsty. Yeah, we was thirsty.

That's funny. God, you was in that motherfucker. Oh, for sure, that motherfucker. Damn, I'm it. I wish I had video of that shit, bro. Because that shit was d'all. That ain't no video of that shit. Yeah, oh, God.

We probably a go-down. Oh, man. But, yeah, man. You know what I? So this is full circle for me, you know what I mean? because I see, I've been watching shit you're doing, you know what I mean, been inspired by shit you doing,

so I appreciate you having me up here for real. Amen, I appreciate you, man. Thanks for the love, bro. That's up, sure. For real. All right, y'all, that's it with my boy, Dribo. We gone. Yeah.