No Jumper - Hopoutso700 on Compton Upbringing, EBK Connections, Going on the Run for 5 Years & More
Episode Date: August 5, 20260:42 Hopoutso700 explains why he calls Compton "Yompton" 8:31 Hopoutso700 on the defining moment of his childhood 18:44 Hopoutso700 explains spending 25 days in jail before earning pretrial release 3...4:38 Hopoutso700 on Compton having successful families and beautiful neighborhoods 44:35 Hopoutso700 opens up about regularly checking on Jaaybo in jail ----- Shout out to all our members who make this content possible, sign up for only $5 a month https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNTZgxNQuBrhbO0VrG8woA/join Promote Your Music with No Jumper - https://nojumper.com/pages/promo CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! https://nojumper.com NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5tesvmDS8h50LkjnSAWMOs?si=j6sJD6DkR4mk5NZZWnlK7g Follow us on SNAPCHAT https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_Jumper/4874336901 Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4z4yCTjwXa4an6sBGIe7m5 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/no-jumper/id1001659715?mt=2 Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_Jumper/4874336901 http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/nojumper http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22bro on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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No Jumper.
Coolest podcast on the world.
And we got Hot Out So 700 on the podcast today.
How you feeling, man?
Good, man.
It's Hotbao, man.
How you living?
Good, man.
What's going on?
Turn this shit up, man.
I got work to do.
For the show.
I mean, I found out about you from just, like, watching random EBK features and shit like that on YouTube.
I started to be like, all right, who's this guy?
And I started digging a little more.
And I'm like, oh, he's actually from Compton.
Yeah.
But he's tapped in with all these guys, all right?
West Lord.
Street, yeah. Okay.
And my guys, my niggas help me get this ball rolling.
For sure.
I'm going to hold it down with my nigga gone.
So I looked at my DMs.
I seen I already had a DM from you.
I'm like, all right, we gotta tap in.
We gotta do this.
For sure.
Yeah, man.
Let's get it going.
So you're the first person I ever heard claiming Yompton.
West Yonthampton.
Where?
You say, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So what, you say, yeah, so much so you had to turn it to Yompton?
The Laurel Street.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
Wait, so where's the Yon from?
Yeah.
From the Yajax.
We do Yajax.
It's a whole lot.
Women's in Orange.
Come from the Yajas.
It's a whole lot to go into.
I ain't going to get it.
So that's the lingo.
You say Yajeks instead of projects?
I'm doing a 24-hour vlog in the hood.
I'm going to let them see.
I'm going to answer all them type of questions.
Oh, I got to pull up for that.
Yeah, for sure.
Oh, yeah?
For sure.
For sure.
But y'all got like your own lingo.
So we're saying Yajex.
For sure.
I mean, that does sound kind of hard.
You got it.
Just because like, Yah rhymes with like, Pra.
So it just has like a little ring to it.
You feel me?
Yeah, I thought of that.
Yonting, Yajeks, for sure.
For sure.
Lander the arms.
Where a nigga from?
So it's turning B's to C's just too old school
and now we just turn in C's to Y?
Like, I don't know.
Like what it was just like a futuristic.
That's what I'm saying.
Some new lingo.
For sure.
I'm just trying to wrap my head around it.
But that's what you want.
You want to get the white people on the toes.
Oh, it has.
All right.
For sure.
All right.
I'm going to have to get put on to a.
the lingo in the future.
Yeah, I'm it.
But all right, so what was your upbringing like?
Real, real, real, real, rough and reggae, man.
It's the land of lions, tigers, and bears.
Yeah?
You got to make it through that for sure.
It was good, though.
It was very a learning.
It was a learning experience.
Yeah.
And made a nigga guy, man, early, I had to help and get through.
I ain't have time to play no games.
You know what I'm saying?
And when I was one year's old, my pops got shot.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
And it changed a lot.
for everything around me with what can happen.
I got introduced with shit coming almost to an end
or close to an end early.
So your pops didn't pass?
No.
Wait, f***ing him up real bad?
He's back.
He's walking right along with me.
He is.
They tried to fuck him up real bad.
But I saw a clip of you saying that your mom and him,
like the relationship didn't work out basically because of the shooting.
Yeah, he was a great father, though.
Just freaked her out too much?
She couldn't stand looking at that shit.
Imagine somebody getting shot 11 time.
Right.
And you wanted the first to respond for him.
You know what I'm saying?
That's crazy.
They still got a great relationship, though.
They do, okay.
But your dad, so I'm guessing he was outside doing his thing.
He doesn't usually get shot 11 times by accident.
So, okay.
Was he kind of like, did he change his life after that, or is he still?
It was by the police.
It was by the police?
Holy shit.
He good, though.
What kind of situation was it, though?
Some bullshit.
That's probably him calling.
For real?
Yeah, I have a jail car.
It's my father.
Oh, so he's locked up again, right?
Okay.
Damn, that's crazy.
So, but damn, how do you get shot 11 times by the cops?
What happened?
Some bullshit.
Yeah, I thought.
Damn.
Yeah, I thought.
Okay.
So you're, so how old were you when they split up?
One.
You saw you were like, really young.
Just had me and shit.
Then I ended up having them with my first birthday, and they said, right?
She came to the hospital and told them, she couldn't do it.
My mom, tell me the whole story.
Let me know.
She came to the hospital while he was in a bed and let him know.
Like, she can't be a part of his lifestyle.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Damn.
So you got to take that in consideration.
Would you rather marry a woman who knows about the streets
or one who's, like, not comfortable with it?
Mm-hmm.
And for the sake of me, because he sharpened up every which way.
For real?
I wouldn't, I wouldn't expect him to change nothing.
I know how shit was back in his day growing up.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm 22 years old right now.
You get what I'm saying?
And it's tough for it, you feel?
Me?
It takes a lot of self-control.
So, you get what I'm saying?
For sure.
Take a lot of self-control.
So I know it was a challenge he was facing.
He had to figure out how he'd get through.
No matter who trying to stop it,
and they're going to figure out of get through.
But being that, he'd been through some shit like that,
was he trying to tell you to stay out of trouble
and, like, real stay away from the streets?
For sure.
I knew what could happen early if you take this shit for granted,
you play, thinking that it ain't someone that can do that can't do,
and I learned about all that shit early.
I learned about what a man can't do.
You know what can be done with a man capable of love.
It's a lot of people not knowing what a man is capable of out here.
You get what I'm saying?
That shit just made a nigga all around the ball, not play no games.
So you learned a lot of lessons from your dad,
but it wasn't enough to keep you actually on the straight and narrow.
You're still interested.
A nigga had more life lessons that I was dealing with on my alone time
that a nigga had to be able to do something about,
get through the problems of,
provide for if it was providing needing to be done
for those lessons, all type of shit.
And due to that, I had to go around
anyone telling me, hey, this is maybe how I want you to do
anything, whether or who they was, you know what I'm saying?
It's a life I'm still looking at through these eyes.
And a nigga had to handle certain situations,
you know what I'm saying?
Without waiting for no words.
I can't do no second guessing.
Neither can none of my niggas.
We've got to move on.
Okay, but for you, like, what's the difference
So like what makes, you know, rapping and being in the streets and living that lifestyle,
like what makes that a lot more appealing than just like, you know, going to college or just
like getting a regular job?
Like, what do you think it is that makes you want to?
I don't think it's more appealing.
I think that with what I had left, the fact, well, anybody, what you have left, if you make
something out of that shit, right on to you.
You get what I'm saying?
every field ain't as open as some is for people you get I'm saying it ain't as much of a wide
opportunity so when you just get what you get and don't take no shortcuts to change anything just
get what's given to you and make something of that shit that's always going to be respectable so
it was never just me looking at the fact that I'm um I'm um different or staring away from
college like that's not interested in me the other shit is interested in more than me know my
environment was what was set out in front of me and I became and and got apart and got
with that shit and made some of it now niggins getting Sony money you get what I'm saying
instead of just sitting bullshit or getting mad at somebody else because they ain't the same
thing I ain't I ain't got time for that shit they got money out here to get man you I'm
saying like I told you I was gonna be here I'm saying law of attraction you I'm saying I got a
a different plan out here she gonna get done just mark my word it's my second ever interview in life
you get I'm saying for sure I ain't never even had a job
interview right you get what I'm saying how old doing you again 22 right okay so yeah damn you're
not a job no I don't knock it though I tried to I don't get me wrong I tried to work when I was 13
I just couldn't I was painting houses with my neighbor he was really a part of Sherman Williams the
company how many days do you make it I made it how many days did I go yeah like three months
got my first check and it was like so it was as thin as the paper envelope I'm like yeah
this ain't me right but it was cool it felt it felt good to do something
something honest. Right. Yeah, I used to
getting up and going every day. I used to paint
houses where I would be up on this tall
ass ladder, like second or third
story, just painting the side of this house
and I would just always think like
what if I slip and fall
because I'm doing this bullshit
for like 10 bucks an hour. It's an equivalent to the
year to pay. The whole time, that'd be what I
would be thinking about. Yeah. You know, I would just be
like, what if I die up here? Real shit.
You didn't? You didn't. I didn't
luckily, but you know, anything could
happen. Because, you know, I've
known a few people in my life who like their parents like got paralyzed from like falling off a ladder
shit happened people say white people don't have problems you can fall off a ladder um okay so uh
is there like any moment like from your childhood or whatever that really stands out as like
just an inflection point where like things just really started to change like this is when
you realized how real shit was outside
Yeah, seeing that first dead body as a kid.
Really?
For sure.
You saw them die or just saw him laid out?
I heard it and seen it.
Being a kid seven years old, a little-ass boy.
A little-ass boy, just playing outside.
You were seven.
Mm-hmm.
In that apartment, you just come outside just hearing screaming,
and then when you go up to where that screaming come from,
it's just...
Yeah.
...corific, for sure.
On the walls, everything had changed me.
I never forgot about it.
I was that early, you know what I'm saying?
I've done droplet.
past sirens and seeing blinking lights,
but that ain't no interest,
nigga.
I see what happened.
And then her would might have occurred before.
That shit was crazy.
Right.
Well, nigga, me and my little brother,
all we was doing was getting close.
Police didn't stop us.
It was just looking at it closer,
trying to get a better look.
Was that dude you knew or not?
No.
The apartment, person in the apartments.
Still.
No, it was just wide open.
As a kid, that shit's heavy.
You can see it for sure.
You were seven, dude?
Because, like, my kid's five and a half.
Never forget that shit.
She don't even, like, understand
the idea of somebody killing somebody.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, like, at seven, yeah, you're a little more advanced at five and a half.
People like that, man.
Don't introduce her to none of this shit.
Yeah.
That ain't the time.
Nowhere near the time.
And don't think they don't obtain that shit when they come across, any sign of that shit.
Just like the kids, when they see these games and people, they obtain that shit, bro.
For sure.
We just not in the mind of theirs to be sitting with them all day to understand that they do understand that shit.
They do.
Yeah.
Because, like, yeah, my girl was pissed off because I told her that Crip Mac and Brick Baby were in jail.
And then I had to, like, explain the concept of jail.
I had to explain.
She's, like, asking me if I'm going to go to jail.
She's like, am I going to go to jail?
If I do bad in school, you know, all this shit that I just kind of realized right then, like, damn.
Well, you got a close relationship with them.
So when she sees they're not there and always be around probably where you at, she don't want the same for you.
And then she's listening to you tell it to her so she can't believe.
Yeah.
But, but, like, if I was real honest with her, if she was like, why they in jail, I'm going to have to be like, they had guns on them.
She would be like, well, you got a gun too.
Like, there's just so much shit that the kid's not ready to understand.
Yeah.
You know?
So, yo, when you're a kid, like, is there ever, like, a moment where you realize, like, damn, I'm from a legendary-ass city.
Yeah.
You know?
Very young.
From, like, a hip-hop perspective.
Like, a lot of cities in L.A. or in SoCal would be lucky to have one huge legendary rapper, and Compton got, like, 10 of them.
It's kind of crazy.
No, for sure.
Yeah.
For sure.
So is that like something you thought about as a kid?
Like, hell yeah.
I can do this because all these dudes do is do.
Movies like straight out of Compton and shit, you know what I'm saying?
Like it made a nigga want to go hard just watching them do their thing before anybody
made movies and offsprings of that shit.
Like that shit made a nigga want to get his group, make sure we write, grow up, where
you coming from, where you grow up and go right from there, go hard from there.
That shit made a nigga want to go hard all around those lines.
And they've been watching in my head and they've been watching people do this before.
time so it was like hell yeah like me that's what nigger want to do and they could be out here
doing many things doing something with your craft that you can better day by day that's cool that's
acceptable you get i'm saying and you ain't got to be the toughest gonna find something to do and
hopefully people tie to it when people like call it bompton does that like not really make you too
happy no that shit don't it's just whatever you got your way of speaking and i got mine
because that's like local pride either way right like that's they that's like they've been
And that's what float they both.
Just don't disrespect my.
That's my thing.
Okay.
So you get like, what were you like in high school, I guess?
What was your high school experience like?
I was a, I was a nigga, man.
You know what I'm saying?
For sure.
Everybody wanted to be like me.
I was cool.
And I made it, I made a way for others that had a hard time.
I was like that.
If that explains, I had a good heart too.
So you were popular, but you weren't like beating people up so much
as like being like a positive figure.
I was getting money.
I got to sit the way.
I dropped out sophomore year.
Some shit that went bad.
I had to go away.
You get what I'm saying?
But I, throughout my years on the way after being there,
I was a good person for sure.
I was something that I could look back on
and be glad that, you know,
knowing that's the time that people normally want to go back to,
I wish I was telling school, dude,
I'm glad that was the way I was in there.
You know what I'm saying?
And I didn't leave school by choice.
I had to.
I only had 40 credits left
I wasn't shit
But you got
Caught up
Because you were
Serving some shit
Nah, nah, nah
Just life had
Had changed
And
And a lot of stuff
Got woken up
And a nigga had to go
Go away
So
But you caught a case, right?
Yeah
Okay
And you were locked up
For how long?
Just a little minute
Okay
But that fucked up
The high school thing?
Yeah
Damn
Is that a regret?
I called by
No, it wasn't no regret because I didn't do it on the law.
I didn't do it.
I knew that the life I was living, it wasn't going to happen.
You get what I'm saying?
If I wanted it, I knew what I was going to do to make myself make it happen and I wasn't
doing those things.
You get what I'm saying?
I called both of my parents and I told them, I'll tell you this, I told them both on the phone,
I said, I ain't going to graduate.
You get what I'm saying?
I said, this is what it is for me.
It's not that it's hard.
I'm not focused on it.
I told them straight up, you know what I'm saying?
And this is 10th grade a little bit before a nigga getting out, I'm telling them I'm
I'm not fend to do them last two years,
and then life ended up going how it went.
You get what I'm saying?
I just had to follow through what I had to follow through with.
It was hard for them to hear that shit,
and they didn't accept it.
It just ended in the phone hanging up,
but that's how that went.
Why did you not want to finish school?
You were like, start just believing yourself
as an artist and shit like that?
At the time, it was like I gotta,
at something I gotta do with my time right now.
Like, school, they let you come back to when you get older.
The shit that I had to do right through
at the moment was not gonna be able to be missed,
and it wasn't gonna be able to be able to just,
be able to come back to.
You mean like with the music?
Like it was starting to kind of form in your mind?
You were like, aren't going to do this?
I had to press go.
You know what I'm saying?
Being younger and they thought that I'd never know that time
when people be talking about you're going to know when,
you're going to know what to do when you got.
Nigel I knew when I had to do what I had to do.
And I pressed go.
You understand what I'm telling you?
And I got that shit done for sure.
Got that shit done.
I'm still on the way to the top.
Right.
I got work to do.
Well, when you start to feel like the music was like
actually working.
When I caught my case, when I just caught this recent case that I just got it all uplifted
off of me, I was facing, well, the max was 16 years, but I was facing eight, you know what I'm
saying?
It was just because a nigga was going to, whatever it was, I was going to go with the flow
of it.
And then trial, realizing trial and hearing my lawyer tell me about trial, just take and go
to do trial, and they went through trial, and then it came back in my fingerprints.
It wasn't on none of the shit that I was fin to sit down for.
So if I would have stuck with the public defender and just sat down,
I would have took a ride for three things that didn't have nothing to do with the nigga.
You get what I'm saying?
I fought it.
And it showed that them three things didn't have nothing to do the niggas.
So I'm able to do this now.
So what was it?
Like a robbery or something?
It was some bullshit of raid.
A raid.
I was asleep.
I thought some niggas was coming to ride me.
I woke up.
The dough didn't kick, but they kicked it.
So that's what woke me up.
And then I hear Jason Oliver, if you do not believe this is real, call 911.
I'm like it's sober.
You know what I'm saying?
Wait.
So you thought it was like a home invasion, but it's the cops.
It ain't never happened.
I ain't never been no rating.
They ain't never had that much of the show of a moment for me.
I'm moving around.
I was on the run for five years also.
And that's what led to this?
I'm starting my album, getting my sh-go-
If you listen to the album, the first album,
I'm dropping my next album July 24th.
It's called No Help.
But if you listen to the first album,
it talk about me thinking I'm going to go away.
It wasn't no, it was, I'm thinking it's over.
Every other song other than a song you might have
caught a good vibe from this and this nigga for the goal in a minute and then you're on the run for
five years what the show yeah is that hard to be on the run these days no you just got an order
move it was cool at first because that for five years i wasn't what everybody see to know me as now
i could walk in the store you know i'm saying i can move around i can switch the hair now
nigger everybody know a nigga so now when they came from me in that rate it was also a good
and a bad thing yeah they came and booked the nigg and i had to do trial for the shit
that I'm now free from, but I was also on the run.
So I had a warrant with that.
You get what I'm saying?
So I had a hold on me.
I didn't get to get out, getting to belt out,
I would have belt out as soon as I went down.
They took $20,000 from me, and then I got the money back, though.
They took $20,000 from your room?
Yeah.
They tried to save some bullshit, but that money came back
because they seen them check stuff from Sony.
But I was just going to say,
it's like a crazy scenario to imagine.
Look, check this out.
You're in bed.
They start banging on your fucking door.
All right.
Do you shoot at the door?
I'm in the bed.
Look.
Or do you wait until they get through the door?
I just signed my deal.
I'm in the bed.
I'm in the garage.
I'm in the garage.
I'm sleeping in the garage.
I'm supposed to show the whole moment.
I meet where I slept at before the money hit all the shit.
I'm in the garage sleep.
They kicked the garage door.
If it was a regular average dough, that my fuck would a hit, would have opened.
That garage door didn't open.
They get a wood busted off and everything.
But boom, once I realized it was that, I got up, got myself together and walked up
walked out to what I had to walk out to.
Oh, okay.
As soon as I come out there, they're just showing the nigga off.
You got to hop out, look who you got and all this other shit.
Because they got to identify themselves, right?
Otherwise.
All type of shit.
All kinds of bad shit should happen.
They should have like a song that they play.
So that like everybody knows that when you hear that song, it's going down.
The intercombe, come out, bring your ass on this one fuck out.
They should play Metallica.
But anyway, so.
So how long were you locked up for that shit?
For that shit, that shit, they only had me in there for, what, 25 days before I got on pretrial release.
Okay.
Pre-trial release is when you were able to get out, do the trial.
You're gonna fight it, so I was on GPS.
I had ankle monitor and GPS, but I was on GPS first.
Stayed on GPS until I fought my case and we came to the solution that I'm gonna do the ankle monitor and after we found all the shit about no fingerprints on shit.
You get what I'm saying?
Boom.
Then I took the ankle monitor there and locked my ass in the house, did some work this album that's gonna drop on July 24th.
I made that.
Get what I'm saying?
Chill.
And now I'm back.
I got work to do videos to make up.
I was just in the hood all day.
Shooting.
I got there.
Six in the morning.
Stayed until it was time
to come in with you.
But so you feel like you couldn't really like do what you wanted to do as a rapper before because you're on the run and shit?
Like,
no, it was getting done.
But I couldn't, I couldn't, I didn't feel like I could just, how easy it was to do a video where I can just where I'm at now,
show my area and still probably be in that area because I got a stick and move and things
like that, I couldn't just do that.
You get what I'm saying?
I couldn't just do that back down.
Yeah, man, if you should a rap video out on the street,
the cops are coming sooner or later.
Sure, in that same area.
They're always coming.
So, like, you know, if you want to not talk to the cops,
so if you look at my own things,
you see my old videos, is in big mansions,
big places that I got to get to,
that doors is going to be closed with it,
and they couldn't have this closed location.
They had to get right, and I had to get them done
and get up out of there.
Right.
Damn, but so you could have, like, a phone
and post on Instagram and shit.
that weren't like tripping on you that hard.
Went for their posting and shit?
Like while you were on the run.
Like, could you like just have a phone
and be on some regular shit with the phone?
It depends on where you're on the run from
and where you go.
That's what I'm saying.
If you got like the feds after you for 10 murders,
like you can't even have a phone and you can't do shit.
They're going to be on a nigga no matter what.
Yeah.
But what I'm saying is don't, don't, don't be on the run
and be in that same city when you're on the run from.
That's what I'm saying.
You go to Florida.
You're good.
Move around.
That's all I say.
I don't know where you go.
Move around.
Right, yeah.
Move around.
You got to go somewhere else.
You're going to be good to sitting down.
Right, definitely.
Okay, so after that, like, so you sign your deal, they come find you that day, and then you get out a month.
They got to celebrate a little bit.
They ain't just give you.
Hold on.
Ain't that good.
But they came.
They can.
I should have my shit together when they came.
Okay.
And so how did you feel when you beat that case, though?
Great.
Because it went to trial.
Wasn't meant for a nigga.
to circumference from me.
It wasn't supposed to fall for me.
It wasn't supposed to be over right there.
It was supposed to, it's motive this shit.
That's what.
Me and all my niggas is going through.
Right now, every single one of my niggas is going through their own trial and error
and making it through.
We're all in different parts of the ocean right now, along, and niggas got to swim back.
You get what I'm saying?
We all doing that.
We all doing that.
And it ain't nothing.
It ain't niggas first rodeo at all.
Drake's gonna be back.
I'm telling you, man.
And we're young, man.
We're young.
Not me, niggas is fully and could keep taking these years and shit,
nothing. We're gonna take them, nigga, because we're gonna handle anything that come our way.
But, nigga, don't think it's over for nobody. We just getting started.
I'm telling you, that video on that jet wasn't no...
Just a video for fun. I was in, look it, nigga. This one, I'm gonna leave you on, watch how I come back.
You know what I'm saying? That nigga wasn't no joke, nigga.
Where did you take the jet to?
We took it to his hood.
Oh, you're talking about when J-Bow got it? Yeah. Yeah, okay.
You ain't seen me on no other jet.
I was just wondering up on my game. I ain't even been on a jet.
That video was a, that video was a, this, what I'm a leave on and watch how I come back.
That was a good moment.
I wonder how many people.
How many people chartered jets from, where was it, L.A. to Stockton, or was it somewhere else?
Where, for sure.
Oh, okay.
But it was there and we made it.
Yeah.
No, that was a good moment.
Okay.
So how did you meet, J-Bo?
That's my boy.
We made, we made.
Gainesis is always going to cross paths.
Where was he coming to Stockton or you were going up there?
I was going up there.
Or was he coming to L.A.?
I was going up there.
How come?
Yeah.
You got connections in Norkal?
I got connections in Norkal for sure.
I got family out there.
Okay.
He family.
Uh-huh.
For real.
We're going to always cross paths, though.
Okay.
So is this like music business or?
Yep, just music.
Music and family.
We know each other.
We know each other.
I know it's kids.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's love over there.
So you mean actual family?
Like you're related to him almost?
It's not a very many men that we could close our eyes around.
You get what I'm saying?
Family.
For sure.
And you knew him since before he popped off as a rapper?
Hell yeah.
It's my boy.
Okay.
There you go.
Damn.
He's good.
Keep him.
This is a good one, right?
Yeah, he's sharp.
Yeah.
You got a good haircut and shit.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
You call that Edgar.
Yeah.
You got that Zai.
too.
Smoke,
you smoke?
Here and there.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm like.
Oh, and I got something for the casing.
Yeah, I got some.
You do?
I got some beanies and shit.
I got some sweatpants.
I got my gear, yeah.
I got some.
I'm put something right there too
on the front.
Oh, let's go.
Yeah.
We got to do that.
Let me see it.
You open it right now?
Sure.
You want to put it in there?
Yeah.
Boom.
High phone, man.
You choose the placement, I guess.
Okay.
In front of this.
Jesus can't.
or whatever right here yeah there it is oh you mom no she's proud of you know legendary
she's proud of me right now she's gonna snatch that up yeah man damn all right
right there we go you right there keep that right there that's just there a lot of strange
things in here it's an icon in here right now man legendary very legendary yeah uh so you feel
like you kind of got some of your swag from northern california and stuff because i feel like i don't
see that haircut in compton a lot
This haircut you only seen on me, huh?
It's pretty unique.
You don't look like you're from L.A.
You've seen this from nowhere, around.
It's all my real shit, too.
You know what this all is?
What?
Wisdom.
Wisdom.
I ain't cutting a damn thing.
I don't touch it.
I just get up and go.
How long you've been growing up for?
Like a year and a half?
That shit is dense.
I got, from when I started rapping.
Okay.
From start rapping.
It's damn.
I've been rapping for two years now.
What about when you,
what about when you're like 45 and you start balding?
You just got rock it until it falls out?
When I'm 45, I just start rolling.
My shit will be healthy, and I'm going to figure out something to do with it.
Because, yo, shout out to my boy Rico Reckless, but, like, he kind of got, like, you know,
he got his hair twisted up in, like, braids and shit like that always.
The older he gets, the more that that shit keep going back little by little.
And now, bro, like, now when I interview him, the comment section is all about that.
It's the weight.
You got to be cool.
Yeah.
That weight, it's going, it's going heavy.
And then it's getting wet and sweat, whatever.
all that shit in your normal style is for you to be rocking it in the back.
You got to be cool.
That's why I put my shit on top of my head.
That's smart though, yeah.
You ain't fin to see my shit going on back here.
I'm going to keep my hair, keep my hair in line.
Yeah.
Jeannie's just good over here.
I don't know how people pull their hair back and like put it in a tie in general
because I hate that feeling on your forehead.
I'm pulling your shit back.
My motto is no cute shit, man.
Get up and go get the job done.
Right.
And nothing to be pretty, bro.
So that's important to you to not to have like a unique style.
It doesn't look like the average.
a L.A. dude or whatever?
I want to look like me.
I want to look like the nigga I got in the mirror
and made myself become me.
I got my style.
I feel like people are going to be trying to do this here.
You know what I'm saying?
Make that the style.
That's the new cool.
I mean, musically, too,
your shit don't sound like L.A. music at all.
It's like in its own category.
Now let me hear you.
What?
How I am?
Talk to me.
I mean, it's like, definitely like kind of influenced
by the sort of Stockton J-Bo type sound,
but then it's also kind of like
more like raw distorted vocally it's not like master it's it's kind of like drill ish kind of like
weirdly like minimalist but on this but there's like a lot of rap that kind of falls into that
category now where dudes have their own like vocal kit and like sonics i never thought i hear you
tell me how my music is right yeah now look just for the people who like listen to this but
haven't checked it out yet for sure i appreciate that check me out how about so 700 don't know
platform yeah i i i want you to know this album that's dropping on july of 24th that's going
open up the flow of pain and not just drill and all it's going to talk talk about open up on
what i went through and what i'm going through and in the end my voice i'm learning how to use my voice
naturally like i want i'm getting that out on the album too all right that's what's up for sure um
yeah like who do you think influenced your sound and like who made your i feel like i feel like i feel like
I listen to a lot of odys and stuff like that, you get what I'm saying?
And R&B.
But if I could say, I got a sound, I don't feel like I sound like I sound like I made me want to like talk my shit.
It's like they were older artists that I tied to.
You know what I'm saying?
I like to hear DMX.
I like to hear 50 shit.
I like to hear pop.
You know what I'm saying?
I like shit like that.
And then I use my day, what I'm going through, the life and the way I live,
and I put my shit together how I want to, you know what I'm saying?
The way I try to rap is I want my bars to sound rare.
Not like I put them together he hell of good.
I want him to sound rare like he up in there trying to do something.
He ever going to try to rap about something.
Alongside of hearing me throughout him, my bars better have 90% of real shit about me.
But a nigga won't, like, I'm trying to get out.
My style.
I got a style.
And I'm trying to get it out.
I got a style.
got a different vision for sure sonically for sure for sure and i'm not afraid to be versatile
i don't just rap one way do you think that like a lot of l-a rappers get held back because they
sound like old school l-a shit or like the music always has like some sort of reference point back to
like some classic shit because i feel like draco was kind of like he stands out to me as like the first like
big LA rapper that kind of said
all that old school shit
I ain't trying to sound like I'm from California
at all I don't give a fuck yeah
you kind of like rewrote that and then I feel like that
you kind of fall into that category too
as somebody who's kind of like yeah we're gonna just like
make this shit from scratch
like we ain't gonna make this shit sound
like LA rap I feel like my shit
sound like that and probably his sound
the way his sounded like in his own ways
because I'm not gonna compare
myself to him but I want to rap
and show the people my way of
rapping. Not just want
them to think that I can rap
so make some shit that they
already are tied to
or can easily open doors
to so it can be easier for me. No, I don't
care how long it takes for my style to
grow on you. You know what I'm saying?
I'm going to keep putting my shit out. You get what I'm
saying? I'm going to keep putting my shit out. And it's
taking for me really well. I like to think I'm doing
really good. You get what I'm saying? With the
listening and gradually building
interactions with the people, you know what I'm saying?
I'm listening to my shit.
Right.
Do you listen to like drill music from like Chicago or Philly or any of that type of shit?
Yeah.
I listen to a little bit of everything.
I like to hear what's going on in places I'm not in.
For sure.
My label in New York, so I'll be out there and I'll be hearing what sounds they got that
way.
Okay.
So why did you decide to sign?
It was just them hollering at you.
They saw the potential and you just decided like...
This could take it to another level?
I want to get through that next door.
You know what I'm saying?
I can keep doing this shit for me
and for my people that's closest to me.
You get what I'm saying?
I can open these doors
and show the world how serious I am about this shit.
And that's a great way of starting that.
I'm not saying that's all.
It's people that could probably take off
without none of the things,
no way shape or form being done.
But I wanted to,
that was like a promotion to the fact
that I'm getting into this shit,
want to be taking this shit serious,
and it's going to make you fastly, quickly learn what's going on.
Right.
And being signed to a label, it's like a job.
It's a job.
It's going to make you learn what that job takes for it to be ran
or going for you to be on that side of those things, you know,
alongside and within that job.
So being a part of a label that made me get on how this music shit is being ran.
A side of the music I never knew on the professor's side,
I was pushing my own shit, being the judge of my own shit,
checking my own numbers and was recouping.
It's a whole other ballgame.
to test with people that I probably wouldn't even talk to if they were in the same room.
Right.
Doing business with them.
I'm saying?
For sure.
I mean, what do you think it is that like holds back a lot of L.A. artists?
Like, it feels like we've just had so few, like, real stars pop off over the last however many years.
Get out of your comfort zone.
The ones that's popping off getting out of their comfort zone.
You're going to do your thing in your neighborhood.
You know what I'm saying?
But your neighborhood should be a big support system and you doing your thing around
world yeah you get what i'm saying get out your comfort zone though me it is a weird thing because it's
like the the fans want to see you in your neighborhood they want to know that you're accepted in
your neighborhood the fans are actually like with it enough that they give a about stuff like that
but then ultimately you have to be able to make music that like extends past just talking about some
some shit going on in your neighborhood for sure you got to be able to you know it's going to be a crowd
of people to
that feels to
how you're talking about
the neighborhood
and contide to that same shit
but there's a big crowd
that don't live in the neighborhood
and know how it goes on
and over there
and what goes on
and going through different
trials in life
that you can rap about
embrace the people
that's what they're the ones
listening to it
right I mean
get your shit out there
for sure
talk about what you need to
but embrace the people
why are you rapping about
killing flies
killing what
flies
I don't know
what the hell that is
that's not even
your city
what
I just I heard you on the J-Bos song
You said something about killing a fly
And I'm like, damn
Like you're picking up all his beefs
No, no, no man
We were cleaning the house
And we were swadding them
Around the house
You know what sound do it make
When you got the fly swat around your own
I don't know
I got a salt gun
Yeah
Oh, you really killing them
Listen, buddy
I figure you
Get it done
No no no
No, nothing like that.
Around the house and shit.
But I just, okay, so if you're tapped in with somebody in another city,
whatever smoke they're into, you're just signed up to?
Nah.
And if somebody's doing that, you better be in that smoke.
I don't do that.
That ain't my bargain.
So who is doing that, they better be in that smoke.
And accepting everything that come with it, though.
Right.
You can't be halfway in.
Hey, man.
Hey.
You know what I'm saying?
So, how your shit together.
For sure, you got to be on point, man.
How you shit together?
Do you feel like Compton's like a super dangerous place to be at these days?
It's not a game.
It's not a game.
Not a game.
How you shit together.
Yeah.
That's another one.
How you shit together?
That's not a game.
Right.
You know, you or just be with the right person.
You know what I'm saying?
You ought to be the right person or just be with the right person.
You know what I'm saying?
I go for me.
I go for anybody.
Make sure your shit together.
Right.
Yeah, no, definitely.
I mean, I feel like people always try to be like, oh, I went to Compton, and they got
nice green grass in their front yards.
Like, this shit is nice.
It's not the trenches.
People like, think they're just because people live in houses.
It has just parts like every city.
Yeah.
Some people that is making beautiful living out there.
Don't get the city fucked up.
It's just parks.
And if you turn down, motherfuckers to turn up all you.
shit like that
definitely
to hide your family feel
when you decided to get into
rapping they weren't feeling the decision
you said that they had it was all for it
oh so they were
my family support me in which way
my rapping ain't based off of
my rapping is based off of
how you feeling
this may be on your mind
I'm just saying it for you
and on a beat that may be cool
right you'm saying
but
they was all
for it. You know what I'm saying? They wanted me to go all the way. Make sure this shit
going all the way. Anything you said in your mind to, or you can be doing something that
you're going to go all the way. I'm going all the way. I'm not going to be playing no games
with this shit. And I'm going to manifest that every day I go to sleep. Every step I take
with my feet, I'm not going to play. You know what I'm saying? That's all they put on. They
made that acknowledgeable enough. Make sure you all as follow through. They were supportive, though.
My family was supportive.
All my family's supportive of my.
They love my music.
They, my siblings love my music.
They, full of smiles.
They always love to hear new things.
They're going to be happy about this.
Sure, there's been a lot of ways on here,
but this going to be a real positive one for them.
They don't like this.
Your parents aren't going to be like,
why are you smoking a blunt in the interview?
No.
I take care of my business.
So they've accepted that part?
I'll take care of all my business.
They ain't going to ever send those shit.
That's the kind of thing my parents would be pissed about.
You look like a fuck.
Don't do it in front.
don't smoke with him. I don't ever ask no dumb shit like that.
Oh, okay. You never smoked a blur in your parents?
Yeah, I have. You have? You have?
You have? But I know, that's how I know that he said, don't do it.
Yeah. But I have, you know what I'm saying? But that's not something I, we're not mixing
to mixing and doing all that stuff until a nigga really get older. I should still a value
I hold with my parents. You know what I'm saying? It's still certain shit that I don't
let them see me do. I don't want to see them do straight up.
Your parents don't smoke weed?
Well, I feel like your parents are probably younger and they probably don't think it's
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, my parents are like ancient white people that like...
They got boundaries, though.
They're not into smoking weed, yeah.
My parents strict on both fins.
They got boundaries, though.
It's love, but don't get it f***ing them.
Yeah.
My parents told me that smoked weed in the 70s in college.
Yeah?
Yeah, but...
I wonder what that time was like...
Probably some dirt, some stupid trash weed, if you were thinking about it.
Y'all was still smoking that shit, no.
You ever see pictures of like Bob Marley?
Mm-hmm.
And, like, he's just smoking the worst weed.
you ever seen?
I think he had crying.
He ain't had crying.
Nah.
He had.
Back in the death?
Nah.
Yeah.
He makes some hits off that shit.
I mean,
you think because he's like an icon of weed,
but if you see like,
like today's weed is so futuristic.
Even the worst weed today is like...
I wouldn't put it past you though.
Bob probably knew something.
He was getting his high home.
Well, they were probably having a son so much.
And yeah, Ike her.
Imagine if you...
You pass him a fucking backward full of futuristic Zah.
He's going to pass out.
You're going to have to take a cat.
man. For real.
Not for sure.
Just like anybody in the UFC
could beat the fuck out of Bruce Lee.
I hate to say it, but, you know.
Why do you think that?
There's just been a lot of, like, advances in fighting,
like...
What did you think about that McGregor fight?
That shit was insane.
I was, like, rushing to get back to the hotel
so I could put on the UFC fight.
Yeah, and I turned on the TV,
and he's just laying there with a broken leg,
and I'm like, what the fuck?
You gotta get this shit here.
That's a rigged, if you asked me.
Oh, you thought it was rig?
rig. A lot of people think this shit was rigged.
I don't know. It's true, but
they said they saw him going into the clinic
getting his knee checked out a couple days before
men.
Riggs. And they still
let the bets and shit go on from the fight.
I mean, if I'm
him and I hurt my knee, I'm not saying
shit about my knee. I'm going in there. I'm getting paid
and then I can get any surgery.
Okay. Which I think
everybody is assuming that that's the problem. They pay the niggas on both
ends or something, right? You lose, you
win? You lose, you get some money or something?
Oh yeah, yeah. You get a lot of times
it'll be, for somebody like him, it'll be
$5 million to show up and $5 million
if you win. He falls on that floor. He don't give
free money. That's their business, though.
Yeah, man. I mean,
that's what like any logical person would do, is just show up,
lose, get paid. Nobody considers it like a real loss
because it's obvious you just injured yourself.
Nah, for sure. Yeah. I'm some real shit.
So you'd be watching UFC? You watch sports
in general? Yeah, hell yeah. I was
I used to play sports back then.
I ran tracking hell of shit too.
For real?
Yeah, all the shit.
I'm big on working out, exercising.
Oh, really?
Getting a job, calisthenics, all the shit.
Hell yeah, staying fit.
Nigger, knock something out.
I mean, yeah, you do got a nice little bus up there.
Knock something out.
There's a nice little nothing.
Pause, yeah.
So are you squabble ready?
Knock something out, nigga.
You're ready for a squabble or squabbles are too old school?
Get out there.
What you're talking about?
Nick, ain't never too old school.
Get out there.
I mean, a lot of, like,
drill rappers and shit will be like,
I'll never fight someone if my life depended on it.
I'm just killing everybody for the rest of the time.
It seems kind of impractical, but...
We said you lose.
They did the role fight.
Yeah.
For sure.
Swamp stories try to make fun of L.A.
and be like, oh, L.A. is just people running fayed.
That's that fayed shit.
The Instagram?
That white boy who did his first...
He don't be saying no bullshit about me.
I don't think...
Has he made a video about you?
No, no.
He's making, like, clips and shit.
But he always said, like, hop a good artist or something.
I don't try it.
He do his thing.
I should have hit him my way.
I don't cross past.
Yeah, like, he always said, yeah.
He says some shit.
Like, every time somebody send me a post, it don't be no bullshit.
He's a real.
I stare at my line.
He's a lot of people in Nourkeye, man.
Like, they really want to smoke his ass.
He bullshit and see.
I don't see.
Bro, I've seen him, like, I'm not even going to involve you by naming the people I'm talking about,
but I seen him make a video about a rapper.
Yeah.
Talking about how this, like the rappers, everything in line, he's talking about his lies and he breaks down why it's lies and what bodies he's claiming all this shit.
I'm like, bro, this is brutal.
This is like really career devastating shit right here.
I don't guess.
He knows too much.
I don't know.
And now he's out here and people know what he look like.
I don't know how he even know where anybody did.
But that's shit.
That's crazy.
He got spies, I guess.
Where is a crazy place?
Is it very important for you to not talk too much on an interview or on social media
about whatever you got going on the streets?
You believe in that code.
You should do more than you speak of anyway.
Get shit done.
There ain't nothing to talk about.
Talking about it ain't going to help nothing.
Right.
We all learn that.
Yeah.
I mean, it's kind of weird because you got all the old heads just talking about everything
every night on social media and shit.
And then a lot of the younger dudes these days are more quiet on social media because they are the ones who maybe actually have shit to hide.
Maybe the older people live more life to not care where this shit could go.
The younger people got more life to live to where this shit could go somewhere bad or something.
It's a lot of people that can't handle doing this.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know how to take punches, jazz, or they got bullshit out there.
I don't know, you get what I'm saying?
Right.
You just got to know how to conduct yourself.
It's your body.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, a lot of young people are kind of like rare on social media and shit.
Like they don't post a ton on Instagram, but then when you like look at an old head Instagram,
they post like 10 times a day a lot of times.
That's just like a different attitude about what's a cool way to express yourself on there.
Whatever flush your vote.
You're like big on social media or not really?
Yeah, for sure. I just think I'm doing some numbers.
I get good, good, good interactions, good interaction on YouTube, good interactions on my
platforms and shit. Label be telling me, letting me know the shit looking good.
I feel like everywhere I go, I'm always getting love.
And it's crazy, you want to know what's crazy?
I get love from the youth.
I'm always taking pictures with people up in my age, you know what I'm saying?
But the youth, I love sharpening up, you know what I'm saying, making sure I'm sharp for the children, man.
Like for real, bruh, because it's like, it's surprising.
that I'm even being liked or this music is something to them
or in a way.
And I always think, you know, back to my good songs,
they ain't liking that bullshit song,
but you know, these kids are these days, they grow up at.
But I just love the fact that I could see the youth,
make them happy, make some kids smile, man,
because I remember being one and then seeing that person
that I thought was so cool to me, happy to me,
or when they interact, I mean, not happy to me,
but like just a person that was, I wanted to be like,
and when they interacted to me,
when they interacted with me,
It made me just feel like that could happen to me even more,
that could happen for me more often,
or like this person sees me, you get what I'm saying?
And I love when I have that moment to do that for the youth,
just see them and acknowledge you, you know what I'm saying?
I'll always stop, I'll stop walking and come back to make sure I don't miss
somebody that's trying to show love to this shit because I started this shit from nothing, man.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
So to see what it's come to, it's crazy.
Yeah, yeah, it's nothing to you,
but it's like the biggest deal ever to them.
So you got to always try to make that time, you know, for sure.
Okay, so how often you talk to J-Bow?
We were on FaceTime with him from jail earlier.
What's the connection with him?
Every day, you know, over those type of foes and shit, be a little hectic for all of us,
you get what I'm saying?
But I always let my brother know I love him, tell him something positive,
let him know if I got plans and what I'm doing with the work.
Trying to keep him understanding what I got going.
on without having to ask too much or have his head too much on the outside.
I just put it on him and try to him go through his time, handle his minutes.
I love the way my nigga adapts to his time and get that shit done.
I'm telling you, it's a way it may look to these people.
But man, personally and with his family and with everybody, he makes sure everybody's still
taking care of.
He makes sure everything's still right.
He makes sure all his shit together and he check in.
He always smiling.
Like he always smiling.
You get what I'm saying?
Nah, never, never want to see that get taken away from that, nigga.
Man, he can't steal his joy.
You know what I'm saying?
And that's what I say, man, he's gonna be back.
But this shit just, the nigga adjusting to a time right now.
That's a big time, I'm not gonna see her and act like it ain't as hard.
You know what I'm saying?
It's hard.
But them ones that knew the game plan, learned the game plan, and had they shit together
and was really learning from my brother to know what to do when we adjusting to this time.
And the ones you see in this building, like we adjusting to this time, you get what I'm saying?
But it's hard though.
Nika, gangsta, I ain't finished sitting there and act like it ain't as hard, though, you know what I'm saying?
At first, you see how it look with the people and shit, we got to know to keep our heads out of that and know what's going on personally with our thug.
You get what I'm saying?
Know it that your brother coming back, y'all going to be back around how y'all was.
Even though he was just right here, like, I was just right there watching him right here.
You know what I'm saying? Trying to be quiet enough for my thud to get his time in, you know what I'm saying?
That shit hurt, man, you get what I'm saying?
But I love that he's getting it done and he getting, like I said, in my trial.
It was a big whoa and a big almost over for me
And I made a whole album off thinking it was over
But it got all that bullshit behind me.
Look at me now, you know what I'm saying?
Right
Like this about certain reasons.
Not about them people, what, you know what I'm saying?
I know what to do and what not to do
So to make them stay away from a nigga, you know what I'm saying?
And sharpen my youngs so that they can move right in this field
and we don't end up in the positions, you get what I'm saying?
Right
None of my niggis fight, no trial, trying to figure out how we is,
you know what I'm saying, that shit, real.
Because okay, yo, Jaybo,
They tried to give him a seven-year plea deal.
He said, nah, I'm going to take it to trial.
Then he decided, no, actually, I'm going to take a plea deal.
So we don't know what time he ended up accepting.
But when we just talked to him on FaceTime, he said,
I'll be home in a year or two, basically.
I'm going to be back.
Yeah.
He's got nothing but confidence.
Let people put their own time stamp on it.
Niggily, we're going to be back.
That's all that matter.
You know what I'm saying?
He's going to be back.
better than he left.
I promise your niggas don't even know he got shit.
He got shit, man.
In the vault.
Don't even give me started on this shit.
He got plans, blueprints.
This nigger is not going to play when he come on.
Okay.
Swamp story said, and I think it's true,
he said when J-Bow got his case,
it stopped the progression of California street music in general.
The wave that was coming forward, it just...
So they didn't.
is it safe to say it's going to start with him?
I mean, if he got back out right now,
I do think that it would produce a shitload of new energy
in terms of like street music in general for show.
Watson, devil now.
He's going to double down.
He's going to be all right.
Watch.
Yeah, all right.
You see it.
I really wanted you to see that.
You know, I'm glad y'all got to chop it.
You know what he told you this year,
he's coming, you know what I'm saying?
So make sure you're ready for that too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, yeah.
I mean, that's just crazy to think that if he were to get out.
Because, like, you think about it, he was locked up for a long-ass time.
And then he got out for whatever, like six months or some shit,
turned up so crazy and really had a wave going before he even got out
because they had a whole bunch of videos and singles ready to go.
And then was killing it the whole time he's out,
then boom, he gets his case and it just kind of stops the momentum all.
He'll overcome that shit, though.
Yeah.
Don't worry, yeah.
You're going to overcome that shit.
You think he's the chosen one for California?
He knows what time it is for him.
He's going to do his thing.
He's going to make it count for sure.
I mean, that's like a good narrative right there.
It's like that it takes like a soldier from this remote town of Stockton to come and like save L.A.
Street music.
And what them soldiers or them heroes are them people that have the support, 90% of the support,
system behind them what do they got a 90% of the commodity or the city or the neighborhood that
knows about the heroes they have a support system you know what I'm saying or a city that loves
when they come out you get I'm saying or a team that's gonna make sure they go all the way with
them as long as we keep my nigga with that he ain't gonna have no problem doing he got to do he got to do
you know he got to do you know what you got to do so we just keep supporting my nigga
lane shit and they ain't going nowhere and gonna be right here when you come on with more work put in
Yeah.
For sure.
Because I'm not going to lie to you.
Like, when he was having that whole wave,
that was the first California rapper
that when I'm around all these Chicago drill rappers
and shit like that,
that they would be mentioning him like every time.
Somebody like Q50 would be like,
yo, what's up with a J-Bo dude?
This shit crazy, blah, blah, blah.
And I would just be like, damn, that's crazy.
Like, that hasn't really happened to me
where like the hip Chicago rappers are tapped in
on.
not for sure.
L.A. rapper. That just like, that was kind of, that was new.
For sure.
It's just kind of crazy.
We know what it is. They know what it is. They know what it is for sure.
Hmm.
Yo, some of the stories is getting his teeth whitened.
So he can't respond right now. That's hilarious.
That's what he was calling?
Yeah, I tried to call him and.
Tell him. Tell him how we are here.
He's going to be stunned. He's going to be shocked.
Yeah, I just sent him in the picture.
Yeah.
Damn, he's switching his numbers and shit.
He's like a real rapper.
What's the difference between like California and uh or between L.A. and Compton?
Like is there like a stylistic difference or is it all the same from your perspective?
It's L.A. and it's Compton. Those who need to know the difference know the difference.
It's L.A. and it's Compton. That's what I'm going to say.
Can you see somebody and just know if they're from Compton?
Like is there a thing?
I'm going to see somebody and goes nowhere.
if they're from Compton or where they're from.
That's what I would do.
I'm not going to try to guess.
And I ain't know.
Oh, you just ask.
Yeah, I'm going to see.
I feel like you could tell when the dude's from Long Beach.
You can tell, you can kind of tell when someone's from,
over there from the, you know, certain shit that appear obviously.
It's about your appearances that appear obviously and shit.
Tattoos and stuff.
That's cheating, though.
But morally, nigg, gonna go see.
Swam's a story.
said that yours is goat he just said my goat right on I'm gonna take my flowers you know
yeah it's better than all that does this shit I mean I just did my work done for sure
nigger gotta make this shit big bro um for sure I'm trying to make this shit big you know alongside
of my real my real supporters you know my son what you say he's been boy shouldn't play whatever man
if you're right on but nigga my people I gotta really be that that that's what I want to be
to them you know what I'm saying the ones that know where I started know where this shit looked
like when I was wearing the same clothes every day to what it is now.
You get what I'm getting dedicated?
And the last thing I'm worried about is what another man think of me?
It's advocacy on me, man.
He said, I hope he doesn't think I'm gay.
I keep calling him Callie's most handsome rapper.
Hell no.
Close the message.
You keep looking at the phone.
Oh, yeah.
He wrote it like a poem, too, like two separate lines.
I hope he doesn't think I'm gay.
I keep calling him Callie's most handsome rapper.
Why he read a poem?
You're building it now.
Did he put that in the air?
Damn, that's bizarre.
I didn't know that that was the, my man.
You want the girls to think that,
but you don't really want the bloggers.
Like, what is that?
No disrespect to the communities out there.
No ditty.
Women, you know what I'm saying?
You got a girlfriend?
you asked that question like that was going wow me away it's just like no no no it's
immediately occurred to me that like I don't really know what kind of guy you are because I don't know
if you're the kind of guy that has a girlfriend or not crazy and I ain't doing the girlfriend I'm a man so
I'm going to have a woman wife only oh I'm saying in my stable so a woman in my stable
okay I ain't gonna be no girlfriend because it's like if you're single then by definition there's like
an element of chaos in your life, you know?
Because these hoes will have shit gone wacky.
Yeah, like with, with, when you really trying to do some shit out here,
it's certain shit you can have and can't have and have time to be worried about.
You know what I'm saying?
If they're making their self a worry when it comes to dealing with other people,
you get what I'm saying?
And I stay focused.
Let's say that.
I stay focused.
I stay focused.
Okay.
I'm hands on too.
name like i know what i could do to give what i need to get there out the streets
so other than that this music is what i love to do it's gonna
gonna pay off for sure
it's gonna pay off do you uh you just smoke weed you drank you party
hell no party i know i don't drink neither i hate drinking shit
i was just i figure out what type of time i smoke weed though just weed yeah i keep my
weed i gotta have my weed yeah i don't do no partying
party and I definitely don't drink though
I can't I don't like to drinking and shit
that ain't me no I like to stay on point
no lean yeah
once in a blue
yeah once in the blue for sure
that's real though
that is the way that you should
I don't sit there and make it see like I'll just
I'm a fuck with it when I feel like it
like I heard real the young OG say like me and Piz
drank the most lean or some shit the other day
and I'm like man you don't want to drink the most lean
like you could drink lean once in a while
but you don't want to be the dude to drink the most of
Most of it.
That's for me, that's a drug that when I'm feeling away, it's one of my chooses.
And it's in my category of likings.
You know what I'm saying?
It ain't my category of abusing weed is what I abuse.
You know what I'm saying?
If I ain't got my weed, it's going to be a problem for somebody.
But I like to smoke the weed.
Okay.
So how did you get the name?
Hopout, so.
It was given to me.
It was given to me.
So my name Tiny Baby from West Yonton, though.
Tiny Baby.
Yeah.
Big Baby.
Bay, Little Baby and Tiny Baby.
Are the other babies here or just you?
My pops is a little baby.
My uncle is Big Baby.
Does it piss you off that people call it Little Baby,
little Baby sometimes?
Like I hear academics calling him that.
Nah, shit.
I don't think he, I don't think he,
Little Baby care about this shit, none.
He can't even hear that shit.
So you were basically like chosen by another baby?
Was it like a family member or a brother or was it just like
somebody in the hood that just said,
you know what? Like, this is my little homie?
No, that was from my dad.
Oh, your dad?
Yeah, when I got my put on from the hood,
that's what name was brought down and gave him to me
that I could live up to now.
Okay.
You know what I'm saying?
For sure.
It ain't no friend, and that's my real hood name.
I'm going to die with that name and live through that name.
You know what I'm a generation?
There won't be an infant baby until you have a child.
I'm going to have a certain route for my son.
Okay.
That I'm going to have all my eggs in the basket on Hopin'i tape.
If it's going to be the child that comes under the name,
I wouldn't be naming no girl that name under it.
But I'm going to have my eggs in the level of where I want them to go with certain things.
I'm going to say that.
Okay.
That ain't going to be no name.
They're just going to take after me or what I choose the name now.
And that's going to be the last name I'm thinking about adding to theirs.
I know who is it.
She should make everybody submit their tattoos before they come on here so I can read them all.
I'm like, stay.
Park Village on the back of the V.
Oh, okay.
PV.
Okay.
Yeah, I think.
I got content on my bag.
Okay.
That's what's up.
But I'm just trying to read that one right there.
It's a boring son.
Sabrina's son.
Good look at it.
Oh, Sabrina's son.
It's my mom.
Yeah.
Appreciate that.
That's what's up.
Yeah.
Sabrina son.
That's my mom.
Shout to your mom.
I appreciate that, man.
She's still doing good?
Great.
Nice.
For sure.
watching my every step of the way.
How old is she?
My mom is now, I ain't going to, my mom is around the age of 41 and 42.
Oh my God.
Your mom is literally my age.
That's crazy.
My mom, yeah, man.
That's beautiful.
That's good.
And that real, the strongest woman, one of the strongs.
You got a lot of good years left.
No, for sure.
You know what I'm saying?
Good, good, be good.
We're going to stay sharp.
You're blessed in there.
When's your dad getting out of jail?
He got a 12-75 hold on him right now.
So when they have blessed him.
his hold it's a DA hold on him right now oh so he's on some short-term shit he's not like
doing like a long-ass bit no no no he gonna be he not he's gonna be back that's over the wrong
part about it is over oh okay he gonna be coming back what uh-huh said day right now but it's getting
it's coming to n end and that's gonna keep manifesting because he finny be back so he can see what
the nigga doing okay and you got a good relationship with him you talked to him a good
he just called me when i did an interview i really they had me called me two times
He don't play.
That's my main man, though.
He's checking on me, trying to make sure I'm doing what I said.
I came down here to do because he's no one, niggas.
You know what I'm saying?
He's stale on me.
I stay on him too.
Yeah.
He's got hor-headed.
He's good, though.
I make sure he good.
I answer he called.
It's just the only car near misses.
It's only due to this.
I answer he called or I'm going to be there for him.
I need to.
And where he's at and he is my name good.
So they're looking out for him.
They know the nigg's just like me.
And they make it sure you good.
and I ain't going to go through nothing.
That's what so.
So, all right, what do you feel like you need to do this year
to take your career to the next level?
Just this album dropping, I guess, is like a big piece of it.
Yeah, man, I'm going to get some mainstream artists.
Oh, yeah?
I'm working with it.
For sure.
Yeah, yeah.
Mainstream artists.
It's coming though, man.
I've got to turn this shit up, man.
I did it big off my first album.
It was really full of people that I wanted to work with.
I was surprised that they was willing to work with me and some of the homies, too.
Other than that,
This, I want to set me out.
And this album that's coming out on July 24th, I want to set me out from the rest of everyone
else that's been dropping and show what I've been trying to do, show what I've been
going through.
One thing about it is I've only been showing 10% of this shit.
I'm gonna show a full 700%.
You know what I'm saying?
Give them the whole thing now.
You get what I'm saying?
I'm fin to start capturing every moment.
I've been playing with this shit.
On top of that, I can admit that I was playing with the shit without beating around
in the bush, but I was going through something.
I was fighting this case.
My niggas had just got to get away.
You know what I'm saying?
There's things that I'm going through.
My family house was under foreclosures,
so I had to make sure she was right with my family
and got to get them right.
It wasn't no money that I could fix anything with them staying.
Where they could stay, they had to go.
You know what I said?
And she had to be moved quick on top of me with me and on ankle.
And I can't really move for nobody.
I didn't even going to keep going.
It was just hell of shit.
You get what I'm saying?
So it had me a little bit off, but I'm back.
Get I'm saying?
I'm woke.
Get I'm saying?
I'm not playing.
And then I'm doing more shit like this
so the people can get to know me.
They got their own image.
They see a nigga eyes and it's a substance.
That's off.
And the only thing you sit there and watch the nigga do,
it smokes from weed.
You get what I'm saying?
People don't know me.
So people think you're on drugs
because your eyes are big?
It's the shit I don't seen.
I'm saying?
They say that about a little dark too.
It's real.
You get what I'm saying?
It's real.
And when you don't speak
and tell nobody the shit
that's got to go somewhere.
Right.
So the eyes is just where it comes out of it.
I feel like I have really big eyes,
but then I'm always smoking weed
so that I feel like my eyes are low.
And once in a while,
like I remember one time
I went to a party in this famous EDM DJ
called me over and he's like,
what do you want?
He's like, I need some.
I'm like, I'm not on anything.
Because I was sick,
I just got over a cold
and so I wasn't smoking weed.
So my eyes were so big
that he just thought that I was on something.
Yeah, you good now?
That was a long time ago.
I'm good.
I'm good for you back.
I'm not.
No, I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm glad you good.
This show.
All right.
So, yeah, tell them what your mission is.
Oh, man, check it out, man.
Album drop on July 24th.
That's also my C day.
I turned 23 years old.
You know what I'm saying?
I got a milestone for a year.
You know what I'm saying?
My last year was, before anything,
was starting this rap sheet and making it go.
Then I caught my deal.
Then this year was making show that my album got done and beat my case
and actually saving my money when I got the money.
That was going to be my mom.
You know what I'm saying?
And now my 23 year old birthday gift to myself is getting no jumper done and exing that
off my list.
For sure, keep it going to go on the start, man.
It's only going to start.
And the ones that thought it was a game, at one point you're going to see it ain't, man.
I ain't got shit else to say about it.
This shit gonna happen though, for sure.
It's hop out, man.
Hop out so 700 on all platforms, check a nigga out for those who don't know.
And for those who do, you know I'm lashing shit.
What are we going to do after we hop out?
What did you say again?
Standover.
What?
Stand over with it?
Metaphorically.
Your shoes so you don't,
that's messing up?
I don't know.
I'm just picture and just hop out.
Every time I say it,
I'm just like,
damn, that's a gangster-ass name.
But I guess you could hop out.
It was giving to me,
so I don't really know the true meaning of it.
Mm-hmm.
You can only carry on the energy of the name.
Yeah.
Not the specific meaning.
It's all they left to me physically.
Mm.
You know what I'm saying?
I'll just be chill.
Hoping out,
going out,
and interviews and shit.
Right.
You better,
leave me out there
next time like then.
Yeah,
I hopped out.
That time,
I need you access to me,
you know what I'm saying?
A little quicker.
You left me hopping out
a little too long on that time.
Well,
you were outside
before you could hop in?
You know what I'm saying?
I hop out and go to these interviews.
Yeah.
And you had me out there a little too long.
No.
But yeah, man.
A nigga hopping out getting
business handle.
Oh, look.
Watch me.
Man,
I'm gonna be big.
I'm telling you.
Go to YouTube and...
You just watch, man.
Hop out of $700.
It's going to be big, though.
On the radar, but I didn't even know you're on there.
I didn't even see that yet.
You ain't know that?
I didn't know that.
Oh, man.
It's a couple things.
A couple things.
Gang.
All right.
Appreciate you, dog.
Thank you for pulling up.
Appreciate you, man.
Big things to come?
It's apathy on me, man.
Apathy.
It's hot, too, man.
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