No Jumper - Hopoutso700 on Compton Upbringing, EBK Connections, Going on the Run for 5 Years & More

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

0:42 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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Starting point is 00:00:33 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.
Starting point is 00:00:43 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?
Starting point is 00:00:59 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.
Starting point is 00:01:09 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.
Starting point is 00:01:18 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.
Starting point is 00:01:30 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.
Starting point is 00:01:36 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.
Starting point is 00:01:44 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.
Starting point is 00:01:56 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?
Starting point is 00:02:09 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.
Starting point is 00:02:19 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?
Starting point is 00:02:30 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.
Starting point is 00:02:41 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.
Starting point is 00:02:56 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.
Starting point is 00:03:05 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.
Starting point is 00:03:21 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.
Starting point is 00:03:38 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.
Starting point is 00:03:50 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?
Starting point is 00:04:01 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.
Starting point is 00:04:15 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?
Starting point is 00:04:28 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?
Starting point is 00:04:41 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.
Starting point is 00:04:52 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,
Starting point is 00:05:04 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.
Starting point is 00:05:24 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,
Starting point is 00:05:50 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,
Starting point is 00:06:09 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
Starting point is 00:06:30 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
Starting point is 00:06:57 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
Starting point is 00:07:36 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
Starting point is 00:08:13 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
Starting point is 00:08:29 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
Starting point is 00:08:48 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?
Starting point is 00:09:23 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...
Starting point is 00:09:37 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,
Starting point is 00:09:48 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.
Starting point is 00:09:58 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.
Starting point is 00:10:08 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.
Starting point is 00:10:21 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.
Starting point is 00:10:34 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?
Starting point is 00:10:53 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.
Starting point is 00:11:20 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.
Starting point is 00:11:42 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?
Starting point is 00:11:54 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
Starting point is 00:12:23 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.
Starting point is 00:12:52 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.
Starting point is 00:13:07 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.
Starting point is 00:13:23 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,
Starting point is 00:13:39 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
Starting point is 00:13:49 Because you were Serving some shit Nah, nah, nah Just life had Had changed And And a lot of stuff Got woken up
Starting point is 00:13:58 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?
Starting point is 00:14:07 Just a little minute Okay But that fucked up The high school thing? Yeah Damn Is that a regret? I called by
Starting point is 00:14:14 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,
Starting point is 00:14:32 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,
Starting point is 00:14:45 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?
Starting point is 00:14:55 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,
Starting point is 00:15:15 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,
Starting point is 00:15:30 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.
Starting point is 00:15:41 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.
Starting point is 00:16:04 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.
Starting point is 00:16:24 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.
Starting point is 00:16:33 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.
Starting point is 00:16:47 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.
Starting point is 00:17:02 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
Starting point is 00:17:29 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,
Starting point is 00:17:50 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.
Starting point is 00:18:07 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?
Starting point is 00:18:17 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.
Starting point is 00:18:27 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.
Starting point is 00:18:47 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.
Starting point is 00:19:07 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.
Starting point is 00:19:27 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.
Starting point is 00:19:45 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?
Starting point is 00:19:58 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,
Starting point is 00:20:17 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,
Starting point is 00:20:31 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?
Starting point is 00:20:44 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.
Starting point is 00:20:57 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.
Starting point is 00:21:08 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.
Starting point is 00:21:18 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.
Starting point is 00:21:36 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.
Starting point is 00:21:45 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.
Starting point is 00:21:59 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,
Starting point is 00:22:10 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.
Starting point is 00:22:36 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.
Starting point is 00:22:55 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.
Starting point is 00:23:06 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.
Starting point is 00:23:17 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?
Starting point is 00:23:28 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?
Starting point is 00:23:38 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.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Okay. There you go. Damn. He's good. Keep him. This is a good one, right? Yeah, he's sharp. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:03 You got a good haircut and shit. Absolutely. Yeah. You call that Edgar. Yeah. You got that Zai. too. Smoke,
Starting point is 00:24:11 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.
Starting point is 00:24:20 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.
Starting point is 00:24:27 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.
Starting point is 00:24:35 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
Starting point is 00:25:10 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?
Starting point is 00:25:21 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.
Starting point is 00:25:30 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?
Starting point is 00:25:41 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.
Starting point is 00:26:05 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.
Starting point is 00:26:18 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.
Starting point is 00:26:33 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.
Starting point is 00:26:49 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.
Starting point is 00:27:00 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
Starting point is 00:27:18 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
Starting point is 00:28:03 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.
Starting point is 00:28:34 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.
Starting point is 00:28:53 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
Starting point is 00:29:15 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
Starting point is 00:29:47 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
Starting point is 00:30:08 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
Starting point is 00:30:24 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?
Starting point is 00:30:41 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
Starting point is 00:31:00 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?
Starting point is 00:31:13 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
Starting point is 00:31:26 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.
Starting point is 00:31:41 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,
Starting point is 00:32:03 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?
Starting point is 00:32:21 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
Starting point is 00:32:48 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
Starting point is 00:33:10 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
Starting point is 00:33:17 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
Starting point is 00:33:24 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
Starting point is 00:33:33 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
Starting point is 00:33:45 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
Starting point is 00:33:59 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.
Starting point is 00:34:16 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.
Starting point is 00:34:31 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.
Starting point is 00:34:45 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.
Starting point is 00:34:56 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.
Starting point is 00:35:07 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.
Starting point is 00:35:25 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
Starting point is 00:35:41 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
Starting point is 00:35:56 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
Starting point is 00:36:20 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.
Starting point is 00:36:39 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.
Starting point is 00:36:51 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?
Starting point is 00:37:06 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
Starting point is 00:37:30 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.
Starting point is 00:37:41 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.
Starting point is 00:37:56 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.
Starting point is 00:38:04 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.
Starting point is 00:38:14 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.
Starting point is 00:38:28 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?
Starting point is 00:38:42 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,
Starting point is 00:38:56 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
Starting point is 00:39:08 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
Starting point is 00:39:24 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.
Starting point is 00:39:43 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.
Starting point is 00:40:02 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.
Starting point is 00:40:13 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.
Starting point is 00:40:26 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...
Starting point is 00:40:40 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?
Starting point is 00:40:50 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.
Starting point is 00:41:02 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.
Starting point is 00:41:14 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.
Starting point is 00:41:36 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.
Starting point is 00:41:52 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.
Starting point is 00:42:11 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.
Starting point is 00:42:39 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.
Starting point is 00:43:01 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?
Starting point is 00:43:26 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.
Starting point is 00:43:54 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,
Starting point is 00:44:12 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,
Starting point is 00:44:32 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.
Starting point is 00:44:53 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?
Starting point is 00:45:17 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
Starting point is 00:45:45 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.
Starting point is 00:46:01 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.
Starting point is 00:46:20 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?
Starting point is 00:46:46 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.
Starting point is 00:47:03 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.
Starting point is 00:47:19 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.
Starting point is 00:47:39 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.
Starting point is 00:47:52 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,
Starting point is 00:48:07 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.
Starting point is 00:48:32 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.
Starting point is 00:48:43 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.
Starting point is 00:48:56 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.
Starting point is 00:49:17 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.
Starting point is 00:49:40 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.
Starting point is 00:50:18 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,
Starting point is 00:50:33 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.
Starting point is 00:50:50 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.
Starting point is 00:51:07 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?
Starting point is 00:51:30 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.
Starting point is 00:51:52 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.
Starting point is 00:52:08 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
Starting point is 00:52:41 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.
Starting point is 00:53:04 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.
Starting point is 00:53:21 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.
Starting point is 00:53:37 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?
Starting point is 00:54:15 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.
Starting point is 00:54:35 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
Starting point is 00:54:55 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
Starting point is 00:55:17 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
Starting point is 00:55:33 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?
Starting point is 00:55:49 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.
Starting point is 00:56:05 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,
Starting point is 00:56:16 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
Starting point is 00:56:35 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.
Starting point is 00:56:50 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.
Starting point is 00:57:07 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.
Starting point is 00:57:31 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.
Starting point is 00:57:46 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.
Starting point is 00:57:55 Oh, Sabrina's son. It's my mom. Yeah. Appreciate that. That's what's up. Yeah. Sabrina son. That's my mom.
Starting point is 00:58:01 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?
Starting point is 00:58:08 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.
Starting point is 00:58:22 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.
Starting point is 00:58:35 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.
Starting point is 00:59:05 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.
Starting point is 00:59:18 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.
Starting point is 00:59:29 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.
Starting point is 00:59:44 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.
Starting point is 00:59:53 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.
Starting point is 01:00:16 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
Starting point is 01:00:30 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.
Starting point is 01:00:41 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?
Starting point is 01:00:53 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.
Starting point is 01:01:03 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?
Starting point is 01:01:14 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
Starting point is 01:01:23 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
Starting point is 01:01:36 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.
Starting point is 01:01:49 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.
Starting point is 01:01:59 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.
Starting point is 01:02:10 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
Starting point is 01:02:26 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.
Starting point is 01:02:46 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.
Starting point is 01:03:07 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,
Starting point is 01:03:15 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.
Starting point is 01:03:26 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.
Starting point is 01:03:34 Right. You better, leave me out there next time like then. Yeah, I hopped out. That time, I need you access to me,
Starting point is 01:03:41 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?
Starting point is 01:03:47 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.
Starting point is 01:03:56 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.
Starting point is 01:04:03 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.
Starting point is 01:04:12 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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