No Jumper - MAD LAtely Ep. 37 w/ Destiny Rogers

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

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And we're live. Yes, we are. Mad lately. I'm Rose Cranesvick. Gina Vuce. Gabe C. And we got special guests. Hello, everybody. Destiny Rogers. Thank you for coming. So what camera do I look at?

Yours one. The middle one, yeah. Okay, just so I know. The fancy one. Cool. What's up? How's LA? Or you live out here, right? I live out here. It's amazing. Love living here. I've been out here for two years.

Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Callie born and raised. Yeah, up north, low die. Low die, 2.09. Shout out 209. Oh, that's a 209. You share that with Stockton?

Yeah. Yeah, like Tracy, Stockton, Lodi, Modesto, all that. Lathrow, yeah. Up north. Mm-hmm. That is not the Bay, though, right? Nope. Because I'm still very, very new to the whole culture over there.

Yeah. Lo-Dai is the Central Valley. Like, the Bay is obviously like the Bay area. So, yeah, Lodi is about like an hour and a half from the Bay. Okay. People are always mistaken that like, you're from the bay, right? I'm like, nah. You can't claim the bay if you're not from the bay.

Yeah. You know, so. That's like when people in L.A. are like, sorry, people from the I.E. say that they're from L.A. Yeah. That's like, you're not. Oh, yeah, that's the same shit. Like, kind of.

Yeah. Yeah. Your neighbors are cows sometimes. You know what I'm saying? Like, let's be real. Let's be real. Let's be real. Oh my gosh.

I drove to sec like, um, I probably like, um, I probably like, like last year and I noticed it was just very green and just a lot of like cows. I'm assuming you took the five. I took the five all the way down. The five is is just nothing but field. Field and property and cows and grass and weeds. Mm-hmm. And I just thought by Lodi while playing tomboy.

I was like I got it. Oh, really? Oh my God, that's so cool. That's so cool. Catch a vibe. Yeah, how'd you like it? It was good. Okay.

It was like probably like what, 20 minutes away from sec? No. Nah, like 40. 40. That's cool. It's just a lot of land. Yeah. Yeah.

It's hard to drive up there. If you're not used to it, I feel like, because you're just staring at like green fields over and over here. You kind of like. Yeah, the drive gets really boring. Yeah, it gets boring and you're just like, wait, Dinard how fucking long am I going to get out of here? You feel like you're not making any progress. Yeah. That's funny.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Just driving straight though. It just doesn't see right. It's really a straight shot, right? I need a straight. Right down the coasts. You need to bend the corner.

You don't need to be the color. I hate to drive it straight. Me and my best friend live on the same street, but in different cities. I live in Lakewood. She lives in Torrance, but we both live on Delamo. Oh, yeah. And I can literally take the Lama all the way down, but it's like, it just doesn't sit right with me, just driving straight. Like, I don't know.

So what do? You take the 405 to the 91 to just go all the way around? Yeah, 605 to the 91 to the 405. You probably like Waze then, because Waze takes you everywhere. Yeah, his backroads. Go through the alley, go through his living room. Waze is bullshit. Catch a vibe.

I'm scared of Waves. Do you remember that episode of Day Chappelle when they said Tupac Raps be too current? And he was like, look at the Nick over there, doing that, blah, whatever. And the person was in the club doing what they were saying. That's what Waze made me feel like, it's too current. Like, watch out for that dog. Like, Wade is too current for me. How do you know that?

I don't want that app on my phone. Yeah. It's the face. Dude, that's so funny. They become in a class with the cops, though. They're like police approaching. And they're 0.2 miles. They're like, okay, cool.

And then they updated it and they added voices. You could be like, Morgan Freeman, taking you to your destination. Yeah. Oh, shit. You could do that. Oh, that's pretty cool. You get God to produce your ride. I'm cool.

Yeah. Wow. Jesus taken. Oh, my gosh. The colonel from KFC had a voice. The colonel from KFC. I did that for a little bit, but it just didn't. I have my Syrian and Australian.

I change mindset. To Australian. I don't know. Mine's just regular, smegular. Oh, girl. Oh, girl? I think it's a good enough in Australian because it's like you can't get mad. Like, even if they told you to turn the right and then you miss it, sometimes you get mad at your GPS.

But it's like when it's an Australian accent, you can't really get mad at that. I just, yeah, it distracts you. Like, a dingo ate your baby to the lap. Like, you're like, sick. You're just like, all right. The Australian won't make me feel like our little money. Like it's something about like, you know, right? Like, boozy a little bit.

Turn left at the corner. Okay. We'll do. I may. It's just for like money or something. Cheerio. You got to eat a crumpet with it. I think we're getting all these, like, countries mixed up.

Yeah. I know yet. We over here talking Jamaican and shit. About this Australian. It's a big kind. Oh, my gosh. Oh, shit. Man, we got Destiny Rogers in here.

I really think you're going to be. be one of the biggest artists in the world. Wow. Just because... Right off the back. Yeah, no, just because of like your whole story, right? Let's take it, take them back to like when you're 13, 12. Or when did you fall in love of music? I was 10 years old. Okay. Yeah, I was 10 years old and started taking it seriously like when I was like 12. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. How did you like learn? What was the first instrument that you learned? First instrument was actually, I would say, I would say drums. Drums was kind of like my first instrument, but I fell in love with guitar a lot more when I started learning guitar.

When I was drums, well, first off, I was raised into a family music-related family. So my mom, she sang. My dad is a worship leader in church. So my dad plays drums and piano and he sings. And I was in church like every day, like always going, you know, to the band practices and like the prayer meetings and like youth group and stuff like that. So I was always in church, and at church there was a lot of instruments. So my dad being the worship leader, I kind of helped myself.

And, you know, when no one was on stage, like, I'd go up and I'd play the drums. And then I'd go to the grand piano and play. And then I'd play somebody's bass or, you know what I mean? Like, I was always touching stuff, you know? And I never really was forced. My parents never forced me to do anything. Me or my sister, like, they never forced us, you know, if we didn't like something. Oh, no, you have to do it.

Because your parents do it, you have to do it. It was never like that. but my dad definitely did you know throw some things you know like oh here let's we'll get you a drum set and so because when I was younger I would I would always bang on stuff and my parents would put

like pots and pans around me like cooking pots and pans and give me two spoons and I'd play the pots and pans like they were drums because I didn't have a drum set and then my dad and my mom bought me my first drum set when I was five for Christmas and so I was just learning how to play drums like that just banging on it and then eventually a few years later

went down around 10 years old. I got inspired by Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber was coming up and he noticed that he played guitar in a lot of his videos and his covers and stuff. And at the time, I was in sixth grade and I was on independent study. So I had a lot of time on my hands during the day, you know, after my schoolwork, I would, I just wanted to go on YouTube and just, you know, watch Justin Bieber, you know, any typical 10 year old. But yeah, so I noticed that Justin was playing guitar a lot and I knew I had a guitar and I just never knew how to play it. I was like, let me see if I can do what this kid's doing because I got kind of inspired like right off the bat. So I ended up just grabbing my guitar and I was watching a video of him playing and I would pause it on the chords that he was playing and watch his strumming.

And I just copied his fingers and I would strum it. Oh, that sounded kind of the same. Okay, oh, he's doing a different one. Pause. Yeah. So on and so forth, I was learning chords and learning music from Justin because I was just watching him and just like analyzing everything he was doing. So then one day I was playing a song and my dad comes home from work and he was like, yo, he was like, what are you doing? Like, what are you playing right now?

And I was like, oh, dad, like, I just learned this song. And he's like, do you know, like, what you're doing? And I was like, no, like, I don't know what I'm playing. I don't know how I'm doing this. And he was like, all right, well, just come here. So he took me to his piano. And then he was, okay, play that chord. I play a chord.

He goes, okay, that's a C. Next one, play a G. Okay, yeah, that's a G. Next one. A minor. F, you know what I mean? So on and so forth, as time went on, like, that ended up just sticking to my head. So I knew automatically what the chords I was playing was, how they sounded.

I kind of picked up like an ear for music and chord progression. So, yeah, and eventually my dad asked me or seen me, like, getting better at playing guitar and playing instruments and stuff. And he was like, you should, you know, play guitar one day for us at church. You want to do it this weekend? And I was like, oh, yeah, let's go. Like, I was stoked. I was like, yeah. Because I knew my dad was on the band and I felt comfortable and safe.

So I was like, yeah, let's try it. So sure enough, it was a Sunday morning in front of the whole congregation, 10 years old up there playing guitar with all these grown adults. And ever since then, I was like, man, like, this is tight. I enjoy it. I enjoy the rush. I enjoy the nerves and the, you know, the anxiety and the stress. But it was so much fun being up there.

And I knew I wanted to get way better at guitar. And then Justin obviously sing. so I decided to try to sing one day and I ended up posting my own YouTube cover of You Smile by Justin Bieber I went to my friend's house that was my neighbor and I asked him to film me because I didn't want my parents knowing that I was singing

and I ended up posting the video to my YouTube channel and I posted it on my Facebook so my friends from school can see and my parents found it and they were just, they didn't know that I could sing and I don't think I was too bad but when my parents watched it they were like yo, Destiny, like, I had no idea you could sing and play at the same time, like that at 10 years old, you know?

Like, I see a 10 year old. They're like this small. And I'm just like, I can't even imagine looking at a 10 year old and expecting them, you know, to play music and sing, you know, like I did when I was younger. So I got a lot of good feedback and all of the good feedback and the love on my voice and my guitar skills and, you know, kind of just made me feel real confident and that I could do this. So then around like 12, I was like, okay, like, I'm going to start this YouTube channel. So I started a YouTube channel. The videos are up till this day. Bieber Skater 002. Wait, that was my YouTube name. It's still up.

Bieber Skater, 002. I posted my skate edits on there. I go to the skate park with friends. We put together like skate film. So I had my skate in there, my skating, my music, me and church, like performing, like, things like that. So, yeah. So that was your grind. That was my grind music.

Music, it was music, it was music, school, church, and skating. That was it. since you grew up in a church home, like was the household strict? Mm-hmm. How did they feel about you wanting to answer the music industry? Because church and the music industry is too different things. Yeah, like at least my mom. My mom was like definitely cool with it right off the bat.

But my dad, you know, like growing up, we can never listen to secular music. It was like, it was tough because I wanted to listen to Hannah Montana too. Yeah. I want to listen to the Jonas Brothers too, you know? But I was doing it because during the day my parents are at work. I'm on YouTube and I'm looking up whatever I want to look up, you know? So I'm just, I mean, yeah, it was tough. And especially now, like, you know, being from a small town and, and, um,

but I'm not having outlets to be as big as I want to, you know, like my dreams were too big to be in a small town. I knew I needed to come to L.A. And I think my parents were definitely supportive. But they just were just clueless like, man, like my daughter, it wants to be a huge superstar one day. How is she going to get there? all we can do is just support her.

So my parents would drive me to Santa Monica and I'd perform on the 3rd Street on the 3rd Street promenade every weekend and I would play Friday nights, Saturday nights and Sunday mornings and then we'd drive back to Lodi. Like literally quick, a quick trip and I was getting like $300 every weekend. Like I was, I was racking it.

Shout out to the support of parents. What if we all like passed by her one day and just like totally ignored her while she's like, I did it in 2012 and then I did it again in 2015. Wow. I was 16, yeah. So, yeah, I knew LA was where, like, I needed to be. So I was like, if I can eventually, like, get out of that small hometown stuff because I was performing in church, I was, like, performing at farmers markets and, like, street fairs and little open

mics in my hometown. But I'm like, no, like, L.A.'s where it's at, like, we got to go. So my parents, like, backed me up. And they're like, all right, if this is what, you know, she wants to do and needs to do, we're going to do it. But yeah, like, my parents, like, definitely, like, grew out of that, like, that strict Christian phase. My mom was cooler about it. It was my dad was the tough one because my dad's super like, you know, destiny, like, to you get a proper education, you need to go to school. You do this, like, you know, and that was kind of tough, but I'm proven everybody wrong now. That's crazy.

That's like a real, like, real finesse. No, people will be going through that. Yeah. Like, as we speak, someone can be going through that watching this right now. Did you ever try to convince your parents that, like, Justin Bieber was Christian or anything like that? No. This is Christian music. We can play it in the set.

So now he's had him on time. Well, now he. right oh yeah now he's he's a holy godly man yeah so I'm like look mom and dad I told you oh my god so so pretty much like those those um like when the last time you did it when you were 15 that kind of just inspired a new wave of like okay I'm gonna do this do this all on myself but that's like that's so inspirational because it's like you kind of found what you wanted to do and then your parents were right behind you and you're able to do everything necessary to be able to succeed and get your voice heard.

So then after that, what happens? So I was doing the Third Street Promenade. I was also just like getting booked for like shows at colleges and stuff like in the 209 and stuff. So I was in high school and, you know, all the teachers and stuff were like, okay, we're going to do a field trip to Delta College and, you know, trying to get like college and school like shoved down my throat and um my parents had talked to me and was like if you know after you graduate high school like you're going to need to get a job and and you're going to need to

you know either go to a community college and like at least get some type of education and like I knew I didn't want that because I wanted to be singing in front of millions you know so yeah um I was like man like I got to do something so when I was 16 I was like all right I'm going to buckle down and I'm going to start investing in myself all the money that I made from Santa Monica was all getting saved. And I was like, I need to buy laptop, I need to buy a MIDI keyboard to make beats, I need to buy Pro Tools, I need to buy logic, I need to buy all the software, so

I literally like invested in myself. And I was like, I'm not trying, no handouts over here, I'm starting from the ground up. And so it was my junior year. And then, so that whole, it was approximately like five or six months, I was just cooking up in my room, learning all this

software on my own and really just pressing in and trying to figure out what kind of artists do I want to be? Do I want to be a singer-songwriter? Or do I want to be a pop singer? But oh, crap, I also love R&B. Oh, I also love hip-hop. So it's like, how can I involve those sounds and make it all by myself? So that was hard to do it on my own because I didn't know what I wanted to be. So as I started kind of getting older and stuff, I put out my first single, all my own through tune core. It's not on, don't even try to find it.

And nobody, try to look it up because it's not there. It's taken down. I'm sure somebody could dig it up. Yeah, it was called I Never Thought, and we put that out, and it got a lot of love. It got a lot of hometown love, and that was tight. So then a couple months after, this is how I met Stereotypes. So this all originated from back home. The drummer for my dad's worship team at our church in Lodi ends up moving to L.A. because he was going to be a producer. Well, he is a producer to be a producer, and in the meantime, he got an internship at Stereotype Studio.

So I posted a Khalid location cover on my U.S. YouTube channel because I was also trying to get my YouTube channel back up. And I had had somebody like film me on like professional cameras to make like my YouTube channel look a little elevated and like, okay, like this girl like she can, you know, she must got like some money, like, you know, to, you know, to click on the video. If it looks, if it's good quality, you'll click it. So I was just trying to, you know, figure out all that anyways. But yeah, location cover was out.

Zach is his name. Zach showed it to one of the members from stereotypes and they instantly were just like, oh crap, like she's dope and she's from Lodi because most of the stereotypes. types are from SAC so they know where Lodi is and um and they're like holy crap like we'd love to meet her so then Zach gives in the contact of my mom on Facebook and then so on and so forth they're like okay like yeah like maybe it's it's worth meeting these guys because that's what I like by Bruno Mars was number one and they did that song and that was my favorite song and so I was like okay like these guys definitely aren't whack I was like let's just try it so my mom was like all right we'll go but

we're bringing my aunt's our family is huge on my mom's side some of my mom's like yeah but we're bringing we're bringing your aunts. And I was like, all right. So it was me and my mom and three of my aunts rolling up to the studio in Santa Monica. We all packed up in the car and drove down that same week. And we get to studio.

We're walking in. I see all these plaques. It's my first time in a professional studio. So you see all these plaques. And I walk in the room and there's like eight men just staring at me. And I'm like, hey. I was like, what's up?

And I had my guitar, but with all the confidence in the world because I was just like, man, like if I kill this meeting today, then there's going to be hopefully they see some potential. I got to be on my A game. And so they asked me to sing. I had my guitar with me. So I sang.

And they were like, oh, you play piano too. And I was like, yeah. They played piano or I played piano. I played some shit that I wrote. And they loved it. And so that was just pretty much it. And then on the drive back to my aunt's house when she lived in L.A. at the time, we had got a call.

And they're like, yo, we think, they called my mom. They're like, yo, we think Destiny's really dope. Like, we want to work with her. And I was like, oh, I was like, that was fast. I was like, wow, that's crazy. So they're like, yeah, because you come back next month. So I was a senior in high school, so I took a whole week off of school, and I went down to L.A. and worked with them for a full week, and it was my first time in, like, a professional studio recording.

There was songwriters in the room working with me. I didn't know how the fuck that worked. Like, I didn't know what it was like to collaborate with someone else because I'm so independent. You know what I mean? So it was dope, though. Like, I loved it. And then we did a full week of recording, and then they asked me to come back again the next month. So it was just like a, every month that good.

How was that feeling for you? Because you have like, you're in a studio with all these execs and like one of the hottest producers. By the way, stereotypes. Yeah, let's back up a little bit and explain. Why the stereotypes are so important. Because actually, I knew who they were because of the music, but I didn't know that they were the stereotypes. Like last week when he was explaining it to me or maybe two weeks ago, I'm like, oh, they make all my favorite beats. Like all the Bruno March shit.

Like, I love that shit. For like almost the last 20 years, powerful supergroup. And so, yeah, you want to give a little, like, you want to give a little, Yeah, so pretty much they're, like, super producers, and they made, like, really, really big anthems from, like, Pitbull, Fires Movement, exactly. Even, like, the last 24K Magic album with Bruno Mars, they pretty much did, like, I want to say, majority of it.

They also did somebody to love by Justin Bieber. God, I can't leave that. So then being able to reach out to you, especially when you're a senior in high school. Yeah. Yo. What was that feeling like? It was amazing because I was like, man, like they saved the day.

You know what I mean? So obviously, you know, I was hesitant because I was so in my zone about being independent and I was just getting started. I put all this money into me. And I was like, man, like, do I need the help from four grown men that have no idea who I am? Like, do I need that? It don't hurt to try.

So that's when I ended up doing it. And then sooner, soon enough, I ended up just feeling really comfortable in front of them. And I started just tapping into, you know, my personal life telling about how I grew up and in the relationship between my parents and growing up, you know, just being, you know, from my Mexican side and things like that. So they kind of got a huge idea of who I was and also, you know, me being a tomboy, also being a skater girl and not looking like all of these other female, you know, artists that are out right now. So they definitely knew that that I stood out. And we just ended up finding that pocket of the sound that I wanted. It took a long time, but we ended up, you know, locking it in. and then about a few months later after I signed to stereotypes in 2018 I signed to RCA then I moved out here in 2019 top of the year

nice so when um 2019 you signed them with RCA wait so and then you dropped Tomboy right yes same time yes and that's when like the that's when like the shift happened yeah that was when the shift happened like we already had Tom boy because I was just signed to stereotypes like just as they're like first artist and um we shot the video all independent like on our own and we are already had the product before we showcase it to RCA because I was doing other showcases with other labels at the time. So every time we went into a label meeting, we already had the, you know, this is destiny, this is who she is. So we already came with that for them. So they didn't really have to do anything. You know, we found who I was. We found, you know,

who this person is, where she's from, what she does, what her attitude is, how she looks, you know, so we already had all of that. So all they just needed to do was help promote it. So then how did it come to the 2021 release, which has Corley Ray on it, who's also A tomboy. Was that like planned? Did y'all do it? It definitely wasn't planned. So tomboy got a second wave from this singer and like rapper and dancer from this group called Blackpink.

Her name's Lisa. She, this is top of the year. This is in February. She ends up doing like a dance choreography video to Tomboy using my song. And I didn't know she was doing that. So when I seen it, I was like, oh my gosh. like this is like the most followed female like on Instagram like maybe in the world you know when this girl has so much power I literally instantly knew I'm like dude tomboy's gonna kind of go off

a little bit you know and even in the video they credited me and like had my name and I was like oh my gosh I was like it's gonna go crazy and I'm also a fan of her so that was also a level of how did she find my song all the way over there you know so um it was obviously so great and like I I was trying to get a hold of her to thank her, but she's so tough to get a hold of. And then finally, I found a friend of hers that knew Lisa, and then he FaceTimed,

and I met Lisa over FaceTime, but it was just a great feeling. So, yeah, Tom Boy ended up going up. It hit number one in Thailand, number one in Philippines, number one in Vietnam, I believe, and it was number 15 global in the world, global viral on Spotify.

So it's getting numbers. It's not like 50 million streams now. Oh, shit. Yeah, it was going nuts. So I was like, man, like, since this song is two years old, I was like, we need to make a new revised draft. Like, you know what I was like? It's got to be in now. And I'm a huge fan of Coy LaRae.

She's also a tomboy. She's also a talented freaking artist. And I was like, bro, like, we got to get Coy on this. And so my team reached out to her and her team ended up loving the idea. I got to meet Coy over FaceTime. And right off the bat, she was like, I love the song. Like, I love it. I love it.

I love you. She was like, you're so dope. We got to do a video. So she was already talking about a video. And I'm like, girl, you ain't even known your verse. And so literally 30 minutes later, I get a text. And it's the verse. And I was like, oh my God.

I was like, dude, and she killed it. Her verse fits so perfectly with the whole concept of the song. And it made me love the song even more. It made me just fall in love with Tom Boy all over again. Because obviously you listen to the same song and you're performing it for two years. You get sick of it. But now I literally, I don't skip it in the car. because Koi just made it sound so fresh.

It's a new life. It's a new breath of fresh air, you know. Then we did a video and, yeah, the video's out. Fans love it. The new, I'm getting new, you know, supporters from it. So, yeah, I think it's doing really well. I'm happy that you're embracing the whole tomboy things. I'm a tomboy too.

And, you know, with R&B singers, you're supposed to be all cute and... Patee. Make up. Long, you know, long hair and, you know, like, But being the tomboy, it's kind of hard because it's hard being a girl, not being a girl, you know? So I think that's cool that you embracing that. For sure. Thank you.

Yeah. Lisa killed that shit too. She went off. She went crazy, bro. That video was hard. It was nuts. Do you feel pressure that you need to get the hip-hop choreo bars up because of like Lisa putting that out? The pressure of hip-hop bars?

Like, not just dancing. Oh. Oh Like when you go on tour Like oh damn I gotta step it up No I'm not gonna be no Dual leap on stage

Dancing with backup dancers I'm not gonna do that Not doing that to Lola Are you kidding? I don't feel no I don't feel no pressure Honestly like I don't know

If I dance I dance You can't Well yeah I mean my vision Like if I ever do Like want to become a dancer It's just gonna be Some swaggy

Like NorCal Bay moves Smeasin And like jerking And like that. Like, it'd be like that. And my dancers obviously need to look fresh as hell. So it's like, you know, it'd be like that. It'd be more of like a, this is my squad other than, oh yeah, these are my backup dancers.

Three, two, one. Hit them with it. That's right. It became a global sensation over the panoramic. Yeah, I don't know. It's so crazy, bro, because 2020 was like, was so tough on everybody, bro. Like, I didn't put one. well, I put out a project during 2020

and the day I put the project out, the George Floyd stuff happened and so I was obviously like because like when you're with a label it's like you can't just move the release date because they set everything up. Everything's built and just ready to go on time. So I couldn't back out last minute and we also

didn't know that that was going to happen. So like it was tough. And you couldn't really promote it. I couldn't promote it and I also just didn't want to promote it. Like I was like bro like I don't give a fuck like there's more shit going on in the world that that, you know, we all gotta take care of ourselves. And so, yeah, the project came out around then.

So I made a post and I was like, yo, like, I was like, I stand for the BLM movement. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna promote this. I was like, I'm gonna, you know, stand for, you know, my rights and what I think is right and we're on this together. And so the project flopped, but that's okay. It really, it really, you know, it was supposed to be like that. Because I got new music, you know, coming out really soon that I feel like

is a lot better. and more fresh and new and unique. So, yeah, that happened. And also just not doing shows, you know, I'm not getting any money. And so top of the year in January, my business manager, he called me and he told me that I only had a few months left until I'm at, like, flat zero. I had till June until, like, you know, I could lose my apartment and not be able to live in L.A. anymore.

So I was like, fuck, like, okay, that sucks, you know? So I literally was like, man, like, I don't want to tell my mom. I don't want to tell my family because they're not going to be able to sleep at night. I wasn't able to sleep at night, you know, because I'm like, man, am I going to have to go back to Lodi? Is this, is this all, is this all, you know, God planned for me is two years in L.A. And then have to go home. I started looking at my closet, like, yo, what the fuck is the value in here? I did that.

I was selling, I was selling sneakers. I was selling sneakers. Like, I was going to, like, shops on mailroads and selling my shoes and, like, selling my clothes on D-POP just to get extra money. I was eating fucking cup noodle. Like, you know, I was just, like, I was just trying to be so frugal so I can at least save a little bit. so I can get a couple more months. That's real. But yeah, it was scary.

It scared me, and it definitely had a huge pit in my stomach for weeks. And then, so, you know, that's when I was pressing and I was praying. Like, I was like, is this like your plan for me just to be out here for two years? And I was like, if it's not, open some doors. That's all I said. Open some doors. And then two weeks later, the Lisa video happened. Wow.

Wow. Them doors open. Won't you do it? Dang. Yes. He left the door. Oh, you also, you were saying earlier, you also turned 21. Oh yeah, I turned 21 during the panoramic.

The Panorama. The Panda Express. The Panasonic. Whichever. Yeah, I turned 21 in September. So, like, everything was, like, kind of open still. Like, I went to just Palm Springs, like, with some friends. And, like, we went to, like, a couple bars and stuff.

But I still never been to a club and, like, experienced, like, the party life. Like, I want to have VIP. I want have bottle service. I want strippers. Like, I want lights. I want music. Just got to a Caitlin studio session. I'm so tired of that.

Oh my God. You're over here trying to start. I'm trying to retire. Oh my God. After this weekend, I'm just like, I'm out the game. I've had enough. No. It's fun, though.

You'll have fun. I know. I know. I'm starting to kind of experience that now, like, me and my family, we always go to casinos now. So I'm always, like, at the, I always find myself out of casino. I love it, though. I'm kind of addicted to it. What's your game?

Well, I don't play the tables or anything. I just play, like, the machines. Oh, the slats? Yeah, it's like, there's like, there's a life one. there's like a monopoly one the price is right one and then there's a couple like chinese ones like where you got to like press cards like I don't know but I don't be doing that well but it's okay it's one day is it easy no it don't have me going no because because I because I like to play for like the adrenaline because I think I'm gonna win and then I

don't and then I'm all sad I'm like fuck it I'm gonna try again another 20 and then I'm broke I didn't have anything I play the nerdy-ass games like I play like the simpsons there's like a simpson's casino game and like a random casino yeah I'm just like It's like trivia, but like then you get it right and then you get some money. I'm like, this is sick. Like, I love this shit. I'm sitting there for like a long-ass time. There's just people waiting with their drinks.

Like, this guy fucking finish already. Leave me to the games that I can just play a dollar and hit a million. Oh, I know. I don't know if that's going to work. You got to bet. You got to bet a lot. I don't think that's right. I always have this fantasy of like, have you guys seen Vegas vacation?

No. When he wins the car, damn, I'm old. When he wins the car, he like, he puts in like a dollar. or something, and then he, like, he pulls it, and then he wins a car, but he's 17, so he can't win the car. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, you have to be, or you have to be, like, 18 or 20, whatever. He's, like, underage.

So then he tries to... I don't even get in a casino. Because he had a fake ID. But then he had to, like, present it, you know what I'm saying? He just had this whole big dilemma, but, like, he figured it out, and he drove out of Vegas with, like, four cars. Like, the shit was crazy. Came up.

Speaking of Vegas, I rocked Vegas over the weekend. Yeah. Tell us about... Yeah. So let you guys know, Vegas is officially like really, I think we're officially outside on the 15th, which is like tomorrow. But I just got a sneak peek of Vegas. Everyone is outside right now. Even the cops, everyone, no mask. No mask.

No masks. It's normal? It's normal. Normal, normal. I'm getting my vaccine tomorrow. Yeah. Your first shot? The first shot.

And this was like my first festival DJing in Vegas. and outside. Really. So it was like 5,000 people. We brought out blast. Only 5,000 people. A little 5,000 people. So modest.

Shout to the SimCity family. They took care of me. They had a blast and Kaelin. Kailen for a referral. That's fine. And it was like a really, really, really big show. And we went up to like three in the morning. Everyone knew each other's words.

It was like, okay. Wow. We are here. We are outside. We are ready. It was just them, too. Nobody else came up? Mm-mm.

Gabe C. Yeah, you see. I heard that. I closed that. It was great. It was good. It was like, okay, we are officially outside, ladies and gentlemen. That's so exciting.

Yeah. Sheesh, I can't wait. What's you doing this next week? When's the next SimCity? It's next, probably like in two months. In two months? Two months. Wow.

I still never been in Vegas. What? Oh, what? You gotta go now. I've never been to Vegas, bro. Vegas is something else. We got really cool. like there probably would be nomad lately

if we didn't meet in Vegas. I mean, we've known each other, but like, we robbed a taxi together. Yeah. I mean, not like rob the taxi. Like, we robbed our property back from a taxi. It sounds like, it's not like guns and scheme ass. We robbed a taxi.

But like, once you go through through something like that, like with somebody. We're brothers. We're brothers. We're brothers for life. That's crazy. I just got lit. Okay, I got lit in the Uber, right?

And I left my phone. No, it was a taxi. Taxi. So I left my phone in a taxi. I'm mad that you even call. called a taxi with in his day and a way. I don't know why we got in a taxi. I think we just walked into one and was like, take us over there.

Wow. And we called him or and we texted. We're fenced timing your phone because he left it in there. And I was face-timing his phone constantly. We face-timed it like at least 15 times. Okay, 15 to 100 times. Something like that. And then he wouldn't answer.

And then he has a great idea to text message me something. Yeah, I was like, yo, this is a very important person's phone number i mean uh phone will give you like anything you want like the money anything pull up like you know what i'm saying like and then within three seconds he calls back he calls back he goes hey where do you want me to meet you guys i'm like you motherfucker and i was like Gabe we're not giving this guy a fucking dollar why so how did you i get it no so he asked me how much money i had right so i look at my pocket and i have like a stack of ones i have seven dollars wow yeah and he's like like give it to me and he did this thing where he made it look like a lot well no

oh big said give it to me yeah so Vic took my seven dollars he wrapped it in a way where it looked like a lot more money mind you he's a zombie at this point so like the the reason why i'm doing everything is just because he's just a walking you was you was in dad mode yeah like i had to just really like go forward make a left like he was just yeah poor gay and then so he walked up to the taxi and he's like when we get them the money we're all gonna run okay i'm gonna say run we all just sprint to the entrance of the festival so the guy comes out he was very friendly he gave me he gave me the phone right away i'm like oh he fucked up i'm like because now i'm not gonna give him shit okay guys yeah yeah and he goes

hey it nice to see you again and i'm just like and then i'm like oh he's like i charged it for you i was like oh thanks bro thanks and i just took it and then and then um he goes wait where's the money and i'll go oh Gabe got you and then Gabe was like like he just walked over there He just like, limped over there, just like gave him some money. And then he goes, hey. And Vic says, run. He was chasing us throughout the lot. Yeah, he turned around.

He almost went to the festival. We ran inside Day in Vegas. Yeah, but he couldn't find us. You're supposed to get back the phone anyways, right? Yeah, he was my phone. Yeah. Why are you not answering the first time? Like, he was going to pawn that shit.

You know what I'm saying? Wow. Have you got a back? But that's why I knew Vic was a real one. Because he got my back. That's right. Yeah. Dude, you're drunk ass running around.

That's what I became sober. Yo, that's so funny. I love that story. That's really cool. That's really some ride or die shit right there. It is. And we didn't know each other that well at that point. But it's like after that, it's like, you know.

And look at you just looking out. Yeah. Of course, but that's how I'm on my people's like. You know what I'm saying? I love it. You know what I'm saying? And the adrenaline rush was pretty fun too. You know what I'm saying?

Of course. It is fun. Yeah. But speaking of Kaelin, we got a brand new record. Yeah. Brand new record. This is a motherfucking smash. Thank you.

Summer Smash hit going on right now. We just premiered it on Power 106, LA Lakers. Hey, appreciate that. If you guys haven't heard it, make sure to go tune in right now. It's called West, Westlike. Yeah, Westlike. With Kailn For real, for real. Can you tell us a story about how the song came about?

Like, were you already like a G-Funk fan? My whole life. Okay. My whole life. It all kind of originated, you know, from just, you know, this is another personal record to me. You know, every record I make, I want to make it, you know, personal and something that fans can learn on or take, you know, take throughout the song about me, just so they can

get, you know, an interest in an idea of who I am. So, yeah, so Westlake pretty much came about, just pretty much tapping in, you know, to my Mexican side. You know, that's something that I never really, you know, shared because, you know, it's normal. It's part of me. I never really shared it. But I noticed the reaction when I told people I'm half Mexican, they kind of just like their

eyes grow up and then they're just like oh wow like okay you know what I'm exactly there's an extra support exactly there and an extra respect I feel like so yeah um growing up all I listened to was was old school hip-pop from family functions and family reunions and stuff and and um just the culture of you know my my my cousins have lowriders all my cousins were cortezes and you were out late drinking beers or I wasn't but my family so that was just it was part of my lifestyle and I started adapting to that. And it's all I really know, really. That's all, you know, I was raised on and grew up with, was just, you know, my Mexican

side, my Mexican family. And I knew eventually I wanted to do a song that that was like Zapp and Roger influenced and old school hip hop influenced because it's in my blood. And I want to be able to share that and represent that for sure, especially as a female. So we made, me and stereotypes made West like in 2018. This song is old. Then the first time you heard it was a year later. that when I had my verse on it,

we were just gonna put it out just me. Um, but we were waiting for the right timing. 2020, I ain't putting nothing out because I can't perform it. I can't do anything to promote. I'm not gonna do it. So 2021 came around and it's starting to feel real good, you know, especially right around summertime when everything's starting to open up, everyone's partying again.

It's like, yo, this, this might be, this might be the right, the right moment. So, um, we knew we wanted to feature on it. So, you know, I ended, I'm a huge fan. of Kalin, you know, like, I'm a huge fan of scorn and fine ass and everything like that. So I really wanted Kalan on it because I'm like, he's from the West Coast. I was like, because we got to keep it West Coast. I'm from NorCal. He's from SoCal and we were able to just, you know, he was able to hop on the record.

He pulled up to the studio one night when I was there. And he went in and did his verse in like within 15 minutes. Like, he gave you one of his best verses. Yeah. The way, like, the way he harmonized and melodized and the layers and everything. Everything was like. He literally like walked out the booth and we were listening. back he goes yo I kind of killed that

I was like yeah he did I was like yo I kind of killed that I was like yeah bro I was like the whole team was geeked and like it just felt so refreshing and so new because I've been listening to my version for two and a half years so when he hopped on it I was like bro I was like you literally just made this song come to life like this is it you know so we're like this is it so we ended up putting out the record

and we did a video to it tapping in you know to my Mexican side and he also brought all of his homie and all, you know, his dirt bikes, that was all Kalen's idea. So it definitely shows both sides and just shows, you know, a diversity in the video and both cultures, you know, mixed together that we wanted to showcase. Please tell me about Lil Robb.

And how you got Lil Rob the legend in the video. That was the coolest shit in the world. I'm so happy you picked up on that. Yeah. But yeah, so Lil Robb is a legend. He's a rapper and he makes great legendary music. Summer nights. He made his summer anthem.

top. That's his top number one. That's a forever song. It's a forever song. In the Pacific, to be specific. To be specific. Did you see that meme the other day? Or that Cholo by the water?

You didn't see that? Oh no. I don't want to see no Cholo by the water. No, literally he's fully closed. And then it literally says, it says, if I'm right by the Pacific to be specific was a person. And he's just right there by the way.

He's just right there like this. I got to pull it up. That shit was fucking hilarious. Oh my God. Yeah, that's hilarious. That shit was perfect. But yeah, I'm a huge little Rob fan. For Cinco de Mayo, I put out a little, like, snippet cover on my Instagram.

That's how I discovered you. Oh, really? That's how I discovered you? How did you see it? I think it might have been on the popular page or somebody, like, DM did it to me. Wow, that's cool. That's literally. Yeah, and then I sent it to him.

I'm like, yo, we should get her on the show. And then he's like, I know her. And I'm like, oh, shit. You go way back. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, but, yeah, so Lil Rob's seen it and was like, hey, that's my home girl like already call me his home girl i'm like all right so you want to pull up to the shoot like so um yeah one of the members john from his stereotypes he ended up getting little robbed to pull up and i was like yo

i was like he should play my uncle because i got because there's a little skit in the beginning of west like yeah um i literally like i made that up like that whole like skit was just literally my life that i wanted to capture you know my grandma in the kitchen you know cooking and then i have like my sister in the living room asked me where are you going me da da da and then Little Rob, my uncle, like, he's drinking a 40 on the front porch. It's literally how my life was back home. My uncle was always drinking on the front porch. And they asking me, where you going, me, huh?

I'm like, I'm just going to go get food or, you know, whatever. So I'm so happy that little Rob could, you know, also make an appearance in the video, but also, like, act and do that because I don't think he's done anything like that. And so it's cool that fans are like, well, was that little Rob on the front porch? I'm like, yep. I'm goddamn right it is. Yes, you know, you know. It wasn't an impersonator.

Yeah, but it was so tight, man. He's so respectful. He's so chill. We was chopping it up all day on the shoot. He's really dope. He supports me. You know, I support him. It's just, you know, another, another relationship right there.

That's dope that it came together so organically like that. So organically. Like, it was like no hesitation. Like, he was there. It was the, uh, Kailen, bring me back a 40 pack for me. Oh, my God. It brings back a 12 pack, man. Yeah, it's all right, no.

I know each time, because we did that, like, that scene, it was all in one take. We did only, like, five. time so like every time we kind of tried to switch it up so on the last take that's when when rob went hey bring you back a 12 pack can't and we're like bro that's it like that's the one then y'all pull off on the bikes pull off on the bikes yeah yeah wait there was a um there was a scene in that video of um you in the street and there's like a fire hydrant that's just going off oh my god dude yeah we had L-A or LAPD do that for the shoot oh really no no no no

I was watching hell of stuff in the background. Like, is that playing? Like, the mailman walking across the street? I'm like... Yeah, it was just a neighborhood. Like, there was mailman. There was just, like, people, like, walking their dogs on the sidewalk. You know, it was a normal neighborhood that we just shot on.

So all of that was, like, just, you know, there. But as far as the fire thing explosion, that was all, that was all, like, spontaneous, too. Because it was right around the corner. We're hearing, we're hearing sirens. We're hearing sirens and we're hearing just like a loud, just noise. And we're like, what the fuck? This is what that was. Exactly.

So the director, like, comes to me. She's like, Destiny, come here. Like, let's walk around this corner. I'm like, oh, okay, where are we going? And so then I end up saying this big old waterfall. I guess the car had crashed into a fire hydrant and then exploded all the water. Wow. As you're showing the video.

Yeah. So, yeah, as we were shooting the video, so there was firefighters or his police. There was literally a firefighter that had like a board. and he was trying to cover the hole but it's so much pressure it's like he can't do it and so I was like damn Mike I feel bad if I'm just posted up in front of them

doing a music video because like these people are out here working hard they're soaking wet it's cold like it was cloudy that day but literally there was like people filming it obviously there was like the neighborhood people they were filming it and I was like man

I'm like is this wrong to just do a little quick little I bet your directors were like a little first the hook keep it rolling so literally My director was like, yes, go. And I was like, all right.

So they have the speaker. She was filming it on her film camera. And I was just going off. And like, so the neighbors seen me doing it. So they're recording me. They're like, get your video girl. Get you. They're typing me up.

And I was like, yeah, you're tight. I was like, okay. I was like, they accepted. They supporting it. But yeah, that was all. That was all just for fun. That's type. It came out like really, really dope.

Thank you. You really like captured. the scene. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. You holding on to that song, the Westlake, and then being able to re-release tomboy, it just speaks volumes to how good your damn music is. Like, Gabe was saying you're going to be one of the biggest artists in the world, but being able to hold on to something and re-release her, you know, do it again and bring it to life. Years later is freaking fire. Thank you. And I feel like we're going to hear Westlake at like, barbecues, family reunion, and stuff like that. This is this is the summer.

anthem right here we gotta run it up that's the thing it's like it's just a like good music like remember when there was just good music like it's just like timeless you know what I'm saying like a summer nights and like you know when I listen to like music from like the 70s I'm like damn like this shit was good right it feels and it was just and it was like just about a relationship like it was just like pure it was so pure you know what I mean but now I was like bitches like you know it's like people don't think about love no more no exactly that's what I'm saying like back then it was love songs like it was so cute that's i listened to oldies over like now's music any day you can hear that

in your music because even was it uh great escape like the album it just sounds like like it just sounds like you you came from that time like if you was the like you're the 2021 jojo or something like that you know like you can hear it in your music that you were a fan of that type of sound back then well i'm glad you picked that up that's tight yeah i love r&B I like R&B over rap music. Me too, for sure, for sure. Who were someone like your influences growing up? That she wasn't supposed to be listening to.

Oh, my gosh. Okay, so this is funny that you asked. But my sister, my older sister, when she would, like, pick me up from school, like, my sister and I have a big age gap. Like, I was in kindergarten when she graduated high school. So she would, like, take me to school. She'd take me, like, softball practice and stuff. So she always had burnt CDs, and she played in her car.

She was playing, like, Neo and, like, Usher, JT. Far East Movement, like the 20, or the early 2000s era. So I kind of like developed the love for like 90s, early 2000s R&B from my sister because that's all she played in the car.

So I was able to listen to that and then I would look it up on YouTube later, watch the music videos, and then listen to newer music that connected to that. So I was like, I was addicted. And so I was obviously listened to my Disney channel shit, like Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Hannah Montana, you know, all of them.

So I had the Disney influence, but I was also a fan of Justin. So it was like pop, R&B. My sister obviously listened to like rap. So I was listening to freaking like Esther Dean and like just the other like, you know, 2000s rap songs. So I was doing I was doing what my sister was doing. And so and then I was singing in church. Yeah.

On the low. On the low. But Chuck is where the song come from. to like clear the history and like the computers and stuff because I was like bro my dad sees that I'm listening to fucking like Ray J. The greatest living American. I'm telling you. Breedy didn't have like freaking music.

Ray J is the greatest living American. Sexy can I? Sexie can I? That's the ones. What are you listening to? Dude, I know. Freaking. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, it was so funny. That's funny. Are you a fan of like any girl groups like Destiny Child? Absolutely Destiny's Child, cherish. Are there any other girl groups? I don't know, but I definitely was huge on like female like R&B, like Brandy and Alia and stuff. Oh yeah.

Oh, that's great. Yeah, so I have the, I need to like, I'm happy that I'm like, I'm an old soul too, you know? I'm not just like doing like the R&B now. Shout out to Big Sis, because that's like my sister's 10 years older to me and that's why I was all into music that came out before I was born. I'm so happy that I had an older sister that I was around all the time. Like she like babysat me and like she would play that like on her boombox in her room.

And like I would just like listen to it. I'm like, man, this is tight. This sounds so good. And yeah. That's good. I mean, you're not the kid that think that these new songs is brand new and you know you can pick up the samples and stuff. I know. Yeah.

Like these like these like like some of my friends like aren't even like cultured on any old school shit. Like I would turn on like like a hit like something from the gap band or something like that. and they won't even know what it is. I'm like, are you kidding me? And like, most of my friends are Mexican. And I'm like, your family didn't play this? I know. What?

I was like, what, bro? Like, but, yeah. That's why I thought it was so tight when on Lolo, the record with Gwop Dad and Pilo, you drop Art LaBoe. Art Leboe. Oh, yeah. He's a legend. Yeah, Art LaBoe, if you guys don't know, is he was like a radio, DJ, like, whatever, he had his own show and, like, his own podcast and stuff. So he would just play.

I think he's still going. He's still going. He's like 90 years old. I remember I worked with him at K day. You worked with the NICDay Day? Yeah. He was in there. I was like, bro, you're iconic. I was like, I want to say so much.

I feel like they can literally like, you know, God forbid, but you know, one day he's not going to be here anymore. They can literally play those like shows over and over again on the loop. I feel like for the rest of time. Yeah. Like they're just so classic. All the dedication. Yeah. He had a perfect voice.

Yeah. The perfect voice. The perfect voice for that. Yeah. So he would just play music. and they had had callers that would come in and then they'd be, hey, can you play this, this, and this enough

for my baby girl? They'd be like, hey, so we're calling in. For Sad Girl. This goes out to boo, sad girl. Here we go. He makes me feel like I cannot do radio because his voice is just so like. He has a perfect freaking broadcaster voice.

Yeah. Yeah, I had a shout at him one time. I was like, dang. Heartle Bow Show's classic. Why is everybody calling from prison in that show, though? Because they missed their baby mama. Everybody got a shot out of their little baby. Everybody that calls are in prison.

Like, everybody did. They miss their daughters in their baby mama. That's why. This one goes out to you. Imagine Arlaba getting calls from global telling. Oh, yeah. Thank you for using Gtel. Jesus Christ.

Oh, my gosh. I just talked to the homie south trees the other day, shout to him. He going to get out next month. Shout to Salt Trees. Damn. I had that thing that thank you for using GTL. I'm like, oh, man, I hate that I have to talk to him like this.

He's going to be out next month. I'm not the area code. I'm not answering Joe calls. The fuck, I don't have nothing for y'all. I got nothing. I got no money. Don't ask you for no money. Oh, my God.

It's so funny. Oh, my God. That's so funny. I tried it one time, but I couldn't, it's a very long process to put money in. It is. It is a very long process. Because you have to have like a. Pre-paid card or something, right?

You have to, like, sign up on the website and then, like, put, like, a card in, and then they have to, like, approve you. Yeah, it's hell of shit. Just risk your life and get a cell phone and get a cell phone and call me. Don't call me. It's so crazy. I got some cousins that are locked up and they'd be Snapchat and me. Oh, yeah. I'm like, y'all are going to get in trouble.

What's the Snapchat? Bro, they're in there. They're in there to Instagram. They talk challenges. I got a cousin that DMs you on Instagram. He's like, what's up, prima? I'm like, I'm like, boy, you got three years. I was like, I was like, I was.

Don't extend it. I was like, by the time he comes out, I'm like, I'm like, hopefully a huge superstar, but I'm just like, bro, I was like, you missing out on the lot. I was like, please keep your ass out of trouble. I do not need you staying in there anymore. I swear.

Remember when Draco would go on live when he was in jail? No, no, what's your talking about? This was like 2017. That shit was funny as fuck. I would be like, what the fuck is going on? Like, why is Drake was really going live? right now and then he's just like yeah almost home like i was just like damn but i feel like everybody gets a phone when they know they're gonna go home in like the next few weeks yeah because like the

homie peso was just locked up and he was posting like hella pictures and then and then all of a sudden the next day he's out i'm like oh okay it's funny because i'm so sleep on the whole cell phone well i was sleep on the whole cell phone thing in jail because when draco used to be tweeting i used to be like is he on the phone with people asking to tweet this for him oh yeah like hey bro tweet this all caps tweet we know the truth I did not think that people was like actually in jail with phones you know

I got the whole phone people will be facetime and there's even like TikToks of like prisoners like doing like TikTok men yeah I'm like doing pull-ups and shit are you into the whole TikTok thing I mean yeah I love going on TikTok and watching TikTok

but making TikToks is just so much like effort and just patience that I don't have but like I would just have to be really in the moment and like just like on a from something to just be like hey let's make a tic-tok you won't ever hear that come out of my my mouth hey let's make a tic-tok but like my friends like my friends are filming it i'll like yeah i'll do a tic-tac with you if you're filming it's like the timer the trimming like um it's a little overwhelming yeah they're making motions pictures yeah on tic tic i did my first one with letti and duno

oh got a plug uh got a new podcast brownback podcast there it is um the releases every friday um Like, what did he say? We did it like our first little TikTok. And then I'm just like, yeah, it was just like, I'm like, I don't like this. I'm like, I'm doing this for you letty just because you asked us to like, I'm not, that's not me. I'm not a TikToker. We don't get a West like a TikTok challenge. I know.

I know I'm trying. Oh, that'll be fine. A few, one friend, not a few. A friend did like a Crip walk like to Westlake. And then some other fans are like doing Crip walks like on the, on the song too. So I'm just, I'm just trying to see what I can do. Yeah, yeah, O. You gotta get OT.

Oh, it's OT does it? Jack J. Yeah. I gotta get one with Snoop Dog. Yeah. I think I should try for that. I should just, my first like, I haven't seen you grip walk in a while.

My, you probably can't walk. When I was actually thinking of, because every time I hear it song, I'd be like, how with the remake sound? And that's who I thought of, like Snoop Dog, Y, G. Like, that would be fire. Right, right.

Yeah, I definitely, like, if that's going to be my first TikTok, like represent the dance for Westlike, it's going to need to be with someone legendary. So it gets a lot of, you know, By the way, your, um, your dub C walk, your dub C walk in the video is one of the hardest shit. Yeah.

Yeah. It's on the shoulders. Yeah. Talk about him. Yeah. And he got to look down with it. Oh, boy. And you got Kayla doing it right by you all that.

I know. I know. He wasn't doing that. I was like, I'm going to have to bust a little dance move real quick. So this motherfucker can do something. And so he ends up doing it. And I was, oh, hell yeah, that's the one. We did it a couple times, too.

But, yeah. That's so dope. That's what it is. Yeah. So what's coming next? Definitely new music. Got a lot of new music that is lined up ready to go for you guys. I also got, like, a lot of cool collaborations with artists and brands.

Hey, now. I know. I know. It's crazy. But, but yeah, just new collaborations, new music, hopefully shows. I don't have a show booked yet, like anytime soon, but hopefully, you know, shit will get popping again. And I'll be in a city near y'all. Especially for some time.

But it looks like there's like impromptu shows, like, like people are putting together shows like in a month or two months, three months. So never, I feel like you would, you'd have a good one like in August. Yeah. Yeah, hopefully. What's like set the vibe. Exactly. Hopefully July. Like I want to be able to do a show like in like San Diego or like, seven.

Sacramento or something hopefully but I keep seeing all these flyers dropping it's like hell exciting to like like damn festivals are really with these huge lineups like well you saw the day in Vegas shit yeah I have fucking everybody I thought it was fake can we can we pull that up because it's so good yeah the day in Vegas if we could pull it up on the screen I could it's so many names on there so many it's like we didn't waiting yeah Ceylon's on it. YG, Doja Cat, Kendrick. Blast.

Blast. Bino. Bino, Reddow. Yeah. I'm always guilty that like the minute I see it, I'm like, okay, headliner's cool. I'm looking for like which one of the homies like made it on the festival. Like who from L.A.

Not even that. It's just like I just love the L.A. representation. The California representation, you know what I'm saying? Like to just have, you know, because these are like national. Oh, just click the, oh, that's 2019. Oh, 20, 2021. So it is fake. No, I sent in an email.

It should be on the desktop. Yeah, so I seen it and I'm just like, okay, yeah, like, it's time. And it's in November, so it's like you got time to sober up. Yeah. Get right. People, yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm trying to like, I'm telling you my birthday's coming up in like two weeks. So I'm like, what day?

The 27th. Okay. So, yeah, if we can see that. What day is your birthday? September 13th. Oh, so Virgo. vibes. I'm really the Virgo, but I'm on the 23rd. Sweetie. September 23rd? Yeah. That's my grandma's birthday. Oh, what? Yeah.

So the day in Vegas lineup, we got, we got, um, this is November, wait, what? November 12 or 14. That's like Camp Flogna days. Yeah. So it's Kendrick Lamar, and he's gonna be performing things from Section 80 all the way to damn, which is crazy. I feel like I haven't heard section 80 should be performed in a long time we haven't seen seen her nothing from kitchens yeah yeah so that's fire and i'm glad they even put what he's doing on there you know Travis scott is Travis scott but oh my god like that's fire oh yeah that is dope ril lennox if kentry didn't put that Tyler yaw way yeah shout out ty he's gonna be a good three hours yeah it's gonna be a kendrick concert when we went to the last one that shit was it took forever

I'm not gonna lie I left a little early I was so see Lotto Larry June all Larry June that's hard IDK Young baby Tate okay big sad Big sad 1900 that's so far Yeah, yeah on there Travis Scott to look all these hip-hop acts and then Snow Allegra fire Yeah, well she has shit with like Tyler Crater yeah, that's dope I didn't know freaking snow was on there Oh Don't Oliver is my is one of my favorite artists right now Victoria Monet oh shit Cash page, oh shit. S.S.G. Kobe.

Wow. It's turned up. Baby face. Damn, Sunday looking real good. Sunday might be the day. Sunday might be the one. Tyler Crater, Siza, a little Uziverse, Snow Allegra, Don Tolliver. 24-K. Golden.

Kaylin. Sir, Denzo Curry, Earl Sweacher. Flo Millie. Oh. Be no, Kayling. It's not. Turned up. Code of the friend.

Who was at the bottom? Oh, almond milk honey. I have the biggest question. Hey, well, I'm going to come on Sunday. Oh, we coming with. you who wants to drive down Saturday night I do it look I love day in Vegas but like my experience last time was I did not spend that much time at the festival because it's Vegas and it's so much shit to do you was

looking for gay fucking phone I was looking for gay I'm trying to link up with girls like you know it's like it's so much going on and then everybody like from the industry was in Vegas that weekend just like hell of people like just then you want to go to the whole tell you want to get some food like so many things are going on one of the days i was there for no no joke five minutes and i forgot who's on the festival but i was kind of burnt out from festivals at that time yeah because i had just went to every single rolling loud yeah every you know so it so it was november and i was like man i already seen all these guys perform like i was kind of over it but i really took them for granted so much because they should went away after that

rolling loud just dropped a line up for rolling loud LA too right for rolling lot well they're calling in California now because they canceled the bay. Oh. Oh. Yeah. So they put it in San Bernardino and so they just call it rolling out California. So it's in San Bernardino? Yeah, because that's where it's legal. Every show that was like, like thought of like earlier this year got canceled. So everything in LA, you can't do anything at LA. So that's why it's San Bernardino set of Los Angeles. Yeah. And they want to just if they put it in LA but they call it California they'll be like, you know, because the, I mean, the Bay is going to feel slighted in a way but right it's like there's a lot of festivals in the bay though

that are coming up outside lens that's only one like which ones are coming up yeah i don't know the names but i know so i remember there's like there's one in october is that outside lens i think so in october probably the one i'm thinking of but freaking well i guess that's not newport beach is open newport beach never closed i feel like yeah that's crazy that's You performed at a festival, right? Yeah, I performed at a few in 2019. That was my prime. I did Camp Lognaw.

Oh, shit, that's fine. I did something in the water. Oh, in Virginia? Virginia Beach. I did what was her music festival called again? Lights on. Lights on Festival. I did another one in right when the pandemic happened.

It was a virtual one with MTV. It was a MTV virtual festival, whatever. I think that's. That's pretty much it as far as festivals go. How was something in the water? Was that like on the beach? Yes. That's fire.

Bitter sweet. It was definitely tough because the day I was performing, it got hit by lightning. The stage got struck by lightning. What? Yeah. And so, yeah, it was on the beach. Well, a few of the stages were on the beach. And then mine was like in the parking lot of it.

So it was like raining all day. I was like the first one to open the day. So I was the first act. And so my time got delayed. Like, I was supposed to go on, like, 1.30 in the afternoon. And I got, I didn't go on until 9 p.m. Because they're like, because Farrell, like, had announced, like, oh, like, there's no way that anyone's performing today because of the stage and the weather, it's raining.

It's also hot. Like, it was, like, really weird. And so Farrell, like, posted and canceled it. And then I would hear, no, no, no, you're still going on. And I'm like, but no, I'm like, Farrell, the man himself said it's canceled. But there were still fans, like, waiting outside, like, you know, to get. in like they weren't listening you know like they're like no like we're here we're staying here so when i pulled up i seen all the fans like okay good like it's it's gonna happen so then i didn't end up

going on to like 9 30 at night and after me it was like lucky day and then there was a few other artists after me that went that night but the show didn't end to like 2 a.m because we started really late oh shit but yeah it was scary because i really didn't think i was gonna do it like i really didn't think I was going to be able to, because I had somewhere else to go after Virginia Beach. So I was like, man, like, I might just have to, like, leave, you know, and not be able to do it. Were you afraid of getting struck by lightning while you're on stage? Yeah, because I'm around, like, literally all my band, like, there's, there's lights, there's electricity. Yeah.

And it was also raining when I was on stage, too. I was, I performed in the rain. Hell no. Wow. Yeah, it was crazy. You had to do it for a little saint. And it's at the beach, so it's cold. And it's cold and just uncomfortable.

Like my hair was frizzy. I was like, this is a mess. My makeup's coming off. I was like, bro. Oh shit. That's a whole different thing for girls. But the turnout was amazing because these, obviously the fans that came, like most of them didn't know who I was, but they were just so ready to listen to some live music because

they were out in the rain and uncomfortable outside all day. So when I went on, their energy was on 11. Like, it was insane. So that made me feel good and lifted my spirits because they were just excited to see, you know, hear some music. that's dope. That's a down-ass fans. After the stage,

you got hit by lightning, I'm still pulling up. That's how the festival fans, me. Yeah, they'd be crazy. I can never. That's when I'm going to go to festivals. I'm not making a picnic. So when you're performing at a festival.

I'm not saying that I in a 10. I watch this shit on TV. So when you're performing at a festival, there's like 10,000 people, where are you looking? Like, it's just, what's your focus point? Way in the back.

Yeah. I'm looking. Way in the back. She had the hot dogs fan. I know I'm looking at the roller coasters. No, I mean, at least like for something in the water, there was not 10,000. There was probably like, like 300 because I was the first. So people were still coming in and entering.

So it was cool because they have to walk by my stage to get to the other. So I see people walking in and stopping and listening to the rest of my set, which is cool. But yeah, there was probably like 300 there. Ket, Flognaw, I believe I had more just because I was in California. and I think I probably had like 500, 600 people at my set, so that was really dope. But, yeah, I mean, I either just look in the front so, like, I can perform and, like, have, like, eye contact with fans, like, in the front, and then, or I'll just look straight in the back, like, at the sound booth, because I don't know where to look.

The sound guy was like, turn it up. Performing at church will help you with, like, performing and stuff, right? Yeah, my church was big. We had a huge sanctuary, and there was a lot of people, so that definitely, like, I, owe it all to church really because that's what made me comfortable and like got me out of stage fright before I even started doing my art of shit. That's right. Yeah, even your story is like old fashioned kind of, you know, because people always come out

of church and stuff like that. Back in the day, like R&B singers will come out of church. Now you're getting famous off one to TikTok. Yeah. But that's cool that you had a upbringing from the church because it's real, like that's where the soul comes from and stuff. where the soul comes from and just like yeah and going through stuff in life and all the hurt like it shows in your voice as a singer you know it you can hear like heartbreak and you can hear

you know the hard times in your life through your voice yeah you know exactly that's dope and then learning them instruments mm and then I'm crazy too instruments can you can you you think you can like write a skateboard while singing while holding a guitar and I've done it before yeah that's dope Fuck. I've done it in my kitchen. Oh shit. She can do everything. Dude, yes.

Like, I would, so me and my friends, like, we were younger, we were younger. We would play American Idol. And so, like, every, like, Sunday night, like, we go. My dad had a pickup truck at the time, so we would sit in the back of the bed. And Destiny, I'd bring my guitar. And then I had, like, four of my, like, neighbors. And we'd all go in a row. And so literally, every time I'd pull up, I would literally just ride down my driveway and my skateboard

with my guitar. My hand already ready to go riding to my friends. writing to my friends. So yeah, that's happened multiple times. I do it in the kitchen. Like, if my guitar is just chilling and, like, my skateboard just on the floor, like, I'll just hop on my skateboard

and just skate around my kitchen. You're probably undefeated in skate. You're like, all right, next move. You sing like me. Oh, my God, that's true. You can't have strung the guitar. I've never, I've never done that before. And do a kickflip.

And then the person's going to be like, I can't do that. I probably could kick flip. I haven't done tricks like while skating, obviously, but I probably could kickflip and hold the guitar at the same time. That stuff was cool. And holding a note, maybe?

Holding a note? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That might be your first viral TikTok. I might have to do that. That's pretty far. That sounds good.

Do you go to any skate parks over here? Yeah. I go, I mainly go to this one called Sheldon Skate Park. It's the closest to my house. It's like in Sun Valley. And then I go to, I skate the barracks a lot. Oh, sir. Yeah, the barracks is just like a nice little.

like personal private indoor skate park you know and then i'll go to el el serino skate park and then a couple other ones i don't remember the names but i mainly skate the barracks just because like it's just easier to skate in a private session you know because there's not a lot of people it's really big no one's getting in your way there's a lot to skate so and you're at the barracks it's legendary and i'm at the barracks it's legendary exactly yeah that's super far haven't skated for a minute though it's been like a couple months i don't know why i just haven't picked it up it's like i feel like it's one of those things of just like you just have to be in the mood for it yeah it's like that now especially since all this hype i've been really busy like 2020 i was skating all the time like

just to get exercise and get sun and you know pick up a sweat you know that's all i was able to do was skate so i was tapped in on skating like in 2020 but now that i'm busy i just don't have time for it or if i want to make time for it i'm like exhausted and i'm just like no i don't want to push my body like I should disrust yeah yeah I feel that we didn't get into you what you're mad lately I'm not even I'll say it for next week I'm not mad no more today's been today's been a beautiful glorious day yesterday was one of the worst days of my life not not that bad it was just like you might have just okay okay basically basically how did this start it started by me waiting to get a haircut by this dude

because my barber went in Vegas and he didn't tell me in advance so like I'm over here like yo can I get a haircut is that bro I'm in Vegas I'm like what am I supposed to do I need a haircut you know what I'm saying

and then so I hit up this dude like I interviewed the homie suede on Saturday and then he told me he's oh I got a barber for you dog like you know give him your number blah blah cool I hit him up

he didn't show up on Saturday but I'm like that's fine I just need it by Sunday and then I hit him up and for five hours I'm sitting at home waiting for him to pull up he's oh I'm on my way dog I'm on my way and then all of a sudden it's oh my phone died

and then like two hours later my car died and I'm just like bro are you coming or not I die like what the fuck you know what I'm saying like just tell me you're coming or you're not it's not that hard you feel me like because now all the barbershops closed now I'm just super irritated because I've been waiting for you all day and I'm like man I'm tired of waiting here so I'm like you know what I need to go buy some shoes

anyway so I go to the the foot locker on Melrose not going there and they're They said they always have white air forces. So they're like, whoa, anytime you come in, we got you. We always have your size. Pull up, they don't have them. I'm like, great. And then I see some other shoes.

See, like the Airmaxes. And I'm like, oh, these are cool. I'll get these. And then the display is my size. So I'm like, I know they have my size. And then I gave it to them. And then they're like, we can't find the other shoe. Damn.

And I'm like, okay, this day is just going like worse and worse, right? So I'm like, whatever. I'm trying to just like. They don't have the right shoe? Is it the model? shoe? Yeah, I'm telling you, it was the display one. So they didn't have the left shoe. They couldn't find it. And I'm like, man, all right, whatever. I'm going home. Fuck this. And so I go home. And then I'm like, you know what? Fuck the haircut. It's my homie's birthday. Like, I'm just

go pull up. So then we get there. Yeah, wore a hat. Yeah, just wore a hat. Yeah, just wore a hat. That's what we do. And then I got, I got there. It was cool. I was about to order some drinks. And then the homies are like, yo, bottle service. I'm like, okay, we'll get bottle service. And then everybody's like yeah how much is it to you know pitch in i put it on my card rookie mistake everybody says they're gonna pitch in but when the bill comes around they go hide yeah yeah yeah you got to shoot in the memo invoice yo i'm about to do that right now the cash app request yeah there's camera and i'm just like oh come on dog so whatever i'm not really tripping on that at the moment but and then there's like somebody's gonna meet me there right and then so i send the

Uber. And then the Uber's like, it's like far away, right? So then, but then I get a, I get a notification says like the Uber ride has stopped. And I'm like, the fuck? Like, it was like, it's supposed to be like an hour long drive probably. And then

I hit them up like, yo, you good? Like the Uber stopped. And they're like, I'm on my way. Never came. Never showed up. Okay, so where did the Uber drop that person? Somewhere. Somewhere in County? I don't know. So it sounds like

you need to cut off your barber. My barbara triggered a series of unfortunate events. Yeah. Everything was ruined after that. But yeah, it was a yeah, it was a bad day. And then, you know what's funny?

Yeah, that was, but you know what's funny? Is that at midnight, the, a barber hit me up and was like, yo, bro, I'll pull up on you right now. Oh. I know. At midnight. But I was that desperate for a haircut He pulled up I got a haircut like one in the morning Because it was a new day

I'm Monday Hours You know something else You said pause You never got a late night haircut No not are you up That's not Are you up?

My barber's like yo you up You still need that slide up That's cool though that he still came through. Yeah, it was a different Barbara. He was mad cool. Shout out to Prodigy Hector. Hey.

Yeah, it was just like, it was just one of those days where everything went wrong. I feel you. You know what I'm saying? Like, it wasn't like a terrible day, but I was just like extremely annoyed the entire day. And it didn't get any words. It was just getting, it didn't get any better. It got progressively worse all day. Yeah.

So you paid for the bill? Yeah. So you paid for the bill. You paid for the Uber. I paid for the haircut. Did you get some shoes? No. Didn't get no shoes.

Didn't get no shoes. Didn't get no shoes. You ain't get no pussy. Nope. Oh my god. But you got a haircut. I got a haircut. A better day is coming.

Yo. I'm not, yeah, I'm skipping June 13th next year. I'm just, I'm gonna just skip over June 14th, two days. I don't fuck with June 13th no more. I can sense when my whole day is about to go wrong and I was just stay in the house. That's how I felt, but I kept thinking like, nah, nah, it's gonna turn around. It's about to turn around. Nope.

Turned around. Damn, it just be like that sometimes. Yeah, yeah, but today's great. Today's been a great day. Yeah, I drove I was in like two hours of traffic And I wasn't even tripping. I'm like it's a good day. It's a good day. It's not as bad as yesterday like you know what I'm cool? I'm breathing. I'm financially stable I'm alive. I'm on no jumper. You got a new podcast Got a haircut. I got I got we're just announced we're about to announce the show July 9th Yuri can you pull that? And you can also report that charge on your your card is fraud. I might. I just might. You weren't at the club. You know what's fucked up too? Can they see that?

Can the people, can the good people see that? So July 9th, Rosecrans live at catch one. Do you know what makes the flyer more welcoming. I know. So this is, if people think this kind of looks familiar, like it is because we planned on doing the show

on May 6th, but because of the pandemic and everything, we had to just move some shit around. So July 9th, Same venue, catch one. Bravo's still headlining. We got Duna on the homies. Cypress is spinning. We got a little deuce.

We got Big Swift. DJ Gabe C. I'm there. In the mix. Gina views it. Is that you hosting? Yeah, that's me hosting. We got Lady DJing as well.

We got the coyotes. Nice. Boss man. We added some new artists. We added 500 racks, super dope female artist from Compton. She has a song with Tiger dropping very soon. Nice. Called Dump truck.

and we have YS from Rosecrans from Compton and Wally the Sensei. So I'm super excited. I think, you know, the everybody was, I was like super bummed out when the show was like postponed. And everybody was telling me like, yo, just relax. Like it's going to be a way better show. Yeah. When it actually comes around. And it is good because it's full capacity now.

Back when we were first going to do it, it was going to be like a 200 capacity event. This is going to be 400. You know what I'm saying? So, and I'm probably going to sell out. Yeah. It's with it. I remember when you're telling me you're like they're gonna have to put a plexy guys in the middle

divided from backs and non-vax I was like that's not fun the vaccine stand to the right other ones stand to the left like if you're not vaccinated you can't scream or you can't have fun I'm like yo let's

I'm gonna just wait till the after June 15 shit you know what I'm saying so yeah but you're getting your shot on June 15th yeah you feel me exactly I need to see if y'all gonna be limping in a couple of months before I get mine I turned out fine

I'm good I was just knocked out the first day but I didn't feel shit. Really? Neither. I had Pfizer, but I already had COVID in November. And so I don't know if it's like my antibodies like still there. So when it recognized the shot, it like fought it off.

So I felt fine. I don't know. But I felt great. That's what I'm counting on because I got shit to do tomorrow. I'm not trying to be like to pass out. And I was always just thinking like to myself because like I had a show like after my second shot. Obviously, you know the second shot's the worst. So I was like man, like I have a performance on Zoom that I was doing for a radio station.

So I was like, I'm like, I hope I don't got to cancel this, like, this performance. So, like, in the morning, I woke up and, like, I felt a little tired and, like, my body felt kind of heavy, but I was like, no, I'm fine. I'm going to do this. So literally, I got up, I show, I showed, I had energy still. I was like, fucking, I'm going to go to the studio. So I went to the studio and did some stuff.

But I feel, I think I felt fine. I, like, talked to myself into thinking that I was fine and fought it out. Yeah. Well, that was the other way around for me. I was like, right when I got it, I was, I was. I felt really, really drowsy and knocked out for like 12 hours and woke up at one in the morning. All right, let's start this day. That you was good.

I'll see if my paranoia kicks in tomorrow. I just need to sleep. I just start feeling like. Are you getting Pfizer and you know what you're getting? I'm getting. The P-Fizzer. Moderna. Pfizer gang.

Pfizer gang. I might be, I don't know. Actually, I don't think you should get that one. I'm saying a report. I did some research and I can't remember which one I chose. But I felt like I chose it. It might be the Pfizer or the modern. I just know that I wanted to separate.

That's when I didn't get it. Didn't get the one the Pfizer. Fisers are trusted brand. They make Viagra. Yeah. Exactly. Right. What?

How was, they do. Why does he know that? They do. Because of the race cars. Because it made Viagra? Right. No, they made like a lasting product.

That makes it okay. Over four hours, you got to see a doctor. All right. Thank you so much, Destiny. Rapping it off. Raffing the show. Anything else you got to tell the people for a good idea? Yeah, I appreciate everybody that tuned in today.

I hope you had a good laugh. I hope you enjoyed our energy and our company. I think we vibe really well, guys. You can have to do this again. Come on any time. Amen. I mean, shit. I got some new music.

coming out very soon, new collaborations, new announcement very soon. So for new people on here that don't know who I am, you can just follow me at Destiny Rogers on everything, social media, music platforms, Destiny Rogers, listen to Westlake, stream Westlake with me and Kailen for real, for real, run it up, make it your summer song, and I should be doing a show soon near you. Hey, hold up. See y'all next week.

Thank you for tuning in. Peace, Madly, me. We out. Peace.