No Jumper - Rico Trap on Catching a Fed Case, Owning Exotic Animals & Hustling To Survive!

Episode Date: December 4, 2023

Rico talks about how he stumbled upon making a few hits, and what he had to go through to be able to keep his animals at his home. ----- Get the latest news & videos http://nojumper.com CHECK OUT OU...R ONLINE STORE!!! https://shop.nojumper.com/ NO JUMPER PATREON   / nojumper   CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... Follow us on SNAPCHAT   / 4874336901   Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media:   / 4874336901     / nojumper     / nojumper     / nojumperofficial     / nojumper   JOIN THE DISCORD:   / discord   Follow Adam22:   / adam22     / adam22     / adam22   adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Sharp Tank, no jumper. Sharpest, coolest podcast in the world. And today, I got a young man in the building. Been trying to get him up here for a minute. He finally doesn't touch down in LA. We got my man, Rico Trap in the building. What's going on? Shit, I'm happy to be here, man.
Starting point is 00:00:21 Man, I ain't go a lot to you, bro. Like, I really did find you online. Like, nobody put me on. You just had popped up. I was like, man, and I just start seeing you start recording these skits. You know what I'm saying? They sound funny, but you really rapping. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:00:34 Like, I just thought, I was like, damn, like, who's doing this? Like, I just feel like you got a different style, a different feel to yourself. Appreciate it. Where you, where you from? I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. Okay, great? Shout out to Cleveland, man. No, for sure.
Starting point is 00:00:47 You're doing so, you're doing this one for Cleveland right here, too. Yeah, I got to put on for Cleveland. You got to put off for them. I think I might be the first person from Cleveland to come on in November. You know what? I don't know. ain't um what's his name
Starting point is 00:01:01 from FBG Doboy FBG Doboy from up there Huh? From East Cleveland He from East Cleveland Come on man Hey I'm the first Cleveland
Starting point is 00:01:13 Look that's a whole different city Man I'm the first person from Cleveland On no jumper man He's gonna see this He'd be like man What was he said? It's still like we still like you there Somebody said you in Cleveland
Starting point is 00:01:24 But like they got different mayor Different police like, we ain't even, like, traffic cameras are illegal in our city, but they got them. Like, it's a whole different, their own thing, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. He's, he's from around the way, though. You gotta get him his love, though, man. I'll f*** with it, man.
Starting point is 00:01:41 Don't boy, that's my name. You know what I, why I f***ed with him was, because the story was dope how he got on. He just kept pressing the issue. He said, I just kept knocking on the dough. Hell yeah. You know, so I respect that, man. What was your upbringing like out there, Cleveland? It was rough.
Starting point is 00:01:59 I was just say East Cleveland, Cleveland. Okay, put me on my game then. That's all I was like shit. It was like in Cleveland. I guess it's the real, what we consider it's the real thing. Even like, MGK, like, he ain't from Cleveland. What was she ain't here from Cleveland? I swear to got.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Where's he from? He's from Shaker, Ohio. Is that like outskirts? Yeah, like maybe like a 40-minute ride or something little 30-minute ride. Yeah, something like that's like mansions over there. Like, you look decent. Like, I wish I was for that way.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Like, yeah But, like, my upbringing, though, it was rough Because I grew up on St. Clair So, like, that's probably the roughest area in Cleveland. And that were bone thugs in them from? I grew up in the same exact area, the same street to be exact. So I was going to say, that's the same street. Yeah, I grew up on 99 for St. Clair.
Starting point is 00:02:45 So, like, that shit, it's like, it's almost like here, you know? But we're not organized. We don't got nothing situated where it's like, it's a. dangerous place and nobody move with each other you know what I'm saying so it's a free for all so that creates a lot
Starting point is 00:03:06 of chaos like we don't got nobody to look up to we ain't got no big homies there's no money there so it's like everybody out for everybody consistently there's no money there. There's no money there if it is like it don't get to us you know like maybe
Starting point is 00:03:22 downtown it's decent but like there's no nice area in Cleveland that exists so like that's just affected us. We all became a product of our environment. But I was one of the ones that was able to break through
Starting point is 00:03:34 out of this shit. Yeah. So yeah. He said to me, he was like, you don't smoke, you don't smoke, weed, I don't drink alcohol.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I may drink wine. Yeah. Yeah, I make drink wine. There ain't nothing wrong with having you a little bit of wine, man. Like, what even made you want to get into music?
Starting point is 00:03:48 When did you start? How old are you, by the way? My dad, how old are you? I'm 24. 24. When did you start getting into music? I got into music when I was about 16.
Starting point is 00:03:59 I never wanted to do music, though. All my brothers, they went to the studio, and they're like, because I always go in there, like, no, I say it like this, say it like this. And they'd be like, man, you get in here then. I'm like, man, I'll show you all how to do it. So I got in there one day in my first song, like, it was like, damn, like, you can do this.
Starting point is 00:04:16 Like, it was somebody in the room and shit, like, man, keep going. I'll pay for the next section. You can stay for three more hours and shit. I'm like, man, for real. So I go on and I just keep rapping. And then, like, eventually, I just got back in the streets. I said, like, I didn't want to think about no music.
Starting point is 00:04:32 I wanted some money right now. Like, music, I see my brothers rapping every day doing shows and shit, and the money weren't coming in. You say it wasn't money in the city. Is it safe to say it was money in the streets? It was money in the streets to grab, okay? Because when you said that earlier, he was like, man, there wasn't no money there.
Starting point is 00:04:48 I'm like, well, damn, I was a niggas hustling. Like, got to go down everywhere. Yeah, even with the hustling, like, it ain't too much going on. even with the hustling. It ain't too many, like, it's probably like one Bentley in my city. Like, two people with a Lambo in the whole city.
Starting point is 00:05:05 And they're white people, you know what I'm saying? Right, right. Like, that's what I mean. Like, it's not too much going on. Everybody got a couple hundred dollars or $10,000. It may feel like you were rich, because that's how we was looking at it growing up. And he got 20,000, he's rich.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Yeah. But you go somewhere else. It's a lot of world with $20,000. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like that. Yeah. What I was saying?
Starting point is 00:05:27 What were you that? He was just saying like you felt like, you know, 20,000 was, you know, a lot, you know, coming up from where you come from. You was like, shit, there's people in your cities. There's only a couple people got Lambo's day white. Yeah. You know. Like, I'm just now starting to see Rolexes since I've been traveling. I've never seen nobody with a Rolex in my city.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Not in person. Probably like a rapper on Instagram or something. But, like, I never seen a Rolex until I started rapping. Cleveland's a nice-sized city. Yeah. It's crazy that you know Your exposure to certain things Have been limited
Starting point is 00:06:00 Yeah You know what I'm saying Especially being 24 I would feel like you've saw A lot of that by now You know Or they're just coming up You know
Starting point is 00:06:08 I'm just now starting to see Nice shit Because even when I didn't stay on St. Clair I grew up in the projects as well So like Coming to LA This shit Like coming to almost like a heaven or something
Starting point is 00:06:20 Like I swear to God That's wow Yeah even seeing your landscape Like all I seen was factories and it was sought in projects that's about it like we ain't it weren't really too much going on
Starting point is 00:06:33 and um even with like the music like I had I ain't wanted nothing to do with it because I didn't see it didn't make sense to me I'm like y'all come in here rapping every day and y'all not getting paid but they did it because they loved it and they eventually felt like they were going to take off and they starting to get some momentum
Starting point is 00:06:49 but like me I'm like no I'm about to trap like I'm about to go to the streets Like, I know I'm about to get paid, you know what I'm saying? You're right. You know what I'm saying? You're right, like, just with that. And I have to agree with you because it's like not everybody getting on. Like rapping, I feel like it's, I don't want to say like a nigga with money sport, but you got to have either money or a village behind you. You got to have either one. Yep. Getting on by you, just being somebody by yourself, that shit's, man, slim to none. Hell yeah. So I took a logical look at the shit. So I'm in the streets. As I'm in the streets, I'm like, this ain't for me. Like, I don't want to go to jail. I don't want to get shot. I don't want to do none of this shit. So just so happened, like, I always have, like, animals and shit, right? Yeah. Kind of animals. See, when a niggas say that, like, that don't sound like the range of cats and dogs and shit like that. Niggas starts saying got animals. I had raccoons and monkeys and shit. So it was like, I never, everybody in my...
Starting point is 00:07:56 Raccoons are a monkey. Pull a mic up to you. Yeah, I got, like, even though I got a monkey. So, like, I, um, one day I was just sitting at home with my monkey. I always take videos and send them to my hos and shit like that. So one day I'm like... Oh, that's your old bagger. Yeah, like I just...
Starting point is 00:08:10 Oh, okay. That's your little plate. They got to have some kind of gimmick to move to the bitch. Like, like, come feed the baby raccoon or something. You know what I'm saying? So, like... Come on, Donnie. He's like, he can't answer.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Yeah. I got in trouble for it. Yeah. So, yeah, so one day I just ended up posting this shit. I didn't, like, my little sister, she did TikToks, right? She's like, uh, bet y'all get more likes to you and shit like that because I always had a lot of likes and followers on Instagram. I'm like, what is that? She's like TikTok.
Starting point is 00:08:48 But they all dancing on there. So I'm like, let me just post the, just round a video of me with my monkey in my room. She got like two million likes. So I'm like, the first video I ever posted. So I'm like, First video you ever posted. On TikTok, I got 2 million likes. And this shit, like, three days.
Starting point is 00:09:04 And I didn't know, like, I was doing other shit. I was tattooing, too. So I'm in the middle of a tattoo shit, and everybody calling my phone. Like, you're going viral, you're going viral. I didn't even, we never really used that word. So I didn't know what the fuck that meant. We used to say you trending.
Starting point is 00:09:17 So I'm somebody like, I'm viral. I'm like, fuck that means, you know what I'm saying? Then I found out when I went on my TikTok. So I had while I'm making TikToks, feds come out to me. That's a very Google way of saying going viral. I'm trending. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:31 I'm trending. Googleish way. Hell yeah. So the U.S. Department of Agriculture come after me. The, yeah, the Ohio Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Illegal Pouching, and the Department of Natural Resources,
Starting point is 00:09:51 they all came after me. kicked down my dough, swatted me, and everything. So they told me like, you got to get rid of all these animals Or you got to move Yeah, because you get some animals like I had I went and did a video with like a bear one time Like and it was out in Fraser Park out here And like oh boy he was like he was moving
Starting point is 00:10:12 A lot of his animals was gone He had a couple lines left and had the only like Kodak bear left He was like we got to move he says because they're starting to like Put houses out towards there Because you can't have them type of exotic animals within city limits That's the problem You can't have them in city limits They gotta have a certain amount of land
Starting point is 00:10:28 All the extra shit So I feel like that's what they came And got your ass over Like you in the city limits With exotic animals, nigga You know what's so crazy? Like it was a possibility To get the permit, right?
Starting point is 00:10:37 But they didn't give me the chance And like Even when they came after me right You would think they came And kicked down my dope Because they came in with a swap, bro You would think they came And took some animals
Starting point is 00:10:48 Took me to jail, gave me tickets No, bro They just came in and took a look Bro I was like All your animals got to stay on quarantine and they left. So after I got the letters,
Starting point is 00:10:57 the letters said they could have delivered that shit by certified mail or just by hand. They didn't have to come in with a SWAT team. The permit was only $250. Because the monkey, he's a small monkey. I had the requirement space, the requirement cage,
Starting point is 00:11:12 everything just didn't have a permit. But I could have just got it. Why y'all didn't just give me a chance to get it? So after I move, right? I move. I'm like, because I'm just going to just move to another state where it's allowed and I don't got to go through all this shit.
Starting point is 00:11:26 They started to come after me federally to change the laws national, nationwide over the whole United States. So no matter wherever I went, they could come after me. Do the United States Department of Animal Defense League,
Starting point is 00:11:41 United States Animal Defense League, they came after me. They had a meeting in Washington, D.C. were like about 400 people attaining this meeting, just about me and like three other people. But they add more people to create diversity so they don't look like
Starting point is 00:11:53 They're just coming out to you. So after that, I'm like, man, I'm done with this shit. Like, they're coming out to me federally. I don't want nothing to do with this shit. So, I'm like, I got to figure something out. So I'm just at home. I'm sad, bro. I don't know what to do with myself.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Because, like, I just left my whole family. I moved 12 hours away from everybody. And I'm just... So you moved out of Cleveland? Yeah. What you moved to? I stay close to... I can't really say, but I'm close to Atlanta.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Okay. Yeah. In Tennessee. Well, I'm in Tennessee, but I can't say what part? All over your animals. All over my animals. And I just bought my first home. That was my first home that they kicked down.
Starting point is 00:12:33 I spent $20,000 building these cage. They kicked down the door the next day after I made a video. It was like, look, guys, I'm done because I was vlogging. Like, I finished, y'all. Y'all like the enclosure and shit like that. The next day they came and kicked all that shit down. And the house market was fucking up around that time. So I sold my house cheaper than what I got it.
Starting point is 00:12:53 And then I had to put so much money into making those cages. So I lost over $100,000 just in one month of them doing that to me. You had a monkey and what else? I had a monkey, a codomondy, a raccoon, and a lemur. A coat of money like an ant eater. Where the fuck do you get the monkey from? Like, people always rescue sick animals. So they had reach out to me and be like, could you take them on?
Starting point is 00:13:19 And to this day, people still reach out to me. How'd you even catch that gig? How'd that even come about? It never was playing. Like, it was just a neighborhood thing. Like, it was a sick cat or something. I'd just pick it up. So people would know, like, oh, I got to get rid of this alligator.
Starting point is 00:13:33 Like, you know, a lot of dope boys go to jail. Yeah. And we having exotic animals and shit. You having some exotic shit? Yeah, so they always call me. And then how the internet work, people would just hit me because they heard about me or they go live and talk about their situation. It's interesting, man.
Starting point is 00:13:46 Yeah, and I take on the sick animals. But I got a lot of heat behind that shit. Like, I rescued a squirrel. Seems like it. I wrested a squirrel that fell out of a tree. They tried to kick down my mama dough the next day for the squirrel, literally. They came for the squirrel. And I tried to get my license multiple times.
Starting point is 00:14:04 They knew exactly who I am, so they beat around the bush. Because I'm always going to court with them, so they try not to give me my license. And now they just ban me permanently forever get my rehabilitation license or my exotic animal license in Ohio. So, like, it's big. Like, the governor don't like me. So, yeah, so while I'm in the process of going through all this emotion and shit, I'm like, I don't know what to do with myself, but I got a studio.
Starting point is 00:14:31 So, like, I'm just in there depressed, bro. Like, I'm away from my whole family. You got the animals. You got animals with you. Yeah, I got the animals, but, like, I'm just depressed, bro. I'm in the middle of the country. Like, I f*** with you, church. I appreciate you.
Starting point is 00:14:44 But get rid of the, like, bro, much love. I can't. I feel you. I mean. If it weren't for them, I want to be here. And I know that. Why you feel like that? Because that's what got me out of the streets.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Everybody around me start dying and going to jail for a long time. Like, even out of all my brothers, I'm the only one that ain't get shot. Because I've been gone for years. Like, I've been gone for three years down myself. You know what I'm saying? The only one that ain't on bond or, you know what I'm saying? Or on probation, no more. I got in trouble when I was a kid.
Starting point is 00:15:19 I was a grown-ass man. You know, so I'm saying? Yeah. That shit kept me away, bro, and that shit gave me something to wake up for, to do every day to get up and take care of these animals. And it just make me feel good to help them when they're sick and knees, you know what I'm saying? That's a hot. I've never seen, yeah, but you've took your hobby on, like, for a lifestyle. Like, it's really become a part of your lifestyle, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:15:41 It's no longer a hobby, you know, for you to move away from your friends and your family, my nigga, that's deep. Yeah, I feel like I was put here for shit, man. I really do feel like... I mean, who am I to say if that's what you feel like your calling is? Yeah. Has your calling. If you feel like helping animals or getting animals that are in need, you know what I'm saying? Exotic ones.
Starting point is 00:16:01 It down to a mrs. It doesn't matter what it is. Knock yourself out, church. So in that process, though, I'm like, I'm in there sad and shit, right? Because all that shit, I just went through the police with me. I left my family. I'm alone. But I got a studio.
Starting point is 00:16:19 But I was recording pop. songs and shit before. My first song was a gospel song. It got made it on the top 200 charts and Apple charts. What's the name of that one? Follow me. Rigo Trout. Follow me. Top 200 charts in United States,
Starting point is 00:16:34 Thailand, and Canada. And I didn't even know until it made the charts until a year later. So even when the police raided my house this shit all on the news. They came in singing that song. Literally. So it was like a bittersweet moment. He like, if it means,
Starting point is 00:16:50 anything I do love your song and start singing my song word for word. So I was like, I was like, I was scared because I'm really fucking watching me then. You know my music word for word. So, um, I'm at home. I'm not in that spirit no more to be making gospel pop music. You know what I'm saying? I don't feel like being happy and talking about being in the country and shit right now.
Starting point is 00:17:12 So, uh, I started rapping. But I didn't, I didn't think it was going to get nowhere, honest of God I was rapping I was sending to my brothers and shit like that but it had my own little twist on it because all my brothers
Starting point is 00:17:26 they are gangster rappers and shit like that I'm steering away from that shit so like I try to put more of my personality in that shit instead of oh yeah I'm a thug
Starting point is 00:17:35 I'm a street nigga so I just I played around so just goofing around I end up just posting one of the videos uh that shit that shit was up for like
Starting point is 00:17:45 10 minutes that shit like I got 100,000 views on TikTok. So I'm like, what the fuck? You're rapping? Yeah. I put it, I put, I rap and put the video, I made a video and put my song in the background of it. Just me in the car, I look, act like I'm crying.
Starting point is 00:18:02 It was like, uh, on my way home for my sneaky link. And the song was like, sometimes I go to sleep and I cry, asking God, why, while all the ugly bitches got the best pussy. And he still ain't the side. So, man, I'm seeing everybody using my song. man, what the like this shit big? Like, over 20,000 people
Starting point is 00:18:22 made a video to my song. It's all on World Star. It's getting posted on all the mean pages and shit. So I'm like, damn, I really got something going here. So I come with another song. Then I come with that Harry Potter. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that story by Harry Potter. Man, so I'm on the phone and shit.
Starting point is 00:18:41 I'm talking to a girl about a situation that I had before with a girl and shit. So I'm telling her how she ain't. She shared her her Oh Yeah She shared her So to this day
Starting point is 00:18:53 I'm still confused Like I don't understand That shit I'm saying I did not understand that So I'm talking about it And shit I'm like
Starting point is 00:19:01 Yeah Why you say your Pussy And not the ass I'm like Why are you bringing that up You would ask I'm like
Starting point is 00:19:07 I'm like It sounds like some heat So I tell her like I'm gonna call you right back The first beat that pop up And shit Because I subscribe To beat makers and shit
Starting point is 00:19:15 So automatically it on my phone The beat pop up I click on it The first beat I hear, I'm like, I'm owning something. I write the song in like two minutes. I caught her back. I'm rapping it to her.
Starting point is 00:19:26 She's like, yeah, that sounds good. I sent it to my brothers. They're like, man, that shit cool and shit. Because they want to hear, yeah, I slide with the odds, with the Glock and the Drake. But they just like, it's all right, bro. So I'm like, man, fuck y'all niggas. I hung up. I posted on Instagram.
Starting point is 00:19:40 That shit changed my life. So, um. So Harry Potter was the real change and like, oh, shit. It's all. Like people was booking me like Like literally booking me for shows And I'm like what the fuck I want me come performing this
Starting point is 00:19:56 And before it was out It was already getting played in clubs Like DJs was getting the sound off Instagram saving it to their laptop And playing it in clubs and people FaceTime like they play your song I'm like it's not even fucking out yet You know what I'm saying? So I'm like man
Starting point is 00:20:11 It's about to be something I drop it I actually come out here What made me want to take a serious is my trip out here. I'm out here and shit. I get hit up by Atlantic and shit. They never sign me or nothing, but they end up calling me to Universal Studios and
Starting point is 00:20:28 shit. It's like all together. So I went there and shit. I'm like, damn, we got to be on the list of getting the parking lot. It's all these dudes and suits and shit when you come in there and show. I'm like, damn, it's the real deal. So I'm like, the fact that they ain't even interested in me showed me that I got something. I'm like, I don't even rap for like three months.
Starting point is 00:20:45 You know what I'm saying? Right. So I'm like three months in record. was wanting to meet me I want to take this shit serious and that's it been that's what it been since then so you have you like you have you signed with anybody yet or you uh right now i got a uh two single deal okay two single deal i just dropped the song called uh hot potato yeah and now i'm about to drop hot potato these bids been around hot potato yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna drop that i just dropped that and now the next song is called i like
Starting point is 00:21:18 It's called I like. I just posted it on Instagram. That shit got, I posted nine seconds of it. That shit got 360,000 likes just on nine seconds of the song. So is that your, the other single, you say you got a two single deal? It's my second single. So this is about to be your second one that you're about to get ready to drop. And then from there, y'all renegotiate.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Yeah. What are you hoping for? Like, what's the outcome you open for? I don't even know who you assigned with. I don't know if you want to talk about who you got a two single deal with. I'm working with this company called Three G's. Okay. Yeah, they, I believe they're based in Atlanta.
Starting point is 00:21:51 Okay. That's why- Atlanta got it, man. I'm listening, man. When they come to that and them taking care of their business and pushing you around, I give Atlanta all this respect. I feel like they, because they really care about their artists, man. Like, they really care about the artist's well-being and, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:06 what position to push it, what direction to push him in. You know what I mean? So I'll fuck with that, man, for real. But moving forward, though, I think I believe, like, I will prefer. her to keep moving forward with them. And because it's really that's see what we're about to do with this next song. Because then everything will make sense. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:22:28 I don't want to speak too soon because we only did one song so far. But this I like, I feel like it's going to be my biggest song. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like the biggest song. Do you want to, like what was the process for that? Like I'm saying, I like, like what was the mindset? The mindset. Yeah, like what made you even want to make that song?
Starting point is 00:22:48 like. What made me want to make that song? Can't just be making your shit just because all just listen. I mean, it's cool to make some
Starting point is 00:22:55 had a thin air shit but I feel like you know some of your music is really you like it's inspired by your mind and how you see things
Starting point is 00:23:03 your perception so you know everybody like I made a lot of this songs by my baby mama right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:10 But I don't they were classics bro. Classes. But I don't got no baby mom I ain't got no kids. So everybody
Starting point is 00:23:17 like you criticizing women and I'm like, this woman don't even exist. Like, you know what I'm saying? I mean, it's stories about shit that I actually went through with women, but it's a baby mama disc that I don't have.
Starting point is 00:23:29 So with this song, people talk about, I'm like, everybody like, talk about other stuff, talk about other stuff, where you gotta diss women and why you gotta do this and shit? I'm like,
Starting point is 00:23:37 they like, talk about what you got going on and shit. I'm not rich and shit. I can't rap about being no Lambo or being in no, no fucking Ferrari and none of that shit. I don't have that shit.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Well, they look at it I'm probably like, you know, you ain't got no baby bummer. Why are you talking about it? But shit, that shit be good as hell, bro. I ain't going to hold you, my nigga. Hell, yeah. That should be good as hell. Somebody told me, like, rap about what you want then.
Starting point is 00:24:01 So I'm like, oh, shit, that clicked in my head. It's a lot of shit I want, but I don't want to tell everybody everything because they'll block my blessings before I even get them. I don't tell nobody what I got going on until it's permanent. But I know I like hoochie sluts and nasty, bitches. So I'm like, who don't like hoochie sluts and nasty bitches. nasty bitches. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:19 So I'm like, that's the road. And I even had made some t-shirts that say, I like hoochy sluts and nasty bitches. But I had to break it down to everybody. Everybody is a slut. Your grandma was a, no offense. Your grandma was a slut, right? She was raw dogging.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Your granddad. Your mama. My mama. His mama. Everybody mama was a slut. So, like, saying, I heart sluts, that's like saying, you love your mama. You love your grandma.
Starting point is 00:24:47 Yeah. Yeah, man, that's shit. Universal. A preacher is a freak. A doctor is a freak. Everybody. They always say if you want you, you know, a real freaky bitch,
Starting point is 00:24:56 man, go to church. Hell yeah. You're going to find you one over there, man. Straight up. I was getting people criticizing me like, ew, so you just like sluts and, no, it's a slut in every fucking female. Every female got some slut in her.
Starting point is 00:25:10 You just got to get it out. You just got to find it. And like, back to even your music, you know, for people to maybe criticize it a little bit like hey man there's a lane for everybody right here's gonna be people that's gonna like that type of music getting put out I mean come on let's face the fact
Starting point is 00:25:25 that hey man look at sexy red right you know what I'm saying is just pure ratchiness hell yeah but it sells hell yeah there's a you know I'm saying there's a there's a I don't know man I just I respect it I see what you doing like and I know it this shit's gonna really push for you and hopefully it pushes past that two single deal for you and you get that shit rocking
Starting point is 00:25:46 I got to ask you, how do you come up with, like, your viral content? Like, even having to try to hop in that algorithm because the song could be hard, but it don't get no play. Right. What I note is the human tension span is eight seconds, right? Majority in human tension span. So, you got to keep people feeding for more. Right. I got ADHD.
Starting point is 00:26:09 I always talk about this. I got ADHD. So if I, if you tell a joke to me, and if I already can guess what you about to say, it's not going to be funny to me. see what I'm saying? Like even a girl, if she knows what type of nigga is, your game ain't gonna work. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:26:22 She's already gonna see that shit coming. So I market my shit so fucking random. Like, it's just so bizarre that you'd be like, all right, all right. And then be like, hold on the fuck he just say? You know what I'm saying? You got to go play it back. You see what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:26:36 So now I got you. That's two plays I got out of you, right? And that even tricked their algorithm because everything I do is unexpected. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But I never go out my way. I just be myself and just let my mind do all the fucking work, honestly.
Starting point is 00:26:52 What's like your futures and like, what's your plans and goals? Like, you'm saying? What's your goals like at all this? Like what you're doing? Because your skits are funny. I know a lot of people have seen your skits. Shit, you've took your music and have mixed the skits. What even gave you that idea?
Starting point is 00:27:06 Like, fuck it, I'm going to make this shit funny. But I'm going to be rapping at the same time, too. Because it sounded like you was rapping way before hell. You was doing gospel music. I ain't saying hell in gospel the same time. my bad it's cool but you know what I'm saying like you was making you know
Starting point is 00:27:19 gospel music and stuff like that so what made you want to cross the two uh because um my I used to do the skis usually we used to be called story time and shit so I tell these same stories like I didn't told these stories before they were songs so people would be interested in my stories
Starting point is 00:27:38 and people would be so invested like they'd bug me like where's part three where's part three so um you know how sometimes you to the story, you just got some music playing in the background. Yeah. It just fit the mood. It fits the mood.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Yeah, so I had shit playing in the background on live and shit. I'm like, damn, this shit sounds like music. So when I was doing a pop, I did a baby mama this with the pop songs, right? Never dropped that. I just advertised it everywhere and shit. Everybody was like, put this on a rap beat. So I'm like, I don't know how I feel about that. Because I think a rap I just thought of gangster shit.
Starting point is 00:28:11 I'm like, I ain't even want to give off that image. I'm rescuing monkeys and squirrels and shit. I'm saying. They're trying to be the gangster. Bazar to be from online. Bruns. Rescue and exotic animals. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Somebody suggested that I did it. I did it just playing around and it sounded good. But that didn't mean I'm like I'm about to push this type of shit. So I notice I post, like when I post my song, follow me, everybody just ignoring and shit. They see my black ass. They just ignore. They laugh at me and shit.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Like, go rap. What the fuck is this? Like, ew, it's corny. and all this shit. So I put, like, videos of other people. She's still band it on the charts, though. Hell yeah. In other countries.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Exactly. Come on. Like, yeah, like, yeah, I pushed out. Hell, yeah. I pushed that song for two years consistently. So I noticed, like, when I put other people in front of my shit, doing shit, my views will go way up. Like, I get more engagements and shit.
Starting point is 00:29:07 So I'm like, let me act like I'm not even an artist. Like, I'm just doing what I already do. I already make skits with other people with music and shit. Let me just act like it's somebody else's So I tricked their eyes I was marketing to them But they didn't know You really giving up some game right now
Starting point is 00:29:21 Yeah, like if they're listening You really is I didn't say like Oh just go listen to my song Or nigga Because that's easy Yeah And you tell somebody
Starting point is 00:29:30 Do something like Go do this No nigga what fuck you're talking to You know what I'm saying Like people just automatically Like rebel to orders You know what I'm saying So I just make them want to go listen to their damn stuff
Starting point is 00:29:41 Like whatever you want a girl to do for you Make her idea. You win, you know what I'm saying? So it's the same with this music shit. To where they start asking you for part two and three. Exactly. Now they bugging you. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:29:53 I got another question for you, man. And I feel like we get a little, you know, deeper here because you broke down like even the making of content, like how you do it. And I think that shit was pretty dope how you came in. Like he said, I tricked them. I'm going to keep it real with you. To this day. Do you genuinely like making content or did it just fall in your lap?
Starting point is 00:30:11 Like, do you even like this? You know what I'm saying? Like doing what you do? You know what I'm saying? Mixing the skits and your music, or do you want to lean more towards one direction? It just fell on my lap. None of this shit was my plan.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Mind you, I ain't know what TikTok was when I started. Like, I literally just thought people would dance on it and shit. And even, like, the music, like, this shit really just fell on my lap. Like, a lot of people got dreams to be rappers when they're young and shit. This was never my dream. But, like, once I started doing, doing it, I realized how good I was at it.
Starting point is 00:30:46 And then, like, a lot of labels have told me, like, oh, you do it just say funny shit. That's why you're going viral. Like, you're just funny and people like that. I'm like, no, I'm listening. You think that's what Universal maybe it thought about you, and that's why they didn't offer you a deal? He told me, let me tell you, he told me you can't market
Starting point is 00:31:04 talking about booty holes and shit on the radio or going industry. He said, you can't do this, right? I can't talk about why she said to say to coot. and not the booty. He's like, you can't do this. But in today's world, is that honestly true? So about three months later and shit,
Starting point is 00:31:21 some of the same people that was telling me this and labels all trying to work with sexy red and she, I see her in her comments and shit, this one, she's on the verge of coming up. So I'm like, y'all just told me I couldn't. Now y'all dick eating her, you see what I'm saying? It's the same shit. Why you show your pussy, not the asshole?
Starting point is 00:31:35 Then she came with my coochie pink, my booty, whole brown. It's the same shit. And y'all told me I couldn't do it. But I ain't had sex appeal like these girls can. They're easy to get sold in the industry. See what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:31:46 Easy to get them tickets. Niggas just want to share her tities. You know what I'm saying? But she's hard. Don't get me wrong. But like they just, like, they weren't taking me serious with my topic. But it was just like,
Starting point is 00:31:57 what I said was I'm like, fuck y'all old niggas. That's what I told him. Yeah. Because he's like, this shit ain't going to get you nowhere. It's just a gimmick. They try to tell me, like,
Starting point is 00:32:08 they try to belittle me. You know what I'm saying? Labels are trying to belittle me. Like, it's just going to be a trend. defame you before you even got the crown. Yeah, but we would distribute your music with no advance and with a terrible split. Or we just give you, just try to like literally break me, break my spirit to try to give me the sign some bullshit.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Like, I'm just a comedian. You know what I'm saying? But he'd say, anybody can do what you do. That's what somebody told me and shit at a label. So I'm like, man, hell no. I go listen to these, a lot of rappers nowadays and on the radio. These niggas ain't got no bars, bro. They ain't got no metaphors.
Starting point is 00:32:43 They ain't got no punch line. They ain't got no cadence. Oh, you good. They ain't got no cadence. They just yapping and drunk and high and just saying wherever the fuck coming to their mind at rhyme. I ain't going to lie, man.
Starting point is 00:32:58 Junky music's at all the time. Yeah. Junkie music, where is that? That's exactly. I'm for the guy. Niggins is full blown and midday junkies. Yeah. Boy, shit, moving units, streams.
Starting point is 00:33:08 And a lot of people don't want to hear all that. I ain't going to figure. A lot of people don't want to think. So when they hear lyrical, shit and bars and shit, it go right over their head. Well, they just don't pay attention to or don't want to hear it. They just want to turn up and just... So what I did was,
Starting point is 00:33:21 I made funny, turn up, and metaphors, bars, punch lines, whatever the fuck you want to call it. You have to hear my songs three times to even get certain shit, you know what I'm saying? I make sure it's like that for a reason. It made me stand out.
Starting point is 00:33:37 A lot of niggas ain't rapping. There was something that you did. That was pretty dope. I don't know if you did it. to be funny or if you was actually being for real but you would did something like where you was like I'm doing like a little class like I could show you how to rap I think you would did that you was like here I could I could teach you how to grab a beat like you did like a whole little breakdown of it and how to put the bars in place and things like that I thought that was pretty dope if not you was probably true you could have been trolling you know saying I'm dead serious yeah
Starting point is 00:34:05 remember you was like yeah I can help you all rap like anybody you's pretty much saying anybody could do this if you just pick up on it in the right format hell yeah You know, it don't have to take the drugs or nothing like that. Yeah, I know a lot of people that take drugs just to go rap. Yeah. Like, I got to get in that zone, bro. I don't got to, bro. I just, like, you see when I came in here, I looked at everything.
Starting point is 00:34:26 Yeah. Everywhere I go, I'm looking at shit. I'm picking up words and shit, and I'm later going to use them. Even some of this shit, we're going to use in this conversation. I'm about to rap about being on no jumper. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. I'm using everything in my advantage to make these songs.
Starting point is 00:34:41 Yeah. I want to ask you another question. And what's your thoughts on drill music and what's your relationship to it? Like, do you, you know what I'm saying? Do you lean more into that genre or do you feel like you're in your own lane? What's your thoughts about that?
Starting point is 00:34:55 Like drill music like today. What's your thoughts on that? I mean, I don't want to criticize it too much, but I feel like it's fucking us up as a people. Because, I mean, just because these rappers making these songs, they're not your kids. father and daddy and no shit like that.
Starting point is 00:35:15 So it's your choice and you let your kids listen to that shit. You know what I'm saying? I see a lot of people blaming the artist. Like, we need to do better. We need to do this. Control your own kid. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:35:25 Right. But I feel like, I don't know. Just a crazy topic. That's why I asked it. Yeah. I thought about it for you too. I mean, I don't want to tell them. I thought about it.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Long for you. I said, pause. You know what's your relationship? You know, I want to know, I want to know, like what's your relationship? Because I ask all y'all that come here like all the rappers, I want to know like, is this something like that's about
Starting point is 00:35:49 to get ready to take over or is it just, you know, a certain you know, area, music that, you know, people may lean towards. They leaning more towards like... Because drum rap is gassing. Everybody wants it. They listen
Starting point is 00:36:04 to it. Them niggas get the shows. I feel like they leaning more into that Afro beat type shit now. And towards. the females. Because, like, the females they rap by all this gang shit,
Starting point is 00:36:17 but nobody take them serious. See what I'm saying? When a niggas say some shit, like, everybody looking into it. They're going to watch all the documentaries to see who he actually talking about. Niggas actually dying behind this shit. But, like, the females
Starting point is 00:36:28 and even the type of rap I do, I feel like, that's going, it's on the verge of coming up. Sexy Reddney, look for sexy red did, talking about her booty hole. You know what I'm iconic? Yeah. Timeless.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Yeah. I'll say this, right? I don't think she'd have to make another song, another hit, right? I believe that song gonna feed her for the rest of her life. Because that shit's gonna make it in movies. That shit's gonna be on commercials eventually.
Starting point is 00:36:51 Trust me, oh, it's gonna make it to all that shit. You know what I'm saying? She pushed that bitch correctly. And, nigga, her team pushed that bitch correctly. Hell yeah. You know what I'm saying? Whoever the fuck was standing behind her, bro, did they fucking thing.
Starting point is 00:37:04 And then she came back, consistently, consistently dropping while she had that buzz. A lot of people don't, can't make two viral songs. They just get one and be just done. But just that song, though, she's taking care of for the rest of her life.
Starting point is 00:37:17 It sounds like you be putting singles out. You'd be having singles, you know what I'm saying, trying to put out a hit. Is there any albums or anything that you're working on? Have you ever put out any albums? No, I don't really put out albums or not yet. I don't listen to albums. Right.
Starting point is 00:37:32 Like, my attention span, like, I got to mix it all. If I do, I'm going to listen to five albums mixed up to I get through all your songs, but I can't sit there and just listen to my whole album. I guess it's hard on to get a Samana album. Who do you know right now has got an album that's banging from start to finish, no skips? He'd be a young boy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Yeah, it'd be a young boy. Not the last two albums, though. But previous before that, every album was a no skip. He'd be a young boy. Yeah. But every other album before the last two, there was no skips. Oh, and Young Thug. young thug.
Starting point is 00:38:12 You think he did no skips on his last one? Nah, nah, it was skips on there. I love Thug to death again. I ain't like that shit. I ain't even gonna hold you. I ain't really like nobody albums lately, to be honest. I'm still listening to albums from 2020 and 2019 and shit.
Starting point is 00:38:30 Yeah. Music took a shift. Because it's all like a lot of shit, TikTok music. I got, I know I'm the last person to be talking about some TikTok music, but like, she's not like, everybody's switching it up for the better but it's like everybody trying to I don't know they're catching waves
Starting point is 00:38:45 and I don't like where the waves going it's like they're saying less now it's like they say to make a hit song it's 40 or 40 or less words you know what I'm saying they're not really talking about shit no more how they used to when all these rappers is on to come up they put their heart into it let's let's be honest right
Starting point is 00:39:03 and we got I feel like you can help me lead into this one like I feel like it's the girls that got it right now, bro. It's the chicks that got it. They're the ones getting the bag. Sexy red, ice spice, they all up at the top right now. Gloorilla, they
Starting point is 00:39:19 all get it. I call her a little bell pepper. Yeah. A little little nose, little bell pepper. You know what I'm saying? I fuck with her, though. You know, like they're all getting it. They're all on now. Them are chicks. I see getting shows. Play. People paying them just to do walk-throughs. And I ain't saying, niggas,
Starting point is 00:39:35 they ain't doing it, but I ain't really been seeing it like that lately. You know what I'm saying? seeing it more leaning towards the rap and hip-hop industry seems like it's starting to more man the girls taking over because they're turning up they're making the fuck over
Starting point is 00:39:49 they're making fun music and no it ain't too sad it ain't too gangster they ain't too none of that they haven't making fun music like the soul train and all that shit that was fun music you should I just move people you can't really move to all this gangsta like this gangster shit
Starting point is 00:40:05 no you got niggas watching when that shit come on now niggas lurk Yeah. A nigger, like, man, a lot of niggas, we know half of them songs, too, that the girls be singing. We may not be out of public singing a book. We may catch ourselves, ski, e, now and then,
Starting point is 00:40:20 you know what I'm saying? Like, for show, for sure. Him, yeah. Donnie and his, he was telling me earlier, he was like, yeah, man, being my kids was riding, being my kids with my wife, he was like, and that part came on. He said, I thought I was going to be the only one doing. He said, my kids did it with me.
Starting point is 00:40:35 My wife looking to me crazy as hell. I'm like, that's when you know. when they're made it into white family's households you know that shit's iconic bro and they're singing it that's impact yeah that's fucking impact yeah that's fucking impact they ain't gonna never forget about 60 red no tell you that no sure her name will always ring some motherfucking bells somewhere
Starting point is 00:40:56 some way somehow for real another one for you what's uh where does like your inspiration come from like you'm saying who inspires you who inspires you like to do music I feel like that was a great one for you because I'm like you gotta be rolling solo you do your thing
Starting point is 00:41:17 I don't see you really like hanging with nobody you know I'm saying you got your own buzz you know but who inspires you I'm sure everybody everybody got a little bit of inspiration for somebody little Wayne little Wayne inspired me a lot like even like everybody always talk about like we can't read speak on like the older music because I'm so young but they're music forever, you know what I'm saying? So I'm just now getting familiar with the hot boys and shit. I know I'm late as hell.
Starting point is 00:41:46 Yeah. But now I'm getting to juvenile and all these people. Juvenile I'm my favorite hot boy. Yeah. But Wayne my favorite rapper. I don't know if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, so Wayne.
Starting point is 00:41:58 You like Jovee, you know what I'm saying? Because he's really on some gangster shit. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? He was just the face. He was like the Michael of all then. And, like, he is saying shit like I said, what do he say? Say I'm in the room with a bitch and the hole I won't fuck?
Starting point is 00:42:13 Like, man, I'm going to beat my meat and get my fucking nut for the show. I'm like, this nigga is talking that shit. I'm like, this nigga talking that shit. So him, Bob Marley, and who else? I liked it growing up, bone thugs. They inspired me. They gave me, like, I used to. Um, they came with that West Coast vibe to Cleveland.
Starting point is 00:42:43 Yeah. So that was something different. You know what I'm saying? So, like, that shit stuck with me when I was a kid. Now that I'm older, I still like y'all music. Right. And so Bob Marley inspired me a lot. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Little Wayne, juvenile, bone thugs, NBA young boy. Even when we were the same age, he inspired me a lot. Anybody personally in your life? That inspired me personally? Yeah, like, they inspired you personally, like, that you, No, like, you talk to, you have a relationship with. A rapper, my cousin. He's got a social trap.
Starting point is 00:43:15 He's from Cleveland. He's down for a murder right now, but he's coming home soon. He inspired me a lot. Your social trap. Yeah. He's a mouth, man. He's a lot of the house. How long have you been down?
Starting point is 00:43:26 Five years. Yeah, five years. A couple left to go? One more. So he had a decent buzz. He was getting, what, 200,000 views back in 20, 2014 that was a lot that was a lot for then yeah that was a fucking lot
Starting point is 00:43:45 so like no no label no nothing no label no nothing just no had no push nothing bro just did we just in the hood just making videos bro again 200,000 and 300,000 and shit that was big so like he really inspired me and even with my name his name is Sosa trap yeah I'm Rico trap you know what I'm saying right yeah like I got
Starting point is 00:44:06 we mean him talk every other other days. You know what I'm saying? He's sending yourself. I'd be thinking like, you know, rappers, yeah, I like that. You know, I like that they had to have the influence on you,
Starting point is 00:44:15 but it had to be somebody in your life. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Was he rapping first? Hell yeah. He was rapping before you? Since I can remember, he was rapping. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:24 Yeah, for sure, for sure. You feel like that's what inspired you to kind of get behind a pin and pat? He inspired me to get behind a pin and pat and actually like, because I'd be mocking him and shit. Yeah. When he's not looking or something,
Starting point is 00:44:37 You know what I'm saying? I'm watching how he got his in ring. I'm going to put my shit like that. He had to die in this hair and shit. I did my shit just like he. See what I'm saying? Yeah. So he made me want to be a rapper.
Starting point is 00:44:48 But with Wayne and them, they inspire me on how I rap. You know what I mean? Right. They inspired me on how I rap, how I put my music together. And he inspired me to want to be a rapper as a whole. Anybody you want to work with,
Starting point is 00:45:02 anybody you're trying to work with a collab with? Blueface. I've been trying to work with Blueface. for like two years, I can't get a contact with him. Yeah. Blueface and, um, who else I want to work with? I want to work with Blueface, Little Wayne. I think, man, for the blue face shit,
Starting point is 00:45:19 that can happen in the future. You just got to keep pushing. And I feel like you got a cool buzz, bro. Like, your shit's moving. I've been following your work now for a little while. So I don't see the problem with that. Right. But Lil Wayne, who else?
Starting point is 00:45:32 Little Wayne. I still want to work with juvenile, too. and who else I don't know I really just be to myself yeah yeah I don't even well you got to you
Starting point is 00:45:45 well you know Rico you got to network man you know that's why you coming and doing interviews that's why you coming down to LA you know and you you're networking with different people you got to get in the mix bro that's the only way it's going to happen or unless somebody links you up with them
Starting point is 00:46:00 like your manager or somebody like that the only way it's going to really happen you got to get out here to these parties you got to be willing and I say it all the time bro to eat my people to get some bread or to get to where the fuck
Starting point is 00:46:10 you want to go to you have to be willing to go places other people ain't willing to go bro because everybody could sit back and say what you just said oh I just stayed to myself
Starting point is 00:46:20 that ain't gonna get you nowhere by yourself I'm talking out of that shit man you got to break out that shell because your music is good bro you know what I'm saying it's just like the music shit been
Starting point is 00:46:30 difficult for me because like I've been isolated for two years in the holidays in the house with cats and monkeys. Like, I haven't been out. So, like, I went from not...
Starting point is 00:46:40 You got to break away from that. I know. Look. Like, I love you to death, my nigga, but I feel like this is like a sort of, like, intervention, like, you're an animal, sick. That's my whole life. Like, it revolves around it.
Starting point is 00:46:52 So, like, now I've been around people again. It's just like, I was skittish at first. You know what I'm saying? I was real skittish because I literally have not been around humans, like, at all for two years. So that shit Now it took a lot for me to come here Man, man
Starting point is 00:47:10 Look out of this shit easy to me and I'm a rapper I know what I'm doing Man I let that door paste and like I'm nervous Like I told her like this is one of the big This the biggest interview I ever did Yeah So I was nervous as fuck I mean you get thousands upon thousands
Starting point is 00:47:24 Even millions of views Bro people are watching you all the time This ain't no different It's only a couple of us in the room And they're gonna watch it too It's just this real big to come on here Yeah. Like, this shit, like, this shit real.
Starting point is 00:47:36 I'm happy as fuck to be here. I ain't even gonna hold you. I ain't gonna be here. I'm gonna be here. Man, that's why I wanted you to come, man. When you hit me up, you was like, man, sharp, I want to come. Hey, man, cool, let's sit down. Let's chop it up.
Starting point is 00:47:46 Yeah, yeah. I want to ask you also, man, is this, like, from what you do off the TikTok shit like that? Is that your source of income? Because I know feeding them, is that your only source of income because I know feeding them animals is expensive. I'm a tattoo artist deal. Okay. I don't publicly just do tattoos, but I got clients. that I still work with.
Starting point is 00:48:06 And, um, if you weren't around humans, how'd you survive for them two years? Dude, living off money that I made when I was 18 and 19. Like, I was smart when I was young. That's how I was buying houses.
Starting point is 00:48:19 I bought my first house at 21. Yeah. I'm on my second house at 21. I'm 24 now. I'm on my second house. And now I'm on my third. I'm working towards my third. Right now I'm in the process of that.
Starting point is 00:48:29 So like, I'm smart with my money. Even like, like, like, my outfit right now. You remember you say it was nice? Yeah. This was $13. And the pants was $13. I got this shit from city trans. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:41 Like, I'm real smart with my money and finances and my biggest cost is the animals. It's my biggest cost. I'll tell you this, right, Gary. I'm sure, like a lot of people, and I hope so, a lot of designers and people out there, man, that's moving. Send you some boxes
Starting point is 00:48:59 of clothes and shit like that, man. You know what I'm saying? Because, especially you being in a light, nigga, you having the following that you do, nigga, it ain't nothing. All you got to do is put out, hey, man, you want to see me wearing your clothes? Niggins gonna send you some shit. I had some offers on the way here. You don't even know, bro, and especially here in LA, my nigga,
Starting point is 00:49:15 like, niggins will get your sauce right. Send me some shit. You ain't even got to worry about it. I'll get your care package together, my nigga, and I sends you up some shit. You know what I'm saying? So you ain't even got to do that. Like, that shit cool, you know what I mean? But you being in a light, you can, bro, people will want to give you shit.
Starting point is 00:49:32 Right. You know what I'm saying? You just got to stay moving and just show, like, because people going to see you going viral in their shit. Hell yeah. And I'm going viral, like, twice, three times a month. Like, this shit consistent. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:49:45 So, you know, people are seeing that. So, you know, after your booking, like, let them know, like, hey, man, send some clothes. Here go to sizes, you know. Hell yeah. Get me right. For sure, for sure. And even, like, with my music, I record and mix all my shit.
Starting point is 00:50:02 Yeah. I record, I mix, a lot of producers that I work with, we'd be trading and shit. Like, I give you a feature, you give me two beats. So instead of... Because some producers be like, all right, I give you this beat, but I want 50% of the song. I don't like that shit.
Starting point is 00:50:17 I ain't even going to hold you. Because it's a lot of shit that I have to do. Now, 50% of, like, the... The, what's that shit? Like, the BMI and all that shit? That's cool, but 50% of distribution? Hell no. Because I got paid for...
Starting point is 00:50:32 the space to shoot the video, I got to market this bitch, I got to do all this shit, and you just make the beat. I ain't like that. So I just, like, doing better deals with them. And if I do make a decent amount of money, I just throw them something. But, yeah. So you don't have a team or nothing. You're pretty much solo.
Starting point is 00:50:50 You've had a two single deal with a group. I just started with them, probably about two months ago. Okay. But I still do everything the same, like, far as making the beats. I mean, I'm making the beats. recording process. A lot of people prefer me to get in the studio and get this professional sound,
Starting point is 00:51:06 but I like the house sound. I don't like the studio. I like being the lawn in the booth. Or if I do do a feature, you would, like, I be in your kitchen and some shit. Or you pull up, you be in my kitchen. I like that home feel. I'm not really big on in studios.
Starting point is 00:51:24 And if it is a studio, bring the mic out, put it on the table. And I sit next to the engineer. Is that I'm saying? I want to be in that close that fucking I don't want to be in that room You know
Starting point is 00:51:35 Why not? You've been closing yourself in For the last two years Why not? It's like Going to a box for a few minutes I don't know If you go to Detroit
Starting point is 00:51:44 It ain't gonna hurt your church I mean shit Even if you go to Detroit You would notice Like a lot of us Up here record like this Yeah We take the mic out
Starting point is 00:51:51 Put it on a table And we sit outside Me I don't like being locked in that room I've been in jail You have to I mean But it ain't locking you in though
Starting point is 00:52:01 bro, that's a mindset. I don't like that shit. It's a mindset. I don't even like people grabbing me. Like this, shit, I don't like that shit. No, I don't like that shit either. If I wasn't going to jail or not, if I ain't ever been. I don't want a nigga to ever touch me like that.
Starting point is 00:52:16 But, you know, like, that's still, that's just a mindset, though, bro. Like, come outside. I'm working on you, man. You're doing all this shit from now. You see, obviously, you get in motion. You get in action, my nigga. Now it's time to take the next step. Right.
Starting point is 00:52:30 You know what I mean? Like come outside, bro. Like, come see what your worth really is. Like, man, really give, you know, yourself a fair shot to, you know what I'm saying? Increase your value. Right. You know what I'm saying? Can't just be sitting in house no damn animals all the time.
Starting point is 00:52:45 No, I've been out. I ain't been around no animals in four months. I got somebody else taking care of. These last four months, I've been working. Like, I got somewhere for them to go right now while I'm working. Like, I haven't been around them in almost five months now. I've been here I'm saying
Starting point is 00:53:02 I've been to Detroit Arizona I was supposed to go to Arizona So I've been moving around a lot I had to put them aside And handle my business Because I got to take care of them You know what I'm saying
Starting point is 00:53:12 Can't just be under them all day How the fuck I'm gonna pay for shit Yeah how you gonna pay for anything That's why I was like Damn nigga two years You was like well I saved up some money Yeah yeah You spent that shit
Starting point is 00:53:24 It's time to get back It's time to really work You know what I mean Like and then you're saying that you had left your family, nigga, for that long, like for some... Like, I love animals too, bro. Don't get it fucked up.
Starting point is 00:53:35 Like, I love even my dogs, shit like that. Like, I love them. Like, love taking care of them. But, like, if it's gonna fuck with my well-being or switch up something that, you know, like a family situation where, like, I'm not seeing my family.
Starting point is 00:53:49 That's not healthy, bro. That's not healthy for you. You know what I'm saying? That's not okay for you. You know what I'm saying? You need family. You need to talk to some people. you know what I'm saying like even if it's just a man your mama
Starting point is 00:54:01 somebody coming and just spending time with you whatever you need that bro like sitting by yourself you gonna go crazy luckily you had found a way hey I'm gonna make some music try to keep myself busy just start dropping some shit and it worked out for you but nigga for how long get the hell up away man get back into to the world bro you ain't gotta fuck with niggas if that's your like worrying being like well I just don't trust
Starting point is 00:54:25 niggas sharp I don't really I don't really want to fuck with nobody like that out here. Man, that's cool. You don't have to. But, man, get back where you hear motherfucking car crash up the street, man. You got to get back into it. I can't do this.
Starting point is 00:54:42 Yeah, I'm getting out here. I've been doing a lot of shows. Even showcases, I'm humble enough to still go. It's one of your favorite shows you've done so far. Something dope for the people. Out here. Out here? Yep.
Starting point is 00:54:55 You got one tonight, don't you? Uh-huh, another one tonight. Let us know. about that one real quick and where we can find you it's gonna be on uh tonight something dope for the people is going to be reverie was on the bill shout out to her who else on the bill uh hold up i don't know how to read them names was this uh the far side to lead evidence reverie know her casey what's that first name know him what's that first name the far side
Starting point is 00:55:30 That's that say? I believe so. Yeah, with a P. Yeah, I can't read that shit. Yeah, it looked like it's going to be going up. Hell yeah. Where's this at? Vermont, I believe, Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:55:48 Okay. Yeah, I don't know the venue, though. Why have to slide up there? For sure, for sure. Pop off. For real, come pop out, man. If y'all out tonight, man, shit. What's it called?
Starting point is 00:56:00 What's the... The West Coast Fest. The West Coast Fest. Coast Fest, man. Let's Coast Fest, man. Shut, I know y'all ain't going to see this, but hey, I'll be sliding. I don't mind cut my evening short to be there.
Starting point is 00:56:13 You did, what I'm saying? Is there anything that you want your fans to know before we get out of here, anything you've been wanting to tell them to be on the lookout for any inspiring words you want to leave behind? Be on the lookout for Rico Trap I like. It should be dropping November 30th. I don't know which mics. I'm going to talk to all of.
Starting point is 00:56:32 Number 30 of lookout for that. And any upcoming artists, keep going, keep doing what you doing. It may not be working right now, but it'd be timing for music. Music is timeless. Your song may not be working right now, but it may click next year or may click two years from now. You may be in the same seat one day that I'm sitting in doing interview with shirts. Yeah, man, for sure. So keep going, man.
Starting point is 00:56:58 Keep grinding. For sure. And that's the only way you're going to get in the action. Hell yeah. Go trap, I appreciate you for sliding through with us, man. Chopping it up. Hey, my nigga, I'm gonna be watching for you, man. Hey, you know, get some more about your journey
Starting point is 00:57:10 and come back and come sit down with me, man. We'd love to hear from you, hear me. Hell yeah. The Sharp Tank. No jumper. Sharpest, coolest podcast in the world. Hey, Donnie, shoot us out the motherfucking chin. All right.

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