No Jumper - RX on Surviving The Streets of Compton & Becoming a Battle Rap Star

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

Lush bring battle rapper RX to talk about her career, the industry, projects and more! ---- 00:00 Intro 1:01 - The name RX comes from having the prescription for these b*tches and honoring Malcolm X�� 2:38 - Being black and Mexican, her dad meeting her mom and immediately marrying her 5:44 - Growing up in the 90s with all the racial tension, riots etc 13:13 - The differences between Compton and LA, culture, swag and lingo, Compton accent  20:18 - Being real bar heavy always being into lyrics, being influenced by 2pac, Langston Hughes inspire her poetry  22:58 - The Battle rap scene in Compton back in the day, going to the Pit at 15-16yrs old 27:01 - Getting her masters degree, freestyling at her graduate party someone putting it online 31:18 - Not immersing her son into the battle rap world too much coz it's cruel, going to battle rap events few days before her due date  33:36 - Misogyny in rap, guys trying to present opportunities with weird intentions  37:20 - Defining moment being the RX vs Bonnie, battlers coming out of retirement for her  41:57 - Slowing down on battles, having a job the whole time, opening up her own business 45:45 - Not relying on battle rap to pay her bills, being super holistic, Cevyn Wonders brand 56:12 - Having the self control to battle rap, it being entertainment, West coast battle rap coming a long way, inspiring the youth  1:00:44 - Her own edible line --- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back with another installment of that flyness. It's Sus, Gurb, Lush, Uno, and Your Highness. Come on, good playing with us. Yes, yes. So my brother, disaster, as I said in the previous episode, is out there. Deep in the sand dunes, busts and moves, you feel me, in Lebanon. So my man's suspect. We got Sus filling in.

We got Sus filling in. He's trying to take everybody's job at No Jumper, bro. Like... I ain't doing it on purpose, man. I'm just here doing my thing. Almighty 22. No, it's a beautiful thing. And with us today, one of the dopest battle rappers in the game.

And notice I didn't say female battle rappers. Yes, I appreciate that. Don't put her in a box. Yeah, I don't even want to make that distinction here. Nower is pretty Reese, the Blacksican Bay, aka RX. RX. R X, I'm up in here. You're another vibe.

You're another vibe. Where the name RX come from? Okay, so RX is... Because you don't seem like you on drugs. No, I'm not, but I got the prescription for these bitches, though. So that right there is kind of where I come in. But it's a deeper meaning to it than just that. You feel me?

It's like Racy X in honor of Malcolm X. Okay. I really idolize Malcolm X a lot. I love what he's still for his life journey. I really respect what he brought forth to the black community at the time that he had to do what he had to do. You feel? by any means necessary.

So I just want to honor and commemorate Malcolm X by all means. So that's dope. That's awesome and I never even knew that. Like that's deep with it. That's dope. At least it means something and you just be like, yeah, drugs, bitch. My name is all right. No, no, no.

It doesn't have, I mean, it could have like a drug connotation to it, you know what I'm saying? But it's really not even about that. You just added a crease of my cranium with that Malcolm X right there. Yes. And grew up in. Compton, California. Conceived, raised, and born all that good stuff. The Compton.

East side or west side? The west side. We had to clarify for the real one fucking people would be around. Yeah, child. My nags up in Sunny Cove, you feel me, period. Yes. So is, um, that's, and that's where you were raised at as well, not just born there. Yes.

So you, uh, I think you had said, isn't Roddy Rich like, like, Oh, yeah, he from like the woman to arms. That's like across the street. Yeah. So you're from right. We all like the same little section, though. Yeah. Yeah.

And growing up when you did and, you know, you're black and Mexican. Yes. Yes. Blacksican. Blacks. Which parents is which? So my dad is Chicano and my mom is West African. Which, like, is a lot of times people might make the assumption it's the other way around.

Right. Because usually it is. Yeah, a lot of times it is. But I feel like I have a lot of friends, though, that, like, their father is, like, Latino. And, like, their mom is, like, you know, blue. black or something like that, African or, you know, Caribbean, whatever. I don't like to use the term black. I just say West African and that's just me.

But, you know. Well, with that being said, is it safe to assume that Pops is a stone cold player if he's able to get a West African queen like that? Yeah, you know, my dad, he loves women and he loves my mom. And, you know, he just thought that she was the most beautiful thing ever. Right when he met her, he just married her. Like, who does that? Like, who just missed somebody to marry them?

I'm like, oh my God, but they were married for like 20 years. So, yeah, my dad, he loves him some black women, you know what I mean? Okay. I like him. Yeah, yeah. I like him. And is he, is he from Mexico or is he from, he's from, he's Chicano. He's Chicano.

He's from Fullerton. Okay. Yeah, my dad is from Fullerton. He's from Fulas. You know, that's what the Chicano's called. Fulas. Yeah. So it's a real O-C.

Your third generation? Um, I guess so, yeah. No, second. Second. My dad would be first and I would be second. So, my abuelos, they're, they're, they go out there and you tap in with the soil. Oh, God, yes. Oh, God. I'm going next month.

Like, I'm always up in Mexico. Like, I got my passport stamped up so many times. I got my century pass and all that. You feel me? For those of you who don't know what a century pass is, it's a trusted traveler program. You could travel up over there, come back like that. You know, wait, no line. You just go and come back.

So, yeah, I'm always up in Mexico. So for all of y'all, they want to make an exchange. excursion to Hong Kong. And I don't know. Basically say all you broke-ass bitches that don't like me, y'all don't know what this is. You know what Hong Kong is, right? Hong Kong.

You don't, okay, see, that shows how wholesome you are. Okay. Now respect. Hong Kong is... Oh, God. Here it is the nigga loves you go. Hong Kong is like the most allegedly, okay?

The most fire brothel slash... He went there. I mean... Oh, my God. If I went there, I wanted to come back. It's what you're talking about. And by the way,

red light district. Look at this lighter real quick. Examine it. You'll see what's going on. Seven Wonders. Oh, he pulled her out on the lighter. You feel me? Yes,

seven Wenders. Dot shop. Get your RX lighter today. You feel me? We're going to get into the Seven Wonders, though. But before we get into all that and I'm going to bore you with tales of Hong Kong or any of that. Oh, my God. I can't believe you that.

But let's just say, get your, what's the past called? Oh, it's called the century. Get you a century pass so you can skip the line straight. We took a broke for all that. But so growing up growing up in the 90s in Compton, there's a lot of racial tension. Oh, God, yes, yes. Late 80s, early 90s, it was a lot going on outside my doorstep. And to me it was just normal because we saw that every day, you know,

but like the riots kicking off, like all kind of like violence. shit going on. It was just regular. Like, I never thought like, oh, man, this is bad. Like, you don't got time to think about if it's bad or good because that's all you know. That's all you know. That's all you know. Then that's just what life is for you. Yeah.

So that was completely normalized. Oh, yeah. It was just another day. Did you, like, did you ever feel, like, divided and pulled in different directions? Because, like, when I look at it, it's like, wow, this is so beautiful. You have this rich heritage on both sides and, like, this gives you, like, really strong lineage and, like, a deal. code that could, you feel me, crack NASA and all that.

But like people on the streets sometimes, they look at it in a more like base perspective. Like, oh, you're one of them, you're not one of us. That's a good question. I was going to ask you, did you ever experience racistness from your Hispanic side? Yes. I want to hear about that. I think that I probably experience more prejudice. I wouldn't call it racist.

I call it prejudice because it's just, you know, negative views, hateful people. You know, spewing negativity. I would say that it comes a lot from the Latino community and a lot from my Mexicano people and I'm pained by that because it's like, oh my God, like, how can you be so ignorant, you know? But I also get it sometimes from the black community

but not hardly as much as... We're a little bit more accepting. Yeah, yeah. I feel like I have a sister, we're like identical, you know, but she's just very thirst-in. And it's funny because she gets it from the black side a lot. And then I get it from the Mexican side a lot. So it's just so funny, you know, that it works out that way.

But, you know, it's a lot of, you know, prejudicial people out there, a lot of ignorant people out there. And I can't lower my IQ for them, you know what I'm saying? Or vibration. Or my vibration. Exactly. Like, I'm vibrant high. I'm good. I'm educated.

So I don't even want to, like, play with them down there, you know. But I do get it a lot and I'm able to handle it better today as an adult as opposed to when I was a teenager. So, yeah. I mean, ignorance comes in all colors, shapes, sizes. You ever get it from family or outside? side. Well, that's a good question. That's what I really, yeah, family. Not from my family. My family is, like, so accepting.

My family is, like, really, really loving. My family's not like that. Yeah, they're... The outside people don't matter. The family where it matters. Yeah, but sometimes you'd be out in something like that. You feel me? Like, I'll be, like, speaking Spanish or something, and somebody woke up, like, oh, why you speak at my language? And I'd be like...

Your language. My language. Clearly, if I could speak it like you, it must be mine's too. Yeah, I'll be like, what? Maybe, like, these little old lonesias, like, these little old ladies, like, you know what saying like oh god have you never heard of afro latinos like they don't they don't really be accepted especially up in mexico up in mexico they just recently started accepting afro latino people that are from mexico into the census yeah into the census like this was like what

2020 or this was this was recently it was recent it was recent it was not like taillinos and all that but well it's like it's like it's like negroes it's like dark people who look like me the indigenous people there but they won't they displaced them they're black as hell and they don't speak no English and they're from there. I'm saying? Like African descent, but they're like here. Yeah, yeah. They just recently started counting them on the census. It's over a million of them.

You know what I'm saying? Especially in like a state called Guerrero. There's a few other ones, like Capuco. There's a few other ones out there. Like coastal places. They're very beautiful people, very tropical people. It's just like the Caribbean's on that side, like on the other side. Oh, the other side. Yeah. Yes. It's just all kinds of, you know,

melanated individuals. And in my family particularly there are darker people because my great-grandfather was like completely indigenous and he wasn't white he was he was dark-skinned he was dark I got I got pictures so it's like you know some people got that spanger blood and some people got more of like the you know Aztec blood and then you know some people have like something like the African blood I mean it just depends on like where you fall in that but it's like at the end of the day like we all from the same place yeah that's not spoken on enough like they're from there they've been there probably longer than some of the Spanish ones, you know what I'm saying?

They've been there. I always say the same thing. When they dropped us off on that boat, they just dropped all off first. And then they kept us all a little longer and dropped us off in the south. Same boat, same people. You know what I'm saying? We just mixed in with different people. So those are still the people of that land.

So they should get the same respect that. Yeah, I feel like we are so, like, miseducated about like the true transatlantic slave trade and like how the people are like, you know, dropped off here, there, there, they're there. but like it's all the same damn people. Because people want to be divisive so they want to act like motherfuckers want to feel better than the other muffles. Oh God, yes.

They want to put my fuckers down. Yeah, I get that a lot also even from like other like Latino people they'll be like oh, well you're Mexican oh well I'm this and I'm better than you like like what the fuck are you talking about? Like they got a hierarchy or some shit Yeah, like somebody's like fucking hierarchy.

How does the content of your character speak from where you're from? It's all about the content of your character. Not the land that you're from. It has nothing to do with nothing. Come on. No cab. Almighty X. Yes, exactly.

Almighty King. That's Almighty King. Content and character. Because she Afro-Latino, so I had to take the opportunity because people maybe they'll hear it better coming from somebody from that community instead of me or my hating black ass. You feel me? It'll be my hatein' ass.

But she from your community. She speaks fluent Spanish clearly. You know what I'm saying? So you got to take it from somebody from that community. She just spoke the truth. And let's keep it a stack since we on this topic. we in Mexico right now I feel like I do with move the border

and still the land okay so don't get mad Khalifas don't get mad exactly exactly yeah this right here is all you know this was all Mexico at one point in time

and like I don't want to get into no history lesson you think because I could go there but I know the history I'm like I'm not gonna go there again my daddy taught me everything my dad he's very very big on like Chicano studies Mexican history

he taught me all this at a very young age my mom is the same exact way my mama Black Panther Loki and she taught me you know, black history from a very young age. So I grew up very culture on both sides. That's dope. And, you know, again, being from Compton,

and the demographics of Compton have shifted dramatically. It went from, like, back when you was growing up, predominantly black city. Oh, yeah. Well, take it further back, it was like a predominantly white city. Way back. You know, anytime we come, they leave it. Right.

Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, so my mama told me that when she first moved to Compton, they were just building the Sunny Coe. They were just building, like, the houses. And it was like all white people that live like the surrounding areas. And once one black person moved in, all the whites left.

So, you know, white flight. Mm-hmm. So they filled in. And it was all black people in my neighborhood. My dad was in black and I maybe had like a few neighbors that were in black. It's like Samoans, few Mexicans.

But it was predominantly black. But now, you know, it's shifted. Predominantly Chicano at this point. Yeah. And even like people from Central America and all that. All type of different Latinos. Is that kind of, is it kind of like, do you feel like the city's changed as a result?

Like, or is it still have the same energy? I think that it has changed, but I don't feel like it changed, but I don't feel like it changed. But it's some, well, I guess in some aspects, it could be kind of, you know, difficult or whatever, like, game related type stuff. But as far as, like, the culture of Compton, like, Compton is still confident, you know? Like, we still here. So what's the difference for those that don't know between Compton and L.A.? Because people think, because, like, you know, like, because Compton is part of L.A. County. It's L.A. County, but it's not L.A. City.

Right. You get caught up. You're going to go to L.A. County, jail and all that. But it's like. It's very different. It's a own world. It's different. Being in the L.A. niggins. It's different. Being an L.A. niggins. And you try to group.

I'm from Compton. I'm from Lompton. I'm from. They got an identity. I think it's because outside people always try to group y'all with us. And they're like, nah, we got our own. own shit going on over here. Yeah, exactly. I did our own rhythm, our own program going.

So it's different. Yeah, it's like a culture to Compton. It's a culture to LA. It's a culture to Long Beach. Like, you know, it's not the same. So we don't want to be grouped in with, you know, this big lump sum of people right here. But we got our own shit cracking, you know?

And what, so how would you define that? What's the difference between Compton? Like what the, how do you, how do you, how, I know it's a broad question. Yeah, it is. I want to hear it from your perspective, though, as like a native, you feel me? Okay, well, I, I, I mean, me personally, being from Compton, we got a certain culture we got certain swag we use certain lingo and stuff like that and maybe that's not always used

in other areas of l.A you know like the hats that we wear might be different from what the hats that they wear up over there that we might dress a little bit different or whatever it is it's just like you know that's just what we be on we be on our own type of time but as far as like you know math wise like we like we like we like like south bay or something yeah you're like south of that yeah yeah Yeah, we're more like South. Yeah. So, you know, geographically, like, it's, like, way different. Like, to get to L.A., we got to go.

South of South Central. Right, right, exactly. So we got our own thing going. And y'all got what I think a lot of people don't realize, your own accent, which you have, I love your, the way you talk. You have, like, this super Compton vernacular and, like, twang to your voice, which if people don't know what, like, Compton sound like, like, Right, right.

You got to be here to know that. Because I was like, I'm a little fucking. Right, right. Right. Right. You know what I'm saying? I think in my opinion, Compton, I think it's different when when you're driving through LA I'm going to be in the same hood, maybe for like eight minutes.

You feel me, just driving down some streets. You hit Compton. 30 seconds. 30 seconds. New hood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Two blocks. New hood. Yeah. Yeah. Because where I grew up at, like on my side, this park village. On the other side is far. doors on the other side is nutty block on the other side of cedar block like you know what I'm saying it's like

it's all these different hoods you cross the street you in a whole different neighborhood like your shoelaces might not go on that side you know what I'm saying like you might have to answer to somebody for that like you know you got to be on your toes yeah yeah yeah like the pressure to like oh god yeah because I went to school in cars so I had to take the bus home which is a whole bunch of other politics out there that's a whole other yeah that's a whole other thing right there but like going from like you know one hood to the next hood like you got to be going up over here the bus, change my shoe laces real quick, let me change my shirt real quick, you know what I'm like getting pressed by nobody, but you still get pressed no matter what. But yeah,

it was just always like even even women, even young, young ladies getting pressed. Yeah, it's one of that shit matters. It doesn't matter what your gender is. Like, you're a person, like you a human being like every I mean, I was young too. I was like 11 like yeah. And it's females from that's all right. Yeah. It's going to be females over there too. Yeah, it was all kind of stuff going on. I don't know. Like, they don't care if you were a little girl. Like, I was getting impressed by grown people. Like, niggas way older than me type shit. Especially if you look mature. It's going to start. Yeah, I think that I used to dress. Like, I used to be like a tomboy and stuff, you know, like, oh, yeah, I used to dress a little bit different. But, yeah, I was getting pressed all the time. It was just, everyday thing.

I could just picture you, like, four foot 10. I want to post some pictures, man. I want to show y'all, you know, some back in the day. No, we need a. I need a flashback Friday recently. Yeah, I got you. I got you. Yeah. but um when did you realize you know first of all actually i want to hear both of y'all being you know you from south central you from compton i was talking to the homies about this the other day like if you look at the hip-hop landscape of l.A most of the most like compin compton and long beach you know what I'm saying like there's not too many like who were like the rap legends from LA like other

than like Ice Cube Nipsey like there's like then it gets kind of tricky like you could throw like Draco in there you feel me if you're going to have to get newer you have to get newer at a certain point like because the like like did you kind of like growing up out there did you have like a sense of the history like damn like this is where so many of the legends of it did that influence you Yeah, yeah, especially like growing up like, you know, late 80s, early 90s, you know, like that was like everyday culture for us, you know, like EZE, like, you know what I'm saying, like NWA, like all that shit. We loved all that shit.

And growing up for me, that right there was a big influence for me to start doing poetry actually. That's what I first did was poetry. And I was like, dang, like they put it words together like crazy. Like, learn how to write. I was writing poetry every day. And from there it went into rap. And, you know, that's kind of just, you know.

took off on its own. But it just started off with more like spark in my mind, like, created in my mind. Because I just feel like when I was young, I always heard a lot of negative connotations about content. And it's like, dang, like, we're not bad. Like, we better than that. Like, we got, you know, good people up over here. We got talented people up over here. Like, I want to be one of the ones. That's like talented. That's going to stand out and not be, not care about what people got to say about Compton. Like, I got to still show up and do my thing. Yeah. So was it, because you're known as a battle rapper. And, but were you on the music?

You said it started with poetry, so it did it like, yeah. He was doing the music and all that. Yeah, I didn't start doing music until I was like 15, 16. I didn't, that only went until I was like 19, 20 because I started going to college. And once I went to college, it was like, I'm going to go home and write this 10 page paper or I'm going to go to the studio, like which one I'm going to do, you know? So that's when it kind of like, you know, branched off into me doing more like college stuff, I had to take a back seat on the music.

But from 15 to 20, I would say, I was real. heavy on the music. I wanted to, you know, do shows and I had all my friends going to the studio. Like that was like exciting to me. I love that shit. It was like, you know, young, free, doing what you want to do, rapping, living life. And then, you know, adulthood came and I had to, you know, take the college route. So I went to college and that right there was like, you know, six years, getting two degrees. And then after that was over, that's when I got into battle rap. Because at heart is like I never stopped rapping. I was always still writing bars and everything. What was your music like?

Because I have a couple guesses, all right? I have a couple guesses. Let me find out, Reesie. Let me find out that you got some jerk songs. No, no, no, no, I never got one to the jerk, Eric. I never got into a bar-heavy. I'm real, like, bar-heavy, so I was always just more into, like, lyrics, like, bars. You know what I'm saying?

I was always really influenced by, like, Tupac. Like, he always had, like, a message. Like, I always wanted to come with, like, that message. Did you have any, like, more gangster-type? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's who, you know. She was on her thug shit. Yeah.

I'd love to hear it one day. I know you got them in the archives. Yeah, I got some things. I got some things. I know you got it. And as your homie, that's never heard it, you feel me? Right, right. A lot of people ain't heard it, trust me.

Was there any specific person not inspired to do poetry? Poetry, Langston Hughes, I would say. My mom had this book about the Harlem Renaissance, and it had all this poetry in there. And I thought that, oh, my God, I just absolutely loved Langston Hughes, Zornil Hurston. There was like a few other black poets from back in the day,

Harlem. Like they had like a whole movement. I was really moved by that. Yeah, I was all moved by that as a child to see how all these people came together to fight against oppression, fight against, you know,

all the fucked up shit that was happening in society. But they did it through words. They did it through poetry. Like, you know, they all came together. And I thought that was just so beautiful. And I was young and had to, you know, read all these books and my mama gave me to read.

And, you know, that right there was a real, real big inspiration for me. Was that, was, was you being so educated to like, you know, like all these militant and like, not just militant, but like also artistic movements and all these different things that's that's in your blood and your DNA and all that. Did that make, do you feel like it was difficult for other people around you to relate to that? Or was it like?

Yeah. Yeah, I've always stood out. I've always been different. I never was a type of person to like, you know, like my interests weren't always the same interest as that of my friends that surround me. Like they always knew like oh yeah she cool But she'd be on some other shit sometimes Like what the hell you got going on

I'm reading this book I'm reading this book for me Like I like reading like what you read But that's how it was Like to be honest with y'all Like you know like She's like what you got a book She's a nerd

She reads And the hood is looked down upon To be smart which is crazy Yeah yeah exactly exactly But I never I never felt ashamed of it Like I love reading To this day like I read books every day Like it's part of my day

Yeah I read a book once Okay, okay. As long as it ain't Facebook. I read a book one. I'll be on Facebook. Yeah, yeah, that's good. I'm 40 years old.

We have Facebook. But so battle rap, at that time, like when there wasn't no battle rappers that were really known from Compton or, you know, at that time. Okay, so the battle rappers that were known that were from Compton was. Nothing A-V. Okay. I used to go to the pit. Shout to my dog A-V. And there was other dude, his name was double P.

I don't know where he'd go by now or if he's still even rap. I know he used to cut hair. That's all I remember about him. But they used to go to the pit. And I was going to the pit back when I was like 15, 16. Do you know what the pit is? No, I don't. Okay.

Okay. So the pit was the place that, like, if you, anybody that somebody started off at the pit, they was at the pit. They did something having to do with the pit. I wish Diz was here just for that. Oh, my God. That's who I was like there to see. He was like this, Daylight Active, Ells Turner, people like that.

It was all put together by this dude named Watts-Sticks. He's super dope. Like, shout out to Watts-Sticks, man. Like, if it wasn't for him, like, I wouldn't, I would probably have never even got into battle rap, like, to be real with you. So you're a teenager going. So the pit was basically, it was a weekly or like every other week or something? I think it was like a weekly type of thing. And it was in West L.A.

Yeah. And it was like at the time, so this is probably what, like 2005 to 2008 maybe? Yeah, somewhere around. I was in like third. Yeah, yeah. So you, you was a little young for it. But the reason I asked if you heard of it, because, like, every rapper... My dad probably took me to that motherfucker.

That's what I'm saying. Like, you of all people might could have been there. Yeah, my pop-like, did that shit. And because everyone from 2005 to 2008, like, from L.A., and I'm talking, like, K.D. Kendrick, I'm talking Ty Dole-Sine. I'm talking Tyreys. Yeah. Dom Kennedy.

Like, every single rapper that wound up popping off Nip, you know what I'm saying? Every rapper that popped off. in LA during that time period came through there. Yes. And maybe like spit a verse. They had performances. They had like beat battles, poetry battles,

rap battles. Yeah. It was just like pure entertainment. It was pure talent. And it was super. It was amazing. No, there's nothing like that.

It's like it was similar. It's like after Project Blode kind of like wasn't as. You know, I was there a week. Yeah, yeah. Like, you know,

you Project Blode like royalty just because of your pops and all that, you know what I'm saying? Like, but his pops L.A. cool if you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what was crazy is that, like, the pit was kind of carried that torch for a while, and it was also

super hood. Like, it was a lot of like hell of different gangs in there. Yeah, it was, it was greasy. Yeah, it wasn't like, if you think about, like, in the eight-mile movie, you feel me, like, that type of environment, but for L.A., like, everybody like they're not letting you slide with some weak shit you're gonna get roasted like yeah

and you was a young in there yeah I was like 15 16 years old I was around there I had you know I had a car I was driving everywhere pick up my friends he pulling up did you have a license yeah I did by the time I was 16 I had the license you know before I had like a little permit or whatever you know I was I was I was mobbing stole those when I was 14 yeah well I used always take my dad car when I was like 10 like right when you could get a license you got to get it like so I was still in our car but um Yeah, so I was always at there. I was always going and it was just a real intense environment. It was a lot of talented people.

And I just like really, really, like grew creatively, just going there, like, you know, with my pen, you know. But I was like not trying to like battle rap at the time because I was like, oh, hell no. Anybody can call me no bitch. So I was like, I'm fighting everybody. Like, fuck that. But then once I got older, I was like, oh, who cares? I can call them a bitch back. So, yeah, it was just really, really, really amazing to see so many, you know, amazing people.

And then fast forward later, after my college days and stuff like that, to come back to battlewrap and still see this, to still see active, to still see daylight, like people who I, you know, came into this shit with for real, like, battle rap. And you was hanging out with, like, the, like, the, like, around them already. Yeah, yeah. Because hubbing the dub, Compton Watch connection. Yes, yes, yes. I already had, like, a relationship with daylight, actually. Like, we were already friends. We already knew each other.

And that's who brought me in. Yeah. So that, so when did you jump off the porch? were like, I'm in the battle. Oh, my God. Okay, so I had a graduation party, right? I got my master's degree. I had a graduation party.

And I was telling my friends. These casual flexes. Like, I got a master's. I got a story. I'm just telling the story. So I had a party and I was telling my friends to rap and they did a rap. I read a book once. Nobody would rap and I was like kind of faded.

I just started rapping. I just started going in. Freestyle. Yeah. So they was like, what the fuck? Like, where this come from? Like my battle rap. friends was there, clutch was there.

Okay. A few other people. Happy C-Day Clutch. Oh, yeah, yeah. Talk to one nigga Clutch. So somebody recorded me and they put it on the internet. Like, I don't know. I don't know who.

I had no idea they were recording me and everybody was like, no, you got a battle rap. You fire. You got to do it. And I was like, no, I don't know about all that. I don't know. Like, I'm trying to like not do it. They were like, no, you have to. Like, come on, just write something.

So I wrote some bars. Was your freestyle? Were you like going at people in the free? No, no. I was just rapping. I was just going. I was faded. Yeah, I was just going.

So then they was like, no, I just write some bars and let's just see what you got. And I was like, okay, I'm going to just write some stuff. So I wrote some bars and they was like, oh, that's crazy, but you got too much filler. Like you got to like watch some like female battle rappers and you have to like see how they do it. Like filler ain't going to work. You got to have some punch lines. I said, okay, that's easy. I'm going to do that.

So they showed me a battle 40 bars once I saw that right there. I went down a rabbit hole watching all these females. And I was like, oh, I can do this shit. like for show and I just started writing more bars and I came back you know I'm saying to our little cypher that we used to have with crack city and nays was like no you got to do this like this is next level crazy so I kind of did my first battle kind of as like a like a joke I guess like I'm gonna just do it just to see like what happened was that the joy Lennox battle yeah yeah that was a joy linux battle and then I did that right there just to see you know you was snapping yeah yeah and then everybody liked it

it was up from there yeah that's crazy that that was your first battle though because you seem and now it makes sense when you say that you kind of had you ain't new to this you're true to this since the uterus like you've been doing it like for a fat minute because you came in like pretty confident already although you're significantly more so now but like you at that time when that joy lennox battle came out you still seemed and it's crazy to hear that you had a master's degree already and all that shit because you still seem like a little rough around the edges. Like, there might have been a blower on you in the battle.

Yeah, I was definitely, I was definitely still, you know, living my life in the streets a lot during that time right there. I was just, you know, yeah. But I think that not too far after that I had my daughter. I got my second child. And that's what really just, you know, helped me to just focus on, you know, productivity in life, being a better person, being, you know, more like an enriching person in America and society.

Seems like you have There's like a lot of duality to you Yes There's like you're a very multi-layered person So you have like There's the scholastic You know Side of you

There's the entrepreneur side of you There's the mother Yes There's the rapper Yes And then there's like Recy from Compton You know what I mean

The mental health therapist The everything How do you like How do you find a balance Between all these lives and do you find yourself like code switching at all? Are you able to maintain your own identity throughout all that? I'm able to maintain my own identity through everything.

I know how to talk when I'm around the right. The people I like to be, you know, corporate with. I could be corporate with the corporate people. I could be with the hood people. You know what I'm saying? I can sit down and have an interview with interview people. You know what I'm saying? Like I don't feel like.

Damn, she called us interview people. No, I'm not like that. I'm not like that. I'm not like that. But like I know how I still like conduct myself in different settings because that's how everything in my life has been duality. I don't know if it's because I'm blacks again, if it's because I'm a Libra. I don't know.

But everything has always had like two sides to it. Like since I can remember, it's always been that way. So it's just natural for me. Yeah, no. And you do it very gracefully. And what's the, is it having, being a mother in battle rap, but you actually bring like your son, I know your son. You feel me?

Like you brought your son to several events. You know what I'm saying? Yes. My son loves battle rap. But I don't want to immerse him too much into the culture because it could be kind of cruel. But that's what I was going to say. Do you like, like.

I was going to say that too. Do anybody target your son when you battling? A few people have, but they didn't say anything too disrespectful. Because I'm very protective when it comes to my kids. Shout out to my babies, Noah and Sarah. But yeah, like, I'm like really. My G. Noah.

My kids might fuck right and hop in on your ass. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. My kids are fucks. Like, I'll be like, oh, who kisses these? Like, my kid's a fuck. They don't play no games. But yeah, like, I just, I just,

I'm real protective over my children, what I expose them to, like what I present to them. That's why when I had my daughter, I knew, like, I can't be a certain way around her because she's going to mimic me. She's going to want to be like me. She's going to want to do what I do. My son, he kind of got his own identity. He followed after his dad more so, which is a good thing. And, you know, he do his own thing. My daughter, I knew immediately, like, she's going to imitate me and what I do. I have to give her something good to imitate. So I had to, you know, do some soul searching and change my life, you know, when I was through my pregnancy. and when I had her.

And now, you know, everything is good now. You was a really beautiful pregnant person. Oh, thank you. Not that I have a fetish or anything. So he just exposed this, so. I was at events like, like three days. Glowing. Yes.

Glowed up. I was at events. I was like a few days up for my due date. I went to a battle rep event. I could barely even walk. And I was like, bitch, I'm here. Like, give me a chair. Like, I'm sitting in front row.

Let's be honest. Prating women are fire. Come on. Let's just keep it It's funny as fuck He said yeah Let me just expose it I love those

I ain't even mad If you pregnant You feel me hollered at once time This nigga freaky No that's freak No that's freak though He can't take it He is comedy

Nah but for real pregnancy No I'm just playing With that being said though Like it's interesting Because you I feel like As a homie of yours, you're not, you're very open, you know what I mean?

But you're also like, you're a private person, you know what I mean? Like, is it difficult to compartmentalize a different aspect of your life while still kind of like being open about it? Like you, you have your kids on social media, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, because there's certain things in my life that you, you just can't hide. You can't hide the sun. You know what I'm saying? Like, I can't hide certain things in my life.

Hey, people hide the sun. Oh, shout out to Drake. I love you, Drake. But, um, but not like, it's just certain things in my life. life where I'm just more open. And there are certain parts of my life where I'm not very open. You won't hear about that. Nobody will know about it. Like my closest friends don't even know some of the things that I go through or things that I've been through or struggles that I have or whatever because I keep that very, very private to myself. And once I feel comfortable

enough to, you know, talk about it, I'll get there. But a lot of things that I share with people is because I already overcame, you know, a lot of these different challenges in life obstacles, whatever. And I'm not uncomfortable talking about it. And I, you know, I would never hide my children from the world or nothing like that. It's just certain parts of my life where, you know, it's just out there. No, it makes sense. Being a woman in a male-dominated field, because, like, hip-hop in general is, like, a really misogynistic place for the most part, but like...

I feel like it's getting better now. It's getting better. Yeah, yeah. Coming into it, it was like, damn. But you're talking to some of my favorite rapper, Sugar-Free, so you feel, me, like, there's certain types of misogyny that are cool, like, when Sugar-Free. free to do it, but like, I don't even feel like it's bad. But like, I'm talking about like a genuine like repression and oppression of women. And you see that even more magnified in battle rap. Again,

it has gotten better. There's a lot of, there's a whole, there's a whole like separate fan base for female battle rap. But like, what has that experience been like for you? And has it been like, Have you had any, like, experiences, like, as far as people being weird, like, trying to pop at you type shit? You ain't got to expose nobody, I'm just saying, like. Pop at me, like, in one way? Like, you know, like, hey, like, you might, like, hey, fuck with me, you feel me, come under my wing and you might get more opportunities.

Oh, yeah. And they have, like, weird intentions. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, me, like, I sniff all that shit out from the fucking gate. Like, you don't even got to open up your mouth and I know where your energy is at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it is people like that. There's a lot of people like that that will be like, oh, yeah, you want to get on that car right there?

You're in my hotel room. You feel me? And it's like, bitch, no. Like, I'm not doing any of that. Like, if I can't get somewhere based on my talent, like, I don't need to be there. Period. Like, I don't feel like I want to, like, build myself up off of, like, you know, some fucked up type shit. You feel me?

Like, I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even do don't shit like that. So it is happened. I know you wouldn't. Yeah, yeah. But if people do offer and stuff like that, you do. do see that right there a lot, you know, as a woman. But it's like for me personally, like, I don't even give a fuck what they're talking about. Like, I don't, I don't care what they got going on. Like, I'm not engaging in that. You feel what I mean? I'm not engaging. What would you say to

young, up and coming female battle rappers who were feeling that pressure? Definitely know yourself, know your worth, know that you can make it to big places and big stages without having to do things like that. Build up your fan base organically. Connect with your fans. organically and the fairs will demand you to be in those places and they can't ignore you forever and I think that's really solid advice you had like so when you came in the game then you were kind of like battling a little sporadically it'd be like a battle here battle there but you started to gain a little bit of buzz when do you feel like it kind of turned around because like I would say from 2019 to 2020 in particular 2021 like you had been having a real crazy run you took your foot

off the gas a little bit recently, but like what was like a defining moment for you? A defining moment was, I guess I would say the Bonnie battle, to be honest with you, the Bonnie battle. And I battle her because like I was coming from the torture battle and that right there was also a defining moment. Like my first like big event in New York, you know, it's crazy up in there. You know, like the fucking jungle. And coming from that to the Bonnie battle where I'm at a new league, nobody knows me. You know you made me blush when you said that a little bit. I wasn't expecting because you know why. Yes.

Like, because I was pushing your line real tough. You feel me like. Absolutely. I appreciate that. No, no. You ain't like, I wasn't like fishing for like.

Like yeah. Lush book that battle for me. But like. Yes. Yes. But no, like that right there was it because like, man I had to convince them white people like.

Like are you. It was like, who's our ex? Yeah. Nobody knew me. They was like, who is this girl? Bonnie Finn and 30 her.

And we don't want to see her like what she'd be on this car for? Like, That was the response I got from the King of the Dot fan base. But shouts to King of the Dot, shouts to Organic and the whole team for even like for allowing it to have because I did push the line. They took a chance. There were people that were like, I don't know.

I was like, we need Bonnie versus like because Bonnie my people too. And I've been working with her. Like I was working hard to get more women over on that stage for a minute. Because I don't think that I even had that many battles before that. I only had like maybe five or six battles. Yeah. I didn't have a lot of battles like that. So they didn't know me.

And it was our brother, uh, B. Scatlin that was really in, in my ear too, like, yeah, I think it's time. And we had been. Yeah. So I was like, you know, I'd been fucking with you heavy and all that as a homie. And then I knew you were nice.

That torture battle came out. And it was like, okay, like, I think it's time to, you know, for her to get that light. But Bonnie is like one of them. Yeah. Yeah. She's like a giant. She's been on every league.

I really respect that about her. I really respect her. And, you know, I really wanted to, like, you know, go against her. So when I did in front of a, you know, predominantly KOTD crowd in Oakland, like, that shit was next fucking level. Which makes it a little leg. Because when you, when she says a predominantly KOTD crowd, what do you really mean? Well, you know, no, KOTD is very, very mixed. I'm just saying.

The people that came out are like super king of dot head people. Right, right. They like king of dot people. They didn't really care for me that much because I'm not a king of dot person at that time. But the Bay Area being like a little bit diverse. Yeah, so it was like, you know, more of like a diverse crowd up in there. But like, you know, the king of the dot people, they want to see the king of the dot person win. You know what I'm saying?

Who is this new girl coming up in here for in the battle of Bonnie? Like, like, she didn't do nothing. Like, where did she even come from? Right. Like, why is she even here? Once I started rapping, I changed their mind. You found me? They was yelling three-o up by the end of that battle.

I didn't give a fuck. And it's dope that. Ultimate underdog. Yeah. And like, low-key, the star was rising fast. And, like, I'm, you know, shouts to organic. And the whole KOTD staff. for really getting behind you, I feel like after that.

Then you had, was the next one, the Myverse battle? Yeah, my verse was right after that. Yeah, that right there was like, because she was in retirement. She came out of retirement to battle me. So that right there was like next level, you know, for me. I was like, damn, like this bitch tipping outside. Like, okay, let's do this thing.

It made a lot of sense, you feel me? One of like the prettiest battles. Yes, yes. You could possibly have. I had to add that up in there. I was on my first line. Like, you know, I talked, I had to address it. That's what everybody was saying.

Like, I don't really, I didn't go into it thinking of that. Like, oh, yeah, like, we're both pretty. Like, I don't give a fuck with this bitch look like. I don't care what I look like. Like, I'm here to fucking rap. I definitely thought about it when I was, like, the biggest thing that people just kept saying. So I had to just address it because everybody kept, you know, talking about that aspect of it. Yeah.

Yeah. And then, like, from there, was it Shuny next? After that right there was Gaddis. Gattis. And she came outside out of retirement. for me and I was like this bitch is on my ass I cannot get 30 I gotta fuck her up so yeah that right there was a good battle and after that was shuny and she had stopped rapping for a while and came back you know what I'm saying so it was just like dang bitches is coming on a retirement for our ex like

yeah let me smoke these bitches I felt like that nigga you know like I was like straight up I was like yeah like these bitches is coming outside like that's what's up I felt good about myself I was doing something I assume at that moment you're getting a lot of offers people really trying to you Feel me? Like, because not only are you getting big names, but all your battles are doing numbers. Yes. You're hitting six figures every time, you know, like, like, what was the decision to, like, why did you kind of decide, like, let me, like, slow down with it?

Okay, so after the Shunee battle, I started, I was, I was working this whole time, by the way. I have, like, a corporate job, regular. I'm a mental health therapist. I work, you know, a lot or whatever with these kids. And that right there was, like, you know, taking up a lot. lot of my time, I would say, because I went to school for that and, you know, I didn't want to just leave my job for battle rap type of thing. But it got to a point for me personally where I had to like, you know, work and open up my business. Like starting my own brand was really, really,

really, really important for me. So I was like, well, if I got to take a step back on battle rap, I got to just do that. But my plan wasn't to take a step back all this time. I've had battles booked. Right. I've had all kind of shit. But people back out, the league pull out of the battle, the event just don't go down or whatever. cases. I've had battles booked. I wrote for, I don't know how many bitches, but whatever. Is they scared? I mean, if you ask me, I will say so. You feel me? I will say so. It's not the contrary, in my opinion. But either way, you feel me, that's neither here nor there. We're not going to

get these holes, no light, okay? We're not going to get these holes in no light. You know, it just made me push my pen harder. You know, it made me push my brain harder. You feel me? So whenever the next one is, it's going to be up. That's all I got to say. Do you feel like because you, like, when RX is at a battle event, like, she could be standing next to the host or just in the crowd, and there'll be just as many comments about you in the crowd as the fucking battle. And then people are now, it's like, and, you know, you've gotten into commentary and doing other things. So now, like, you're able to push your brand without even rapping. Is that kind of like take away the make it like? Like, does it de-incentivize if that's a real word?

Does it make it so? Do you have less of a reason to rap at this? No, I still want to rap. I still want to battle. I still got battles that I want to do. I still got battles that I'm ready for. And I'm not going to stop battling, like, no time soon. Like, I still got my own little personal, you know, kill list.

You know, and certain bitches I got to get them up out of here. So I'm not going to stop battling. For me, personally, honestly, it's just about, like, the timing of everything and, like, the business aspect of everything, to be honest with you. Because I could easily just get one of these bitches. just booked and just go to cheap rock She said put it in my hand. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Everything for me got to be 100%

on point. And I feel like I get offers all the time, but I just feel like there's always something where, you know, I'm not comfortable with. It's a little Mickey. Yeah, it'd be some little junky stuff going on or whatever. But you know, I'm not fin of just signed up for a battle just to say I got a battle coming up. It has to work for me. Like, you know,

like I'm the talent. Like, it has to work for me also. It can't just work for the league and the league only. Like, I'm not no fucking slave. And not to bring your name down. just popping out all the time with these regular ass battles. Then it's just going to be like, man, we see her every week. Right, exactly. Like, it'll be like watered down.

Exactly. So it just has to be right. But I just feel like right now to the point where it's like, fuck, like, something got to work out. Like, come on. Yeah. I've heard you say that about your music. Like, that's why you don't like do songs but just. Yeah.

Because then it's just like the whole aspect of when you do something that's like as far as a talent, I feel like once you over show your hand, that's why I feel like you shouldn't just pop out all the time. He's like, oh, you got to be seeing no time. No, you don't. You got to be like a myth. So when they do see you, they're like, oh, there you go. Like, you know what I'm saying? So when you do pop up, you're just doing battles every week, every month or every three months or something like that, that's just like, oh, another one?

Yeah. Another one? Damn. Like, you know what I'm saying? So it's like even if you do got a real good one coming up, a lot of motherfuckers might swipe white past that motherfucker because they didn't see you five times this year. Period. You know what I'm saying? Exactly.

That is so true because you don't want to oversaturate yourself and your talent, you know, like, And you don't rely on battle rap to pay your bills. Correct. That's another big factor in that. You know? Because a lot of people, they don't have that luxury. Right.

Yeah. And I learned that. I learned that. I thought like, Dave, people like to battle a whole lot out here. Hold up. Then you find out that's their main source of income.

And then you look at it a little bit different. Like, oh, okay, well, that person has to take those battles. Like, I'm not in that boat. Danny Myers battle, like, we talked about that on. Oh, yeah. He'll battle 40 times a year. He'll battle 40 times a year. He's the man.

But he battles like. 40 times a year. No, I think that he'd be battling like three times a month down there. Like he battles a lot. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but you got to make your price go up in those situations. Like, you know what I'm saying? You can hide the man like that.

Everybody wants you. Like make your price go up and you want the battle as often. Bro got 10 kids. I feel it. That's facts. Yeah, I only got two. Like, damn, I got to, you know. I got to stay right.

You are an entrepreneur. Yes. You got the Seven Wonders brand. Yes. Break it down. Like, and like, like, people might not see how that correlate. the battle rap, you know what I'm saying? Yes.

Okay. But if they knew you, you're like holistic mommy. Yes, exactly. I'm super holistic. Like, I have like Native American roots. So for me, like, that's where I'm at with it. You feel me? Like, everything has to come from the earth that we put on our bodies, you know,

hygiene products, stuff like that. So I used to have some skin issues. I used to have excellent real bad. I had blemishes on my face real bad. And nothing. Let me find out. Oh, yeah. I used to have bad skin.

and I had to start concocting up my own little, you know, methods and stuff of like shade butters and oils and stuff like that. And that's what really cleared my skin up. Like, my skin, like, I had, ooh, I would wear like long-sleeved shirts a lot. That should make a lot of y'all women feel really good because she, like, look, like, I'm just going to say she got some, like, vibrant skin, you feel me? Like, so. It's her gan, and I never would, like, as long as I've known you, I ain't see,

maybe you had it protected, but I ain't seen no ex-a-old. Yeah, yeah, this was like a while ago, and I started making my own stuff, and then, you know, I just started enhancing it with, like, healing crystals, like, rose quartz, crystal quartz, amethyst, things like that. And I also became certified as an aromatherapist. Like, I love, like, aromatherapy. Like, I feel like smell is, like, really important, you know. You got smell good and not, I guess that. But I started just, you know, mixing everything together, and that's where seven wonders came from, you know, the skincare, mixed with the healing crystals, mixed with the aromatherapy. is all for the mind, body, and soul is holistic.

See, I used to be into a different type of crystals. So I'm like, we know, we know. We know. And a girl named Crystal that worked in Hong Kong. But, um, she's crazy. The callback. Oh, my God. But now, that's a much better type of crystal.

Yes. Yes. So I just, you know, put it all together. So I have like, you know, hair oil, like a hair growth oil that works extremely well. I use it for like my kids and groups. their hair out real good myself because you know i be cutting all my hair on sometimes um the skin care the shade butters the body scrubs um i have um healing kits with like sage palo santo and um selling night and also i do tarot cards also i'm a tarot card reader and um yeah so my business is just going

up right now everything is good you can i just recently added the shirts and the lighters and i have more stuff um on the way as well but everything is based on mental health though like because i'm a mental health therapist. I always wanted to combine like my mental health background with like my spiritual background and put it together and make something for the people. And this is what came from it. It's seven wonders. I'm big on mental health. So yes, yes. That's, that, that's incredible. And have you, it seems like you've seen a lot of success. I know it's like a new business. It's a new business. Yeah. So, you know, but I've reached some, some really nice heights in the short amount of time that I've had this business out. It's now been about eight months, about eight months now.

and everything has actually been going really, really well. Like, I really, you know, appreciate the people who support. I really appreciate the people who, you know, take time out to, you know, learn about the things that I, you know, tell people about when it comes to Seven Wonders, mental health, taking care of ourselves, making sure that we're good, not just energetically, like, you know, looking good on the outside, but also on the inside as well, we need to be taking care of ourselves better. I feel like in the black and brown community and even some parts of the white community as well, like mental health is just brushed over.

It's taboo. it's not talked about and things like that. But I have seen a lot of, you know, heights reached within mental health in the past, I would say like five years. Like as a mental health therapist, I remember back in the day when I first became a therapist, I never saw black families. I never saw Mexican families. I never saw like Asian families even.

It was always like, you know, white families that would come in for help. Right. And then nowadays, like you see everybody coming in for help. You see everybody, every race, every socioeconomic level. You see everybody coming in. That's a beautiful thing because that definitely is different. You know what I mean? It was stigmatized in a lot of those communities.

Yes. It's dumb to see. And I will say like, you know, your products are fire. Like my girl, Marissa, buckswooded heavy. Yes, I love her. You think about a storefront? I'm sorry? The storefront?

Right now I want to have a storefront eventually. Right now I just have my website, which is 7wonders.shop. It's C-E-V-Y-N wonders. shop. And right now I have that, but I definitely. want to grow to have the storefront as well. I have a story that I could, you know, so I put in my products and like they gave me a green light any day now. So that could be, you know, part of my storefront also. But I want to, you know, wait a little bit of time before I just rush into things. Yeah. Do you feel like young, Resey, you know, when you was like a teenager,

before you discovered this poetry and all that in Compton, did you have a clear vision that you were going to do something great like you're doing now, or would you kind of like, if you could like stare into the future at that age, you think you'd be like, damn, I wound up really doing it. Man, you know what? I got to be honest with you. I wish I could give you a nice, you know, fruity pebble answer. But I got to be honest with you, like my, my, I bring it in my background. It was very dark. Like, it wasn't, it wasn't good. Like, you know, I grew up around just like a lot of violence, a lot of abuse and things like that. So I honestly didn't have like big, big dreams like that when I was little. I just was like, damn, like, you know, I'm probably going to die when

I'm like a teenager. Like, that's what I kind of felt a lot of my life. You thought you was going to be from the set and out there. Yeah, that kind of stuff also. Yeah, it was just, my life growing up, like, where I come from, it was just not, it's not nothing like what I've grown into today. It's something like that. I wish I could say, like, yeah, I always knew this. Like, no. No, I think that's even more like, to be honest with you, I look at it the other way. I think that's like even more of a testament to how beautiful it is what you've made of your your life. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Couldn't even conceive of it at a younger age. Absolutely. Like, when I was young, like, I was just, I couldn't even think about next week. All I knew was today.

All I could live in is today. Like, should I hope tomorrow come? Like, that was my mindset growing up for like many, many years. It wasn't until I got older when I was already saying like, damn, like, it's more to life than just this. Like, damn, like it's like other things I could do. Like, what? Like, it was like a whole new world for me, especially like my college days and stuff like that. It just really opened up my mind a lot and, like, traveling. And, like, traveling. opened up my mind a lot as well. And it helped me to just, you know, appreciate the life that I have. Appreciate the things that I have. My family be grateful. And, you know, that's when my mind started opening up more. But before that, it was, you know, I wasn't who I am today. That's beautiful.

Do you feel like going through all that stuff, it kind of make you when you're approached with beef and battle rap and like people, like, you know, we don't, I'm not trying to get into any specifics. Oh, yeah. I don't even take it that way. Yeah. Because like, you like, but, But you know, you've had situations of people trying to get you out of character. Does that kind of make it seem so petty when like, you're like, yo, I really don't survive some shit. This shit is like meaningless. Or does it kind of bring out like the gangster and you like, yo, you know what?

As a matter of fact, it's really, fuck you. Like, yeah. She probably like these bitches ain't even really like that. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Because I'm a type of nigga that sit up over here and talk up on the motherfucking internet. I'm on the internet, Twitter finger ass nigga.

If I'm a, if you're going to say some weird shit to me, bitch, I'm going to pull up on you. Like, I don't got time to play. no games with these holes, period. So, but me personally, like the issues that I have, any issues I've ever had been battle rap, it was always a pull-up involved, okay? Bitches can attest to the fact. They're going to tell you what happened when the pull-up happened.

I'm not going to talk about it. But they know what happened. Such a nice girl. You see how, like, I love it. And I love it, and I love it. She's never let him know. Look, you got to keep a cool sometimes, but you got to let them know, I ain't no bitch either.

Yeah, because for me personally, like, I don't take none of that, all that battle rap, extra that shit. Like you never see me on the internet talking online, oh, in spaces and stuff like that. No, I'm gonna pull up to your space and see what's up with you. I'm gonna check your temperature. I've been checking temperatures before COVID.

So I don't got no problem. Pulling up the thermometer for none of these bitches. Okay, period. Yeah. And it's, you know what? I'm sorry because we're friends, but that was so manipulative of me to even ask that question. I'm all like being like hype though. Like, let me come down. But I wanted y'all to see.

I like too good to that. I like to get to that. But I wanted y'all. in the no jumper universe to see like the homie AJ from Grape say it could go there You feel me like exactly like that yeah like that's like second nature than me like well like all that What that's that's nothing to me you feel me like that's that's easy to do like it's easy to take that route you feel me it's hard to be like let me stay at my square let me you know focus on myself You have a lot of self-control about around a lot of self-control yeah and that's why I can't involve myself in those.

You smooth? I can't, I can't involve myself in those escapades because the niggas say something wrong. We're going to have to fight. We're going to have to fight.

Okay. You gotta have good self-control. But they be, you know, like these battle rappers be getting paid wrecks. I'm sure. You still,

you can't put that to the side. The same thing, like we got kids out here. Fuck that money. They can say something about my kid, bro. We're going to fight in that

motherfucker. You feel me? Like, you gotta be a real dog. You gotta be a real adult. That you got to be a real adult that motherfuckerckes. See, but that's how these kids is eating too, though.

Facts. You got to be a real adult in that motherfucker. Yeah, yeah. But also a lot of stuff. Give yourself a few years. You might. You know what I'm saying? Because you, you're lyrical.

Yeah, I used to be like that. I'm 24. Yeah. I used to be just like that. I didn't start battle rap until I was like 26 or something. Like, yeah, like I know. I used to be just like that. I used to think just like that.

Like, oh, hell or not, what I'm going to go up? Like, but then once you get up there, it's just all entertainment. Like, it's not even real. Like, but, but, yeah. If they say something that you really, really, really uncomfortable with, then you might have to check them after the battle. You let them know, like, hey, I didn't fuck. I didn't fuck with that.

Like, where your hands at? You did have, you had a very different energy, like, when I first was around you. I want to say, I probably met you 2013. Probably so. It's been a long time. Yeah, yeah, it's been a fat man. But, like, the Risi that I met and, like, I don't even know. I don't even know you as RX was pretty Recy, you know, like, when I first met you.

And I was like, damn, she's like, she might just shake me if I turn out. I probably had a lot of something. That's what I'm saying. It had real switchblade energy. It wasn't who we have here today. Yeah, yeah. But it's...

Yeah, I've grown as a woman, as a mother, as a human being, you know? Like, I've grown a lot and I just would appreciate my growth. I appreciate my road and where I come from. And I'm a living testament to other, you know, young women out there who, you know, probably come from the same background that I come from. Like you, I guess hope. Like you could be whatever you want to be in life. Whatever it is that you want to do in life, you could absolutely do it.

But it all starts with your mind frame. It all starts with your mindset and where your mind is at and get that right there in a good place. Everything else will follow. And with that being said, we talked a lot about the origins of our ex and Compton and all that. Now Compton Battlewrap is in a way different place. You're talking about like you got Gichigati, arguably the top dog and all a battle rap. You feel me? Like you got a bunch of burgeoning up and coming talents.

You feel I mean? You got you representing for the women. Like what does it feel like now? When you be out there, is it like, is it more youth that are like, I want to be a battle rapper? Because they see Gichi, they see RX. They see these examples of a trajectory to make it from battle. Do you notice that? Yes.

I see a lot of youth today who want to get into battle rap because they saw, it don't even always got to be me or Gucci a lot of times it is but even if it's not just us it's just them seeing like dang like they on stage like they got a crowd in front of they raping like you know they created they got these crazy bars and stuff like I could do that

like you know so it's really dope to see that because growing up like most people like we knew what battle rap was but it wasn't a big thing like that not in my neighborhood we used to watch snag DVDs and stuff like that and all that you know we loved it but it wasn't like a platform for us you know like we had to pit, but that right there wasn't super, you know, that was kind of short-lived.

It's local, too. Yeah, yeah. It was local. So I feel like now, it's just so many platforms available, you know what I'm saying, to the average kid up in content or surrounding cities or wherever, you know, anywhere in California, really is leagues everywhere now. Before, it wasn't a whole bunch of leagues like that, you know. And do you feel like, you know, there's these youth that's looking up to you?

You know, obviously you have a daughter as well. And like, is it, are you aware and do you feel a sense of responsibility being a voice that so many of these young women are relating to? Because like, especially out here in L.A. and, you know, the West, like, you sound like them. You, you talk like them. You know what I mean? Like, they can see themselves and you and vice versa. How does that make you feel? It makes me feel really good.

I definitely feel responsible for my actions, for my words, for how. how I portray myself or how I present myself. I feel very, like a responsibility definitely does come with that. It can't be like, oh, don't have your kids look up to me. Like, no, like the kids are going to look up to certain people. And you have to make sure that you're giving us something good to look up too and something good to imitate, like what I mentioned earlier with my daughter. Like, I can't just be out here just, you know, being like whatever, you know,

because people going to see that. People might try to mimic that. So I want to be, like, you know, putting forth my humanitarian efforts and being a good person to let people know, like, hey, like you could come from that, but you could still carry yourself better. You know, you could still have like a better mindset and think, you know, higher than, you know, what your surroundings told you, you know, you could be or whatever. Felt that.

That being said, any parting words for the people? Okay. Yes, absolutely. So, y'all know I got my edible line. Okay, I just launched my little line. Why are you looking to me? You know I can't eat that shit. I was trying to tempt you, I swear.

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