No Jumper - Taurus on Leaving College to Become Gunna's DJ & Traveling The World

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

Taurus went from going to school, finding his passion for DJing and making music to traveling the world with Gunna! He also talks about producing "Skybox" in Jamaica, and having your priorities in order. ----- FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_Jumper/4874336901 FOLLOW OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/529mn7of2HBKdLfrAMUzcK?si=rWVBWCuWSXeh0TFYb2P-dQ CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nojumper iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/no-jumper/id1001659715?mt=2 Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_Jumper/4874336901 http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/No-Jumper-198283650194402/ http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 and adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Jumper, coolest podcast on the world. And today, we get the one-only Taurus. How you doing, bro? My brother, what's going on? Chilling, man. Shleddy. You're getting big high in here, huh? No, for sure.

So for the record, I met you one year ago at Wireless Festival right before I did the Young Thug interview. We just happened to tap in. Yeah. So you are Gunners DJ. We're going to get into all that, how you go to where you're at in life and everything. But it's nice to have you on the show. Nah, yeah.

And I was just like, I seen, when I seen you at this, I'm like, got a foote with Adam. Like, I appreciate that. He's for the culture career. Like, I got to fuck with Adam. Like, he wanted them once. Mm, I appreciate it. That was crazy as day for me.

Like, getting the thug interview just by like being in the right place, right time. Like, crazy. Nah, I knew you were going to get that one though because he fucked with you too. So he's like, why not? Like. That's crazy. Where, what was that? We were in England.

England. London. I don't even remember, bro. Yeah, on tour, huh? You just fucking end up five million different places. Just turning up. Just turning up, man. How many times you've been around the world so far?

Um, we did, we did like two tours. It was like, um, the drip or drown two tour. We did like a U.S. tour. Then we did an overseas tour. That was like probably 15, like 15 shows. And then we did another one. That was probably like 10. We sold out, oh, two, like two nights in a row.

That shit was crazy. It must be crazy for you because I'm assuming that you had not been out of the country. And then all of a sudden you're out of the country and you're in every country. Yeah, I had just graduated from college. Really? It was like, yeah, I had just graduated from college. So it was like, damn, like, I'm doing something. Like, after college, you know, this shit just be like,

now you got to find out what the fuck you can do because that shit really a scam for real. I'm not saying, like, don't go to college, but it's like, when you go to college, you got to, like, apply some shit, what else you're going to do, like, you. You know what I'm saying? Okay.

So you're from Atlanta? No, I'm from Memphis. Memphis? Yeah. Okay. I moved to Atlanta just for college in my freshman year. Oh, all right. So what was your upbringing?

So what was your upbringing like in Memphis? I played basketball a lot of my life first, so I really was just like just a cool kid at school playing basketball with the girls and shit. Like cool shit. Were you into like music and fashion and shit? No, I was always in the fashion and dressing but I never like I didn't grow up like DJing or making beats like I picked this shit up like in college like probably like the end of my sophomore year in college that's when I started DJing like. Okay. I threw like a party and shit like but I didn't know like you really had to have like a DJ board to like DJ, so I threw a party just on a laptop.

Like, folks fucked me on campus, so I just threw a party up there, and then that shit was turning. Then it was gone from there. Like, I got to start DJing now. So your whole life was pretty much just focused on sports and shit when you were in high school, and then everything changed once you went to Atlanta? Yeah, like, I fucked around and worked out with, I went to Clark Atlanta. I worked out with the team, like, that summer.

And then he was like, yeah, you'll fuck around, you can walk on, you just got to try out. So I tried out, and I ain't make this shit. So I'm like, fuck, like, what the fuck I'm feeling to do now? Was that a bummer? Did you think basketball was going to be your whole life at that point? Yeah, like, you know what niggas be telling you, like, it's going to be one out of a million. I'm like, man, I'm going to be one out of a million that's going to make it. Right.

Not knowing that shit really hard. Like, I'm at a D2. Like, I'm just, I was in the, in the mood where I was like, if I'm, if I don't want the biggest thing, if I want to go to the NBA, I ain't upon me playing basketball. Right. Yeah. What college you go to in Atlanta? Clark, Atlanta. university it's on hbc u-huh and so was it like because that's funny you don't make the basketball

team but then also you're in like one of the littest parts of the fucking country in terms of fashion and entertainment all kinds of crazy as parties and shit it was a blessing and the curse because i wasn't even going to go to the clark because i'm like i don't know nobody here i had no family in alana so i'm like damn what the hell like i don't even want to go to clark like and then like my one of my partners was supposed to go to clark with me and he dropped out and then go with me like the last week we were supposed to go he like I ain't going right so I'm like what the fuck like why am I feeling to go out of the way to Atlanta by myself and I don't know nobody right my mom like you need to go you need to like see some new shit like so I was like man did you not know where you were in for

because Atlanta's a pretty amazing city I mean I knew it was gonna be lit like I had been to Atlanta prior like twice but I didn't it's different staying there and then just going for like a weekend like this is a totally different vibe right definitely okay so you get there you just end up hosting a party randomly and then that just happens to go well and you're like man fuck it this is my whole thing now no you know you know what was crazy like i was djian and there was a girl from philly in there and she was drunk so it was like um she was like play some me me me and i fuck you know what i'm saying i play some meat and shit and then she like play this play this play this and then it's like she just started getting annoying like i could tell she was drunk so

i cut the music off i'm like hey security somebody come get this bitch from from um DJ booth like And I play, I'm from Memphis, so I play the 3-6 Mafia. When I say weak-ass you say bitch, weak-ass bitch, and the whole club went crazy, the whole club, weak-ass bitch. So I'm like, ooh, I love this, just this reaction I'm getting off people. So I'm like, I got to do this shit. Like, I got to go buy me a board. I got to like just start.

And I started trying to do parties and shit. Uh-huh. And so you have any success with that before anything else happened? Not really because I started late the end of my sophomore year. So it was like, they are. I already had niggas that was locked in. Like, they already had their DJs and shit. Like, I just wanted to popping DJ on campus.

Like, I get a couple gigs from here and that, but I really just want, like, the number one DJ, like, oh, Tar's, like, we're going to fuck with Tar's and like, like, I want that, like, in college. I ain't gonna lie. So how'd you go about starting to build up your name? Um, I just went outside of college. Like, I started trying to DJ in more of the Atlanta clubs

instead of just this crowd. I'm like, man, I need to try to like get out because they ain't fucking with me, so I gotta try to find another way to, like, see what I can do. So I started DJing at this club called the venue. I DJed there, like, twice, and they were like, oh, we need you to close.

Like, I fucked with your shit, like, we need you to close. So I started closing at that shit, and that was just like, my first little club, like, I just was like, I had a name in the, like, it was on the south side. Like, that shit was fired, though. So that was how you started kind of building your shit up?

Yeah, I just built up my name and shit just like, oh, you DJing at the venue, I'm not open to come fuck with you, like, because it's like we're getting old, this, like, niggas not really on the college move. Like, the college move, cool, but it's like, we in Atlanta. Like, it's so much of the shit going on. Like, so I just started building my name up from now.

Yeah, because Atlanta's a crazy place where there's, like, so many rappers and different studios and shit there, but you've got to have an entry point. Like, you can't just be in the studio with Doug and shit. Like, how did you start really mean people and mingling around rappers and shit? Um, I really never,

I never really was on there, like, trying to meet people like my one of my best friends was on his name uno that's my brother like um he on roco son so that was probably the the closest shit that you know i'm saying the closest thing where i seen the other side but i never was really awesome like hey my name is like i do this like that shit was just never me like um like just i just feel like niggas don't fuck with you like if a nigger going to fuck with you you don't got to be like hey i do this do this like that work for some people but that just won my thing like I never I never like this shit okay so how'd you start making connections to get more established though um when I was DJing at the club um venue

this about drip season one or drip season two okay um I would just play that shit in the club because that was the hardest shit to me at that time and I didn't even I didn't even know gun on nothing at that time so I would just play that shit and tag him on Instagram and um he would just like hit me back like fire fire like or whatever and then about the fourth time he like all right he did he dm me like do you DJ for anybody so I'm like nah I don't DJ for nobody I never DJ did a show and nothing like that so he's like do you DJ for him but I'm like no but he was he was in LA at the time so he was like um I'm hit you when I get back to the city we're gonna link pull it to the yo so it had been like two weeks and I hit him again I'm like yo what up like where you at he like damn I'm in I'm still in LA bro I ain't

even came back yet. So I just kept playing this shit in the club, and we linked, like, one time I put him to the studio on some shit and just smoking the shit, you know, regular shit, like, nothing too major. Then about a week later, he went on tour. It was nudie and Playboy Cardi tour. I've seen that flyer when I was, like, deep, deep in your Twitter last night. I'm like, man, that's a crazy-ass tour right there.

That went on that tour, but he already had a DJ previous. like I guess the manager that he had before I already linked him with DJ she wanted to link him with like somebody that was more experienced and like he was an older nigga but he really didn't match gunner for real like you know what I'm saying these young these young folks and cray they're trying to turn up they're not like he was he was a lit DJ but so fuck around um damn what happened this nigga missed the show or something like he couldn't come to the show he called me on some shit like I need to come do this show I came and did the show and then he was like, damn, this nigga Tart.

But then the nigga came back to the next show and then I fuck around. We just sold merch. I just sold merch for him and shit. So that was like my first just entry into like just seeing certain shit. But then Gunna sort of realized like, oh, if I have this dude DJ informing,

he's gonna bring more energy to the shows than the person he was working with before? I mean, it was that and it was kind of somewhat the loyalty. Like he's like I didn't care about like, I didn't really care about like now I got to sell merch this day like I didn't really care about that right I fuck with them

I'll rip so I'm like shit I sell merch for you bro like whatever you need type of shit that's a big part of like being able to fit into the establishment and any like what a rapper has gone or whatever is to be able to just show that you're a team playing you down to do whatever yeah you can't have too much pride in this shit like you can't be like I don't want to carry a bag

I'm the DJ like this shit lame like if this your brother and you rocking with him like whatever a nigga need, you need to do it for him. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, this shit just, some people can't do this shit. Some people had too much pride and be like, man, I can't, I ain't doing, I ain't holding the bag or have a certain type of energy toward the nigga like, man, hell not.

But that's crazy because like around drip season one and two was when Gunna had like a strong underground buzz, but then drip season three, everything changed the shit load. That's when I really like, I remember the green album cover. Yeah, this shit just stood it out, right? All of a sudden we're listening to that all the time and I was like, oh, I got to go back and figure out what his older shit was about. But you were just starting to be around when that situation took place?

Yeah, I was just starting to be around. Like, I was still in college too. So it was like, this part of like the end of my senior year in college. Right. So it was like, damn, like, this shit fend to be over. What the fuck I'm fend to do? And I'm still just in the club, DJing. I'm not really like, I'm making money,

but it's something nice. I'm not even getting paid. Right. But I'm not even tripping because I'm like, I want motherfuckers to know. I just rock this motherfucker. I don't even care if I'm getting. getting paid like.

So it was like, that was my first time really just being around him. Like, just being around. Like, and then after that shit, we just locked in after that. He was just like, man, pull up for him. We just start fucking each up, pulling up to the studio, just kicking in this shit. And it must have been crazy though, because you're up close and personal seeing his career go from like popping underground artists to like huge, like in a very short period of time.

No, no, we were doing fucking lounges and bars and shit. Right. be packed out like I used to love them shows because they're gonna be pecked to fuck out they're gonna be screaming word for her these folks really fuck with us like this shit, this shit just crazy like just the

the journey just like from bars and lounge just to fucking festivals and shit like that shit crazy what was it like because being in the studio with Gunna and shit I'm sure pretty quickly you started like when did he start to be around thug

like was he always around thug like even early in your time DJ more than shit? Yeah he was already they were already locked in this is probably around 20, but when I start just coming around, it's probably like 20, I want to say 2017. That's when I just start just coming around like 2017, like around that time. And so did that blow your mind being around?

Somebody like thug and shit. Yeah, yeah, because it's like, it won't like, it blew my mind like, like, damn, bro, I want to take a picture with you. But it's like, nigger, you in the room with these four. You shouldn't even act like that with these people like. But I grew up listening to Thud, like, I used to go, like, when I'm in Memphis listening Thug, niggas be like, bro, what the fuck? Like, some niggas fuck would they be like, bro, what the fuck you listen to?

Like, bro, this man's a fucking genius. You're fucking tripping. This man's a fucking genius. Yeah, I mean, there's certain rappers that I feel like you just got to be able to give somebody a pass on taking a picture with, like, Thug knows that he's one of the most important rappers of our generation and everybody he runs into is going to be a fucking huge fan. But I'm just coming around him, so I'm not knowing his vibe. I'm not knowing a nigga vibe, so I'm not just gonna approach no nigger on no shit like that.

That's just lame to me. Definitely, yeah. That's just lame. Yeah, because you want to like, you want them to think of you as a homie more so than like a cloud chaser. And a lot of times when you're around somebody for the first time and they are all trying to be awkward and get a photo too early and shit and you're kind of like, damn, like, that kind of makes me think about this person in a different light.

It's not even about that. It's not about you taking a picture. Like, that's not what you're here for to take a picture with me, bro. Like, what the fuck you're doing. Definitely. You tripping. Right. So how was, were you making beats in the beginning?

Or did that just come along? Because I didn't realize you were making beats. And then I started listening to Wana, and I'm like, oh, this shit, this is doing Taurus. It's actually all over this shit producing it. I really didn't. I just started making beats a year ago. Really? Like 20, like probably February 2019, that's when I just started just really making beats.

Did you know anything about it? Do you have anybody to help you? Or you just started going in? I mean, being from DJing to going to. I ain't gonna say it was easy, but it was kind of like, I kind of understood some shit. And you know what I'm saying? I watch Weezy and Turbo and Keys, like,

cause them my brothers, them niggas really made me wanna make beats. Cause I'm like, damn, this shit, fire, like. Nigger just sitting there, like, when Weezer make a beat, that shit like a movie, every time. He makes a beat, like, this shit be crazy. It's actually crazy to see how far Weezy's come even in the last couple years. Nah, he'll fucking way for real.

Yeah. Tripping, he's the way. But so when you started making beats, were you thinking that you would be so successful with it? Because, like, you know, that's a short period of time to all of a sudden have a bunch of beats on one of the top albums of the year. No, no. I really, I still to this day, like, I think I'm okay at making beats. I'm not just going to sound the best producer, nigger because nigs got to be humble with this shit. Like, it's still niggas out here, like, Timbling, Scott Stoich, wheezy, fucking turbo keys, like, D.Y, like, it's a lot of niggas that still out of me to even be, like,

I don't know how this, like I just never been like that. Like, I'm just blessed and like grateful to be where I'm at right now. Like, like, this shit. This shit just, I feel like they take away from your bliss is when you think a certain way and you act a certain way. Like, they should take away from your blessings. Right, but there's certain, like the beat for Skybox. You just play that around him and just hope that he sees the vision of it that you had?

I mean, previously before we did Skybox, we probably had like five or six songs. By all them were good. Like, we had some, we made sun came out before we made Skybox. Okay. And that shit just. Skybox is a movie. A feature fan. It's just like.

A Broadway play. That shit. We made that shit in Jamaica. You know, you've seen the documentary right. Yeah, yeah. Like, we was in Jamaica just making shit. So it was some, it was something that made me just get up that day. Like, I got up like seven, eight o'clock that morning.

Just got up early as fuck. And when I get up, whenever I touch my computer, whatever the last, last beat I just did, I go play it again just to reset my ears to see what the fucking sound like. I had just finished up Skybox. So he fucked around. Came, came, he just wake up at nowhere just, you know what I'm saying? Like, the niggled out.

Like, it's 8 in the morning, bro. But we got the fucking sun coming up. We got the fucking, the doors are open. So it's like, this is just the vibe in the room. And he just recorded that shit. He went wrapped on it right away? Right away. Wow.

He recorded this shit right away. Like, Flo, get up. Like, our engineer flow, get up. Like, come on. Right, record this shit. And we record, we like, hold on. You might guess on. You might guess, because we did four or five songs already, but that was cool.

Right. That were fire songs for me to just not be making beats. But I still in my soul didn't feel like I really don't get a song like they can be on the album or, you know what I'm saying? Right. So we just keep listening to them. motherfucker. We like, oh, hold on. About the third, fourth day, we still listening to this motherfucker like, ooh, shit, this one the motherfucker right here. Then goddamn, that just bought the whole one of thing together. It's like that just created the whole vibe that we were trying to

bring to the table with the one album. Right. So that shit just like, oh my God. Like, this is one the one. This is just one of them different ones. And that's when I feel like, ooh, I might have me some. I feel like that's definitely like one of the most important songs on the album vibe-wise. Because there's like a, there's an attitude about that project in particular with the beats and everything. They just, I don't know, it's just a feel to it. Yeah. That song kind of helps to find that to me. Yeah, that's why we dropped it as a single first just to go ahead and set the vibe for, okay, this is this is what, you know what I'm saying?

This is what y'all going to get for this album, right? Addie's one of the other ones that really hits on that for me for sure. It's just so high energy. I really feel like I took an addy to the face when that song, come on. I want just Eddie, Eddie, yeah, Eddie. No, for sure. Shout out to everybody taking Adderall, man. All the kids, they harb in shit, I fought with y'all.

Was that the thing for you in college? No, I really wanted to take an Adderar like that. I, not really, I smoke weed like a morockewarm, but, nah, I ain't going to. That's not really your thing? No, I don't know what I'm talking? Like, when I just want to focus in and make a beat, but that just wasn't one of my things. Right. You know what I'm saying?

For me, I'm already, like, hell of high energy, and I feel like, every time I take an Adderol in my life, I felt like my head was going to fly off because it just got me way too hyped up. Yeah, nah, it makes you feel like you want to run, but you can't run. You sit down, you want to run. Right. You just keep your focus.

That's just a focus. That beats just a hell of fast-paced and just like high energy. It goes a long way. You start smoking more weed from being on the road with all these guys, or you always been on that? No, I always been a heavy weed smoking.

Really in college, because when I was in high school, I really want, like I hit the blunt when I don't be sitting the weed, but I really want to roll in up. When I stop hooping and start, really rolling weed, I'm like, oh shit, I'm gone. Right. I'm gone. Like, man, I was smoking like a motherfucker.

Is it ever a balance on tour, though? Because it's like you've got to be responsible. You've got to be the DJ. You've got to be on stage, et cetera. But like, are you ever, like, getting too fucked up? And then you can't really do your job. Has that ever been an issue? No, hell not.

It was probably the one show that was like that. Y'all can go look this shit up. It was the fucking rolling loud Miami. Oh my God. Oh, my God. I was fucked up. Too faded? Bro.

Because that was one of the, ones that niggas was waiting on like niggas was way known like nigh was way knowing that wrong like miami so i was bro i was fucked up bro you can go look this shit like i was loud as fucking everything like nil you can see look at it on youtube like niggas in the comments taking me out like right shut the fuck up like you loud as fuck like oh shit this shit was funny yeah that's funny as fuck now because i mean being like a great tour dj is like a certain skill in itself because it's like you can DJ a party that's one thing you can make a beat that's one thing but to go on tour and be able to be the guy

who gets everybody hype the fuck up. Obviously, the artist does a big part of it, but the DJ can totally get the audience ready. You can keep them going when the artist needs to slow down and take a breather for a second. I mean, it's a big job. Yeah, no, this shit is a art. That shit is a real art.

Like, when I first got into DJing, like, when we're doing shows, like, my energy was always a high energy, like, going crazy. But when I started just doing, I'm like, this shit really an art. Like, I really got it. It's certain spots. I don't need to say shit. It's certain, you know what I'm saying?

Like, nis got to be real with yourself and look in the mirror and be like, damn. Like sometimes I record the show just to hear like, ooh, I don't need to say that at that part. I need to shut the fuck up at that part. See, that's really smart here because when I'm watching the DJ, I pay attention to that and it's like there's easy for a DJ to do too much. Yeah. And it's also easy for a DJ to just not be there enough, not be high energy enough.

And the artist who could really work with the, or the DJ who could really work with the artists and, like, fill the gaps that he needs in terms of his state. age presence and stuff is like such a valuable thing. Yeah, no, really when we went on tour with Trave, when we were on the Astro World Tour, that's what really made me get my shit together. Just watching them niggas every night, just like, damn. And just hearing myself in the fucking,

like, arenas and shit. Like, that shit just made me really be like, damn, I'm really loud as a motherfucker. I really need to shut the fuck up at some. You know what I'm saying? Like, they had so much technology and shit back there. I used to, like, tell them, me, like, hey, can y'all record the show for me

and put it on the flag drive? listen to it so I could see at certain points like hey shut the fuck up because you're not seeing what you look like from yeah I'm just I'm just I'm just going out there energy just I'm not going out there and we don't we never really rehearse shows like because that shit kind of takes away from it like because every crowd not going to be the same crowd some crowd are going to be more turn to other crowds right so we really don't rehearse for shows and shit like we just go out there we have we feel have you ever just not really felt like you know because it's got to take a lot out you to go out there for an hour and be high energy.

You ever, like, not have the energy and it's kind of hard for you to, like, get into that mentality? No, never. I'm turned at all times. You never had a cold in them? No, yeah, no. That's good. I mean, it's sometimes I'd have a headache or some shit, but when I'm out there for them hours, it's like, don't know anything else matter. When I'm out there for that hour, 45 minutes or however long we got, I'm locked in. Like, whatever the fuck didn't happen earlier or whatever I feel like, this shit don't even matter right now.

How often does a set list change? Because he's always putting out new music. Is the set list changed, like, abruptly here and there? Is it, like, certain songs become hot so it starts to sort of... Shit, we haven't recorded. I mean, performed it so long. Right, yeah, there's that, too. That shit.

Now, that motherfucker... Probably be completely different than the last show you played. We did two virtual shows. Right, the YouTube one that was awkwardly right in the middle of the protest and shit. That shit was fire. Right. That shit was fire. We had to do that, man.

I'm still just for George Floyd and Brianna Taylor, man. For real, man. That shit really just, we had to do that just for, just like, you know what I'm saying? Just to let everybody know that we will, you know what I'm saying? Like, music heals our wants. Right. You know what I'm saying? Music here a lot of shit.

Like, when you're going through shit, you don't want to talk to nobody, but you're going to listen to some music. Like, that was just, what that was for like, just, for real. Yeah, that was interesting. He ended up giving all the money from it to, to the charity and shit, too, which is pretty dumb. We're doing that. Much love to everybody. Yeah, definitely. So, yeah, is that weird

that you haven't been able to tour in, like, a long last time? I can't wait. That was your whole life for a while. Bro, nothing else. Like, that shit, but not, like, with the quarantine shit going on, I think that shit was kind of like,

that shit made us, goddamn, like, if we, if we, for quarantine, we would never made $200 for lunch. We would never made Dirty Diana. But the whole layout just of the album just completely changed when the Corona shit came. So that shit just, I ain't going to say it helped, but it kind of just changed our mindset for what the, what we're going to do. Because normally a rapper's whole life is like two different jobs. Record and then tour.

And it's like if you can't tour, then realistically put in all that effort into recording, it should be able to be a big benefit, really. Oh, I can't wait to fucking perform again, bro. That shit. gonna go crazy. Right. They gotta open this shit up, though. Like, they gotta open the fucking mosh pits and shit as soon as we get done. Like, open that shit up right now, bro. Is it crazy to go from playing the small bars and lounges to like even a year ago? I'm sure you've done a bigger show since then, but a year ago in London, I mean, people as far as you can see. It's like, it feels like infinite people. Bro. Them fuck be going crazy over

see you. I already know how they be. They'd be on some like, hey. Because they ain't taken it for granted at all. No, for sure. These folk going up. These folk going to jump down. they know the song they're gonna jump. They know they might not see going to for another year. Man, they're here. A niggas say, everybody jump up and say, fuck you. They're gonna do it. Hey, fuck you.

I fuck with them. Facts. You ever try rapping? Nah, hell, no. Not for you? Nah, hell, no. That ain't me. I like, I just like making beats, bro.

This shit really like therapy for me. Like, whatever I'm thinking in my head, this shit, I put this shit on the beat. Right. I fuck this shit, that I really love this shit. That's what's up. No, no cow. Do you ever, are there certain songs that you really enjoy playing, like your favorite songs? out of the set, having heard them all, thousands of times?

Fucking, I still love that pedestrian. That shit just like, it's the second song, so it's like a second song, like, I still love this shit. Like, I love fucking pedestrian. And hot, oh, my God. You know, hot still does it? That shit forever. That shit is 20 years.

Right. I know it was a single, but dollars on my head is like, that's everything. That's what I'm saying, we haven't even got to perform that yet. Oh, that's crazy. Actually. Oh my goodness. I ain't even performing skybats. I performed,

we performed skybats one time. Right. Like, and then after we performed that, they shut everything down. Like, nobody come. Right. No way. Man,

I'm sure Gunner's not one of them, but there's probably a lot of rappers out there going broke because they can't tour right now. No, for sure. You got to have your shit together, man. And that's one thing we got, we got our shit together.

So, like, the business side of everything is all like very organized in terms of. No, for shiggity. Yeah? Come on, man. Fichiggetty. He just handed with the for shiggity.

No kizzie. No kizzie's a good one, too. No, no kizzi right now to bring this up. There was a viral tweet, basically, a tweet with a video gunner. It said, Gunna says if you don't take your girl shop and somebody else will, is he speaking facts. Some dude, who I have no idea who this guy is, but he quote tweeted and wrote, never seen him with a girl, though, and he has purses. Can't use this information.

And Gunna's response was, that's cap. I probably had one of yo vibes. No kizzi. I just keep it offline. No kizzie. You need to tell him to beat it. Whoever said that on the tweet, man. Beat it.

Michael Jackson, man. Beat it. I had to read it a couple times. I wasn't familiar with No Kizzy when I first saw this. Man, tear down. You worry about the wrong thing, man. It's corona shit outside, man. You worry about some hole, man.

Right. I worry about the wrong shit. And the truth is that if you really got a lot of girls, you might not be putting them on the internet. We're not even talking about that. We're not even talking about that. You're not a player if you're doing that. Put you down.

Because the more girls you put on social media, the more is going to cause issues with the other girls you're trying to talk to. Yeah, he needs to relax. No, they're probably bumping that Wanda shit in the car or something. And they're like, damn. I'm feeling to say something that nigga out of the tweet, man.

And that hurts because when he says I probably have one of your girls, I mean, pretty good chance. No, no kids. Because that's Wana. There's two different niggas. It's two different niggas now. So who's Wana?

Do you remember where the Wona concept came from and everything? I mean Gunner is a Gemini. So Gemini's are two different people. No I'm saying? These two different people. Right. No play with him. No kids. Is it hard to keep up with the drip? Because he's like mega famous for having an insane amount of clothes, having a new outfit every five fucking second. He's going to put this shit on, man. He has shit in the closet. He'd be like, no, bro, I'm with it. Bro, you're not, this shit been sitting in a closet or two years, man. Come on, bro. No, that's drip guard

But from your perspective, though, is it like You gotta always be coming with a fire-ass fit Or is it? I mean, for sure, you gotta keep up If a nigga can't put that shit on Need to get all the premises No cow You got, you gotta put this shit on your own way

You can't come like How he gonna come No what I'm saying Because he got, you know what I'm saying His whole fit gonna be goddamn Adub Right You know what I'm saying

I heard that he'll have Like a crazy-ass outfit Rocket for a couple hours or a day or whatever and then just leave it in the hotel. Is that true? Who told you that? I don't know. I forget.

Somebody told me that and I'm like, damn, like the mystique of the drip guard continues. No. Hold on a put on shit on one time. Take it off. He could just spend the whole bunch of money on it. I'm putting this shit on one time, man. I got a whole other fit. But is he saving it?

Is he like archiving it, send him home or some shit? No, he got archived for sure. He'll save it? No, for sure. Like certain pieces he's saving them shit. Like, for show. Certain pieces. I have certain rappers tell me that like, yeah, you know,

I just, I send it back home and they put it all on archive or they sell it or they, like somebody's in charge of selling it after the flag. No, hell not. He's selling that shit. Is it pure collection? No, for sure. He really love clothes. He really like, he's not just, he really love putting clothes on.

He really love fast. He really into that shit. So he really, like certain pieces, he really, hey, put this in the cloud. I ain't wearing this shit. No one. Put this in the cloud. Are you ever just around and you just end up getting hooked up with tons of free fucking clothing from, I see the rappers who end up like, they get so much shit that.

everybody in their crew just ends up getting whatever they don't like. For sure, they got show love to the crew. You know what I'm saying? Shlapped business. You did. You did what I'm saying. I'm going to put that shit on too, though. I'd be fucking with them niggas though.

I fuck with them. We all fuck with them niggas. Them niggas that be giving up free shit, we're going to put their shit on because that shit be hard. And the fact that you just really came and just did all this just to give a niggas some free clothes. Like, I fuck with you just off the fact you just did all that, bro.

Like, I'm feeling worried of shit. You probably got a lot of people hitting you up direct too, trying to get you. Yeah, I tell him, send that shit. Send it. I'm going to tag him. That's its own little hustle right there. No, for sure.

They know what they don't. I fuck with them, no. I fuck with the clothes. Facts. I was looking through your Twitter. I found this tweet, your priority's not right if you think about pussy and not money. 100%.

Talk to me about it. It's good to think about pussy. Like, I love pussy. But you can't let it overtake the priorities. No, for sure. If your shit aren't together, like you need to be focusing on goddamn, giving you some fucking money right now.

You know what I'm saying? Don't need, don't be thinking about six. You heard Gunn one. That one talking, not gun one. That would want to say that. Don't be thinking about no pussy. Hey, if that shit ain't together, man, don't be thinking about no pussy, man.

That shit ain't healthy. Right. I don't care. No, that's real. Sometimes you see a dude who, like, they ain't accomplished anything or they ain't got nothing going on in their life and they only thinking about some pussy

and it's like, you really might want to focus on making something out of yourself. No, for sure. Because it's a lot of pussy out here. It's a lot of it. I'm sure you've seen way too much of it. Oh, man. All the girls that must be coming around.

No, viny these. You just stay away from it? Huh? You stay away from it? We're gonna just keep that shit this close. You're gonna, you know what I'm saying? We'll talk about that. That's cool.

No, I respect it, man. No, for sure. You gotta keep a low-key. No, for sure, I'm a player. I wish I learned that at some point. I always been way too high-key with my shit. No, for sure. You'd be going up.

Way too high-key with my vibes. I'll fuck with the slap. I'm in the slat world. No, no care. I fuck with it. No kids. Facts. All right.

So, like, in terms of what you've been working on since the lockdown has been going on, like, how have you been continuing to find your creative groove? Man, I just been cooking up, man. Me and that shit crazy. Yack just mitches you in the song. Yeah, no care. No, we're going to put this shit out. It's called in the cool.

Sure, yeah. Yack's a good guy right there. No, Slat got him, my brother. You did. Shlet did. Now, he said, what he said? He said, I just did an interview with Adam 22. You get flat like an attitude.

No, I got to play you that shit. No, no count. That's an honor right there. No, slack out of. That's fire. No, no count. Oh, shit. Okay, but so you've been working with like a bunch of the different artists in the whole

while at the universe? You've been working with Yack? You've been working with who else? Me and Yack got a lot of shit. Of course, me and one. Me and Slime got like two songs. That shit just, I'd be having to get my shit together for slime. I can't, you know what I'm saying?

Like when I go in there with slime, like I didn't went in there with slime like, probably like three or four times. And I didn't play beats and he didn't fuck with him. But the beats were hard, but it was like, it's not the vibe. I'm not on their vibe right now, Shline. Like, no what I'm saying? And I don't never take this shit as a like, damn, he for my beat. Like, they just made me want to go. I need those cook up some five shit then.

Right. Like I had to get my shit together. Like, when you play beats with slime, you got to have your shit together. You got to have at least 50 beats. He's ready and certain folders that you, the what vibe, you want, got slow shit, fast shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, I just had to get my shit together for him. I was, I was tripping.

You ever been in the position where you have a rapper listening to your beats and they just keep skipping through them? And then you kind of realize like, oh, fuck. Yeah, 100%. Like, stopped on one of them. Yeah, like, fuck. Damn, man, I thought this was the one. I've seen producers in that position and sort of felt that pain. Yeah, 100%.

But that shit, you got to take that pain, like pain, sometimes pain, like you got to use that shit is happiness. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're gonna feel better about yourself now that you gotta fucking beat off because you remember that time when it was like, man, that shit ain't nothing. Right.

And also it's like he's had production from all the greatest producers out right now and shit. So it's like, you know. He's the goat. So you can't even come to him playing. Don't even come to slime playing like that. Like I had looked myself in there like, bro, you know, stupid ad tripping. You need to get your fucking computers together and your photos and shit. You need to get new computer, all that shit together for him.

Because he's the fucking goat. He's a genius. Right. Much love to snob. line, no cap. I respect it, man. Love him for life. So is tour, when you're on tour, is it ever get kind of slow and boring, or are you just like entertained the whole time?

I mean, I fought with tour. That shit be lit. Different city every night. Like, this shit lit, and this shit, like, give a nigga just a different vibe. You can make different beats now. Different type of beats, different type of vibe. Like, that shit, I fought with it. I love touring. Is there anywhere on tour that really stood out to you as a place that you would want to go back, or is they all kind of blur together at a certain point? This is a blur.

Because you don't see that much, right? Like, you see the, that. the venue and then the hotel. Yeah, we're working. It ain't even all, like, I don't even give a fuck about playing them much. Like, we're gonna get some vives head on out to the yo, vibe it out, make some music, make some magic, man. You know what I'm saying? Like, nigger ain't even, you fuck about all that going out and shit, unless they're paying for a nigger to be there.

Like, a nigger fuck with some niggas though, like, if we fuck with you, we're gonna pull up on you. Like, some niggas that have an after party, we're pulling up on your at the party and fuck with you, cause we just fuck with you. No care. Yeah, that is one thing about third. about thug and gunner and shit is that you kind of just see them like out doing things that they fuck with like they're not just like sheltered away like my boy desto dub like he got the van downtown and shit we fuck with this though i seen the video of thug and dub just pulling or thug and gunn it pulling up and just like fucking with dub and shit and i'm like man they are famous as fuck and having

mad jewelry to just be out here in public not getting a fuck yeah because it'd be real though we really fuck with these folk like these folks pulling up on us even when the camera's not around and niggas not take bitches and like this though we fuck with this though much like this though much love to him too. No, shout on my boy, Dub. No, that's an awful lot of it, man. I got to ask this question. Do you partake in the Whippets? Skip that question.

Why, it's too hot? No, just skip that question. Okay, I respect it. Anything else that we need to talk about? Anything that stands out in terms of, oh, shit, I do have other. Oh, shit. Okay, so what else are you? Are you working on anything else that we need to know about in terms of shit that's going on in the career of Young Torres?

You know, just look forward to me hearing me on more people's songs and shit. Just more wanna and toss, gunning tires. Like, just working, bro. Just trying to stay afloat, you know what I'm saying? Just getting high, cooler. Does it feel kind of overwhelming just because you kind of went from really not having all these crazy-ass experiences? to haven't seen so much in the course of just a couple years? I mean, I really haven't even took a step back and looked like this shit is still

a dream to me in the sense, in a way. Like, it's crazy. Like, I don't, that shit crazy. I can't even, I don't even know how to explain this shit. I don't even feel, like, I feel blessed. Like, that's how I can say. I just feel blessed, man. Has the corona thing sort of felt like it allowed you the space to maybe, like, be able to look

at your life a little bit more and be like, damn, you spend a crazy couple of years? Yeah, it makes you cherish this life more. Like, damn. Nick can't go outside, need can't tour like, damn. I really miss how we used to live. Like, niggas just trying to make this shit to normal, man. Nika just trying to make sure this shit go away and we can go back to living and touring

and vibing out, getting high. Right. Feel me? You ever think about it? Because, like, you know, for instance, Schemeass is DJ, is DJ Scheme. Yeah, Scheme. I fought with Scheme.

That's my boy. I'm foote with Scheme. Scheme's doing a lot. You know, like, he's put out records. like as him like with artists featured on in but it's his song and stuff is that the kind of thing you ever thought about in terms of building your overall personal brand i just really started bro so i'm not really even trying to put like no i'm saying that much know what i'm saying like i'm cool what i'm doing right now bro i'm blessed like i don't really feel like sometimes like this shit

take away from the art of sometimes because some people might not take it at c or sometimes you got that's shit got to be dropped in the right time right shit know what i'm saying like some some people just I'm just cool with just being, you know what I'm saying? Like, I do show the shit too. So I'm cool just how shit is right now, honestly. But I'm just going to flow with this shit, just trying to see what's going to happen. You got a lot of time to be DJ Callet, you know? Do you feel like you're starting to get that level of appreciation, though?

We have, like, the fan pages and everything, like, really fucking with you and wanting to know more about you. Because I feel like you're going to figure out how many people wanted to know more about you once this interview comes out. Yeah, no, I'll fuck with that, though. Like, I really, I love this shit. Like, I'm humble at the same time. I don't let this shit get to my head and be like, oh, shit, I'm that nigger. Like, nah, like, I fuck with it.

Like, I show love. Like, I reply to even some niggas that ain't even, nobody just slept, like, love for show. Like, cause I just, you know what I'm saying? I just know how it it feels to just be where they at, like, nothing going on. You're just like, damn, these n' goddamn. These n' goddamn.

Artistic is a month. Motherfucker, these niggie geniuses. What the fuck? I just show love to everybody and just stay blessed and just be humble with this shit. For sure. Because this shit can go any day. That's real. No cap.

For sure. He had to roll up something is blooming, bro. Yeah, I mean, this Metro Blooming is just making me smell. It's just smoke crazy. I'm out here smoking mid, bro. I smoke mid every day. We go paper fronto with the spliff, you know what I'm saying? You got fronto with you?

Yeah, for sure. It's some cool shit, though. That's the best kind of fucking. splits as the fronto ones. No care. That's the way to smoke. That's where to go. I got some cool shit, though.

I ain't got the New York junk. I ain't got the clear bag, motherfucker, but you know what I'm saying? Oh, you got this shit. Yeah, this shit to get us through. When you go to New York, though, that's like a main priority is you got to go see the old Jamaican guys

with the Fronto. When I go to New York in D.C., I get 40 goddamn clear bads of this shit. Like, hey, I need this shit, man. I need that. You got to be in charge rolling up, though, because I cannot roll with the fronto. I don't know.

What the fuck I'm doing with this shit. I'm a row you on, Sean. It's complicated. I'm a row of you on. I had $200 for lunch. That's not a foot on a cut. Bro, I appreciate you coming and doing this interview. No, for sure.

There's a lot of people who probably want to know about you in this. Yeah, no, for sure. That's why I said I got to come to do it with Adam, if anything. If anything, I got to come to with Adam, man, because he owns some shit. That's facts. No, no care. He said it. Slat business.

What's not sure to you? Me too. I got to get you some drip. We got some new shit. Got to. You know what I'm saying? Dream me down, son. Fire.

Doris, I appreciate you coming in, man. No, no caps. I appreciate you for having me. No jumper. Slattie. Coolest podcasts of the world. Oh! Check us out on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes.

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