No Jumper - The JDot Breezy Interview: Jacksonville Upbringing, Gang Politics, Dissing Dead Opps & More

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

Adam sits down with JDot to talk about the wildest street stories! ---- 00:00 Intro 0:00 - Adam is happy to have a rapper as disrespectful as JDot Breezy on the pod 3:35 - Being part of the next gen...eration of Jacksonville drill rappers 4:24 - How JDot met SpinaBenz when they were kids 7:20 - Growing up in Jacksonville, dad in jail 9:10 - Losing friends to the streets 16:55 - Getting dr*nk for the first time by accident at 9 yo 20:04 - Making music for the first time after getting locked up. Blowing up while going in and out of jail 24:15 - JDot breaks down the infamous incident when he got kicked out of school 28:14 - Committing to rap after dropping out of school, couldn’t get a job due to the beef 29:10 - Being forced to take sides in the beef. Being aligned with Yungeen Ace and Ksoo through family connections 30:48 - JDot tells the story of losing his friend Leeky 35:10 - Reacting to recent viral moment involving Foolio and Lotta Cash Desto dissing JDot’s friend Leeky 42:48 - Not paying attention to rap beef from other cities 45:30 - Moving out of Jacksonville to avoid issues with the police 53:00 - How JDot got a feature from Gucci Mane --- 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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 No jumper. Coolest podcast in the world. And today we got Jacksonville's very own. J.D.R. Breezy, man. We're in this. J.D.A.Brizy in the building. How are you feeling, man? I'm feeling good.
Starting point is 00:00:12 It's nice to have a rapper in here that's just as disrespectful as you are. I'm going to be real with you. Because a lot of times, like, people give me shit about interviewing all these drum rappers and all these gang members, yada, yada. And it's like, I feel like they don't understand that, like, 99% of the interviews I do. is not people talking about that kind of shit. Yeah. So it's nice to have somebody here
Starting point is 00:00:34 who really does talk that kind of shit. Tight shit. Let's give Joe Bunn something to complain about. That's what I'm saying. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good. Smoking some calorie, you know? You ever listen to Ozzy Osbourne?
Starting point is 00:00:50 Yeah, I don't know. I ain't about to you. It's just a shirt. It's just a shirt. I was just checking. I just had to make sure. I kind of figured. But, all right.
Starting point is 00:00:59 So, give me your thoughts on pun pun is a character in the nudge jumper universe he's helping you out career wise I'm not sure exactly what the relationship is um fun uh good dude
Starting point is 00:01:15 like out of the team and shit like he's he's the one like he'll sit down and like listen to every song literally right type shit and like tell me and yeah all right I'm fucking with this or not so like yeah I'm fuck with pun ever hear his music from back in the day?
Starting point is 00:01:33 Oh, I got some shit to show you. Fine, me, music. He might seem like a real businessman to you right now, but we can show you some shit that'll have you be like, damn, okay. You'll understand why he likes you. Because he was talking that shit. He's out here.
Starting point is 00:01:50 Yeah, I got to see that. I got to see that for sure. He was making the other side shaking their boots. Let's put it like that, or at least that seemed like that was the intended effect. Yeah, I got to see that for sure. How does he feel, does he ever give you any feedback, though,
Starting point is 00:02:04 when you're listening to your music and you're talking about all this crazy-ass street shit and violent shit and all that? Like, does that ever part of what he weighs in on? I don't, I mean, I just see him a mixed deal of shit, though. He don't, he don't, like, the last time I sent him something, he didn't get, like, just straight drill. I saw him melodic shit, pain shit, drill shit.
Starting point is 00:02:24 I just saw him a mixture of shit, and we just were sorting through him. Right, because you do have, like, a pretty good amount of auto-tune shit as well. right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Do you feel like those are two different sides of your personality, or is it just? Yeah, I feel like I really, I really want to go more into like just not all melodic music, like, still drill, but like it's like not so, not how so intense it is, like how intense how a drill scene is. Right.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Like it still will be drill music, but it just won't be a lot of dead niggas and shit. Right. You feel me? So, like, I want to make it able for like. everybody to be able to listen to attention well it is like that's the thing is that like the same thing that realistically will help you get a million views on youtube will be the same thing that might hold you back in the long run is that people want to hear you talk about this real-ass street shit it's it's crazy because like bro like what people don't what people feel to realize it's like
Starting point is 00:03:20 you can't do the same thing forever and sometimes the artist matured so it's like okay yeah maybe when i was younger that shit was fun but it's like damn like Like y'all don't know what's going on in a nigger personal life right could have changed my perspective on certain shit you feel me so it's just like how old you i'm 21 okay so you're still young yeah when we're doing the whole jacksaville wave uh of beef like a year or two ago those guys are a little bit older so you're kind of like the next generation basically something like that yeah because like like my brother them like spins and all them was older than me like right i'm young who was older than me like Like, when me and spins and walking them first started hanging, I was like 19. Really? I was like 19, 18 and some shit. But they were already lit.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Like, that's when Who I smoked came out and shit, right? No, no. When I met. You met them before that? Yeah, I met them way before that. Oh, okay. Like, way, way before that. Yeah, like, them boys older than me.
Starting point is 00:04:20 I'm the youngest. Like, everybody at hand around always be, like, the youngest. Right. But were you, like, tied in with them? Was there, like, a reason? How did you end up meeting them? Who spins them? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:31 All right. So a long, long time ago, my mama's best friend, like, that she's like family. And her son is from my, from where Spins to from, out east, basically. And I used to go out there a lot when I was little, and I always used to see Spinsden. But this one, they was lit way back in the daylight. Oh, okay. Way, way back, you feel me? I didn't know about them until who I smoke.
Starting point is 00:04:55 Yeah, them boys. Those boys. Okay, so I'm a new school fan. I got you. All right. They've been rapping for a long time. Right. So like, back around that time, like, I was going out of these stuff with my cousin and
Starting point is 00:05:07 shit. So, like, we'll just be out there. But it wasn't, no, I wasn't on no gang shit, though. I ain't gonna say in a lot. I wasn't gonna go to gang shit. I was young as fuck. Like, them boys are already shooting videos and doing music and shit. Like, I was young as fuck.
Starting point is 00:05:19 So, I was just seeing that shit, like, being around them, being in the environment. But like, you feel me? Like, I've been had, like, conversations with them before, but like, like I said, it was a while back. So I was a kid kid kid. So they probably don't remember it, but... But were you looking at them and seeing them talk about the street shit, and that's making it seem dope to you, and that's part of what made you want to fuck with all that?
Starting point is 00:05:40 It was to know that I knew them around that time, and they didn't know me was like, that amazed me because I was like damn. I used to, like, it just amazed me seeing, like, if I was a child and I didn't see, like, you doing some shit before, like, some rapping shit, or, like, something amazing, period. I'm going to remember it at something amazing because, like,
Starting point is 00:05:57 I was a kid. Right. Now I'm older. I'm around the same motherfuckers I used to see when I was a kid. But do you think that you would have even thought that you could be a rapper if it wasn't for them? Because in a lot of like smaller cities in Florida and stuff, there's never been a popping rapper out of there. So it feels kind of unattainable to a young dude. Whereas then if somebody pops off from your neighborhood, all of a sudden you start to see the blueprint and you start to realize you could do it too, right?
Starting point is 00:06:21 Yeah, but in sort of a sense he wouldn't like that, though, because around that time, like Jacksonville ain't had no spotlight at all. Yeah. Like that shit was dead. And nobody wasn't making it out of the time. Right. But then they pop off and it kind of, did that give you confidence? Yeah. Like, I was, that gave me a lot of confidence, you feel me?
Starting point is 00:06:42 Because, like, them people I'm around, you feel me? Like, they're my brothers. Like, then, so it's like, I'm some shit. Like, you know, that just give hope for everybody, you feel me. Like, if he can do it, I can do it, you feel me? If I could do it, they can do it. Right.
Starting point is 00:06:53 So it's just like, yeah. But that was kind of crazy for me when I was interviewing Ace and Foolie over. during all that shit and realizing that they both didn't even live in Jacksonville that they both moved out at a certain point and meanwhile everybody's watching all these documentaries and it's like so-and-so's house got shot up and shit and I'm like oh well that was in the past apparently everybody just not catching on yeah right that's crazy damn okay well all right tell me a little bit about you as a younger man where were you like as a kid and shit
Starting point is 00:07:25 uh I was you grew up with both parents no like Like, I had my dad in my life, but he was like in and out of prison, in and out of jail and shit. Okay. Like, you know, he was just me and my dudes and my sister. Okay. But, um, like, I love sports, though. I played sports a lot when I was little. Um, shit.
Starting point is 00:07:43 You were a football player, right? Yeah. I saw a clip that I didn't bother watch that was like, J. Dobrizzi speaks on people judging him for playing football, which I love that if you're a rapper, you're supposed to have never done anything else in your entire life before you start rapping. Yeah, this is, like, I don't, like, I don't. Like, I don't really say much about it.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Like, I don't really too much. Like, I mean, shit. I was always known, though, like, like, before, like, fame, like, like, this rap shit, I was still always known. Like, everybody always knew who I was. You just had that kind of personality? Yeah, like, I was, like, before the, like, before all the street and beef shit, like, I was a, I can go anywhere.
Starting point is 00:08:22 Like, I was good. Like, I was cool with everybody. Right. So your memories of Jacksonville is, like, a much more peaceful place before it kind of got real violent at a certain point. Like, it was still, like, Jacksonville was always violent, though, but, like, I can say I've seen a part of Jacksonville
Starting point is 00:08:38 where motherfuckers are fight before any guns involved. Like, motherfuckers would be 20 deep at the movies and see another nigga in their crew and ain't no guns being drawn. Like, everybody from the fight. And then they'd be like, oh, such something for the fight, you feel me? Everybody standing that shit, watching that shit.
Starting point is 00:08:54 And that feels like a distant memory now? Yeah, that shit. Like, it kind of make you feel like, Even though it was at the moment, it was something bad going on. When you get older, it kind of like, damn, I wish I can go back when shit was like that. Right. You feel, you feel, before all this blood, and started getting shed and shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Is there one particular moment that really was like a turning point for you in terms of how you viewed the city that, like, oh, this person got killed and then everything just was different after that? Sort of a sense. Like, it was just like, you know, I don't allow some brothers. So it's like, you hear me, it can't, it's not just one. killing you feel me that'll be a turn of point because it's like yeah it's the same pain but it's like you know you feel different types of ways for different people so it's like really it's like you ain't never know turning point in the shit because it's like bro once you end you're in like because there's a part of you as an outsider that looks at the gang shit and it's just like how the
Starting point is 00:09:56 fuck could these dudes really want to spend their whole fucking lives just beefing and dealing with this shit talking about this shit whatever but then like I watched like a fucking three-hour documentary that this dude Trappler Ross did about about No Limit, G Herbo and all them. And it's like when you think about how many fucking people got killed on both sides of some of these beefs that he's talking about,
Starting point is 00:10:18 it is like, yeah, how could they not devote a lot of their life to this? That shit, like that shit brain, like, that shit like traumatizing, like, you feel, me, losing somebody that you used to be with, like, every day. Right. That shit, a fool.
Starting point is 00:10:33 fuck you up like damn like you'll find yourself sometime at night just sitting there thinking like damn but like just two days ago me and my dog was just fucking like ride around talking and you feel me like going out fucking bitches we're going to parties like we just out this big wild and you feel me so it's like bro like that should have fuck you up bro i should have fuck you up i should have fuck you all mentally for real and it's just kind of happened over and over to you so you feel like you sort of numb to it in a way yeah basically It's like, you're going to feel the type of way. It's going to hurt when your partner die, but it's like, all right.
Starting point is 00:11:11 So it's like, shit, all right. It's the game we're in. It's the life we live. So you're going to sink or something. Right. So, okay, at what age or is there like a definitive moment where you started rapping or where you got in the streets? Which one happened first?
Starting point is 00:11:29 Actually, I've been rapping since I was like 11 years old. Right. I got like old that song on YouTube that I would never let nobody find or hear. But, yeah, I've been rapping like way, like, way back when I was 11. Right. So, like, I started rapping way before, like, all the street shit. Who were you trying to sound like back then? Back then, I was just me.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Like, I was just me. And, like, it was like me and my homeboys. Like I said, like, this around, like, I was 11. So, like, no gangster shit was going on. Right. So the only thing we was where everybody was like, shit, playing sports and girls. So like, shit, I don't know. We just rap about girls a lot.
Starting point is 00:12:09 Right. That was the own thing. I rap about money. That's it. And most dudes who, like, kids who start rapping, they just rap about everything that they've ever heard an adult rap about. Yeah. Even if they have no idea what that's like. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Because I was talking about eight balls and I ain't know what the fuck that was. I just heard. I think it was, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It was something. I don't fucking know. I just know I heard.
Starting point is 00:12:32 eight ball before right sounds like something that you would sell based on rap songs even if i don't know i just i have gone like i remember the first time i bought an eight ball and was just like oh yeah this is that shit that i've been hearing about rapping my whole life like that that's kind of a lot of coke right there like three and a half grams that's a lot of coke i ain't know what the fuck they was talking about i was just saying it right yeah no you look at that bag and you're like damn if i do this all tonight i'm i might die yeah no i ain't never did that shit i ain't never tried that Yeah, stay away from that. But, all right, so, yeah, all right, so you start rapping at 11.
Starting point is 00:13:09 When did you feel like you kind of hopped off the porch and gone involved in the politics and whatnot? Stealing cars. Stealing cars. That's how it all kind of came around? Yeah, stealing cars. You were a Kia boy? Nah, hell, no.
Starting point is 00:13:28 I'd take anything. I think the Kia boys will take anything, too. Take that motherfucker. Right. But, yeah, stealing cars, man. I was stealing cars for a long gas time. I finally got caught for it. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:44 And that was just like you doing it on your own just to have some fun? Or like with a couple of your hummus? Yeah, like see, back then, having a stolen car was like cool. Like having a car. Yeah, it was cool. Like every team, every young dude you see in the street, every team, high school, middle school,
Starting point is 00:14:03 got him a stolen car. damn that shit was a trend in the city so like you gotta get you one shit then like around this time everybody having all these motherfucking teen parties you're saying all the bad bitches from high school that your sister don't hung out with they at these teen parties you go into team parties all these just shaking ass free dancing so you're like man shit I'm from the pull up in my car you feel me so it was like teen party I never went to a teen party I went to the school dances yeah school dances like who puts on a teen party I would not want the legal responsibility of putting on a teen party. Yeah, they used to open up little clubs and shit and let the teens, like, I guess,
Starting point is 00:14:39 throw a team party at that motherfucker. But you got to have chaperones out the ass. Nah. Because they're going to be jerking each other off and all this shit. It was your security though. Really? Yeah. Maybe I could trust the kids more than I think. Because they're going to be popping Mollies in there. They're going to be dot. Some girls are going to overdose in the bathroom. It wasn't like that. Like, Jacksonville ain't like female. I don't get me wrong. It's females that do drugs. But like, like, our team parties don't like that. Yeah, it'll be a couple of niggas in that bit probably out some perk but I want to say perks I don't need
Starting point is 00:15:07 niggas want to need popping perks back then Right so I say like Are we They were smoking Molly though You feel me? Some niggas will be smoking Molly But other than that like females Weren't doing drugs
Starting point is 00:15:17 Smoking Molly? Yeah Smoking in what? Cigarette Do you pay out cigarette they did Mollett? Damn I didn't even I never heard of that
Starting point is 00:15:26 You never heard of Molly I heard of people doing that with angel dust and shit But I never thought about Molly Molly Pokes What the fuck? What the fuck? So they almost passed out from one of them bitches. Damn, so it smells bad?
Starting point is 00:15:37 Yes. Because Molly tastes like shit. I wasn't smoking it, though. I was getting a tattoo on the back of my neck. And the fucking tattoo artist, like, we didn't have to pay him. Like, just get up by some Molly. He's going to tatch your shit up. He wrote any professional, though, like.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Really? Clean needles, everything. He just like Molly. I heard that getting tattooed on Molly is the best thing to get tattooed on. I wasn't on it, though. The fucking tattoo man was on. He was smoking in and kept blowing that shit in my face. Right.
Starting point is 00:16:00 I heard it feels kind of good. I don't know. if you were almost passed out like he blowing that shit and I'm holding my breath just from it going in your face you were getting fucked up yeah yeah and then like it was got to a point where i couldn't hold my breath no more so i had to breathe like the moment i breathe this motherfucker blowing this shit so i'm inhaling this shit so it was like it was like at the moment everything just slowed up like everything just slowed up and then it's like you know how the tattoo needle just do that it's like i felt every time that bitch was hitting my skin right i felt all that shit and then he was just like
Starting point is 00:16:33 bro like I was just dazed bro and I went outside I fell to the flow I was trying to kiss my motherfucking bro it sounds like Kenny powers I don't know what the fuck I just after that I never don't smoke no matter around me really yeah I mean you probably won't have a problem with that out here I never heard anybody doing that but I don't think they do it out here somebody got to be doing it but okay was that like when did you start getting fucked up or when did you start to see if people get fucked up when you were younger though because I feel like that's something that at a certain point as a young kid like that's one thing I
Starting point is 00:17:06 know with my daughter is that at some point in high school I'm going to have to deal with the reality or her having friends that are getting fucked up or her getting fucked up off drugs, whatever that's such a important moment in your childhood. Oh, I got my first time getting fucked up I was on, thank God's
Starting point is 00:17:22 like fucking nine. Nine. Dear God. Like so it wasn't even my mama fault though. It wasn't even my motherfucker. So I don't want to be a little little bit. It wasn't even my mom my fault. So me being me, I was a little badass jet. Like, I was just bad, bro.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Right. So, um, my mom and her friend about to go out. They're getting dressed and shit. We had my mama friend house, so all the kids standing over there for the night. So this round of time, we're old enough to, like, staying at house by herself and shit. And then you got the two oldest,
Starting point is 00:17:52 and then everybody just stayed. So it's on some shit like, my mama, like, um, mama said hold this. but I don't know why in the fuck I thought she said get some but like that's what I heard but she said hold this
Starting point is 00:18:06 so like she had motherfucking I don't know she had some type she had like three different three or two different types of liquor's mixed in but whatever she chased it with made that shit taste like juice really and man I drunk that shit
Starting point is 00:18:21 like I'm leaving the basketball court and I just bought a snapple out of the stove right I just I just I throw that bitch down, you feel me? Man, my mama don't love. That shit kicked in like 10 minutes on. I was, all I remember, I ran into the wall. I hit the wall with my head, put a hole in the wall.
Starting point is 00:18:41 I pulled a knife out on everybody, everybody told everybody I was going to kill him. And I started crying. And then I was like, just call my mama. And then I called my mom and then I called my office on the phone, boo-boo crying. Like, I was drunk as fuck. Wow.
Starting point is 00:18:53 It was like nine years old. Damn. I got a memory. that too though of like drinking vodka like it was water or like like like it was like a juice not like like but you know what I mean like they that much vodka is gonna have you on your ass whereas that much soda is just like a regular little bit of soda what age you was i mean you i'm like in high school but it was like a moment where you know somebody passes me some vodka and i just take like way too big of a sip of it because i'm thinking that it's like
Starting point is 00:19:22 fucking Kool-Aid. I was like 15. I don't know. I would have thought it was water at least. What color was it? I just thought that you could, like, okay, I think I had drank beer. And then they're like, oh, try this vodka. And I'm thinking that, like, you take a big ass sip of the vodka.
Starting point is 00:19:42 Oh, what type of shit? You know, it's like I'm not realizing, oh, it's like 10 times stronger than the beer. You ain't hit your chest when you drunk it? No, I definitely probably coughed and fucking vomited all over the place. Yeah, that shit burned. Tefano. Whoa. Holy shit. The panel on the wall just slipped. Definitely going to have to deal
Starting point is 00:20:00 with that later. All right. Okay. So when does the music actually start to crack off? Or no, you said you got arrested for the car thing. So is that one you kind of like, you get locked up and then all of a sudden that kind of turns you on to the street shit more? No. Oh, that's kind of what I was assuming.
Starting point is 00:20:18 No, like, all right, boom. Like, I got a lot, though. I was in that bit. So shit, that's when I really started making music. Like, I really started writing shit. And I was just trying shit. So, um, I just started rapping, like, I started rapping for everybody that was fucking with it. And then they sent me to a program.
Starting point is 00:20:37 So I had to go to a program and shit. So, like, that's when I really started, like, really paying attention, like, rapping this shit, then, like, the adult styles on the door. I'm like, man, you find, man, you need to get out and do that shit for real. Like, everybody boosted my head up to do it. So I called home. home one day i'm like hey bro man i'm like get out i'm a rap man he like he laughing and shit because i kept seeing it so i'm like man i'm gonna rock for real i got out did that shit
Starting point is 00:21:04 just for fun though that bit was like started doing views like like local views type shit and then i had end up getting locked up again i had got out um went to the state championship we won and then i got locked up for what a gun charge uh so then that's one um i was like i was like i I got out, I made a song called First Week Out, but I was on like, ankle monitor and shit. I dropped that bit. Before you know it, that bitch is at like 400K on YouTube. And then around this time in the city,
Starting point is 00:21:36 this like, I think like 2019. Right. I wanna say, like, we ain't had no rappers from JazzVille around that time. We did, but like, it was only like four rappers. Right. So like, I dropped that bit. And around that time, there was a lot of views for YouTube.
Starting point is 00:21:52 So that bit wouldn't have gone up. So I'm like, man, what the fuck? Like I ain't know nothing about music though, so I'm thinking like damn I got 400,000 views on YouTube. I need to be signed to somebody. Right. Like I'm, you feel me? So this around time, I'm at my breaking point, dude. Like, I'm debating on should I go to school, you feel me?
Starting point is 00:22:09 Like, I'm kidding out of the house. I've been standing with my brother for like a year. I've been like- Because your mom's mad at you about the gun charge? Nah, like me and my mom was just like, I ain't gonna lie. Like, I don't know, bro. Me my mom used to just be going. Me my mom used to just be clashing like. Right.
Starting point is 00:22:22 We used to be clashing bad. I feel it. But, like, now I'm a mom with my best friend, dude. Right. I made sure my mom good. You got your own spot now? Yeah, for sure. So you can fuck bitches and you don't have to worry about your mom getting involved.
Starting point is 00:22:34 As soon as I was able to have my own apartment and I could fuck girls and not have to worry about my mom, like, knocking on my door. Me and my mom got along great. But during that whole time when I was in high school where she was trying to stop me from getting some pussy, we were not cool. Yeah. Now, I was getting kicked out for. I was getting kid out because, like, me and my sister would be going at it. Yeah. And shit like that or shit.
Starting point is 00:22:55 just stupid shit. Right. You just do dumb shit. Makes sense. But yeah, um... What the fuck I was talking about? Just putting out the song and getting... Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:06 And you wanted to get signed to somebody. Yeah, I was thinking I was supposed to be signed to some shit. But, like, everybody started knowing who I was and shit, like, the whole city. And then, like, after that... Oh, I was debating on if I was going to school or not. Like, yeah. So, like, it was basically, like, I was, like, not going to school and sort of a sense. It's like, and then I was like, I'm getting my mind right.
Starting point is 00:23:26 I had a long top of my coaching. I was like, bro, I'm just like leave the streets alone for good. Like, you know, stealing cars and shit like that. So like, I'm like, I'm like, man, I'm leave the streets alone for good. So like around this time, but when I had got out of shit, it was shit going on in the city, but I was locked up that I was locked up when shit went down. So before I locked up, I was good with everybody. You feel me?
Starting point is 00:23:49 But like, people started getting into it and shit and like, it was like people over here that I was cool. people over here that I was cool with but I ain't know they got into it like I'm locked up right so when like when I got out of shit it was like I'm still linging at it like I'm good with everybody like I ain't beef with nobody but the whole time they beefing type shit right so it was like they was on some like trying to make aside I went picking the side though but at some point they're gonna make you right yeah and it got to that point and that shit that shit caught up with me towards school and shit so like niggas started doing little lame shit like coming to the school school and shit.
Starting point is 00:24:24 It got shut down, right? Yeah, so, like, then it got to a point where, like, the principal was like, oh, there's not a safe environment for you. You don't need to be here because you're making it danger for other kids that go here. And I'm on a football team. Like, I don't really talk to my coach and told him, I'm done with the streets. Like, you feel me? I'm done.
Starting point is 00:24:40 But you're rapping about the streets, so. No, around this time, I only dropped one song. And you hadn't, you weren't dissin-ops right from the beginning? No, I just was rapping gangster. Like, rapping on shit I heard other brother. I was just rapping gangster, you feel? You feel? So, um.
Starting point is 00:24:51 And these dudes are just coming to the school and acting hard. At the heart in front of a school police officer at that. I mean, that's just kind of hard to even... That's dumb as fuck. Yeah. So one day, dumb asses come to the school. They're like, oh, J-Dock may not come out the gate. We're going to face his ass from the school officer.
Starting point is 00:25:11 I don't know if... I don't know if they had anything, but supposedly everybody fake clutching. Right. So school officer calling in, boom-blown. They call the real police officers to the school. I'm in an auditorium, though. The school I went to them. service in that motherfucker at all.
Starting point is 00:25:25 So I don't know what's going on. So the coach, we're in the auditorium, we're going over film, coach cursing us out of shit. So they keep calling my name over the intercom, like report to the office. So we can't move unless the coach tell us to. So the coach's like, son, take your motherfucking ass to the office and bring your ass right back because we got a game tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:25:42 This day before game day, my senior year, starting running back. Man, I go to the office. I see like, motherfucking ten police officers and remind you, like, I'm still on papers and shit. Like, you feel me? So I'm like, I slow it down. I ain't going back to jail.
Starting point is 00:25:57 Like, that shit dead. So my mom and my daddy out there too. So they're like, uh-huh. Nah, son, you ain't in trouble. We're trying to make sure you're okay. So I'm like, what you mean? So when I get further into the office, that's when my phone started picking up, and my phone started blowing up.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Everybody texting me like, oh, don't come out the gate. Don't come out of the gate. I know everybody's posted on social media? Oh, okay. And remind you, they was like, J-DOT and I'd come out of the gate with my face his ass. You know, like, everybody know. Right now that time, everybody knew me by JDott.
Starting point is 00:26:22 Right. So it's like, they knew what else was talking about. So everybody texted me like, oh, da-da-la-la-la-la. Don't come out the gate. Don't come out of the gate. Like, it's like 10 different people texting me. Don't come out of the fuck. So, um, principal and shit come out.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Like, oh, that was a threat made against you. We need to ask you off school premises. So he's like, I'll tell you when come back to school. So around this time, I'm just hanging with my friends. Like around this time on the weekend, come. They got a little hotel partners to go to at holes. I'm going with them boys. You feel?
Starting point is 00:26:49 So it's like, bro, like two months past. They never called me football season and started. Like, basically, I didn't drop that. So when I finally, when they finally called me and tell me I come back to school, they played me. The dean seen me in the hallway. Like, what you doing here? I'm like, the principal, I'm like, the principal, I come back to school today. Take him to the principal, I was, this is a motherfucker ain't telling me, oh, you can't go here no more.
Starting point is 00:27:11 You feel me? Like, you red flag. Like, you can't go here. You miss too many days. So I'm like, bro, I only miss too many days. So y'all told me when y'all was going to tell him I could come back to school. So basically like they went to call in other schools and like shit I guess like they went to call an alternative schools because the public school option was dead like that shit was over with
Starting point is 00:27:32 public schools over with so they went to call like little undergraduate schools and shit like I don't know like what the fuck they're supposed to be their alternative basically and like that shit was dead too so basically I just was dropped out like that shit was just over with and that's when it clicked like it was shit going on the streets basically I was in beef nine you feel me and Getting the job was dead. Right. Like, around this time, this generation that I was in, that's when, like, it got to a point, not saying people ain't been coming to wherever you at, but around this time, it got
Starting point is 00:28:05 to a point where motherfuckers was really coming to your job. Right. Trying to fuck you up, you feel me? So it was like, I knew off the top, like, all that wait on you after you get off work. So I knew it was like getting the job was dead. That's a crazy situation for you to be in, though, where you know that you can't just have a regular job because you're going to have to deal with all this bullshit, right? So that shit was just dead.
Starting point is 00:28:23 So, like, my only option was rap because I was, how else I was going to make money? Shit. You feel me? Like, or in the streets. But I ain't, I ain't never had no OG. Like, I ain't had no OG to sit me down and, oh, niggas sell this, la-da-da-da, and start making money. Like, it was just me and my brother. Right.
Starting point is 00:28:40 That's it. Shit. You feel me? We had, I had my big brother Rallo. He's, like, family. He's like my cousin. Rallo from Atlanta? No.
Starting point is 00:28:47 No. Oh, different Rallelow. But he's my cousin or whatever, but, like, he was like, he's just bit brother. bro. Right. You feel me? Like, because I know big bro was in the streets and he was like showing me and bro shit. So did you actually sign early on? Uh, no. Oh, okay. So, um, shit, after that,
Starting point is 00:29:02 shit, I just started rapping. I ain't had no choice but to take rock serious. That was the only option. Right. And so in terms of like you picking sides or whatever, because like you're dissing a lot of the same ops that young and age and all them guys are dissing on their songs and everything too, right? Yeah. So how did that kind of
Starting point is 00:29:22 become the case that you ended up kind of being aligned with their side? It wasn't even necessarily like, it wasn't, I wouldn't say it was like I picked the side. It was like I was forced on the side. Right. Because like I said, I'm not the type of dude that's like, oh, if I get out and a motherfucker like, oh, don't fuck with that nigga because I don't fuck with him and I was fucking with him. Like, I ain't going to do that. Like, I'm not that type of dude.
Starting point is 00:29:48 Like, you feel me? Like, I don't play them type of games. If that's the case, I just want to fuck with neither one of y'all, you feel me? So it was just like, when that got out, niggas was just, like, throwing subliminals. So it was like, it kind of like eased me on this way. Right. And then, like, shit, shit just happened. Like, shit just started happening, you feel me?
Starting point is 00:30:06 Right. So it was like, boom, shit, that's what it was. So who? My brother, Rallo, you feel, me, was around A-S and all them boys. And then, like, I grew up with Kezo and his brother. Right. Like, my mama know their mama, like, we was God brothers and god sisters. We was kids.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Really? They stayed two streets over for me, so I knew them my whole life. So seeing the shit with KSah must be crazy for you then, huh? Yeah, that's crazy as fuck. How do you think that's going to go? You don't get out. What you think about his dad? No comment.
Starting point is 00:30:39 What a situation, right? Yeah, that's crazy. Damn. That's just crazy. I don't even know. That's a lot to bite off right there. But, okay, you lost somebody named Leaky at a certain point? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:51 At what age was that? And how did that happen? I was still living in Jacksonville. I knew that for a fact. Right. But it was in the process of me decide and on moving to where I would move that. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:04 Out of the state. And it was at a point of time, like I said, like it was a lot going on. And it was at a point in time, like everybody was like all my homeboys. Like before all the, like, everybody started blowing this stuff. Like, I had the spotlight in sort of a sense. Not saying like it was a team thing.
Starting point is 00:31:23 I ain't big of all that's equal. But around this time, like, it was a lot. My name was going around the city a lot, heavy, you feel me? So it was just like, around this time, all my home boys, like, they just like, no, bro, you like, stay your ass where you at. Stay up there, like, because I had a fuck around and got an Airbnb out of state. And then I was basically trying to decide if I was going to live out of state or if I was going going to wait and stay in Jacksonville for another year.
Starting point is 00:31:49 So, but they're like, nah, man, like you, the day of funeral and shit, they're They're like, nah, man, stay your ass out there, but I don't even come down this bitch. Like, you don't need to, you feel me? And, like, everybody was just pushing the urge of me not coming. Right. So I was just like, all right.
Starting point is 00:32:03 You know, sometimes even about you being a badass, like sometimes your brothers would be telling you it was right. Right. It was right for you, you know what, you mean? And at that point in time, I had to mature in my mind and say, all right, I can't be Mr. Tough guy all the fucking time. Like, listen, you feel, me?
Starting point is 00:32:19 So I'm not too, and I took heed into that. And then like, that's how I end up making the album creation, the album that made me go crazy because at that point of time, all my home boys was pushing me away, like, but I don't fucking come around, and stay your ass up there, like, don't come down here, like, you can't come down here, like, know that shit dead.
Starting point is 00:32:37 Because they knew it would just be too hot for you. Yeah, like, they was just pushing me to grind, you feel me, and then like, that a long time, that's when my mind really start clicking. I start going to studio heavy, like, I start perfecting my craft, like, my everyday life was just the studio every single day. Right.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Like, that shit got born to a point, but it was like, I know this what I gotta do. Yeah. So it was like, bro, it was just studio every day, every day, every day, every day, and then. Shit just started, everything started paying off, picking up. Right. Okay. And so in terms of why you mentioned leaky so much in your music and stuff, why do you, like... That was my everyday dog.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Right. Like, how we came up, like how all us came up, like, bro, it was around time. Everybody was in high school. And every single last one that was not going home. Like, it was either we was kidnapped or some of us was just, you know, bro, when it's just you and mom, dudes in the house, bro, you're going, as a boy, like, seeing shit, you're going to disobey. You going to do boy shit, you feel me? So around this time, we used to our homeboy at my homeboy that died named John John. He died at an early age.
Starting point is 00:33:51 I knew him since I was nine years old. But, like, he had a big sister, and she had her own house. But she was one of those cool-ass bitch sisters, like, let all the game come still with her. So, around that time, like, it was me, elite, Arthur, like, Zay, Will, Jock, Q3, like, Ken. Like, it was just all us over that bitch, like, all my friends and shit. Right. And, like, all us were just bucking school. Like, shit, we weren't going to school.
Starting point is 00:34:19 We was in the streets. Like, we was just, like, that was just that. Like, one, nobody was going to school, basically. So then it was just like, bro, like, that was our everyday thing. Like, we was around each other every single day. Right. So then, like, we got older, and it was just the same shit going on. We'll go house from house, house to house.
Starting point is 00:34:39 Like, we moved us a pack. Like, that was just an everyday friend. Like, I was around this nigga every day. Right. And so how did he pass again? How did he pass? Oh, yeah, I got shot. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:51 And so it was the kind of. thing where you all of a sudden had like did you have a general idea who you felt was responsible and that made you have a lot of animosity no i don't know i ain't i ain't know nothing right i just already got shot and then you know that was just what it was i feel you um okay and so then at a certain point like this is kind of like leading up to like why you were viral like a couple of week or two ago is basically foolio does a video with this girl and was she not involved in the this bullshit at all, but then she just does this video with him. Yeah, like, we don't know her at all.
Starting point is 00:35:27 Like, we know her at all, never heard of her, never seen her. Because she's not from there. She's from Texas, so it's totally separate, right? No, she's from Memphis. Oh, she's from Memphis? I thought it was Texas. Okay, my bad. Yeah, I think.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Oh, you are right, right. Yeah. I think. I don't know her at all. But so you just randomly see her in a video saying that she's smoking on your homie. Yeah, because I think one of the promo, you know, I follow the promo pages. Right.
Starting point is 00:35:50 one of the promo pages posted the feature. Somebody posted it. I don't know how I've seen it. Somebody posted it or somebody tagged me in a comment or something. I've seen it. And I think we'd comment it like, what the fuck? Like, you feel me? Right.
Starting point is 00:36:02 And like, she was just wanting to booting up. Like, oh, fuck your partner. Da-da-da-da-da. Like, what the fuck? Like, we don't know her, but she just went to booting up. Like, she just went to going crazy. So we're like, all right. It's going to be a weird feeling, too, because it's like, you got a girl, this is you?
Starting point is 00:36:17 Like, what are you supposed to do? The backlash from it. Like, everybody feels. some type of way but I'm like why y'all wasn't seeing this shit when she was out this motherfucker thugging right like she a dude okay but so when she did that video with fool her the how long ago was that right that shit was like a year or two ago okay so that's like completely separate from this most likely right yeah like down like her that shit don't got nothing to do or nothing in Jacksonville you and I probably are both the same in that we have no idea what
Starting point is 00:36:40 the politics are why anybody would have wanted to kill her out there right yeah I don't know I don't know why would anybody do that to her but like shit I mean if she was getting this spicy talking about your homie that she didn't even know who knows what other kind of shit she might have gotten involved in really because you're out here portraying you you acting like a dude i mean if she wanted to hop in on your beef or your lost loved ones without even knowing what the fuck she was talking about you could only imagine that there's probably other shit that's happened to right yeah you're in a whole not a other state like that just show you like you feel me bro that's what i say bro mind your business like not just for her just people period bro it's always best to mind your
Starting point is 00:37:15 business, bro. And for so for everybody they got these so-called friends, these rappers, they got everybody that got these so-called friends, bro. You're real friends. Not you not going to let you jump on those song and dis-no, nigger, you don't know. Right. Like, that ain't no, everybody want to be real street niggas. That ain't no real street-nigger shit for y'all to just be jumping and somebody else beef getting on the song, talking about somebody y'all don't know. Right. Because if I was her manager and I heard that, I would hop right in the studio, ah, erase that line. Like, you don't even be saying that what the fuck you're doing? We all do that to each other.
Starting point is 00:37:45 When all that's together, like, when it's me, Papa, walk, and all that's together, like, when all us three be together, if anyone else doing a song and it sounds like it's a feature or something, and a motherfucker on that bit, talking about their ass, we stop each other. Hey, nah. So what exactly did you do? She got killed and you popped on your story and made a joke about it? Basically. Right. And they just went to going crazy with it, right? Just taking it to the furthest intent.
Starting point is 00:38:10 Because I think everybody, myself included when they first saw it, was like, oh, it's a lot. a girl who got killed that's fucked up whatever and then you start to see like this kind of conversation you're like oh well that does make me feel differently but obviously it's fucked up when anybody gets killed but i mean i've been in that same situation myself where i've had people i was close to get killed and then i was like forced to be honest with myself and look at their fucking music and be like were they essentially baiting this situation happening you know yeah i mean I don't know I don't know why everybody mad
Starting point is 00:38:44 I mean there's no point of being mad Right Because it's like shit Goes around comes around bro Like everybody know that I know that myself You feel me I ain't gonna say and fake it
Starting point is 00:38:56 Like I don't I know that myself But like shit bro That's It shit happens You feel me Like y'all ain't give a fuck When she hopped on this song
Starting point is 00:39:04 Saying she was smoking my partner Y'all supported that shit Right So now the same person The same deceased person That she's smoking His friend spoke up And she done
Starting point is 00:39:12 Now, we don't spoke on her, y'all, man, nah. Come on now, y'all know how the streets go? Start playing. Because I'm going to be real with you, like, for me, I've been in the situation where I had somebody that I genuinely, truly hated who died. And I just, I felt like I didn't say anything. Even if I'm like, secretly, yo, L-O-L, whatever. So, like, the homie, I'm just not going to say anything publicly because I'm...
Starting point is 00:39:37 You know, sometimes it's just best to never respond. But also, I'm an old-ass white podcast host. So it's like people are going to judge me by a different stand. than they're going to judge you. When I look at you, I'm like, I can't believe people are getting on your ass about it when it's like you literally are just able to pull up a clipper dissing your homie right away.
Starting point is 00:39:52 It's right there in front of y'all and y'all still acting like... Yeah. Like, by all means, hold me to that standard. I deserve to be held to that standard of not engaging in that tomfoolery. But for you, I mean, what do they fucking expect, right? Yeah, like, I don't know. I mean, I could have been a bigger person
Starting point is 00:40:07 than I said a night, though. But you know... Yeah. I feel that. Um, but okay, when that was, Kodak was trying to sign her. Yeah. You know anything about that? Nah.
Starting point is 00:40:20 I fought with yet, though. You do? Yeah. I don't feel no type of way that he was trying to sign her. Like, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, uh, no. Okay. But, yeah, I fought with yet hard, though. Because, like, I was, I'm a hip-hop conspiracy theorist.
Starting point is 00:40:36 I start putting it together in my head. I'm like, you just did a song with Jackboy called Clicking Up. Who did? You? I ain't never did no song. Oh, you're talking about Jackboy 4-5. Oh, that's a different Jackboy?
Starting point is 00:40:46 Yeah, that's a different Jack Boy. I didn't know if I didn't know a song. I didn't actually get a chance to click on it. Oh, okay, so you don't know him. Yeah, I don't know Jack Boy. You got two Jack Boys from Florida? No, this Jack Boy from, I think, Greenville, South Carolina, North Carolina, one of them.
Starting point is 00:40:59 My fault. Yeah, I ain't ever did no song, Jack. All right, interesting. But, yeah, that, I don't know. Have you thought about signing? Are you still working on that, or what? Um You're hanging out with a pun
Starting point is 00:41:14 You must have something going on This guy's just tapped in with all the labels And whatnot I don't even know what the fuck you're doing I'm just working I'm just working I ain't really It doesn't cross my mind
Starting point is 00:41:23 A couple of times I'm signing Right But I'm just working right now Just seeing what's gonna come Mm-hmm I'm right now I'm just doing me
Starting point is 00:41:31 Having fun with the music Right It's still fun for you Yeah it's still fun for me That's good to know It's like My whole time rapping how some people are rap and then fall off
Starting point is 00:41:42 my whole time rapping I increased every year like I ain't had a bad year where I went down I increased every year so it's like it shows like you feel me like
Starting point is 00:41:55 did you feel like even when you were viral for like a seemingly negative thing with this whole thing that does that still draw more people to start listening to music and shit? Yeah because you got I'm gonna keep it real
Starting point is 00:42:06 everybody a hypocrite every single human in the world is a hypocrite because it's on some shit like, it's on some shit like, boom, how do I put this? All right. With the backlash from the dyke thing, right?
Starting point is 00:42:24 So it's people that fuck with her. It's people that really genuinely fuck with her, but they can get on there and say, oh, Jedi Breeding music is trash. But also going back to listen to some of my songs and then, start to like them. Right. So like you've been a hypocrite, bro. You was just
Starting point is 00:42:45 saying my shit was trash. Now you, you feel me? So like, that's why I don't be caring bro. I listen to the BDs and the GDs. Yeah, like, you feel me? And the BDs make me more interested in the GDs and vice versa. I just look at it like, bro. I got my own shit in my city going on. Right. Y'all motherfuck. Everybody's from different states. I don't know y'all. Y'all. Y'all me. I made no y'all ops through like internet,
Starting point is 00:43:07 seeing shit on internet, but like, she don't got nothing to do with me. I'm from a whole other fucking state. Right. So fuck. Like, that's why I don't understand the music. That's why I don't understand this music shit. Like, I understand it to a street law, like, because blood had been shed. But at the same time, I don't understand, like, I just like, oh, you do a song with him,
Starting point is 00:43:25 you can't fuck with me, like. You don't buy into that shit? I don't buy into that shit, bro, because it's like, I got my own shit going on at home. Like, the fuck, I don't worry about what y'all got going on. I don't care. Right. Like, when one of you niggas died, y'all not my friends. I don't know y'all.
Starting point is 00:43:38 And I kind of feel like that mentality is sort of new. Because, like, Ruga was pointing out to me that, like, when F.E.D. Duck had a pop and song, the 21 Savage pulled up and did a verse for him on the remix to slide. And then, you know, now if you do something like that, I feel like there's way more of, like, oh, you did a song with Little Dirk's ops. So now you can never be around Little Dirk. You can't fuck with him at all. And I think 21 at the time, based on what Ruga was saying, was just like,
Starting point is 00:44:04 I'm doing a fucking verse on a song. Like, this is just business. It's business. And then at the same time, a lot of that shit don't be. him or the person necessarily doing a song with an op, I beat them fucking fans, bro. The internet is undefeated. Right.
Starting point is 00:44:19 Bro, it gets to a point, because it's on some shit, you could do a song, okay, he may be made, he might see it, might not see it. But like, when you got the fans
Starting point is 00:44:25 constantly under that motherfucker tagging you, like, I don't care what no rapper says, but you see when them, when the fans spam your fucking notification. You see them motherfuckers because they'll spam the shit out your shit.
Starting point is 00:44:35 And that's what the fans love knowing that they can kind of pull the strings and get you irritated about some shit. Yeah, because eventually, you're gonna click it like bro why the fuck y'all keep tagging me in this and then once you see what it is you gonna see it so i know motherfucker see that shit so it's like bray be them fans like you feel me because sometimes bro nigger look past that shit but once the fans keep nagging at it yeah they sort of make the fans is what make the beef
Starting point is 00:44:57 like there there was some show or something that it was like some industry type shit and little derk was there and rich the kid was there and like yeah shit like that that's petty and people were tripping like rich the kid is the worst friend a young boy in the world that he could be around dirt when it's like bro like not everything needs to be treated that serious everything is related to beef like yeah it's business it's too much money out this motherfucker to be like come on now right like that shit just backless to me like if it ain't my own shit that i got going on at home but i don't give a fuck about it right but so you don't stay in jacksonville anymore or you still around no i don't stand jasmine no man damn everybody fleeing the fucking city huh yeah it's the dude
Starting point is 00:45:39 He ain't even. It's just really that bad? Yeah. It's not even the killing, though. Like, the killing bad, but like, yeah. It's not even an ops, neither. The cops. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Right. Yeah. You ain't no winning against them. Yeah. So, like, just leave. Lead them alone. Let them have their territory. Like, that's what I, that's why, that's why you don't really hear me say fuck the police.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Because JSO don't fuck off. So I don't want no problem with them. I don't want no beef with y'all. I don't want y'all come fucking with me. I'm not coming to y'all territory. Y'all can have that shit. But every time I ever had to fuck with the cops in Florida, like getting pulled over, having somebody, you know, a cop fucking bothered me at the skate park, whatever.
Starting point is 00:46:17 They do the most. I always got the vibe of like, you take your job so much more serious than every other state that I've been to in my life. In Jacksonville, you get pulled over. You've been a motherfucking flinch wrong. Don't move too fast. Just do everything in a times two backwards motion. Just move slow. Like don't.
Starting point is 00:46:37 Right. Don't. because they quit to drawdown on your ass like damn and they're pulling up on your head deep as fuck yeah so like you're all gonna get shot
Starting point is 00:46:45 they don't fuck around and I think in the Jacksonville thing I think the cops are like oh you guys want to be gangs you want to be in charge no
Starting point is 00:46:53 we are the gang we are in charge we're gonna remind you yeah we got their own gang the JSO is their own gang don't fuck with them don't hey the best thing is
Starting point is 00:47:03 leave the city don't come back and just leave that shit as it is for her let jess or had that shit they got that shit yeah whatever war they think it is joso one i'm gone i don't i ain't in nothing i ain't a part of shit i'm out of the city i stay way in another state right so got a whole different lifestyle definitely but do you ever feel like you're kind of removed from shit so it makes it harder for you to rap about crazy shit when you're living a more laid-back
Starting point is 00:47:31 lifestyle no because you ain't always got to rap about crazy shit you feel me it's all it's you It's like rapping. When you rap, you just got to be you. You got to get on that motherfucker and just, you know, try to paint this image. Definitely. One thing I wanted to ask you is like, what are your thoughts on beats?
Starting point is 00:47:50 Because I know, like, and do you feel like there's a specific Florida sound? Because, like, you hop on a lot of beats that are like Detroit-type beats, sort of like menacing-ass beats and shit like that. See, that's what drew attention to me, though, because motherfuckers would be like, like, when I first,
Starting point is 00:48:05 when I made shoot it out, When I first made shoot it out Everybody thought I was from Detroit Like everybody was like bro He's from up north of I'm like nah I'm from Jacksonville Because it's easy to understand what you're saying You're not like some of the dudes from Florida
Starting point is 00:48:22 That have gnarly ass accents There's a super crazy draw It's because I grew up when Like I grew up on my big brother to him Like I grew up listening to all types of music I want to just hit to one artist Right I grew up like
Starting point is 00:48:35 All the undergris Every underground artist from each city, my brother them like discover them type of artists and listen to them. So around this time, like all Detroit underground artists in like 2019 that wasn't big at all. Like we already was listening to them. Like, um, v's, I think this, V's who made law and order.
Starting point is 00:48:57 Man, we heard that song when V's first dropped it. Like, how everybody got on it late, we was already on that shit. We was already listening to V's and Babyface Ray and all them. Yeah. Like, we was already listening to them niggas, bro. So it was like, I picked up on that shit and then I'm listening to Louisiana artists.
Starting point is 00:49:12 I'm listening to motherfucking New York artists. Right. It's just a mixture of everything. You see, and that's why it's kind of interesting where like Brooklyn drill has like a specific sound or L.A. rap has a specific sound or even Chicago has a specific type of sound. But then with Florida, there's a lot of different pop and artists from Florida and like a drill scene all over Florida, I guess you could say. But that sonically there's not really like.
Starting point is 00:49:37 that much of a signature sound, I don't think you could say, right? Yeah, Florida's just Florida. Like, that's just a different world down there. Yeah, this is true. Like, it's just Florida. We just do whatever the fuck we want to, when we feel like it. We do it how we want to and shit. Hot as fuck, flat as fuck.
Starting point is 00:49:53 Yeah, it's just Florida shit. I don't know. There's something about Florida. Like, people just talk about it. Like, it's this mysterious-ass place. And, like, I grew up, like, basically outside Boston. So every fucking time we'd want to go vacation, and we just drive straight down to Florida.
Starting point is 00:50:08 And yeah, from a young age, I was always just like, this is the weirdest fucking place on earth. There's some strange shit going on out here, man. Everybody said that. Like, everybody that's not from Florida. Be like, Florida is just weird or crazy or something. I have so many weird memories.
Starting point is 00:50:22 Wow, that's shit that happened. First time I ever heard somebody say some racist-ass shit to my face. It's definitely in Florida. I was in the Denny's. This girl said, where are you going? We stopped on the way down to Miami. And she's like, we're going to Miami. She goes, you better not go there unless you speak Spanish.
Starting point is 00:50:39 I'm like, oh, shit, that's that white trash Florida racism I've been looking to run into. Nice. It's a lot. It's that down there, too. You feel that whenever, you probably don't encounter that many white people. Let's be real. No, I actually, is crazy. Am I your first one?
Starting point is 00:50:54 No, I got a white friend. Damn. That's hard. I call him crack a black. Oh, wow. For real, he's just a pure white boy, but, like, he ain't, he ain't a white person. But, like, I got a couple of white friends, though. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:09 I'd rather hang around white friends than, like, not saying, like, you know what I'm saying? But I'd rather hang around like a mixture of my white friends and black friends just just my homies all day because it's like when you're with your homies all day, it's more of a like, not gangster, but it could be different shit, but like how we grew up, it's more of a gangster, smoke weed or da-da-da-da-da. When you're around white people, that's what you're going to do the shit that y'all not going to do. Who's that white boy that was hanging out with a spot him got him? He's like locked up right now
Starting point is 00:51:36 I forget Slug a T. Yes. You hang on with white boys like that Or you hang out with white boys like Kyle Both type Both type
Starting point is 00:51:44 Kyle from fucking The office Mons Slugg used to be Um Man Slug used to be cool Through football Oh okay Like everybody used to like everybody in Jacksonville
Starting point is 00:51:52 used to play football Right Like all these rappers Everybody don't play football Right Like not all of them But like I can say about 90, 95% The rappers played football
Starting point is 00:52:01 Yeah Oh yeah Interesting So So where you feel like you're at in your career right now? What are you trying to do? What do you need to do to take it to the next level? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:14 Shit, like, I don't know. I just do me. Like, I just do me. I don't look to impress nobody. I don't try to impersonate other people. I just beat me. I just do it however I want to do it. Like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:28 Like, I don't know what it's going to take shit. I'm just working in when it comes, it comes. But until then, I'm just remain humble. but like i just see a lot of niggas be doing like dick ride and shit i ain't from the dick ride like i'm gonna be me and if you ain't gonna fuck with me for me then why you fucking with me right like i don't want to fuck with no nigger business wise and like you feel me don't get me wrong you don't post me his business with family you don't post me his business with feelings you don't post me business with nothing business is business right you feel me but don't come around like
Starting point is 00:52:57 you genuinely fucking with me and then like you're trying to just be business because if that's the case i can get on the business level with you we could just be business right Well, I seen you do that video with Gucci. Yeah. Is that, like, a big decision that you're going to actually, like, go out of your way to do a feature with a big artist? Um, that wasn't my decision. Really? Like, it was just, like, my manager hit me up and sent me a beat in a song.
Starting point is 00:53:22 Right. Well, not, I'm talking about a beat in a song. He sent me a beat and was like, all right, do this, basically. And around that time he kept talking about Gucci. Like he always just tell me him and Gucci was like friends and shit. I'm just like, you know, all right. And then like shit, son it to him. He said it's fire.
Starting point is 00:53:46 So I'm just like, all right, he satisfied. He told me leave open verse. I left over first. So I kind of had a feeling he was going to do something with it, but I didn't know what he was doing. Really? And he just sunned it back. And then I read the title of it.
Starting point is 00:53:58 It was like Gucci. I was like, Gucci. like she played that bit and I was like what the fuck man it was a weird feeling it was just weird but this shit was just crazy
Starting point is 00:54:09 because like this is this a motherfucker I was sitting on TV when I was little like right I don't read this man book you read that too yeah like
Starting point is 00:54:17 so it's like I'm like what the fuck like it's Gucci man it's crazy being around him because it's like you're so larger
Starting point is 00:54:27 than life to me that it's almost kind of weird like being in your presence because I've like devoted so much time in my life listening to your shit, watch your videos, watch your interviews, whatever. Like, he's like larger than life to me. He's kind of larger than life to me.
Starting point is 00:54:41 He's a legend. But like life is a gift, bro. Yeah, it's true. Life is a gift. But I mean, what was it like being around him? Like what type of time was he on? Yeah. He didn't feel real because like, you know how sometimes like he's a bigger artist.
Starting point is 00:54:55 So if anything, you'll be like, oh, what's up, man? I'm such a such. Right. You're trying to introduce yourself. You're trying to get a motherfucker of a 10. attention or something. It went like that. Like, it was like, when I saw him, he was like, what's up, J-Dade.
Starting point is 00:55:07 I was like, what the fuck? Right. Like, what's up, Gucci? But you got to think about, too, that Gucci sees himself as like a CEO. He's trying to do the label thing. He's been signing people for however many years now and everything. So he, I think he wants to be tapped in with the streets. He pays attention on what's going on with the underground and shit.
Starting point is 00:55:25 So he's like, I'm like, what's up? He's like, shit. He's like, he just asking me shit. Like, we're just regular chopping it up. dropping it up like but hoars humming back in my mind I'm like bro like what the fuck I'm really in the flare yeah like I'm having a fucking conversation like really standing in front of this nigga like this a nigga my daddy used to listen to you feel me like this a nigga that more older old heads listen to for generations like what the fuck and I'm in front of this
Starting point is 00:55:51 thing having a regular conversation Gucci man Leflare millionaire but don't get no cares tote my pistol everywhere go to war with a grizzly bear something like that I probably figured it up I don't know Gucci legend for show though for show
Starting point is 00:56:08 um okay so yeah I'm fucking with the music man good luck with everything coming out and everything everybody at home should go tap in turn up the Spotify the YouTube everything like that for sure for sure
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