The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Bryson Tiller Talks New Album Tour, Trapsoul Games, Fatherhood, Overcoming Critics + More

Episode Date: June 5, 2024

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The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, the brother Bryson Tiller. Welcome.

Are we sure this is Bryson Tiller? What do you mean? I don't think I've met Bryson once before. And we walked in, I stood in, I was like, is that met Bryson once before. And we walked in. I was like, is that really Bryson Taylor? You never been up here? No, he's never been here before. How is he popping out?

Never. I met Bryson once somewhere. Where was we at when we met Bryson? I don't remember. I don't remember. Maybe that wasn't him. Maybe it wasn't him. It was a radio show, I think.

A radio show. Well, good morning to you, sir. Good morning, brother. Good morning. Welcome. Would you consider yourself an introvert? Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, sometimes. Good morning, brother. Good morning. Welcome. Would you consider yourself an introvert? Yeah, sometimes. Yeah, sometimes?

Yeah. All right. Yeah, because I feel like you don't pop out of nowhere. I do, but that's a common misconception. Okay. I'd be outside. Okay. You deal with anxiety like I do?

Do I deal with anxiety? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you don't want to be around people. I understand. It depends on, you know, where I'm at. Yeah, yeah.

What about this morning? This morning? Right now, in this very moment. Oh, you know, where I'm at. Yeah, yeah. What about this morning? This morning? Right now, in this very moment. I'm chilling. For sure. Positive you want to be here, Bryson. Yeah, yeah, of course. Wink if you need help, Bryson.

Wink if you need help. I want to start from the beginning of Bryson Tiller. How did you get on? How did you get your deal? How did you get signed for people that don't know? For people that don't know how to get signed, I got signed up to RCA through my god Tungy and

You know, I just basically dropped the song on SoundCloud, you know I blew up and was just taking off like every week. It was just like growing like crazy and then uh, Yeah, I just got a lot of phone calls from a lot of different people. You know RCA is where I went with Pretty soon. Do you do you still care about about music Bryson? No Really? Not really to be honest with you. I do love music. But uh, I was just telling somebody the other day It's kind of like a Relationship, you know like a certain relationship, you know You put so much into it and you know If you don't know you're not getting that not of you feel like you got step out or get a little side piece

I'm like alright, and that's kind of I feel about video games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've been designing my own game for about I'm sure this I've been designing my own game for about three years now So I've been I've been having a lot of yeah, I just I love I love it. You know, it warms my heart. Every time I work on it, I'm super happy. Just a great thing for me. You know, a few weeks ago, Nala Simone, she's a DJ up here, and she was playing one of your records, and she was like, yo, you had an album out.

And I was like, he got an album? And that's what made me ask, does Bryson even care? Because it seems like it wasn't any effort to promote the album. I don't feel like there was no real marketing behind it. You know what's crazy? I just saw something today. Actually, it said something about one of my favorite movies of all time.

Actually, not one of them. My favorite movie of all time, The Iron Giant, flopped in the box office because it wasn't really promoted like that. And it's a classic and it's my favorite movie, which is crazy. And it just is an interesting parallel there. I'm just like, damn, you know, I probably should promote my shit more. Maybe a little bit. You think?

I was going to ask, with you having such big records and such a core following, is it your reasoning not to, I want to say, be a bigger artist? Because your music is huge. But sometimes I feel like the face is not as big as the music. That's definitely, yeah. I don't know man sometimes I want to be a bigger artist and I'm just like you know I get on stage and you know it's like a lot of people you know all the cell phone lights or not I'm like damn man could I

could I do this you know we're living like forever and then there's other moments I'm just like yeah what don't you like about the music industry? Oh man don't get me started. Don't get me started. There's a lot that I don't like about the music industry that I'm trying to get used to. I didn't like this. This is one

of the first things I didn't like about the music industry. Media period just like the way. Just the Breakfast Club in general? No no no everybody. Just everything about it. but there's so many different things just even the relationship between artists like you know what i mean it'd be so many like beefs and shit like you know what i mean people that don't even know about it like i don't know it's just weird man trying to talk to people and i felt like coming into the industry you know i think a lot of the celebrities that i meet you know forget that like i literally was a 22 year old kid coming out of Papa John's

and UPS into just being in the room with all these people so I was like super nervous like you said anxiety um and I feel like maybe some of them it might have rubbed some of them the wrong way and I just I feel like I ain't heard from them since. You know what I mean? Sometimes I feel like a lot of people was rocking with me. That's one thing that I realized. Like people, like fame really is like a thing. Like clout is really a thing for some people. Like if you cloud it up, you got a lot of fame. They want to be next to you.

You know what I mean? But the moment anything shifts, it's like they ain't picking up the phone. They don't hit you up. They don't care. They just don't. Did you have an idea of what you thought the industry was going to be before you got into it i did i was just like oh man this is dope you know i'm dope at music you know i'm about to be other people's dope and music and we all gonna be cool this is gonna be great and i got here and it just

it just wasn't that at all it's just you know be people that just be having like envy you know no pun intended but like you know they'd be en of, you know, how quickly you came up. You know, because I came up pretty quickly. And I felt like there was a lot of people that was envious of that. And I could just tell by the way they talked to me, the way they treated me. You know what I mean? Of the artists? Yeah.

Like who? I ain't going to say. You know, a lot of. I think we should tell the truth and shame the devil today. Word. I feel you, man. I would. You know, a lot of... I think we should tell the truth and shame the devil today. I feel you, man. I would, but, you know, at the same time,

I would just hope that they would, you know, change. But, you know, I didn't... A lot of ignored text messages, calls, you know. And for me, it ain't about... Like, I think some of these people, they get so caught up in, like, oh, man, everybody just want to talk to me because I'm me, and it's like... Sometimes, you know, I was just an artist

who needed advice so badly, and i felt like a 10-minute conversation with one of these people who was like close to me or at least pretended to be close to me when i came in the industry would have helped me so much because like i was stressed out you know what i mean after my first album reading all these bad reviews and whatnot which one trap whatnot right now it's bricked up I'm not even joking bricked up for two days oh my god he walked in here just now was like I'm kind of nervous my line you know it's a truth but not even like you know we when we do stuff we have people that do research he He was like, I'm doing the research for Bryce and Tilla. He's the camera guy.

He's never done this, Bryce, ever. That's how much people love Trap Soul. Much love to you, bro. But Trap Soul was a no-skip. Like, I've never even seen bad reviews from that. That's still my favorite one. You didn't see that until when? Like, a year after?

No. That was an instant classic. No, it wasn't. It wasn't no instant classic. I'm not hearing that, man. People got amnesia. don't i saw the shit i was there complex i saw the bad reviews i heard i saw it all that but doesn't that make the win better the fact that people slept but you gotta think i was 22 and i just i didn't understand that you know what i'm saying like i was young and i just i took that as like oh my god like i had you know uh imposter syndrome for like six

years after that depressed sad like didn't even like whenever I go in the studio trying to like make songs I just wasn't feeling it you know nothing that I was saying the way I was like I had built up so much uh um man just so much energy before Trap Soul um and I was just so hype and I was nervous because I was like man it's my first album i don't know what's gonna happen you know i mean and um when it came out and then i saw all the negative stuff it just confirmed all the things all the bad things that i thought was gonna happen and i was like wow yeah it might be over for me but then like a year later people started to deem it like all the stuff that y'all saying like okay you know it's a classic blah blah no skips and all that i'm just like dang for real but i didn't even really realize it until two years later um so yeah i don't know

man i didn't get to live in that world that y'all lived in you know of like it being great i didn't get to live in that and um yeah that was the worst part when it okay yeah so is that with this new album now that you titled you know self bryson tiller do you get into that into the album like everything that because this this is about you i'm assuming because it's bryson tiller is named bryson tiller no no i don't really talk about no personal stuff on there like that you know um everything's pretty i would say surface surface level for the most part um yeah i would say everything's pretty surface level just something just stuff that most people can relate to. But I get that the extra personal stuff

is the stuff that people relate to the most. But, yeah. I love the record Persuasion, by the way. Yeah, thanks. You know, Victoria Monique, I like the way you use words. Hey, man, I got to... He uses different words to describe pussy and dick. Victoria Monique, I got to thank her for that, man.

That was her idea yeah absolutely that's dope yeah yeah she's super talented so is that what took so long you weren't feeling

confident with the music at that time because for a minute it took you a long time to come back out with some music it took a long super long time

it was 2020 actually when I my grandma passed that made me be like I thank you bro um that was what made me be like all right what am i doing because i made her so many promises like she's like baby can you do this for me can you do that and i was just like i don't know you know you know money i don't know the music i gotta kind of watch it right now what promises did she want what did she

ask she wanted some new teeth you know what i mean she wanted um she wanted a new car and i remember i bought her a used car just because i was nervous about the future i was like i don't know what's gonna happen i don't even believe in myself no more i don't think i'm gonna make music no more um and then money fucked up no my money was it was kind of fucked up okay good you know i ain't never been broke but you know since you couldn't afford 30 grand for some teeth is what you afford I could definitely I was just because I look at the money in my bank account like time so I'm just like you know every time you know I'm just like every time I spend I'm just shaving down how much you know cuz I'd like to look at the year expenses and I'm like dang I

don't know so yeah not heard meting myself is what prevented me from doing any of those things for her. So anyways, when she passed, I was like, what am I doing? Like, all these promises I didn't get to keep, told her I was going to do it, but I just couldn't do it because I was doubting myself. So at that moment, I was like, all right, you know, I made this album called Anniversary, which was like paying homage to my um first album trap so and uh just to for a couple reasons to show people that you can't go back to you know people always talk about make trap soul too and you know it's just like that's that's you can't i can't do that you know what i mean a lot of people can't do that um so uh even if i brought like some of the old songs from trap so you know what i mean that didn't make trap so but anyways that was like my fresh

out the hospital bed album you know i mean i was like all right let me learn how to walk again and just get back into it and then um i started doing a lot start making i made mixtape christmas music and then i was just like all right you know it's time to time to make another album and i just i feel so refreshed right now you know making music and i have been for a while so um anytime i go in the booth now i know exactly what i'm gonna do and uh years ago i read that uh you said you were you were depressed while creating the uh the true true itself yeah everything that was after my first album yeah so everything after trap soul yeah and up until my third album which is anniversary so all the way from 2015 to 2020. it's a constant

state of depression recording yeah absolutely, absolutely. All that music. Impostor syndrome, everything in between. Wow. What got you back to feeling the way you was? Was it the record with Rihanna, which was probably, I'm sure, one of your biggest records? Was it recording? Even with this album, this single came out, it was automatic. It wasn't one of those where we got to wait.

As soon as it came out, it was in the clubs. Yeah. See, and that's the thing, too. Whatever She Wants, that was dope because it was like even with my album right that's the most i would say that's the most successful song on my album right now and uh that's the one that i had to go to miami to be like you know i was like you know what i'm tired i was working on the album the bryson tiller album you know working on all these songs and my homies velas 15 j crew all these dudes writing on the album and pooh bear and um you know i got all these songs and my homies vellus 15 j crew all these dudes writing

on the album and pooh bear and um you know i got tired of not getting samples clear and i was just like yo i gotta keep waiting i can keep delaying this album this is this is horrible so i was like you know what i don't care i'm about to go to miami i'm about to just go back to what i used to do have fun in the studio so i started this mixtape series called slum tiller and um i did volume one people was really rocking with it um and then i did volume two and that's when whatever she wants was on there and it was out for like three months nobody heard of it um and you know i got on tiktok and um seeing this kid that was like yo 2024 might be bryce's year blah blah blah he back rapping again and um and then i looked at the comments and one of the dudes was like nah bro we got to gatekeep this and i was

like gatekeep i was just like oh no that's the reason why people ain't heard my shit so i was like out the comments bryce yes no no no no no no no no but that was it was a good thing because i made a tiktok after that made the tiktok and this shit blew up so um yeah you got like an interesting method when it comes to dropping your music though because even before we all heard whatever she wants um you put it on soundcloud first and then you dropped it on all the streaming platforms is that like your way of like making sure everybody like it before you drop it or like not even actually you know i just i like i'm the instant gratification type of person so like i make some shit i want to be able to drop it right then and there you know

i'm not trying to trying to wait on sample clearances I'm not trying to wait on nobody I just this is how I'm feeling right now this I want to give it to the world right now even if they never hear I got some fans that complain and be like oh I use a SoundCloud but I'm just like I can't drop shit on Apple music today you know like I can't log in and then you know just upload like and that's why I love SoundCloud so much you know and it's the the reason why I'm here today label must be pissed off with that you just put records on SoundCloud. That's the thing yeah yeah they probably do you know but they can't be mad because look at you

know whatever she wants. When you think about all the music that you recorded while you was depressed how proud are you of of that music? Not proud at all, actually. You said while I was depressed? When you look back on it in hindsight, all the music that you made during that era, the True to Self, all of that stuff. Don't get me wrong. I definitely still got some platinum songs out of it,

which is great. I just wasn't operating at 100%. Wild Thoughts, I was depressed when I wrote that verse. Could have been playing games. There's a lot of stuff that I was just, you know, but still worked. But, you know, now I'm just, it's just different, you know. Did you feel pressured to record back then?

Like, did you feel like nobody's actually understanding what I'm going through? I don't have nobody to talk to about my depression. Y'all just want me to work, work, work, work. Yeah, I remember Khaled. You know the best song? If you go listen to it, it's a song that I did for Khaled's major key album. I told him before we did it.

He was like, yo, I need a song, I need a song. This is when I'm like super buzzing at the time. He's like, I need a song for the album. And I was just like, yo, I'm going to be honest with you, Khaled. I'm depressed right now. I got a lot going on, lawsuits, people threatening me back in my hometown, all types of stuff, and I'm depressed. And he was like, nah, man, just put in the music.

And then every time I listen to it, I cringe so hard because I'm just like, man, this is not who I am, even when I'm talking about. But, yeah, he eventually ended up bringing me something that like you know wild thoughts so hold on you spilled your heart to Khaled and you said

you got lawsuits people threatening you in your hometown and you depressed and he said put it in the music something like that he didn't really care

I'll just say that but that makes sense that's what artists do that's therapy to a lot of artists if they're able to that's how Mary made her best records when she was depressed and she was down. She put it in her music.

I don't like that. I'm not mad at that. Put it in your music. I see it on both sides. You know what I mean? I'm more on your side because it's just like, you know, you should give people a little bit of time. Put it in music.

It's not always the best thing. Don't get me wrong. It works for sure. You know, I hate when I'm going through some shit, but, you know, and then I gotta go, like, just be like,

I don't know, man. Try to be regular. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in that moment, he's, and I'm not dissing Khaled,

I'm just telling the truth, I'm telling the truth, he's only thinking about himself. Yeah. He's thinking about what he wants. Yeah. Does he return your texts? Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Okay. He does, yeah. But also, what a lot of people don't necessarily understand

is like what he's going through, a lot of people are going through. And you putting it in your music helps people deal. You know what I mean? That's why Mary has so many fans because there's a lot of women that were going through

what she was going through and they understand and they can deal with it. You know what I mean? Same thing with Keisha Cole and some of the biggest music. You're still looking at this man like a human.

Not everybody knows. I think the biggest thing is this. I'm about to cut you off. No, you good. You good. The biggest thing is this. If I'm going through all this personal stuff, whatever, but I still got my confidence, sure, I go in the studio all day.

But if I don't have confidence and I'm going through stuff, it's just not a good mixture at all. I'll just make dog shit, which is what I did. I made dog shit for like six years straight. Now you have two daughters. You're a girl dad. How did your daughters inspire and help you out through that dog time if they did? My second daughter definitely helped because, you know,

that was like when I was making in 2020 actually. And I was just like, I got to get my ass up and get to work. You know, I can't. You know, I was nervous because I was like, I really got to work now. My first daughter, of course, she definitely changed everything for me you know I got let's say some million dollar baby out right now she really was my my million dollar baby you know she the reason why I got you know everything I got because like you know I don't know it's just something about seeing her sleeping in the crib um you know I was riding a target on my bike just to get her diapers and shit but

just seeing her sleep in the crib was, like, so inspiring to me because I'm just like, man, I'm the only thing stopping whatever comes through that door. Like, I have to make sure this roof is over here so she can sleep peacefully, you know. And I was just like, I got to do something about this. Like, I have to, I can't just keep living check to check, you know. So, super inspiring. What were the threats in your hometown? Like, what was that about?

Threats in my hometown was crazy. It was like, you know, crabs in a bucket. It kind of felt like that, and it just, you know, I've never heard a couple people talk about, you know, you shouldn't live in your hometown, like, Boosie. You know, I've heard it, and I've seen people die in their hometown, and I used to just get threats. Like, people just mad because, excuse me,

people mad because I'm, like, you know, blowing up. I was super to myself. Like, I didn't really rock with nobody, and I intentionally, you know, stopped rocking with a lot of people after my daughter was born because I was like, you know, because I took a hiatus right when I found out I was going to have a daughter. I was like, I'm not doing, you know,

I'm not doing music. I need to focus on, you know, raising this kid, you know what I'm saying, and trying to, you know, get a job at UPS. That's when I got my first job at UPS. Anyways, so I stopped rocking with a lot of people. I just wanted to see who was going to fuck with me and whatnot. And nobody really called.

You know, this guy back here on the couch, Swine, he called me. You know, there's a couple people that called me. And those are the people that are still around today. But three years after that, whenever I was like, all right, you know what, maybe I do need to get back into music. people that called me and those are the people that are still around today but um three three years after that whenever i was like all right you know what maybe i do need to get back into music got back into music all of a sudden everybody mad i was like you know because i'm blowing up like yeah he you know switched up on his real friends and blah blah blah i was like real friends that's crazy i don't i ain't see none of y'all at the hospital when my daughter was born nobody

called me and said congratulations you You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, a lot of those people was just sending me death threats, you know? I was in, yeah, just crazy shit, like leaving, like, animal skull heads on my car. Really? Animal skull heads? Skull heads, like, it was corny as hell when you think about it.

Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky. Lord. Yeah, it was like a burnt-up like note like you reap what you sow pass what you owe like crazy weird shit two dudes it was like a definitely one of them demonic ones that they use in the yeah cuz there's some Illuminati I'm like okay yeah like a boy like you know the ones with the like the, they're not horns, but they're, I don't know exactly.

It looks like a ram. Some of them look like rams. I think it was that Lion King animal. The one that's at a... Hyena or something. No, no, not that. The ones that are like, was like running through the... The mole in the poomba?

No, no. The ones that was running through the kilt. You know, whenever he said... Oh, the... Not the hyena. The oxes? Yeah, I think, yeah, it was like an ox. It was like bulls. Where the hell did he get that in Louisville? That's what I'mes yeah I think yeah it was like an ox

where the hell they get that in Louisville that's why I'm I think it was fake maybe they got off Etsy or some shit yeah

T-Mu did you move from did you move out of there immediately or you used to live there so you don't live in there anymore got out of there

you moved that day I tried to stay there for as long as I could you know but it just got too weird bro I was just like I can't deal with this man he used to knock on my door and ask me for pictures it was weird now who wants to kill the rmb thing you know r b probably nobody actually it was probably just to like with me

you know what i mean like but it was it was annoying bro like i was outside some nights in the middle of this neighborhood this new you know white neighborhood screaming in the rain to the people that I thought was behind all this shit because I had to fly home whenever I seen that on my cameras, like two dudes with gloves on outside putting shit on my cars and shit. I was like, the fuck? My daughter's in the house sleeping. I'm just like, yo, what's wrong with y'all, bro? You need to get out of there.

I'm glad you got out of there so fast. You knew who it was? Yeah, yeah. Did you handle it? Oh, no. Why you touching nose like that? Nah, that's the thing. That's the thing about it.

Because I was always just like, man, I used to tell people when they were fucking. I was like, man, y'all kind of got the right one. You know, some people are like, yo, you got the wrong one. You got the right one because I'm not going to meet you where you, you know, I'm just going to keep doing me. I'm like, got to deal with you. One of those guys died, actually. Not because of me.

Yeah. One of those guys died. Car accident. Yikes. Yeah. So you put a skull head back on. Yeah, all right. Anyway.

Hey, man, I wished him the best. I always looked up to him, too. It was a crazy thing. Did you call 911 at least? Did you report it? Nah, what you mean report? He wasn't there after the car accident. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. Oh, you was there after the car accident? No, no. No, he was talking about the- you mean he wasn't there oh yeah yeah i did oh you was at the car no no no he's talking about the oh yeah yeah yeah stuff a lot of crazy stuff

though they were saying it was people like sending cps to my house like you know telling saying that i like you know molesting my daughter and wild like and i'm having to my dad having to interview my little three-year-old daughter like it's your daddy blah blah blah and it's just like y'all i can't believe i was like trying to tell the people i was like yo so people anybody can just call and then they can just come here and just y'all can just interview me and talk to my daughter whenever y'all want that's crazy like i don't get some type of like celebrity like pass but i guess not you know but i see why we don't see you bryson man i was i get it i was fucked up for some years was it true that you uh drake was trying to sign you at one point?

Yeah. And you didn't go with Drake. You went to RCA, of course. So why didn't you decide to sign with Drake? I really wanted to, to be honest with you. It's just one of those things like, man, honestly, the day, I remember they tricked me. They tricked me into coming up to New York.

They was like, yeah, man, we're here to sign a deal. I said, what? Sign a deal? At this time, it's still, you yeah, man, we're here to sign a deal. I said, what? Sign a deal? Like, at this time, it's still, you know, they kept trying to get me away from Drake. Flew me out of L.A. because he was out there. They said, we got to get him away from Drake, blah, blah, blah. Got to get him away from Drake?

Crazy. Drake the Boogeyman? What was wrong with Drake? Bro, that was all they was, like, doing. And I just hate that because I'm like, man, I mean, I get it. I don't know him, but also y'all don't. Maybe y'all do know him. I don't know.

Run for your life. I was I get it. I don't know him, but also y'all don't maybe I'll do know him. I don't know Anyways I was in there and um, you know I was really trying to make that happen because I remember just some of the text conversations we had he was like I really want to sign you to OVO and I was super inspired and obviously Drake is a huge influence in my own You know a huge part of my musical DNA, period. And I got to New York, and I listened to one song by him. I think it's called Fear. I was just trying to, like, find songs that he was making when he was, like, trying to figure out who he was going to sign to. And I was just like, man, how did he feel this time?

Then I texted him, and I was like, yo, man, they got me up here in New York. You know, I really want to sign to OVL. I was just hoping we could just, like, have a conversation about it, it you know what i mean and he just never takes me back what and i was just like i guess that's everything i need to know right there you know i mean he didn't even want to bid like it wasn't like you had signed with rca i think i think some people at ovr didn't believe like the money they was offering me or something like that did you did you probably did you like maybe give him a verbal like hey man i'm signing the ovl and so he might felt he might have felt slighted that you was up here with rca i mean i tried to have a conversation with him i tried to tell him to match what rca was not even

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Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. You know what I mean? I'll trust you. And the crazy thing is, like, you can't really, like, I'm a rebel. So, like, if, you know, people always be like, oh, it's a good thing you didn't sign the OVO and all this. I wasn't really hearing that because I always just like, you know, if I sign the OVO, I'm going to be a great asset to the team for one. But two, there's no stopping me.

Like, you know, when it comes, there's no holding me back. There's no shelving me. There's no none of that because I'm amazing. So Drake's one of the people who didn't text you back. Yeah, I mean, just in that instance, yeah. Has he texted you back since? I ain't spoke to him in a minute. Did you ever help him write?

That's what they said, too. Like, you know, he never was in the studio with him? Do you feel like if you signed with Drake, it would have been a lot easier because it would have been an artist guiding you through all the things that you didn't understand? Absolutely. Yeah, that was exactly what I needed at the time.

And that's what I think the people around me didn't really understand. I was like, I'm looking for more than just, you know, money. And I mean, don't get me wrong. Like, I get the intent, like why they was trying to do that and why they was trying to set me up for the future. But I needed like guidance. That was what I needed more than anything because yeah I'm stressed out do you think any of this you know Bryson has to do with your natural demeanor because you know you say you do disconnect from people you know you will cut people off so if you are that way to people it's

easy for people to be that way to you so who is it you first and then them or do you notice something weird and then you distance yourself? You know, that's a good point. I've definitely heard that before. Like, there's a lot of moments where, like, I go to, like, celebrity parties. And honestly, I just didn't ever see myself as, you know, anywhere near them. So I would just kind of stay in my place and be like, let me just sit over here and shut up and not talk. And just kind of, like, observe and just, over here and shut up and not talk. And just kind of like observe and just like,

cause I didn't want to say too much and then say some corny shit or just like, I don't know. I'm just like, let me just not say that at all. And maybe some people took that as like, oh, he, he think, you know, he think he all that, you know, or whatever. So. Or standoffish. Or standoffish. Or just weird. Yeah, exactly. I've definitely heard that before, but like,

that ain't the case. You know what I mean? At all. I might be introverted. I'm not even really that antisocial. I love my friends, and we have great conversations. I just think it does have a lot to do with that. I think the problem with the industry, especially if you're an introvert and you deal with anxiety, you need people to meet you where you are. Meaning, if your safe space is that studio, writing and recording, come kick it with me over here. Because you're not going to get the best version of me

if I got to come to your house and fake politic at a party. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I agree with that for sure. It was, you know, even me, I would send messages to people, like, and I would try not to make them too wordy, but I would just, like, sound like a human. They would just be so robotic, like, one-word text, okay. I'd just be like, all right, you know.

Like what? I'm just trying to think. I'm not laughing. What would you would text? I don't even, I can't even remember what I would say, but I would just be like, you know, just, I don't know, regular conversation like I had with all my other friends, you know what I mean? Just talking to them, like, yo, man. Even giving people compliments, friends you know I mean just talking to him like yo man even give giving people compliments you know what I mean like yo I just want to say you know this you know this album meant a

lot to me you know but as I got older and um and grew wiser I was just like you know people just be busy and you know everybody got their own kingdom everybody got like a million people like trying to you know get something from them you know I mean so I'm just like I just gotta deal with it roll with the punches is what it is. Now, you on tour, the Bryson Sillis tour. Do you like touring? Yeah.

Yes and no. Wait, what did Michael Jackson say? I love to tour. I love to tour. I love touring. It's so amazing. But that was the second take. The first take was, I hate touring.

I don't like touring. I don't like people touching me. It can be tough, man. The stage is way different than the studio. I love the studio. I love making music. I love the way everything don't like touring. I don't like people touching me. It can be tough, man. The stage is way different than the studio. I love the studio. I love making music. I love the way everything sounds in my headphones. But on the stage, it's way different.

You can't hear shit. Every room is different. The reverb be loud. Sometimes we heavy on the bass, and it's just like, damn, I can't even hear myself. Sometimes the crowd too loud, and I don't ever want them to not be loud. But, yeah, it's super different, and that't even hear myself. Sometimes the crowd too loud, and I don't ever want them to not be loud. But yeah, it's super different, and that's the only reason. And the other thing is,

I've just been gone from home too long. I'm burnt out right now. I can't laugh. Maybe you just meant to be a writer, Bryce. That was another thing, the reason why I was like, yo, I don't mind signing an OVO. That might be a good thing for me

that just goes right. I always wanted to be a writer. That's actually one of my thoughts. I didn't ever want to be in the spotlight like that. Well, I take that back. When I was 17, I did, because I was like, oh, yeah, fame. And being famous, because, you know, I see CB and Tyga, you know, shooting water guns at each other on tour and whatnot.

I'm like, that looks like fun. It looks fun. You know what I mean? I was like, I want to do that. But then I realized quickly that I was like, nah, maybe I don't want to do that. And then I was like, I just want to be a songwriter. But, you know, my song took off as an artist, so I was kind of forced to be an artist.

Do they treat Jack Harlow back home like they treated you, or do you feel like they treat him a lot better back home? It depends on who we're talking about, you know. I think all the people, you know, especially black people, respect him. You know what I'm saying? I feel like, you know like maybe the higher-ups, the officials in the city might give them more opportunities because it's...

It's skin color? Yeah. Don't be afraid to say that. But, you know... Definitely. Yeah. I saw you say in a Billboard interview that this Bryson Tiller, you named it that

because you want to show people yourself and you want to be yourself. You want to show people who you are. And, you know, I don't believe that, though. What you mean? I don't believe you really want to do that. Show people who I am? Yeah.

You know, it is funny because, like, my mixtape series is, I would say, it's an alter ego of mine, Slum 2. But I really did get to show people who I was on there. When I dropped those, I felt super vulnerable. Even when I dropped Whatever She Wants, I felt so embarrassed after because I was just like, it's just like for girls, when they go to the club and they be drunk and they be shaking their ass and whatnot, and they probably next day feel crazy or whatever. But that's how I felt because I'm just on there talking about tricking and the girls from the back and whatnot on the song like i'm just like what am i

doing right now this is crazy i got kids like i got you loved it exactly yeah so uh nah um i would say i was more myself on my slum uh mixtape but my album i just mean like yeah i'm glad you said that you didn't believe that why are you lying to yourself, Bryson? That's a good point. And why are you volunteering the lives of other people? I wouldn't even say it's lies, though, you know what I mean, with the album. You know what I mean? Or that interview.

You know, it is the most me that I've ever been, you know, because I love every genre of music. There's a lot of different types of stuff on this album. Country sound and stuff? Yeah, I do. Yeah, I love everything. You know, all the genres. So it is me.

But I guess when you think about, like, you know, being vulnerable, it's not that much me. You know what I'm saying? But it's dope because... No, I was about to say, I just think you be in his head a lot. Like, you be in your head a lot.

I used to be in my head a whole, whole lot. Now I'm just a little bit more like, eh, who cares? I'm kind of just like on some like, I've been kind of just going wherever the wind blows me and just following the yellow brick road and just like,

just accepting the fact that I'm just not in control at all. Like, it's him. You know what I mean? Everything. Like, I could plan something. I just trust God's creative, creative decisions.

You know what I mean? If he want my album to flop, my album flopping. It is's creative decisions. You know what I mean? If he want my album to flop, my album flopping is what it is. You know what I mean? We moving on to the next. That's something that's got to happen for me. Even the game that I'm working on, you know, this shit could come out and, you know, be a dud, you know, but it's not going to be a dud.

But you know what I'm saying? Like, whatever he decides is what I'm okay with now. And I used to didn't be like that. I was like, nah, it's got to be this way. It's got to be. And, you know, that quote is like, if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. And I feel like, yeah.

This is about the video game. It's called Trap Soul. And I also read that you said this album is probably going to be your last for a while because you working on it. Yeah, so my game studio, it's called Trap Soul Games. And we're working on the game. I can't say the name just yet.

But yeah, it should be out, that shit. So is it a game that... Is it a Trap Soul game? Or is it something that you're... Trap Soul Games is just the name of it, you know. Oh, so you have a company. Oh, okay, okay. Is it music-based?

Is it an existing program? I can't say it. Grand Theft Auto 6. Is it Grand Theft Auto 6? Nah, nah that photo six that's rockstar games okay try so games oh interesting all right so we have some technical difficulties that's why we sitting here with microphones in our hand looking stupid because our board went out and all the mics went out in the middle of the Bryson Tiller interview,

so we are improvising right now. But he was talking about the Trap Soul video game and how you're designing for Grand Theft Auto. I didn't say that. Okay. I wish, I wish. I definitely would love an internship at Rockstar Games for sure. But, yeah, man, my game should be releasing next year.

Behind the scenes, I was saying, the dope thing about you is your demographics is all over the place. I was telling you your concert. My wife is going tonight. My kids are going. One is 22, one is 20. So looking at your show, I see 14-year-olds, but then I see 50-year-olds. So how is that with making music man i think i think it's a beautiful thing because i definitely sometimes i'm just like my uncle texts me like he's 45 and he's like yo grandson grandson your nephew i love this

this new album blah blah blah you know it's just a breath of fresh air or whatever and i'm just like dang and then i'll have my daughter who'll be you know she's 10 and, you know, her and her friends and then my people that I work with, their daughters will be listening to it. It's just, I'm just like, dang, it's crazy that I'm able to, you know, reach people or reach that many people. And, you know, especially the young kids, they have so much music to discover. So who knows, you know, how many more people I can reach. I know the younger they get, the weirder the music starts.

A little bit. Yeah, it's, like, different. Like, my daughter, some of the stuff she be finding, I be like, what is this? But, you know, I try to tap in because it's, you know, it's different. I saw you put a disclaimer, Bryson, that everybody is not going to like every song on the album, but everything is intentional. So why would you intentionally put songs on an album that you don't think nobody going to like? Well, I intentionally put different types of songs on the album that you don't think nobody gonna like? Well, I intentionally put different types of songs on the album.

So, like, for example, right, there's people that want to keep me in that Trap Soul box, which is fine. But if you love Trap Soul and that's all you listen to, you're definitely not going to probably, most likely not going to like my new album, which is fine. You know, I think that's okay because I want to reach new people. I want new fans. I don't want to just, you know, I got a song on there called Undertow

that's, you know, most people probably wouldn't really listen to like that, you know what I mean? But I love that type of music. Undertow is the one that's out of country. Kind of, yeah. It's got that kind of vibe for sure. You know what I mean? I just want to reach new people.

That's the main thing. Yeah. I want to sex you up track right uh that you put out early this year you know we had tank up here he mentioned that the art of love making is basically gone but it can come back if men are willing to put in the effort yeah so what are your thoughts on that when you put out a song like uh sex you up is he said specifically with music he's saying men don't really men don't necessarily know how to court cry make love to their woman so that's why it doesn't reflect in the music before it was okay like you would cry for your girl you would sing to your girl you

wanted that so bad and god damn why are you talking to that man like that god damn i didn't say him my god i didn't say him my god i didn't say him i said you didn't feel uncomfortable just now brayson i get it jesus this guy's crazy get justin mike man go ahead um that's hilarious um no oh i think um i don't know man, man, because I do see what you mean. Music definitely was a lot more romantic back then, but I think things started to fuse. You know, hip-hop, the rappers wanted to be singers,

the singers wanted to be rappers, and then the lines are just super blurred right now. So, you know, it's just, I don't know. There's a lot of people that ain't really even talking about love or love making like that, you know. Even with songs that are, like, I got a song on my album called Attention that I, you know, intentionally. That's the first song. Yeah, it's the first song.

And I was just, you know, intentionally, I didn't want to, I didn't mention sex really on there. You know, I didn't say nothing freaky. I was just like, I want to make a woman feel sexy, but without even talking about sex at all. So, you know, I think some people tap into it in different ways. But, yeah, I don't know. I think it has a lot to do with the line being blurred right now with the genres and rappers and singers and whatever.

That's how I felt about the Persuasion record with Victoria Monato. Oh, yeah. Because, you know, it's a super freaky record. Yeah. But then it's, like, subtle because you're not saying the word. Like, how did you even decide you wanted to use those words? Honestly, with Victoria, I got to pick her brain on that. Whenever she come up here, I'm sure she will at some point.

Yeah, I got to pick her brain on that, too. Our studio don't work. Nobody else come up here. Nah. And then I just, honestly, she she started it and i just took it from there and i just thought about i was like i have to keep that going on the verses you know just because it's like you know every now and then you get you know music gets a really clever song like overall like the whisper song for example like you know what i mean every when that came out everybody was like oh my god it's just we never heard nothing like this before you know what i mean yeah yeah i feel like that was

the most different like think about it like that song i'm trying to think of another it was no i was listening to that this weekend that's what was so crazy yes i don't know why it randomly came up on the playlist i was listening to it i was like this is a very innovative record i was listening to the remix for free on it innovation that's what it is. Very rarely do you get something like that. And I just felt like, once you play this, I was like, yo, I've never heard nobody do this on a song before. And I was like, that alone made me, I was like, I need this. And it gave me a way to curse on the radio.

I know, right? You can say that language. So we can, actually? I mean, if you say it like that. I thought it was suggestive, so we couldn't. That would blur it out or whatever. No. No? No no no you can say that you can play that record right now don't have to believe nothing that's amazing oh dang that's crazy so do your so your album list like on well your

your song list for your tour will you perform gotta move on um that's the track with Diddy um no I haven't performed that since like last year I know what you're getting at though but yeah but what's interesting but what's interesting is the first one it was one that

you was originally the original one was You By Yourself wasn't it? yeah I actually liked that one more you know what I mean could you do that? How do you, did you hear before Diddy or did you like?

No, I heard that before Diddy, yeah. That's crazy. You just never know who to be tapped in. Yeah. I was in, I heard it in Jamaica. Oh, word. I was in Jamaica on vacation. That's crazy.

With some of my friends and my homegirl played it. And I was like, ah. Yep, she's in the industry too, but she played it. And I was like, this's in the industry too but she played it and I was like this shit is hard you know so I didn't know if you could perform the original because that that was hard yeah no I definitely can um I just it was at the time when I was performing that was a song he was like going crazy with all the time and just like talking about all the time so i was like you know i'm gonna um yeah i'm gonna perform it okay anything you want to add no yeah because you you know you gotta yeah exactly all right at one point you

were talking about dropping an album called serenity i was i still got that album too you know i just um that was supposed that album is not even supposed to be it will be the album that i just wanted to be really have a peace of mind and like i told you i'll depress down bad for years so it was hard for me i'm like how can i even make a album called serenity and i don't even have that right now i have no peace i used to say the serenity prayer to myself all the time just trying to like get back to like yo god please just you know it's and that's and that's about control and just like you know realizing that you know i don't i'm not in control or whatever um but uh yeah no it's still it's still in the works and i'm gonna definitely do that at the right time i got the music and i love that album

so um that one is not about it's not about the money it's not about um radio like it's one of those albums like i'll be happy that released and you know that's it's just like my soundtrack to to miami maybe that's a reason to release it because you know peace peace is subjective right like and peace comes in and it comes and goes yeah so you're not you're never gonna truly be fully at peace but i mean it's something to aspire to just to put in the universe. You're right. You're definitely right about that. But, you know, the labels got to cut the chain if they want that out. What makes Bryson Tiller happy? Maybe we're asking the wrong question. Maybe we're talking about things that depress you like music.

Other than video games, what genuinely makes you happy? My kids are a generic answer, but my kids really make me happy. A really good movie. A really good sci-fi movie makes me happy. You said your car collection? My cars make me happy. My action figure collection, you know, that makes me happy. Everything.

G.I. Joe's? I don't got no G.I. Joe's. They're action figures. Be kind of trash, a little cute. But, you know, I like, yeah, everything. Old wrestling ones? Like the Marvel joints? Nah, so I got, like, some Jim Henson original, super original,

like the custom, like, Ninja Turtle action figures. I got an Iron Giant, super tall Iron Giant. I got a uh candida from uh akira um a lot of stuff y'all don't want to talk about action figures what's your i got i got dano's glove at the house okay i can't outfit i got a whole iron man suit i like collecting russia so i go to stores in different cities and just be like what's not for sale in here you know what i mean and i just try to test let's see like they're like oh that's not for sale i'm like man come on you know yeah, I just try to test let's see like they like oh, that's not for sale

I'm like man. Come on. You know, yeah, so I was like about a rush it to be honest and All right. Well We couple extra fingers I can't wear it what I Wore before my place L though L though. Up here? Yeah. It was Halloween. Such a clown. Okay.

We was talking about extra figures, but all right. Thank you, Bryson. Yeah. I hate, I hate this. I'm stupid.

We appreciate you for joining us. Sorry that we got a little ghetto fired at the end. Quick one out. It's all good. But ladies and gentlemen, I do want to, we talked about Jack Harlow earlier. Y'all met early, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Super early. Like before you, the one of y'all was on. No, no, no, not that early. I met him at Lil Uzi's show when he came to Louisville. And I came out for Lil Uzi on stage or whatever. And, yeah, Jack was backstage. This was before he blew up. But I knew of him. I knew I heard of him. And y'all did music together, right? Nah. Y'all did a record together? No. Oh, yeah. After the fact. Yeah, we did. of him. I heard of him. Y'all did music together, right? Nah. Y'all did a record together? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. After the fact, yeah, we did. We did make a couple songs.

Where's that at? Where that song's at? On his albums. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. It's all good. I apologize, Jack. I don't listen to the album. Damn it, man.

He's always there. No. Thinking about Whips and Chains kind of blew me a little bit. Hey, Jack. I don't listen to the album. Damn it, man. Damn, he's always. No. I was thinking about Whips and Chains. It kind of blew me a little bit. Hey, yo. Pause. Well, Bryce, we appreciate you for joining us, man. Good luck with everything.

Hopefully, we'll see you again. Oh, we asked about Ryan Trey. Ryan Trey. Yeah. Is that your artist? No, he's not my artist. Okay. I don't have no artist.

Yeah, somebody clever. Okay. What do you see in him that you like? I really like when he raps, man, a lot, somebody clever. Okay. What do you see in him that you like? I really like when he raps, man. A lot, you know. She looked at me. Why you looking at me like that?

Seeing that, bitch. Music. Crazy. And clever. Shout out to Ryan Trey, man. Honestly, it just reminded me a lot of myself when I was younger. You know, I met him, I think when he was like 17 or 18 or something like that. And, you know, he just wanted to make music.

Like, just a newcomer and just trying to, I appreciate people that just love music. So, you know, that's really what I see in him. Right, so don't be a stranger, man. Yeah, come back up here, brother. He's like, yeah, I ain't got a proper shot at album. We don't know when you're Yeah come back up here brother He's like Yeah I ain't gonna Proposal that We don't know when you gonna Wanna come talk again I don't know

I don't know when y'all Would want me to be up here again So you know Anytime man Anytime Alright I'm starting to think it's you though Cause this has never happened before

With a studio shutdown It might be Like the whole studio shutdown That's actually crazy Like do you change Nah I don't actually Yeah man You got a therapist

Nope God damn Bryson So you just. Yeah, man. You got a therapist? Nope. God damn, Bryson. So you just sit around and soak? I did have a therapist, but she, I don't know what I'm talking about around there. I think that's, I just think there might be some internal work to do is all I'm saying. Nah, definitely. I've been doing it though.

I feel great, man. I'm telling you, I feel the best that I've ever felt in a long time, bro. Like, I feel unstoppable. You know, there's nothing you could have really said to me that would have really broke me up here. You know, I'm just, I feel great. That's the only reason I'm up here, to be honest. I'm trying to break you. No, no, no.

I mean. See, that's what I mean. No, but hold on. I'm just saying, like, I'm not, like, intentionally, but, like, if there was something that, like, early on in my career, I'll tell you, I would have been up here, like, yeah, and, you know what I mean, just super nervous. And, like, I think now I'm just a lot more comfortable and I just don't care, you know. And I'm just like, it is what it is, whatever.

And I think it's good for you to know that people do genuinely love you. Like, they genuinely do love and value and appreciate your music. I've never heard. Like, I would have never thought you thought people didn't like your music. Really? I see it all the time. That's great.

Because you have, like, a cult-like following. Like, people, like, her sister loves you. She in there, like, when we just went down for the break, she was like, hey, some dude, you need me to come in here and sing for him? Girl, no.

That's why I was just like, no, you know what I'm saying? She loves you so, yeah. Eli, Eli like people genuine appreciate what you do. What about you though? I want to ask you how long is that that pause between On don't on don't right how long is the pause how many seconds is that because between on don't, on don't, right? How long is the pause? How many seconds is that? Because I still can't catch it. Did you just say 11?

It's 11. Damn, Eli. Yeah. Jesus. Okay. That's actually crazy. Who the hell knows that? It's 11.

Who would count that and why? I don't know. It's 11 weird type of seconds you have to do like a metronome to get you through. yeah that's the only way but who wants who wants to do that when they listen to the song just listen to it me and my sister we were trying it's on my story right now we was trying and i i couldn't get it my favorite song on trap so it's been that way but don't i've been in exchange but don't like we was trying to count it and she gets it every time my My sister, she ain't know it was 11 seconds, but she gets it every single time. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Why? That was an accident, actually. My studio was just wonky. Like, it's like y'all's studio a lot. Oh, damn. You know what I'm saying? No, anyways, it was just, it was horrible at that time.

And I just couldn't finish the song. I was just like, you know what? It is what it is. I was trying to, like, get the timing right, but it never worked the song I was just like you know what it is what it is I was trying to like get it the timing right but it never worked and I was like whatever I just leave it like that so that's what we're gonna do for this interview so when it gets to the part with a board drop let's let it drop for 11 seconds stay drop for 11 seconds and then it will edit back in with the mic holding the microphones oh do that real quick Bryson So we can edit it in Already Yeah Um Don't

No Not like that Don't I don't wanna I gotta sing it You don't sing it like that Don't I gotta sing it

Don't Don't I hate I hate that man I hate singing I hate what fucking pays the bills I hate it so much I hate what got everybody

Coming to my concerts I hate it Bryson tilliller's out. No, let him do it. He got fostered. He said he didn't want to do it. Oh, you're right. I'm treating you like Khaled.

My bad. It's all good. He didn't want to do it. Let him do it. I'll do it. Don't. Oh, my goodness. Don't.

Is that all right? Bryson Tiller, the album is out right now. That's just like you trapped in a ditty session. I just want y'all to know I'm only doing that for y'all. I never do that for nobody else. People be like, say don't. And they be feeling like a thing that they use to mock me and shit. Oh, got you, got you.

And I'm just like, nah, I ain't saying that. I was actually going to get it tatted on my middle finger. So when people say it to me in public, I just go, yeah, yeah. Let's celebrate it together. I love that song. I think that's the best thing for you, Bryson. What? To not give a fuck. I think that's the best thing for you, Bryce. What? To not give a fuck.

I think that you give a fuck a little too much. I think if you just not give a fuck. I did. I stopped giving a fuck, though. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck no more. I don't care. Bryce is like, I've been trying to leave for 20 minutes.

Y'all keep being like that. No, no, no. We good. We good. I love you. Stay for 20 more minutes. I don't want you to leave. Bryce is still like, it's the Breakfast Club.

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