We're Out of Time - A Trajectory To Success With Rapper Warhol SS

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

Rapper Warhol SS shares how he has kept his eye on his passion for his music. Watch as he opens up about his journey to stardom, keeping on a positive path and wanting to help others on the We're Out Of Time podcast with Richard Taite. For all things Richard Taite, the We're Out Of Time podcast, and Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa: https://linktr.ee/richardtaitehttps://www.1callplacement.org/FFor more on Warhol SS: https://www.instagram.com/warholKey moments from this conversation with Warhol SS & Richard Taite. Intro 00:00How did SoundCloud help showcase Warhol SS? 01:30Warhol and Rich discuss the origins of Rap. And why is rap a passion for many? 03:45Would Warhol SS be up for the challenge of making 3 albums a year? 09:09Why is the saying "more money, more problems" a fact? 08:37Why does Warhol state that Richard is a "live wire"? 10:37Warhol answers "WHAT" question honestly and what is his perspective on abusing substances? 14:01Warhol on the Underground Rap Scene and substance abuse 17:12Warhol shares a story of helping a woman in need 20:42What is a High Bottom? Richard shares. 27:03

Because they wrapped just turned 50 in 2024. When I was in high school, everybody loved it. When it grasped you, it grabs you, right? Yeah. Me and my little brother, even though we got different mothers, we're blessed to both have our father. Both have our mothers. You know what I'm saying?

We got each other. Like, how many people do you know who've died of an overdose? Literally, a long list of people. You don't need drugs at all because drugs isn't end but a real like escapism, for real. Escape from you, never going to fix the problem. You're going to save lines. You're never going to know how many you say. I was never rock and save one.

Totally behind this podcast. I just want the camera to know. Warhol, tell him, you watch this. You got to watch everyone, though. But specifically, you only even got to watch it for the interview. We watch it for him. Warhol, how you doing, man? Thanks for coming.

Richard. Very, very lasting, fresh impression. Oh, the whole thing when you walk dead. Very lasting first impression. How long were you laughing for? How long ago did I get here? Five minutes? The entire five minutes.

Okay, cool. I was just, we just had a podcast with Jimmy Shin. Zimmy soon? Jimmy Shin is a world-class comedian. Okay. And he is so funny. And so we just did our podcast and then we had lunch together. And so I'm still on the,

I'm still on the comedian high. Yeah, comedian, hi. He's the best. Yeah. Let me just do one thing real quick and tell everybody kind of who you are, right? Okay. You're like the OG. You're one of the beginning guys who did the SoundCloud.

The whole era. Yeah, the SoundCloud era. Yeah. Yeah, there was a few people that came before me. But in times of that 2016, the year 2016 was like when the world kind of got on SoundCloud. So, yeah, they do really call us the pioneers. But, yeah, there were some people before us. Like, I knew about SoundCloud probably with my junior high school.

It's like 2014. So, yeah, about two years before I started rapping for real, I already knew about some people on SoundCloud. That's how it was fine. And then music. Like, it was artists like Youngling, Xavier Wolf, Rob Banks, Desil Curry, all the type of people. All the Lofi 305, all type of people.

But those were the real, real pioneers. when not many people knew about it. But when I came around, my class people came around. That's when everybody was on it. That's when the whole world was on it. We had the label trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

Like, they didn't need to know how to navigate SoundCloud. They didn't know who to sign, who was lit, who wasn't lit. And then when X came around, X was like the, no matter of fact, Boat was like the first bridge between the mainstream and the underground. But when X came around, X was the one that was getting mainstream. numbers so that's when the like lines started getting blurred between what was really underground or what was mainstream you know i'm older and i come from like tupac and biggie and run dmc and all that

stuff right yeah when i listened to the sound cloud it didn't sound anything like that totally different totally different i don't get it so here's the real piece of right so when rap came around It was seen as different. Yeah. It wasn't accepted by many. It was seen as a sort of counterculture. That's not true. It was accepted in 83.

Mm-hmm. Okay. That's when the run DMC album. Yeah, in 83, but what rap just turned 50, right? 1974. Really? That's when rap started. Yes.

I didn't know that. Ninety-s74 is when rap started because it wrapped just turned 50. in 2024. Yep. Dude, when I was in high school, everybody loved it. Yeah.

Everybody. We'd have those big recorders and put them down on the field and we'd practice to... So you see how, how, when it grasped you, grasped you, right? Yeah.

The SoundCloud era was like that except for a whole new wave and new sound rap. It's like umbrella. It's just an umbrella, a rap pretty much. So umbrella a rap, but how can I put it? For example, like, if you went to a Warhol show in 2016 and 2017,

opposed to going to like a YG show in 2016 and 2017, both shows had a lot of people, but one show just looked like a rock show, like, Mosh pics, everybody jumping, water getting thrown, people jumping off stage crowd surfing. It was like that. That's cool. That must pump you up.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. But do you ever have something like that where people weren't psyched and you just tell me that? So when probably when like I first came out where because I started rapping and probably, matter of fact, I dropped my first stuff like the day I graduated high school. May 22nd, 2015. That's when I dropped my first anything. So it was that

And then I pretty much Since the day I graduated high school I mean honestly when I was in high school Like my junior year That's when I started figuring out That I was gonna do it And by the time I was a senior I was like I'm already locked in

And then by the time I had dropped Cool I was already locked in But when Like I started getting noticed Probably like three or four months In the me like dropping music pretty much And then

I started like doing shows Like when my first few shows was like I had some shows in Minnesota I had a couple shows in Chicago But like the shows were like It was some people there that like They knew the music But then there were a lot of people there

That just heard about this new kid That's lit He's rocking shows Don't know any music But hear people talk about it though So come to the shows and they're in the crowd interested just to see what's going to happen

and then when they see the people that do know the music the way they acting he kind of follows suit that's exactly the way they work that's true. You having a good time? Yeah. When was your last show?

My last show was probably like two years ago because honestly I really ain't been doing many shows because I'm about to drop an album for one. And then, I'm sorry, let's get back to that. Yeah. You're about to drop an album?

Yeah. First album in how long? First album, like, two years. Were you in jail for two years? Mm-mm. Were you on crack for two years? No, sir. What the hell?

What were you doing for two years? You know, when you move to a new place, you got to get your feet, your feet settled and all that. Yeah. So that pretty much changed the whole trajectory in my career. in a good way. Because when I got to Atlanta, I started pretty much, the whole city was fucking me. Like, as soon as I got there, like, I started doing mad songs, mad features of people.

You started doing a lot of features, like a lot of features, a lot of songs. I was doing a lot of songs of people. Like, last year, only two things that dropped was block this were terrible, and that went crazy. And then Hope is Real with me, Sadie Hendry, Canino, Pay, Pay, the Highway. And we just did on the radar for that. That came out. That got like 80,000 likes, probably like 2 million views or something like that. And honestly, it put me in a different headspace for my music.

Like, I feel like I started making way different, way crazy music. Not necessarily totally different, but like I locked the end on the sound. Because when it's in my career? Pretty much just all the 2024. Okay. At 2024, it was like self-reflection and groundwork. Okay. because honestly, my whole career,

like I've been a pretty versatile artist, but like I never had a direct sound that I stick to. Like I would rap on a lot of different beats. People knew like, okay, well, yeah, if you drop something, it's going to be good, but I didn't have a niche sound, like a specific thing to me. You know what I'm? Yeah, had to work on that.

Worked on it. But you work on what you like. So if something moves you, what do you give a shit if anybody likes it if you like it you put it out and they either get it or they don't no that's a fact that's a fact but at the same time when you've been doing something for so long

instead of just doing it start becoming more intentional with it would you be willing to make a commitment to knock out three albums a year three albums a year no that's not bad especially in times

in times that they're like we in now that's actually not crazy that's how you're gonna pop really huge yeah three albums of you sure because you know I've met a lot of you guys

your underground rappers I met a lot of the underground rappers and you know the ones that are doing the work all the time are the ones I think that are doing the best Like, what did Famous Dex do?

He hasn't done something in like a year or two, right? Yeah, but he's about to pop. You know Famous Dex? Mm-hmm. Have you ever done anything with him? Me and Famous Dex have extensive history. Okay. So the states of history.

Oh, okay. Jesus Christ. This is like Biggie and Tupac. Extensive history, very extensive history. I think they were friends at the beginning, weren't they? Tipak and Biggie. Yeah. Yeah, me and Dex.

Me and Dex, me and Dex, still friends. I still love me. For sure, for sure. Me and Dex have no bad boy, none of it. I like. I just. Yeah, he said, me and be honest. Yeah.

You first impression you're a live wire. Like, on a live wire? Yes, a live wire. Like, in the best way possible. Like, how can I say this? I don't know what you're going to say. And that, that, like, adds to the aura. That adds to the aura.

It's making you nervous, too? No, no, it's not. It's like. It's like, I want to keep talking to this guy. I want to know what the fuck he's going to say next. All right, well, let me tell you what I want to say next. I mean, first I want to get your head right because you're a good guy. And you walked in here and I was like, okay, like that, right?

Okay. To commit to three albums a year, okay? And when you said, you know, when you've got to go to a new town and you've got to get yourself settled, I lied. I don't know. Okay. And the reason I don't know is because. you're a man

and the show goes on. And every day we work, every day. And the greatest part about your job is you've never worked a day in your life. It's a fun. You love it and you're great at it.

And people love your stuff. Give them what they want. Let's give it to them. It's better for you. It's better for your family. It's better for the girlfriend you got that can't speak. God bless your soul, right?

For the record, it's not my girlfriend, but keep going. Keep going, keep going. Well, then it's not nearly as funny. No, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Who was she? Keep going, just keep going. That was great. That was great.

No, we are going. I want to know who she is. She's not your girlfriend. That's my friend's friend. That's your friend's friend. You're your friend's friend? What are you doing? Yo, why?

I ain't going to lie. Totally behind this podcast. I just want the camera to know. Warheart's telling you, watch this. Watch this. You got to watch everyone, though. But specifically, you only even got to watch it for the interview week. Watch it for him.

Watch it for him. So this shit is comedy, bro. It's real, but it's comedy at the same time. I'm not a comedian. We just had the comedian. Mm-hmm. Who's fantastic, by the way. Oh, my God.

I think, wouldn't it be cool to get all the underground rappers together for a benefit for the homeless or something, right? And it goes from the rappers to the comedians to the rappers, or you have a rapper-a-comedian thing? I don't know if that would work because you guys are all jumping up like you're on PCP. Is it, is that going to work or no? I mean, I don't see why I wouldn't work.

Okay. I don't see why I would not work. Does everybody on Molly laugh? And, I mean, they want to dance and whatever. They don't want to listen to a skit, do they? Don't do drugs, kids. Yeah, I'm straight. Let's talk about that.

Let's talk about that. Are you doing drugs now? Yeah Yeah Yeah Still Wow That's the first one

Who's like Yeah Yeah You're the first person That didn't lie to me Yeah Because I'm gonna be honest Moderation

Is More than anything If you have moderation You have self patrol I'm saying I'm not gonna tell Nobody don't have fun

And whatever way You want to have fun I'll tell you be safe I'm gonna tell you Don't overdo it but not from the line just like I smoke weed I remember us sometimes I park perks sometimes I drink clean

and then when I don't sometimes I don't at all okay let's talk about the perks where you getting perks? From people that get it directly from doctor or the pharmacy but it like that dude you gotta get this stuff from the doctor yeah your friends are going to tell you

whatever the hell you want to hear oh no trust me I know I know I know You know something? You might not even don't say too much about that. But yes. That was a difference between what a press pill looks like and a regular pill. Mr. Tate, I've been doing this probably, what?

It says before I start rapping? Yes. I'll get you that much. Yeah. And then at that, like, like I said, I don't want ever tell a person not to do what they want to do, but I'm going to tell people really, we don't need drugs at all

because drugs is nothing but a real like escapeism for real for one and escaper from shit never gonna fix the problem like that's how I want people to really know

like there's some people that do drugs because they like doing drugs and it's funny for them but then there's some people that do drugs because they actually have problems and they got a fight

and that's the people that we end up losing and shit like that because people really be going through shit and they be disguising like they have a following. I was losing them all, bro.

We end up losing them all. In fact, the junkies, okay, are the least likely. Well, that's not true. They're more likely because it's being done more. But if you're a junkie, okay, you've been doing this a while and you know pretty much how much to take, right? It's the fentanyl piece now. That is

It's all laced with it, man. It's all laced with it. And really, the people that I know who have passed are people that didn't do drugs. They were sober. And I know one guy that got into a car accident. Doctor put him on pills for two months. And then he's off to the street.

First time he bought, slumped over the wheel. gone. And, you know, I loved that kid. Yeah. Like, I loved him. And, you know, it's just everybody in the underground wraps.

Like, how many people do you know who've died of an overdose of fentanyl? Bro. That shit is literally the long list of people. I'm being honest, the first person, the first person, like, that I ever knew that I lost to him. A little Pete,

no bullshit. Me and Little Pete was both. both on tour, but he was on tour, he was on his own tour, and I was on my tour. And it's funny because we spoke, like, two or three days before. It's like, yo, like, as soon as you don't tour, we're back in LA, let's celebrate, we both on tour, like, that's late. Man, never made it back on tour. She was crazy, too.

How did he die? Fat now. Took the wrong pill. Yeah. Took the wrong pill. That shit took him. Who is the kid, Dylan, that was on the plane and then ate all the pills? Juice World.

Yeah. You from Chicago, too? Mm-hmm. Juice World was a good friend of America, too. How many others? Trying to think, bro, right? You know, anybody who wasn't a rapper, somebody's daughter or somebody's son. A lot of people.

It's too many to count, isn't it? literally to me count. Honestly, it's not even the fact that I really like knew all these people like will personally. That's her I might have met him in past and this like that. But like regardless,

still hearing everybody be like, that's crazy. Because their parents are gone. Their parents are, I mean, if you're married, you're divorced. If, you know, sure, if you're normal, you're a drunk. If you're a drunk, you're dead.

It's like, it's just, there's no way out of that. Are you close to? to your parents? Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. My mom, I'm in my house. Okay, by the grace of the guy, I know a lot of people don't got that, especially at this age. Right. That's one thing I do cherish. For sure, at what age?

I mean, I'm 27 now. At 27, you don't think most people have both their parents alone? I mean, for example, my man is, Nino, he came from, from the foster care system, right? And this is your father. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. My homie, Mino Pai, he's like, he is another rapper. And but like his people's, he don't know his people's, you know what I'm saying? And there was one thing he was talking about in an interview.

He was like one thing that the foster care system needs to have is a way for when a child becomes a certain age. And they're raised in the foster care system when they become a certain age, have their original parents information somewhere or name or something so they can possibly get in contact with them, maybe find siblings like that. Like that's what they don't got. And mind you, I wasn't raised in the foster care system. So I didn't know they had that. Or excuse me, I didn't know that they didn't have that.

So for him to speak about that, that's like, it really rang in my head. It's like some people really don't got their people's real. Like me and my little brother, even though we got different mothers, we're blessed to both have our father, both have our mothers. You know what I'm saying? We got each other. I don't like a lot of people don't actually have that for it. Have you ever overdosed or seen someone overdosed?

Never overdosed. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever overdosed. Never overdosed. Ever. By the grace of God, though, I will say by the grace of God, because I'm going to be honest, bro, two years ago or like three years ago maybe, bro, I was recording in my man's career one time.

And like, mind you, this is one of my men's that's like, he's a producer, but like he gets high. Like, he gets way high to me, bro. Like, he gets high to the point. where I'd be like, I don't want to get hot no more. You feel me? Like, I'm, like, I'm one of those people.

Like, if I see a person too, too, too high, I might, like, stop just flat out, like, I ain't allowed, I'm cool. Like, you know what that is just, like, I know what it looks like, you know what it looks like. But specifically this time, I'm over there

recording, right? He's making a beat, and there's some girls over, but like the girls, is getting hot, right? Cool. So, I don't know what the fuck he went in his bathroom to get, but he comes out.

The girl takes whatever the fuck he gave to her, bro. And, like, bro, I'm telling you, like, I'm sitting there listening to the beat trying to, like, figure out what I'm going to say. Like, I'm not even recording it. He's still making the beat, right? I'm sitting here. The girl is probably, like, right here.

Like, the couch is probably what Dylan is, right? So the girl is sitting on the couch I see her take this And like I'm really like Mind of my business I ain't paying no mind About like 30 minutes past Like 30 minutes in

He probably almost done with the beat So I'm fake like rapping in my head And I'm damn to almost freestiling for real Bro I look over And bro the girl Look like she's dead and not moving Like not moving at all bro, so I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm like, like, imagine you in my head, I'm like,

eh, she knows what she's doing, but I don't know. She might be sleep. I'm feeling. So I'm sitting there and like, mind you, I do, I mind my business like a motherfucker, but I still do have a good heart. So about five minutes past, and the girl is still in the same spot. Like, like, same spot. Hasn't moved. I'm like, I tap a leg a little, bro. I'm like, yo. Bro, a leg heavier. I'm like, what the fuck? So I, I, I, I, I holl at my men's. I'm like, yo, bro, yo, check on a shorty, bro.

You like, yo, what do you mean? She's good. I'm like, no, she's not good, bro. Like, I can't even focus right now, bro. I can't even, like, think about what the fuck I'm fin to say. Like, bro, check on her. Like, you know what I'm saying? So he goes to check on the other girl that's, the other two girls that's there.

They're checking on it. And like, yo, yo. And like, shit. She probably is not moving for like another about five minutes. So this is about like 10 minutes. I'm saying that the girl is just sitting there flat out. Mind you, if she was sleep, all that waking them up, she would have got up. Right.

Okay. So about 10 minutes past, the girl is still sitting in the same spot, bro. So at this point, like, I'm not even worried about rapping no more. But I'm looking at like at the producer. I'm like, yo, bro, like, I don't know what y'all do. I don't do this type, bro, bro, fix her. Like, get her together, bro. Get her some help or some water or something.

Like, you feel me? Like, I'm not fucking with this. I'm not for the vibe. Like, it's like, no, bro, it's all good. I'm like, no, it's not all good. It's not all good, bro. Fix her now, you know what I'm saying? So, like, wake her up for like five more minutes.

It's probably about 20 minutes now. She finally get up. But, like, when she get up, like, bro, the way her face looked, you could tell if somebody didn't do something, like some, some, probably would have happened. You feel me like, you could just look. Like, I'm looking at her when she's getting up.

It's like, bro, she woke up, gasping for air. I'm like, no, bro. And I left. Like, I seen her get up. Don't ever go back there again. I have, I never, I never went there again after that day. I never went there again after that. I ain't going on. I, bro, hasn't seen me since that day.

Dude, I thought you were going to tell me she. No, no, I'm not. I'm be honest. She didn't die on my Facebook. bro, the way this shit was going, like, I'm already almost pressing the panic button in my head. Like, you know, I'm just about to die. And not only that, no, boy, there's something like that. Let's sacked my head up, bro. Dude, you call 911, okay, and you get the hell out of there.

Oh, what? I'm telling you. Make certain. Like, yo, I'm sitting there. With those other guys that are going to get arrested, okay, right? But you call 911. What the? They deserved it.

They left that. Oh, look, though. This is dumb shit, though. Like, I remember it vividly is healed because, hold on. I said that, okay? They deserved it. And the reason they deserved it, because they left that little girl sitting there, okay,

to die. And I'm only lucky that she did it. Yeah, bro. I feel like, no, I ain't, I feel like if I wasn't there and it, like, didn't make me uncomfortable, like, the worst would have happened. You know what I'm saying? Man, because, like, mind you, though, this the thing.

The girl, she asked him for whatever he went into the bathroom to go get. Like, it wasn't just like he went to go get the, gave it to her. The girl asked for it. She didn't say, she did say give me enough drugs to kill me. She said, hey, can I get a press perk or, hey, can I get, can I get it? Mind you, look, I don't know what the it was. I don't know what it was. I didn't see it.

I just, like, mind you, I'm singing and listening to the beat in my head. I'm probably looking this way, but I'm just like, they're right here. So they're in my peripheral. I hear what I'm saying? So boom, she asked for it. He's like, um, what's the thing? He said, yo, you sure? And she's like, I know what the fuck it is.

Just give it to me. And I ain't all lie. As soon as I heard that, I knew it was some other shit. I'm like, all right, bro. Like, that's when I got the really mind of my business because I'm like, I didn't some other shit. And then when all that happened, that's when I'm just like, like my soul, like my brain is telling me, look, bro.

Something ain't right. Get fucking. But my heart is saying, I don't know, bro, make sure she's okay before you just get the phone. You love your parents. Yeah, of course. You love on this. And they're in love with their son. Yeah, of course. Okay. You've got what's called a high bottom.

A high bottom was in me? That means that you were raised right. Oh, yeah. Okay. So all the bullshit I went through growing up, that shodding me into the person that I am now. The bad ain't a good. No bullshit. But the reason it bothered you when it didn't bother anybody else in the room is because your parents raised you right.

Didn't? They raised you to be a good soul. Yeah. Right? Thanks. All right. Bring all good souls to me, okay? Tell your friends.

I want people here because these kids listen to you. They look up to you, right? These younger kids, they're 16, 17, 18 years old. and their friends are handed them drugs, okay? And they're taking them. And if you say something and they listen to this podcast and they listen to you or they get the clips that we put on social media and they hear this, okay?

You're going to save lives. Now, we're never going to know how many you say. I was why are I going to save one? That's all right. Dude. I'm certain you're going to save it. least one. Bring all good souls to me,

please. Sure. All right, where can people find you? Um, Instagram, Warhol, Twitter, Warhol, SS. Um, YouTube same all the same shit, man. Hey, Richard, I ain't a lot for you both. Oh, see. You're the best

day. I had, I had a great time, boys. A great time. I'll be back, for sure. Hey, yeah. I appreciate you coming. It's, it's, it's, It's been a blessing and in a really good time. See you next Tuesday. It ever gets old.

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