We're Out of Time - Xtsy - Sober Minded, Art Centered And Business Focused

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

On this episode of We're Out of Time with Richard Taite, Xtsy* shares his path to success, with a soberminded approach. Along with his focus on his passion for music, understands that it's a business and what he works to achieve.For all things Richard Taite, the We're Out Of Time podcast, and Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa:https://linktr.ee/richardtaitehttps://www.1callplacement.org/For more on Xtsy* :https://www.instagram.com/xtsywrld/Key moments from this conversation with Xtsy* & Richard Taite.Intro 00:00Did Xtsy ever have substance abuse struggles? 00:51How is Xsty going to make his dreams and goals a reality? 02:11How did Xtsy's first LA gig go, and how does he view artistry? 06:17Why is the saying "more money, more problems" a fact? 08:37What epidemic has faced the underground rap scene? 14:37What is Xtsy's experience with fent, and why did it change his habits? 20:09Why is Xtsy becoming business-minded at 19? 23:04What future goals does Xtsy have in addition to his music career? 30:58

I would like to say I got good meat, and I've cherished the fact that I make good meat. Like, it's an art. You got to really know what you're doing, finances-wise. So now the decisions you make have to be more sober. You got more to lose. That word is sober. I like being level-headed. You make better decisions. I have not asked one person who's come here yet, and someone said no. So it's prevalent in the crowd that you frequent. My own girl's name was I, C-O-D.

A little bit of she. I think 17. I don't want to fall off the map like a lot of other artists have. I want to make something out of this. And I am making something out of this. So, Xanax. Thank you for showing up, man. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, he's always. What? You do zanis? Oh, you used to do Xanax. Yeah. I don't have pills at all no more, though. That's slimmed me the pail. I was really skinny.

Dude, skinnier than you want to now. Yeah, that's bad, bro. The reason you're on this is because you know people who have died of accidental overdoses, right? Because their drugs have gotten laced with fentanyl, right? And it's killing everybody. And that's why I'm on this podcast. That's why I brought you on because people care about what you think. You get how many two million streams a month or something like that?

Yeah. On your music? A week. A week. Yeah. Two million a week. That's how many downloads you get. Yeah.

Wow. That's just Spotify, though. That's not like everything. I don't know how much it is everything. I know it's way more than that on everything. But I know, like, specifically, like, two, it's like two mil a week on Spotify. So you're a big shot, dude. 19. Like, you've done it. Like, you're right there. Do you know what a J-curve is in business?

It's like you're putting money into it. You're putting money into it. Okay, you're starting to break even and then you blow up. You're right there on the J-curve. You've already done this and you're right here. You're about to blow up, man. Appreciate that. No, it's a fact. Here, you want to know how you can make it a reality? For sure. Thank God. in advance. Close your eyes. I want you to visualize this. We're going to go through a visualization.

Okay? You're there on stage. You walk in and there's 50,000 people. You're in Dodger Stadium and it's packed to the gills. The last person that played there was Lady Gaga. and you're following her. And you come out and all this smoke comes out. And you walk through the smoke.

And you just do it. And everybody loses their mind. And then you're done with that. You ain't going to do the party thing because you're not about that. And you got other places to go. You got things to do. You got your next show.

Okay. And you just finished your set here in L.A. And you're on your way to Madison Square Garden. And then you're going to work your way back. So you leave this place, but this is the way you leave. This is the way a big shot leaves. You're right there in downtown. So they take you, wow, they take you to this building, right?

With a helicopter pad and you get out. You get on the helicopter, and they take you right to Santa Monica Airport, where you get on your own private jet, and you go, you land right there at the private airport, right there where a car is waiting for you. And then, oh, Mr. Xanax, let me take your bags, as if you were carrying the bags in the first place, right? And then you go right to the hotel. and you're there at the four seasons on the top floor right waiting to go to mass in square garden the next day the next morning for practice and then you're going to rock that show too

that's your future if you work for it and if you thank god in advance and if you cut off any other possibility and the reason is is because you're 19 damn years old which means you don't know what you can't do yet so don't let anybody tell you what you can't do because you can do anything you want to do as long as you're not doing that stupid Xanax I appreciate that bro and also my name is

ecstasy not Xanax and I I don't I don't I know it's funny I know it's right no that is so my fault that is so my fault I stand correct. Keep it in no. Keep it in know. Keep it in no. I'm not, I don't want you cutting out of shit, bro. I'm not touching

until ever again. Like, that shit really through my life and I've seen this shit that you do to other. It's like, I'm not like I appreciate the fact of you talking to me in general. I appreciate this. Dude, I appreciate you talking to me in general. My listener is going to love this. You're freaking, I've been

tuned in. Are you good at basketball? I'm cool. I'm cool. That sounds cool. I'm too. Could you beat 2K, baby? If you break every shot, yeah. Dude, nobody beats that guy. He's the best. Nobody's better than him. I put a rack on it.

So, last night I heard you did your first show. Yeah, I rocked that out. And I saw video of it. It was awesome. Thank you. How did it feel? At first, I'm not going to lie. They were low-key pissing me the fuck off.

Like, when I got there, when I got there, it was cool. because like I could tell people knew who I was. I just wasn't going up to him. Like I could see them staring at me and like smiling. But before my set started. But I didn't want to go up to them because I was, I needed to get drunk. I'm just going to keep up. But what's good.

It was like his first show of my nerves are a little high. Liquid, liquid courage. Yeah, the crown apple. You know what's getting me though? What's getting me is last night you did your first ever concert and you're already getting two million downloads a week how the hell did that happen

first of all you got to be good in music like you can't be in music and expect you know the results to come in I would like to like to say I got good music and I've cherished the fact that I make good music like it's an art and you got to really know how to paint that picture. A lot of these, because I've heard you not know how to paint that picture. So that's one. And then two, it's

a business to this. Like, you, you're a businessman, so you know, like, business goals and everything. So you got to really know what you're doing finances-wise and knowing what to accept and what not to accept, like,

details-wise, like, when it comes to certain, like, not contracts, but like, just certain performances and stuff. The money has to sound right. I'm pretty sure like you are a money right might write. Money right sound a guy, correct? I found right. Yeah.

Me? Hell yeah. I got a lot of problems. You got a lot of problems. Money solves problems. If I'm right. More money, more problems. Yeah. You know?

I mean, you want it. Your life's going to get big. Careful what you ask for. your life's going to get real big. Your problems right now are big, you know, but they get bigger. They get bigger. I mean, you can tell right now that your problems have gotten bigger than, you know, just looking for rent.

I mean, those are real problems. But once you get that handle, now you've got something to lose. So now the decisions you make have to be more sober. Yeah. Right? because you got more to lose. I honestly like, like that word is sober. I could tie that into like something else.

Like I really don't. I don't really begin like, but I'm going to go, I like being level-headed. I think like you make better decisions, especially like when you got a point where you really need, I'm in a point where I'm really making a lot of decisions. So I haven't really been getting like fried. I haven't just because I need to think.

I don't, a lot of people don't really, you're thinking like that. They're just like getting hooked up all the time. They all realize like, you know, you're really, you're really balanced it out. You can't have all days where you're a lazy by doing anything. You just fry this versus the days we're actually productive in doing it. How many days out of the month would you say you're productive? If it's a 31 day month, then, hey, let's just go 30 days so the math is easier. Okay.

Then I say 25 because... Really? No, no, slow down. You really get 25 out of the 30 days where you're productive and you lay low and regenerate. Right on those five days? Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. I do not get fucked up all the time.

Well, wait a minute. Hold on it. Whether you get fucked up or not is irrelevant because I'm not. and I don't know if I have 25 days a month where I'm productive. The thing is with me is like I can make music every single day no matter where I'm at compared to another like work experience where somebody has to go into work and like they might have an off day with me. It's like I'm making so much music on a daily basis that if I made something, say I made like

10 songs, right? Two of them are mediocre. I can go back the next day and recraft them songs and it's something beautiful and that's a productive day too because now I got those two songs. And add on to say another four songs. I make a lot of music, bro. And it's productivity and music just comes down to whether if, I say whether you got it or not. And I just like, well, also, also it's whether or not you love it because if you love it, then you're going to do it more and you're going to be more intentional about it, right? I love me. And it's not work, is it?

I mean, if you love it, you go to work every day and you've never experienced a day of work in your life. Absolutely. Right? Yeah. Yeah, that's why you're going to be good at it. Real good. Real good.

Real good. Pause. Look at who we got. We got someone who just got. drafted, this kid's going to be an all pro. Yeah. We got you, we got Kobe right out of high school. Let me get that gold jacket.

Let me get my gold jacket. That was awesome. That was awesome. I like to think that I'm awesome ass. You, dude, you are awesome. You're definitely awesome. I got the rich of take cosines. My life is going on.

You do, dude. Nobody gives a shit about my cosine. That's people do, bro. So let me ask you a question. How did it feel your first show? It felt like complete control. Like, you can tell them if what the fuck you want them to do, like, if the energy's not feeling good because I ain't go out, L.A. crowds.

And that was, that was, the front was dead as shit. Right. And I was asking people about it, and they said L.A. crowds are usually dead. so I don't know if I'm going to do many performances here. I don't go on. I'd be sure if you were there, but other than that, like, that crowd was horrible. I had to tell them to bounce,

I had to build that energy up. And once I felt like I had enough energy, I kept performing, I had to cut the song and call them out because they were dead. And I was like, no. I saw it. You were at the beginning of it. And, you know, they weren't, like, hyped up enough.

and you stopped it and you were so in control. You made them bounce right away and then you started up again. I thought that was aggressive and in complete control like you've been doing that for your entire life. Thank you. I had to do that. I felt like because when I perform,

I don't feel like the same person that I feel like right now. Right now, that's like intellectuals where I'm in the moment. But when I'm performing out there, it's like, that's my, you know, like, this is going to go exactly how I want it to go. And if it doesn't, correct, I got to change it. So I did that. It was, I did that for that song. And then I guess I got there in respect or something because the second song, I only got to do two songs, sadly, because my others got corrupted. But the second song that I did, all the energy was there.

They was rapping the lyrics along because they knew the lyrics to the second song. They were rapping the lyrics. I didn't have to tell them the joke. or none of that. I didn't have to do anything. It was good. I also a couple of times where I wasn't performing, I still went on stage to hype the crowd up for like somebody else set and stuff like that. He doesn't have those videos because he wasn't there for that. But like, that's cool. That was cool. Your team player. Hell yeah. I love the stage. I love performing. Like it's just, it feels ripe when I do that. I want to go back to the fentanyl thing, right, that we were talking about

before right when you got here i bet you know we're having an epidemic with fentanyl right especially in the underground rapsy i have not asked one person who's come here yet um if they knew someone who died of fentanyl and someone said no so it's prevalent in the crowd that you frequent right yeah you know anybody who's died of fentanyl i do it's because uh we're Where I'm from, it, like, the epidemic of fentanyl, like, is majority Philly and Baltimore. And I'm from Baltimore, so it's, like, really prominent there. So I know a couple people that OD off of this. Has Trank made it there yet?

As what? Trank. Probably. It's fentanyl mixed with animal tranquilizer. They freeze and stuff. They slump over, like, zombie. Yeah. It's more Philly than Baltimore.

Philly dirty. It's more Philly. But in Baltimore, it's definitely there, especially you go down to the harbor. And if you go up by this place called Lexington, you go up there. It says you be seeing, I used to see, I saw one of one in New York, too, oddly enough. Like a zombie. Yeah, just like, you literally just feel like we left, went to Joe's and got all this other. came back to the hotel like six hours later still slumped over there just with piss running down our leg i was

like you got to look at these people and really focus in they will have an open sore on their body somewhere and you'll be able to see the bone that's crazy right and what they do is they inject it inside the open wound because for whatever reason it feels the best i don't really understand it yet You know, but it's coming. You know, it's coming to a suburb near you. But yeah, man, so tell me about first names only. Tell me about someone that you knew who died of fentanyl. My own girl's name was Iza.

I know, there's a C-O-D. Yeah. How old was she? I think 17. 17? I think Where'd she live? Lultimore?

No She's from here Oh, I'm gonna grow up Where was she from? Cali Callie That's real, bro It's real

It's crazy I don't fuck That's why I don't touch Nothing I don't touch Because like I don't touch No pills

Only get off Only liquor Because like liquor Like liquor is always That's just alcohol Like, I'm not, you get alcohol poisoning, but that's if you drink too much. You got to know your limit. And then just, Zah.

Like, we, I just smoked a drink. But I don't know what I do is a dozen people. And I've seen what it can do to, so I'm not with this. What's this little girl's name again, the 17-year-old? Issa. Issa? Yeah. Were you close with her?

Does she have her parents alive? I don't know. You don't know? No, I don't know. I don't know. Oh, she's 17 years old, so was she living at home with her parents? No, she was with her cousins. But I know, I think her mom was alive for sure, though.

For sure. Wow. A woman buried her baby girl. I hope not. That sucks. I would never want no parent to, like, have to bury. their kid first. Like that sucks.

They did have to bury their kid. Yeah. So my condolences go up there. That's the thing. That's how they usually be getting them off. That's why I don't put up with pills. Because they press pills. Like, pressing

pills, the fake pills, that's just crazy. It's like a whole epidemic is just press pills. And that's how a lot of people be overdosing because of the press pills. You can't fuck with pills. no more unless like you're getting it for like directly from the like a script like unless you have a script for it you should not be doing pills no more right so unless you're getting it from a pharmacy

or a doctor yeah unless you have a prescription because they they they press pills so much so much the powder too yeah like I I know I'm pretty sure like people be snorting that and then they end up dying from that because they snorted fucking sometimes it don't think it's coke some people might think it's it's cork that but the coke has fentmo in it too exactly that's all how you can't get what anything nowadays anything anything you get on the street you can't anything it doesn't have a smell i'm pretty sure that fent doesn't have a smell either so you can't even like that's why i don't you can't buy is you got only the dispensary that's that's why i stopped smoking for a long time because my i got laced because I couldn't, I smelled the, I couldn't even smell the actual, the fent.

You can't, you can't smell it. So, they could kill anybody else. It's crazy. So your weed was laced with fentanyl. Yeah. How'd that feel? That's the worst day in my life. I was with my friends, and this before we had a car, so we had to, like, all, like, take

the buses and stuff to see each other, took a bus to my friend, one of my old friends' houses, and we just walked to the train station to smoke. But before we got to the train station, I rolled up. And it did not. Like, I was just smoking for a little while. So, like, it's not, I know when something's off. And that's off immediately. Like, it was, I kept falling, like, sinking into my body.

And then I froze. Like, I kept walking. And then it was, like, I kept falling in my body, so I'll keep freezing, like that. And my friends, they had to keep. keep waking me up while we were walking to the thing. And it was the scariest moment in my life. I'm not going to love.

Like, I literally, when we got to the, we didn't even get to the train station. We got to a storage facility on the way there because I was way too, I couldn't go any further. I was too high. They asked me if I was okay. And I was like, yeah, they wanted to go to the store. So they asked me if they could go. And I said, yeah, I really didn't want them to leave, but I told them, yeah, because I, like,

I honestly don't know why I said yeah I was so high but they left so I was just in the storage facility with bugs all over me and just tweaking the help were there really bugs or were you hallucinating I don't know I was like I quite literally I got up because I was sitting in the grass at first I got up and I went to the middle of the lot because the middle of the lot had the little the levers that you got to scan through to get inside the facility had one of those and I was standing right beside it there was no guard there because it's like you're you're like you you check yourself in type. But I was just sitting there and I called my dad

because that was the only number I could think of by heart. I couldn't remember nothing else. It was only my dad's number. I called my dad and he came and picked me up in 15 minutes. And he was so mad. Not at me. He was mad at my friends, but he was so mad because they just left me there. He's like, he said, even though they say yes, even though I say yes,

they still said that we're staying with you anyways. But they didn't do that. so he was mad. Do you know that when you were describing that walk, that I was on that walk with you? This is like the most enriching, enrichment-filled, like, activity I've had in so long. This has been very, very, very, very entertaining.

What do you do with your $20,000 a month? I do got to pay for travel. I'd be paying for travel. It's so annoying. Okay, how much you pay for travel? travel a month. Don't say 21 or I'm going to snap. So it's like maybe like five plus on early. It's just travel and then one where their expenses like groceries and the eating dollars. That's expensive. People don't pay to fly you out. No, no. Sometimes yeah,

but all the times. I'm irritated. All right. So check this out. You got your money in the bank. Ron. How much interest you get on the money? I think I got 1.8%? Okay. I love that You know it. Okay? You need to get with a wealth manager. Okay? Because the second you get with a wealth manager, he'll have access to, I think I get about 5% a month.

Okay? And I'm not an investor, right? First of all, I'm 58, so I can't lose my principal, right? So I need it all for my business. So I use that. But you're not. Okay? And you don't need 20 grand a month.

That's insane for a 19-year-old. It's insane. Okay? It doesn't matter where you are at 19. What matters is where you are at 49. 39. Right? I mean, that's what matters.

Right? So unless you're going to let your money build and let it work for you, you this this rat has a limit on it right you you got to you love it but you got to get what it is you want out of this so that you can build the life you've always wanted that you've always dreamt of this thing may last for 10 15 20 years who the hell knows but you're making good money now and you need to establish good habits. Now, being fiscally responsible is the most important lesson that you can learn, and they don't teach you that in school.

They don't. Okay? If I were you, I'd be dollar cost averaging every month into the S&P and the NASDA. Okay, never going to get hurt that way. Your money's going to build on itself, okay? And if I were you, I would take half of your money and make certain that it goes every single month into that. Because at the end of the year, you don't have 120,000, you got 150,000. Okay?

Yeah. That's how that works, right? And then your money will build on itself, right? I mean, what do you people say, what are you going to do with your first million? Reinvest. You got to reinvest your first million. You're not supposed to spend it. The mistake most athletes make with the first million is that they spend like 250,000 of that on like, Beamer or something.

No, they don't. Like, if they have, if they have my, one of my best friends is one of the biggest sports agents in the world. Okay. I've sat there while someone forget their signing bonus or anything like that. I've sat at a dinner table with him while he was writing a check for someone for $5,000 so he could get his Mercedes delivered right after the game. instead of waiting 48 hours

to get their paycheck. It's a dumb stuff. This is so... I wouldn't even talk to my friend for a week. It's just lazy. It's setting up bad habits, right? It's not, it's co-signing people's stupidity and you either want what's best for them or you don't.

And I've don'tkeed off, I don't know, fortune after. fortune okay and why not you know i mean i just learned certain things over the last seven and a half years right that and most people hide the ball i don't want to hide the ball you know i got a lot of kids come in here right now that i am so grateful to right because you guys are putting out the message that you know that buying drugs on the street is dangerous yeah and i'm I love that about you guys. You guys come here with a good soul and an open heart

and really to genuinely do right because it's your friends that are dying. Yeah. You know, everybody's dying. So anyway, thank you for that. And just do me a favor, man. You're 19 years old. You're just starting out.

The habits that you build now are going to last the rest of your life. Yeah. Okay. The thing is, I'm not telling them to not do them because, like, they're not going to listen. Like, they're going to do drugs or girls. I'm just saying, don't buy them on the street. Like, you know, get a script. Even if you're getting a script off somebody grim or something, like, just get a script in general.

That's, dude, I got to stop you because that was the most genius thing ever that you said. Because I get beaten up all the time. These guys are faded when you're talking to them. you're glorifying pot smoking, that's not at all what I'm doing. What I'm doing is medically assisted treatment. Yeah. Okay? If these guys want to smoke pot to stop from doing street drugs and killing themselves,

I think that's a good deal. And I don't apologize for it. So thank you for saying. Gee. Oh. Well, you know that we're, here this is dude we're here to showcase uh your breakout man i'm telling you you're about ready to blow up you are you come to uh i guess you take us to cochella when i do cochella and all that

super bowl will take us when i do super bowl you so much i'm going to give that right to my kids yeah you think your kids uh well they're probably grown they're probably like in the 20s i would presume because i'm sold No, no, I'm trying to estimate because my kids are 45. For real? No. So either you had them in your 30s or 20s, and if you had them in your 20s, then they would be in their 30s, but if you had you in your 30s, it would be in their 20s.

Dude, I lost 25 years to smoking crack, okay? Trust me, I ain't got no 30 and 20-year-old kids. I got a 15-year-old and an 11-year-old, and I'm lucky to have them. Yeah, it's all, man. You know what I'm saying? I've heard that when people get older, they don't really got the shooter left in the tank, but you're proving them wrong, man.

You got the, you know what I'm saying? Just like that. Dude, that's so funny that you say that. That is hysterical. What do you doing next, man? I want to start a music video company. I want to make music videos because I know my creative vision

and creative direction is there. And I could definitely, and I know the mind of all the, you know, the artist. So if I learn the artist's mind, I could work perfectly with the artist. When I'm done with all this, I'm going to be sitting on millions

and just have a music video company, you know what I'm saying? Me and my girl are going to do architecture. She's really in the architecture. So we're going to be making houses. Just to sum up, you're 19, okay? Remember when we talked about habits,

becoming financially literate, right? You've committed to that. That's amazing. Okay, so you didn't just appear on a podcast. Okay, you got a little direction. I'm sure you don't I choose to use it. I think you're going to be better off. It's just like a life lesson.

I'm going to use it though. Because like I don't want to fall off the map like a lot of other artists have. I don't want to make something out of this. And I am making something out of this. I'm going to continue making something out of this. All right, bro. Where can people reach you? My Instagram.

Well, just everything is ex. T-S-Y. X-T-S-Y. Yeah, ecstasy. That's ecstasy for the guy that doesn't do ecstasy. Oh, I did it a couple times. I know, buddy. See you next Tuesday.

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