Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sam, y' all know I' ma cry.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: What's up, y'? All?
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Did y' all like the video.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: Man, that part.
First and foremost, thank y' all for coming through and being here. Oh, shit. I'm sorry. I didn't really expect to see certain faces. But thank y' all for being here.
I appreciate y' all for coming through. We've been working really hard on trying to put together something special for our first official live show ever.
And, like, to be honest, it's hard as a motherfucker, you know what I'm saying? Like, oh, wait, your mom is here or your daddy here.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: I do got elders in here that are so. I'm not going to cuss tonight.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: That's not. That's not true.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: I don't even think my daddy ever heard me, cuz I be cussing sometimes.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Daddy, she's lying. She's going to curse, so y' all might as well go ahead and get that out of the way.
She. She's going to curse.
But thank y' all for being here, for real, because I. You know, we. I tried to figure out ways to make this special, and I think we probably. I think we got it right. I also have gone out of my way with the good folks at Red Bull to try to make this event free for our people to pull up and with us.
So, you know, thank y' all for. You know, I got this jacket on, and so Nay was like, I need you to get dressed. Nigga, I am dressed.
Fuck you talking about? Like, but, yeah, thank y' all for coming, for real. It mean a lot to me. Before we get started, though, I do want to, like, kind of give y' all a little, like, backstory while we here, because my team is really small. And I want to say this, like, if you.
If you want something done right, you got to get you a woman of color to run your businesses.
So that's key to success. Like, let me tell you, also effective immediately, the little backstory on that is, you know, there's not been really any platforms to uplift black women, especially out here, whereas, you know, women get to be seen in a certain light. So that's. Salas is here, too, somewhere. Y' all probably know Silas, but I try to.
I try to. Even though when I look crazy on the radio and she don't, that's on purpose. I just want to say that, like, I be making myself look crazy so she don't. And so I just think that.
But, yeah, I just think that it's important, and so when we created the platform, we wanted to do something different, something special.
She do a little girl talk, and we have, you know, some mess every now and then. She be in the middle of rap beefs and shit. But, like, other than it was in.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: A whole rap beef.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you right.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: You DJ'd the pop out.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: Okay. Mall.
So. No, I'm just saying that to say, like, when we started this, we wanted it to be something that was unlike anything else that it's not. We don't do the clickbait or. We try not to. Sometimes people come in and they want to get some shit off their chest, but we try to stay away from that. And we try to do things the right way so that way we can have good corporate sponsors like Red Bull. So needless to say, that's where effective media birth. You want to talk to. Tell them, like, how we got the name because of your. It was more your situation than mine.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: I got fired.
No, y' all can laugh. I'm not saying no more.
Yes. Y' all know the company that I work for. We don't say that name no more. But I was working for that man, and I was terminated. And Head. Both Head. And our manager Silas was like, we gotta figure out something for Gina. Like, we gotta figure it out. So, I mean, y' all don't know. Cause I don't talk about it. I was, like, depressed for, like, a year and a half. Like, I was really effed up. Sorry, Dirty.
And we were. We were literally on the phone trying to figure out what it is that we were going to do.
And I said, whatever it is the show got to mean, like, it's like, effective immediately. So we was on chat GPT looking for names. What's the word? Oxymoron.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: No. Synonym.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: No, the one that mean two things.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Oh, oxymoron.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: See, he be looking stupid on his own.
I get it. I love it.
So, yeah, so we was looking for, like, oxymorons and stuff. And Phyllis was like, wait, what was it? What did you just say? What's that word? And I'm like, what, nigga? Affect Immediately. He's like, yeah, that's it. And then we was like, oh, shoot, that's it.
So I was trying to get another job. I was trying to get hired somewhere. And Head was just like, man, none of that matter. Whatever you trying to do, whatever you think you applying for, we gonna do it on our own. And it was Sway that was trying to get us in the building. We got in the building. Is that how it happened. That's pretty much that in a nutshell.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: That's pretty much.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: I started rambling and I started crying, so I can't get too deep into it, but that's it.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: She don't want to fuck up her makeup.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm trying to take pictures with y' all afterwards. I can't mess my makeup up. Oh, and they wasn't really hiring black women at these places.
Yeah, it was like, oh, you two this, and then you look like that, and then you. You know, and it just wasn't. It wasn't given. They was hiring transplants for the job that I wanted.
Not really for real LA natives. Like, I'm really from here. Like, it ain't on me. It's Emmy, you know, and that's that.
I think I. I think I. I think I did it.
Is that it?
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Did I miss something?
[00:06:35] Speaker B: You missed that. You've never done radio before.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: See, that's what's gonna make me cry. That's all. I didn't wanna say that.
[00:06:40] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: This my first year in radio.
This all I ever wanted to do in my Whole Life. From 2014.
Ruchi is in here. Ruchi was one of the first artists that I interviewed. Ruchi was one of the first artists to do a cipher for me. Ruchi has been to every single that I've done. He's always supportive. That's him right there, hiding with the hoodie on.
But this is all I ever wanted to do. This is the only thing I see for myself, is making niggas rap. Sorry, Dirty. Making people rap, sitting in the chair and telling y' all to get off Twitter and rap. That's all I see for myself. And, you know, that's pretty much it.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: There you go. So that's. That's pretty much Gina's first time doing radio. Our producer Nate, is her first. She's never done radio before.
I just think it's important because I'm the old head, and so, like, you know, it's definitely been interesting to learn on the air. You know what I mean?
[00:07:52] Speaker A: Oh, and in my first year doing radio, I just booked my. I have my own show now on Sirius XM side.
It's a morning show.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Ain't that a.
Nah, but look, though, like, hear me out.
Nah, hear me out, though, right? No, no, Pete, this ain't. This ain't what you Dirty macking or none of that.
Peep this, though, right?
I went to school for radio in 2005 or some shit like that. I got a key card.
Chuck Dizzle Older than me.
I got a key card in 2014. Okay. I went to school for radio in 2004 or five. I got a key card in 2015.
She do one year radio. Get a motherfucking morning show.
I'm not a black woman. Trump ended that dei.
I don't want to hear that.
Anyway, I'm. I had to get that off.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: You can listen on. It's early.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: She got to plug her.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: It's for the early morning. For the early morning, folks. It's literally. It's at 5:00am okay, I'm dyslexic. It's 8:00am Eastern Standard Time, so that's 5:00am Our time. So it's gonna be off by 9:00am, channel 44 on Sirius XM.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: You done plugging all your.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Yeah, did y'. All. I hope y' all bought some merch.
Y' all seen them QR codes?
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Y. Okay, but yeah, y' all ready to talk about some hip hop?
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Act like y' all don't see us. This is just us doing a regular show, y'. All. You know y' all ain't here. Okay? You act like you don't see it.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: We got Hit Boy is here, but, you know, he. We don't bring him out in a second. But we got to talk about this Cardi B album because I think that.
Okay, by. I guess by round of applause is. Is. Am I tripping or is this album just as good as the first one? Or. No, y' all not fucking with.
Okay, so we. We were talking on the radio about this, I think last week when it dropped. But we wanted to have a conversation with y' all about this because I think Cardi B is one of them artists.
First of all, female rap is at an all time high. Like, I don't know. I think that people like to like, paint the golden era like Lil Kim and Foxy, but there was only like two or three girls that could really pop at one time.
Now it's like half of my playlist when I'm playing on the radio is women. And so I think this is more, in my humble opinion, as a dj. I'm an active dj. I don't play one on stream. But like, as. As one of them people who like, what, as an activist? My shit as a.
As an active dj, I'm like, I'm playing more women than I ever have in my life. And I've been DJing like 20 years or something. Like, damn, I'm old. So for me, I look at this era, the Cardi B era, The Glorillas, all of that shit as extremely special.
And I think. Shout out to Elliot Wilson. He's here.
We had.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: Hey, Elliot.
That's a legend in the building.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: We had.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Do you know who Elliot is?
[00:11:29] Speaker B: No.
Elliot would tell you who he is every week. On the bigger picture.
He will let you know. I'm the motherfucking goat.
But we had this debate on the bigger picture. On what. On what Cardi would sell first week. And I don't know when consumers started becoming concerned with first week sales, but to me, I think that she hit the mark. I think we're somewhere like around three, two, two something, right? Am I correct on that? 200.
So to me, that's huge because nobody's selling records. You know what I mean? And she out here in the streets doing physicals.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Do you censor yourself when you sing in the girl songs?
[00:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't say no. I don't say no weird shit. Like, not weird like that.
What did Thug say? I. With everybody, Like.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: I think this album was better than the first one. I feel like she. We waited eight years to get this. Sorry, y' all got my retainers in my dentist in here somewhere, so I have to wear.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Her dentist is here, y'.
[00:12:31] Speaker A: All. Shout out to Jay.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: What up, James?
Both are Dennis. Both are Dennis.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: I'm supposed to wear these for 22 hours a day. It's kind of like cheating on your trainer. He see you, you know, eating crazy. I didn't want him to come in here. And I'm talking regular, but no, I feel like with us waiting eight years to get this project, we got every emotion that Cardi has experienced through these eight years. We got the cheating. We got the fake home girl. She even, you know, she talking that boss stuff on us. So I like it.
This is.
We got clips this year. We got Chance the rapper.
We got. Who else dropped this year? Jid.
Sorry, Daddy.
Because we gonna talk about that.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: We gonna talk about. We'll get to that.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: We gonna get to Thug.
But. But no, I think this is one of my favorite albums to come out this year.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I could agree with that. I think the Magnet record.
The Magnet record to me and the Airtime record I always am. I Is that. That's one too many Rs. Airtime, ear time.
Also. Can you say that word? Can I say that? And be masculine. Say it every time.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah, you heard it, Saw that.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. But I'm not from St. Louis, though.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: Oh, look at Avery, y'. All. Avery is a person in the background. That y' all be seeing laughing on our clip.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: That's our engineer right there.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: That's our engineer at the radio station.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Every time people be like that behind Gina be dying laughing.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Is Cardi the first artist to diss a couple?
She dis JT need to fight back.
You ain't gonna say that about my man. And we ain't squabbling.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: I think she. No. Well, Tupac didn't really dissed a couple in a record like he said.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: He didn't say nothing about faith.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Yeah, but. Oh, no, no, no, no. Okay, so look, hold on, hold on. Semantically.
Semantically correct. Because he said Bad Boy. As a staff record label, she was signed to Bad Boy.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Okay. All right. I let you have it out.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying?
[00:14:46] Speaker A: I let you have it out.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Make it work. But I think from this record, I think Cardi has been a lot more vulnerable on this album than I expected her to be. And to me, it worked in her favor. Because all of this, all of these crash outs on Twitter and all of this.
I'm good. I like a good Cardi crash out. But I think the fact what people fuck up to Gina's point is they don't put it. They don't go in the booth and do it. They do it on the timeline. And I think she's done both very well.
[00:15:16] Speaker A: Well, that's what I'm mad at JT right now. Cause JT started posting shots.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Let me tell y' all something. Hold on. Sorry not to interrupt you. Let me tell y' all something about Gina. She really about this rap to the point where she be. It ain't like on the camera, on the radio. She be in our group chat like, gta. JT ain't saying nothing.
Nigga, I'm riding my bike. I don't give a fuck about.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: I need JT to fight back.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: So you. But she didn't she say something recently? Did she just get on the timeline.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: They start posting screenshots. Somebody had an abortion.
I don't know. Somebody. Dude gay. That's not none of my business. I want them B words in the booth.
JT did her Twitter rant, though, from the studio.
So we probably are about to get a response. And be. Because she does be it, too.
Beia took a picture in the studio, and she said, I got 16 songs. Just to reference it on the track. Cardi B said, name five be his songs. Are you dead?
So. But Bia said, I got 16.
She said, Name 16. So I think the album coming. And I Think that that means we're going to get a response on the album.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Can you. Can you do that?
[00:16:30] Speaker A: We don't do that to my Leo twin.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: I'm just. I'm asking.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Don't do that to her.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: I think Bia can rap. I just don't think she could fuck with Cardi.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: Okay, tell me this.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: I'm just being honest with you. I just don't. I don't. I think there's very. There's a very short list. Maybe one woman who could probably fuck with Cardi on some records.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Who?
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Nah, we.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Said that only Cardi.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: No, only. I don't think it's only one woman that could probably hang with Cardi on some. On some rap shit like that. Like getting at you on some rap shit. Yeah, she from Florida.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Okay, look, tell me this.
Who.
Dochi there. That's what I'm talking about. He be starting stuff. That's that T.D. y' all see? He be starting stuff. Okay, look, tell me this, though.
Remember last year when I was tripping? I was tripping on a timeline. I'm like, why is y' all taking so. I mean, not last year, earlier this year. Why y' all taking so long to respond to Joey? Respond to Joey Badass. We need you to respond wooty woo. And y' all was telling me, gina, you being too anxious back in the day, you had to wait for an album to drop to get a response.
Are we accepting that from B and jt, they need a rap, Right? That's what I said. Can y' all tweet them right now?
I'm tired of waiting.
[00:17:53] Speaker B: Okay, so look, so here's the thing, right? And we just talked about this. I don't know when it started, where people expected artists to respond immediately. Like, that wasn't a thing. Well, I'm old, so that. That wasn't a thing. When I was coming up, like, you had to wait for the album to come out because there was no streaming. You couldn't just diss a Nigga on YouTube and come right back. You had to wait until the person dropped the album. So Cardi.
No, hold on, hold on. Before we do that. We on that type of time now, but we have. Cardi been holding on to this shit a year, you know what I'm saying? She got the little thing she just posted from her phone, like, she been holding on to this demotion and these records for a whole year. And she told y'. All. When I. I told y'. All. She told y' all when I pop out, she Told y', all, like. And we waited. And now that we got it, now you. All. Now you. Now you want immediate response from the other person. That's not fair. I'm not. I'm not. I don't have a dog in a fight. I'm just saying that's not fair to do that. Yeah, but you still want to do one.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: If I didn't have this skirt on, I'd stand in the chair right now.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: And in the chair.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: I know not my daddy here.
Okay, so Cardi, also on the album, addressed cheating. She addressed the. The cheating allegations with Offset.
Offset.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: What?
[00:19:10] Speaker A: Can I get into some girl talk?
Is that okay with you? That's okay with y'? All?
Okay, so Cardi B said that the reason why Offset have not signed the divorce papers is because he wants her to pay. Pay for his taxes. He wants one property. And it was one more thing. What was other thing? It was like three things.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: He want the lawyers.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: Oh, for her to pay for his legal fees.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Legal fees.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: What are y' all thoughts on that?
That's what I said.
That's what I said.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Okay.
I not ne. I don't. I won't. Okay. I don't know the details, so I won't.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: You doing that die code thing?
[00:19:54] Speaker B: No, I'm not. I fuck with Cardi. The problem is I don't have the details. Like, I don't know.
I'd be willing to bet that she makes more money than him.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: How much would you bet, though?
You would bet at all?
[00:20:10] Speaker B: I bet a nice chunk of it.
Hell yeah. Like, you know, it's Cardi B.
She going on arena tour. You know what I'm saying? Give me a fucking break.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: Okay? Without the details. Just from the little bit that, you know, that she said on Twitter. Do you think that she's owed that? I mean, do you think that he's owed that?
[00:20:29] Speaker B: So here's the thing about this.
Hold on. Damn.
Okay, so here's the thing, right? Hold on. Listen. If we were to do this in reverse, I'm not saying that I'm going off. I'm going off principle. Hold on, boy.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: Math.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: I'm going off.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: Niggas start flipping, reversing, adding variables.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: No, it's not two plus two. It's a reverse. Reverse draw. Four.
What. What I'm saying is, if we were to do this in the reverse, people would feel like he owes her, right? If she was the one cheating.
[00:21:13] Speaker A: No.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: What?
[00:21:16] Speaker A: Nobody would think that.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Niggas be paying alimony all the time when they cheat.
All right? Fuck it then.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: All right, all right.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: Hey, Set. I fought, you know what I'm saying?
Hey, Set. Where am I at, pb? Right here over there.
I can look over there, say that I tried my nigga. You know what I'm saying?
Shit.
[00:21:43] Speaker A: Okay, so I'm swinging for A and T. Another album that was recently released.
A lot was just recently released with this man, Young Thug.
You got the phone calls, the jail.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Phone calls who don't talk shit about people.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: And then you got this.
That's Young Thug and White Face.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: But look, though. But look.
Hey, I ain't gonna hold you. I don't have no explanation for this.
I know all kind of shit. I know how to write off cars on your taxes. I don't know what to do with this.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: So the first track, this album is called U Y Scooty. What is called oh, Scooty.
Whoop. He should have titled it Whoopty Doo.
This album just came out this past Thursday. I tried to give it a spin, but I couldn't get past track one. Track one is called Ninja. And at about the 3 minute, 30 second mark, he get a lot of hard Rs off.
I have never heard the hard R so many times in my life.
He said, I called my obstacle. I called you, bragging me like, what are we doing these days?
When I asked niggas to rap? This not what I was talking about.
This is crazy.
What are your thoughts on the album as a dj?
[00:23:17] Speaker B: I think Thug could have been. Could have, you know, did better. I just.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: He been feeling sorry for Young Thug since he's seen.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: Bro, the nigga got trauma, bro. Like, think about this, right?
All right?
[00:23:30] Speaker A: So how would he resonate this trauma with us?
[00:23:32] Speaker B: I don't. I just told you, I don't know what to do with this. I don't know what to do with this. I never seen Whiteface in reverse before. Like, I never, like, nevermind. That was about to be some bullshit.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: What's the craziest album cover?
[00:23:49] Speaker B: You see this one?
It's either. Oh, no, no, no.
Him in a dress ain't got nothing on this.
Hey, hey, let me tell you something. Never mind it. Seeing in dresses ain't crazier than this. I seen in dresses before.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: It was him.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: I'm sick of the so look, so here's the thing, right?
[00:24:23] Speaker A: Shout out to Tony, okay?
[00:24:25] Speaker B: So this is what I want to know. This is what I want to know, I guess, from y'. All. And then YouTube, like, if you see an album cover, like, when's the last time you saw an album cover and it made you want to listen to the album?
Because I think artwork. Artwork is extremely important, and I think people think of it. It's an afterthought when they go in and create the album. Right. It's very rare that people put thought into their album artwork while they're making the album. It's always like, oh, should we need an album cover? We should take this selfie, like, you know what I'm saying? I think that people think about it after the fact. So when's the last time you saw an album cover that made you want to listen to the album? When's the last time you saw an album cover that stood out to you?
I don't even remember in a positive way.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: I don't remember the last time I cared about an album cover cover as much as this one.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: That's my point. That's why he do this shit.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: I see. But. But why would you put the hard R on track one?
At least trick me a little bit. Put it at the bottom of the track list. So I don't know what's coming.
I just never been caught so many hard Rs in my life.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: So here's the thing, right? And for the men in the. In the audience, women swear to God they want to know the truth.
And then she say shit like that.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: What I do.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: Trick me a little bit. You heard? That's what you just said.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Act like you like me before you.
[00:25:45] Speaker A: You know, I'm cool with a finesse. It's like when you buy a bag of chips and it's all air at the top and there's little chips at the bottom. You know what I'm saying? Finesse me a little bit.
Just a little bit. That's Desiree right there. See, that's my talk about on the show.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: That's my problem that I don't have enough finesse. I don't. But I just think that. I think that Thug could have done it better.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: They saw the Wale clip.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I just. I don't. I'm not good at it. But anyway, I think Thug could have done a better job of kind of capturing what he went through. Like, I think the person who. Who does the best job of telling the. Or spinning the narrative, I guess you could say he did a great job with that interview with Big Bang. Shout out to Big Bang. He did a great job. But I think with the music, I think Gunna did a better job at telling his side of things in the Music. And so I think you gonna lose. What?
[00:26:36] Speaker A: Y' all know what else?
[00:26:36] Speaker B: Gunna did a better job at what?
[00:26:39] Speaker A: He looked good.
Gonna look good. Can we get a round of applause for Gunner?
Look at all them in the audience. Not clapping.
Gonna look good. Okay, you see that body? You heard W, G, F, T. We gonna. My daddy in here.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: We gonna.
[00:27:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a banger.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: We play the song on our show.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: That one. What's the other one? Five star with Wiz Khalifa. He just been doing all type of. He's. He's been excelling.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: I was giving him props, fool.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: Gunna.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: I was giving him props, fool.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: Oh, my bad.
Go ahead. I'm sorry.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Anyway, he loves this.
I just think that, like, when you make these records from an artist standpoint, it's your job to pull us into what it is that you're thinking, what you're going through, your scenarios and stuff like that. And I think the artist that does your best job at doing that is ultimately gonna be remembered for the situation. Like, there's one artist gonna be remembered for this beef because they did the best job at this beef. There's one artist gonna be remembered for this because they did better job at this. That's one thing.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: What's the last album cover that made you want to go listen to the project?
[00:28:01] Speaker B: That made me want to go listen to the. I think the Metro boomin album.
That shit looked fun.
I think it was like. It's like a period piece, and I thought, like, it just looked, like, interesting. It looked like an amusement park or, like a block party, and it just looked, like fun. And I was like, oh, okay. But to be fair, the album sound like the album cover.
You get what I'm saying? Like, when I saw the album cover, I'm like, oh, this is what it looks like and feels like in a block party in Atlanta.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: Okay. Okay.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: In that time period.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: All righty. So if y' all ever watch the show, you hear DJ Head using these unnecessary large words that we don't need.
So this is perfect for you. Webster just added some new words to the dictionary.
I want to read them off to you.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: You got something to say before I start?
[00:28:48] Speaker B: Mm.
[00:28:49] Speaker A: You was about to say something.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: No, go ahead. I'm. I'm not. I can't guarantee I'm gonna know what the word mean.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: Okay, so the first word is riz.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: They added riz to the dictionary.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
And that means.
[00:29:01] Speaker B: See, this what I'm talking about, bro.
All right, go ahead, Go ahead, go ahead.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: So that's Slang for romantic charisma.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: There's this dude on. And this is he. He kind of weird. He be on Instagram or on Tik Tok, and he be walking around Florida, rising girls up. And. And I didn't know what the. He was talking about like, three years ago, but they added this to the dictionary is. To me. That's. I don't like it.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: That's a Gen Z word.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Yeah, but I don't like it.
[00:29:28] Speaker A: Riz.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah, we don't need that one in the dictionary.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Yeah, we. No, we don't need that.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: We don't need that.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: All right, so the other one they added is dad bod. And it's a somewhat overweight physique often attributed to average fathers.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: Dad. Bye. With no kids. Stand up in this bit. You know what I'm saying?
Y' all made me peel out in this moment.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: Okay? And then this one, I can't pronounce it, but it's called Bru.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: See what I'm saying? She say shit like that and expect me not to. Not to react.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: Cold brew.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: Let me see today. Let me see.
Cold brew. Food. Brew, brew, brew.
Cold brew is like coffee.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: So it says a method of preparing coffee.
[00:30:18] Speaker B: And then she went to Washington.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: As a lot of us did.
As a lot of us did.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Hey, hey.
It's gonna be what it's gonna be.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: They at their high school. They didn't wash their jeans.
He went to guard. They wasn't watching their jeans.
They weren't watching their jeans.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: That was good.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: Doom scroll to. Compulsively read bad news online.
And then wfw. H. Work from home, Ghost kitchen, Cancel culture, Adulting, Beast mode, and dash Cam.
Are there any words that you would like to add to Webster's Dictionary?
[00:31:04] Speaker B: To add to the dictionary?
[00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: I would like the west coast to be re. Freaked. Remixed.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:31:13] Speaker B: West coast should be like amen for show. Church.
That's what's up. Bet.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: Church is like pimping, though.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: All of it. Okay, D. All of the above. That part.
You know what I'm saying? Already, for the nigga that's from the.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: South, I would add my little. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, Clock. It needs to be added.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: No, they. No, no, it's. No, listen. I know, okay? This is what I'll say about that, right?
This is all dead homies for sure.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Their homies for sure.
[00:31:52] Speaker B: They said, damn.
Let me tell you something. While we do. While we being cool, we gonna confuse the. Out of sixth graders all over the country because they gonna be learning time and be like, clock it and they gonna be looking around like dead homies. That's just gonna freak them out.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: They need to add weirdo. But the LA part, like the LA version of weirdo. Uh huh.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: I think that's already a word we remix.
[00:32:21] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's not in there like that. Like, it's in there as like, like slang, like weirdo. But you need to know, if you say that in la, that's almost like SMD in New York.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I can see that.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: And then they need to add these.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: I'm not gonna ask you these. What?
[00:32:37] Speaker A: Nuts, bro, why you letting me get you every time?
[00:32:45] Speaker B: I didn't. You didn't do it.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: I thought you was just like not gonna say anything.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: Do you know what ebullients mean?
These?
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Does anybody else know it at me?
[00:33:01] Speaker B: Put your phones down.
Ebullience.
We're experiencing ebullience.
[00:33:10] Speaker A: And what, What?
[00:33:11] Speaker B: How though in this room, fool.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Oh, it's love.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: No, I did not say abundance. I said ebullience.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Joy, laughter.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: Oh, she using context clues to get.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: I do have a bachelor's degree now.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: Yeah, she be always trying to do that. Like I'm the one with the degree on the radio show. Like, okay, nigga, but I be knowing. Shit, you dope.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Yep. I haven't used it since I framed it.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: Yeah, okay, we'll do a word of the day a little later.
Ebullience.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: We can do it right now.
[00:33:42] Speaker B: Wanna do it one of them? Can we do it right now then? Yeah, we got the little ball.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: We got 10 minutes here.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: Wait, hold on, hold on.
If you don't. No, no, no, listen.
If you looking down. This not gonna work.
Don't look at your phone. If you know the bullions or you think you know what it means, raise your hand.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: Nah, throw that box at whoever had it hit and you gotta.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: All right, throw it right here. Throw it right here.
Okay, so you gonna talk into the talking to the speaker. And what does it buoyance mean? Just talking to it.
[00:34:19] Speaker A: Testing, testing. Okay, nice. So it means energy. High energy, Abundance, Synergy, Collectivity.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Not quite. Get the box from one more, right? Throw it right there.
Talk it to the mic. There you go. Means community.
Community. Take the box from here.
Yeah.
All right, it's cool. We'll get back to it. We'll get back to it. We need to. Are you ready? All right, we gonna need to reset. We gotta bring. Bring the homie up. I want y' all to start making some noise for the Grammy Award winning My bro, all the way from the IE Hitbox.
Thanks for coming through, bro.
[00:35:16] Speaker C: Man, appreciate y'.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: All.
[00:35:17] Speaker C: Congrats on the first show too, man. Y' all can give it up for that.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:35:24] Speaker B: It's a big deal, you know what I'm saying?
[00:35:26] Speaker C: For sure. Y' all going crazy. For sure. Y' all viral every day.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: First, before we even get into any of the. Any of the stuff, bro, like, I just want to say, like, watching you with your son is like, I want to salute you for that.
[00:35:41] Speaker C: That's why, you know, I keep my son because I, I missed that time with my pop. So, like, I wish I would have been that age running around with him, but then again, I might have been too thugged out. So, you know, it was supposed to happen this way type.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: How. How have you used that in parenting with your experience?
[00:35:57] Speaker C: I mean, just like being present. Because he had no. He had no. He couldn't be present at all. So it's like I'm gonna use that to my advantage. But it's like even that, you know, we just, I'm gonna just hop right into it, you know, it's like I never made $1 off my pops. Y' all saw me pushing this. We running like I probably spent 1.3 million on my dad, you know, I mean, just pushing our movement. We talking about photo shoots, traveling, videos, whatever, the promotion, like, you know what I mean? And it's like I don't remember my dad spending a hundred dollars on me. My. So it's like, it's just like I really, I live some real shit. And I seen my boy Ruchi somewhere out there. I don't know if he's still up in here, but yeah, we was chopping it the other day. Like, niggas go through shit, you know what I mean? It's like you just gotta push the best way you can. But that's the whole, you know, me having my son with me every day, it's like I miss that time. So I'm just like, I get to see myself. It's like watching. Literally, this is a light skinned version of me. Like when I was that nigga age, I looked just like that. So it's like I'm raising myself just way flyer, way richer way, you know what I mean?
[00:36:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I just wanted to, you know, salute you for that. Cause like I said, I ain't gonna lie. Like, I be seeing you, I see a couple of people, you, Salas, Chuck, Dizzle. Like, I see a couple of the homies, like, really embracing that Father like, bad vice, you know what I'm saying? And I was like, man, I don't know if I could do that, you know what I'm saying? As far as, like, as good as you prioritize and like, he be in the studio making beats, like he made his first songs and like, right he.
[00:37:22] Speaker C: Here right now with us, you know what I mean?
[00:37:25] Speaker B: So salute to you on that. But also from you, I mean, we might as well get right to it. Like Hit Boy Free became. Yeah, yeah, you get.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: Yo, you go crazy.
[00:37:38] Speaker B: Hit Boy Free became like its own movement. And I really want you to like, get into that as far as what that means to you, what the circumstance was and why it's different now.
[00:37:50] Speaker C: Man, it was a long journey, you know what I mean? I signed a publishing deal one year out of high school. I was 19, got a big opportunity, but I just didn't, you know, I wasn't looking this far ahead. I didn't know that I would be caught up in a situation that would have me down for 18 years. I feel like I was stuck in a prison mentally. Like, literally. You know, it's been times where I was drained by this shit. Like, I'm like, I can't go no further. I didn't push to this far as I can. Nigga made Jay Z first diamond record. Like, how much more can I push it before I get some respect, get the money? I'm trying to get, you know, take care of my family and get them out of they predicaments and. But yeah, bro, just what it means right now is, I mean, I was just talking to Silas. He like, you smash, you dropping non stop. I could do whatever I want to do now, you know, I'm not. The black cloud is gone. And I'm also not stuck in a situation where somebody else own what I do. Like, I own everything. So it's just a whole new incentive, man. So it's a blessing.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Was there any positivity that came out of that, though, with those. Those 18 years that you was.
[00:38:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, shit, the lessons, like, just like, you know, really looking back, like, I always had it. I was always me. I was always kind of looking to get that mentor, get that one person I thought was gonna help catapult my shit. But it was all about. It's been about me the whole time. You know what I mean? I realized I always had it. But the lessons was, you know, priceless. Like, I got to go to every level. The lowest of the low, highest of the high, being around the Best artists having times where N wasn't hitting me up. So it's like I got through every emotion. So it's like, now I'm putting all the energy into myself for once. It's been like a. It's been a long journey.
[00:39:27] Speaker B: Is there a. Is there a moment that you remember when you first. Because N in Paris is how I first found out that you was. You was the nigga, right?
I was like, I think that's a lot of people's introduction to you to who Hit Boy is from a widespread. Like, you had already been, like, doing your thing. But do you remember a moment when you got that first phone call? Because can I talk about what me and you talked about? Like, when I was. When you showed me who had hit you on your phone, he was like, this. Why I do it? Can I talk about that?
[00:39:57] Speaker C: Yeah, go ahead. I don't remember what it was, but I do so much shit every day.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: So basically, one day we were doing an event. I think we were at, My God, Mars and shit. And I was on you. I was on you about, like, hey, I want you to make some records, bro. You gotta get back to it. Cause you had. You know, you had took a little. A little break, a little bit. And I'm like, you gotta get back to it.
And you was like, I think I wanted you to make a certain type of record. Like, I was like, bro, you gotta make some slaps. Like, I really want you to. And then you had showed me a text from hov.
You was like, and hov, can I. Can I tell her?
[00:40:33] Speaker C: Cause go ahead.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: So HOV had texted this nigga, right? This is a flex. So.
So. So Jay Z text him, and he's like, bro, you killing it. You one of the goats. You a legend. Like, you one of the greatest producers ever. He just giving him praise, and I'm just like, but he ain't got no slaps, dude.
And then you was like, bro, this is why I do it, though. Look at this, bro. And then for sure. And then later on, you.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: You.
[00:41:00] Speaker B: When got locked in with Nas. And so I just wanted to give you a credit, though. Like. But I also wanted to know from your perspective, what was one of the moments early on for you that when you got that phone call, like, okay, this is. This shit finna be for real, man.
[00:41:13] Speaker C: Really? When the homie hit me, saying, Kanye wanted me to fly out and work with him to go work on Watch the Throne, you know, because I was. I was submitting beats for the. My Beautiful Dark, Twisted Fantasy, like, early before it came out. And I. I didn't make that project, so I just thought it was still just, like, a dream, whatever. Like, nigga was such a fan of Kanye and Jay Z and shit. But then when I. I had did this song called Christmas in Harlem, and they put that shit out, and like, a couple months later, his peoples hit me like, yo, he wants you to fly to Dubai and Abu Dhabi and some more shit and just come work.
[00:41:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then obviously, we was just talking about this recently because of everybody, everything that's been going on, I see you be locked in with everybody. Like, everybody who's anybody now wants them. They want a session with hit. And so I want to ask you about. I never asked you before, but about the backseat freestyle. Like, I never asked you, like, about.
[00:42:07] Speaker C: That session, man, it's crazy. Me and Kendrick and The rest of TD, we went to Vegas, like, 2011, I want to say, probably, like, Summer working on Good Kid, Mad City. We didn't know what it was was going to be. We didn't know what it was going to become. I didn't, you know, I mean, I was just like this dope, I want to work type. So I went out there. We was working on other ideas. We had a couple songs that I was, like, hype about.
And then a few months later, he like, man, I'm about to finish the album. I like the ideas we got, but I want to hear some more beats. So him and Dave Free, I had to spot in Tarzana. They came to Tarzana, and that was one of the first beats I played. And they both was like, this is it right here type.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: And.
[00:42:45] Speaker C: And then maybe like a week or so after that, I got a text from Kendrick, and he sent me the joint. He was like, we got one this crazy. And I played it. I'm like, this, like, took it there. You know what I mean?
[00:42:58] Speaker A: What inspired you to start rapping?
[00:43:00] Speaker C: Man, I actually was rapping first, man, before I made a beat. Yeah, I was in a group with this kid. He made all the beats, and I literally, like. I thought FL Studio looked like Tetris. My. So I like, start just building, like, some video. I just started messing around with it on some video game shit. Then next thing you know, it replaced my. You know, I'm 15, 16. I was playing games every day. I stopped playing video games and started making beats, and I'm glad I did.
[00:43:23] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:43:24] Speaker A: Wow. Y' all ain't playing for that.
Okay, I'm nosy.
I'm nosy.
I was scrolling one day, tapping through the story, and I seen a repost on your page.
[00:43:38] Speaker C: Were. Repost.
[00:43:40] Speaker A: It was you and Hitmaker.
[00:43:42] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I mean, I just ran into him in Vegas like last week. It was cool. It was good vibes. I just walked straight up to him, said, what's up? He like, man, you know, I know that wasn't nothing. You know, I was just flexing in that moment. I just had to get that off and that's where I was at. But it was all. We pieced it up. It's all good.
[00:43:58] Speaker A: No beef?
[00:43:58] Speaker C: No, no, I'm good, man. Yeah.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: Will we get a hit boy Hit maker collab.
[00:44:05] Speaker C: I ain't gonna say it.
[00:44:06] Speaker A: No.
[00:44:06] Speaker C: I'm just. I mean, you never know.
[00:44:08] Speaker B: Hey, hey, hey, hey.
[00:44:09] Speaker C: I'm a creative. I'm down. I'm down to, you know, Rock with who. Rock with me, you know, and yeah, if it's meant to happen, I'm down. I ain't, you know, I ain't closed off to nothing.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: Okay, did y' all have a prior conversation? Because I. Because I remember when you came to Homegrown to get the shit off your.
[00:44:23] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that was the one.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: That was. That was. That was one of the ones. But did y' all have a prior conversation before that? Like, had y' all ever talked? That was your first time.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: Ever seen them? He was in. He was. I guess he was checking in or getting a new key card. I just walked straight up to him and shit. Yeah, I just like, what's happening type shit. Shook his hand and it was good.
[00:44:42] Speaker B: It was good. That's what's up.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: West Coast.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: Okay, so fast forward a little bit. You rapping? You do? Well, no, I mean, not. Fast forward, rewind a little bit. You do Grammy nominated albums with Nas.
That ain't enough. So then you like, I'm gonna get back in the studio. You go in with Alchemist, you back in the booth, you rapping, right?
I know y' all are working on some more shit.
[00:45:09] Speaker C: Me and Al.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: You and Al?
[00:45:10] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's. That's what I've been. Everything I've been doing is just leading up to that. Like the. With me and Alchemist is. It's like a real, for me, career stepping stone. Because we got a movie to go with the album that's coming out at the same time, and it's high level. We invested a lot of energy, money, time, and we really taking it there.
[00:45:27] Speaker B: Wait, so what you mean movie? Like.
[00:45:29] Speaker C: Like a short film? It's like a 40 minute short film got a lot of big actors in it. It was shot super well, so it's a high on film, high level.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't know that.
[00:45:46] Speaker A: I want to. I want to get into these. These unreleased tracks.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: All right.
[00:45:50] Speaker A: With you?
[00:45:51] Speaker C: Let's run it. I'm with it. Where that aux?
[00:45:54] Speaker B: Yeah, if you.
Okay, so what are we gonna. You only got to play as two because.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: I don't know, but it sound like that one. The. The audio, when that beat dropped, it was sounding crazy.
[00:46:06] Speaker C: That was. That was kind of wanting to hear.
[00:46:07] Speaker A: The rest of that.
[00:46:08] Speaker C: That was a joint with me and my homie.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.
[00:46:12] Speaker B: Well, before you play that, keep. Let me plug up. Before you play that, how many unreleased songs do you and Nas have left?
[00:46:19] Speaker C: We probably just got like a couple, like, verse and hook ideas. We don't got. I mean, bro, we dropped 80 songs in three years. We was unloading the clip.
[00:46:26] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: I mean, we kind of just got that off. We weren't really saving the six hours.
[00:46:32] Speaker B: Right.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: Okay, who. If you can tell us, Just give us a little sneak, little peek, little something. We can mute it. We'll cut it off the episode.
[00:46:39] Speaker C: What's that? The joint?
[00:46:41] Speaker A: No, like, what. What. What other albums are you working on at the moment?
[00:46:45] Speaker C: Man, I. You know, I can't say, man. It's like, it's. You know, be under NDAs and all that. That's like some. Some serious stuff, though. For sure.
[00:46:54] Speaker B: Okay, yeah, yeah.
[00:46:55] Speaker C: But I mean, you know what I'm prioritizing is I got a project coming with my boy Spank Nitty. I'm gonna drop that a week before the Alchemist album. Like, I'm straight pressure, you know what I mean?
[00:47:07] Speaker B: Also, can you tell me what it's like when you get the call to work on some Beyonce shit or like.
[00:47:12] Speaker C: Some unbelievable still I ain't listen, man, I don't know nothing about that because.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: I heard she got some shit coming and he can't talk about what he working on. You know what I'm saying?
[00:47:23] Speaker C: Hey, man, just be on the lookout.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: We'll see.
[00:47:26] Speaker C: I hope so.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: I'm trying, Hex. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying.
[00:47:31] Speaker C: I'll be having a bob and weave, man.
[00:47:33] Speaker B: All right, go ahead. What you gonna play, though?
[00:47:35] Speaker C: I gotta join with me Spank Nitty and O3.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: Can we pick?
[00:47:38] Speaker C: What's that?
[00:47:39] Speaker B: Can we pick?
[00:47:40] Speaker C: It's too many.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: Okay, all right, Just go ahead. You said you Spank Nitty and who me?
[00:47:43] Speaker C: Spanknitty and 03 Greedo. That's my boy.
[00:47:46] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:47:47] Speaker C: So I mean, that's like the spank tape is more like street, like club, strip club, all that type of 808 shit. But the Alchemist album is just pure soul rapping hip hop shit. So I'm gonna play some off the album.
[00:47:59] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:48:01] Speaker C: It's a real personal, you know what I mean?
Like, I'm coming from the perspective of not having a two parent household, you know, I mean, he coming from perspective of having a two parent household but still not being perfect. So it's like we all just, you know, we all just human at the end of the day.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: Thank you for the vulnerability. That's definitely something that we can show a lot of us could relate to.
[00:48:22] Speaker B: From your perspective, do you like. How do you. When you work with Alchemists? Because both of y' all are producers, amazing producers. So how do you decide who makes what? Like, how do you.
[00:48:31] Speaker C: We just feel it. That's how my music is, period. The stuff that I rap on, I just kind of know as soon as I make it, I'm already writing a verse in my head for the most part. You know, sometimes I sit on beats and then just like, you know, finally it'll come to me. But most of my songs is like. Soon as I'm like. When I was making that, I just started saying that two parent household over and over. I'm like, that just fit the beat.
[00:48:50] Speaker B: You know, Mean when you. When you.
I guess. What song do you have a verse to where somebody else is somebody else's beat? Because when you made it, you immediately started writing a verse in your head. What you mean like you like a placement? Like when you like. So you make a beat for an artist, right? Is there a song that you've ever given away that you have a verse for?
[00:49:12] Speaker C: Oh, plenty. Yeah, I'll be trying to record To All My Fire shit for the most.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: Like, what's a couple of those?
[00:49:18] Speaker C: I can't really pinpoint a specific record, but I definitely try ideas on. I make so much music, bro. I don't be remembering half of this.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: Shit, but you know what I mean?
[00:49:26] Speaker C: I really like, for real. Even my own discography, it's hard to keep up with this shit.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: Okay, now we gonna open up the question to the audience.
[00:49:35] Speaker B: Yeah, Ask Hitboy a question.
Okay.
[00:49:42] Speaker A: Or the Bots just.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:49:45] Speaker C: What is that like.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: Hello. Testing. Okay. All right, question. You may not be able to tell us who, but are you working on any other R B projects or melodic projects? I know you.
[00:49:56] Speaker C: Yeah, sure, yeah, I've been. I've been tapped in, man. You know, I really don't want to say names like that, but yeah, I'm always locked in on every genre. Pop, R B, like, you know, some drops, some stuff. But I don't really think about that part. I just like to make the music and let the process happen.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: Anybody else?
Oh, you got it.
Catch.
She caught it.
[00:50:24] Speaker C: My boy, Big Orca, man.
[00:50:27] Speaker B: What's up, man? Big in. Hey, Boom Bat, man. I love when you rapping on Boom Bat, bro. Bro, like, what's that connection to that? Because I know where we from, that's our DNA. Like, we love it. So, like, what makes you especially alchemists, like, what makes you want to like, even explore that even more, man?
[00:50:51] Speaker C: I guess it's just the feeling of it, you know what I mean? That's like, you get that chop, that right chop, and it's soulful. It just like it bleed out of you, you know what I mean? But it's another thing is getting to know my roots, getting to know my dad more, finding out my grandpa was from Harlem, you know what I mean? So I done albums with Nas, Benny the Butcher, Jay Z, all these people from the east coast and wonder why. But it's like I got roots in on the east coast in Harlem. So it's like that is in my blood. Regardless.
My God, that's a legend back there. My boy, Noah James, man, from the I.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: So we're gonna. We got two more, so one right here. And then she was. You had your hand up.
[00:51:32] Speaker A: She raised her hand.
[00:51:33] Speaker B: Yeah. So go ahead, bro.
All right, so you've dealt with a lot of adversity throughout your career.
I guess this is sort of a two part question. Did you ever want to quit? And if so, what made you persevere? Persevere through that and keep going, man.
[00:51:49] Speaker C: I probably wanted to quit a year ago. You know, I mean to say I go through them fast phases, man. Like, you know, just like I said, being in that deal, I wanted to quit a million times, bro. I was just like, felt like I had, you know, I mean, just exhausted all my options. Been to different managers, been to different lawyers. Everybody telling me like, oh, this is the worst deal I ever seen, but can't help me out the deal. So I just felt like drained, you know, I mean, it was times where I couldn't think of no beats, couldn't think of. I was like, man, maybe I need to go try to do some other. Be a A R or Something like. But it's like, nah. The music always just re Centers me, you know? I mean, every single time. The love of the music, it ain't about the money. Like, literally, when I get a inspiring idea, bro, that feel better than getting a million dollars. I want the million dollars. But I'm saying, like, it feels better just, like, to be inspired, like, than. Than the money, you know, the exterior.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:52:43] Speaker A: Hey, I wrote my question down.
So what advice do you have for up and coming artists or creatives like myself who've been putting themselves in spaces and doing the work, but they still haven't seen the dots fully connect the way that they hope?
[00:52:57] Speaker C: Man, the best thing you said was putting yourself in spaces. Most people don't even take that step. So if you're doing that, it's gonna happen. It could be a year, it could be five years. It could be 10 years. It could be a month. You just don't know. Just keep pushing yourself, putting yourself in the right circles and working and pushing your craft to the next level. Like, don't ever think, like, at no point that, like, oh, I got it now. I'm good. Like, just keep trying to get better. Every day, that's all I do. I wake up and try to push myself. Like, how can I make a better beat, write a better verse? You know, get a better mix on a song than I did yesterday? And that's, like. That's what, you know, is keeping me pushing, keeping me going to the next level.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: I got. I got a question before you get up out of here. I've been like. I just been staring at your neck this whole time, and I just borrow a chain. It's one up under there that you don't need. I can see it. I see the one that I need.
[00:53:49] Speaker C: We gotta go jewelry shopping.
[00:53:51] Speaker A: Okay. All right. That's all I need to. Yeah, you said we now.
[00:53:56] Speaker C: Come on now. Let's get it.
[00:53:57] Speaker A: We charging your account.
[00:53:59] Speaker C: Let's run it.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: Okay.
Thank you so much.
[00:54:02] Speaker B: Hey, y'.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: All.
[00:54:03] Speaker B: Make some noise for Grammy award.
[00:54:04] Speaker C: Appreciate y'. All.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: You good, bro. Thank you.
[00:54:10] Speaker C: Congrats on the first show, man.
[00:54:12] Speaker B: We're gonna do something. We gonna do some. Oh, we gotta take a picture real quick. We not done. We just gonna let Hit boy Gotta. Gotta get. Gotta go back. But we're not done yet.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: Alrighty.
I need two friends.
Two friends.
Y' all don't. Y' all don't want this one. Y' all don't want this.
[00:54:30] Speaker B: It's basically she. She wants to play a game.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: Two Friends that know two people. That know each other.
[00:54:35] Speaker B: That know each other.
[00:54:37] Speaker A: Two people.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: All right. Is y' all sure?
[00:54:40] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: They actually might be perfect for this.
[00:54:44] Speaker B: All right, come on.
[00:54:46] Speaker A: Come here.
[00:54:47] Speaker B: We need. Can we get.
No, they can use my mic.
Yeah, yeah, let me get.
[00:54:56] Speaker A: I see four people back there that I want to play with right now.
[00:55:00] Speaker B: Just come stand right here.
[00:55:04] Speaker A: I'm so happy you bought your device.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get your phone.
Get your phone.
So I have another show Daddy clothes with yours called. Called whole fashions. Where I get into rapper. Come here. Come back.
Where I get into rappers business. Y' all seen that card game? The bot go by get your car game. Use that QR code.
So I have two cards in my hand. One car says spit. The other card says swallow. If you pick the card that says spit, you have to spit a freestyle. If you pick the card that says swallow, you have to let me search your phone for the word swallow.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: Okay, so wait, wait, wait, wait. Who's gonna pick a card?
[00:55:52] Speaker A: Well, y'. All. One of y'. All. One. One of y' all pick one.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: Let.
No, no, hold on. No, no, no.
Hold on.
Let. Let. Let p. Pick.
Okay, what does yours say?
[00:56:08] Speaker A: Swallow.
[00:56:08] Speaker B: Sw.
So yours is her. Says her. Says spit. So spit a freestyle. Go.
Yeah, go ahead.
[00:56:21] Speaker A: Okay. I just did a post.
[00:56:22] Speaker B: Go.
[00:56:23] Speaker A: Shut up.
I ain't no pussy ass nigga. You understand? I'm a rapper, but I'm still a gorilla. You understand? I would be like a thriller Manila. You understand? You gonna make me have to kill.
[00:56:37] Speaker B: Okay, wait, hold it.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: Do you want to be swallowed up?
Here you go, Polly. And then read that one. That one said should have swallowed them.
Oh, thank you, Polly and Jaleesa.
[00:56:59] Speaker B: Oh, she said I'm grown.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: All right, y' all ready to get into some trivia?
All right, we can do the box for this one.
[00:57:10] Speaker B: Yeah, we need a little box, right?
So this is tr. Actually, you know what we need to do? We need to, first of all, raise your hand if you watch or listen to our show. I mean, obviously, y' all are here, right? But I'm talking about not the. Like, you really be paying attention.
All right, so we need to pick a person before we ask the question.
[00:57:29] Speaker A: Okay. All right.
[00:57:30] Speaker B: You get what I'm saying?
I believe in Kanae, so raise your hand if you want to. Who wants to go first for trivia?
All right, throw her the box right here.
White. White hat.
Oh. Oh, yeah. She can't play.
[00:57:47] Speaker A: She already messing up.
[00:57:48] Speaker B: You not. The Rams don't want you.
[00:57:51] Speaker A: All right, all right, the first question is, who was the first guest on.
[00:57:55] Speaker B: Effective immediately, talking to the box.
[00:57:58] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
No, I lost.
[00:58:02] Speaker B: I fumbled.
[00:58:02] Speaker A: Y' all seen me fumble.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: Go ahead, throw it over there.
It was Charla.
[00:58:08] Speaker A: Ooh.
[00:58:09] Speaker B: Charlamagne tha God. It was Charlamagne tha God.
[00:58:12] Speaker A: Charlamagne tha God.
[00:58:14] Speaker B: Make sure before you leave, give your get tap in with Irene and get your information.
[00:58:18] Speaker A: This is Irene right here.
[00:58:19] Speaker B: This Irene right here. Give her info.
Second question.
Who wants to give it a go?
[00:58:26] Speaker A: Y' all scared now?
Just throw it in the air and see who catch it.
[00:58:29] Speaker B: Okay, look. Okay, look.
[00:58:30] Speaker A: Give us a JR Cause he's standing up for whatever reason. Give us a J.R.
boom.
[00:58:36] Speaker B: All right, question.
[00:58:38] Speaker A: Which guest did we stop the interview for so he can place a bet on prize picks?
[00:58:42] Speaker B: It's all something.
No. Okay, throw the box back there.
It was Toosie.
[00:58:52] Speaker A: That is correct.
[00:58:53] Speaker B: That is correct. Make sure you tap in with Irene.
Oh.
[00:58:57] Speaker A: Oh, Irene. Keon did that? Yeah, Keon did that.
That was Keon. Irene.
See, I'm an extra small.
[00:59:10] Speaker B: Hey, wait, wait. Hold on. Before we go to the next question.
Hold on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Before we go to the next question. Did you see all that Latina come out of Irene?
Hey, she was like, what the fuck?
All right, go ahead.
[00:59:35] Speaker A: All right, who next? Who wanna go next?
Yeah, actually, if y' all all was in here while the video was playing, you should know this one.
[00:59:47] Speaker B: All right, throw it right here.
Right here.
[00:59:51] Speaker A: That's my cousin.
Hey, D.J.
[00:59:56] Speaker C: What'S the word?
[00:59:57] Speaker B: All right, what's the question?
[00:59:58] Speaker A: The question is, which guest gave DJ Head advice on how to talk to a woman?
[01:00:05] Speaker B: Oh, we ain't got all day, bros.
[01:00:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
That is correct.
All right.
[01:00:23] Speaker B: Hey, hey, let me tell y' all something.
Hey, hold on.
Y' all know, keep cracking Irene in the head with the box. Y.
[01:00:36] Speaker A: At this rate, they not getting their Irene like this.
[01:00:39] Speaker B: I quit this.
[01:00:44] Speaker A: All righty.
[01:00:46] Speaker B: That's crazy. Two for two.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: Who sampled?
Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
[01:00:59] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
What's the question?
Remember talking to this to the black part. Yeah, there you go. All right, go ahead.
[01:01:05] Speaker A: The question is, who sampled an episode of Effective Immediately in a song? Oh, Joey Venice. Okay, alrighty. This one is just for fun because we actually got. We got about 15 minutes left to. To play around with now.
Okay, go ahead. One, two, three.
Oh. Next question. Okay. All right. Jeremy, you cannot answer this question. And, Elliot, you cannot answer this question.
Who is DJ Head's celebrity crush?
That is correct.
You don't like her?
[01:01:51] Speaker B: No.
[01:01:51] Speaker A: More what?
[01:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm fucking with it.
We can run that. You know what I'm saying?
No objections.
[01:02:05] Speaker A: Does anyone have any questions for us?
[01:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah, now it's Q and A for us.
If you have questions for us or you want to anything about the episodes, the radio show. Her hand was up first, Jay.
Okay, it's cool. No, it's cool. Go ahead, go ahead.
[01:02:22] Speaker A: How do y' all feel about LA's.
[01:02:25] Speaker B: Rap culture right now as far as upcoming artists and what can we do.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: To better just our overall image?
[01:02:37] Speaker B: He said he asked a loaded ass question, didn't he? Hey, tell me how you suck and how can we fix it?
Okay. How do I feel about LA rap culture? Like up and coming artists? I think.
Okay, so I think what needs to happen is all of y' all need to hit Chuck Dizzle.
I'm just, I'm fucking with you. I fucking with you. Okay. No, seriously, I think it's an interesting space because, and this is a deeper conversation, we don't have time. Cause we'll be in these white people theater for that long. But we don't have time to go fully into it. But there's a whole infrastructure around like the music industry. And I think.
I'm not a fan of the quote, unquote, you can do everything. I'm not a fan of like Curtis. Me and Curtis King talk about this all the time. Like I don't feel like you can do it yourself. Not everything. You can't do anything all to yourself. Like so that mindset that everybody has, like, I'm just gonna be independent. I'm gonna be the label, I'm gonna be the producer, I'm gonna be the marketing agent, I'm gonna be the booking. Like, nigga, no you not. You know what I'm saying? You don't have enough bandwidth for that. You don't have enough resources, time, energy, money. So the best way that I can answer the question is to build a team.
Build a team of individuals. That's what, that's the only, the key I opened the show with that the key to my success is having a solid ass team of individuals who believe in the overall vision and believe in the goal. And anybody who don't, I don't even fault them. It's just they, they can't see it. So the best advice I would, I mean, the best. What I think about the LA rap scene is everybody's in a silo, but everyone is working on their own thing instead of working together.
Right. I think that's for every Region that's not specific to la, up and coming artists. That's just everybody. Like, if you know a nigga that do video, all right, now you. Now you start a production company. You know what I'm saying? Now you. Now you shooting all the videos. And I think we also are followers a lot of times. We follow trends, we follow sounds. We doing this kind of music, that kind of music.
Just love yourself. You know what I'm saying? Embrace your culture, Embrace what it is that you own, and I think it'll work out for you if you do it consistently. A lot of times, people want instant gratification. Me and Chuck Dizzle started this in 2009.
So it's not.
It's not.
It's not something.
It's not something that you could just like, oh, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna get a quick flip and I'm gonna start a podcast. I'm gonna start rapping. Like, no, it don't work like that. Anything you do consistently and great will yield results. That's just my. That's my thoughts.
[01:05:18] Speaker A: Hello. Hi.
[01:05:20] Speaker B: Oh, right here. Sorry.
[01:05:22] Speaker A: That's effective immediately. This is for Gina.
I love everything about you, and I think that you're really inspiring to young black women. Like, just being an it girl, you fly. I have a serious question for you. As a black woman in this industry, what's a constant challenge that you are over overcoming? Because sometimes challenges repeat themselves in different forms. And how do you continuously come out on top?
One thing that I am constantly faced with is I think that I'm. I have a serious face.
So I kind of people confused. Like, when I'm standing up on a chair and getting like, they think I'm a dyke. Like, nah, for real. They like, she been.
Who. Who does she go with? Is what Everybody be like, who she go with? And then I already. I be wearing baggy clothes. That's why I be trying to throw the sexy on. So y' all don't think I'm a dyke. Like, for whatever reason. It's like, she don't got a n and she loud, so she must be gay. Like, I don't. You know, that is one thing, but the black woman thing in media is real. That's why I appreciate his so much, because he was a person who saw that there was a.
Like we all said in the video, it was literally a lack of me.
I'm authentic. I say what's on my chest, I say what I feel.
I'm funny.
[01:07:01] Speaker B: I'm funny.
[01:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, but. But yeah, it's. I. I have a. I feel like sometimes I have an issue with people taking me serious, and they'll be like, oh, you cute. You just doing this because it's rappers. You want to be around the you. You know, dating is a big issue. This is gonna turn into therapy.
I go through regular girl stuff. That's what I would say. I go through regular girl stuff stuff, and I'm fully transparent about it. I'm not afraid to talk about the.
[01:07:29] Speaker B: Stuff that I go through.
[01:07:31] Speaker A: I. I feel like that's pretty much it without me getting up here crying and stuff.
Shout out to you. Thank you. And I see Milan. Milan is another artist who blessed my cipher before. Shout out to Milan.
[01:07:50] Speaker B: Hey.
Hey. Y' all can't keep hitting my staff and shit. I just talked about building a team.
Shit.
[01:08:02] Speaker A: Go ahead. I just wanna say I love you, Gina. I love you, too, Desiree.
Gina.
I just wanna know what's up with Hofessions. Cause I got a confession. All right.
I told you, my daddy here.
Oh, man.
So you know, he don't know what we talking about right now. Okay, we gonna talk about that later.
But you gonna get the car game. The car.
Yeah. And DJ Head, I got your banana pudding, too.
You've been waiting. Talking about pudding. The banana pudding. You've been waiting on that for a long time. Stop it.
[01:08:39] Speaker B: Yeah, you're right. You're right.
[01:08:40] Speaker A: I owe you that. He thought you were talking about something else.
Talking about that.
[01:08:46] Speaker B: I be a little spectrumy sometimes.
[01:08:48] Speaker A: We'll do one more. One more.
[01:08:50] Speaker B: Oh, two more. One. One right here, then one right. We got to go to her. And that's it. Go right here.
Throw it down.
My name is J Real.
I got history with Head and Silas. I just want to say.
[01:09:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, and Chuck, that was up there.
[01:09:09] Speaker B: But anyway, I just want to say.
[01:09:11] Speaker C: I'm proud of y'.
[01:09:12] Speaker A: All.
[01:09:12] Speaker B: I'm really proud of y'.
[01:09:13] Speaker A: All. Thank you.
[01:09:14] Speaker B: Strong black men.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: And.
And y'.
[01:09:17] Speaker B: All. I mean, ever since the studios and.
[01:09:20] Speaker A: Signal Hill and all that stuff when.
[01:09:21] Speaker B: We was with Tommy and stuff, I remember you never. You never went aside what you actually wanted, what you actually saw, and seeing it come from the bedroom, from. From homegrown radio and all that stuff, I just want to salute y', all, man. I ain't.
[01:09:37] Speaker A: I ain't got no question.
[01:09:39] Speaker B: Thank you, bro. And, Gina, I appreciate you being a strong black woman. I appreciate you having the view and. And speaking for all these women because they can't speak up for themselves.
[01:09:49] Speaker A: Thank you. And.
[01:09:50] Speaker B: And you and you. You know what. What men are. You know what men are like.
[01:09:54] Speaker C: And.
[01:09:55] Speaker B: And I appreciate you handling it like that.
[01:09:57] Speaker A: Thank you.
[01:10:04] Speaker B: Question.
All right, last one. Sorry.
[01:10:12] Speaker A: Sorry. I want to start off saying y' all are both amazing. So my question for both of y' all is, what is the piece of advice you would give yourselves either from the beginning of effective immediately, or your career in general?
[01:10:23] Speaker B: Good question.
[01:10:24] Speaker A: That we would give ourselves. Yep.
Don't nobody owe you nothing.
And the worst thing that you can do is lose.
And so what, at least you didn't die, you know, like, just keep going.
A lot of the. The things that y' all see me doing, a lot of the opportunities that I have is because somebody else looked out for me.
And for a long time, I was scared to ask for help. I was scared to ask for somebody to like, hey, I need help with this. I need to.
This man right here. I don't even have to say it. It's almost like he can read my mind a little bit. And he'll know what's wrong and then he'll fix it. But we had never talk about it, but he had told me I was you 10 years ago. We're with 10 years. It's a 10 year age gap. He's like, I was you 10 years ago. And one thing that has helped me is having somebody to lean on. And I was like, always. I hate acting.
I hate when people know that I'm going through something. I hate it so much. So the one thing that I would tell myself is to ask for help.
Nobody bigger than the program, you can ask for help. We all need it. Nobody's perfect. And that's the. The misconception that we see on social media. Is everybody rich and everybody perfect. My accountant negative right now.
Y' all didn't need to know that, you know, but it is what it is. You feel me?
[01:11:51] Speaker B: I would say, damn, That's. It's the. I mean, the quick version is really just don't get distracted.
I think a lot of times people get distracted by, you know, what you're going through, your trials, your tribulations and stuff like that. It's a couple things that I will say, and I'll leave you with this because we gotta get out of these white people's theater. But.
But one thing that I learned is my big homie glasses. Like she said, I help her because every day G. Malone fed me. I didn't have to worry about buying food. He fed me every day for years.
Him and Pooh, you know what I'm saying. And so the reason I do that is because that and I tell her the same thing. I don't need no nothing back. I need you to do that for me, somebody else, so that we can keep doing it right. So for me, it's about learning that lesson early. And I. And I didn't learn. I didn't learn until later on in life. And I would just ask questions. That's the main thing, more importantly than asking questions is knowing what question to ask. Ask a question not how you can win, but ask questions on the steps to get to win.
So that's. That's do. That's. That's advice that I would give. You know.
[01:13:05] Speaker A: Some people that we want to shout out before we leave. Thank you to Hit Boy. Shout out to Hit Boy. Shout out to the whole Red Bull team and jtaj. Thank you so much. That's a Taj right there.
You might have seen him on Rhythm and Flow.
You might have heard him out cooking your favorite rapper.
[01:13:24] Speaker B: J. Todd's going on tour with D Smoke, too. I don't know if that's public, but.
[01:13:30] Speaker A: Shout out to DJ Robbie Rob.
[01:13:32] Speaker B: Shout out to Blue Robbie De Niro right there.
[01:13:37] Speaker A: Shout out to Bluebird la.
Thank you to photos by Jay right here. That's who take all our pictures.
Shout out to visuals by pb he.
[01:13:46] Speaker B: Do all our visuals.
[01:13:49] Speaker A: Shout out to Giggles Irene, who y' all keep hitting in the head.
And thank you to Paula with big event photo booths. That's who's taking our pictures outside. We are going to take some pictures outside.
[01:14:02] Speaker B: Yeah, we're gonna do. We're gonna do pictures outside once they. Once everybody clear out.
[01:14:05] Speaker A: And I want to give a huge shout out to the person. I'm telling y' all this one. Oh, and thank you to our manager somewhere here.
[01:14:14] Speaker B: But before. Hold on, Silas.
[01:14:17] Speaker A: Don't come in yet, though.
[01:14:18] Speaker B: Hold on, Silas. Naked.
[01:14:20] Speaker A: Your n. Come here. This is. This person is.
None of this would be possible without n.
Come right here.
[01:14:30] Speaker B: So look, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Oh, go ahead. You go first.
[01:14:35] Speaker A: Oh, I just love you.
I love you.
[01:14:38] Speaker B: Hey, if y' all know Gina, she love hard, too.
Go ahead. Go ahead.
[01:14:43] Speaker A: No. So this is the person. She get us together. They get me together on and off camera. Camera. That we do be getting each other together.
We share gummies. Sorry, daddy. He find out a lot about me tonight, ain't he?
Oh, bro, I'm telling. Don't your mama here. We behind.
Not.
[01:15:01] Speaker B: Not your mama here. Yeah, Gina, her mama Here we be off the gummies, you know what I'm saying? We do a little. Little this, little of that. Little dibbling and dabbling.
[01:15:13] Speaker A: You can't say a little bit of that? I don't do powder. Nigga, you gotta be. Don't tell me a little bit of that.
No, but thank you so much, Nay. I appreciate you. I love you. Thank you for trusting us.
Thank you for getting us together.
And, you know, before I start crying.
[01:15:29] Speaker B: I'm gonna let head go. Yeah. So real quick, I just want to say this. This is our producer. She produces the radio show. She produces the podcast. She produces all of our shit.
And she did. She, Nay, in conjunction with J. Taj and the Rebel, produced this whole event from top to bottom and shout out to black women.
And I'm not good. I'm not good at, like, you know, doing the whole. I'm not good at this shit. You know what I'm saying? So thank you. Nate Salas. Bring her shit in here. You know what I'm saying?
[01:16:05] Speaker A: Hey, got you something.
[01:16:14] Speaker B: Thank you, Miriam. I don't know where Miriam went, but thank you.
She finna get out. She hate being on camera.
[01:16:20] Speaker A: Yeah, she don't like this.
[01:16:23] Speaker B: Hey, let me say pro tip. Pro tip. Get you a producer who don't like being on camera.
You know what I'm saying?
Anyway, you got something else?
[01:16:32] Speaker A: Nah. Thank y' all for coming.
We. We are doing another one. We. We. Okay. We overestimated then. Underestimated. We had about 500 RSVP. So we started declining.
[01:16:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So people got declined. That wasn't me. That wasn't really like.
[01:16:50] Speaker A: No, that was.
[01:16:55] Speaker B: So, look. So look, I'm gonna let you in in a little secret. Cause y' all are here.
We did end up doing a nice little dope package deal with Red Bull. So we're going to be doing these once a month.
This man believed in me and the brand. So we're gonna be doing these once a month. So tell a friend to tell a friend that you got a good time, get some merch and, you know, hopefully we'll be back, and we'll see you next month. It's effective immediately.
