Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Yo, it's effective immediately. I'm DJ Head.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: What up, Hip Hop Nation? It's your favorite homegirl, Gina Views.
[00:00:08] Speaker A: We got a special guest in the studio. I've been waiting for this one. Oh, my God. We got a lot to talk about.
This person, this human being, is good, okay? Good company. Human.
A good human repping. Good company. LaRusso is here.
[00:00:24] Speaker C: Come on.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? You brought moms with you? Yeah, moms. Can you pop in? Where you at? Come over here real quick. I just want. I just want the people to see.
[00:00:31] Speaker C: On that press run today.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Mom's got her own merch. Yeah, plug your merch, moms.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Hello there, good people.
Oh, I gotta get on.
[00:00:41] Speaker C: Hold on, hold on.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Hello there, good people. It's me, Private Jettyvet.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Private Jetty Vet. Private Jetty Vet.
All right, well, thank you. That's great. Yeah, Private Jetty Vet is crazy.
[00:00:56] Speaker C: Yeah, you heard? You heard.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: I'm trying to move around with y'all.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Hey, that nigga, like, catch me on spirit, bro.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Brought his mom's. I fuck with that. I like that.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: Yeah, it's been a fun trip. Cause she just been hanging. Like, this is her first time. Really? Like, just being in the trip with us and working and out. It's been really dope.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Y'all flying still or y'all driving? Like, n ain't scared a little bit?
[00:01:20] Speaker C: Nah, we flew in.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: Hey, for real, though, what that pressure.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Feel like on an airplane these days?
[00:01:27] Speaker C: Nigga coming.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: It was bumpy.
I hate when they say it's bumpy. Like. No, this is.
[00:01:34] Speaker C: No, no, no, no. It was one of those where, like, you look around and you could see there's concern, man. It was one of them on the way in.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: You know how. You know what I always look for, and this only happened to me one time, bro, is when I look for. When the flight attendant grabbed their phone. Cause they texting they loved one or whatever. Like, when you. When I. Cause I seen no girl. Like, she didn't think I was looking. But she's on. She. You know, on the old Delta uniform, they had the little pocket, the vertical pocket.
[00:02:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: So she pull her phone out like this, and she sending a text.
[00:02:05] Speaker C: I'm like, man, who she texting by?
[00:02:07] Speaker A: Nigga, you supposed to be in airplane mode.
[00:02:09] Speaker C: Hey, you know what's crazy? The flight attendant on this flight. I gave her a tip after.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: Cause I didn't know you could do that.
[00:02:15] Speaker C: Shit was rock. I don't know if you can, but I did. She took it she took it. Hey. It was like Rocky. And I'm in my headphones, and it was like. And I'm just looking around. I look over and a flight attendant, like, in a corner of the plane, and it's like a light dawning down on her. And she was like, it's okay. And it brought me so much calm. Did it, man? I really, like. It brought me. I just opened the window and just looked out the window the rest of the flight. And I was good. And I was like, she deserves. She earned her spot today as a flight.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: How much did you tip her?
[00:02:48] Speaker C: A hundred.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: You tipped her a hundred?
[00:02:49] Speaker C: A hundred.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: Hey, listen, LaRussa, she wasn't even flying.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: That motherfucker.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: The radio.
Let me. Let me. Hold on. It's gonna be okay, LaRussell. You gonna get through this interview.
[00:03:00] Speaker C: No, it's not gonna tip you, nigga. It's not real.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: What?
[00:03:03] Speaker C: You know, I feel like, as a human, when you go. Like, when you go beyond doing your job. Cause some people just show up and do what they do. But I feel like when you take that step beyond and show, like, care that's just deserving of. It puts you in a different place in my mind and heart where it's like, bruh, I gotta do something to, like, show you. That was a great thing that you did as a human. You feel me?
[00:03:29] Speaker A: I feel that.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: I think. Well, you no stranger to you famous. We had this conversation, you know, before we started. You famous now. What's the difference between La Russell, I gotta get there, and La Russell? Like, okay, I'm in these rooms now. Like, what's the biggest difference for you?
[00:03:58] Speaker C: I'm hungrier.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: You want it more?
[00:04:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm. I'm far hungrier now. I'm hungrier for something different.
Like, at first, I just wanted to make it, but now I'm like, no, I want to change how it looks for the rest of how to make it. You feel me?
[00:04:17] Speaker A: So it was.
[00:04:18] Speaker C: So.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: It's more like. It's more like a hunger for more. For lack of a better way to say it. Right. The reason I asked that is because we was just talking off air and, like, everywhere I am, you are.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? Like, you be at Atlanta at the revolt. Shit. Then I see you over here, then you be in New York. And I'm like, bro, what are you. And then we run into you, like, yo, what are you doing here?
[00:04:36] Speaker C: Right?
[00:04:37] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? But I think it's dope, like, to see you in these rooms and these spaces with these other artists who took a different route than you. And you've been very vocal about the route that you took to get in these spaces and these rooms and stuff like that. Would you have done anything different now that you've learned more lessons? Be honest.
[00:05:01] Speaker C: Okay, Cliche.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Ly cliche. Le.
[00:05:04] Speaker C: I'm supposed to say I wouldn't have done anything different. Cause this what got me here.
[00:05:08] Speaker A: Nah, fuck that.
[00:05:17] Speaker C: I truly don't know if I would have done anything different.
There's times where I be wishing I was less arrogant then because I wasn't able to receive certain information or game or opportunity that was being handed to me. But on the other end of that, it didn't happen because I was so arrogant. And it ended up leading me to like, doing a bunch of things I would have never done if I wasn't. And I went the other way, you know, so there really is nothing.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: What made you become less arrogant?
[00:05:53] Speaker C: Life, Life.
Life would just slowly chisel away at you, you know, until you. In a form that you could live with.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Do you think that? So the reason why I asked that too is because I noticed that a lot of artists do. Like, I'm not a fan of artists who sign a deal and complain about it. I hate that. I really don't like that because, like, you wasn't complaining when you took the money. You know what I'm saying? You've been very vocal about, like, I'm finna do this my way, my team. I'm finna give the fans equity. Like, you was ahead of a lot of different things you took. You co opted the Proud to pay campaign from the late great homie. And you really kind of like, kind of curated your own space, your own lane, so to speak. Right? And so now what I'm seeing is there are other artists who trying to follow in your footsteps, but I see other artists doing it, doing a bad take on what you did. And I see other artists kind of like, oh, I didn't think about that. That was kind of. That was kind of smart. Have you noticed that since your ascension, man, of course.
[00:06:57] Speaker C: I mean, we created a lot of the infrastructure for it to exist. So we see it come through the pipeline. Like, you know, a lot of our legacy acts and the people we grew up on have used even to like, sell their music directly. And when you go buy it, it says put in, you know, a price that works for you. Like, all these are all things that we help create and curate. So I see it every Day, even the just the way we do content. Like, I look online and I see a blueprint that we laid every day. Like saying that Nip used to probably see when he would look on the Internet.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: Every time I see you on the timeline, like in my mind, this nigga woke up this day and said, we finna create. And I feel like every day, I don't know you personally, today is my first day meeting you. But every time I see your content, I feel like that every single morning you wake up, you come up with a plan of something new to create what is your day to day on a regular basis.
[00:07:54] Speaker C: Man, I really, it used to be that. And then I start kind of like letting life be the creation. Like I remember I had a convo with my video team, Splash T, and I was like, I really just want to get paid to live. I don't want to have to get paid to like go on stage. I don't want to have to get paid to do. I just want to get paid to be exactly who I wake up as.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: That's a flex.
[00:08:18] Speaker C: And I told myself, like, if I'm going to do that, then I have to share who I am. So we start going on daily walks. I just record the walk. I always say something insight or something that's relative. Take that clip. Throw it. So now it's like I'm just growing a base of people just based off me doing what I do normally. I never really had to change. And then there's days where it's like, okay, we gonna shoot visuals and I'm doing that style of content. We gonna do lives, I'm doing that style of content, going and doing interviews. Like I really just, I try to use what I'm already doing instead of having to make something new. Because some people don't like doing social media cause they can't think of like things to do. They think you gotta think of like content and shit. But it's like if you just document the living, it work.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: What kind of kid were you growing up?
What era of social media?
[00:09:06] Speaker A: You seem like you was an annoying ass kid. I ain't gonna lie.
[00:09:10] Speaker C: That's crazy.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: I'm just saying before you answer that, what social media platform is your era for as a kid?
[00:09:20] Speaker C: MySpace, Twitter, Facebook?
[00:09:22] Speaker B: You give MySpace?
[00:09:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: What does that mean? How?
[00:09:25] Speaker B: Because I'm MySpace, baby. So we were, we're the generation who learned how to do coding and we were so creative in just sitting in our parents home while these are jobs that pay hundreds, thousands of dollars to do so When I see you creating, you give me the vibe of one of those kids that was probably watching 106 in park.
[00:09:44] Speaker C: You hear me?
[00:09:45] Speaker B: You know, I just want to know, like, in school, like, what type of kid were you? What type of student were you?
[00:09:52] Speaker C: I was a great student until.
[00:09:58] Speaker A: I.
[00:09:58] Speaker C: Was at, like, sixth grade.
I was good until then. I was always, like, a little ahead of the curve. Like, I had gate classes and shit, and I would go help, like, some of the older kids in classes. I was always a little ahead of the curve.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: I was really on the East Coast. He said, gates, G A T E. That's west coast gift program.
[00:10:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Like AP classes?
[00:10:18] Speaker C: Yeah, kind of. But it's elementary, so it's like, you really ain't. I think it's just for the niggas that they like. I really like this, you know?
[00:10:26] Speaker A: Really?
[00:10:26] Speaker C: Honestly, that's really what it is.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: Popular amongst the administration.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:30] Speaker C: It's like, bruh, all your homies, a little slow, and you a little more.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: Advanced, a little smarter than the average.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: You feel me?
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Was your classmates looking at you now?
When they see you now, are they saying things like, I always knew this.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: Was new, you know, I didn't realize that I was displaying how much of who I was so early. I had somebody reach out, and they was like, man, I knew you was gonna do it. Since elementary. They knew me in, like, second, third grade. And I'm like, that's just something people say. I'm like, you lying. And she was like, I remember me, you and Larry. He used to make a beat on the table and you would rap. And it just sent me back. Like, I've been doing it longer than I could even remember myself. Cause that memory left me. I thought she was just being fun. Like, I knew you would make it. It's like, no, you didn't. You feel me? But it was real memories. So I've been at it for a really long time.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: When did you know? Like, damn, I'm him.
What was the exact moment that you was like, I am that guy.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: I think I feel that now more than I've ever felt it. Like, it's been a slow climb, you know, from like, 20, 21. Early going viral, like, the freestyles. It was like, you feel me? I was gaining that confidence of, like, man, I don't see what I'm doing. No, it ain't nobody who could do it. But now.
Now it's like, nigga, don't get on this court. You feel me? Like, that is really a new feeling for me. And I'm embracing it and really stepping into it, like, fully to where I could.
I'm willing to try and do more than I've ever been, because I feel like I can.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Do you think that your confidence plays a role in your success? Because I think it's all. I think you have to have a level of. We call it audacity. Like, audaciousness. Right. To believe that you can be on the radio or to believe that you could be a successful rapper or even make a living rapping. Cause there's a lot of people who can't sustain a living just doing music full time.
[00:12:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yes. And I've only been able to gain that level of confidence through work. It didn't work any other way for me. Like, I didn't think like this until I was able to, like, work for something. And it dawned on me, like, damn, I did that once, and that happened. So if I do it 10 times, then if I do it a hundred, then. If I like being able to break it down like, that is what made it for me. Yeah. Because I know that there is nothing I can't have or do if I just gotta do the work for it. Like, it took away the whimsical.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: The fantasy, you know, it ain't magic. It ain't no magic.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: So you don't believe in the magic of it no more.
[00:13:30] Speaker C: You could work to be a magician.
Niggas ain't born magicians. You feel me?
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Touche.
[00:13:38] Speaker C: Like, Criss angel was at it a long time.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: Touche.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: A long time.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: But Criss angel, fired, too.
[00:13:44] Speaker C: And when you get to that point, it's like you create the magic.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Is there. Is there a time where you felt, like, discouraged, where you didn't. Where you. Have you ever felt like you wanted to stop?
Like, what was that moment?
[00:13:59] Speaker C: It wasn't that I wanted to stop, but I didn't want to keep going either. Like, it was.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: You're gonna have to walk me through that.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: Like, I'm picking up what you think. Like, I never. I never wanted to, like, not make music and go after this. But sometimes when you give so much, you know, you enter that space of stagnancy where you not really getting nothing done. Cause you don't want to quit, but you also. Like, I'm tired of showing up every day to not play. You feel me?
[00:14:38] Speaker B: So was that, like, creator's block.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Or you just not seeing the reward from your work or what do you.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: Yeah, it's def. I didn't.
Another thing, like, when you Think it's whimsical. And you realize that when you think it's whimsical, you think it's outside of you. So I used to have a lot of bouts of depression and just being low because I felt like I wasn't being given something that I should have worked for. Like, I felt like I was supposed, you know, when you met me early, I felt like I was supposed to be here then.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: Oh, it was like, so you felt entitled?
[00:15:15] Speaker C: I felt like, yes. I felt like I was supposed to be here then. But I didn't understand, like, oh, no, you not here. Cause you didn't do enough yet. I thought it was just like, you know, n tried to please tell me, and now they. You feel me. Like, it's an accountability factor that's really, really hard to get to, especially as an artist. Cause you think it's because the label or the deals or the people or. Or, oh, they offered me this.
There was times where I thought, like, oh, man. Cause I ain't getting the machine. I'm not. But that was never true. I wasn't working hard enough for it. Cause I ain't got it now.
You hear me?
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Yeah, talk about that.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: But at what point? Cause that's something that I feel like a lot of artists experience. They feel like, like you said you thought back then, you should have been right here. And we probably. I felt like that before too. In freaking 2015, bitch. You ain't. Didn't have to work, you know, like, nothing even close to it. But what moment was it for you where you was like, oh, shit, I gotta put in some work to get to where I wanna go?
Or did you just figure that out as it happened?
[00:16:18] Speaker C: It just kind of kept.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: So that's more. So you looking back, man, coming to that realization.
[00:16:25] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: Exactly. Like, it kept snowballing, and that snowball was getting bigger. I used to go into every meeting, like, labels, partners, and tell them, like, if I could get in front of a million people, I'mma change my life.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:39] Speaker C: And I used to think that they had a way to do that for me, and they wasn't helping me do it because it's like, well, y'all put this person, this person, this person in front of a million people. Do it for me. And not realizing, like, bruh, you gotta put yourself in front of a million people.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: And that's just what it was. I used to think it was out of my hands.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: How many label beanies you think you had?
[00:17:02] Speaker A: Just guess.
[00:17:07] Speaker C: Two hands for sure.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: What's the most amount of money you turned down?
[00:17:22] Speaker C: Probably like 800. I accepted more than I turned down.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:28] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: What's the most you accepted?
I'm digging a million.
[00:17:33] Speaker C: From who?
[00:17:35] Speaker A: Cause I need to make a phone call.
Yo, so Russ said that N said.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: Y'All got an E. Y'all got M's over there.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Okay, so what made you turn down to 8?
[00:17:51] Speaker C: Actually, I turned down a million.
Um.
And because I was having all the conversations, I don't like when niggas tell me to tell them what I want and then come back with what I didn't want.
I just feel like it's really disrespectful. Cause, like, you done had to ask me what I wanted.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: Give me an example, though. Like, when something that came back to.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: You, no way to look at it, you don't.
[00:18:17] Speaker C: No, no. You seen scary movies, you say, hey, I'm going to the store. What you want? And I tell you what I want. If you come back with anything other than I, I want. And you like, well, I thought that this.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: Well, what if they didn't have it?
[00:18:29] Speaker B: No, you got it.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: If you want some Bubblicious, right?
[00:18:32] Speaker B: And you come back with Winter Fresh.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: I need a. I'm not coming back with Winter Fresh. Would you want me to come back with nothing if they don't have me?
[00:18:37] Speaker B: I asked for Bubba.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: They don't have it, remember?
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Don't bring it back.
[00:18:40] Speaker C: They don't have, remember? I'd rather you say they don't. They don't have, like, hit me. Just say, hey, we don't have that. Could we do this, this, this. But that level. And.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: And what I noticed, that's a negotiation.
[00:18:52] Speaker C: See, I didn't used to counter. Cause I used to feel like the first. Like, my first few offers, you know, I done made freestyles. Cause I'm like, you disrespectful. I didn't know you was supposed to counter. So when I finally got to the point of, like, oh, this is what I prefer, and it'll still come back, like, did you not listen to nothing I said?
[00:19:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: I don't think it sucked.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: Because this is a very good learning lesson, I would say, for the. For the people that your fans in.
[00:19:23] Speaker C: These offices and rooms, like, everything is like school. And every nigga that you went to school with now has a job. Even the niggas that, back then, you was like, you know, I don't know. Some of them, like, they in roles, in positions, and you gotta, like, deal with them in business. And it just like niggas can't even communicate properly and shit. Like, it's just. It ain't there. Like, it's an interesting state. And that's how my experiences have been with a lot of these deals where it's like you not hearing what I'm saying clearly.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it almost feels disrespectful.
[00:20:03] Speaker C: It feel like that, but it don't even. It just be a ignorance, you know, Like I had to understand. Like, it don't be malice sometimes, it just be a ignorance.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's like on Scary Movie when he asked for a dollar and she gave him a sandwich. He said, I said a dollar, bitch.
[00:20:19] Speaker C: Right.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: Hit her in the head with a sandwich.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: I think it's okay. I'm be honest with you. The reason I look at that is probably just because I'm used to that at this point. Right. And so I had to learn that too. Charlamagne, actually is the one who used to be on me about that because it's like, here, you have to negotiate. And I'm like, what you mean? Like, I'm upset. Like, I feel disrespected. Like, what you. They didn't give me, you know, you have to negotiate. You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: You feel like you begging, though.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: It don't matter how you feel. It's business, you know what I'm saying? So that's something that I took away from that, from learning that lesson as well.
[00:20:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I just kind of stopped doing deals or dealing with people where I got to do all that, you know, like all the deals that I get done now, if it get to that, we just don't do the deal. It's like if. If I know what I'm bringing, you clearly know what you bring in. This is what I want. If we can't make this happen, as simple as I am to communicate and share, then it's just not supposed to happen. Some niggas that do all that back and forth for a year and literally I'm not doing all that. It ain't worth it.
[00:21:22] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: I feel em.
[00:21:24] Speaker C: Yeah, it ain't worth it.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: Asking twice is too close to begging.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: The bigger deals, it's gonna be like that. Like, the bigger the deals get, it's gonna be more like. Cause it's more fine tuning.
[00:21:36] Speaker C: It depends on who you dealing with. You know, I have a saying that says a deal is as good as who you have to deal with.
So sometimes people think they getting a good deal, great deal, and it's like, but, you know, consider all that you gotta deal with. Taking that like, you. You don't have to. You don't have to.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah, you don't have to.
[00:21:53] Speaker C: I know it's become, like, standard, but it's like. And I be trying to teach people and artists like, bro, if you stop accepting this as the norm and the standard and start, like, going for what you want and. And what you feel like you deserve, it slowly make people start to kind of change and feel. But everybody accept it right now. So it's like we all got to deal with the same shit walking in the door.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: Have you ever had to. I don't wanna say consult, but have you ever had to talk to an artist about trying to do the things that you've done, but they not doing it properly?
Like, these standards that you've set for yourself. I could see the wrong people trying to practice these standards because they were like, well, the Russell did it. I could do it too. It's like, no, no, no, no.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: It don't work for everybody.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: It don't work for. It ain't gonna. This ain't the blueprint for me. Is not necessarily the blueprint for you.
[00:22:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? Have you ever had to have these conversations with people?
[00:22:45] Speaker C: That's usually the people that, like, I'm having those convos with is. Cause they, like, have the potential and ability to do it right. I really.
I try to spare it with the ones that, like, unless somebody come up to me and ask me, I don't really have them. Cause it's, like, hard. You can't even. It's hard to grasp that sometimes as an artist, like, somebody telling you, like, yeah, this thing that works ain't gonna work. You feel me? So I try not. Like, when I have those convos, it's usually, what, like the Malleys and the Lareezies, the ones who was like, bro, you. This same thing. Run it.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: Being that you don't have the machine and you have been independent, community has to be a huge aspect. So how important was that for you as an artist that you needed the.
[00:23:33] Speaker C: Community to support you, man? Vital. I wouldn't be where I am. Like, the community was really my machine. That's what kept the merch selling. That's what kept the album selling. That's what kept the music bumping like it was everything. And that's a big reason I stayed home. And while I'm still home and people get to see me on walks and see me when I go pick my kids up and see me outside my mom's seat. I'm dropping off packages. Some days, like, they really, like, propelled me to this height without having to look outside of me.
[00:24:09] Speaker A: I wanna know what the conversation was like when you decided to throw shows at the house in the backyard. Like, what was the conversation like with moms? Or like, how do you.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: We having a party today?
[00:24:21] Speaker A: It's great.
[00:24:23] Speaker C: The initial was like, all right, you know, like, I'm real. I'm real convincing.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Was there no concern?
I mean, yeah, we gonna have random niggas.
[00:24:34] Speaker C: All that existed off of Instagram. All that existed. But I didn't wait for it, you know? Like, I knew all those convos was gonna take place, but I wasn't waiting. Cause I needed. So we was already digging dirt while all that was existing and happening. You feel me?
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Dude, Moms, can you come over here real quick, please? Yeah, I wanna just go over here.
Just stand next to him. I wanna. Cause I wanna know what this. I gotta know what this is like. Cause so the first conversation, when he decided that he wanted to throw shows in the backyard, like, what did he. He said. He's very convincing. What was he. What was said to you? Can you talk it to the mic? Right.
[00:25:14] Speaker B: Actually, the only thing I really, really remember is him saying, I'm gonna build a pergola. And I said, what the hell is a pergola? I had literally woke up. I woke up, and he was all excited, said, I'm gonna build a pergola. Go for it. And that's how I left it.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: So you had no concern about random people pulling up?
[00:25:35] Speaker B: I didn't. I didn't.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: You didn't? So who did?
[00:25:39] Speaker B: I didn't. I'ma leave it there.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: Okay. All right. I appreciate you. Thank you.
[00:25:44] Speaker C: Of course. Yeah, my pops held more of the concern. You feel me?
[00:25:48] Speaker A: Your dad?
[00:25:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: What was he on?
[00:25:50] Speaker C: Cause, you know, he's a protector. It's like he got. He like, man, it's gonna be n. You know, that's something you gotta go through. In general, just me, like, going into it, I had to, like, recondition my beliefs and how I grew up and who I view as a danger to me or not. Because you feel me naturally, as a black man in the hood, it's like, bro, we can't have all these niggas that you feel me. But it was just something for me. It was worth the risk. I knew the change I was gonna make. And I'm one of those that's like, I'm willing to Die for what I believe is necessary or impactful or is really gonna mold the future of what I think life could be.
[00:26:32] Speaker B: So you haven't done, like, the whole big rapper spending, like, going to get.
[00:26:38] Speaker C: Jewelry and, you know, I do mines in different forms. Okay.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: Like, What?
[00:26:44] Speaker C: I spend $100,000 on advertising. You feel me? So I do it, but just in a different format.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Did you ever have any urge to go buy some unnecessary shit, a car that you probably can't pronounce?
[00:27:02] Speaker C: I've had considerations all the time, but it just. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to convince myself to do it. Cause I'm a laugh at myself, you know? I think that's, like, the issue that exists. Like, n don't have enough, like, niggas around them who know them to laugh at them, so they get to get away with certain shit. Like, if I came to the house with hella chains on and jewelry and my mama and my niggas in there, you know, you gotta sneak past niggas. Cause it's like, you gonna. It's like, bro, what are you doing? If my shoes were the size of three shoes, you know, it just. It don't work. It don't work. Like, I gotta. It wouldn't be authentic to me. And I feel it. You feel me? It'll make me feel even like sometimes when I be with, like, security.
Like, anytime we do certain event, they assign you security. And me walking with security make me feel like. I feel. I don't know what it be, but it's like I feel more weird now than when I was alone.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: Yeah, you ain't crossed over yet.
[00:28:03] Speaker C: Yet. I don't think it's a yet.
Yeah, I don't think I'm going crossing over.
[00:28:11] Speaker A: You was talking about being at the house and, like, walking in looking crazy, all this jewelry, showing up with a foreign.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: But that sounds like a great sitcom, though.
[00:28:21] Speaker C: Oh, God.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: Oh, like, living at the. You know what? I just thought about it. You and Louie G. From Big Boy's Neighborhood, y'all the only two people I know that, like, openly live at home.
[00:28:30] Speaker C: Wow. Like.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Like, as far as.
[00:28:32] Speaker C: What you mean openly?
[00:28:33] Speaker B: We all live at home.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: No, I'm talking about, like, people be ashamed of, like, living with their family and stuff like that. It's like people try to hide it as opposed to, like. Nah, this the community, bro. Like, my mom's is. I just telling your mom's off air. Like, I seen her packing merch and shipping merch. I seen that on the Internet. You Know what I'm saying? But I guess where I'm going with this is you doing these shows has turned into a real enterprise at this point, right? Like it's wait list to get into the pergola shows. It's proud to pay to get into the pergola shows. You done retrofitted the pergola, you know what I'm saying? Juvenile, you done had me some real moments.
I'm be honest. I know of a show that Juvenile canceled at a real venue and he not to do your show. But I'm just saying I know of a venue that he didn't do and he came and did your show, you know what I'm saying? And then that's hard.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: It means something.
[00:29:23] Speaker A: It means something to me.
[00:29:24] Speaker C: Like it means something culturally, it means something.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: A culture.
[00:29:27] Speaker C: It means something.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: I know that's always been the vision for you. Cause you wanted to make it a thing. You wanted to go back, bro, what's up with the neighbors, bro? Like, have the neighbors not called the police? Like, hell no.
[00:29:40] Speaker C: They the homies. They get to see the shows and they be on.
[00:29:43] Speaker A: So you let the neighbors get free.
[00:29:45] Speaker C: The lil home? Yeah, them the home. I don't like. I've been on my block forever, you feel me? So we see new people come in, new people come out. And now it's like I'm LaRussell. So it's like they even excited. They kids get merch. They be in the videos. Like the neighbors is really. That's the community that seen me first. I used to rehearse in my garage, like coming fresh off work in there, rehearsing for hours, garage up. And they just hear it like they've. They witnessed me.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: Yeah, but you got subs and shit back there.
[00:30:15] Speaker C: Yeah, now that bitch knocking.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying.
[00:30:17] Speaker C: But that's why we do one day of the month, first Sunday every month. All the neighbors know is today the block gonna be packed, it's gonna be loud, people gonna be out. But I only disturb the block one Sunday out of the month for six months of the year.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: So you're doing something that they've never even seen before too.
[00:30:35] Speaker C: Never. Yeah, never. Like, we ain't juvenile. Pulled up in front of the crib, you know, and it's like, we got some guests this year that when they pull up in front of the crib, it's like, you know, it's some shit.
[00:30:48] Speaker B: Like who let him guess.
Just give us one.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: It's one excuse.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: Just one or six.
[00:30:56] Speaker C: You heard the feature so Snoop Dogg. Okay, we gotta believe that.
[00:31:03] Speaker A: Nah, you. Nah, he posted a. He posted it.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:31:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snoop say he coming for sure.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: When you first had the vision to do this event, in your mind, was it, I'm gonna have mega superstars pull up. Like, what was the initial vision? Did you know it was gonna go this far?
[00:31:18] Speaker C: No, no. Like, at first I was really just like, I was mad that a nigga told me I was mad and nigga was giving me a bunch of bullshit about renting out a venue and doing a show and how they didn't believe in what I was doing. So my initial was just like, I don't want to have to go ask nobody for nothing. I'm going to just do my own thing. And that just scaled and scaled and it started becoming like different people coming in. But it was for me and the homies initially. Like, I remember having this thought of like, I need to plant a money tree. Like I be getting random downloads from the universe and it was like, I need to plant a money tree. And I end up building the pergola in the backyard. And I could wake up any day of the week and say, I got a show and put them tickets up and they sell. I've sold tickets to a rehearsal in my backyard. What? Just us chilling, rehearsing, my mom smoking, my niece. Like, we just rehearsing and I've sold tickets, thousands of dollars to just rehearse and practice. And then the shows, like 2025 is sold out the entire year. And it was like that full circle of me just. I planted a money tree.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: That's crazy.
Oh man. What's. Okay, walk me through the ideology of doing shows in the middle of the day.
Like when you do leave the pergola and you do a show, I remember I was trying to make one of your shows. You did like 2:30 in the afternoon in the middle of LA and I'm like,n't happening. Like you said, like 2:30 in the daytime, 3:00. You doing early shows. You advocately. I don't even know if that's a word. You advocate against doing the late night stuff. Cause you like, people gotta go to work, whatever the case may be. Walk me through the ideology of that.
[00:33:01] Speaker C: I mean, one, I'm a human and I be tired. So at 10pm I don't wanna go on stage and give you my. I ain't got my best energy at 10pm like you getting the last of me for the day. You feel me? So that was one I didn't want to be out that late. And then two, I have kids, five and I have grannies.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: Grandpa, you got five kids?
[00:33:23] Speaker C: 65. No, like kids from age five all the way to grandma.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: That's news to me, bro.
[00:33:29] Speaker C: Nah, like 5 to 65 is the demo. So it's like granny not trying to be out at 10pm and your kids don't need to be out at 10pm, you feel me? So all of that together, it just made sense for me to do it in a day. I feel best around 2pm, 3pm, 1pm and we trying to get it even earlier, honestly, because I like to be done. And I walk outside, the sun's still out. I could go ride my bike. I go walk. You feel me? Like the whole day still exists. And I feel accomplished.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: Do you. Do you have any desire now at this point in your career to go back and do them big deals, like with a major.
[00:34:12] Speaker C: As of now? No.
[00:34:13] Speaker A: Cause you came out very anti in, like anti establishment.
[00:34:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I was just sour.
[00:34:19] Speaker A: Oh, that's big. I respect that.
[00:34:21] Speaker C: Yeah, I was just sour.
[00:34:22] Speaker A: I was just like, what was the sourness for?
[00:34:24] Speaker C: Cause n seen me young black doing something special and innovative and could have helped. And that was entitlement, you know? Cause ain't nobody gotta help me with shit. But I just feel like as black leaders or just anybody who's in a culture that has a deep regard and care, there's certain people that if you see them come in, like, you help like that, that's almost your role as an elder or as a guide to assist. Not assist only if you sign this paper. But like, no, I see what this is and how special it is. I need to do something to contribute.
And that just ain't what I received to some. You feel me? Some people did. But the people who were in the positions to like give me them deals and bring me in them offices, I just feel like as a due diligence to preserve culture and something that's so special to us, you know, it could have been better played.
[00:35:16] Speaker A: So now, so did you. So you. So the good company is your. The good company is your company.
So if you. If and when you do do something, you want to do a joint venture with a company, you want to sign as La Russell, like if and when that time comes. Because as we see as a singular artist, you can drop over here and then put our music on this side over here too, as a company.
[00:35:40] Speaker C: Yeah. And I've actually done that throughout, like my distro deals and deals that I do. I Always do them non exclusive. So I could go build everywhere. So I'll put out music here, but I'm still releasing songs here and working with this person and building. So eventually good company will be like Motown, you know, like, I have the wherewithal to really find and see something special early and build around it and grateful and help it go viral. Like, we've done it with Malachi and Shantae and Splash and Tierra and, you know, every. We know how to build infrastructure and make things larger than they are. So the goal is to, like, build Motown in the bay, but shout out to the bay.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: I see you frolic. I see you moving around with Empire a lot too. That's business.
[00:36:28] Speaker C: Yep, yep. We just started doing business, so I didn't fuck with Empire for a long time.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: I know, I remember.
[00:36:34] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I remember.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: But you were very involved.
[00:36:35] Speaker C: You ain't in fuck with me. You fuck with me.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: I know.
[00:36:37] Speaker C: What made you fuck with him, man. We had a video shoot for Pilo Song and he had like, just all of us out there from the bay and Ghazi was there, and I didn't like how I felt internally about them, you know, Like, I didn't because they from the turf and from the region. And I really love, like, Ghazi's a genius, and I'm so grateful for what he did for our region and the culture, but I didn't like how I felt about it all because of my early situations and dealings with them. So I was like, man, I'm gonna just holla at him. And I pulled him to the side and we ended up just talking hella long. And then we went to the office and we chopped it up and it was just, like, real. Like, I got to share as a human. Like, y'all really let me down when you did that. And it felt disrespectful when you did this, because I'm from here and y'all know, y'all could have treated me and, you know, and to have the other end be like, we understand that and this is why. And we felt this way, like, it was really like adult communication.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: I respect that.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: And it's a win that we both wanted, but neither of us knew how to explain to one another that we were hurt by this action or this to get to that point, you feel me? Like, it don't make sense that they're the biggest on the coast. You know, they're able to do what the majors do independently. And I'm who I am independently from the same turf. And region. But we wasn't working together because we couldn't communicate.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: There's differences. Yeah, I fuck with the bae. You know, BAE always showed me. I went up there and got this job, you hear me, for All Star Weekend.
My last thing is you and T Pain.
Like, the relationship there. How did that. How did that. How did y'all form that relationship?
[00:38:13] Speaker C: T Pain booked me to do his mansion in Wisconsin Fest when he did it one year, and we just met him and it was just like instant click. And we killed the show and everything. And a year later, they tapped in and was like, payne wants you to go on tour with him. He said, whatever you want, give it to him.
[00:38:32] Speaker A: What? So that's one of them situations where, hey, this what I want. And if Payne would have came back with, you know, $1,000 less, you would have been offended. Then I'd be like, no, fuck the tour.
[00:38:43] Speaker C: No, I wouldn't have been offended. I wouldn't have been offended in that regard. Because, like, that was something that came to me that I really wanted.
It wasn't like I was. I don't know, it just hold a different regard than like someone coming that's like, man, I wanna help you with your music and this, this, that. What do you want for us to do this? It was just a different feeling and energy. Pain is also smiling and she. You know, it's a whole different energy with that.
But I mean, it didn't even get to that point. Cause it gave me what I asked for.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: Did you learn? Did you pick up anything about. Cause I see before you went on. I'm. Be honest. This is my observation. I could be wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong. Before you went on that tour, before you did that run with Payne, I think you had a dj.
[00:39:33] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: And then you came back and then I see you just doing keys.
[00:39:37] Speaker C: No, I had a band before.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: No, there was a band, but I'm saying your show. I remember you had the band. But now you don't do the show with the dj. You do the show with just the keyboard and the.
What's my man's name?
[00:39:50] Speaker C: Guitar.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: And the guitar.
[00:39:51] Speaker C: Yeah. No, I got a DJ too.
[00:39:53] Speaker A: Okay. The last three shows I seen, it was just those two. It wasn't the dj.
[00:39:57] Speaker C: Yeah. It's only not DJ if it's like some quick pop in shit. Like, I think we did keys and violin for like that last.
[00:40:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: Thing you seem. Yeah. So it was like, if I'm just popping in to do a record, but.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: If it's a Full show.
[00:40:09] Speaker C: Yeah, but every time we do.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: So did you pick. Did you take anything from being on the road? Because I seen T Pain perform before, bro.
[00:40:16] Speaker C: Hella, man. He first great display of just, like, grace and respect and patience. And like, his team adores him. Like, that's always a sign. Like, if the niggas you with don't really like, you could tell niggas, like, yeah, they work for you, but they don't really like. But his team loves them. And you could tell why he treat everybody so well. And they really family.
So just on that. And then second, like, him showing us how to, like, take care and provide for the people that's coming into your space and making sure they good and set up. And then third, just on stage, on stage, seeing that man weave, bob maneuver night after night. And the banter, like, we really, man, them first shows we had did what cities we do first. Houston and Dallas.
[00:41:14] Speaker B: It was the Texas.
[00:41:15] Speaker C: Texas. We did Texas, right? And I remember after those. Both of those shows, I was like, man, this ain't it your show, ain't it?
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Or his show.
[00:41:26] Speaker C: My. My show. But, like, within the environment. Cause when we went into it, I don't know why, but I was like, me and T Pain got the same fan base.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Why would you think that?
[00:41:37] Speaker C: Cause he black. And when I grew up, nigga, we was in the car. Snap your finger. Like, I thought. I forgot that he had. It's 5:00 in the morning and shot, shot. You know, I forgot that those existed. So when I got out and I seen a crowd of, like, white people, it was like, oh, I'm coming out African nigga in the European. You feel me? I really had. But being on that run really taught me by watching him how to, like, be a showman and how to talk and build the story and how to do covers. Like, I'll do songs that, you know, that's familiar, but I'll throw new verses on it so I get to people to sing it and be along. But now they get to experience me too. And I was winning. And when we came back from that run, every show after I'm hitting them.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: You had to switch that show up, man. We learned.
[00:42:30] Speaker C: We got to.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: We got to.
[00:42:31] Speaker C: And it was.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: I love when that happens. Because artists go on stage, they be arrogant like, nigga, I got hit records, nigga. They get up there like, oh, shit.
[00:42:37] Speaker C: I ain't got no record. I need got one. They don't know none of these. Hell, no.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: You get up there, that base set if you want to in Texas.
[00:42:45] Speaker C: Like, man, I learned.
[00:42:47] Speaker B: I learned that's good that you're not that arrogant and you have self awareness that you went out there and you saw that and you learned from that experience.
[00:42:54] Speaker C: It's seldom you get to shadow someone at that level of greatness. And like we were really sponges. Like we watched night after night. I don't think it was any night we missed this set. And if it was, it's just. Cause like we was whooped. But like we night after night, just witnessing him do what he do. Insane.
[00:43:12] Speaker A: Did he ever give you any game?
[00:43:14] Speaker C: The whole way. Anything I asked.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: Well, I mean, what stood out to you as far as like something that you took away, like, oh, this is a gym, I'm gonna tuck this.
[00:43:22] Speaker B: Or what questions did you ask?
[00:43:24] Speaker C: We did a whole free game episode with him. Just asking him about like his skills and his journey. Yeah, a few pieces went viral, but it wasn't really like the words that necessarily stuck out. It was like the action. Like watching him be him at that level and still be. He was walking on the same streets we was walking, going to the places. Like his meet and greet was him playing games with the fans.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: Oh, that's hard.
[00:43:50] Speaker C: Like, just witnessing him be him at his tier and his level and still be so humble. We come off the stage like, show's over. We all in the green room. We cooking, making music, working. You going to his green room. He editing a movie while streaming, then come record the song. Hop on, make a. Like he was working just as hard at everything. Like he still. Even at this point in his journey, he's still hungry and still want it.
[00:44:17] Speaker A: Sidebar. You and Payne, that game episode y'all did. Yeah, y'all got me into some shit.
[00:44:24] Speaker C: How so?
[00:44:25] Speaker A: We had Akon come up here on the show. And I asked Akon about the clip that went viral about Payne getting. Was it 40 million or some shit? He said. And Akon was like, nah, Payne a get more than me. I was like, what? So that's not true. He was like, yeah, Payne might have been capping or he might have. That ain't. That ain't true.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: He was trolling.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: Yeah, he was like, he might have been trolling. And I'm like, bro, I saw the clip and I'm thinking of my tripping. And I'm like, no, that was on the Russell's video. I saw that video.
[00:44:52] Speaker C: I don't think Payne trolling.
I don't think Payne Payne.
[00:44:56] Speaker A: I mean. Cause Akon told us he got what, 20 million? He said he's like, I got 20. He's like, no way. Payne got 20.
[00:45:02] Speaker C: Cause he got 20. So another N can't get 40. Cause he got 20. That's what he said, man.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: That shit was crazy, man.
[00:45:08] Speaker C: That's like a N saying, I hit seven, so it ain't no way you hit seven.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: Right.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: You've been one of those artists who. I feel like early on, you still shared your platform with other artists. I woke up one day and seen you had Post my Cypher clip with Da Barbie. Outside of T Pain, what artists were instrumental in, like, just assisting you or helping you early on in your career, if any at all?
[00:45:38] Speaker C: Russ really. Russ gave me my first deal ever.
Really?
Yep. Yep. Really early. He found me on TikTok, and he was one of those who was like. He came in and was like, man, what you need? But then it really turned into like, this is what you need. I know what you need here. And now that I think about it.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: Y'All do got the same temperament.
[00:46:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:46:03] Speaker A: Y'all both, like, kinda know what you doing, but assholes. But, like, yep. But, like, nah, I'm doing it this way.
[00:46:10] Speaker C: Like, yep. So he gave me my first deal, and he gave me some paper to, like, go. He like, here, take this.
[00:46:17] Speaker A: Give you a budget.
[00:46:18] Speaker C: Yep.
Gave me some paper to go. I never. He never gave me, like, marketing, none of that shit. But you know, that. That first.
How much was it invest was? 75 grand.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: Russ gave you $75,000?
[00:46:33] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Off of TikTok?
[00:46:35] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:46:36] Speaker A: Let me make some tiktoks I need.
[00:46:37] Speaker C: Rectify me on TikTok.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: Let me make some TikTok.
[00:46:39] Speaker C: And it was crazy because it was around the time I had just. I had came back from New York, and they was like. They wanted me to do the Breakfast Club freestyle. And I remember that wire landed, and I was like, I'm taking all my niggas to New York. Yep. Yeah. To my mama and all the homies. And I was like, a celebration of that. And, yeah, just that. Ads, merch. You feel me? I really just invest. Like, you don't understand until you really in it that, like, $75,000.
You can't blow up with $75,000. Like, it takes so much, but it was helpful, like, in that journey of growing. And other than that, artist wise, like, I'm thinking outside of the region, like, within the region. Mr. Fab, Fody, like, Neff, they all embraced me and gave me any information, features, any plays. P Lo. P Lo, you feel me? A Whole lot of plays. But outside of that, I didn't really have too many artists kind of liaison, but I was meeting a lot of, like, mentor, like Ty Basen and Stretch, and a lot of them came in early. Johnny Shipes Hovain, it was more so, like, executive that was kind of coming in and assisting.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: What's.
I know I said it's a last name, but, like, what's the relationship like with Russ now?
[00:48:10] Speaker C: I just text that nigga the other day to Russ.
[00:48:14] Speaker A: I just text that nigga.
[00:48:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said, black man, I'm proud of you.
[00:48:18] Speaker A: You said. You said what?
[00:48:20] Speaker C: I said, black man, I'm proud of you. He said, I'm framing this.
Every now and then I like to just get a nigga off or black man.
[00:48:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I do that too.
[00:48:28] Speaker C: You know, you got to. Yeah.
[00:48:29] Speaker A: Cause they can't hit it back. Hit it like, yeah, right?
[00:48:32] Speaker C: And it make him proud.
Nah, but, man, it's great. Like, I really. We didn't. I really got a soundboard for a lot of what I may experience or was going through, and I could hit him for anything.
We done had talks like, nigga, how do that? How is that streaming shit working? Like, what is happening there? Who is the guy? How do you. You feel me? Like, we discuss all of that shit unfiltered. He really is like, he. Man, bruh, we. We a very similar type of person. And he did it. And he did it, like, rightfully. And I've seen the build, the slow grind, the community grow. Like, bruh, it's just great to have a blueprint. So till this day, we still cool.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember Russ is one of them people, bro. Like, I with Russ, tough. Like, I really with him. I remember seeing him sell out the stable center, and I'm like, like, what, nigga? Wait. You know what I'm saying? And then I like, just seeing his ascension has been very inspiring, bro.
[00:49:29] Speaker C: And it was so dope to, like, I see where I was inspiring him. I see when the content changes and we had convos like, bruh, this shit is this. And when the radio freestyles have, like, I got to see it go from like, him pouring into me and me running and doing a bunch of shit and re inspiring him to like, oh, this is how you do that dope?
[00:49:51] Speaker A: You got anyone to do card?
[00:49:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a card game. I have a podcast called Hofessions where I get into rapper's business. It's unfiltered conversations about intimate experiences. But, you know, you was a respectable Young man.
[00:50:06] Speaker C: So I put the. I might be running for president one day, so that's good.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: I put the good questions out for you.
Go ahead and pull for the top. Just read the question. Answer it.
[00:50:22] Speaker C: What did Keisha Cole say she should have done?
She should have cheated.
[00:50:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:50:27] Speaker C: This good? It's good.
[00:50:28] Speaker B: It ain't going to get.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: She a big R B fan.
[00:50:32] Speaker C: Where did 112 want to make love at?
[00:50:35] Speaker A: Don't look over there.
[00:50:37] Speaker B: He trying to phone a friend.
[00:50:38] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think ass.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: If you don't know, they'll tell us in the comments. You can skip it.
[00:50:47] Speaker C: Where did 112 want to make love at?
Damn.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: They don't know either. They all are born in.
[00:50:57] Speaker C: You know that one?
You know that one, huh? You know that one?
[00:51:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:01] Speaker C: Nah, you said huh first, nigga. You don't know that one. Hey, when a nigga answer your question with a question, you don't know.
[00:51:07] Speaker A: No, no, no. I was on some other shit.
[00:51:09] Speaker B: Do you know?
[00:51:10] Speaker A: No.
[00:51:11] Speaker B: Y'all really don't know?
[00:51:12] Speaker A: I don't even know who 112 is.
[00:51:14] Speaker B: Oh, get him out.
[00:51:15] Speaker C: You know, You. You heard the song, you know. You know Peaches and Cream? You know the songs, bro.
[00:51:21] Speaker A: He was born last year.
[00:51:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:22] Speaker A: Why would he know the 112? You know?
[00:51:24] Speaker C: What was Lloyd's Player's Prayer?
I don't know that one either.
Where did Jagged Edge want to meet at Mimi? At the altar. And. Yo, Okay, I got you. I got you.
Who was ushering LA with that? Is that that? Yeah. Yeah. Who was he in LA with?
[00:51:59] Speaker A: Well, it wasn't Chili.
[00:52:00] Speaker B: Ex girlfriend.
[00:52:01] Speaker C: Okay, okay.
What time was Pretty Ricky having phone sex? It's five. In a month. Yep. Yep.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: Which is crazy. Cause I wouldn't.
[00:52:14] Speaker C: What did Jody leave in Yvette's car?
[00:52:19] Speaker B: You know that.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: What he leave in the car.
Was it a condom?
Okay. Yep. Yep.
I stole my car. Jody name all of the women DMX mentioned in. What the. It was. It was.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: Don't look over there. Why you keep looking at her?
[00:52:41] Speaker C: Damn.
[00:52:43] Speaker A: Just do it in your head.
[00:52:44] Speaker C: About three Kims.
[00:52:45] Speaker A: No. Start from the beginning.
[00:52:47] Speaker C: Hold on. It was Brenda. Felicia.
[00:52:50] Speaker A: No.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: No, it's not Felicia.
[00:52:51] Speaker C: All right, damn. Forget it.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: I'll do it with you. Start. Start.
[00:52:56] Speaker C: It was Brenda.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: Latesha.
[00:52:57] Speaker C: Stacy.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: No.
Start over.
[00:53:00] Speaker C: It was Brenda, Latesha.
[00:53:05] Speaker A: Linda.
[00:53:05] Speaker C: Linda, Felicia, dawn, lashawn. Lashawn, Inez, Tisha.
[00:53:13] Speaker A: No. Alicia.
[00:53:14] Speaker C: All right, man.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: DMX is barking in his grave right now.
[00:53:20] Speaker C: At your ass spit or freestyle or let the person Next to you. Search your phone for the word swallow.
[00:53:27] Speaker B: You might.
[00:53:28] Speaker A: So Gina does this segment called Spit or Swallow.
[00:53:31] Speaker B: Yeah, It's a play on rap, but then it's a play for the whole fest. It's a little freaky.
[00:53:37] Speaker A: So she wants what.
[00:53:38] Speaker B: So if you wanna run for president, I think you should rap and not give me your phone.
[00:53:46] Speaker A: Or you could do the Scoopty de Poop one that Kanye did.
[00:53:49] Speaker B: It all worked for the clip.
[00:53:50] Speaker C: It's hilarious.
[00:53:53] Speaker B: Now I got shit in here that say moan out loud.
[00:53:56] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: So I took the good ones out for you.
[00:53:58] Speaker C: How thoughtful. I appreciate that. Cause my mama here, she told me.
[00:54:03] Speaker B: To go crazy, though.
[00:54:04] Speaker A: Hey, no, last question. You being at the house, have your moms or pops ever walked in on you?
[00:54:09] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:54:12] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: I mean, my mom walked in on me one time. I was having a conversation yesterday, so that's what. Oh, when I was. You know. Cause when you was in.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: What?
[00:54:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:24] Speaker B: What you was gonna say high school?
[00:54:27] Speaker A: Nah.
What happened?
[00:54:30] Speaker C: I just wanna.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: Look, I'll tell you my story.
[00:54:34] Speaker C: I used to sleep on the couch.
[00:54:36] Speaker A: So you was in the living room going crazy.
[00:54:38] Speaker C: No, I'm fucking around.
[00:54:40] Speaker A: Well, you are a dad, nigga, so you know what I'm saying? That had to happen somewhere. You know what I'm saying?
[00:54:46] Speaker C: Like, all right, we done here. It's been effective in me. Hey. Effective immediately.
[00:54:54] Speaker A: He like, yeah, it's time to go.
Nah, But I appreciate you, bro. For real, man.
[00:54:59] Speaker C: Gratitude. It's been so just dope and inspiring to see both of y'all build and see y'all journeys. Like, I'm really proud and honored. Like, this is one of the platforms that, you know, and all of them I'm honored to be on. But this is one of the ones that's like, man, I'm so. I'm grateful that I get to contribute in any capacity to this and just share this. Like, we.
I was just telling someone, like, we need to witness free niggas, too. Like, we can't. We need to see some niggas who on the other side of the gate, like, nah, come on. Like, it's gonna be all right. Like, you gotta go for it.
[00:55:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, for sure. No, I appreciate you. And then also, too.
How many albums have you put out total? I remember there was.
[00:55:42] Speaker C: I'm at 35 right now.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: You at 35 right now. And is there a goal? Like, is there a number that you.
[00:55:51] Speaker C: I'm gonna go for a hundred.
[00:55:52] Speaker A: And then you're done.
[00:55:54] Speaker C: Yeah. Cause I feel like if I can get to 100. No one I know will ever have to work again. Cause I've gotten here at 35 and we close. We getting there.
[00:56:04] Speaker A: So how many do you already have recorded, not released?
[00:56:08] Speaker C: Like, I'm gonna say 10. Like, that's an easy say.
[00:56:14] Speaker A: So right now you have 45 total albums. So mean you got another 55 albums.
[00:56:19] Speaker C: But I have. I probably got like easily seven, 800 songs that's like unreleased that I'm working. And like, not songs that's just like bullshit song, but songs like. No, we fucking with these are coming. Yeah, we gonna get to a hundred.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: It's 100 albums.
[00:56:35] Speaker C: We gonna get to 100 and then.
[00:56:36] Speaker A: You'Re not rapping no more.
You're not gonna put it on albums. You might rap, but not put out albums.
[00:56:43] Speaker C: You might not even hear from me.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: That's Cap. I'm calling, okay? I'm calling bullshit.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: What age you think you'll be when you hit 100 albums?
[00:56:54] Speaker C: Probably like 30.
I'm gonna say 36. 40 at the absolute latest.
[00:57:02] Speaker A: We gonna be having this conversation when you 41. Wanna bet?
[00:57:05] Speaker C: We'll probably be having a convo, but the albums will be done.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: You wanna bet?
Yeah.
You not gonna stop.
[00:57:15] Speaker C: You're not gonna stop.
[00:57:16] Speaker A: You got too much shit to talk, but. Ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate you for tuning in to effective immediately ourselves and Gina views here at SiriusXM on Hip Hop Nation. Ladies and gentlemen, La Russell.
[00:57:28] Speaker C: I love it.
