00:00Leo Stay True is a young 17-year-old from Southeast London that wants to show people
00:04that regardless of his age, he can still conquer the rap game outside of just the UK.
00:08Imagine for you lot in this room, cool, you get to be out in America, for example, and
00:12you're here with your favorite artists and seeing all types of figures and all this,
00:16that, and the third.
00:17All the goals that you always had.
00:18But then the next day, you still need to be in school, still need to meet these deadlines
00:21and still need to 100% attendance, that's stuff that I deal with a lot.
00:25Obviously, I want to stay in school so I can still be normal and still be around people
00:29my age, but I'm going as hard as I can until they kick me out, and once they kick me out,
00:33it's what it is.
00:34But I tried, though.
00:35I put up a fight.
00:36They can't say I didn't put up a fight.
00:43I didn't write it all in one day, like, it was one of those things where I was bored.
00:46I'm playing the beat, I've got the beat, I've had it for a minute.
00:48Writing, writing, writing.
00:49Cool, I stopped writing for a little bit.
00:51Come back to it a couple days later, rap it to my boy, my manager, Addy, cool, he's messing
00:54with it, left it, rap it to my boys in the car, recorded it, put it on TikTok.
00:59People are messing with it, but I didn't think nothing of it, like, it's just another
01:02song to me.
01:03It's a freestyle, I'm rapping freely, I'm talking about whatever, and just making it
01:06sound good.
01:07I'm not thinking too hard about the lyrics.
01:08If we want to talk bars, we can go there, but just not on this song.
01:11This song, I'm just being me, having fun with it.
01:13So I think that's what's connecting with people, because when they hear the song, they can
01:17be themselves.
01:18They can dance how they want to dance.
01:23Good friend of mine, shout out to Jonathan Shalit.
01:25Jonathan Shalit is the CEO of Intertalent Music Group.
01:27He used to manage a group called N-Dubs.
01:30That's just a play on words, firm, no L's.
01:32I'm taking dubs, but I'm taking dubs, come like Jonathan Shalit, because Jonathan Shalit
01:36used to take care of N-Dubs.
01:48Don't lie about it.
01:50Don't come in the shop and act like you're going to cause damage, and then you don't,
01:52or act like, you know what I mean, like you've really got it like that when you haven't.
01:55Just be real, if you ain't got it, you ain't got it.
01:56I like Moncler, and I like Dior.
01:59Sometimes they make it hard to cause damage in there, because they like to overprice stuff.
02:02But regardless, I try my best, man.
02:04I don't think too hard about which shop, and this, that, and the third, nah.
02:07If I like it, I'll cop it, man.
02:08I'm not following the trends.
02:13Addy is him right there.
02:14That's Addy right there in the back.
02:15Addy, that's my manager.
02:16My boy.
02:17For us, it's deeper than rap.
02:18That's my brother.
02:19That's my big brother to me.
02:20That lyric isn't even like a bar.
02:21It's just standard stuff that happens.
02:22He'll hit me, I'll get a text and say, hey, you don't miss, or hey, this is hard.
02:26I've got a large pocket right now, but there's nothing in it.
02:34It's just a card to my room, and some Vaseline, and that's about it right now, yeah.
02:42Rotted is a form of slang that kind of just means like, oh shit, like wow, it's a fit.
02:46I think it's a form of shock.
02:47I don't really like going places by myself, and even people around me advise me, don't
02:51be going places on your own, and don't be coming out the house if you don't need to.
02:55When I do, I'm going with someone, whether I'm five people deep, I'm 10 people deep,
02:58I'm 20 people deep, depending on the occasion.
03:00When the girl's seeing that, she's thinking, oh shit, he's not no average kid, so yeah.
03:06She's shocked, and she's yelling out, rotted.
03:14I've always wanted to have girls, but I was never really in the position to get some,
03:17but I always looked up to it, like yo, this is hard to me.
03:20And I always wanted to know, what did it feel like?
03:22Got my first set of girls in September 2023.
03:25You can see I ain't got no chain, no watches, I'm a girl guy, so yeah, I've got my rose
03:28golds in right now.
03:29I've got some white golds, I've got two white golds at the top, I've got two rose golds,
03:33but the next purchase is the full VVSes, top and bottom.
03:37I need to stop being humble.
03:45I try and sleep as much as I can, but the career that I'm in, and the life that I'm
03:48living, it's like, I find it hard to find rest these days.
03:53Income multiple ways, and my bro said, pink lemonade.
03:56The bad B calling me baby, and calling me my man, said I got multiple names.
03:59I always understood that, yo, you can't put all your eggs in one basket, you need to have
04:03multiple things going on, because it's like, as much as I'm lit now, God forbid, but, you
04:06know what I mean?
04:07We've seen it happen to a lot of people, so shit can change, whether you're investing
04:10in real estate, or starting your own record labels, your own companies, managing artists,
04:14there's so many things you can do.
04:15So it's like, save your money so your money can save you.
04:17What pink lemonade actually means, it's not necessarily the drink, I'll let you do with
04:23that what you will.
04:24Shout out pink lemonade, man.
04:31The Murkies and Mercedes.
04:33The Murkies swerving, multiple lanes, literally just swerving, driving reckless, but we're
04:37safe drivers over here, so we ain't got nothing to worry about, but shout out the Murkies.
04:41I like Mercedes a lot.
04:42I like Mercedes a lot.
04:48That flow was always there, but I didn't know what to say.
04:55I always had that flow, but I didn't know what to put there.
04:57Cool.
04:58Fling my shoulders and dance.
04:59I was just trying to make it make sense, because it's like, shoulder, what else am I going
05:01to say, really, about my shoulder, except for something to do with dancing.
05:05So to do the dance, I made it as easy as possible.
05:07To be honest, let me not say made it, because I didn't make it, I was just listening to
05:10the song, and I just naturally did it, and I was like, yeah, let me do it on camera.
05:13So it's like, this Yardie's telling me to dance.
05:15Shit.
05:17I don't know why people keep missing the beat and all of that.
05:19It's so easy.
05:24Pep Guardiola, manager of Man City, football team.
05:27Obviously, football's big over in the UK, but it's like, everyone's bowling, we're making
05:30sure everyone's bowling the right way.
05:32So Guardiola, literally, I cannot play football to save my life.
05:35Don't put me on no pitch, don't put no football in front of me, none of that.
05:38I cannot play football to save my life.
05:40I'm whack.
05:47It depends on the context, though, because you can see a nigga and he's like, he's moving
05:59bookie, like he's moving kind of weird, kind of off, like, but then moving bookie in this
06:02contest is like, why is she doing the most, like, why is she being all crazy?
06:05Testing my phone, hey, bookie, but it's not kissing.
06:08The internet took it and changed it to kissing, they're arguing over whether it's kissing
06:12or texting, but it's texting.
06:16Obviously, I know about the Boosie fade, cutting off the snakes and these unnecessary females
06:26like a fade.
06:27Boosie, literally.
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