00:00Can you do it once more leaning back though, for that mic? Thank you, thank you. I just don't want you leaning in front of it. Yeah, yeah, I got you.
00:05No, no, lift that up, you're getting the mic.
00:08Hey guys, it's me, Tyler, and you're here with Billboard Magazine, and I can't wait till you see all the cool things that we have coming for you guys, guys.
00:18Including exclusives, and exclusives.
00:25Fuck yeah.
00:28Oh, fuck.
00:39I'm so fortunate, like 13 years in and my latest shit is my biggest, bro, that's rare.
00:45It's niggas out here that their first album is the only one that they get to perform when they go places.
00:49Like they have to use that as a marketing thing, because that's the one people connect it to the most, and kind of sometimes it might feel like the other shit's disregarded.
00:58So I'm like, bro, this album, eight, 13 years later, and this doing this, that don't happen much.
01:07So I'm over here sitting like, oh, I don't know anything.
01:09I thought I had a grasp on this shit.
01:11I thought I knew song structure and like, oh, all the kids are on TikTok.
01:15No one cares about lyrics anymore.
01:17I'm a boomer.
01:18And I'm like, no, this shit is turnt.
01:21I don't know shit.
01:23Nigga, I'm so confused in like the most positive way.
01:27And I really love it.
01:28Like first week, number one was like, all right, cool.
01:30Sick.
01:31Kind of figured it's been a while.
01:32Second week was like, oh, these niggas really listening.
01:35Third week was like, all right, what the fuck is going on?
01:38I don't want to be found.
01:39I don't want to be found.
01:41I don't want to be found.
01:43I don't want to be found.
01:45I started flogging all because when I put Goblin out, I wanted to shut Fairfax down and throw
01:50like the carnivals that we had in Hawthorne that they would have at like the random churches
01:54over there.
01:55And the city was like, no.
01:57So we basically was like, yo, fuck it.
02:01Let's just go to a parking lot and put the rides there.
02:05Let's put that and like perform and have rides and things and shit like that.
02:10And then it grew over time into what it is now.
02:18My lips look too wet?
02:19No, they look good.
02:20Okay, cool.
02:23I want to bring this up because someone's like, why don't you close out the festival?
02:26I don't want to close out the fucking festival.
02:28Honestly, we need to get it to where headliners could go on when they want to go on.
02:32I want to be on stage at 5 p.m.
02:34I don't want the fucking last closeout.
02:36I don't need that shit.
02:37Like, oh, I'll close it out, bro.
02:38I want to go to sleep.
02:39So next thing I headline, let me go on at 7, off by 8 fucking 15, shower, clean my dick,
02:46eat, and go the fuck to sleep, bro.
02:48For Flogging Office, it's two days.
02:49On Sunday, I just want to watch people.
02:51I just want to watch the motherfucking artists I like.
02:54When Mustard played...
02:55Is anybody from L.A. like me and this motherfucker today?
02:59I'm over there with so many folks that are in the L.A. music scene.
03:04Dude, seeing Ty and YG and Mustard right there, I'm really from the city.
03:09So these guys was making music when we was freshmen in high school, when it was just
03:14Pusha's Inc.
03:15Seeing them two by each other.
03:16You that nigga on the low low.
03:17You that nigga, you the one that be talking to the po-po.
03:20Super ill.
03:21And especially within the context.
03:22Like, they on stage, Ty's about to go out, I'm here.
03:26It's this thing I built.
03:27And it was just so much love.
03:28And that we were all existing and all doing our own thing at high levels.
03:32I loved it.
03:33Kind of feels like L.A. didn't have something that was its own thing.
03:36Granted, people come out and do concerts and stuff like that, but it didn't feel like
03:39it was something that was, like, ours.
03:41So I'm happy that Flogging Off being just so consistent.
03:44As folks that's from the city feels like this is theirs.
03:50Were there nerves performing an album that's been out for a couple weeks?
03:55Not at all.
03:56I was more curious on how the new songs were going to do.
04:00It was not nerves.
04:01Like, nerves, not at all.
04:02And I don't say that like, oh, I don't get nervous.
04:04Like, it genuinely, like, no.
04:06Because, no, not at all.
04:08I know I'm good and I know that they're excited.
04:11So, like, both of these positive energies, it's going to be great.
04:14I can never guard no hell cash.
04:19Dude, I was so excited for Ra-ta-ta, because that's just me being silly.
04:23I'm talking about shit, but I'm just being silly, using different voices, the ad-libs.
04:27I'm a fish.
04:28And, like, I'm just saying dumb shit, but, like, people, they respond to it.
04:33And I think because that one's, like, just so pure me.
04:36Like, people yelling the ad-libs.
04:38Like, if you rewatch this shit, people are like, are those women?
04:41Loud as fuck.
04:43And I'm like, yes!
04:51Tyler, what's the last movie you saw?
04:52Oh, I watched Edward Scissorhands yesterday.
04:55Well, yeah, I watched it.
04:58You should have known that nigga was crazy.
05:00How good he did that role.
05:03It's my first acting role, so, like, I'm just going in there like, this is fun and I'm learning.
05:08But I've always liked just trying shit where it's like, I don't know what I'm doing.
05:12Worst come to worst, I fail and life will move the fuck on.
05:16And that's why I like this, because it's that at, like, a high level.
05:22Now when you edit this, they're not going to see when I turn my body.
05:26If you live in LA, you've probably seen me, like, just living.
05:31I, like, really like driving my bike and just walking into a bookstore.
05:35Like, mad normal shit.
05:37Like, this year I ain't took no break.
05:39It was all reactive.
05:40Like, what do you call it?
05:42Fight or flight.
05:43Like, this whole year was just, like, that.
05:45I want to be an actress and make some chairs.
05:47Do some weird shit.
05:49That's what I'm saying.
05:50I don't know what I'm doing.
05:51At 43, nigga, I might have a dangling cross earring.
05:53Bald.
05:54Walking around with no shoes and shit.
05:56One braid.
06:02Bill, y'all in the fucking shot.
06:04Why didn't y'all just tell him?
06:06I was waiting for him to go.
06:07No, it's okay.
06:08You got to speak up, man.
06:10You could have whispered to me, that big nigga's in the shot.
06:13Yeah, I've never not stuck to my guns.
06:16Like, any version y'all seen of me was the most honest version at that time.
06:19Call Me If You Get Lost had folks hitting me, like, bruh, this shit hard, nigga.
06:23I just bought a Ferrari because of this.
06:25I just did this.
06:26And, like, as a fan of rap music, you love that type of shit.
06:29It's beautiful.
06:30But this one is hitting a different pocket.
06:33If I'm not trying to make songs to relate to folk, I'm just telling niggas,
06:37yeah, the day I woke up, made some eggs, and been wearing hats all these years
06:41because I hated my hair.
06:42Here's a song called I Killed You.
06:45This has nothing to do with y'all.
06:47Everything is self-indulgent to me.
06:49And people are like, yeah, me too.
06:51I'm like, the fuck?
06:52I'm just shocked that what I did make is working not only speaking numbers
06:57to why, like, I'm able to do this Billboard interview.
07:00Because I'm speaking a language that you guys speak, is numbers.
07:03But also on the other side, it's resonating with people on some, like, nude, naked shit.
07:08No necklace, no shirt, no fucking da-da-da.
07:11It's really hitting folks.
07:12And to hit both of those at the same time, 13 years in my career at the highest level,
07:17is mind-boggling to me.
07:19Half of it was the plan.
07:21I've had this shit in my head since I was fucking 12.
07:24And the other half is like, yo, this is crazy.
07:27This shit is really where I wanted it to be.
07:31Like, it's super, I'm on both sides.
07:33I'm like, what the fuck?
07:34This can't be real.
07:35And I'm like, I told y'all.
07:37It's cool.
07:42You the boss right now, dude.
07:43This nigga looking at everyone like, is that the last question?
07:46Nigga, we here for you.
07:48My D.
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