Joey Talks With SKYXXX
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00:00Listen, man, we got Sky here with us.
00:02New single out, Hot Boy, from Orlando, originally from up north.
00:07Yep.
00:07Tell me about that story, man.
00:09You guys, you and your fam moved down right after the Twin Towers fell.
00:13That's crazy, bro.
00:14Tell me that story.
00:15It's crazy because the second plane was actually over our house in Jersey.
00:17Get the hell out of here.
00:18Yeah, bro.
00:18Were you home when that happened?
00:20I was on my way to school, and I saw the second plane hit from the top of our school.
00:25That's insane.
00:26Because we could see, like, all the way looked gray.
00:28You know what I mean?
00:28So we saw the smoke and all that when the second plane hit.
00:31So, like, when all the, you know, that stuff went down, like, your family was just like,
00:35we're getting out of here?
00:36Oh, no, it wasn't for that.
00:37Around that time, I was like, we lived in a little hood spot in Jersey, and our little
00:41house was way worth more than one that they bought in Florida.
00:44They moved to a little suburbary area, and it was all wood and trees and all that.
00:48My dad, I guess, just was smart about it and got a house that now what's building around
00:54the property, like, builds its value.
00:56So it was more, it was cheaper to live down here.
00:59Than up there at the time.
01:00No, I feel that.
01:01And it's cool.
01:02Like, how was that transition, too?
01:03Because, I mean, I'm originally from Connecticut.
01:05Depressing.
01:05And it's kind of a culture shock.
01:07You know, coming from, like, you know, I'm being sandwiched between, you know, Boston
01:11and New York.
01:12It was depressing.
01:13But there's one thing I'll tell you that I'm always going to highlight.
01:16I have my own room.
01:18Okay.
01:18And then, like, I've never seen a window that big.
01:21You know, Florida windows reach down to the ground.
01:24Yeah.
01:24My apartment's like that right now.
01:26So I used to always, like, just open the window and sit in the grass with me, and I
01:29always just thought that was so cool.
01:31But it was, it kind of sucked after a while.
01:34Because to this day, I don't even know who my neighbors are.
01:37Really?
01:38I don't even know who my parents' neighbors are.
01:40Like, two houses down.
01:40Like, the ones right next door, yeah.
01:43But, like, the ones across the street, you know, the ones next to them, you know, the
01:46ones next to them, the ones next to us.
01:47Because it's, like, in the hood.
01:48Like, you knew everybody.
01:49You knew block parties.
01:49And then your cousins is, like, downstairs.
01:51Yeah, and then we're the only ones hanging out outside.
01:53So literally, we had the cops called on us over 50 times, bro, since we lived there.
01:58We're the only urban kids hanging out outside, so.
02:01It's crazy.
02:02No basements either, yo.
02:03No basements, bro.
02:04That's wild.
02:05That's crazy.
02:06That's what tripped me up.
02:07In the backyard, we used to jump high and jump and then hit the ground, and you'll see water
02:12come up.
02:12Wow.
02:13That's weird.
02:14So what was it like?
02:14When did music become a thing for you?
02:16At what age was it?
02:17Music been a thing since Jersey, since I was a kid.
02:19I used to freestyle on the block with all these grown dudes, and I don't know if I was
02:23good or not.
02:23I just liked it.
02:24I was inspired by this dude named Ricardo.
02:28Tall, black dude.
02:29Blood dude.
02:29He was a gangbanger dude.
02:31And he used to always freestyle.
02:32And then my brother's friend, Ramon, used to freestyle, too.
02:35Ramon, that was his name, right?
02:36The baller.
02:37Always had the cool Js.
02:39It's always some guy with the cool Js that was nice at.
02:42Either ball and rapping.
02:43And on house arrest, too.
02:47So, yeah, for sure.
02:49That's how I got inspired.
02:50But really, it all came from, I ran into a, we lived in an apartment at first in Jersey.
02:59And then the house we bought, the owner died in it.
03:02Right?
03:03He died in it?
03:04It was like that.
03:07Yeah, he died.
03:08Well, all his stuff was still in the house.
03:11So, when we were moving there, we were getting the stuff out.
03:13And then I ran into this little Walkman.
03:16And it had, like, the Fugees in it.
03:18Stop.
03:18And them boys.
03:19I mean, Jersey, Fugees.
03:20I mean, it only makes sense.
03:21So, I listened to that for, like, two years.
03:23Was it the score?
03:24My parents didn't even know the score.
03:26Yep.
03:26That same thing.
03:27That's where it started?
03:28Yeah, that's where it started.
03:28And then my boy Omar put me on to, I forgot the name of the album.
03:33But it was the album with Jay-Z.
03:34He had a song with R. Kelly called Poppin' Tags.
03:38Had to be Best of Both Worlds.
03:40Best of Both Worlds.
03:41Best of Both Worlds.
03:42Yep.
03:42I'm like a discography of, like, anybody.
03:44I keep weird knowledge like that.
03:46Yeah, but you see, I didn't think I'd ever, like, make it into rap.
03:49Because I'm, like, not like that at all.
03:51Like, I have no.
03:52Oh, wait.
03:52Poppin' Tags.
03:53You sure it wasn't the one with Big Boy on it?
03:55Wasn't it Big Boy on it?
03:56Big Boy was on it, too.
03:57Okay, that was Blueprint, too.
03:58Blueprint, too.
03:59Bonk.
03:59Damn.
04:00Gift and a Curse.
04:01That's crazy.
04:02We Be Poppin' Tags.
04:03And then Mobb Deep started with Murder Music.
04:06Stop.
04:06So those three.
04:07That was a, you had a really good way to, you know, get it started.
04:11That's a good influence.
04:12And then I did my own digging.
04:13One of my other favorite artists are KRS-One, too.
04:16Airbnb and Rakim.
04:17Hate the Fool.
04:19Who else I looked up?
04:20Gangstar.
04:21I love Gangstar.
04:22The bitch ain't really got no ass.
04:23She just poked it out.
04:25You know what I'm saying?
04:26And then KRS-One with the Keep Right or Get Left.
04:28It's those little things that make me like an artist.
04:31See, that's why I like you now for saying that, because, like, not just Guru, but Premieres.
04:36Primo's actually one of my favorite producers of all time, so Gangstar's definitely, like, right there.
04:41Yeah?
04:42And my best hip-hop moment was actually meeting him.
04:44That's crazy.
04:45So that was...
04:46Gangstar passed, right?
04:48Guru did.
04:48Oh, okay.
04:49They came back.
04:50They did a record I know with J. Cole.
04:51Oh, Gangstar wasn't one person.
04:53Yeah, it was two.
04:54It was two.
04:55Well, it was Guru rapping and...
04:57And the producer.
04:58Primo was doing the beats.
04:59So the rapper passed.
05:01Yeah.
05:01Rest in peace, Guru, man.
05:02For sure.
05:03And now, you know, you're in Orlando.
05:05You're doing all this music.
05:06Actually, you started off by doing parties, right?
05:09Or you're doing events.
05:11How did that...
05:12No, I did my own...
05:12You were just doing scenes.
05:14You were on the scene and...
05:15Like, rapping in the parties and stuff like that?
05:17Yeah.
05:17We started doing, like, local rap shows, like, open mic events and stuff like that.
05:24Okay.
05:24Yeah, I did do my own event in 2016 called 1LV.
05:29It's...
05:29All the artists that were there are basically famous now.
05:32Yeah.
05:32Yeah, so you had, like, Wi-Fi's funeral.
05:36Yeah.
05:37And...
05:38Max P was there.
05:40This is before Ski and Hacks.
05:42I didn't know them.
05:43Marco was there from Orlando.
05:45And Marcella Javon, who ended up on that show with Rick Ross.
05:48Yeah.
05:50Nico Iz was there.
05:51Tyler Yahweh.
05:52The whole Swamp Posse when we were still together.
05:54So when did Swamp Posse come about?
05:56Well, right when...
06:00Right before I went to prison.
06:04So 2012, I formed Swamp Posse.
06:08I always had the idea.
06:09But 2012, literally going into 2013, is when I put it together and actually formed the group
06:16to, like, where, like, we're taking pictures together.
06:18We know who we are.
06:20So, like, 2000, beginning, top of 2013.
06:22And a couple people that were associated with it were actually, were, like, Ski Mask and
06:28you also knew X.
06:30Yeah, I did.
06:31They weren't associated with Swamp Posse, though.
06:32Okay.
06:33Ski Mask and X, honestly, I have the least to do with, like, I met them on their verge of
06:40their blowing up.
06:41So, like, I met them very quickly and then they blew up very quickly.
06:46But, yeah, I brought them over to Orlando, for sure.
06:49I brought them to a studio out there.
06:50I brought them to a show out there, for sure.
06:51That's cool.
06:52What was that energy like, hanging with them dudes?
06:54I liked it.
06:55I met a, I didn't know Ski at first, actually.
06:59I knew X.
07:00X opened up for us at a Red Ruby show.
07:03And where was that at?
07:05Hollywood.
07:06In Hollywood, down south.
07:09He just ran.
07:10I just remember seeing a kid performing with no shoes and no socks and crazy little ripped
07:15up kid, like, just screaming and wild.
07:17And there was only 15 people in the crowd.
07:19Jumped in there.
07:19He made everybody march still.
07:21So, like, that energy, I was like, yo, this kid is dope as hell.
07:25And he just, we were on stage waiting for them to finish and stuff.
07:28And he came up to me.
07:29He's like, yo, Sky, bro.
07:30I just want you to know I love Swan Posse.
07:32You inspired me a lot.
07:33I got my three X's from you.
07:35Ooh, ooh.
07:35This and I.
07:36I was like, yo, that's great.
07:37That's crazy.
07:37Through us.
07:38And I was just about to ask that.
07:39Like, the three X's.
07:40What is that, you know?
07:42It was a way to cover up 666.
07:44Okay.
07:45I was wondering if you just liked a lot of porn or something like that.
07:48Oh, that too.
07:49I mean, yeah.
07:49Like, the name as a whole signifies, like, looks like a porn name to signify being raw and
07:55uncut.
07:55For sure.
07:56Which is, like, the political way I turned it into.
07:59But it's really to cover 666.
08:00And he knows that.
08:01Everyone knows that in Florida.
08:02Because we run some real demonic shit.
08:05But the X's, yeah, they came through me.
08:07But he vibed a lot more with the younger kid I had in the group called Keys.
08:12And Keys changed his name to Official Keys XXX.
08:15And around the time, like, a lot of the younger kids didn't really talk to me like that.
08:19I didn't talk to them.
08:20You know?
08:21Because we, I don't know.
08:22I guess they just thought I was, like, older or they wouldn't talk to them.
08:25So, he got them from us, but by way through Keys.
08:29God.
08:29Wow.
08:30That's crazy to see where that origin of the name came from for X.
08:34That's nuts.
08:35Or what it was inspired by, I should say.
08:38We got Sky Airs, Wild 94.1.
08:40And, yo, let's talk about, you know, us being from up north and just knowing how that scene
08:44was like that.
08:44You already know.
08:45It's, like, always a lot of turmoil sometimes.
08:47You know, a little beef every now and then.
08:49Everybody just kind of, you know, it was hard for everybody to kind of connect.
08:52Because everybody was trying to get to the same thing, but nobody wanted to, like,
08:54collab with each other or, like, didn't want to, like, let anybody in the circle or whatever.
08:59You know, very territorial.
09:00What is the difference between, like, what was that like being able to, like, come across
09:04all these Florida artists and everybody just like, yo, you influenced me.
09:07Yo, let's do this together.
09:09Like, everybody's, it's like a brotherhood.
09:11More down, more down here.
09:13Do you get that?
09:14Before I answer that, I'm going to just, yo, this is weird because my hoodie doesn't
09:18go across.
09:19If the pockets are actually.
09:20Oh, hey, you stopped.
09:21What?
09:22Yeah, you see me doing here trying to, like.
09:23There's a joint.
09:24Yeah, there's a joint in the middle.
09:26What the fuck?
09:27But, all right, since we're at home, right, I'm going to answer that the right way.
09:32This is crib.
09:33We've been here before.
09:34Blue Light Ken's the first one.
09:36My dog.
09:36Get us on the radio.
09:37Show us love.
09:38It was a brotherhood there.
09:40All right?
09:41It was.
09:41A lot of people show you love.
09:43A lot of people will always tell you, bro, you inspired me.
09:46But, when they get a position better than yours, bro, that shit just changes.
09:50You know?
09:51None of the people that I've ever helped or ever did anything where they even mentioned
09:54me.
09:54You know what I mean?
09:55They got interviews and they say they've been on tours and this and that when they were
09:59actually on tour with Swan Posse.
10:01You know?
10:01So, I can't.
10:03I don't know why is that.
10:05And, I guess, for you to say that, yeah, you know how there's always beefs.
10:08There's always that knowledge, that unknowable knowledge.
10:11And, I think, that's what makes that type of shit happen, where beefs occur.
10:17I was just always the type to not really care.
10:19You know what I mean?
10:20But, it bothered me, of course.
10:22But, yeah, Miami Underground started it all.
10:26And, I kind of had, I met Space Ghost Purp at the peak of his career and A$AP Rocky at
10:32the same time.
10:33I met them up in New York.
10:34But, so, when I moved down here, what Space Ghost Purp was doing in Miami, I kind of transitioned
10:41over here.
10:42Damn, bro, you dropped my phone like that?
10:44Asshole.
10:46But, yeah, so I transitioned out over here to Orlando and I kind of started the Underground
10:52there.
10:52And, then, it was cool until, like, people actually started getting numbers.
10:58And, then, you know, it became a, like, I guess a fight for, like, I'm trying to stay
11:05on.
11:06So, I can't keep helping people where I can.
11:08So, that's what it ended up turning into and that's where I fell back.
11:12You know what I mean?
11:13Because, I know a lot of Underground artists.
11:15I know them all.
11:15I know a lot of artists that blew up and I'm always the guy in the cut.
11:18Like, you'll always see a picture of me with some paper, Cardi, everyone.
11:22I'm always in the cut, you know?
11:25And, that's just how I always been, bro, because of that type of thing you're talking
11:28about.
11:29Yeah.
11:29It's like, I don't know why people just can't keep it real.
11:32Yeah.
11:33And, if I inspired you and you get on, like, are you uninspired by me again?
11:40Or, did my presence only help you get there?
11:43And, now, it's like, you know, I don't need to be around this anymore.
11:45That's definitely what it is, you know?
11:47And, that changed around the time where, when I came out of prison, around the time
11:53where Denzel Curry was popping, Rob Banks was popping.
11:56Well, they still are.
11:57While they were doing their things and they were the main South Florida people, that's
12:01when it was still original.
12:02That's when it was still love.
12:04Then, Pooja takes off.
12:05Fat Nick takes off.
12:07Then, around the time, Space Gold.
12:08Domino's.
12:08Domino's.
12:09Yeah, Domino's.
12:09So, around the time Wi-Fi is coming up, smoke perp, little pump, that's when things start
12:15getting, because they also have opened the biggest door possible for the Miami Underground.
12:21You know?
12:21Pooja surpassed a lot of things and did a lot of things to bring attention to Florida, which,
12:28pump, the biggest artist from the Florida Underground, period.
12:32You know?
12:32Facts.
12:33As far as that, like, I don't consider X even underground anymore.
12:38You know what I mean?
12:38Because X kind of lived out of, lived alongside the Underground, and he was younger, but he
12:47was, like, far beyond, like, you know, in the studio.
12:50I feel like he was ahead of his time.
12:51Yeah, he was ahead of his time, for sure.
12:53And, I know, a couple years ago you dropped the album, 60.
12:5660.
12:57He played on Housewives.
12:58That, too.
12:59I know you also have a project out now with Cognac Roses.
13:03Cognac Roses.
13:03Cognac Roses.
13:04That was pretty dope.
13:05So, I mean, I've been really put on to you, but, you know, like, you know, guys like
13:09bootleg and people that I've seen, you know, you pop up, you know, I keep my eyes, my ears
13:12and eyes open.
13:13Yeah.
13:13So, I do it, and I do my research.
13:14Man, what is it like now to be, you know, in a good situation, have Hot Boy out now, knowing
13:23that you've been through, like, your grind and it's actually reached to this point?
13:27Well, like, I never shy away.
13:29Like, I'm always trying to be the most positive I can be and give up the most positive energy,
13:33but I don't ever let anyone get it twisted with me.
13:36It's like, this is a lot of good shit going on, but a lot of bad shit happened, too.
13:41So, I'm not going to outweigh either or.
13:43To me, the good and the bad are right here, and that's why this is happening.
13:46So, I'm ready to work.
13:48I'm not ready.
13:48I'm having fun.
13:49I love it.
13:50I can take care of my daughter, and that's how I see it.
13:52And it ain't about the chains.
13:54It ain't about the gold teeth.
13:55It ain't about the diamonds.
13:56It's about the grind.
13:57And now that I'm here, I can really say that I inspired myself to be here.
14:03And since I'm here off my own way, I'm going to stay.
14:08You know what I mean?
14:09I respect that, man.
14:10That's deep.
14:11And with the single out now, man, I saw you also got a new video on the way you shot in L.A.
14:17You did a Nutella.
14:18Oh, yeah.
14:19Tell me about Nutella, because I'm literally trying to find his record.
14:21I couldn't find a record.
14:24I need to hear this.
14:25And what is the hype?
14:25I'll see if we can get that, too.
14:27That record is actually produced by Jesse Corporal Wilson, who's a super big name in the game.
14:35That just came about freestyling, like Hot Boy.
14:39I'll just tell you the hook.
14:40I'm trying to bust a quick Nutella.
14:43So that's the second single coming after the Hot Boy remix.
14:46Oh, that's what's up.
14:47Now, you mentioned remakes.
14:49Is it G14 Classified for you to disclose who's on the remakes?
14:51Yeah, I think we can, right?
14:52You can discuss it.
14:53It's not G14 Classified.
14:56We got to look at the suits.
14:57We got to look at the suits and the high ups.
15:00Yeah, whoa.
15:00Just hold it.
15:01Oh, man.
15:02I almost had it.
15:03I almost had it.
15:04But what can you say about the remix to Hot Boy right now?
15:06I'll tell you off camera.
15:07Okay.
15:08All right.
15:08What's the energy like, I should say?
15:10Let me ask that.
15:11The energy?
15:12The energy.
15:12Oh.
15:14The energy is like, the energy is definitely sweat, elbows, jumping, girls crying.
15:25Okay.
15:25Because we can't be their boyfriends.
15:28So it's the male version of like the hot girl shit Megan Thee Stallion talks about.
15:32What is that?
15:33I don't know, Megan Thee Stallion's got this hot girl stuff, you know what I mean?
15:35Like she's got this hot girl shit.
15:36Oh.
15:37Like hot girl summer, all that stuff.
15:39Oh, whoa.
15:40We're hot boy all year.
15:41Yeah.
15:42What was that?
15:43Hot boy fall, winter, summer.
15:44Oh, yeah.
15:45We had no clue about that.
15:47That's what's up.
15:48I actually made hot boy a year ago, bro.
15:50Get out.
15:50Yeah.
15:51Isn't it crazy how that happens?
15:52October, last year.
15:53Isn't that crazy how it happens?
15:55Like where you have something that, you know, something big like that.
15:58And it like takes a while for you.
15:59All right, yeah.
16:00You know what I mean?
16:01I'm talking some shit right now.
16:02Well, yeah, that shit's crazy.
16:03It's nuts.
16:04It's crazy how just the planning of it, how it fit in for sure.
16:08But it actually has nothing to do with the hot boy or hot girl thing at all.
16:11Okay.
16:12And I always just dub that.
16:13You know what I'm saying?
16:14I don't want to get into none of that.
16:16I'm from Florida, bro.
16:17Kill you.
16:17I don't want none of doing any rapper or whatever you got going on that ain't from Florida.
16:21I'm my own breed.
16:22You got to meet me face to face for me to talk to you about that type of stuff, you know?
16:26Same, man.
16:27Till I meet Meg Thee Stallions.
16:29I don't even know what she's doing, bro.
16:31And that's with respect.
16:32That's respect.
16:32Yeah, yeah.
16:33I can't speak on someone I don't know what they got going.
16:35I just know that we got a fucking mascot.
16:37We got a hot boy mascot.
16:39It's a full-on mascot.
16:40A full-on mascot that's about to be made.
16:43He's alive.
16:44So, really, what the hell is a hot girl?
16:46You should have brought the mascot in here, man.
16:48No, well, we got him in the drawing phase right now.
16:50Okay.
16:51And he's going to come alive piece by piece.
16:53You'll see him.
16:53That's what's up.
16:54So, after Hot Boy, what are you working on?
16:56Is it another EP?
16:57Is it an album that you got in the works?
16:58Do you have enough singles to kind of gear up for that?
17:02We have a few singles locked in already.
17:04I'd say we have two for sure.
17:06Well, not including this Hot Boy remix.
17:07So, three.
17:09We got three for sure locked in that we're going to be pushing and what we're working to.
17:13Mattel is one of them.
17:14And then working on a project called, can I say the name of the project?
17:18It's called Madhouse.
17:21So, that's basically done.
17:24We kind of over-recorded the amount of tracks we needed.
17:29So, we're just picking the best and filtering out through what's the best to complete the project.
17:34But it's done.
17:35We're just in the cleaning up phase of it now.
17:38Fire, man.
17:38Yeah.
17:39Sky, appreciate you coming through, bro.
17:40Thank you, bro.
17:41My man.
17:42Hot Boy's out right now.
17:42The remix will be dropping to be determined.
17:46October 25th.
17:48Oh, right around the corner.
17:49Spooky.
17:50Yep.
17:51Spooky.
17:52Make sure you got a tank top that day.
17:53Okay.
17:53I'll make sure.
17:54I got enough jerseys at the crib.
17:55I collect a bunch of NBA jerseys.
17:56Oh, yeah?
17:57All right.
17:57Let's do it.
17:58I'll throw out like a Miami Heat or Orlando Magic one on them.
18:00Orlando Magic.
18:00You got the one with the stars on it?
18:02No, I want the one with the stars with Tracy McGrady.
18:04I need that one.
18:05I need that one.
18:06I want to get the shorts with the stars.
18:09We out, man.
18:10It's wild.