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00:00Wild 94.1 The Vegas Party Station. It is Babs here with my guy, Young Pharaoh.
00:04And tonight, we have a special guest, but he's not new to Tampa, Pharaoh.
00:08I thought this was his first time here, but he's always coming to the city, tapping in.
00:13What up, Stunna4Vegas? What's good?
00:15What's poppin'? What's poppin'?
00:16Welcome to Tampa, man, for sure.
00:18Glad to be here, bro.
00:19So what was your day like today? What did you do when you touched down?
00:23First thing you did when you touched down in Tampa.
00:25I touched down yesterday.
00:27I touched down. First thing I do, I'll link up with Ron.
00:31Okay.
00:32RK.
00:33What do you like about Tampa?
00:35Shit, it's cool. The weather.
00:39Weather, the energy?
00:40It's like, it's a different vibe from Houston, for sure.
00:43But shit, it's cool.
00:46I feel like y'all's strip clubs might be better than ours.
00:48Have you been to the strip club here yet?
00:50Nah.
00:51Alright, we gotta take you, Ryan, we gotta take him to a strip club so he can, like, compare and contrast.
00:57Like, strip clubs, you know, from Houston to Tampa.
00:59Let's do it.
01:00Alright, let's do it.
01:02Penthouse, let's do it.
01:04Alright, so this is, like, your third time.
01:06Huh?
01:07It's on you.
01:07On me? I'm in radio. We don't make no money like that, so.
01:12Alright, so, Sana, this is, like, your third time in Tampa, but you are no stranger to Florida.
01:16Cause I was just talking to you about, uh, Whopper with the Chappas, Spinner Benz.
01:20Like, you fuck with a lot of artists from Florida.
01:23Yeah, for sure. For sure.
01:25Anybody specific? You, like, uh, you're rocking right now? You're jamming in your playlist?
01:29Uh, my playlist?
01:32Shit.
01:32Shit.
01:34Yeah.
01:35Same name.
01:36She just said.
01:36Okay.
01:37Spinner Benz and Whop.
01:38Yeah.
01:39Spinner just dropped the album.
01:41I also play my boy, shit, Deuce Uno.
01:43He from, um, he from, like, Miami?
01:45Yeah, Broward.
01:46Broward.
01:47He's my boy from Broward.
01:48My bad.
01:48He from Broward.
01:49Me and him just dropped some shit called Like That.
01:52Definitely.
01:52And, um...
01:53Deuce Uno featuring Stunnaful Vegas.
01:54Like That on all streaming platforms.
01:56Out on my YouTube.
01:57I was definitely jamming the track on the way here, and it's, uh, it's definitely a banger.
02:01Yeah, for sure.
02:01I rate that 10 out of 10.
02:03The vibe is there.
02:04For sure, for sure.
02:04Shout out to DoSuno.
02:05Shout out to you, man.
02:06You guys definitely, uh, did it with that one.
02:08Oh, for sure.
02:09Now, how'd you get the name Stunna for Vegas?
02:11Shit, I gave it to myself.
02:13I was just built like that to you.
02:14You feel me?
02:15Everybody can't do shit like that, though.
02:18Like, but I gave it to myself, for sure.
02:21Like, wasn't nobody finna name me, nothing.
02:24So, what's the meaning behind it, like?
02:26Oh, like, for Vegas, it was like a little clique that me and my brother started on some, like, you know, a clique that we just started to do our own thing and, like, not follow the lead type shit.
02:40And shit, it was a couple other cliques around my city type shit.
02:45You feel me?
02:45I wasn't the only one with a name like that.
02:48You feel me?
02:49We just was the ones that went past the city shit type.
02:53Now, North Carolina, you guys got a lot of hidden gems and a lot of, you know, lit rappers coming out of that thing.
02:59Like, you, DaBaby.
03:01Is there anybody else that, like, we should know about that's coming out of?
03:04Uh, for sure.
03:06Um, Trap Swag, YRB Tess, Get Rich Zay, Boss Flip.
03:13Um, mere two times pre-him.
03:20Um, it's a lot of shit going on in North Carolina.
03:25I ain't gonna lie.
03:25I don't want to miss no names.
03:27But it's a lot of shit going on in North Carolina, for sure.
03:30Now, it's 2023.
03:32Like, where would you say, like, you are at mentally?
03:35Like, who is stunning for Vegas in 2023?
03:37I'm, like, a big dog.
03:42Okay.
03:43A big dog for real, though.
03:45I used to say that shit, like, all the time.
03:49I used to, like, go around throwing the money and shit.
03:52Woo-woo.
03:54Like, and I used to say I was a big dog then, but I'm, like, really a big dog now.
03:59Definitely.
04:00Um, you made a great transition from, uh, being an artist to a CEO.
04:03Uh, let's talk about your label.
04:04Um, a lot of buzz going around it.
04:06You've signed a lot of artists, uh, from, uh, from around your way.
04:09Let's talk about them.
04:11Shit.
04:11Um, I actually did.
04:14I ain't never even really say nothing about that shit.
04:16But I signed, like, four artists.
04:20We still got, like, paperwork and everything.
04:22But we brothers, too, though.
04:24It was, like, already, like, fucked up because I treat them like brothers.
04:29Like, and I still do to this day.
04:30There's no, like, bad feelings between nobody.
04:32But we just, like, I don't know.
04:36We just bump heads, like, brothers bump heads, you feel me?
04:39Right.
04:39Like, ain't focused on the plan or whatever.
04:41But we was, like, in every building for sure.
04:45Except Aniscope.
04:46And that's who I was signed to.
04:47But I was really, like, waiting on them to hit me, you feel me?
04:51I wasn't finna come to them with this when I had this and this and this on the table.
04:56Like, we was in buildings.
04:57Like, we was in Roc Nation 10 minutes.
05:01Jay-Z come in later, you feel me?
05:02Like, we was in United Masters.
05:06We was in Universal.
05:08Like, we got down, sat down with a couple people.
05:10I took them with me.
05:11Like, every single artist.
05:12Went in there, played their music.
05:14Told the CEOs, these boys make music better than me.
05:17They make the songs faster than I do.
05:19Like, I'm going there vouching for them how Baby took me.
05:22I'm doing the same shit I learned, you feel me?
05:24So, like I said, we got the bumping heads.
05:31But that's what it was.
05:32Yeah, but I still wish everybody the best.
05:34Like, we could do that shit however.
05:36Okay.
05:37It's, like, the best way to do it.
05:38I always tell them that.
05:40I just, like, I'm grown.
05:41I'm grown.
05:42And they grown, too.
05:44I'm just, like, grew up.
05:46So, the shit we used to do, it's just, like, you feel me?
05:50You, like, you just grow out of shit.
05:51You just grow out of shit, bro, with anybody.
05:55Like, it ain't just with them.
05:56You grow out of shit, bro, and you just be, like, find yourself, like, mentally, like, stable.
06:02That's what I say when you about to say, I'm about to say, I'm stable than a motherfucker.
06:06For real.
06:07Like, I'm in my right mind all the time.
06:09Now, you talk about how you sign people that you know.
06:12Like, how important is it to keep, like, your clique small?
06:18I don't know.
06:19Because my clique's not really small.
06:20You fuck with the industry, though?
06:21Like, or is it all family?
06:23No, I don't.
06:23I don't.
06:24It's family.
06:24It's family.
06:25And if I bring you in from the industry, like, if you're an industry person and I bring you
06:30around family or treat you like family, like, if it go that way, like, I'ma just look at
06:38that shit like, damn.
06:39How I look at my own family.
06:43Like, I cut off my people from my own family.
06:45Like, this shit ain't no secret, though.
06:46Like, not my immediate family.
06:49Like, my mama and my siblings, we click tight.
06:52But, like, other shit around that, that shit don't really matter.
06:55Exactly.
06:55Because I don't give a fuck.
06:56So, bring us when you got signed.
06:59How was the feeling coming back home as a signed artist, putting on for your city, for your
07:04state?
07:05How was that for you?
07:06It was, like, great.
07:07It was great.
07:08It was the best thing that ever happened to me, for sure.
07:11I made my life.
07:12I'm North Carolina, for sure.
07:14Everybody know that.
07:15Like, I made niggas want to put on baseball hats with a basketball jersey.
07:21I made niggas, like, want to do a lot of shit.
07:24Like, stand on the counter and kneel in their music videos, put on ski masks.
07:30All types of shit.
07:31I made niggas want to do shit.
07:32Niggas might not say it now.
07:34Niggas from every state.
07:35But that whole little run, that shit was fun as hell.
07:38Like, like I said, that shit changed me.
07:40Changed my life.
07:41I did everything niggas did.
07:43Like, six months later, in six months, like, Jimmy Fallon, BET, shit, I was up there lost.
07:52Like, what the fuck am I doing up here?
07:55Six months ago, baby picking me up from a two, three-bedroom apartment.
07:59Two-bedroom apartment.
08:01Feel me?
08:02So that shit happened that quick, for sure.
08:04But it was fun.
08:05It was cool.
08:07I could care less to do it again.
08:09Right.
08:09Like, like I say, I'm, like, mentally stable.
08:12So, I like that.
08:14Now, how is the transition moving from North Carolina to Houston?
08:19Like, one of the greatest things I ever did, too, for sure.
08:23Why did you move out of North Carolina?
08:26I mean, I know why, but, like, you know, you should.
08:28You shouldn't stay, like, where you're from once you get rich, but.
08:32Shit, I just moved.
08:35It was, like, time for it.
08:36I should have been moved, you feel me?
08:37I should have been.
08:39Come to Miami, went to Houston, Dallas, fucking L.A.
08:42I should have been did that.
08:44But I was, like, trying to play the mix that I shouldn't have been playing.
08:48Like, playing that mix more than even being an artist type shit.
08:52Shit.
08:53Okay.
08:54So, speaking about Texas, during coronavirus, you was going dumb.
08:59Shows were sold out.
09:00In Texas.
09:00Yeah.
09:01Yeah, in Texas.
09:02The whole time.
09:02Texas every time.
09:03Not one other place.
09:05Nowhere but Houston, Austin, Dallas.
09:07Did you touch Atlanta during that COVID time or not?
09:11I think we did.
09:11I think we did.
09:12One time.
09:13We went to Atlanta.
09:15Like, mid-COVID.
09:17Was there any concern why you were doing shows about the COVID?
09:19Or what kind of precautions were you taking during that time?
09:22Matter of fact, I did go to Atlanta.
09:24My last show before they, like, nah, no more.
09:26It was in Miami.
09:27We was in Miami.
09:28I'm like, fuck.
09:29It was spring break, too.
09:31Florida was wide open.
09:33We was open right up in Miami, too.
09:34Nah, they canceled my shit.
09:34They canceled my shit.
09:35They canceled my shit.
09:37It was, like, probably pop off of COVID, though.
09:39Right.
09:40Or maybe it was when shit got extra serious.
09:43I don't know.
09:43But I remember I did go to Atlanta.
09:45Now, Valentine's Day is coming up.
09:49What you got planned for you and the boo?
09:53Shit.
09:57You don't want to spill the beans?
09:58Yeah, I don't want to spill the beans.
09:59Okay, okay.
10:02Well, come on.
10:02You can tell us.
10:03I see you, like, romantic all over the gram.
10:06Like.
10:08Uh-huh.
10:08Shit.
10:11What you like?
10:11What you mean?
10:12Tell you what?
10:12I mean, like, what would you do for your girl on Valentine's Day?
10:16What's the perfect thing you would do for your girl?
10:21Because, you know, you're a gangster.
10:22Like, what's your soft side?
10:24Like.
10:25Uh.
10:25My girl probably, like, flowers.
10:30Whatever she trying to eat that day.
10:33Uh.
10:38I take it, you pay for everything.
10:40So, there's no 50-50.
10:42It's 100%.
10:42And she just take care of the household.
10:45Nah.
10:46Nah.
10:47So, she pay.
10:50You do the whole 50-50 thing?
10:51Nah.
10:51Nah.
10:52We don't do no 50-50 shit.
10:53We don't even do no shit like that.
10:55But.
10:55We just in a real relationship.
10:57You feel me?
10:58Right.
10:58So, we don't do no 50-50 shit.
11:00We don't.
11:02We don't know.
11:03We just don't play, like, internet shit.
11:04We don't do none of that shit you see other couples do.
11:06Like, we don't.
11:07We ain't.
11:08We don't do that, though.
11:09Y'all just got that on.
11:10Your own special vibe.
11:11Yeah.
11:11But.
11:11Like, I'm not even finna get up this bitch and be like, oh, yeah, I'll be bothered.
11:15Like, nah.
11:15Because my girl, the boss, like, she'll tell me to put my shit in my pocket and I'll listen.
11:20You feel me?
11:20So, nah.
11:22But.
11:24Is she a Houston girl?
11:26Yeah.
11:26She's from Houston.
11:27Even Rob 4ix9ine made a song about Houston girls.
11:30Like, what's so special about Houston girls out there?
11:33I don't know.
11:34I don't know.
11:35But it is something.
11:37I'll say that.
11:38It's something for sure about Houston, period.
11:40They say everything's bigger in Texas.
11:43Yeah, it is, though.
11:44I ain't gonna lie.
11:45Everything is.
11:45For sure.
11:46I'll say that for sure.
11:48The booties, the bag.
11:50I ain't talking about all that, but.
11:52Yeah.
11:53I'll put you on that.
11:53Like, life, period.
11:55Facts.
11:55Facts.
11:56For sure.
11:56So, what's your dream collab?
11:58Like, what's somebody that you really want to collab with?
12:00What artists would be a dream one?
12:02I don't have no dream collab.
12:04We can make that shit happen, though.
12:06Okay.
12:06Well, whoever's trying to make that shit happen.
12:08I probably definitely, like, want a song with Chief Keef.
12:15Like, I don't, I don't, like, want no, I don't have no dream collab.
12:19And I got a song with Chief Keef, not to mention, but I just want a song that I want him on.
12:25Like, not the label had the, you feel me?
12:27None of that.
12:27I want to get him beside me or I get beside him.
12:30Organic energy.
12:31Yeah.
12:31Okay.
12:32And I'll be cool.
12:33So, it's important to move safe and smart out here.
12:37Are you the type of person that, like, posts after you leave somewhere?
12:40Like, what steps do you take to remain safe?
12:42Nah, I just move accordingly.
12:44Because, like, this shit not new to me.
12:45Right.
12:46Like, my first shootout wasn't after being a rapper.
12:49You feel me?
12:49Or, woo, woo, ah, I ain't even gonna go into all that.
12:52But, like, I just move accordingly at all times.
12:54That's why you'll never see me, like, fucked up, doing no janky shit on Instagram, none of that extra shit.
13:01Like, I move accordingly.
13:03For sure.
13:05Has anything changed with your surrounding, with your immediate family, after you got signed, seeing that the money was coming through?
13:12Nah.
13:13Nah, hell no.
13:14It was already, like, it was already, like, we knew what it was before I got some money.
13:19But, them same people who I probably, like, cut off or we dissed ourselves from way before I got some money.
13:28Probably, like, my mama gave them a chance.
13:30I still, like, even to this day, my mama gave them a chance.
13:34I'd be like, what the hell is you doing?
13:35I was like, you know what's going on, like, type shit.
13:40But, nah, I ain't really get that from nobody.
13:43Like, a lot of shit people will tell you, like, oh, your people gonna change on your money when you get your money.
13:47Your homeboy's gonna tell on you, I ain't been through none of that weird shit.
13:52None of that crazy shit.
13:54Because, like, like I say, it was set up already.
13:56Like, it was set up, bro.
13:57It was set up before y'all knew who Stunna4Vegas was.
14:02So, Stunna4Vegas says he's mentally stable in the biggest loss in 2023.
14:07So, what can we expect from you this year?
14:09For sure, more music.
14:10More music.
14:11For sure, more music.
14:13More music than ever.
14:14I'm just, like, going at my pace.
14:17But more music than ever, for sure, because I'm an independent artist now.
14:20I can't.
14:21But I still got ties with Interscope, but I'm an independent artist now, so you feel me?
14:27Like I said, I'm gonna go at my pace, but more music than ever.
14:30New music, new artists.
14:32A lot of new business ventures.
14:34Me and Ron Kane got a lot of stuff going on.
14:37We in the mix, the sports world.
14:39I got a big, big AAU program in Houston.
14:41One of the biggest in Houston right now.
14:44And I'm hands-on with them.
14:45Same way I'll be, like, on the road to go do a show.
14:49I'm on the road with them boys.
14:51Same way me and my homeboys go get an Airbnb in Miami for a show.
14:54We going to Dallas with them boys.
14:56Biggest Airbnb.
14:58Best trainers in Texas.
15:01All that.
15:01Yeah, I heard you was good at basketball.
15:05So did you play in high school?
15:06No, I didn't for real.
15:07I played, like, one year.
15:10And then I played, like, half season of my junior year.
15:15And then I just played at AU.
15:17Like, I ain't played high school, though.
15:19Seriously.
15:20So if you weren't rapping, what occupation would you want to have?
15:29When you were younger, like, what did you want to be for real?
15:31Oh, no.
15:34When I was younger, I knew for a fact I wanted to be a rapper.
15:36Okay.
15:37For sure.
15:38So I was playing A.
15:39Yeah, that was playing A, I'd say, for sure.
15:41I ain't going to lie.
15:42Like, basketball was, like, I knew that shit was over.
15:44That's my cousin, bro.
15:45Always been better than me.
15:47And he didn't get what we were supposed to get.
15:49So I, like, it was certain niggas that showed me, like, oh, yeah,
15:51that basketball shit over with.
15:53But, like, I always was, like, rapping.
15:59And even if I did play basketball, like, we'd be at the AU crib, like,
16:04I'd be the one rapping, getting everybody to rap.
16:06We making a song on the phone.
16:07Just playing around or whatever.
16:09Like, I just know that shit always been.
16:12Like I said, this shit was set up before.
16:14Y'all knew Stanapola Vegas was for sure.
16:15So have you ever hooped with any rappers before and whooped their ass?
16:19Niggas be scared of me.
16:21Niggas be scared of me.
16:23Nah, I ain't going to put them out like that.
16:25Niggas be scared of me.
16:26You can do it.
16:27It's a.
16:28Nah, I got to make the show, you feel me?
16:30I don't want to do it like that.
16:31But niggas be scared of me, though.
16:34I would, too, though.
16:35Shit, I would, too, because I don't do no drugs.
16:37Like, I smoke a little bit, but I don't do nothing I used to do, you feel me?
16:41I be in that gym, too.
16:43Like, I be with 15 to 18-year-old kids, like.
16:47Balling up.
16:4875% of my time.
16:50Nah, I give 50% for sure, because the other 50 to my family for sure.
16:54But that's how, like, hands-on and big I'm with that shit.
16:57Like, I try to send them boys where they need to go.
17:00That's good you're doing that, because sports are so expensive.
17:03So any kid that want to play, do they come try out for your team?
17:06Do they have to pay, or you take care of all the expenses?
17:09Nope.
17:10They don't pay me nothing.
17:13We got as many sets as these niggas in the NBA teams got.
17:18Everybody got a shoe to match that set.
17:20And if it don't match that set, I'll just say pick the shoe.
17:24Nobody paying for travel.
17:27They already staying with me.
17:29You feel me?
17:30Like, parents got to spend money to get there to support the program, but that's it.
17:36Like, it's handled.
17:37Even if I got, like, more shit going on now, but, like, when I jumped into it, it was just me.
17:41Like, my homeboys, like, the guys that I had coaching the team, him and my program director now, they was telling me all the time, like, bro, you are doing too much.
17:51Like, you tripping.
17:52But I was telling them, same thing I always say, people to be like, man, bro, get in the studio, bro, like, chill out on that shit.
17:59Ooh, I like, bro, that shit going to be greater later.
18:01Like, it's a bigger picture.
18:03Like, we was, I was spending a lot of money, for sure, on them boys this summer, and we wasn't even, like, no top team.
18:09None of that.
18:11We got a cameraman at every practice.
18:13We got a cameraman at every tournament.
18:14The cameraman in the Airbnbs with us, like, we down there building a blog series with them.
18:21That's what I said.
18:22Like, I just didn't ever put it all the way out there, because I'm like, nah, it wasn't even it.
18:27I could have did it bigger and better.
18:29But, like, man.
18:34So do you go, so is it, like, something where you go and you see a kid that's, like, fucking up, and you want to deter him from the streets?
18:41Nah, it's not that, but it can be that.
18:43Mm-hmm.
18:44I won't even sit up here and make it like it's about that, because I'm serious.
18:49Right.
18:50You feel me?
18:50But it's kids like that, for sure, in Houston, that we got, we had on the team.
18:54And sometimes you can get them boys to be serious, but sometimes you can't.
18:57And it's like, it's like the same shit you would do with a grown-ass man, bro.
19:01You're not finna beg them to not do some shit he's not supposed to do.
19:04So, I got, like, I got low tolerance, too.
19:12You feel me?
19:12Especially for somebody who I'm trying to tell you, like, boom, this ain't it.
19:17I'm telling you right now, if you a basketball player, you go to the league, and I'm a rapper that's got more money than you and your mama.
19:23Straight up.
19:23I'm talking to these boys like this, but it'll always be genuine love, too, with certain ones that I can with.
19:29Right.
19:29Because I'm giving them real life.
19:32Like, nobody cares if you got anxiety, bro.
19:35Right.
19:35Nobody cares if you get sad when you miss a shot.
19:38Whoop the whoop.
19:38I do care.
19:39They know that's how they can take it from me, because they know if they cry, whoop the whoop, I might be the one that, you feel me, gets off with them or something.
19:45But I'll still be the one to tell them, like, bro, you don't want to be like me.
19:49You don't want to be like YB.
19:51You can't be like YB.
19:52You can't be like Gucci, man.
19:53You can't be like Boosie.
19:55Like, a lot of boys that even be going through doing bad shit, like, their mamas be having jobs.
20:01Their mamas set them up for them to do the right things.
20:05They just, maybe it's not enough for them.
20:07You feel me?
20:08Like, so, I just try to, I definitely, like, say that shit helped me, like, turn into a man for real, because I was, like, watching boys, like, turn into men, too, for sure.
20:19And it was a lot of help from me.
20:21Their parents to get up here and vouch and say the same thing I'm saying, for sure.
20:25I like that you care a lot about the youth.
20:27So, what would you say to a young person that's getting into the rap game?
20:31What advice would you give to them?
20:33I'd say be yourself, and if you feel like you can do it, do it, because anybody can, for sure.
20:40It ain't hard to, like, sell nothing, you feel me?
20:46For sure.
20:47Especially if you know what you're doing, but I'd say be yourself.
20:49So, whether that's being a stand-up guy, make gospel music, I don't know.
20:58Just be yourself.
20:59Like, don't come in and do something you heard, or don't be, like, fascinated from something, and come in and try to do that, because that's how you set yourself up for failure.
21:08Set yourself up for shit you probably can't handle.
21:13All types of shit.
21:14But I'd say be yourself and just go, for sure.
21:18Did you look up to anybody when you were younger?
21:23Look up to?
21:24Yeah, like in the NBA, or that was a rapper.
21:27Yeah, I probably looked up to NBA players more than I looked up to rappers, no cap.
21:32Best NBA player of all time.
21:34But I wanted to be a rapper, though.
21:36But I will say I looked up to NBA players more than a rapper, for sure.
21:39Best NBA player of all time.
21:44Kobe.
21:48Okay.
21:48That's a set.
21:49Yeah, that's facts, though.
21:51Let's talk about your tattoos.
21:52Any special meaning?
21:54Any special tattoo that you would say really has something emotional attached to it?
22:01Probably all of them.
22:02Okay.
22:02I ain't just, like, getting tattoos.
22:05I wasn't just like, oh, brother, you know, get a tattoo.
22:09I don't know.
22:10All of my shits mean something, for sure.
22:12See, I got a lot of dumbass tattoos that I need reversed, but I'm so dark, so you can't
22:16really see them.
22:17Yeah, I need to get them removed.
22:18Yeah, I don't think I got none that's...
22:22That don't mean that.
22:24No.
22:26So, you in Tampa.
22:28Now, who did you link up with out here to do a collab with?
22:30Um, dudes.
22:35Zay Litty.
22:39Hat.
22:41Just working, man.
22:42I'm just working.
22:43Working.
22:44So, when you pop out to these cities, do you like going out, kind of mixing in the crowd?
22:49No?
22:49Ducked off?
22:51Yeah.
22:51I'd be like, nah.
22:54It ain't for me, for real.
22:55Unless I'm getting some money, then we can fuck around, but if not, nah.
23:00You focused on grime mode?
23:02Yeah.
23:02I did all that same shit, though.
23:04You feel me?
23:04I did that.
23:05I did that.
23:06Like, I did that.
23:09And I got paid to do that.
23:10A hundred nights in a row.
23:12You feel me?
23:12Like, that shit got born.
23:13I do miss the pandemic, because I feel like everybody was getting money, and it was such...
23:19Well, besides, like, you know, the deaths and people getting sick, but I feel like it
23:23was...
23:23People was really, like, turning up during the pandemic.
23:26A lot of artists got hot.
23:27Yeah.
23:28A lot of artists got hot.
23:29I really got hot before the pandemic, too, though.
23:32For sure.
23:33Because a lot of artists that got hot during the pandemic was, like, a lot of the ones
23:36that was, like, in my DMs all the time.
23:39Like, I was just telling people...
23:40Telling some people about that.
23:41Like, there was the same artist that was always in my DMs, like...
23:45And I would be showing them to people.
23:47Because I was in the door.
23:49And I was showing them to all types of people.
23:51They probably don't know this, either.
23:53But a lot of the artists that blew up in the pandemic, because I didn't.
23:57I, for sure, had been dead $500,000 in cash, not plays, like, before the pandemic.
24:06Like, so...
24:08I watched niggas come up before the pandemic.
24:11Like, I was watching niggas while I'm coming up.
24:14And then I watched niggas turn from underground to signing label deals, to getting posted on
24:19academics, to say, like, ah.
24:21And them beaters, like, that's the same shit I listen to now, too, though.
24:24Like, that's why I listen to niggas, like, spin.
24:28Like, listen to local Charlotte niggas.
24:32Listen to...
24:32Feel me?
24:35Like, have.
24:36Okay.
24:36Definitely listen to have from Ron.
24:38Ron label.
24:39Y'all gotta type in with him.
24:41I definitely like smoke.
24:43Talk to us about your music process.
24:45When you go to the studio, do you like writing?
24:47Do you like freestyling?
24:49What's your angle?
24:51I just, like, I just, I just get in there and go.
24:55I don't really do no angle.
24:59You punch in?
25:00You do punch in?
25:00Yeah, I punch in.
25:01Like, but I don't be really going in there like, man, I'm about to make a song about this
25:06girl that dissed me in high school.
25:09Okay.
25:09I just go in there and go.
25:10I turn the beat on it.
25:11I'm just go.
25:12I'm either foot with her or I ain't.
25:16I don't really take it that seriously.
25:17Now, do you, um, when you go visit these cities, do you have people that you like check
25:21in with?
25:22Do you believe in the whole check in thing or it's just people you fuck with?
25:26Nah, I do, but I don't.
25:28Cause you don't have to, like, you can go to a city and don't check in with nobody.
25:33Like, boom.
25:33I go to Atlanta, I'm gonna check in.
25:36When I go to Atlanta, I'm gonna check in with some niggas that I really love.
25:41Right.
25:41Genuinely.
25:42And love me back.
25:43But they be the same niggas that rappers that I have to check in with from that city.
25:48You feel me?
25:48So, like, I don't do the, like I say, I don't play politics.
25:52I don't do the rap shit.
25:53When I go somewhere, I'm, when I come out here, though, I'm looking around every time.
25:57It's business.
25:58But when I go to other cities, I ain't even linking up with no rappers.
26:01I'm linking up with niggas like Spence.
26:04He's a rapper, though.
26:04But he ain't gonna solidify himself as one.
26:07They real.
26:08Yeah, you feel me?
26:09That's what I'm saying.
26:10That's the time I be on.
26:11Yeah, nah, that's what's up.
26:13So, you definitely shocked me.
26:14Like, you know how people have a perception of someone.
26:17Yeah.
26:17And then they really don't know what it is.
26:19So, I appreciate you coming through Wild 94.1.
26:21Learned a lot about you, what you own in 2023, your basketball, you know, AAU team that you got.
26:28You need to bring one to Tampa.
26:29You should literally put one, like, all across the United States.
26:31We're trying to do something, like, with the football scene out here because Florida got
26:35a lot of, like, big football scene and we already got connections around Ryan and Key.
26:41That's one of Ryan's homeboys.
26:43I just had the name drop on the radio.
26:45But we got some, like, connects on the football side.
26:48So, that's what I was thinking.
26:50Because if it's basketball, I got to be hands-on.
26:53And I ain't leaving Houston no time soon.
26:54So, but you definitely, like, look forward to something that got to do with us and the
27:01youth in Tampa song, for sure.
27:03Or Miami.
27:05What'd you say?
27:06Or Miami.
27:06Like, wherever it make the most sense, we're going to definitely do it for Florida, too.
27:10Of course.
27:10I feel like you're the first rapper that's got something going on like that for real.
27:14They do it.
27:14You just don't know it because they don't put on for it.
27:16They do it for probably, like, a post around the album.
27:19And forget about it.
27:21Shit like that.
27:21But they got, it's certain guys that got it going on.
27:25But they don't do what I do.
27:26Like, show up to every practice, open gym, every game that I can show up to, shake every
27:32parent's hand, feel me, jack every kid up, hug every kid.
27:37They don't do that.
27:39So, we didn't touch bases on this.
27:40But I heard you got to hear some unreleased Jake Paul music.
27:46Did y'all ever get to link up and work together?
27:49We did, like, a music video.
27:51He, like, hopped in a music video for my homeboy that was locked up, Ola Runt.
27:57He's still locked up, free Ola.
27:59He basically, like, performed his part, or just performed during his part.
28:04Shot that nigga out and all that.
28:05I fucked with Jake, for sure.
28:07Cool dude.
28:08That's crazy.
28:09Like, I didn't believe in him at first when it came to boxing.
28:12He the shit.
28:12And now you're saying he actually got some straight music.
28:15Nah, he got some straight music.
28:16I ain't gonna lie.
28:17Nah, I said, I told him, like, bro, you can go right for some motherfuckers.
28:21If you don't drop it, because he's just playing plenty of shit, too.
28:26Thanks for coming through the Wild 94 World.
28:28I appreciate y'all for having me.
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