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Fuerza Regida takes us inside Street Mob Records' headquarters and shares the story behind their success with ‘111XPANTIA’ hitting No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the first regional Mexican album to achieve this milestone. They also talk about why they love giving back to the community, how the band got their start, their 10-year anniversary, and more!
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00:00We came here to show our roots and make sure that everyone knows that Mexicans could go
00:05number one in the USA, you know?
00:08Nosotros vamos a tener mañana, ellos a lo mejor no.
00:10Give them, give it to them, because you're going to get some tomorrow.
00:14And that stuck with me.
00:15I don't even think you're first.
00:16Mexicans, we're the first to do it the same weekend, I think.
00:18No one has gone to Madison Square and Hollywood Bowl the next day.
00:21Hollywood Bowl is iconic, and Madison Square Garden is iconic, so we're iconic.
00:27Hi, I'm Billboard's Griselda Flores, and I'm joined by JLP and Fuerza Régida.
00:32And they're taking me out to eat hibachi, and we're talking all about the community,
00:37Ixpantia making history, and the come up of Fuerza Régida.
00:42Fuerza Régida!
00:54So, where are we?
00:55We're in Rancho Cucamonga.
00:57We're in Rancho Cucamonga, right now we're at the compound,
01:01Street Mile Records headquarters, and we order the truck every time here and there we get hungry,
01:05you know, like bring the truck for our employees and stuff.
01:07Oh, okay.
01:09You guys could live wherever you want, why stay in the area?
01:11Because we're from over here.
01:14We don't want to go, we don't want to move.
01:15No?
01:16I'll probably never leave from here.
01:17You know what, I'm going to cut you, I'm going to take this off because it's hot!
01:19Okay.
01:27I do want to congratulate you guys because Ixpantia, it made history.
01:32It was the first time that two Spanish language albums were number one and number two on the billboard 200.
01:37Why do you think it was this album that made it happen?
01:40The fans, last album, right, they were talking a lot of shit, right?
01:44And this album, they talked a little less, like last album they talked for like what,
01:49for like two weeks, no, no, like for like a month.
01:50Like a month.
01:51And this album, like a couple days, because they were upset that it wasn't like
01:57old Fuerza Régida, which is like 2018.
01:59Right.
02:00But I had to give them one track and now we now we know that the fans really wanted that
02:05and that one track is like number one.
02:07But the new stuff, like the samples to Sancho, Ansiedad, they're doing really good too.
02:12So, you know, we got to give them a little bit of everything.
02:18Of course.
02:18Their feedback.
02:19So you guys are reading the comments.
02:20Of course, but we're not just going to give them what they want.
02:22You know, whenever it's whenever we want.
02:24Yeah.
02:24Here and there, you know, so they wanted the old style.
02:27We give them Malboro Rojo.
02:37That's like the old style.
02:39They got it, but I wasn't going to give them 12 tracks of it.
02:41You know, it's a little by little.
02:43Okay.
02:43How did you guys find out about the history making moment?
02:48And how did you react when you guys became the first Spanish language
02:54regional Mexican album to be number two?
02:56Oh, we just remember.
02:58We knew it was going to happen.
02:59Remember, I manifested it.
03:09So where were we at?
03:10You said you had manifested.
03:12So you kind of already knew what happened.
03:15So was your reaction not as big?
03:20We knew him.
03:21To be honest, every time we get happy, of course.
03:25But it's just like a normal thing for us.
03:27It's just, you know?
03:31I mean, we knew it was going to happen.
03:36Yeah.
03:36As expected, right?
03:38Okay.
03:39It's like when you're the top scorer, like Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi, right?
03:42I'm not going to just mention one.
03:43I'm going to get it.
03:45I'm going to mention both of them.
03:46So it's like, you know, they're going to go in there knowing they're going to score.
03:49We knew we were going to score.
03:52Pero, I do, I think it would feel differently this being the first regional Mexican album.
03:59No, of course.
03:59To be number two.
04:00It feels beautiful, you know, that we're the first ones that reached this level.
04:04It's never happened.
04:05Yeah, it's never happened.
04:06And that's history.
04:07And that's what we came here to do, you know?
04:08Mm-hmm.
04:09Go on global, change it up.
04:11We came here to show our roots and make sure that everyone knows that Mexicans could go number one
04:18in the USA, you know?
04:19Yeah.
04:19We're still the Mexican, the first Mexican to what?
04:22The first regional Mexican album to ever reach number two.
04:27The highest.
04:27Yeah, that's the highest it's ever been.
04:30And it's the first time that two Spanish language albums are number one for two.
04:33Next time we're taking the number one, you know?
04:36Yes, it's a major win, obviously for you guys, obviously for the genre.
04:40Pero también para la comunidad viviendo como un
04:43political climate that is almost like anti-Latino, anti-Mexican.
04:47So I think it's a huge win for all of us.
04:51We got to show, you know, we're here to
04:53put our roots down, you know, that we're Mexican and
05:01that Latinos are here to make the country better.
05:04And how has your way of working together evolved over the years?
05:10Obviously you all started this together.
05:13What have you noticed has evolved, has changed
05:17over the way that you guys work together?
05:19We kind of figured out what everyone's supposed to do.
05:21Yup.
05:22What everybody's good at, yeah.
05:23Yeah, pusimos el mejor pájaro a volar, huh?
05:26And we figured out.
05:27El mejor pescado a nadar.
05:28Okay.
05:28Yeah.
05:29So make sure, because at the end of the day,
05:31it's really important because we're a band.
05:33And you know, another thing that's big, you know,
05:35we're not just a Mexican album that got the highest,
05:39but we're actually a band too.
05:41That no band.
05:42No duo or group.
05:43Yeah.
05:44No band groups are even charting anywhere right now.
05:47It's tough.
05:48It's more like solo artists.
05:49You know what I'm saying?
05:50Yeah.
05:50And the main thing for a band or a group is to make sure
05:54that everyone's happy.
05:56That's true.
05:56And that, you know, that he's going to be happy,
05:58that he's going to be happy.
05:59Because at the end of the day, if we come and switch a face,
06:01they don't look original no more.
06:02Original no more.
06:03So we got to make sure what everyone's happy and what everyone's
06:05comfortable doing to grow and get bigger.
06:08Yeah.
06:08And we're not going to, you say, a me me gusta trabajar 24
06:11horas y a otro compa no.
06:12We're not going to do, make them do it at huevos.
06:13You know, they're going to be unhappy here.
06:15So we make sure we, everyone, we find the right way to,
06:18everyone to be happy and work.
06:19Conversaban, you guys were very vocal.
06:21Yeah. Well, we got, we got 10 years together.
06:23This year in March, we cumplimos 10 años, Fuerza Régida.
06:27He joined later.
06:28How many years you got with this?
06:29Four.
06:29Four.
06:30Four.
06:30So it was six years before without Moe.
06:32Okay.
06:33And then how many years you got with us?
06:35Probably like two, like a year after now.
06:37Nah, probably like, yeah, huh?
06:39You got like nine years?
06:40You got nine years.
06:41So we started it, us three right here.
06:43And then Pelón came a year later.
06:45Okay.
06:46So he got nine, we got 10, but the band got 10.
06:49And out of all those years, we kind of learned each other
06:51and we figured out how we got to run it.
06:53You know, and we learned.
06:55At first, you don't know what's going on.
06:56You know, and then later on, okay, boom.
06:58We can see everything clear.
06:59But I think we know how to manage a group and a band.
07:03We know how to run it.
07:03It's pretty good.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Why do you think that,
07:07because I remember that regional Mexicans were groups.
07:11It was bandas.
07:12It used to be just groups and bandas.
07:14Yeah, that was...
07:15And there were solistas, too.
07:16Yeah, that was...
07:17But it was more even, like...
07:19Yeah.
07:19It was even, like,
07:20there were two solistas popping and like...
07:22Yeah.
07:23But two or three solistas,
07:25groups, too popping, you know?
07:26Now, the bands ain't really hitting right now.
07:29It's tough.
07:30But everyone kind of like,
07:31hey, you know what?
07:32I don't think this or I think that.
07:33It's just, you know?
07:36And we make sure the image looks good.
07:37You know what I'm saying?
07:38Yeah.
07:39Do you...
07:40Because obviously you...
07:42You've mentored and you managed some new artist careers.
07:45And this is what I see as well.
07:47They want that immediate, like...
07:50Success.
07:50I imagine you explain to them, like,
07:52this takes a while.
07:53I mean...
07:54I tell them, but...
07:55No one's gonna believe it, right?
07:57But that is one of the first things that you tell them, like,
08:00hey, you gotta be married to this.
08:02What I'm trying to say is...
08:04That...
08:04If you're doing something,
08:05you gotta stop doing what you're doing and focus on this.
08:08And only this.
08:09Yeah.
08:10You know, you got time to go say hi to your mom, this,
08:12and back to work.
08:13And some people don't...
08:15And I get it because...
08:17It's a sacrifice.
08:18No, yeah.
08:18It's not easy, though.
08:19Yeah.
08:19It's not easy.
08:20Sí.
08:20Well, you guys, who started this, well, you too.
08:25How do you guys feel reaching all these milestones?
08:29I mean...
08:31It's exactly what you would think.
08:34It's funny to look back and, like, hey, some kids from the hood
08:37playing at backyard parties, and...
08:39We always...
08:40I always tell this guy, um...
08:42I would go up to him mid-concern like, hey, bro, it's crazy, huh?
08:45All these people...
08:47We were playing for some quinceanera a couple years ago.
08:50Look at those 20,000 people right here.
08:52We photoshopped the picture of one.
08:53Remember?
08:54Yeah.
08:54Yeah.
08:55We photoshopped the picture of us at a sold-out stadium.
08:58You did when you were starting?
09:00Mm-hmm.
09:00Yeah, we did.
09:01Now we made it come true.
09:02Manifest.
09:03So manifesting.
09:04Yeah.
09:05It's right there, the picture, too.
09:07So who photoshopped it?
09:08You?
09:08I did.
09:09On Snapchat, I remember.
09:11I always felt like...
09:12I've always been a homebody, you know?
09:14But as far as, like, the group growing, it's just crazy.
09:18Like, you know, like, he comes up on stage and, you know,
09:21tells me all this stuff, you know?
09:22Like, hey, look, dude, like, back in the day,
09:23backyard parties, now we're here.
09:25So it's, like, it's beautiful.
09:27It's beautiful, you know?
09:28Like, it's growing, especially, huh?
09:31Let me tell you a little bit about my friend.
09:33He's always been that guy in the group that kind of,
09:36we just kind of dragged.
09:38Vente, vente.
09:39And he was, he was just, he didn't, like,
09:43you gotta leave your job.
09:44Come, we gotta come play.
09:45Let's go play, let's go play.
09:46And he's like, oh, I guess, I guess.
09:47And he's just kind of always pulling him.
09:49Yeah, it was always.
09:50What were you working with?
09:51I did car wash.
09:51Did you all have other jobs?
09:53I had a job.
09:54I had a job, too.
09:54But I would quit.
09:55Like, let's say, I'll start my warehouse job.
09:57And then there'll be a gig.
09:59I'm out.
10:00I walk out.
10:01Yeah, I walk out.
10:02Like, I'm out.
10:02Where are you going?
10:03I'm going down.
10:05And we had to go get into agencies.
10:07Yeah.
10:08Did we ever work together once?
10:09Where else?
10:09No, no, me and him did.
10:10I did it with disaster.
10:11Yeah, with disaster.
10:12So I would go, we would go.
10:14I wouldn't last till, like, a past Wednesday.
10:17Gone.
10:18We lasted a week, that was something.
10:19Right.
10:19Yeah, we walked right outside through the door.
10:21Like, where are you guys going?
10:22Home.
10:23That was great.
10:23They would call you, like, in the middle of the day?
10:25Yeah, like, well, I was working nights.
10:28Oh, okay.
10:29Yeah.
10:30You were working the night.
10:31And then, or, or I don't know, like,
10:33or whatever we had to do, like, I don't know,
10:35we had to do something, like, all right, bounce.
10:36I want to get a check for, like, 150 bucks.
10:40At that time, you know, you'd see $1,000.
10:42You'd be like, man, I prefer $1,000.
10:44You'd just go work at a warehouse for the night.
10:46That's true.
10:46Yeah.
10:47Like, it's funny.
10:49I need to go get a job.
10:50My buddy never had a job over here.
10:51He was my cameraman, actually.
10:52I was his cameraman.
10:54He went on tour with us once.
10:55He was his cameraman.
10:57And then they did a song that's called Vamos Bien,
10:59that dead noise.
11:00And he had bass.
11:01That was the only song with bass in those times,
11:03like, what, 2020?
11:04No, 2021.
11:06And he would have come on tour just to play that one song.
11:08He had a show in Arizona.
11:10He was like, you want to come?
11:11And I was like, I'd have to tell my band,
11:12because I don't know what they're going to think,
11:13and, like, go, you know?
11:14Yeah.
11:14And I had to tell them.
11:15And I went that one day, and from there,
11:17I kept going.
11:17And the song, all our other songs that we had,
11:20he would have played with bass.
11:22And then I told him, you know what, bro?
11:24The next year, next year.
11:25Yeah, like, it was all year we played that with bass.
11:26And I told him, hey, bro,
11:27you got to learn the toloche, or else there's this guy right here
11:31that can play the bass on toloche,
11:32and I'm going to bring him in if you don't.
11:33Do you remember what I told you?
11:34Tell him what I told you.
11:35It was like 10 guys right there in the living room,
11:38and they were like, Jesus was like, hey,
11:40I got to tell you something, like, what happened?
11:42He's like, it's either you learn toloche,
11:44or I got someone that plays toloche and bass.
11:45I'm going to take him on tour.
11:47So it's either you want to go, or I'm going to take him.
11:49And so he had no way to say no.
11:51Right.
11:52And he bought me one, and then from there,
11:53I started learning.
11:54And I learned in, like, three months.
11:55How did you learn?
11:56And he learned really good.
11:57I was home all day.
11:58He recorded everything on the album, so.
12:00I was home all day.
12:01The bass and the toloche are pretty similar.
12:02Oh, OK.
12:03Well, look at the bass.
12:05It's the bass, and then that one's a stand-up bass.
12:07But it's a little different.
12:08You got to slap it, so.
12:09I'll be home every day practicing.
12:12OK.
12:13And there's a part where it goes fast,
12:14and I couldn't get it, but I kept practicing until my wrist got fast.
12:18And that is history.
12:20And your band was bummed, I'm sure.
12:22And yeah, there we are.
12:23What happened then?
12:24It's good then they started falling down to the band,
12:26so they're convenient to come here.
12:27They're real good.
12:28Fuerza, Fuerza already, you know?
12:29But I told them, I'm taking the opportunity.
12:31Yeah.
12:32So you quit over there?
12:33How was that?
12:34I forgot.
12:35Tell me that story.
12:36Well, I just let them know that I was leaving there.
12:39They told me.
12:40What are you telling them?
12:40What are you telling them?
12:41Tell me, pa.
12:41I was like, hey, Fuerzas invited me to a show to go play bass.
12:45But who said well?
12:46Who broke up with who?
12:47I broke up with them.
12:48How do you tell them?
12:49Like that.
12:50You broke up with them.
12:51I told them.
12:51Well, you left the show, but you didn't break up that day.
12:53No, I did.
12:54So you left?
12:55After that day, like, I was already, yeah.
12:56How do you tell them?
12:57He was nervous though.
13:02He was nervous.
13:02I remember.
13:03I was right there.
13:04How do you tell them?
13:05I just told them, like, yeah, I'm going to play with Fuerza.
13:08That's it.
13:08How did they tell you?
13:09And they were like, oh, I mean, you do whatever you want to do.
13:11You know, like, we're not going to tell you.
13:12And now you are, boy.
13:13And now we're here.
13:16What about you?
13:16What were you?
13:17I used to work in construction.
13:18Like, I used to, I was in the union.
13:21I used to work, like, in landscape, underground.
13:23Like, it was hot every single day.
13:25And when I joined them, they're already popping off, like, in San Bernardino.
13:30So I told them, hey, right now it's not that good.
13:31Like, if you want to join, I might, you know, go, it's an entry room risk.
13:35Yeah.
13:36I had to leave, like, a little, a little.
13:37You had a band, too.
13:38You had a little.
13:39I had to leave a band, too.
13:39And I told them straight up, like, yeah, I was out.
13:42And yeah, no hard feelings.
13:43I mean, I didn't leave them hanging like Moira did.
13:45But I just told them, you know, I wanted to have my doors open
13:48because we didn't know what was going to happen.
13:50Right, yeah.
13:50So then I joined with them.
13:52And I was wearing construction and the music.
13:54So then we had work, like, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
13:58And then, like, I would legit take my construction work clothes and my truck.
14:01Wow.
14:02Like, on zero sleep.
14:03I told them, I'm like, hey, we're going to start this shit.
14:07They want us to go on tour, on the SMO tour.
14:11And we're going to start.
14:11We're going to have 50 days from now.
14:13You know, we're not going to win that much at first.
14:15But pretty much, you've got to quit your job, fool.
14:18And he was like, compadre.
14:19Like, he was my compadre already.
14:20He's like, compadre, I don't know, like.
14:21I'm in the union.
14:23I got benefits.
14:23I got benefits.
14:24Yeah, yeah.
14:26You're in the union?
14:27Yeah, I was in the union and everything.
14:28I just had a daughter.
14:29That's why I was his compadre.
14:30She's my, what do you call it?
14:31Rejada.
14:32That's the first thing he said, compadre, I got benefits.
14:34Compadre.
14:35Yeah, like, straight up.
14:36Like, I wasn't lying.
14:38Like, hey, I had benefits.
14:39You know, I had health insurance.
14:41I had all that, you know?
14:43But I remember the day, fool, I was in front of 45's house, wait.
14:45And then you were on the phone.
14:46I don't know where you were at.
14:47You were at work or something.
14:48I'm like, compadre, you're going to have to quit.
14:51And we're going to have to run this up.
14:53And he's like, I don't know if I could do it, compadre.
14:55You don't even think about me.
14:56Like, I got my family.
14:57I told him, you know what, compadre?
14:59You're my compadre.
15:00I love you and all.
15:01But there's a million motherfuckers that play tuba.
15:03I'm not taking no for an answer.
15:05If you say no, I'm going to go get another food.
15:06Yeah.
15:06If I like that, if I like that.
15:23Not only did you figure it out, but you exceeded every sort of.
15:28We did it all.
15:29But we're all here, look, the same faces since we started.
15:31We just added another face.
15:32I love that.
15:34And I mean, to be honest, it's all that hard work
15:38that you've put in and all those years
15:40that has gotten you to where you are.
15:42Ask for your cuentas.
15:48Who taught you that importance of giving back?
15:50Was it your parents?
15:51I remember my dad when I was young.
15:55Let's say my dad used to be like, we lived in the hood.
15:58So, like, if he was like, like, like, un vagabundo, whatever.
16:04I don't want to say bad names here.
16:05But, like, someone in the street.
16:06My dad was friends with everybody.
16:08From, like, the neighbor to the guy walking with no shoes down the block.
16:12And then they would always stop by my dad's house and ask him for food or money or beers, whatever.
16:17Yeah.
16:17And my dad would always give it to them.
16:1920 bucks.
16:20Or, you know, here's my tacos.
16:21Take them.
16:22And I would tell my dad, hey, why do you do that?
16:24Why are you giving them?
16:24Yeah.
16:25My son, we're going to have them tomorrow.
16:28Maybe they don't.
16:29Give them.
16:29Give them.
16:30Give it to them.
16:30Because you're going to get some tomorrow.
16:32And that stuck with me.
16:33So it's always, yeah, we always like to, like, make sure that our people is taken care of, you know?
16:39Yeah.
16:40And that's something that you guys also learned.
16:45If you're blessed, just bless others, you know?
16:47Yeah.
16:47I would love to try to bless everybody.
16:51But what you do is big.
16:54It's impactful to the community.
16:56And we see it definitely on social media.
16:58And people are always super grateful.
17:00Of course.
17:00I mean, you were just doing that the other day, just handing out cash to your neighbor.
17:04Yeah, we gave a little 50.
17:05A little 50 to the block.
17:06A little.
17:08The scholarships, too.
17:09No, no.
17:10I don't even know.
17:11I don't even count, you know, what we do.
17:12But we always help, for sure.
17:13Yeah.
17:14Okay.
17:14So can we talk a little bit about the food that we each got?
17:17Just to, obviously, we want to.
17:19So I heard you wanted noodles, right?
17:20Si.
17:21So you got the noodles right there.
17:22Fried rice.
17:23Because me dijeron, it was amazing.
17:34So good.
17:35So good.
17:35So good.
17:36So good.
17:36So good.
17:38Because he is so good, right?
17:39I mean, that's what I interpreted.
17:41So good tepeñaki.
17:44He got a Kraken right there on the block.
17:46That's how we pulled up.
17:46I met a lot of people.
17:47Si?
17:48Yeah.
17:48Okay.
17:49It's good.
17:49Lo que habéis leído lo grabaron in different parts of the world.
17:53I mean, you were strutting in Paris.
17:55Yeah, we did some in Paris.
17:57Paris, New York, Mexico, and Blue Sky.
17:58Before we had a warehouse, I used to run the operation in a house.
18:02So I had like 50 motherfuckers in there.
18:08Of course it was illegal, you know?
18:10So we had to make it legal.
18:11We were doing some 50 people in a house.
18:14I don't think that's legal, right?
18:15So we had to switch it up.
18:16We came over here.
18:17We had to go corporate, you know?
18:19Yeah.
18:20HR y todas las cosas.
18:21So these are your headquarters.
18:22Right here, headquarters.
18:23We're not done yet.
18:25Or else I would like to give you guys a tour.
18:27But next time, hopefully, next time you guys come, we can give you guys a full tour.
18:31And how do you envision it to be?
18:33Right here?
18:34Uh-huh.
18:35What I was doing in Blue Sky, which was the house that used to be the headquarters,
18:40which is we got studios.
18:42We had the whole employees, everything, the whole company, the whole record label,
18:45Street Mod Records was getting ran over there.
18:48Now it's going to get ran here.
18:49So this warehouse you see right there, that's where we do all the film, all the production.
18:54So videos, any type of production, we do it there.
18:57If you go more that way, we got offices.
18:59And we're trying to build more stuff, like creative spaces for people,
19:03for all the employees to work, for all the team.
19:07You guys have really cool shows coming up.
19:11Hollywood Bowl, it's one of my favorite venues.
19:14So this year, we're not touring.
19:16We took a break.
19:16Okay.
19:18My friends were mad at me for that, but you know, we took a break.
19:21So we're like, we're not going to tour, you know?
19:23And then there was an opportunity to do the Hollywood Bowl.
19:27And then the Madison Square too, but they were like,
19:28Hey, that's dangerous to do bowls.
19:29And I was like,
19:31How so?
19:31Because it was the same weekend.
19:33Ah, okay, okay.
19:34Day after.
19:35There you go.
19:35The first Mexicans.
19:36Back to back.
19:37I don't even think just first Mexicans.
19:38We're the first to do it the same weekend, I think.
19:40Okay.
19:40No one has gone to Madison Square
19:42and Hollywood Bowl the next day.
19:44So those are the only shows we got this year.
19:46And we have some Latin American shows.
19:48In the US.
19:48Yeah, in the US, those are the only shows.
19:50What does it mean?
19:51I mean, because I lived in LA for a while and Hollywood Bowl is iconic.
19:55Is that something special to you?
19:57Of course.
19:58Hollywood Bowl is iconic and Madison Square Garden is iconic.
20:01So we're iconic.
20:02We're iconic.
20:04How do you envision those those shows?
20:07Because they're very...
20:08Sold out.
20:12It's going to be dope because it's not going to be a regular show.
20:14So they're getting shows, but they're not going to get all our other songs.
20:18They're getting Xpantia only.
20:19Oh, okay.
20:20So that's what's different about it.
20:21But of course...
20:22Ya entrados.
20:23Ya entrados.
20:24Give me a little whiskey, a little tequila.
20:27Encore.
20:28You know what I'm saying?
20:28A full concert?
20:31Right.
20:33You know how we do.
20:34Yeah.
20:34Have you been to a show?
20:35I have.
20:36You know how we do.
20:37Otra, otra, otra, otra.
20:38We stay there a couple of lines.
20:39You know, a couple of...
20:39You give the fans what they want.
20:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:41Of course.
20:42Yeah.
20:42Sinopolis, they spend their hard-working money on us.
20:45You know, we got to show up for them.
20:47Right, yeah.
20:48Well, you shut up in a Willy Chavarria outfit.
20:52Oh yeah, I have the sweater, the Willy and...
20:55Which is amazing.
20:58I got the sweats right here.
20:59I love fashion.
21:01And you've always loved fashion.
21:02I've always loved it.
21:04But, you know, when we were barely starting, I couldn't come in dressing how I wanted all the way.
21:07Right, yeah.
21:08Nah, I do whatever I want.
21:09And how did you feel when you were young?
21:11Like when you were...
21:12Chamagos.
21:13Chamagos.
21:14He would pull up to the practices and wearing this one shirt.
21:17That's when I was obese.
21:19And I was like, I was like, hey, what are you wearing?
21:22I didn't wear a chamagos.
21:24Yeah.
21:25That's how I put up with that.
21:26It's good.
21:26I was obese.
21:27You know what I'm talking about, you know?
21:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:29He was big.
21:29Big dude, big dude.
21:30So, when you're big, you know, it gets extra hot.
21:32Like right now, ooh, I wouldn't be right here right now.
21:34Right, if I was in that...
21:35Yeah.
21:36Because I was 280.
21:38Okay.
21:38No, like 260, 270.
21:41And I would put up with a button-up, basketball shorts, and huaraches.
21:46No, but what I was saying is your brand.
21:48Because I'm like, what are you wearing?
21:49Oh, when I first met you guys?
21:50Is it my own brand?
21:51That's when I met you guys.
21:52Yeah.
21:52So, tell them...
21:53No, but you pulled up like two, three times after that too.
21:55But the first time I met you guys...
21:56What was the brand name?
21:57I forgot something about.
21:58It was called PLC, Fat Life Clothing.
22:01Yeah.
22:01So, it was me and my boy's brand.
22:04From high school.
22:05I've been liking fashion.
22:06Oh, shit, good thing you're right.
22:07Yeah.
22:08So, I've been liking fashion, right?
22:09Because I started my own clothing brand in high school.
22:13You know the NBA logo?
22:14Uh-huh.
22:15But my art logo was...
22:16It was a Fat Albert.
22:19But it was just the...
22:21Pooping.
22:21But you couldn't tell it was Fat Albert.
22:23It was just a fat dude, right?
22:24Uh-huh.
22:24And he was holding a donut.
22:26And it was in the same colors as the NBA, you know?
22:30The NBA logo.
22:31And you drew...
22:32Like you were drawing the outfits.
22:34Me and my...
22:34Shout out to my homie, Manny.
22:36Me and my boy, Manny created that.
22:37He would say it with such confidence though.
22:39Like, it's my brand, bro.
22:40Yeah.
22:41I was already up.
22:43We're going to be up, you know?
22:44My brand.
22:45Like...
22:46Yeah.
22:46It ain't going nowhere though.
22:47It's a good idea though.
22:48Tell me right now.
22:48We'll get like 6X.
22:50It's still in the vault.
22:51It's still in the vault, yeah.
22:52Don't...
22:53I already trademarked this, watch out.
22:54Fat Life Clothing.
22:55Fat Life Clothing.
22:55It was PLC.
22:57Not PLA, my boy.
22:58Oh, PH.
22:59What is that?
23:00PH.
23:00Fat.
23:01PH, fool.
23:02Yeah, fat like PH.
23:03Fat.
23:04Were you doing the drawings of the outfits that you wanted?
23:06We had a class.
23:07I forgot what it was where you print your own...
23:10I forgot.
23:10It was one of my periods where you print stuff and stuff.
23:12That's where we started the brand and we drew everything.
23:14We didn't draw it in the computer and stuff.
23:16Okay.
23:17We put the Fat Albert and the NBA logo and the...
23:19You know?
23:20Okay.
23:20But we love fashion, you know?
23:21That's why we went to Paris in the beginning of the year.
23:23Baby?
23:24Oh, yeah, yeah.
23:25And we killed it, you know?
23:26We were the most viral that whole week.
23:28And you performed as well, right?
23:30Yeah, we performed, yeah.
23:30Okay.
23:31At the fashion show, yeah.
23:32Okay.
23:32So that's something that you're still, like, sort of...
23:34We love fashion, yeah.
23:34...pursuing.
23:35I might pop out to the one coming up.
23:37I think it's coming up this next month, yeah.
23:40I might pop out.
23:41It depends how I'm feeling.
23:42Yeah, okay.
23:43If I'm feeling, you know?
23:44Yeah, we might go.
23:45We might go.
23:45I might pull out with the huaraches and the basketball shorts.
23:47Yeah.
23:47Make a statement.
23:49And then what else?
23:51Is there any other areas of the industry that you would
23:54want to go into?
23:54Perhaps acting, Hollywood.
23:57We've always been acting, right?
23:58We had some skits and stuff, but I don't know.
24:00I can't tell you too much.
24:03We act in music videos, right?
24:05Yeah.
24:11If it's a good role, it depends how much the pain.
24:14What about you create your own script and you produce?
24:18You never know.
24:18We need Latino storytellers in Hollywood, so.
24:23I got you.
24:23Okay.
24:24I got something.
24:25Well, I just can't say too much.
24:26You know what I'm saying?
24:27Well, it's there.
24:28You don't know.
24:28Yeah, of course.
24:29Perfect.
24:30For sure.
24:30Okay.
24:30Well, we're going to wrap here.
24:34We'll finish eating our food.
24:36Of course.
24:36And then we're also going to go give back to the community,
24:40which is something that you always do.
24:42We're going to put the truck over there, right?
24:43On Billboard and Fuerza Regida.
24:45We're going to put the Soul Good truck in the hood, in the Summer Dino, in the Dino.
24:48Okay.
24:49And we're going to give them free plates.
24:52I love that.
24:52You know?
24:53And they're going to know it's coming from Billboard and Fuerza.
24:55Okay.
24:55For sure.
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