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00:00one on five with a bouncy trait still back here popping r&b's your boy showtime the czar
00:04got some two special guests in here with me today man one of them i can't believe i'm saying this
00:09but he's busier than the last time he was here my guy fly boy rich what up though what up though
00:13brought a guest with him man rod thomas man what up though what up though gentlemen welcome to the
00:17show man appreciate y'all for coming i appreciate you for sure man all right um so because i missed
00:23it i got sick um i'm gonna start off by talking about the uh next to blow showcase that happened
00:29in september both of y'all was there how was that okay talk to them what you did right hey man it was
00:34it was uh it was a lot of dope artists that came out uh you know uh it was it was a good it was a good
00:41look for a lot of upcoming artists people who's already pretty much established uh i've performed
00:47as well i did a few songs um positive tracks is what i'm pushing out i did a song uh track called
00:55save detroit which is a positive uh track that i got going on word save is uh uh the acronym yeah
01:02i remember you telling me all violence everywhere yeah and it's pretty much speaking against gun
01:06violence and then i also did another one uh single mothers or you know to uplift you know single
01:11mothers out there across the world fly what happened man how was the how was the showcase oh man it
01:16was dope it was a nice turnout on gladiator did his thing suki came out she did her thing man and
01:21you know it was a good turnout for everybody the city really turned up and we doing another show
01:25we working on another one next to blow with a cast down now yeah so let me ask y'all both this what
01:30was that like performing in front of the city like that some of them your peers and others people you
01:34don't even know what did that energy feel like uh from the city i mean i mean uh for me it was like uh
01:44it was it was it was a pleasure to do that uh you know because it was a it wasn't you know i consider
01:51myself pretty good you know but it was a lot of great talent out there so uh it was dope you know it
01:58wasn't a dull moment as far as what i seen that was out there that's what's up it was a well put
02:02together show that's what's up yeah me um i love giving back to the city so it's just always a
02:08highlight for me but i like performing at um other states too and stuff like that but the city always
02:12show love but i've i'll go to like bigger stuff like rolling loud and stuff and it'd be like a bigger
02:17love so it's kind of natural to me right now so i really love like what detroit doing right now how
02:22we trying to bring unity back to the city though yeah facts uh i talked with um
02:28dr darius and he talked about that was the reason why he did the three one three day
02:31is because he wanted to bring more unity basically what y'all are doing um that was his dream for the
02:37three one three days so artists like you guys was his vision how did you guys link up man how did you
02:42guys meet what who met cinta uh you upset how did that work oh i talk uh really ikeisha baker man
02:50ikeisha baker hooked up everything she on it if she's right here y'all can't see on the yeah ikeisha
02:54baker yeah but ikeisha she showed us a lot of love man she connected us together and we all been
03:00working ever since been doing shows we trying to bring the old bullfrog black shout out the club
03:04tame shout out the tame too for showing us so much love okay yeah right you talk about being a positive
03:11artist yeah okay describe what that looks like for you uh well uh from the start you know i've been
03:19through everything that you could possibly you know been through you know as far as the struggle
03:25stuff like that i've been through the streets um i was incarcerated uh and i see that that light
03:33that life that i was living it only got me the same results because i didn't change
03:37certain things like you could change your environment but if you don't change your mindset
03:40you end up with the same results so um when i a lot of music i was making in the beginning was leaning
03:47toward the streets and stuff like that you know the older i got mentally i'm like man that ain't
03:52where i'm at no more and i don't feel comfortable you know what i'm saying right right staying in that
03:56type of lane so i just jumped in the lane of my own so everything i've been doing since then been
04:01positive and everybody who know me they know that it was a big you know i'm saying change from how i used
04:08to carry myself how i used to rep to what i'm doing now so that's why you know my rap name and
04:13is my government name is it hard to push positivity for you in a world where you see so much negative
04:21stuff no because i do it from the heart so that ain't never nothing to do that's hurt when it's
04:27coming from the heart the acronym save what did you say it stand for stopping all violence everywhere
04:32you came up with that my homeboy john williams he got the movement uh he created it early 2000s
04:38and you know uh we we speak to like the youth the young boys stuff like that to give them
04:43inspirations you know things of that nature like i say i was incarcerated before so a lot of times
04:47when i go to these events and i speak to the young kids i'm just giving them advice and you know
04:52saying useful tools for them to try to avoid the life that i live because i know most of them don't
04:57come from households with fathers big brothers uncles who care about them or try to start them in the
05:02right direction so that's why all of the things that that i do far as music and outside of music
05:09i just walk in a different direction you got what i'm saying talk about you being incarcerated man
05:14because you i feel like a lot of people come out of there it's one or two ways you're gonna go back to
05:18what you was doing or you can change your patterns and i feel like for you you change the patterns
05:22what what did that do for you being incarcerated well for um to start it off when i was in there man um
05:31i think people like to glorify the stuff in jail especially now you see what i'm saying like
05:35they make it look like a i mean you know it's vacation if you really care about your family
05:40you know when you in there you know you making them hurt they doing the time with you when i was
05:46in there i lost both of my parents damn so like that right there like nah that ain't that's not cool
05:54you know then every most of the most of the people who you think you cool with far as like the guys you
05:59hang out with it's a good chance they're going to try to holler at your girl your girl will leave
06:03you hanging it's it's it's too much of a mental drainage going through stuff like that so a lot
06:11of times when people do come home they they change their mindset but they don't change their environment
06:16you got what i'm saying so you could be a changed person but if you go back to the same environment
06:20no matter how much good you try to do people will try to pull you to the old ways
06:24so you have to change your environment and your mindset together and that's how you get a different
06:28result what if you're not financially able to change your environment what advice would you give
06:32somebody to that's stuck in the environment that they so if you're not financially able to change
06:37your environment you are in control where you go at all times and that's what you got to bring you
06:42know from a spiritual perspective you got to have god with you you gotta yeah you got what i'm saying
06:46yeah yeah i like that so it's at all times you just got to be you know for number one you got to think
06:51that you're a valuable person because everybody was made you know saying uniquely it's not i could
06:58have a twin brother but he's not going to think how i think thanks so the you have to value yourself
07:04like you're a very important person so when you go to certain places you have to stop and remind
07:07yourself is this place safe for me and if you question that it's not going to be safe it's a good
07:13chance it's not safe to go you got what i'm saying okay if you take if you've been taken off off this earth
07:18there's a lot of people who go lose you i mean miss you if you're gone so don't put yourself in
07:22situations where you know you can end up in you know because it's easy to get in trouble hard to
07:27get out that that's a fact flyboy rich man you got so much going on man first of all where do you want
07:33to start because i saw you um you sent me the next to blow you started with that in terms of like the
07:37next one that's coming up you got some new music going out right now uh watch it so man where do you
07:43want to start man oh man we can start with the watch it then okay let's start with the watch it man that
07:47record is out right now um the artist on there that you feature it ptk what how you say his last
07:52name ptk love brook how did that happen how did that collaboration come about me and him collab we
07:55was at the 107.5 showcase so we ended up linking up there and then from there we just end up buying
08:01it so me and satin media his team jd and everybody so we all linked up together and then we started
08:06working on the project together so we trying to do a collab maybe a ep together or something like that
08:11okay and try to like bridge between a different genre type of thing so i see he into more like a rock
08:17or a new age type genre and then i definitely felt the vibe lyric type vibe so you know we
08:22trying to bridge that gap and bring like a new type of sound together why was that important for
08:25you to try to bridge that gap because i when i heard it i'm like whoa crazy different not in a
08:31bad way but it was just like no his energy yeah energy you can change yeah yeah so why was it
08:37important for you to be like okay let's bridge this gap uh it was just because i just felt like we
08:41can work together and he felt like that he couldn't get into that uh mixed genre too because he like
08:46hip-hop as well so he wanted to bridge that gap too and i'm like you know i dabble into all type of
08:51stuff too so i got an edm artist and all type of stuff so i dabble into different type of genres as
08:56well so i just felt like i could help him bridge that gap me doing like producing and doing all the
09:00other stuff i do so okay were you nervous because yeah when like go too new people be like and i've
09:10seen it happen where they like yeah yeah and they like yeah buddy this ain't it no does that make you
09:16nervous no it was more so filling the vibes out first before we even work so you know what i'm
09:20saying it was more of us talking before i even wanted to jump into doing the projects and stuff
09:23like that so it was more so filling them out before we even worked on the project so i could
09:27understand where his mindset was at what was something that made you feel like okay this
09:32guy is it like this is a vibe that i want to you know it was just his style and like how he didn't
09:36care and you know the drive he had to him too so you know i'm saying he got a lot of energy and heart
09:41for his stuff too he got a lot of passion to his music so what you know you said you want to do a
09:45collaboration project with him yeah we're working on the collaboration project is there a date for
09:50it yet have y'all started working on it yeah we started working on a few tracks so top of the year i want
09:54to say sometime top of the year nice uh the next to blow you got a show next week right what is that
09:59uh we got one this friday actually um at club tain and then we got one saturday um it used to be
10:06called the sloppy crab but they changed the name now but we got a show there saturday okay you send
10:12me one for next wednesday do you remember that one it's like the 22nd i'm gonna have to look through
10:16yeah yeah i'm gonna have to look through it too but i feel like yeah see i'm saying y'all he got so much
10:20going on yeah i do want to ask you i seen you um something about rock nation what is the oh yeah
10:27i'm working with rock nation right now so we got the compilation done right now and that project should
10:31be dropping uh february what i don't want to say this what seeing all the things that's going on with
10:41the nikki minaj and the rock nation and jay-z man what made you still want to still work with rock nation
10:46um it was just the partnership i had with the people um personally you know what i'm saying
10:50because i talked to people more on the business side more than like the average artist so it's me
10:56talking to the executives and the a&rs personally just to help them with stuff like that you always
11:01talk about again we said this last time the business aspect of it um i see you doing a twitch
11:06stream talking about the business aspect of yes sir again music what made you want to start that man i
11:11think people that's important yeah i mean i always wanted to start the twitch streaming but the
11:15business side i just felt like you always need to know that part like always staying like ahead of
11:20the game because it's always going to be something going on like as far as streaming you see people
11:23always having a problem with the spotify's and stuff like that they worry about not getting enough
11:27streams and stuff like that but they're not worried about the other royalties and stuff you can get too
11:31and then they missing out on like the radio side of everything like people need to come back to
11:35the radio sides and stuff too because the radio help get an audience right i want to ask you man um
11:40um yep do you feel like the type of music that you do gets lost nowadays because of the type of
11:49music that's being put out uh uh yeah no uh i say yeah only because some well a lot of people they
11:59want to hear that but they choose not to because i think that is man because we live in a society where
12:04everybody is is going off the next person's opinion so so i might hear i'm just saying example of a
12:11person i might hear a dope song to me i feel like that song hot but i built up this image around
12:18everybody else to where i'm not gonna play it in front of y'all but i'll play it in my car where i
12:21play it when i'm at home because i'm like man that's like a a soothing therapeutic type of song or
12:27someday i can relate to but because everybody is is following the trend it's not you got what i'm saying
12:34right so that's that's one thing that kind of like keeps me with that balance like i know it's
12:38people that that need to hear this type of music so that's what keeps me going i'm gonna ask y'all
12:43both y'all can um every artist that i've had in here that are lyricists and they have a message
12:50and things of that nature right i've always i always ask them like what makes you want to do
12:55you know continue to be a lyricist man um i asked you that i'm gonna ask you that but what what
13:02makes you want to continue to be a lyricist bro uh because now i feel like it's coming back
13:07in a in a strong way yeah so it's like for me uh the most important part of that question is
13:15when i realized how powerful my voice was like i'm a role model and whether i like it or not
13:22you know i'm saying if i say or do something people go either take the good out of it or the bad out of
13:26it but once i realized that my voice is powerful then i try to make it worth hearing every time
13:32people hear me so being a lyricist yeah i take time and i you know i give you know props to to all
13:39the the the lyrical people before me that inspire me on this journey to become an artist itself but
13:46yeah once i learned that my voice was powerful i'm like yeah i'm gonna go ahead and make sure i
13:51paint a picture with this art mm-hmm flybo rich i want to ask you it again man what makes you continue
13:56to want to be a lyricist in the times that we living in it's just the uh i feel like i'm helping
14:03the younger artists and i'm like bridging that gap because the younger artists kind of listen to my
14:07music too so i get a lot of messages from younger artists and younger fans so they kind of like what
14:13i'm doing too so i feel like the lyrical side is still there it's like people want to hear it but
14:18they just veering off to the other side because they ain't hearing too many lyrical sides of stuff
14:22so it's like it's being like blocked out or something so i feel like i still want to be
14:26lyrical because it's helping other artists and the stuff they're hearing it's like more powerful
14:30it's hitting them in the chest more and it's making them it's uplifting them more have y'all worked
14:34together like in terms of music or y'all just been hanging you know just vibe together oh we've been
14:37hanging but we working on the track for sure okay is there is there like oh so it's not no music yet or
14:43no not yet but we working on them oh y'all working on them okay um hey i thought about a collab project
14:47at all yeah for sure oh y'all didn't get all of that huh have y'all set a date for any of that man
14:53what's going on set a date for it but we definitely working on it how many tracks y'all got done already
14:57uh a lot really what y'all waiting on bro let's just work you gotta let it marinate you gotta cook
15:05it up at the right temperature man i feel it yeah there's certain tracks yeah there's certain stuff i'm working on
15:09going back to the question you asked about you know why is lyrics so important you know like
15:15you know it's like we painting the picture and and it's it's easy to just you know a b c d e f
15:21right right you know what i'm saying but once we know that people listening we want it to be like
15:27you know the steps to you got what i'm saying so we want to make sure it's because you can't get a
15:30second chance to make a first impression um facts so that's that's all yeah and it's like with him
15:37you know i'm saying he just bringing coming back out and he bringing himself back out and me i'm
15:41already like more established moving around and stuff so i kind of want to like bring them up and
15:45you know keep his own sound to him you know what i'm saying i don't really want to like them to
15:50revert and then try to get to like what i'm doing they want to match it up to me and him and like
15:54make it like a versus like oh who the most lyrical i want them to know like that's good competition
15:58no man i think like we need that yeah but i want them to know he's still pushing this positive
16:02method in the first thing you know so i want that to be the first thing they know like he pushing
16:06this positive message instead of like oh he they just more lyrical artists like that so i just wanted
16:11to be more of a positive message pusher right now before we do everything else so i wanted to establish
16:16that message that he's doing right now like the testimonies and the safety choices i just also just
16:19dropped one uh it's called october awareness it's for breast cancer okay nice so uh that was uh you know
16:27just a month of october the whole breast cancer awareness but just cancer in general like i i have
16:32a few people personally that was affected by it um so that's what you know gave me the inspiration to
16:38drop that track but you know that's all right now all social media platforms one thing y'all do do both of
16:44y'all um you talk about pain and and um doing positive things but y'all don't make it traumatic and make
16:54it like go do what i did like you said you've been incarcerated but you ain't telling nobody to go do
16:59this and go to jail right you see what i'm saying um yeah avoid it at all right so i guess my question
17:07is you know given that that's the i guess given that that's the you know the the easy thing to do
17:16the normal to to show people that pain and influence them with that same pain i did the opposite
17:21that conscientious y'all did that or it just kind of happened that to be that way you see what i'm
17:26saying well you wanna go first you go first go ahead all right for me uh to be honest um i had a few
17:33people that inspired me like uh that i know that they was in the same situation as me incarcerated and
17:41they came home and they changed their lives you know what they say to you bro uh it was it was based
17:46off the actions not what they said because a lot of people would tell you like hey don't do this
17:52but one person was you know sam uh my big bro nugget you know i'm saying he inspired me a lot
17:58and then my little cousin uh matt you know what i'm saying yeah right with me okay what i'm saying
18:04uh he he got a lot going on he was you know incarcerated as well he came home he got to writing uh
18:10scripts uh plays movies all types that's hard that's so that right there just seeing that it
18:16didn't go from you know just talking about don't do this don't do that it was the actions
18:21and i was like damn bro if i know i know you came from this and you doing this and you uplifting so
18:27many people so you know that's that was my reason why nice so i want to give a shout out to you know my
18:33dog nugget and my cousin matt black what about you man was that a conscientious decision or you just
18:39kind of it just happened yeah it was kind of more conscious because it was like growing up in the
18:43lifestyle that i was in like growing up in the red zone as a kid it was more so like seeing all the
18:47people around me dying seeing friends passing in front of me getting shot at and stuff like that so
18:52it's like that environment wasn't something that you want to be in like even if you wasn't in a gang
18:56you were still getting shot at and stuff like that so just being in that area and being surrounded
19:00by stuff like that and then you seeing the other stuff you seeing like the local drug dealers or
19:05something they showing you all the high lifestyles and then you don't want to you they don't want
19:09that to twist your mind up and think that's the only way you can make money and stuff like that so
19:13i just want to show people another side of stuff like you can make money a different way now here
19:17i talk about the kids too man y'all got kids yeah yeah i got four was that another reason why y'all
19:23decided i ain't doing yeah definitely you know growing up and then living in that environment you don't
19:28want your kids to be going through the repeated cycles so you know what i'm saying you want to try to
19:31break that kind of generational curse that we got going on and like show them a better light for
19:36sure nice if i got four of them i got two girls two boys oh yeah i try to show my daughters the
19:41example of what a man's supposed to be like and i try to show my sons you know the right path to go in
19:47and also avoid everything i've been through you know because i i personally feel like it's a quote
19:53they say a father is the only person that will want a son to be better than him like in the whole world
20:00like you have you know your brothers your cousins everybody but your father is the only person that
20:06would want you to be better than them so no kids want to rap or do music uh no not really
20:12no my kids be youtube one of them yeah that's the thing yeah yeah yeah all right last thing i'm
20:18let y'all both get up out of here i want y'all to tell everybody what y'all got going on which i got
20:22the music definitely tell them when y'all gonna do yard collaboration because i'm waiting on that so
20:27yeah um yeah we'll start with you right okay uh as far as music uh i got that the track save
20:32detroit it's a inspiration uplifting song it's not just for detroit's for all over the world because
20:38we are dealing with madness with gun violence and stuff like that um i get the uh the track testimony
20:43um it's it's shooting toward this you know the gospel lane that's more of a positive lane that i'm in
20:49um the october awareness which is the breast you ever thought about working with gospel artists bro
20:54i'll have you i'm open okay all right i feel like that'd be dope i'm open to it yeah we're reaching
20:59out to mario wine's people too so yeah we guys are going on that's hard i like that uh i'm not a
21:05stranger to you know church or nothing like that uh um let me see uh what the 26th of october i'm gonna
21:13be in atlanta nice breast cancer awareness event that's what's up man um you know like you say club
21:19time we up in there friday um and then uh on the 22nd uh shout out to polo two times i'll be uh
21:27at harpo's performing nice yeah yeah yeah highest on earth to a shout out polo two times
21:33and shout out to ikeisha baker again uh you know for the whole situation because if it wasn't for
21:38i wouldn't have never met bro you got what i'm saying so i feel it yeah yeah so i gotta get
21:42live or rich man you stay busy so uh run down your whole itinerary thing because you know
21:49you stay working man so uh no november 12th i supposed to be going to new york um doing some
21:54empire business supposed to be talking to on the radar digi wax a couple more people down there and
21:58stuff like that um we introducing the dopest records label um i got a whole bunch of artists on there
22:04shout out ty thomas shout out jay neely your country artists um november 29th the cash dial
22:10situation december i'm supposed to be going back to atlanta working with a couple people big bank and
22:15everybody doing some interviews and stuff like that and a few projects dropping man a few projects um
22:20the wing stop project dropping soon that's a single um i got the ep dropping soon and the compilation
22:27for rock nation dropping soon i got what can we expect that because you talked about that last
22:31time man the rock nation the rock nation we're coming in february february that's yep the uh
22:36the single should be dropping around november december the single call having it nice it's
22:40already finished yep it's already finished the whole project already finished we're just waiting
22:43on the rock nation situation right now nice nice all right shout out y'all uh instagram social media is
22:48everything y'all got so they can follow y'all and keep up with y'all man right help me uh shout me out man
22:53follow me everywhere you know flyboy you know message me send me a message if y'all want to work y'all want to
22:58do anything just hit me up man or look up flyboy rich you'll see me everywhere uh for me uh on
23:04facebook i'm rod thomas instagram i'm the real rod thomas uh if you want to holler me about putting
23:09something together i'm open to you know doing music with gospel artists so that'd be dope but if you
23:14want to holler at me you can actually contact ikeisha baker you know i'm saying and she'll take care of
23:18everything as far as me fellas tank club tank every friday come out every friday we doing something at
23:24club tank y'all come out every friday we gonna be there pop up fellas i appreciate y'all for stopping
23:29through man uh flyboy rich rod thomas is 105 when the bounce peace yep we'll show y'all
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