Episode 276 "Yalee"

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I go by the name you know BT. With that, y'all lead in the building. How you doing, my brother?

Appreciate you pulling up on us?

Ship. I woke up this morning. You can curse. I can't. Yeah, yeah, curse what you want? Woke up this morning? How y'all? I appreciate you pulling up. Man. We're gonna get your businesses. Is that okay with you? Sir?

Now? When you walk when you walked up, he was talking about my jersey. He was talking about the falcons.

So I see a lot of ship now he getting out of cameras. Get the roll. He's nah, I was I was talking ship. So you're from Ohio. From Ohio? What part of Ohio?

Dayton ninety Okay, yeah, it's Cools, I know from Dayton.

Yeah, how is Ohio? How's it like, you know, living in Ohio?

Oh I don't live there. That's how it is, damn or that grew up. I grew up there, left home at seventeen. I ain't gonna hold you. None of my brothers that are none of my day ones is even alive. So it's just one of them situations where you gotta if you're trying to make it and what I'm doing, sometimes you gotta leave, get lit, then come back. So it's like, Okay, you know we're gonna listen to Bro because he he making moves and he he foot on ground and he keeping it the honey with us.

You know. That's basically yeah. But it's.

I guess it's going through a rough patch for a long time because it really it ain't no like I don't want to say no money, no jobs, but it don't got a lot of the uh therapy, therapeutic places you can go. Like it's not New York, to La go to l A, go to the beach, put your toes and it's saying if you're having a bad day, you know what I'm saying to New York you can you know, it's just when you're having a bad day back home, it's like you just want beef with somebody type ship or you gotta.

What if someone were to visit day and what would they do?

Oh, hoop, find somewhere to hoop basketball?

Yeah, house, go play basketball. That's it.

Like no, no, no, uh no clubs or ll malls or small got shot up, I got shut down. Now you gotta go to Columbus and Cincinnati really if you want to have some safe.

Fun As far as Cleveland from that's far like two and.

A half about Columbus, Yeah, you.

Gotta go to Columbus. Like even when artists come up Ohio, they go to Columbus or Cincinnati.

Yeah, I think Columbus Ohio on the map.

Do you agree, ship, I guess so.

Yeah, he was like the first person that there. You got Jake and Logan, Paul, they from.

All they are Yeah, they are from Ohio.

So you got them. Holly Berry from Ohio. I did not know that John Legend from Ohio. You know that either lebron is from everybody know he's Steph Curry from Ohio.

What do y'all mean Steph Currs from Ohio? I thought he's from North Carolina.

How you from Ohio and Ohio? I was born and born and raised and then left and then ship. Dave Chappelle was raised in Ohio.

Dave Chappelle still lives in Ohio.

I know I used to work at it. That's that's one of my only like celeb friends I can say.

But you had to get out, you said, yeah, so where did what did you?

What did you go do? Like go out and do what I chose?

I knew I had a gift, so I wanted to explore. It really wasn't like one of ten years ago. Really, I ain't. We ain't had this like you know, social media, social content, this type of content where you could you know. So I left home in like seventeen turning eighteen, moved to the East Coast. I couldn't afford to live in New York, so I had some money saved up. I moved to North Jersey.

Pursue your rap career.

Yeah I'm not a rapper, okay, yeah, artists artists yeah yeah, yeah, singing rap and write.

Okay, yeah, So you don't like to just say.

You don't like to say yeah yeah rapping, Yeah, rapping is too easy. So like I want to do like I'm singing my rap lyrics. Really that's kind of but I'm rapping on this EP that I'm dropping.

So you singing like Usher singing, or you're singing like Lutha singing.

Or more like a I'm gonna be honest, they say, like, like a if you mix like a Dale, Sam Smith and Polo g kind of so like harmony, Yeah.

Harmony harmonies.

When I was listening to Gosh Kobe Records, you kind of remind me a little bit of like J Cole.

Oh the rap, the rap, yeah, then the message.

Yeah yeah yeah, I like you.

I like the videos, the visuals it like I feel like it like brings your lyrics to life.

Yeah, I like to because I got a lot of UH. When I first started making music, I was I ain't gonna lie. I was younger, so I was trying to do what everybody else was doing, and bitches and holes and all that shit. But then when I they like, bro, you should tell you've been through some shit. You should tell them like PC of your story, but I'm like, I don't want that to fall on deaf ears. I could talk about bitches and holes all day, that's easy, But then I put out a record talking about some

And what song was this?

Uh Lamar Jackson Witness can't sleep. So it was like which DM? Which DM?

Feel better? Like this one really feel better? You feel me?

Like like this nigga really just said you know, like I get all kind of dms now, like they touched from the heart, Yeah, from the heart versus just you know, that's a dope beat, you know.

Yeah, that's that's like what a lot of artists, you know, you would like a song, but you really like.

The song for the beat.

Yeah, And I like artists that have people that buy into you. Yeah, not just the song. I want to hear. I want to hear more of you because I want to hear you grow.

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What's up?

It's your boy ya Lee, and you're now tuned in to the Baller Alert Show. Where'd your name come from? Yah? My sister, you know my family, that's your nickname? Really my real name. I ain't gonna lie, but yeah, so sensitive my teachers. So this is yeah, yah ya ya, Yeah, my nickname, y'all Lee? My name, yeah, y'all leave is your real name. Nah. It ain't on my driver's license, but my whole life, that's what I've been called. Nobody calls me my government name except when I get pulled over.

And then it Dayton.

No, I'm not no Dayton, hard body and sports, you know what I'm saying. But I'm saying, like certain schools you go to politics. You know what I mean, because my mom took me out the hood, put me in an all white school for a couple of years. So so you're like, why is he Yeah, why is he playing over my nigga?

Right all?

Every time he get in, he forced a fumble, he get an interception. Every time he get in, he forced a fumble, get an interception. But buddy over here is getting cooked every time. But he to train her son. So I'm like, bro, if college is about to be like that, nigga, I ain't about to go to like what. I don't even like school anyways, and then I gotta sit back and hope one you know what I mean.

But you went from one part politic to the next because the industry politics is way crazier.

Yeah, I disagree.

It depends on what type of music, what type of message you put out, because can't nobody tell me when I can get in a game and when I can't.

But also, do you feel like it's how far you want to.

Go at the end of the day. I feel like.

If you can, if your music is hitting people here, you're gonna keep to me, You're gonna keep climbing like I pray a lot if you really listen to my music. So God been opening up mad doors, like I really like, not just got a message, but I'm really a foot on ground type niggas. So if when I pull up and do a meet and greet at a school, you can look, you know it's two hundred three hundred kids popping out. I got white moms DM and me telling me the twelve year old white daughter missed out because

So it's like, wow, you know that's dope. And I'm from.

Ohioa segregated where, like a black kid in a white neighborhood.

You you know what I mean, It's still like that. Hell yeah, Sundowntown's remember one of Georgia.

I know.

The sundowntown is what is over there when when the sun go down and you and I we can't be around.

That area, be outside.

Yeah, Sundowntown.

Look at watch a Lovecraft Country. They have an episode about sundown, very scary.

It's very white.

White's only water fountain still, but you can drink from it, but it's you and the wrong you know what I mean? Like they don't, they don't, they don't, Yeah, they don't play. And then when the George Floyd shit happened, all the protests, So I was back home during that, and we had a lot of white people, older white people speaking up like, look, I've been wanting to say something. The deed on my house say, I can sell my house to anybody.

But a colored person. Oh wow.

So if if I if I got to live in that city, to go to a good school, but you can't sell your house to us.

How to hell?

We gonna you get what I'm saying. So really that systemic shit really go hard back, you know, back there in certain areas.

Hey, so love Lebron.

Do you think do you think that all the stuff that you had to deal with effects and is the reason why you are so articulate with your music?

Bro?

I watch my pastor get murdered at eight years old in church after Bible class.

That's had eight.

I watched two of my friends get murdered in front of me before high school. I'm talking blood on my shoes. You'll see it in in a short film. I kind of try to portray it how it happened. So a nigga really grew up, like part of my brain grew up fast. Like man, you play video games, you see guns kill people, but yes, cool, or you watch it on TV. But when that shit happened in front of you too many times, you know what I'm saying, it

Like you don't play you ple playing a fire, You're gonna get burnt.

That's why when I really be meeting some of these artists, they be talking to shit on their records.

Like, Bro, you ain't really been through no shit.

You've probably been in a situation that had your adrenaline going, but you ain't really being this close, you know what I'm saying, Like, you ain't been this close enough to be like, we do this shit to get away from this shit, not to stay in it.

You feel me?

So, how are you mentally? How do you deal with living every day?

Shit?

Nigga?

I probably need therapy. The fourth song on the project called mental health. But at the end of the day, like that shit really affect your sleep at night, you know.

Like PTSD. I ain't gonna lie.

I ain't know what PTSD was my whole life until it became a thing. It's just something that I've been dealing with. So if that's what it is, that's what it is.

Is the music your therapy?

Hell yeah, okay, the response, the response from the music is my therapy.

But as far as getting a professional to help you and guide you through you know, your or your thoughts and the things that you made, you know, with all the things that you've been through, are you open to seeking that type of help.

I know therapy can help me, it's just it's just hard for me in my mind. I'm gonna try it one day, please do. But it's hard for me in my mind to pay somebody that don't understand all the shit I've been through. Powert on top because after making it out of Ohio, I had to live out of my car when it hit rock bottom a couple of times, living in a room with no windows. So it's like my grandma was murdered while I was living out of

It's for me. It's hard to.

Just talk to somebody and really believe that they gonna understand what I'm going through when they ain't been through nothing of this shit that I've been through or I had to deal with.

You feel me, I think you'd be surprised if you just like you're open to it and the followed show with it, and just if it doesn't work with the first one, there's many others, and just finding the one that is best fitting for you. I just think that the idea that you're open to it is a step.

Yeah, that is a step. Yeah, and yeah, go get therapy. If you're listening, we'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of The Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.

What's Up? Is your boy? Ali?

And you're now tuned in to The Baller Alert Show. Are you signed independently? Yeah?

Independent as in is it your situation or yeah? Okay, yes, sir? All right, So.

Let's talk about this music. So I was looking at these videos. It's four or five parts for four part chapters, four chapters, and it's a summary of kind of what you've been dealing with your life. Yeah, just so you know, who's this kid that's rapping the lyrics on part one?

That's a little bro. Shout out to twenty eight Suce you're real little bro.

Nah, okay, because he's wrapping great job I was in when I was in Irvington, New Jersey. Shout out to Irvington, shut out the Nork. Shout out to jerseys But when I was living in Irvington, that's like the worst part of Jersey.

By the way.

The kid reached out to me in the DMS and I saw him and his little friend rapping. But I'm like, they just need a little help. So I did a verse for him so he was cool, and then we just followed each other. I never met him, and then I moved to LA after the pandemic and his family moved to LA. So I'm like, buddy, followed each other on Instagram. I'm like, budd, hey been visiting La a lot. He's like, nah, I live here. After I DM hi,

So now you're dope, bro.

I'm definitely you know you're here because we think you're dope and definitely think that you have a future ahead of you. Now, what's the plan though, Like, what's what's your next situation like, what do you what you're planning to do to do? What are you plan what are you planning to do? I just can't wait to go on tour. That's on your by yourself.

Open I don't care who open up. I ain't gonna say no names. But are you already y'at something in place? Nah?

I thought I did, but I was pulled to the side and said, and this would hurt. Like you performed the other day two weeks ago. You killed that shit. Then the main act came out your show. Your part of the show was more lit then they part of the show. So their team is like.

They don't want you to go on on the road, like you gonna outshine the main.

Act if that's politics though, politics talk about Yeah, but that shit really hurt, as as the culture as the music, because I'm out there trying to outshine nobody. I'm there trying to you're trying to do your thing, trying to be me saying my message. You feel me because you know, I asked the crowd because I got a song called from my grandmother.

I miss you.

I feel like God didn't take away from me, the world did so a lot of people. I said, Yo, who in the crowd lost somebody that feel like God didn't take them away, the world did. So this me on stage just two hundred people, three hundred people. So I'm like, who want to share? Because I shared my story. So Buddy like he raised his hand. I'm like, what happened? Like, my dad just committed suicide last week, so we like.

Dance on my page.

Wow, so one might So the whole crowd like like this energy just took over, so they like you hear you, hear the crowd all like you know, So I'm like, what's his name? And then Darren all right, we love we love you Darren on three one two three, We love you Darren.

So he liked participation.

And then the next one, I'm thinking, somebody gonna say I lost somebody nine years ago, so that shit hit me. I can't even look dude in the eye because I'm like, that's a different type of pain you feel me. And then the next dude like, my friend overdosed on man vetanah last week. So then I'm like, man, drop the song, bro, so we shot out of his friend.

You dropped the song?

I performing the song, Buddy crying this dude crying, a girl crying, and I'm like I can't look at them because I'm a fuck around it, you know, I start thinking about my grandma.

You feel me.

But after the show, like I said, getting them DMS type shit like bro, like you asking my friend that, Like I'm like.

You really, Yeah, You're gonna have fans for life. Really yeah.

So And I wasn't even doing it for that. I'm doing it because I understand, like we all go through shit, and we going through it, we feel like we're the only ones on earth going through it. That's just human. That's just how it be. But when you know somebody else going through it too, the kind of give you, Like.

Just just hearing your story, man, like you really got a crazy story, just you know, just just sitting and having this quick conversation and stuff with you.

I'm like, man, that's crazy.

But now it kind of explains everything with your music and like just what type of person that you molded into because you said like you was making the type of music that you was talking about women and drugs and stuff like this, and then.

Not drugs, but.

The typical way staying on the couch, turn up bottles, pop out.

Yeah yeah, but yeah, just you know, now everything makes a lot of sense now when I see what type of artist you is, like your demeanor everything.

How old are you?

Twenty seven seven?

Yeah, okay, I would add I would also say I thought therapy was like for crazy folks, people you know, ain't don't got it all. But I would like to just share with you that therapy gave me clarity on a lot of shit that I was dealing with. It gave me clarity, and like my past relationships, I realized that it wasn't them, it was me, and I was immature, and you know, I wasn't ready for a commitment.

And trauma type shit. Yeah, it was like trauma.

Like I never saw a committed relationship growing up, so like I was just reacting what I was, just acting what I saw and what I thought was normal to me, which wasn't to be faithful, so I really But it wasn't until I spoke to somebody professionally to help me unpack that shit that I realized, oh okay, and I wasn't even ready because I was doing all this at a young age and I'm over here like making I'm making babies, and now I'm over here like with baby,

So it was a whole thing.

And I only wanted to share that with you because I didn't think that I had nothing. You know, we always just think, yeah, we all right, we're good, but sometimes were not good, that's the fact.

And we have to say I'm not good a lot of times. We're not good. My sleeping. I already know I ain't good, like you know what I mean. Yeah, so I just wanted to sha.

Just try it though, like I want you to try it soon because I think that will also make you a lot.

I think you're already dope. That's why you're here, bro. I think with the right.

Level, I think it's going to it's gonna a lot some other ship. So if we got anything from this interview, bro, because I think you're dope and the content that you're putting out is dope. And again I was telling them my co workers, like I wanted to get you on here before you blow up, because you're gonna blow up for sure.

That's love. And I understand how this worked because you know, we just know it just takes time. Bro. We gotta be patient with your ship. But yeah, you're dope, Bro.

Trust everything takes time and a lot of you know, a lot of people that's in your position. You know, Ray can contest, Man, we've done see them, We're done see.

A lot of youth. You'll be sitting right here. Then he'd be like, damn you man. We interview him last year. Now he's like he out of here. You know what I'm saying.

So, yeah, you know if saying yo, I believe in this God, I'm like, I trust you because we can name over a halfful of people that the same thing was, like you see them now like damn this person is like.

But like in in closing, what I'm gonna say is when you were explaining your show and you have people emotional, see those shows are people the shows that people remember. That's why I think you're going to go far, because it's one thing to go out there and just wrap some ship. And then I appreciate y'all following me on Instagram boom, but you shared an experience and you have people. That's why your your followers and your engagement is a lot more accurate.

And yeah, there Core and you just continue water in those seas, you know what I'm saying.

And people always remember the way you make them feel. People always remember how you make them feel. Whether it be good or bad experience, they always remember it and thank you for joining us. And before we get out of here, we got a pep talk with Yi.

My name ya LEI. Uh. The message I want to leave is.

Hm, I feel like uh more, start to try to become full of yourself. We put a negative connotation on being full of yourself. I feel like a lot of people aren't full of themselves enough where And it don't mean no cocky or arrogant. But when you full of yourself, can't nobody else tell you who you are? Or can't nobody society can't steer you where they want to steer you. And also I want to say, the man that invented the light bulb didn't do it for money. He did

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