#120 - Nems - podcast episode cover

#120 - Nems

Nov 19, 202131 minSeason 1Ep. 120
--:--
--:--
Download Metacast podcast app
Listen to this episode in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episode description

Interview #120 on The Bootleg Kev Podcast we have Mr. BING BONG FYL, Nems! We talk about Coney Island, going viral & how he's crossing over into the comedy world. We also dive into his drug addiction & being 12 years sober! This was a dope interview & had a real good time. Make sure to check out his exclusive freestyle with us too.

LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE! 

Check out the podcast on platforms: https://linktr.ee/thebootlegkevpodcast

Follow Bootleg Kev: http://instagram.com/bootlegkev

Follow Nems: https://www.instagram.com/nems_fyl

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Speaker 1

Yo, hey, welcome to the Bootleg CAV Podcast. I don't know what episode this is. We're pretty deep so far, though. Shout out to the homie Nams representing Coney Island. Nams is on the podcast today. One of my favorite rappers. When it comes to just the lines, he'd be saying, this dude is fucking hilarious. Um. He's got a new album out called Congo. His whole thing is fuck your life, all right. You might have seen him on TikTok he got crazy bars. Go watch the interview and the freestyle,

or I mean go watch the freestyle. Rather, you're about to listen to the motherfucking interview, but go watch the freestyle on my YouTube page. He catches a fucking body. Shout out to odd socks though, man. Go to oddsoksofficial dot com keyword bootleg keV. You'll save twenty percent off at checkout when you type in that promo code. Get the most Comfortable socks, the fly A Socks, get you some WWE socks, Nickelodeon socks, SpongeBob, whatever you need, they

got it. Cheating Chong, go to odd socksofficial dot com and use the promo code Bootleg cav and save twenty percent off, which are already the most comfortable and most affordable socks in the world. Go to odd sos official dot com and uh man, go save twenty percent off and let's get into this. NAMS Interview Bootlet Cab Podcast special guest Coney Island's finest in here. Yo, Yo, y'all, fuck your life, bing bong, fuck your life man. Shout

out to guys. It's good to see you man. Likewise in a few years, I know you know, we got through the pandemic. You've been super active likewise. Uh and uh yeah, you had an interesting rap show last night with it was Brother Ali, Immortal Technique yourself? Who am I missing? Supernatural? Was there Supernat? When I was a kid?

The first time I saw Supernat, I freaked out. When I was he was like grabbing people's IDs out of the crowd and shit and like free selling their name and then he would like twirl around and then come back as like another rapper's voice. Yo. Did he do that last night? No, not to my life, but Yo, it's like when I first started battling, he was the host of these things and he doesn't look any I'm not a day older than back then. I grew older.

He didn't, Yeah, he used to. And then and then I thought he was like, you know, Supernat was like in the backpack circuit. He was like every tour, Yes, But then they put him on a Lincoln Park Hybrid Theory tour, did that and he hosted the Lincoln Park ship. It might have been the reanimation. It was one of those Lincoln Parks. Oh yeah, And I was like, super about the crossover. That's crazy, shout out Supernat, Supernat the

legend man. So what's up man? What have you been up to other than obviously putting out a ship ton of music, selling a ship ton of merch? Uh, you know, shipping on a ship ton of smokers in your neighborhood, right, don't you ever disrespect? Yeah? We working on a comedy tour. I'm gonna I'm bringing Gorilla Weekend to every city. Yo. Remember where you heard it first? Because I know well

rappers ain't doing comedy. I'm gonna make it. One night I do a rap show, the next night, I do a comedy show, the third night, I do a pop up. Every city's gonna have a Gorilla weekend. Like when I least Congo in August, I had this thing called Gorilla Weekend because everything was shut down during the pandemic. So I said, you know what, I'm gonna fucking shut down my block and Coney Island put barricades up and I didn't get no permits nothing. I'm gonna have a flatbed

trunk pull up. I'm gonna make that the stage and I'm gonna fucking perform joints with the album since we can't really get a venue right now. Wow. So I did that, sold the merch and that was called Gorilla Day and then uh, now we're gonna throw Gorilla Days in every city any possible working on it right now, you find or anything. Nope, I'm the mayor of Coney Island. Man. Even the cops know the cops by merch from me. People being yo. Man, I got arrested by this fucking

undercover war in your hat. I was like, town, fuck your life. Wow, everybody everybody wears this ship. Man. Hey, it's crazy like Coney Island outside of yourself, Like, I really can't think of like an artist that you could maybe educate me who was like another artist from Cony Island to Ray Toray, who's now doing radio. Yes, he was on a duckdown for a while. Up. Yeah, there's not really that many. Because that's why I rep it

so hard man. And when I when I used to deal with Riggs, Morales and Shady Records, I used to run up over there. He was like, your name is one of the best things you got going for you. You're from You're from Brooklyn, but you're from a neighborhood in Brooklyn that nobody ever blew up out of. Yet you got And and even before that, I always everybody knows of Coney Island. They think of the rides. I

just think of the Yeah, of course. But when there's the rides, that's where Stephan Mulberry is from, right, step On. I always think of When I think of Coney Island, I think of Stephan Mulberry's tattoo. Yeah, yeah, there's Stephan Maulberry, Sebastian Telfair and uh Lance Stevenson. Shout out to Lance Sebastian. But he paid. He faced some fed chargers with him. I was with him two nights ago. He's great, he's

doing great. I saw all those names. I was like, yeah, I know y'all, Yo, I was like fucking shirts Friday. I was like, yo, back. He was like yo. He's like yo minus set back for a major comeback. And my whole life I known him. He's done nothing. But he played for my sons for like a one season. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he played for probably every team in the NBA. But you know he's, uh, he's one of my my closest friends. He's he's he's one of my good friends. And uh,

he's gonna get through it. Man. Just you know we're talking. You were saying, how you know, previously in your music used to say the N word. Yeah, for people who don't know what is your racial makeup. I'm Puerto Rican and I'm Irish. My father who was Irish, passed away when I was full. You know what I'm saying. I've been around, but I'm I'm in New York. That's that's how just people talk in general. Like even the white guy said, the Asian people. You know, when you grow

up around in New York, there's no neighborhoods. That's just one race. You live next door to, live next door to to somebody from Pakistan, and your next neighbors from from the a from from from China, your next door other neighbor might be Dominican, but al it's like a melting pot, you know what I'm saying, and and and and Growing up, it was never even known that it was a racial thing. That just became part of our vernacular, how we speak to each other, and just growing up

it was never a problem. So I started doing tours and going to other cities besides New York, and then I would see people how they would react to me saying it, because when you look at me, you might see different people see different things. People see me staying Puerto Rican. Some people see me some people think I'm Russian. Some people think yeah, some people think I'm I'm Arab. If you told me you were, like, you know, if I came absolutely so it depends on what you see.

But if you look at me and see I'm white, then you would have a problem saying it. And and you know, I'm not gonna go in and tell everybody, y know, I'm from the hard Nah, it's just if you don't like it, say son. Nobody never said nothing to me a person, but as a man, and just what I don't want to give people a shot of not liking me before they even hear me. And more

importantly than that, I don't want to make anybody. I'm at an agent and I'm growing up and being become more mature with myself that I don't want to say anything to somebody that's gonna offend them, you know, when I don't have to like while I start off like how when I grew up, I was had to be tough and all that, But as I grow up, man, I'd rather laugh at you than joke with you. I'd rather talk about our similarities than our differences. And and just the climate that the world is at right now.

I just was like, I'm cutting this off out of my music and my last album, Congo is your first album. That's my first album where I didn't use the word because I'm maturing as a man but also as an artist, and that just is there's no for me personally. I don't have to say it, I'm I'm. I have a vocabulary where I don't have to say it. You know what I'm saying. I could I could kill verses and kill balls without having that in my music, and like boom,

it's done. Talk to me about bing Bong and like how the Knicks remix came to be and the bing Bong stuff is, you're a Knicks fan obviously despite being from Brooklyn. You you weren't one of these people who jumped ship to the net of those Now I'm a lifelonge Knicks fan. But I'm also if if the Nets go to the playoffs, I'm rooting for them because I'm Brooklyn all the way, even though they're really the Jersey next listen to Brooklyn. Now they got Brooklyn in their name.

If they win, I'm in the roof for them, of course. But I'm a Knicks fan and uh the Knicks being ship forever for the longest. Yeah, So if I could, if I created something that's making them get hype and maybe possibly put the battery in their back to win some games, I love it. But I just started off saying it like messing around bing bong, you know, like you know, you say, you know, I just bodied this verse bong, you know, And then I just bing bong,

just playing around. I would throw it on my stories on Instagram bing bong, showing my merch and then it just took off. I started putting it on te's and hats and started selling and and then I started the side talk people, the side Talk kids, that's the popular Instagram page pop and they would have me in their video they come to Coney Island. I'm saying that bing bong, bing bong. And then it just took off from there,

and then the Knicks just took off with it. And it just was was certain player that like, now, what happened is that they was in front of the Knicks opening night and the Knicks had won. Everybody in there somebody said bing bang from seeing me saying it all the time, and uh, and the Knicks just ran with it. Took all the Knicks fans just ran with it. And then now I'm starting I'm doing all types of sports

talk radio, little type of Carton and Robbers. They're showing me love, They're bringing me up there, and I'm like, Yo, there's a whole new fan base and genre just right now in the airport. Come here. At least three to four guys that I know don't even listen to rap came up to me and Yo, you had a bing bong guy. And last night at the show, somebody's kids was he was like, Yo, my son their basketball team is loves the Big Book cause you send me a

video my my, Yeah, no problem. You know I spent years doing all I'm bringing negativity into the world, you know, doing the wrong thing. Growing up at the jail time, was doing robberies, do all types of stuff. So it's a good chance to switch it up, man, and bring some positive stuff into the into the atmosphere. Now, do you feel like Nott the Cama? I was gonna say, do you feel like, uh, just because you've always been so nice man? But I always feel like, I don't know,

maybe it was the end word thing. I always just felt like, what is the thing that's not like holding me back? Yeah? Like do you feel like you're like things are finally lining up for you? Absolutely? Because also growing up as an artist, like I really lived this fuck your life shit Like yo, I don't I don't want to. I'm not a small talk I'm not a good network. I'm not gonna approach you and tell you y'all you know how you're doing now. If I don't know you, I don't want to talk to you. I'm

a I'm a clothes I'm a loaner. I like to you know, with my squad here, but I'm a loaner. At the end of the day, I don't mind being alone. I don't I don't like talking a lot, so I'm six for four, three hundred pounds. People sometimes get intimidated by that. They don't want to say nothing. And I also move everything that I've gained done with the merger, with the music I did on my own. There's no team, there's no management, there's no label. I was doing that

all on my own. And you get a perception if you just listen to my music, you think I'm an ignorant, dick headish god type of guy. But now when I do so I hate knowing podcast, but I do like people I fuck with, I fucking show. I do certain ones like Premium Pede my man, what I'm saying, And once people the story of me, like I tell my story because I've been at the bottom for a long time, Like even before like I was doing robbery. I didn't want to do robberies. It's just how I was fucked up. Man,

I was sleeping the staircases. I was at the bottom of life. And once I told my story, like if you really knew what I went through, people would have no problem with me winning because I was at the bottom bottom and I think as my people see me as a person more, they relate to it, you know what I'm saying. And that's the same thing DMX. Why did we loved him because DMX didn't hold no punches. He kept it real with who he was. And when you do that, when you're humble, and the humble will

never be humiliated, you know what I'm saying. When you just put all your shit out on front street, this is me taking a love it the lead. People respect that, but even if they don't like it, they respect it. And that's what I throw into my music. And that's why people my music is getting better and better because people, you know, I throw songs on that emotion. I tell my story like and and people fuck with it. I mean the ship that's always tell people you could be

relatable and the music being relatable to people. And if the music and the talent you put those two things together. Absolutely, if you're broke, rapper about being broke, man struggling, if you live with your mom's yo, I live with my mom trying to get the fuck out of here. If you keep it really like I got a little cousin that raps and I tell him, like he always talking about shooting that you grew up with both parents in a nice house. Like you know what I'm saying. What's

your thing? You like smoking weed and hanging out with girls? About that? Just be yourself? We had this luckily. See in the nineties and the earths, you at the front. I'm the hardest rapper. It's hard to front now because of social media. Exactly everybody, the whole world is transparent. Everybody, Yo, Just be yourself. Don't take yourself too seriously. Nobody else does. Yo. I feel like if you were in the nineties year, it would have been over for you would have been

out of here. Oh what forget about it? What I so you talk about doing like like sometime? What? What? What was the reasons why you? Like? First of all, what was the longest bis you did? I did a one and a half to four and a half year bid for robbery in the third degree. Was that this

was in six And what did you end up? I wounded up only doing like thirteen months because I did the first first first tund felling program, the shock program right where it's like a boot camp type of thing because when I was doing the whole fight club ship battling, I was on the run. I caught the case that I got locked up for. Eventually I caught. I was I did it three wow. I did a robbery. I got caught and I got bailed out and just was like, well, I'm not turning myself back and fuck that. And I

started doing the fight club. I kept winning. I'm all over MTV. Shit's popping, and then I get caught. The judge was like, yo, boom morning and alfter fall it. But she said, since you stayed out of trouble for four years, I'm gonna drop this to non violent. Wow. So if it was a violent rewarded, if it would have stayed a violent felony, then I wouldn't have been able to get that first time felling program. But because she dropped it to non violent, the one and that

if you have nine years under, they give you the chance. Yo, you're first time feling, you do this this shock boot camp type shit. It's still jailed, but it's like a boot camp. You make up five am, you gotta run workout, da da da. And I was like I didn't want to do it, but I was like, yo, my career has just started to take over now with the balance all over MTV every single night. I was like, let me give it a chance. If it works out, it works out. If not, so I wounded up doing altogether

fourteen months. Came home on parole, stayed you know, grab the Wizard Nada. I had the Wizardenator at the time with the fake piss and uh it works, Huh absolutely it was. It was fake pissed or like a fake dick that it's a fake dick. See when I came home, my guy just had got off a fed parole and he was like, yo, hen I don't need this no more. Take gave me the fake wid it. But the thing

was he was a couple of shades darkening me. Oh, so you gotta you you you get the dick, you buy the one that Yes, if the Wizardnata is a is a plastic it's like a dildo, but it comes with the power. You gotta strap it around you and on the pouch like that goes along your waist is you put clean urine into it. And when you go to parole, it's like you're pulling out your dick because they look at you. They stand behind you, and the mirrors on the opposite side, so they look it into

the mirror. But on the bottom of the fake dick is a button and the clean piss comes out of it and it stays against your body so it keeps the same body temperature warm. So my man, they gave it to me like a little bit darker than me. So the ship was a little bit darker. I don't I don't know how I got away with it. But one time they didn't take my piss for like three months. Me stupid. I kept the same pissing there. I didn't change it, and like whatever. So I went to parole.

He asked for the urine. I pressed the button. Sh came out like apple sauce. I was like, oh, ship, he said, yo. He tested it, put a little strip in it. He said, yo, it's clean. But I need you to go straight to the hospital when you get the fuck out of there, because something's not right. I was like, sorry, sir, I just don't drink a lot of water. I'm going straight to the hospital whatever the case. You know what I'm saying. And he let me go, and I was like, thank God, empty that ship out.

Put some guy some clean pits put it in there. But yo, that she was crazy. Even me, I was like, what the fuck is it? Yeah? So you you came out lumpiest thing. It was hard like you like, sir, yeah you got cancer, you got something going on with your yo to the hospital. You're clean, but this guy had frozen. It came out lumpy. Yeah, that was horrible. It's funny you look back on times like that. It was funny. It wasn't it was, but I don't even remember.

I was taking pics from anybody. Would you pay people for their pistiness? Yeah? Hell yeah, hell y'all, I got y'all take a piss in this fucking bottle for me. That's crazy. And it comes with like a syringer to take it out the fucking cup or whatever, and then you put it into the fucking wizard there. That ship was a fucking hassle. You know, it would be easy if I just didn't do anything. Well, now you're not. You don't do anything, So now you're telling me with

this fucking ape ship man, that's tobacco. Now that tobacco. Yeah yeah, wait, hold on, time to stop the interview because we got to talk about our good folks at odd Socks. Man, listen, if you go to odd socksofficial dot com, that's O D D s o xofficial dot com. Use the keyword keyword. It's a fucking promo code. Use the fucking promo code. Bootleg cav all right, at check out, you'll save twenty percent off. They got Look at these SpongeBob joints. Man, the Ninja Turtle boys, you know what

I'm saying. How about the Naruto guys. And then they got the new odd Socks basics that are just like they're just so fly man, the tied eye of joints. They just listen, Man, whatever you need, they got it. How about some half baked boys. You know what I'm saying, Listen. The most comfortable socks, the most affordable socks, the best socks in the world, odd socks. So go to odd Socksofficial dot com. Use that keyword. It's not a keyword, it's a fucking promo code. Fuck boot black cab at checkout,

save twenty percent off. Man, shout out to our family at odd socks. If you support us, go support them at everything I did man, Like cigarettes have been the fucking hortest. But this vape shit you are smoking on the plane, you know, chill out smoking on the fucking put in my hoodie, yo, like a real fuck? What was like? Was we something that you we? Was just like everything I was doing. I didn't smoke crack and I didn't shoot needles. Everything well, and meth is not

really on the East Coast, but everything else you were participating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was sniffing dope like like like sniffing coke, taking Xanax before it was poppedd you sniff Heroin? Yeah, ye yeah, oh shout for for a while. Yeah, that's that brought me to the bottle man. I was like, I never shot no needles though, like and I never so that was my thing in my head, like I'm not shooting needles.

I'm good, you know what I'm saying. Oh, Heroin's like this, that's some serious shit to get off those crazy bro. How long were you doing Heroin? Probably like eight years? And I did the whole of the fight club shit. All of that shit was was fucked up. I would go, yo, listen, I would go. I remember I went on a specific trip to Detroit to battle with Proof and all of that. I don't remember anything that happened on the trip. I don't If it wasn't recorded, I wouldn't even know I

went there. Wow. When I first met Alchemist, I was like, yo, aw, nice to meet you. He was like, I've been fucking with you since we met in Detroit. I was like, damn, I don't remember that. Wow, I don't remember meeting one of my favorite producers, rass Cast, same thing. He was out there Detroit judging the battle and he was like, yo oh I mentioned in Deru. I was like, I don't even remember. I wasn't even known I was out there.

I mean, eight years is a long time. Yeah, Because it wasn't just that, It was that coke and the xanax just make you forget everything. Like so, by the end of the run, I was on everything. I was on probably about two bundles of dopeer day, five twenties of coke, and about five xanax every single day. It wasn't like I was working, you know what I'm saying.

I would wake up every day like, y'all, I gotta go out and get this money, however it means necessary robbing, you know what I'm saying, you feel like you were working to keep your drug drug. Absolutely, I had a fucking three four hundred dollars a day habit with no job, nothing that. So people always say, if you have an addiction, I'm sure like you probably apply to a sex addiction too. Like, if you have any sort of addiction, right, you got to work on yourself constantly, work ethic to get high

every day. It's exasing, right, It's like yeah, like imagine if like most people who had that work ethic to get high every day and still be semi like exactly, they applied it to literally anything else. That's what I'm doing now. You never did you ever smoke crack? No? Never, no, never. I just I've always I want to know what crack

feels like. Nah, watched I watched, I watched it. I watched that ship Franklin Safe when girl yeah yeah, yeah, she was hitting the crack pipe in the show, I said, shit, look like it's fire. But yeah. Now I'm at the point where I've been clean over twelve years. It's longer than when I was fucked up with you know what I'm saying, What was like for you? The breaking point where you were like I gotta get the ship, take care of the ship. Man. I had, like the fight

club stuff was going on. I had a development deal with Shady Records. There was like your names, you love your music, like, but you're going in and out of jail because I would do besides the main ship. I would do like little skid bids, like I would go to Rikers for two weeks, Rikers for a month. Come out. You know you're going in and out of jail. We take you to places. Sometimes you don't show up. When you do show up, you fucking you run outside, you

rob people outside the studio. You're doing like I was just like living crazy. Yeah, yeah, this is you never had any instance we thought you overdosed or gotten close to like this is back then. It wasn't like the fetanyel shit now, like you know what I'm saying it was. It was different and I never when I dealt with people, I dealt with people I knew that I grew up with from Coney Island, you know what I'm saying. Like, And it wasn't like luckily I didn't have to go

through none of that. Was that getting off of the shit hard, going through with draws and it was but the last year or two of my of my my addiction, I was like, yo, I didn't want to do it. It It was just more like a job. It was like, yo, if I'm ever able to stop doing this for a couple of days when I'm not sick anymore, like I'm never gonna do this again. I'm so tired of living

this lifestyle. But I also had given up on my dreams with the rap shit like I I didn't want I didn't care about nothing but getting high, like and

then it just had like a moment of clarity. One day I was on like a three week run, like I hadn't slept, I hadn't shower, with none of that, and I was like I had like a I don't know if it was like coasist or like out of body experience where I was like I could keep going how I'm going right now, and I'm gonna be dead or going to be in jail the rest of my life from doing something stupid. I could just stop right now and live my dreams like like I had ready

giving up on my dreams. And that night I went to my mother's house. She was living in Staten Island. I was in Coney Island. At the time, I was like, yo, Ma, please let me just stay at your house. She was like, nah, you can't. She been not letting me. She was, but something. She let me stay, and uh, I just kept the wheels going. I stopped one day too. I had to go through it. And when I got through it, though, I never touched nothing again nothing now, not a drink,

not we eat, nothing. So you've been totally sober. Ye nothing nothing. Wow, that's that's real, big man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And and the evidence is there since I stopped that. My whole fucking life is you know, like I bought my mom's a house, got me a house. God fucking right now they're putting us in ground saltwater pool in my backyards right now. They're doing it as we speak. And and you're still no, no, no. I bought a

house in stat which is like twenty minutes. It's close enough that when I want to hang out and be be, you know, be a hood bugger, do hood stuff with my hood friends. You know what I'm saying, like, yeah, we we we cauld move over there. And and when I want to be left alone, go to the crib, go to the crib. That's it. I didn't know you had a developmental deal with Shady. Yeah. Yeah, I was dealing with Riggs, Riggs and morales Man. So that my

guy was that who kind of found you. Yeah, he because he was he was he started the fight club. Nobody really knows that he started the fight club, and so he was heavily involved with it, so he would see he had like a front row seat too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, how you got down. Absolutely. I still talk with Riggs

to this day. Man, he's always He's always shown love and been in my corner even like you know, without did you ever have any any any experience like meet and him or am I didn't meet the rest of D twelve, fucked with Heavy, go to Detroit and the regular Bazaar would take fly me out, Fucking Proof would fly me out. Rest in peace. He's all of them, McVeigh, Swifty, they all I still talk with Swifty, uh and Canive. You know what I'm saying, Like I fuck with them Heavy, like,

but I never met him. They always like em like he's secluded, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's crazy. He's like one of the only rappers that like made

it and just didn't leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but like also feels like untouchable in the sense because you would think, like if you're that big out of Detroit, you wouldn't get the fuck out of the true fact he's staying in fact, and like, no, I do know in Detroit for me the limited times I'm out there, I don't know the politics or street probably, but I do know like a lot of people know each other. Mostly people know each other. And Trick, Trick is really that guy

out there. Sure, I'm saying crazy scene and Trick is close, you know what I'm saying. So he's like something good money you Fat Joe just showed you some love. They asked him. We cracked. Who are what they asking? That's pretty much who was like today's fat Joe. But they asked him a whole array of who's the new whow this? That? That? That? And they asked me, is there new? Yeah, there's a new faedual. His name is names out of Corney Allen

And I was like, yeah, that's crazy. So you you and Joe got a relationship, Yeah, Joe, Uh, I mean we're not super close. I've I've hung out with him on different occasions, like we've gone to shows and through my man Ufo feed. My man Ufo feed really made the introduction and and me and Fever was doing a lot do a lot of music. And when he made the introduction with with with Joe Crack, I called him

crack you know what I'm saying. But when he made the introduction with crack cracks and showed me love automatically, and then from me being around him more and you see how movie follows me, you know, and he's we speak through the d m s and and even his team like Uncle Dan and a couple of days they fuck with me. They showed me mad love. So I guess from just from him observing and watching and he

you know, he's he's. He had told me that before he said it on the TV, like you'd be like your names you Mimy and me when I was younger man, a couple of times he told me that. But for him to say it on Rap City's first episode, yeah, I didn't even know he was doing that, and my phone just started blowing up, like y'all fat Joe just

said that. Look, I said, Yo, that's I think one of the only times in my throughout this Rap shit that I actually like almost I didn't cry, but I almost shed a tear out of just pure I grew up listening to Fat Joe Big Pun is my favorite art, especially being a Puerto Rican from New York. Like they held it down, like especially in my era when I

was they was them guys. So when he said that, it was more like validation, like from all this hard work because me, I'm my own worst critic, I still grind every day like I'm like nothing, Like I'm still like nobody knows me, you know what I'm saying. I look at it like, bro, I have not reached where I want to be in this music stuff, so I still act like nobody knows me. And I got to make an impression every single time, and I got to put into work every single day to live my dreams

to the extent that I want to live it. So when he said that, it was like validation, Like, Yo, somebody's out there watching, especially somebody who especially one hundred percent like and you know, I got a little watery ey. I ain't shed a tear, you know what I'm saying over here, But like it was it was like it was one of the best moments of my career. Man, what's next for you? Are you gonna keep just kind of keep keep your foot on the gas with music. Well,

next is me and Scram Jones dropping the album. That ship is ridiculous. It's just stupid, hard, just hard. I think he's one of the slept on producers. Yeah, yeah, I knew Scram since he was there from the beginning. Like when I first started, I don't know, he was lapping. Scram is nasty. A lot of people don't know. And one of the things that's holding up the album is like Scream, we gotta get a joint, me and you. I'm not right and like Scam, let's go bro with

the verse on the ship. Let's go. But he's nice and a lot of mcs that I know for sure, but his beats and that's the next project after that, probably me a static selected nice shot static, and then we're just taking it from them. There it is, man, listen, congoes out out right now. Fuck your life, Fuck your life?

Is there anybody any Let me ask you this because since the pandemic started, I feel like I always say this, like I feel like it helped with the bars in terms of fans, wanting that or wanting more substance, or wanting more from music, because motherfuckers weren't in the club standing on couches popping bottles. So you saw Benny and Westside Gunn and Freddie Gibbs, all these people have the best years of their career. Royster five nine was nominated

for a Grammy. You know what I'm saying, Like, do you feel like that the pandemic helped kind of like correct the path that hip hop was on because it feels like absolutely, man, absolutely, that's listen. Everything has its cycle facts, you know. So it was already gearing back towards the lyric in music and the stuff that I'm show me and you grew up listening to. But the pandemic pushed it forward like a little like made it rapidly and speed up the process. Yeah, and it's great,

great time. I never stopped doing this, even when people were snapping their fingers bouncing. I was always doing the hype of music, man, And the people know that, and and and and and they respect when the transparency and when you fucking continuously do something no matter what, if you show consistency and just keep at it, something's gonna happen out of it in the positive manner. Where can

people buy merch? Find your ship? Because you got so much every day anybody, I f y L dot n y c. Because if you got a dot calm, you pussy. You know what I'm saying, n y C. Yeah, go buy a hat, Go buy a buy some merch. Stop being a cheap fuck your whole life so your girl hate you. Go buy a Godzilla his pussy shirt facts relaship Boom Bom

Transcript source: Provided by creator in RSS feed: download file
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android