#142 - Baldacci

fuck that up. He goes by, uh the face of La on Instagram, a guy whom I met a couple of years ago with Yellowolf before the pandemic. Dope Mexican rapper from LA. But he's got a crazy story Physically, he's an intriguing dude. His whole entire face is tattooed. Got a lot of crazy stories. This guy was shot five times with the ak and survived. This guy's been in and out of prison his whole life. You know, just absolute interesting story here. You know, if you do

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the Hommyballdocchi in the building. Much love, much love. Welcome man, Yes, sir, welcome brother. How's first of all you got you got a lot of stuff you've been working on. Man, you just showed me you got some of your own hemp Raps coming out with the album in their Hamprass new album coming out. For people who don't know your story, man, just kind of give me like a quick breakdown, Like

where you're from. I'm from. I'm from South La Florence District, you know, born and raised growing, you know, I was born in Inglewood, California, brought to a street called Converse, which that's my block there. We basically turned into our block basically, and it's uh, it's it's in Florence area, you know what I mean, Like that's that's where I was basically raised at. That's why you see I got a Converse All Star on my hand, because literally an

All Star from the block. You know, certain that only a couple of us have that in and out of the system. Let's get that mic right here in the middle. It's just so we can get make sure in and out of the system, you know, back and forth dealing with you know, whatever came with me being in that area, growing up in that area and part of you know what I mean, the gang and stuff like that. I was back and forth in jail, but I made the best out of it, you know, after several years of

being in and out of the system. I just decided to, you know, go fly the right way and try to make something of myself that at the end of the day, it's not you know, nothing negative, it's turning the negative into a positive. Basically with my music, do you well? First of all, when was the last Like when did you get out last? So originally I parode from the federal system in two thousand and eleven, close to twenty twelve,

I was dealing with probation. Probation was real hard for me because I had people giving me record deals and that I couldn't sign because of the probation. The probation wouldn't let me sign anything that wasn't like somebody saying, hey, here's fifty thousand dollars, we're gonna put you to work in the studio. He's like, you know, I've had several people come through this through through here and basically say, oh,

I got a record deal. Oh, but if they're not offering money, because a lot of those record deals were saying, hey, we're gonna attempt to make money with with you with you. So with that, he was like, you know, I've had a lot of that going on, and where I went to the studios and I pull up and it's just a bunch of dudes smoking weed. They're not recording, So okay, I you know, I had to roll with the punches

and deal with that probation. And the only way I was gonna be able to get off that probation was me doing violations to get it done faster. And that's what I did because I couldn't travel, couldn't leave. You know, it was just one It was a one track thing for me. And if I didn't have a studio or a label paying me, then I had to have a job. So I had to go with the whole job thing for a little while, and it was just you know, it was it was rough, if it wasn't easy. How

long ago did you get off probation? I got off probation. I want to say two thousand and sixteen. It's crazy because I feel like they, you know, if you're out and you're trying to make something of yourself, like that probation is kind of like it's kind of like an invisible jail, right, Like it's a way to keep you in the system. Like it definitely held me back from

a lot. You know, there was so many opportunities that had risen and that were presented to me that I wasn't able to capitalize on, and I wasn't able to

jump on, you know what I'm saying. And it's like where when we're sitting here trying to get something positive done, like I feel like that should be allowed, you know what I mean, That should be respected and appreciated rather than to trying to keep you in that that hole that you just climbed out of, you know, by me getting off probation, I felt like I climbed out of a hole, you know, because it took so long. It was you know, bobbing and weaving and still having one

foot in and one foot out. Music can still be on the streets. Like that was not easy at all over overall, like over your life. How many years were

you incarcerated? Man? I got locked up when I was thirteen years old, and you know, in and out I'd say it just oh man, from thirteen to well fifteen or something like that, and then from sixteen to eighteen, and then from eighteen to twenty four, from twenty four till I was thirty two, I believe, or something like that, Like it just was I gave them a lot of

years of my life, you know what I mean. It's hard for me to just say one number only because I did do small violations in between six months here, three months, they're eight months. They're like, you know, it's just hard to calculate all of that unless you sit down and really say, hey, and which there's dates that I was in the system that I don't even remember. That's crazy because it was so much, you know, I

just I was flipping calend Yo. It's crazy because, uh, both of my cousins who one of them still in prison, one of us pass away, they had the calendar tattoos all the years. Yeah. I never did that because I would have had that going down my whole arm. That's crazy, you know what I mean. I would have needed more room for that, Like I just anyway, Yeah, you're right. I mean I got a little bit of room like

on my legs and stuff. Other than that, my body's filled up back chess face as you gotta see, you know, you know, with the prison thing, like obviously you know there's different politics in prison than outside of prison. Would you say, is that accurate? You know? I feel like everywhere you go, you know, you step on the metro, they have rules, you know what I mean, you step on a bus in the street, they have rule. Everywhere you go, You're gonna deal with rules. That's just part

of the part of life. You know. When you get to where you're going, you figure out what's going on. And that's basically how we roll. You know what I'm saying. It's like, I don't. I don't really how can I explain. I don't like practice or you know, any of that. I just wherever I get to I'm at, I basically, you know, try to roll with the punches and roll with what's going on and just go the right direction,

just fly a straight kite, you know. Would you say like, because you know there's I feel like when you're locked up, when you're incarcerated, usually there's like every group of people has like a shot caller, somebody kind of helps, you know, maybe kind of navigate who's who's coming in, who's coming out, like help navigate the politics and situations on the yard. Was that ever a position that you were in, I mean,

I don't. I wouldn't say that. I usually, like I said, I'm not trying to drive no airplane and shit I'm a passenger and I'm just you know, trying to get to our destination properly. And that's about it. That's fair. That's fair. You know, when we think about prison, I wass here would hear crazy stories about riots going on in prison? Like when were you ever a part of any of the or witness any of that stuff? All of that comes along with, you know, you being incarcerated.

You don't even gotta go look for it. It's gonna find you, you know, it definitely find you. You know a lot of the a lot of times. So I started off going to a level three prison, which level two's and level ones are a little bit lighter on everything. Level threes and level fours are a little bit higher on you know, respect level, just you know, just different things.

So while I was there in the level three prison, you know a lot of people would say, hey, look, if your points don't go up, you're gonna get sent to like a level two or a level one, which you're not gonna like being the fact that you already started in a higher prison where the respect level is much higher, where you know, there's a lot more going on. So points just so what do you mean points? So

we there's a point system while you're incarcerated. It's like, if you do good, your points drop, so you go to a different jail. Yeah, they'll send you to somewhere else and then like a less security, like a lower security or whatnot. If your if your points go higher, then you go to a higher security, or you stay where you're at, depending on their their like their way of monitoring your points. So my points were gonna drop because I hadn't gotten no you know, right ups. No,

I haven't gotten in trouble. So a lot of people were like, you might want to, you know, spike up your points, get a little right up for this, get a little right up for that. And then I had an older homie that came up to me and told me straight up, he said, don't go jack up your points. It's gonna come to you when you least expect it. You don't need to are gonna come, don't even look for it. So and they did. I started getting right

ups for fucking alcohol and I don't even drink. Start getting right up for this that dad getting caught knives, Like just if all that stuff came on its own, I didn't have to go look for it. So the idea of like one like like not your make yourself, but the idea of your peers of getting your points higher to stay where you're at, is that based on just like, Hey, you're already here, you're already established, you're

comfortable or comfortable. You know, if you go to a new prison, you might need to hit reset on start over network and everywhere you go. Like I said, it's a different differ, it's a different ball game. And like I said, that they want you somewhere where. Of course, anybody in general, not just me or any of my friends or anybody in general, would love respect more than someone that's being disrespectful or you know what I'm saying. So in those places, the higher levels of prisons, there's

more respect. That's fair. I don't know. Did you see recently Whack was on Clubhouse talking about how you would never sign a Southsider? Did you see that? I heard about it, and I didn't really pay too much attention to it. I talked to him about it a bit, and he was just like, you know, I obviously have

Mexicans I signed. He's like, but I was locked up for X amount of years, and you know we were at war, and like I couldn't sign the South Side or because my comrades that are still incarcerated will look at me a certain way. Was that like, like, is that something that as you know? Because I feel like I guess I never I didn't grow up in La so I guess like the beef between Blacks and Mexicans was something I never really witnessed because it was never

something that happened in Phoenix where I'm from. Right, But how serious like in prison, Like you guys are enemies, right, I mean in prison there's a whole rules. Nobody is really your enemy, and you know what I mean, It's just things happen while you're in there. And they could be with the officers, it could be with another race, it can be with whoever. It's just not one certain crowd that you don't like and wake up and say, hey, I hate these people. Because if you hate somebody, they're

right across the day room from you. You can go get them. There's no I hate them, but they can stay on their side of the day room. I'll stay on myself. It don't work like that. If I hate somebody, I'm coming for you. You know what I mean and as far as what you know, Whack one hundred said, you know, I feel like every man has their own opinion, or every man has their own choice. If that's what

he chooses, that's his opinion, so be it. You know, there's people from our side, you know, Hispanics that don't like blacks, and that's their decision, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's their opinion. It's just all it's just all part of you know, being a man and taking these these these like how can I say, like stop taking everything to the heart man, you know what I'm saying, at the end of the day, just roll with whatever's going on.

And do you do you feel do you feel like it was hard for you at any point in time to like leave behind that prison mind state, maybe like leave behind some of the ideas in the politics of going to being locked up in a position that you're in and like and then also get out be a free man, try to stay on the right track and also succeed in as an as an artist. Well, it's always hard being the fact that, you know, one thing

I can't give up is my homies. I love my homies, you know, and I still you know, associate, communicate, whatever you want to call it. With some of them that are family, basically they grew to be family over the years. It's like it's not about us going to go look and try to find an enemy now or oh it's us trying to sell drugs now. Like now, it's just say what's up, my boy? How you doing? Oh? Look today,

I did this, I did this music, I did that. So, like the good thing about my homies is they respect what I'm doing. They appreciate what I'm doing, and you know, they still got love for me. They haven't switched up. They haven't, you know, basically like I've seen other you know, artists that are from certain gangs that they can't go to their neighborhood because their homies don't fuck with them like that. You know what I mean. My homies do

and that's a blessing, you know what I mean. And they see what I'm doing, they see that I'm doing something positive and they respect it. What would be your advice, Right, Let's say you're talking to a kid who's from where you're from and then getting mixed up and some shit that maybe you got mixed up in, and you kind of made that mistake. First, how would you advise somebody to try to like avoid kind of made doing some of the things that you did that you know, right?

I mean I feel like I all I can do is give my advice and give my you know, incentitive on what can happen if they lead and going that route. I mean, it's their choice to make. I can't make the choice for them, and I'm going to respect whatever it is they decide to do. I'm not gonna sit there and nag or try to preach or cause it took me a lot to get to where where I'm

at in my mind state. It wasn't overnight, and it wasn't somebody just telling me, hey, if you take that road, this is gonna you know, I heard that so many times and I just it went in one ear came out the other. I just kept going going for what I knew. That's straight, that's real. How long have you actually been rapping, like writing rapping? Like how long have you actually been like kind of applying yourself to being just a writer? Right? So I started young, like with

with like I love music. So I started, you know, when I was thirteen years old before I started going to jail and stuff. Like I would go to like my neighborhood parties and grab the mic and you know, a certain part of a beat, like a bounced rock skate beat, the old school beat. I would just sit there and you know, rap about neighborhood stuff and gangs and all that kind of stuff. And I had the

crowd of the people dancing. So I'm sitting there like, okay, like they really feeling this, like you know what I mean, Like I'm really they're not just sitting here laughing at them, motherfucker, or else they wouldn't even be sitting there trying to dance or bobbing their heads to it, like they would have been laughing like you know. So I felt that they you know, they gave me that motivation to keep

pushing and keep going with it. And like I said, so much time in the system that you know, when I would get somewhere, it's like say, if I write a dig kick off on the yard, then we get locked down. So all that time locked down, I'll sit and write music, you know, write music. I'll work out, bird bath, do whatever it is to get through that day. But at least an hour or two hours rocatered to my writing. You know, I didn't stop when I came home. I had six years or five or six years of notebooks,

notebooks filled up. I still have them that I haven't touched that you started anything from there. I got hooks, I got you know, versus twelve bars, eight bar, sixteen bar verses like I got music for days in that folder and then folders. And when I came home, I learned how to use the phone to write my lyrics. So I just pushed that aside and said, okay, cool,

I could do it off of here. Now. I got one hundred and one hundred and twenty songs plus that ain't been released that I just got sitting there, Like, I got a lot of music. You know, you mentioned a bird bath. What's the bird bath? Bordbeth is when you're not allowed to go take a real shower cause they're because you know, you can't come out of your cell. So you got a shower with that sink and that toilet that you got right there, you know what I mean.

You put towels towards the door kind of stopped the water from going out onto the tier because nobody likes water on your tier. You know what I'm saying. People try to fish, people try to walk through there. They can't because there's a puddle of water and soap, which is nasty. It's all your dirt water, you know what i mean. So you you know, you put up the towels a certain way to where you see which way

the water goes. If the water comes this way, you make sure that part is blocked in so the water stays in your cell you know. You put up a sheet or blanket whatever it is to cover your celly so your celly ain't watching. You wash your ass, you know what I mean. Of course, soap up, you know, throw you get a cup water, you know, pour water all over yourself. Soap up whatever you can. And the

same thing. You fill up your sink where you put a little piece of maybe I don't know, an envelope or whatever that it'll hold the little hose down so the water don't go down. Fill up the sink with the water. Then you just dunking your cup and just pouring it over yourself. You make sure you shower. It's a shower, but it's called a bird bath, you know what I'm saying. Then after that you get your your towels, you pick up all that dirt water and just wring

it all out into your toilet. You know, it's it's it's a little hassle, but once you learn how to do it, and they're refreshing, you know what I mean.

You're clean. You can lay back on your bed and smell good, like you know, and you would do that only if you were under lockdown, right, which a lot of the times we were, so sometimes that was almost every day because I think they'll give you a shower like every seventy two hours, seventy two hours, like seventy two hours, and it's like, I'm not gonna sit there

and wait for those seventy two hours. I'm gonna shower. Yeah. Yeah, especially if you've got a cell mates to work and you're working that out, like you know, that's why you get that program. You clean your cell you know, one day he cleaned it, one day. I clean it one day he like, you know, we take turns and shit, and it's it's like I said, the respect level is a lot better when you're in you know, places like that. What happens if you get a cell mate and it

doesn't work out, You don't get along with them. Is it like like what happens? Then it's like a forced roommate. You can't even vet the guy like you know what I mean. It all depends, you know what I'm saying. There's certain ways of going about it and getting you know, your rooms moved around, and you know what I'm saying, you put with somebody you're a little bit more compatible with,

or somebody you know from the streets. Like myself, I kind of refra rained from having my own homies in the cell because I felt like, you know, after a little while, your own homies get comfortable, you know what I mean, Like they know you from the streets, they love you, and it's like they get real comfortable whatever

it is, you know. So I kind of just so that we could keep that same love and same respect, Like I selled up with other dudes that you know what I mean, I didn't know like that, So that way the respect stays stays there. That's interesting, you know. So the last time you got out, what was for you, like the I guess the thing that changed where you really focused on staying out for good and focusing on the music shit like full time. So the first time I told a couple of people before the first time

I came home was in two thousand and five. That was from the state prison. And when I came home, I had to I had just did close to six years. I came home and I told myself, Hey, whatever it takes to get some to get paid, do it. You know what I'm saying, Whatever you need to do, get this bread, go get it. So I did. But I did that, like I told myself, legal or illegally. So yeah, I mean yeah, when you say whatever it takes, it didn't matter, you know. So I was running around acting

a fool, getting money, you know, on the streets. But it was not legit, you know what I'm saying. I was. I was acting a fool, like I said. So I seen that I was able to do that, and I went back to the system. I went back to the FED. You end up, you ended up getting caught up for the ways you were getting money. Why did you get

like what you get caught up? I got. I got caught up on a on a Rico recordeeron extors in a conspiracy case, and w ended up going to the FEDS and ship you know for phone calls, you know, talking about though whatever. You know what I'm saying, I

ended up getting caught up. Anyways, after that, you know, now I'm sitting in you know, federal federal custody U doing my bed and telling myself in my mind, if I told myself the first time that I'm going to get out and get paid, no matter what it, I'm gonna get it, and I did that, I said, maybe I could do that again, but righteously the right way. I'm gonna get out, get money, get paid, legitly do my music, and just go as hard as I went back then. Now but with this and hey, did it again?

Have you ever thought about because I feel like people would pay you to come and speak to them, right. I feel like you could be like a motivational speaker man, you know, like I always see like there's like motivational speakers who have crazy backgrounds. You could go speak at conventions, you can speak at leadership shit like I feel like you got a crazy story. I actually did that a little bit. I did that a little bit with a company that I worked for when I first came home

from the FATS. They had me going to like schools and talking to the kids and it was funny because you know a lot of the teachers would sit there and look at me like, oh shit, who are we bringing into our school? But when I leave, those kids would be asking for me. They would get at you know, my boss where I worked at and ask him, Hey,

is he coming back. The teachers would be like, we need him back because now this kid that didn't listen to me for all these years is listening to me and now this like they really enjoyed what I brought to the table. And funny that I ended up catching the violation through my probation officer that you know went and said that, oh, I made an album while I was on probation, which I shouldn't have done, the Baldacci Code,

which is my album. Well, you weren't even allowed to record nah, because he said that when did you get the time to go record that? When you're supposed to be at work, when you're supposed to be this, when you don't have money for this or you don't have money for that. Like I came home and my music carried the money, like I didn't need to have money. People were hitting me up, hey, come record at our studio. We got you. You don't got to pay nothing like

that type of shit. That's what they didn't understand. He was looking at my social media and like, you got a bent lee on your last post, you got money to pay for these these house arrests or this. Dad. Like,

I'm like, bro, that's not my bingley. And once you see that, you know, once you look at that and picture that like that, you're you're turning into a fan, bro, Like you know what I'm saying, Like this is just part of y I you know what I mean, Like this is what you're This is what also people are. You can record at home in your closet for fucking right, three hundred dollars a guitar center right, And he didn't understand that, you know, I had to kind of explain

to him. So he finally took me to jail for that, and took me to jail for being with my son's mom because she was on a federal custody as well. But when we got there, she was pregnant. My judge was like, Okay, what is he here for. He's like, oh, you know, he's here for the violation for recording this album and talking about gang stuff and murders and whatever. He thought that I was talking about. He just put his little concoction of stuff in his brain, right, Oh,

he's this is what he's talking about. Then he said, oh, he's also in violation for being with the kid's mom or my pregnant baby mom, and for missing a drug test. So those were the three things that I was there for. She kicked out two of them. She kicked out the main CD album thing, she kicked out the baby mama thing, and all she left me was the mister drug test. He asked for a year added to my probation and a year more in custody. He wanted me to go

back to jail. So she said, you know what, I have twenty seven letters from teachers and from all these people saying how he's such a good guy and how he's doing so well with hisself. Should I believe the twenty seven letters of people or should I believe you? Like She's like, I'm kind of like struggling to see who I'm gonna believe. And also I believe it was a comment on social media that Kamala Harris had left.

She left to comment on your social media, not exactly mine, but the people that were like that, I worked for before. They put up a post of me going to speak to the kids, and she left the comment like saying that's great or that's awesome or something. So you know, of course they screenshoted. They used that towards my advantage

as well. She seen that she ended the time that Kamala Harris is the This was before she's the attorney general or this the attorney or some I don't think she was what she is now right right, Well, she definitely wasn't vice president, but at amportant time, I think she was attorney. Yeah. I think that's when she was attorney tenal or something like that. So they say she locked up a lot of people. Yeah that's crazy. Yeah so she I mean it helped me in a sense though.

That's great going forward. You know, the judge, she was a sister, you know what I mean. So she was cool. She was actually taking the time to read. She actually applied herself to all of the information. She real like some judges would just look at the probation officer, look at me. Yeah this guy, Yeah, I don't care what you say. You got going like you're gone. So that helped me and instead of giving me a year in

custody and a year added to my time. She gave me ninety days in custody and termination of probation, so that kind of was a blessing. It was the best. Could you'd rather go knock that three months and then we'll do this. They're free, no reading the book? Yeah what I mean, like, I'm not even tripping. And and that helped me because you know, I went and did it, and when I came home, I didn't have no tail, no worries. You know what's up? Y'all got to interrupt

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was smoking spice. Oh that' shit's dangerous. Bro. I would pass the blunts of people and they would pass out right next to me that I grabbed my blunt back and keep smoking. You were smoking spice, like how often thirty blunts a day? Bro of spice? Spice? Thirty blunts a day. That's where they were around me. My brother, he'll tell you, did you have any episodes on that? I did, but not to where it freaked me out completely because I already seen what it was doing to

everybody else. So when it'll hit me in that little weird state, I just kind of ride it out and just sit there and wait and be like, what what is that weird state feel like? Because I think we think of spice, it's like an adrenaline when we think of the guy in Miami who fucking was wild out and you bite somebody. Yeah, I ain't never get no, but like, like, what's like the craziest spice? Like, what is that? What is that? It's just a crazy adrenaline

that I got while I was, you know, smoking. I've been with some of my homies and we're smoking and my homies get a whole picture in their head like they're about to kill us, take me home type shit, and I'm like, bro, we're good. We have the gas station, like we're just gonna get gas, don't trip, and I'm tripping. I'm tripping type shit. So I know it affected different people. Majority of the people that it did affect while I was with them, their first and instant, like, their first

thing that came to mind was I'm gonna die. They would always grab their head and oh my god, I'm about to die, and I'm like, bro, you're not just chill, you know what I mean? You never felt that way. I got to word. I mean, you were day man.

So I built a hell of a coma. You're still here, but thank god, man, And everywhere in neighborhoods that I'm not supposed to be in standing in line trying to buy spice to where the dudes will come in and be like you from Florence and I'm like, yeah, you know, you're not supposed to be right, like, yeah, I'm just gonna get something from the store real quick. I'm good. Like. So you were like seeking out spice everywhere, no matter where you had to go type shit. And it was

funny because it started becoming illegal. So you go to one little smoke shop like, oh, we don't got it no more. But you could go two blocks to the right and make eleven where is right there? And you're like, oh, on my way. Like, you know people who got locked up. A smoke shop owner in Arizona got locked up because he was I think he was like one of the distributors of that shit. A lot of people I know who are like in that industry got got hit with some serious charges and that dude had to go to

jail for a few years over spice. Bro, I've seen people just take a hit and just start having a seizure right next to me. Bro, I'm like, what the hell. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of like I guess in the nineties when people were doing angel dusts right right. And it's funny that it light's basically like the same, like it flames of It's something that whatever chemicals it was that they were putting in there, they're not good for people. And on the bag and the packaging it

says not for human consumption. That's what a lot of people will get mad at me about, like you're reading that, what are you still doing? You know? But I'm like, I can't smoke weed. This is the closest I get to week because nine out of ten times that I smoked that blunt. It makes me feel like I'm high, like I smoked the blunt wheat. Wow, the spice. That's fucking crazy. And then they're notting you for spice. No, I don't come out, don't come out on your test.

So after all that was done, you know, I got off probation, I went straight back to weed immediately cut the other bullshit away. And you know, did you ever were you ever involved in any other drugs? Like, did you ever have any any errors where you were anything When I was younger, you know what I'm saying. I tried stuff. I tried smoking primos, I tried all the little all the little bullshit, you know what I mean. But it's just nothing never stuck with me. Nothing never

caught my attention like that. And I just you know, that's not mean. I know some people like well go to go to prison and like because of the time or because of boredom or whatever, they pick up like heroin, and kind of it happens. It happens. You know, I myself chose not to. I'm the type of person that if I like something, I like and I'll keep doing it. So I don't want to even test myself like that, you know. So I'm happy that I like weed because I'm gonna keep doing that, you know what I mean?

Real quick, my dad's called me six times in a row. Oh my dad's got COVID. Oh I call you, well,

Papa's got COVID. That's my dad. Anyway, we're talking about spice. Yo, help me understand something because something that I had zero well now I wouldn't say zero clue about, but after I moved to La I guess I was lightly put on my radar about like something I really didn't know much about because I always would hear about our Mexicans from from northern California and Mexicans from southern California and this huge beef what's it Northan's And yeah, what is what? That's? Like?

Kind of break that down for me, man, because I'm not very like I think a lot of people might hear about that. But if they're watching this, this it's pretty crazy, Like it's like a serious thing, right. I just feel like, you know, everybody has their own side where they grew up, you know what I'm saying. They grew up in a certain part of California. We grew up in a certain part of California, simple as that. It's like no other way really to explain it is.

So if a Northern California Mexican gets locked up in southern California, do they have to go to like PC yard or are they or is it bad for them? It's like it's like every everything else, you know what I'm saying. It's like when you get put in a position where you can't do anything about what you're going. I'm sure that the stop officers that make their calls on whatever, they you know what I'm saying, whatever they choose to decide, they know where people belong and where

they don't, you know what I mean. That's crazy. And do those politics spill outside of prison? Bro? I'mna be honest with you, there's so much like stuff that has changed over the years that I haven't been in the system to kind of understand with the latest answer to

that like that, you know what I mean. Like it's just it's a life of you know, constant, constant moving and you know what i mean, just like I said earlier, just got to roll with the punches and whatever's going on is what's going on, you know what i mean? It's like we just adapt basically. You know, right, when did you first start getting the tattoo in your face? In your head? Man? Because some of these tattoos look do some of them look very very old? Right? Right?

I was when I first got I had got a F thirteen on my chin when I was like, right before I went to juvenile Hall, I was about thirteen years old. I put a F thirteen with a LA on top of my chin. I had that I was. I went to that before I started tattooing, like my whole body, like I still had some tatto on my body, but I went to the face like right away. And my my grandma, she was like, oh, she seemed that.

When I was younger, I used to go stop by this this jewelry store and always look at this chain that I liked. You know, I would just go look at it ask him to try it on. I didn't have no money, but I would still go look at it and let me see that chain and try it on and they'll put it back. They knew damn well that I'd have no money. They were like, he's just here looking at the damn chain. So she came up one day and told me, Look, if you take off that tattoo on your chin, I'll get you that chain.

So I was like all right, but I still didn't even think about it until, you know, being in the system before I got I came home one of the times I had a court order for them to take it off, and I had to go through Homeboys Indus Street to where they were gonna excuse me, erase, well, you know yeah, and you know, I reached out to my grandma and I told her, Hey, I'm going to take it off then so I could get that chain. But I really had to take it off, like you know.

So she bought me the chain, I got the laser tattoo removal, and then I started getting more tattoos on my face and then she was like you worked me basically, like She's like I told her, I you told me just to take off that tattoo, and I couldn't. I can't get some more. So you know, it turned out like that. After that, she was just like she wasn't trusting me no more when it came to that shit.

You know, She's like now, but yeah, like I started young with the tattoos on my face thirteen fourteen years old was there. I mean, when you have tattoos like you have, I'm assuming that there's some that you regret. Is there any tattoo that comes to mind that you regret more than others? Maybe like female names and shit over the years being young and dumb and you know what I'm saying, in the heat of the moment where you're like, go get your name tattooed tomorrow, right, you

know what I'm saying. So but now it's like I just I just plastered over those moment fuckers now like ain't no, ain't no, biggie. I feel like, what's dope about like your your appearance is First of all, people are intrigued. I think when they see you, like who's that, right, Like who's the guy? And then they hear the music

They're like, oh shit right? And then I also feel like you could be in any fucking movie, like so many people have been telling me, Bro, you're missing out on all kinds of acting bread like I started to have when I first came home from prison. I started doing the whole. I mean, you're gonna get type casted, right, No, yeah, you're gonna be You're gonna be like the big homie in the hood or they're always gonna choose me for

certain certain road. Sure, but the money's green. When I first came home, it's like I didn't have a car, so it was hard for me to get from point A to point B. I was sharing with the girl that I was with at the time, but she also had to work, so it was like some days I couldn't make it. Some things I could. So I think the central casting kind of got tired of me pulling up lad or Okay, So so you just you would have hard times getting to like of locations and stuff like, well,

now it's it's different. You know, I got my own stuff and it's like a lot easier. But maybe I would have to reapply or something, you know what I mean. But yeah, man, I just seen recently that a lot of people started tagging me to this uh all Hell the King. I guess it's a Disney movie that I came out in. So they're like, damn, You're in a Disney movie. You at the flood like, you know, people tagging me. I'm like, oh shit, I didn't know. And we did that like six years, seven years, and then

obviously Originals thing was dope. That was dope and missed the cartoon like that was a dope. They definitely made that happen, bro, You know, I was appreciative one hundred percent. You uh, you know I told you when I first kind of got put up onto you you had linked with Yellow Wolf, Yeah, which is also kind of he's heavily tattooed, but also kind of random. Right, you guys ended up. I mean I think you've told the story before. Essentially he came here, he was looking for a place

to shoot his show, came to your neighborhood. You guys connected, bonded, ended up doing some music. Who are some other artists that, like you would want to work with him? Some people might not expect you be, like, you know, working with because I think the Yellowolf thing is one of those. Yeah, Yellowolf was definitely like a surprise to a lot of people.

And like I said, it was one of the artists that I kind of you know, spoke into existence from being incarcerated listening to him to where I told myself I'm gonna come home and I want to do a track with him, right, And it happened the same with Crooked Eye, you know, shout out to Frank Nitty Homi, Frank Nitty plugged us up and made that happen, you

know what I mean. We we had a nice little session in the Gritty Arc studio and you know, got to know crooked even before that, the fact that we did the track prior, you know, times prior than that, we would be in the studio vibing out and you know, chopping it up and real cool people, solid and humble, you know. Honestly, myself, I think I want to do a track with fifty cent. I be insane only because

I listened to like his music. That's basically like a lot of the music influence that I used to, you know, listen to, and it's like I got out and a lot of people like when I drop Hoogs or when I drop certain songs that will be like that Cadence reminds me of fifty that right, you know, and I'll be like, maybe it's because I listened to them so much. I don't know, you know, I'm creating my own music, so it's like I don't feel like it sounds like

anybody in general. But then again, the fans and the people that are listening are the ones that right, it's their opinion, you know what I'm saying. You Also, I heard a few of the records you did with Homiechris Coke from Arizona. Oh yeah, I don't know when those are going to come out, but they're crazy. Yeah. No, definitely, he's amazing. He's a beast man. I gotta give it

to christ Lyrically, he's a fucking monster. One of my homies, Mommy Scrappy, had tagged me to something that he, you know, he was doing, and the scraper was like, man, check this food out, my boy, he's dope. So I listened. I'm like, damn, he is dope, you know. And for me to come off of my not I don't want to say like like my my high horse or anything, but I feel like, you know, you got it was a spot already to where it's like I don't have to go listen to every single thing that people throw

at me. So it's like for me to come and listen and actually feel like, oh, bro's dope, like it's it was something to me, you know. So whenever that happens, I usually hit my boy, my manager John and telling them straight up like hey, find this dude for me, you know, get at him. Let's work. We gotta pay for the studio, they got it, whatever, whatever it is,

just let's figure it out. Let's make something happen. So we reached out to him and he was like more than happy to do it because he had already heard of myself as well too. So he's like, you tell me when, and he came out, yeah, book the studio. It was dope, and I was like, oh, oh yeah, nice, you know. So we made it happen, and we got a couple tracks and we actually recorded like four songs that night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I heard I think I heard almost I think I heard all. Yeah. We

were like back to back with it. Oh it's good, it's fine, it'll pick up. Oh oh on the camera. Okay, good, there you go. I like that. That's why he's the manager. So just right now, I feel like we're kind of in the middle of like a renaissance of like Mexican rappers. I feel like when I first got in the radio and when I was growing up, it was like MC magic, Little Rob, like obviously Baby Bash was doing this thing.

But I feel like right now there's so many dope Mexican MC's artists that are just killing it on all levels. You know. Snow, the product was just nominated for Latin Grammy. You know, we can go up and down. I mean LA is kind of the epicenter of like where a lot of these young kids are really killing it in Latin and the Latin hip hop scene, just in hip hop, and they happen to be Mexican. How do you feel

about like the current state of like Mexican rappers? Man, I love it, and you know, I respect the fact that everybody's out there trying to get where they where they feel they need to be, or people that are just pushing and going for what you know what we've never really been able to accomplish, which is opening that door for you know, the Mexicans and for the Hispanics and you know people that've been trying to do this

for us for years. You know, we've had episodes, you know, kid Frouds like of course, yeah, you know what I'm saying. The people that did get there, they're trying to shine, you know what I'm saying. But I feel like the door wasn't completely kicked in for it. I Mean there was always like one or two guys at a time. But I feel like now, I mean I can think of like twenty five dudes off the top of my head.

That's the difference now and then. I feel like social media and everything else has brought that for a little made it a little easier for us to be able to, you know, show showcase what we got and learn from each other. Which not everybody's gonna sit here and tell you that they that they learn from each other. But if I see a dope artist that I can learn from, I'm definitely gonna soak up game. I'm definitely gonna appreciate

whatever he's putting out there. You know, everybody out here got their chests out and think, oh I'm the biggest, I'm the baddest, And that's why I don't fall into that cat glory with my mind state. I stick to what myself, my boy Peter built, which is JR for my label. Like everybody that's from my label jokes, you know, just just everybody that's on the team and on the squad. I try to push them to push me, if that makes sense, Like, you know, I'm trying to like at

the same time they're working on stuff. I tell them don't get caught up with waiting on me, you know what I mean. Keep doing what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing. You guys might pop before me. Who knows shit. Then you're gonna have to bring me like what I'm gonna bring you if I pop, Like, it's just a it's a square, you know what I'm saying. And at the end of the day, it's like, we gotta cover every corner in that square. And that's how I feel like it needs to be done. You know,

help each other. Help, Yeah, let's help, you know what I mean. Tell me the story about when you were shot? Was it five times by Ak? Yeah? Five times with AK. I was eighteen years old, wrong place, wrong time type shit, parked in a driveway and you know, two people came up and sprayed up the whole car. Bro. We had thirty six thirty six holes in the car. How many people were in the car? Three of us? Anybody not make it. I'm the only one that got hit. Oh shit,

So there was holes throughout that whole car. You know, my brother was actually with us, My brother was in another car and behind us or whatnot. It was. It was tragic, bro, You know what I'm saying it was something that you know, I relive every day because I'm still dealing with pain. I'm still dealing with issues from you know, they were caused from that. I got hit two times in my back, two times in my side, and one time in my arm. I'm missing a kidney,

a spleen, half a liver, half a pancreas. Both my lungs collapsed. My ajorda was torn completely. They had to reconstructed. I was in a coma for a month and a half. It was insane. My mom would be by my bed side, the girls that I was messing with at the time were by my bad side, like the my homies would

all pull up. Like at one point, the doctor came out with my bed after the first surgery and seeing three hundred people there and couldn't believe that there was three hundred people even in the hospital, right, He's like, all of you guys are here for bed one and they're like yeah. He was like wow. He's like, well, let me tell you excite something. He wants to live. He's fighting. So the first surgery he's like, but I can't promise you the second surgery is gonna go The

same when I came out of the second surgery. He told my homies he's here, he's gonna stay, and they went crazy. They want to go barbecue and do all kinds of city. They want to be a party. You know, Was that the only time you were shot? Yeah, that was the only time. That was more than enough. That was more than enough, right that some real shit enough

damn yeah? Yeah, and then yeah they Uh so, I had these bunch of different, you know, little machines tag to me, and one of the nurses came into the to the room where I was at and I couldn't talk cause I had a tube like you know, in my throat, at my side of my right here, like underarm, just tubes everywhere basically, and I couldn't really speak. I couldn't speak at all. The lady came in and was like, oh, I'm gonna take you off of these machines. I'm gonna

try to walk you. And I had just got shot like a week and a half before, so I was like walk me like. I was looking at her like no, Like the only thing I could do was kind of, you know, shake my head kind of get her to understand that I'm not ready to walk. She's like, oh, you're fine, She's unplugging all the shit, and I'm like like no, like you know what I'm saying in my head.

I was screaming, but I couldn't say nothing. So she took me off of the bed, sat me up, and I guess when she sat me up, an air bubble rope or like right rose to my to my brain. So I passed out. I passed out when she did that because I didn't I didn't know what was going on, but the air bubble rose to my brain and it caused something up there to where it made me pass out. The doctors came and tried to get me back. They couldn't. Then the doctor finally got me back with something sauce

and stuff. So when I woke up, he's like, move your right hand. So you know, I moved my right hand. He's like, move your right legs. I moved my right leg and he's like, move your left hand. And I tried and nothing would move. Move your left leg. It wouldn't move either. It was parallel. It was paralyzed from half of my half of my body. So they had to take me to Long Beach Memorial Hospital. And they put me in a diver's tank. Wow, which I guess the divers when they dive too deep they get those

air bubbles over their brains. So they deal they deal with the same stuff in a different form. So they put me in a diver's tank to where it was like at an angle. My feet were towards the ground, my face was like up here. They put I still remember they put on a movie. They brought like a little sliding screen with a movie and uh, they put on something about Mary. Remember they still put that movie on, and then like within three minutes to four minutes, I

was out. So I guess they gased that like tank. You know, they put you to sleep, so put me to sleep, and then I guess they turn up the pressure while you're sleeping. They brought me out, and he's like, move your right hand. I moved it right, legg moved it. Movie left it with him. Budge. He's like thrown back in. So they put me back in there. I don't know. I don't know how long I'm staying in there again. But they put the same movie back on, turn the

gases on or whatever. And when they finally pulled me out, he's like move your left hand. I was able to move my left hand and to cray for sure. For sir, I had one of the top fifty doctors in the world. His name was doctor Essencio. He's from Brazil. Wow, he was at USC hospital. He definitely is blessing. And you know, if I ever had the chance to show my appreciation, that would. Man, you know what I'm saying, And this

is definitely a blessing. I have been under his yeah, because you know, if you don't have the right doctor, they might have just been like, oh, you're fucked. That was what they were saying when I was walking in there like this one's done, and that doctor was like, nah, bring him to me. He was just there doing like a study or a seminar. That's the stars of aligning. Man, one of the top fifty in the world. Bro, that's big.

That's big. Outside of you getting shot obviously when you're eighteen, what's the closest brush with a serious life and death situation you had while being incarcerated? Man, I feel like every day is just a brush with being close to life and death. Because they could switch from all smiles to you know, place being on fire, like from one second to the next. You don't know what's gonna take place.

I've seen people go in with violations of seven months and then end up with, you know, the rest of their life having to be incarcerated because happened in jail. Anything can happen at any time. Just never let your guard down and just you know, is it hard to let go of that mentality? Oh? Very very I feel like you gotta want something bad enough to be able to and it's never gonna go away, you know what I'm saying, It's never gonna go at the end of

the day. It's like your mentality is there still now, whether you choose to like mess with the volcano or just leave it alone. That's where that's where all of

this falls in place. Like you know, I'm doing music, I left all the you know, the untampered with, Like I just kind of just don't mess with it and just keep you know, keep my cool and respectful and still go about things the way that I know that I should be going about things, you know what I mean, Like certain stuff that even on podcasts like this, that I'm not gonna sit here and talk about, you know

what I'm saying. At the end of the day, it's like it's all respect, but there are certain subjects I won't touch, and then there's certain subjects that, yeah, we could talk about because it's something that already happened, its events in my life. Of course. You feel what I'm saying. With your new album, we're gonna have your manager come in and kind of give us a little breakdown of some of the business stuff you guys are going on. Becau,

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all right. Listen. So, uh, I'm gonna let you introduce your guy right here. So this this is my boy John, you know, my manager's last business partner. So is this the label you guys have tatted on? There? Is that your your your guys created effort. It's it's effort effort. We just put the X in the middle because you know, at the same time it's f fort, you know, so it's still like to the past. You know, it's the f fort. I can dig it, I can dig it.

How'd you guys meet prison prison? Yeah, so you guys were locked up together two thousand and two. We we, you know, met each other. We were two of the youngest kids on that yard that we were at and just kind of clicked. We had a like a boom box in there with two tape cassettes, so somebody had rigged it up to where the ox plug was a microphone in there, so you would put like an instrumental on this side, a blank tape that you wanted to record over on this side, play them and then wrap

into the box plug. And we have tapes like we would make tapes in there. So we're making tapes and sending them out to the streets. He came, he went home before me. I started a few years left when he went home. I had. He went home in O five and I started like three or four years left. When I came home, he had got caught up the FEDS, So, you know, I'm hitting up his grandma and she's like,

he's busted again. So since I since I came home, I was trying to like link back up with him, and he had, you know, the FED case going on. So finally in twenty thirteen twelve or thirteen, two thousand, two thousand and thirteen, I came home and Uh, I was cutting hair for a studio. So I was cutting hair for a studio. Like I was just here's some video studios, so they would do music videos, commercials. Barbara I was yeah, yeah, yeah, So by trade, I was

a barber. So I was cutting hair and the studio I worked for had actually done one of his videos. So he's showing me like all the past projects that he's done. I was like, that's my boy, Like, can we get a hold of him, So went to the channels. He's in the FEDS again, So I'm doing a violation. So one day the studio hits me up to come help him with the with the video. I pull up and he's there. He just came home maybe a week

or two before. Literally the next day I went and met up with him, and for the next three years, probably four years, I saw him every single day, like we're together every single day, moving around doing this music. Ten days after we link back up again, I quit cutting hair at the barbershop I was at, and we started running with this wow, and we've been Yeah, we've been doing that since. How many years has this been since? You guys? Usually two thousand and six, fifteen or sixteen

sixteen is when we started started running. So I came home in thirteen and he was still back and forth doing his violations. So a few years after I came home is when we finally linked back up and we've been we've been running since. So you guys have the new album coming out, which is what's dope about it is you guys aren't putting it straight to the the streaming platforms. Yeah. Now, we did that with the with the Plant with the

Plan B album. That was kind of our first getting our feet wet into doing something ourselves, was like, instead of just recording the music and letting somebody else figure So we had to figure that album out from beginning to end. So we we we did that. It got it. You know, good reception kind of opened a few more doors, but we did see that that, you know, with the kind of music that we have in the project that we're coming out with, streaming right away is not going

to be our best way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, at the end of the day, you're doing this to try to support you the fan base, the core fan base that we have is strong. So also we're thinking that more as something for those people that have been here supporting, they're going to get these these this physical package that we're putting. So what is the physical package? So what's the name of the album? Give me the whole? There's no official name of the album. It's a double album.

Actually is I'm the name of the Face of l A. That's kind of what we're what we're you know, so also makes sense that's your I G you know, so I want to name it that just some you know, I feel like, you know, I'm not only It's not only me, it's the face of LA. It's like all of us are the face of LA. We're from here, you know what I mean. We all represent the same thing and trying to shoot for the same direction. So it's like all of us are in this together, you

know what I mean. And I'm gonna make sure this album speaks to everybody and for everybody. Like the way that people you know, relate to each other in certain situations, you know, A huge, a huge part of the music industry in LA has always been built around artists either speaking about the street life or in rare cases, an

artists actually beaten from the street. Like it's mostly you know, an artists that grew up around there that's kind of telling the stories that they've seen and then they kind of morphed into that image of you know, he's a street dude. We're kind of you know, the face of LA is what we've been pushing because everything that the entertainment as far as music has been based around and even but he was like LA is shown as like,

you know, street culture, gang culture. That's what draws people to to LA outside of Hollywood, and for somebody to be actually from that environment, grew up in that environment, it's actually you know, certified from that. And to be able to come out of that and try to try to showcase and tell his stories in an art front of music, it's kind of like coming full full circle to where now we have an actual representative, you know,

kind of like a Nipsey. Nipsey was was did it the street way, and he was a street dude, and there's not a lot of those in this industry that we're in that we're learning as we've got more and more into this industry, so you know, it's just kind of a representation of of the l A people. Like like all of our friends, even if they're not from gangs, they're there. If they're hanging out with us, they look like us, and they're gonna be assumed to be part

of what we're a part of. That's just like the hip culture in la is to look like like a street dude, and it has been like that since the nineties. The style may have changed, but the the intention is still there. Like the intention, you know, what's cool is to look like, you know, like you're from the streets, whether you are or or not. And for us being street dudes, we want to look like we're not from this. I mean, we we're tatted up, but we're trying to

trying to we're trying to break out of that. So it's just been a learning experience, and especially as two dudes that had no you know, music experience. I mean, the fact that you're able to go from being a barber to straight to this and even even me going to be a barber was a huge thing for me because I never because that's legit money. Yeah, it's legit money. I've never done anything like that, so it was It's

definitely been a learning experience. I feel like like if we had a little more knowledge, we could, you know, maybe done things a little bit quicker. But I'm happy with the growth that we've had because it's been organic and right. It's a learning process, you know for people who don't know what's the Like, there's a package coming out, is this is it on February first? We're so we're

doing April first, April Fool's day. Man, make these explain how people are gonna be able to purchase the album and the form that it's going to come in, So you want to go ahead. I just was going to say, you know, we're doing it on April first, you know, because a lot of people joke around with that date and you know, take everything as a joke. So we're coming strong and we want to make sure that we see that we ain't joking. Ye, we ain't playing with

this album. You've heard a few a few tracks on it. So, as we talked about before, he got hit five times with an AK So we're going to do a physical album package that the album is going to be on USB's and the USBs are going to be shaped like a K bullets. It's going to come in an amimal box. We're also printing out laser printing bill that's the action figures.

So the package is gonna come with the album, the action figures, and Uh, we've been uh in partnership with a hemp wrapp company called Billionaire Hemper Apps for the last two years. We've been developing a product, the product that we showed you. So we're gonna have two flavors of hemp wraps tobacco free hemp praps with his face our label branded on him. They're all going to be

dropping on the same day as the album. So when you get this package, you'll get the box with the with the AK forty seven bullet USB's, you'll get the action figure, and you'll get some of the Hemp wraps. So I say, it's kind of for our core fan base that's been rocking with us. Give them something that they can purchase and have that's not going to be the same thing that everybody else has before we let the album stream. That's smart Mans And then UH, there's

a cookbook, a jail cookbook you're working on. Yeah, we wanted to make a prison cookbook, like a thousand or one hundred ways to make a top ramen, because there's so many top yes inspired pretty much cuisine. Prison cuisine is all based around a top ramen. Yeah, so what you can do with the top ramen? Adding to it, make it spread, make a sandwich, whatever. Okay, give me the If let's say you're in prison, what's your number

one meal you could cook up. If let's say let's say you could cook a meal for somebody from the outside the coming to visit, what would be that one? I mean the cookbook that you're like, this is fire. Well, if it ain't a spread, of course, because there's plenty of different ways to make spreads, I'd say a manwich.

They're called manwiches, swear. You take the soup, you leave the soup where it's in the package, You put hot water in there, let it sit for a little bit, pour out the hot water, so you still got the whole noodle that opens up basically like a book, and you put that on the bread. You know, there's certain ways you make the beans. You spread the beans across it.

You know, you could use little pieces of pepperoni, cut little slices of pickle, you know, whatever little ingredients that you put a little bit of the seasoning pack and you know, you put it together with pork rinds and stuff like that, and then you get a big old monster sandwich that tastes like it's from Tommy's. Wow. Wait, so I still eat them. So there's noodle was inside of the bread, so it's bread noodles, But the doodles is just in the brick like how it comes to square.

It's just loosened up, a little loosened up a little bit from just cook like that, you know, but it's still in. There's a lot of carbs, man, that is you know that. I'm not saying it's a healthy boy, but that's something that you guys still make, still make them. Yes, yeah, I made one the other day. I want to say, like a week ago, I made one of the girl why do you still? Even my homie just came home a year ago. He's like, why do you eat this? Ship?

Like he's good, you can't take over the years. I'd always have people like you're making that, you're just jinxing yourself. And I'm like why Because I'm eating a soup, Like, what the hell do they gotta do? I'm not out her cousin. I think you should do a YouTube channel man, instead, I mean do the cookbook, but the YouTube channel. If you do, like to show the recipe a week, man, that shit will go crazy. Trust me, the YouTube money serious man. Right, that's a good idea because because people

unfortunately people don't. I don't think people go to cookbooks anymore, right, download or something. Well, they get everything online. I mean honestly, they just go on YouTube. Now that's true. So if you if you on YouTube the other day, exactly, if you started a YouTube channel where you were just creating content, doing recipes, bro, that ship would go crazy. And then you have special guests come on. Well maybe artists who

have been in jail or artists that haven't. But just if you've got a relationship with Crooked Eye or whoever, have them come on and everybody does a different you know, you make them, you make them something and then they they taste tested on camera. That should have go crazy for sure. That's a good idea. Yeah, then you might fucking end up on Vice. But I'm saying like you might get your own show on vice for real, like that'd be crazy. And then if it goes super crazy,

start a fucking restaurant. You got a kitchen, start a little corner, man. I'm telling you bro right now. The cookbook is cool because you know you I mean I would just do a living to in that, but to really maximize like that, like a coffee table book, just you're you gotta you gotta do the video content. You gotta do it the right way. You can't do it where it looks all half assed and Bria and ship. Yeah, that'd be big, honestly, sure, Yeah idea. Definitely gonna keep

that in consideration. Yeah, run that up all right. So April first, the album's coming out. Uh, when are you guys going to a pre order for it? Because I'm assuming to get that much stuff made is probably uh the production is. It's do you want to get an idea on like how many you need to get made? Or you gotta know we've kind of got all that that worked out. We're gonna do a very limited run. It's probably gonna total maybe a thousand pieces, a thousand

pieces and how muchything will be numbering album. It's probab going to be one hundred and fifty bucks for that package. It's not bad. Hundred fifty bucks a thousand of them. You got one hundred fifty bands. Yeah, just those collector those collector action finish loan bro like those are those are and we're putting money into this, like those things aren't cheap. Yeah, it's not like you guys. Yeah yeah, yeah, because it's not like you're we're not. We're not. Yeah.

The over the overhead on what you guys are making isn't isn't. Yeah, we're not. We're not spending charging Yeah. Yeah, we're to make it the collectors and that's that's dope collected. You know. Well, ship Man April first, is there a website or obviously your your i G all that like we're the best place to so his i G is always going to be the best because that's where he's at. Mostly. We do have a website. While that the Beast dot com.

That's probably gonna be switching over to uh when we do the album, it will probably just be like an effort web page. Uh, we'll have a link though exactly where to go to. We probably will have pre sales just because we're getting finished with with everything that we need finished to have the stuff to start type. Yeah. Yeah, that's more of what we've been waiting on to to even put any pre orders out because I don't have the I don't have the action figures in my hand yet.

So once we have everything then then we can put out a presale link. I think there it is. Well, look, go support. Appreciate you pulling up man, Thank you brother. Following go go support the album. Check your boy out the Face of LA Just like that, The Face of LA. Shout out to boutlet kiv Man for having this year's go