#255 - R-Mean

was a big puffer jacket. It's cold outside and I was wearing this short sleeve and I was either unawear that or like a mediocre looking one. You're like, you got your MESSI on though, Yes, you're excited for the World Cup. Is this like a time of year or time of every four years you're excited for? Yes? This is really the only real thing that I super follow in sports, right, Like, I'm a basketball fan, but I can't say I'm like really following it the way I

used to after Kobe and everything. I mean, you have a King James song though. Yeah, I love Lebron but of course you know, and I follow it, but you know, so soccer is different. I was gonna say because you are Armenian, but you grew up in the Netherlands, right, Yeah, I'm not Argentinian. You're not Argentinian, but you like Messi Messi. This is just like a symbol of greatness, you know what I mean. It's like a Jordan Jersey at Kobe Jersey,

you know what I'm saying. But yeah, I grew up in I'm Armenian, but we don't have I mean, we have a team, but not in the World Cup unfortunately, maybe one day. But I grew up in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, so and growing up in Europe. Like as far as soccer, that's like deep rooted culture, you know what I mean. It's different, like people here don't really understand it yet, right,

you know for sure? For sure, it's like when when the country's playing, there's nobody outside, you know, everyone like watching it. Everyone I'm talking about my mom right now is watching the Netherlands play, like you know what I mean. Guess be the US, Yes we did. I'm sorry. Were you excited about that? Yeah? I expected it, you know, us wasn't ready yet, even though in the Netherlands this year we not as good as we once were. Usually are. You know, we known as the greatest nation to never

win the World Cup. That's interesting. A couple of times finals, always in the semis quarters, but never actually won. What's going on? I feel like we when we talk what is uh? Is there anything new going on that we should get out there with Armenia. I saw recently like Azerbaijan was sterning shit up a little bit again. Yeah, it's like an ongoing conflict, you know what I'm saying. It's still going on, but it's I believe it's kind of calm right now. Russia is trying to like mediate

and shit. But this is like a conflict that's been happening for like thirty years on and off. But then it was quiet for a long time. And then a couple of years ago, really in the middle of the pandemic, right, I got like attacked out of nowhere, and you know, basically they were trying to take over. Well, first there was this piece of land. Then I won't go too deep into it because it gets colm. We talked about

it a bit before. Yeah, if this piece of land called arts off n Gordoll Klarabakh, which is like kind of within Azerbaijohn but it's like it's an Armenianian city, right, yeah, and it's always a fight over that piece of country. And when the USSR broke up, they gave it to Azerbaijohn even though it was Armenian you know what I mean, Like on some divide and conquer type ship Stalin did that, you know. So it's ongoing. So then there was a ceasefire.

Then they attacked again. And the thing is like Abajhn is backed by Turkey, which there's a whole history there with the army genocide, and they're like a powerful country. Yeah Turkeys, no, no, yeah, and compared to Armenia, you know, we can use some help, you know what I'm saying. How big of a deal was it? I was gonna say, because speaking of the Turkey thing, like Joe Biden acknowledging the Armenian genocide as the first president to ever do that, How big of a deal is that? Look, it was

a big deal. We all for one day celebrated, and then we heard that Joe Biden is giving military aid to like Azerbaijan or through Turkey or whatever, you know what I'm saying. So it was kind of like, hey, thanks for yeah, exactly, which you know, honestly, that's what

we kind of used to at this point. You know what I mean now, because because I was talking to my boy out about this, because we were in Detroit and out all my people in Detroit that's like my second home course, right, you've been out there, you're running around in the sprinter out there. I think, yeah, they take care of me over there. But there's a lot of I don't even want to fuck up the ethnicity of people that's out there, Kaladians, Kaldians, Albanians, Kaldians, a

lot of Arabic Middle Eastern, right. So we went to a store and the guy was like, there's all this like Middle Eastern candy. And the guy was like, oh, this is a Turkish candy bar. You should try it. And I looked at that stuff hell, and I was like, I bought it. He was like like you better not. Dog. He's like, I won't eat that. And I was like, I'm gonna try it, bro, what if it's fire? Like, nah, it's all good. Like the thing with like I grew

up in Amstem, right, it was almost no Armenians. I didn't have a single Armenian friend growing up and I lived until I was eighteen, and it was a lot of Turkish people like Netherlands, Germany, so automatically, you know, you have friends at basketball teammates and shit like that, and they didn't even know about that. They don't understand. It's not about the Turkish people. It's all love, you

know what I mean. It's about the government. But we don't support shit that's like made in Turkey, you know what I mean? If I see something that like Zara that says made in Turkey, I'm saying Zara because they're known for having shit in Turkey. But do you know Turkish people who sympathize with what happened to our media? Yah? I don't. I don't really know a lot of Turkish people personally, now, you know what I'm saying. When I

was a kid, Yeah, so I don't really know. But yeah, you see people come along along your timeline, like I always wonder that, like if there's like some kids in that Azerbaijan, it's like our country's fucked up. No. Absolutely like the media and absolutely have people like that, but it's also they didn't really have a freedom of speech and like the media whatever, journalists to get locked up if they you know what I mean, it's that kind

of country with Russia exactly. You can't just talk about, you know, against the government like Iran right now, there's like a rapper in Iran that's like locks like you know what I mean. Iran's fucking wild and they want to give him like the death penalty. I saw that they were trying to like murder like fifteen thousand protesters. Yeah, insane. Ir Hey, what up y'all. We gotta stop the interview real quick to tell you about our family. At my bookie, man,

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I mean, we could go on and on. You got a new mixtape coming out. Yeah, So, like you said, I've been working on a lot of music. This mixtape dropping on the sixteenth. Me and Justin Credible got together. Really has started with him. You know, he started doing like mixtapes on some old you know what, DJ Clue type of shit. He wanted to kind of get in the music side of things. Earlier this year, he put out this project on Hunger Flow and he hit me for like, you know what I mean. I did like

a little freestyle joint on there. And then I saw he's working on his second one and I had this song called ten Rap Commandments. I shot it to him like, yo, if you want to use it, you know what I mean? And he loved it. He put it on his ship, and then we were just talking. He's like, Yo, we should do more shit together, you know. And I saw he did a he did a tay with Larussell, which was really like his first one like that, you know what I mean, with like one artist. It was called

just Incredible Presents Larussell. I'm like, yo, let's go just Incredible Presents. Ar mean, I have a lot of music, so we put it, put a really dope project together on DSPs or is it? Like? Yeah? Yeah, it's not like on some sched you know, there's no freestyles on famous speats or anything like that. Yeah, we can't do that now, unfortunately. I mean, people are doing it still. I don't know why, but they are. Yeah. It's not the wave like. Yeah, you could do it, put it

in on YouTube, SoundCloud. It just don't reach as many people, you know what I mean. Like I feel like I made that mistake in the past, you know what I mean one of the nas. You have nast feature feature work? Yes, I do. When when is the NAZ? Yeah? I feel like I know I've been talking about it for you heard the songs, yes you have, because I felt like I was doing songs right, I'm not crazy, No, no, no, you're crazy. It's one. It's just one. Okay, let's not

blow it up too much. I probably know songs. It was I'm thinking, you never mind, someone else I know has two songs I want to know it was. It was Belly, because Belly too with NAS on the Weekend and Weekend. Uh yeah, but you have but you have a great my brother, Belly have a great NAS record. Bro,

my NAS record is ridiculous. I'm not gonna lie. And yeah, the thing is, so I started working with Scott Storch on this whole project, and you know, we put some joints out, like you said, the one with Jeremiah, which was called King James, Who's got a great high stream, great sink ship a lot of love, Yeah, I got, I got sing on ESPN. I dropped the one with French earlier this year, bb got a lot of Love. Those were really like I put him out to kind

of test the waters. But like, the album is done now, and it took a little longer than I expect that That's why I had already. You know, I didn't hold it in when I went to the studio with NAS. I posted that ship the next day. And now we are here and it's still not out, but it's coming. Man, Like now everything is ready. So it's just just incredible tape. Dropping the album, and then the album early next year. You know, I want to start rolling out of February,

drop the album in March. Yeah, I got some big shit on there. Would you and Berner do another Clap album? I would love to, but you know it was dope. Yeah, the first one is dope. And you know, almost on a daily basis of people in my DM asking when I'm doing another album with Berner, just like I got a lot of Burner fans out of this. I went to tour with tour with them. Yeah, and then I work a lot with be Real. I just dropped a

crazy join with be Real too. But also just you know, he embraced me early on before all of is so that whole scene, that whole crowd is kind of similar, you know what I mean, that smoke a crowd, so they be hitting me all the time. Of course I would love to. Burner is my dog, But you know he's a Forbes cover top five riches, you know what

I mean, Like he busy. He's gonna be number one rich as soon, yes, is so he you know, he busy, so so hopefully, but I would say in the next two years, Berner's gonna be richer than Dee and jay Z. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. I actually it's yeah, it's gonna happen. What up, it's blue Leg cab man. We gotta stop the interview to tell you about our good folks at blue Chow. That's right, fellas. If you're dealing with a little arectile dysfunction, yeah, dick's not working like it should be.

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That's what we're doing. It's gonna happen now. You obviously correct me if I'm wrong. I know you have songs with Quavo offset. Did you ever do one with Takeoff? No man. Unfortunately, the last time I spoke to Takeoff it was at one of these cookies events, right, and Quavo had a Strain Drop. So it was really Quavo's event, but Takeoff was there too, and I was, you know, in the back, chopping it out whatever we smoke on. I'm like, take You're the only migo I don't have

a record with yet, you know what I'm saying. He's like, I see what you're doing, bro, come on, you know what I mean, send me a joint. I'm like, I got you, and I fucking never did. Wow. And it's really because a lot of times I had a few of these opportunities. Nipsey too when I'll tell you about that story. But it was like, you know, you think you have time, Yeah, you think you have time. And I was like, I want the right record. The one thing about me is like I got a lot of

like amazing features, blessed, you know what I mean. But like the compliment I'm getting from most people is like, yo, you're using these features on the right song right way, you know what I mean. I remember I pressed play on a lot of people and DJ Head was at the studio off my studio, and I was playing him all the joints and he was like, yo, I didn't expect all this. But then he said this specific thing.

He's like, yo, I'm the most impressive. Thing is like how you use your features, like you got the best out of everybody, you know what I'm saying. So because some people will get a feature and he'd be like, why'd you put this guy on an album cut? Exactly? You know what I mean? And that was my thing because I understand it's a big deal to get a song with these guys for someone in my position, you know what I mean. So you know, and sometimes it

takes a little while to get that right one. Every time I'm in the studio, I'm like, well this one worked for takeoff. No, not really, let me, you know what I mean. And then that shit happened. Man, was crazy. Okay, I drove by your store like a week ago or two weeks ago. Is it closed? Yeah? No, it's closed for remodeling. Okay, okay, because I drove by and I'm everybody hit him, but I missed something that closed? Is open? Well it's not opened right now, you're remodeling. Because I'm like,

I know you got studio there. I'm like, shit, maybe he's moving. I don't know. No, No No, we're in the back studio. Shit is everything is there, but we're remodeling right now. We just kind of it was time to revamp. We've been there for like five years, just the whole thing. You know, new clothes, knew everything. But yeah, anything, I mean, you obviously have the weed. Uh the uh fuck, it's

a strain. It's what's the strains name? Well, I dropped the first one was Los Angels Changels, and then I dropped a strain called y'allaha Bibi, which was kind of limited. See my thing is I really just dropped strains with like music. You know, it's like cross promotion weed too, and it's great weed. You know, I'm tapped in with

the right people as far as that are. So you know, you know, your people know a thing or two about the weed in the stream and here out you know, saying my people, Yeah, they're doing amazing, and they opened so many doors for me. This whole weed thing opened the doors to all these artists for me pretty much, you know what I'm saying. And I just mean, like Armenian's got this weed shit kind of sewed up and Asians it's not even kind of the Asians. Yeah, they

run well, backpack boys is Asian. Also, we are Armenian. Of course, it's half my people, like literally my actual people, yes, not my you know, shout out my dogs. Yeah. Man, the weed thing has been amazing for me. But I'm like one foot in, one foot out as far as the weed business, you know what I mean. I'm trying to get in it more, but it's kind of aren't you also like a certified pharmacist? Yeah, by trade? Yeah, am, And I own a pharmacy in Tarzana. Yeah. Man, that's

like the immigrant Armenian things. Like, Man, I got my hands on some of that Joe Rogan juice that was sold out everywhere during the pandemic. What was that shit? Oh? I remect Hi, Remember I grabbed some off you? Oh yeah, it's like, yo, you got that I remected shit, I got you, Doug. Yeah. But uh yeah, please don't hit me for no medication because people do all the time that they do, but they probably hit you for some wild ship. Yeah, they hit me for all this shit.

That kind of shit is cool. I help you, Like yo, you can't get perk thirties from me? Go Ford? Yeah please, but I get that all the time. But yeah, yeah, I'm a pharmacist too. You know what, I realized. I went to school, did all that while I was doing music, and I realized this ain't gonna work. If I'm one foot in, want foot out. You got to go both feeding on the rap ship. I fully went into music. But you know, I have my license and I have

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It was more like you know, the business advice, motivational Yeah, that's for his podcast, right, That's what kind of blew him up. So my boy hit me like, Yo, this guy used to know whatever, like he's big, like check him out. And we really started watching these videos and actually it was really dope, you know what I'm saying.

And then I started following him on ig and shit, and then one day he did a post about hip hop and he's like my top five rappers of all time, right, and he's like, you know the regular ninety you know, he's from the nineties. Probably he's like in his mid forties. So he was like, you know, Tupac, Nas, jay Z whatever, And then in his caption he wrote honorable mention. My man Armine is really dope. You guys should check him out.

And I'm like, oh shit, I know no idea. He knows me right, yeah, and he even put the song like his favorite song, which was a song that they would game a long time ago called Los Angels. So you know, then he followed me back and everything, and he was like, yo, we support you, we got you. So he came by my store Pentagon when he was in La Then when I went on tour with Berner at that time, he was in Texas, he moved to Florida. I went over there to the headquarters and then he

came to the show. So he just really supportive, you know what I'm saying. And then that's when when we were in Texas, he's like, Yo, maybe you can do like a song and we can use it for like the YouTube videos. At the time, it wasn't you know, the podcast yet. I'm like, hell yeah, I had this like kind of motivational joint called Sweet Victory, and I sent it to him. They loved it. They started using it for the interviews first. You know, he did the

interviews like he has a crazy interview with Kobe. Yeah. I've been watching him for like five or six years, so I've been watching him when he was in Texas, when he was doing all the inspirational shit interviews with people. Yeah, same is the same as me. So they used it just for their for their interview section at that time, but a lot of big interviews Kevin Hart, ma J. Johnson view, even all the mobsters and shit. Yeah yeah, yeah.

I heard Vlad say that he got the idea from Value Tainment, which was Patrick d Damn's thing, you know what I'm saying. So yeah, and then and then you know, the interview thing kind of stopped, and then just recently they started using the same song for the podcast. So and automatically I see a boost in the streams, you know what I'm saying, Like it pops up on my top five all of a sudden. Nots dope to see,

because like he's somebody. And what's also dope is like any kind of like Middle Eastern conflict shit going on, or even like the iSER Baijan Armenia thing he does like a full like I really educated myself on what's going on night Ran or what's going on in Armenia

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I would say pretty similar taste and rap music. We are your favorite albums this year, of course, Katie three, Yeah, I really fuck with the twenty one Savage Drake album Her Lost. I agree stupid way doper than I than I expect my top ten for sure. Yeah, Kendrake, of course, Yeah, your boy Freddie Gibbs is definitely in the top Levet triple Less. You know, you know which one I really like that. I haven't heard people talk about Montega franch Fire. That was one album that I was listening to a lot,

like No, I mean like that should definitely French albums. Honestly, those would probably be my top five. But I love the Joey Badass one. Of course, Push Your Tea, Push Your T's always in the album of the years. The French album is definitely slept on. Harry, I mean Harry Froden thirty eight Special just put out a crazy project. Okay, I haven't heard that one yet. Lebron's been posting it like every other fucking day. Really, that's what's up. Yeah,

fuck with thirty especial heavy. Like as a fan of Harry fro Beast, you are right though. The French album is hard and nobody's really like, I feel like it's underrated, bro, super underrated, Like French, go hard on them. Harry Fraudby's that's French, that's his sound. Yeah, that's what he was. Sure, that's what the fucking Harry fraud beats. Then he's a pop star and you know, starts fucking Kardashi and the shout out to french Man legendary hit list that French Montana.

He's got a roster, that's what they say. He's like, top five best rosters in hip hop? What's with French? Who else is amazing? Drake? Drake's got a roster. Travis Nick Cannon, Nick Cannon's got it. You know who Loki has crazy roster. I don't know if he's low key Scott's storage. Yeah, my brother, he's low key and hike and Hike. He's told me because yeah, Scott Storge will tell you stories about gross he used to fuck and you'll be like, oh, you hit it first, Yeah, because

that ship was in the two thousands. This show Scott Storte was fucking every bitch ever in the world before any like it's crazy Scottie, my brother. I can't wait for him to do a movie man like a or a Netflix series. I heard he did a deal with fifty. He talked about it too, Netflix series. Crazy. I don't know how stars are just about his life all the Hoesy was fucking all the cocaine. His whole story is crazy, insane.

Shout out the storage man. All right, well, look your tape comes out the sixteenth, he said, sixteenth, Just incredible presents. Ar mean tapping with you boy? Yeah, Run with be Real is out right now. Low music out, a lot of music out, a lot of music out already, but like a lot of amazing music on the way. Like honestly, like I've never been disconfident, you know what I mean. I'm saying, like like when I just said, I've been pressing play on people, like I've never been this confident

to like press play in these meetings. So the no song will be on the album of course. Yeah, That's what I've been kind of waiting for for the album, not only for the album to be done, but honestly, I've been kind of figuring out how to release it. That's why I had all these listening sessions, because you know, we talked about this a lot, Like I had some meetings with major labels too, but that was never really

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