#284 - Marqus Clae

I hope I am. I don't know, man, shout out to my boy Rob though, shout out my boy Rob Gibbs Man, I hope I'm on and b maam so of course my manner the shoutout be but I hope, I hope I'm on it radar. You. I first saw you you opened up for Joiner, Lucas and Simba on tour and I was like, Oh, this kid's dope, and I followed you. I saw you on deaf Jam. How long have you been making music? Man? And obviously you're young. You look young. How are you twenty three? Okay? Yeah,

you're young? Okay? How long you've been doing this shit? For real, for real, though I've been doing it honestly for twelve years professionally like according actually like putting an effort into it. But I've been in love with music my whole life, right, you know what I'm saying. What made you like falling month? My mom? My mom was an artist. Your mom's here? Yeah, for sure, she was an artist. Yeah, she was a rapper singer. So okay, we're gonna have mom coming freestyle too. A come on,

I'm pretty sure she would. She would. We gotta pull up that shiney for mom for sure. Nah, she didn't kill it, but nah, just you know, my mom was in the studio, you know, she when she was my age, you know what I'm saying, twenty three, twenty four, So as a young and I was just watching her and I just knew what I wanted to do from there. At what level was like did your mom end up? Like did she sign a deal or was she was

she was shopped around? She she she was looking at it, Atlantic was looking at her like in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, and you know she was doing that thing. Yeah. So that was like right after the screwed up era, right, that was like the Swisher House era. It was right after the yeah yeah, yeah right yep, yeap oh eight or nine yep, and then I started taking this serious twenty teen. So when you were a little kid, were you like listen in the fucking Gems

and swim Thug and all that ship. I was listening. I was listening to them, but I was more like my influence on the you raped, like you know you signed a dream bill, right yeah, well, I mean that's what they say. I'm not gonna say right like, but that you know that, That's what I feel like. I try to put out there and convey in my music. But I was on like J Big Beans and Alls Pop Beanie Yeah for sure, Beans, one of the most underrated dudes ever every all time. What Beanie Seagull album

did you gravitate towards? I like The Becoming, I like the Truth. I like all of them. The Truth and the Becoming probably my top two. The Truth is the one, absolute worst one. Yeah for sure. If you live by the sword, you die by the sword. I might die in the vocal bo spinning out raw yoh shout out to Beanie Seagull, Yeah sure, Beans, damn yeah. So you got some pretty serious like uh East Coast influence. Yeah, obviously legends from Texas toll shout out to UK shot

to absolutely I grew up on them. To Face Scarface zero Jade, Uh Scarface. What's your favorite Scarface album? It's too many to count. I'll say my top three Untouchable, The Fix and The Diary. The Diary, Yeah, I mean the Fix is like I feel like The Fix was like his like second like a lot he got a new fans off the like a lot of new fans off The Fix, right, absolutely, because The Fix was like kind of like his last real commercial like album, and it was like when he was running Death Jam. So yeah,

he was the man. Yeah he's still a man of lives man, that dude is He's the true Yeah, Scarfaces wanted to go to sure, so kind of walk me through like how you ended up getting on Death Jam's radar, Like, at what point in time did you really catch a buzz out of Houston? Man? This shit was organic, bro, Honestly, I was doing this segment we came up with called first and fifteen. While I would like spit a freestyle and make a beat at the same time, and so so it got the attention of my boy two oh,

the former senior vice president of Death Jam. Yeah. Yeah, shouts mister Clark, yeah too. Oh that's my dude. It's my boy. He's living z now Yeah, show doing his thing. Man's he on his arm be shit right now. But the interns Yeah, the intern shout out Coat signed too my guys. But uh yeah, he he saw me and I thought it was spam. He DMed me. He was like, yo, I want to fuck with you, and I'm like, yeah, right, this nigga said he's seening vice president. He's trying to

act my page. It was who the fuck is this guy? And he was real, you know, he hit me and we had one conversation and from there. Two weeks later he was in Houston and we was talking about, you know, the business and you locked it in. Is it weird like if someone brings you in and they end up

changing positions or not being there anymore. Absolutely, because we always hear that that happens to an artist, where like they'll get shelved or like the energy will change for them in a building because the people who brought them in aren't there anymore. Right now. For Show, it's definitely. It's definitely different, but I would say I was blessed and putting a position to where it all worked out in my favor. And too, what was a hard worker still is a hard worker. And he you know, he

he fought for me. So that's my dog for life. Have any of these og rappers tried to DM me with the mixtape scheme? Yeah? So absolutely, you get like a DM and like for show, Like what the fucking then? Yo, yo, I see what you're doing For eight hundred dollars, I got a slot on a mixtape for you. You got those dms? Absolutely, And I'm not gonna say no names, but I got those dms. What city are they from? They from all over? They'm all over the United States, babe,

a lot. I mean, look shout out to uh. You know a lot of guys have been doing that right the game, Benny the Butcher, Jadakiss no names, man, but you know I definitely got doing I'm like nigga know the same niggas, y'all know what I what. Yeah. I had a friend of mine from Phoenix that genuinely thought he was talking to the game. Yeah, and he was like so excited. Yeah, and he hit me. He's like, bro, I know you no game, bro, like just co signed me and he sent me the screenshot and I was like,

I got a feeling, damn that that's not him. Dming. You you have bryemail box of just a hunch, just a hunch automated messaging man. Yeah, so, uh, what was the tour? Like? Man, Obviously Joiners are crazy lyricists, simbers a crazy lyricists out out those guys, dope artists. Yeah, what was that? Because that was that your first like kind of big tour? Nah? No? What what? What tour were on before that? Loope put me on two tours.

I was on the Stepping Lasers tour spot Dates, and I did the whole Generation Laser tour at eleven years old. I think at eleven. Yeah, I was on two eleven. That was like my first major tour. We're gonna talk about that in a second. Let's do it. But you know what, fuck the Joiner, Lucas and Symbol, No don't. It was a great tour. I'm sure you had a great fucking time. Absolutely, I went there, I saw it. Whatever he was, Dope, you were eleven on tour with Loope? Absolutely?

How does that happen. Man, my DJ was his DJ Simon says, DJ Simon says, man, and Luke, you know, he's he's like a big brother. He was like a you know, a real a real mentor. So he was like, i'mnna bring a litle nig on the road. I feel like Loope had he like cared about rap more. I mean, he cares about rap, but I feel like if he would have just played the game a little like I think Loupe could have been the greatest of all time. He was the Kendrick before. I think lyrically, he's like,

if we're talking about lyrics, he's probably top ten. Ever, I agree like Murals absolutely, Murals pinning the needles. Like Lupe Fiasco is a fucking alien, Yeah for sure. And I think we forget that because like I feel like he kind of I think the industry kind of did him wrong, you know what I'm saying. I feel like he kind of like scorned him a bit. And I'm like, damn because lasers came out. I mean, he had hits on lasers, but what but it wasn't the cool you

know what I'm saying. I mean, Luda Linker, I feel like he I feel like he's like you said, you know, it's it's kind of like if you know, you know, you know what I'm saying, if you know you know. But he's one of the greatest of all time, one of the dopest. So you were getting mentored by him at eleven for sure? What was that like? I mean, because he's a very particular guy at that I mean

he's also like a fucking samurai. Yeah nah, he was like a fucking dad like he was like he would be in his fucking dressing room drinking ginger tea and doing yoga and shit. Nigga was yoked up, cut up also kind of like a low key fashion icon. But the joke yeah, yeah, you know your ship bro for show because my DJ used to get me packs of clothes from from Japan and he was like, this is lose people. So I used to rock out that shit on tour. Yeah, he kind of put all that shit

on itre absolutely lose the dude. So that was laser So that was yeah, that was because I was living in Vegas when lasers came out. So were you around like Pooh Bear and all those a's. My dude, I got two records with poo Bear Man, Yeah for sure. When you were eleven or like I was, like thirteen fourteen, did you go to Molly Ma's house? No? Okay, Nah, it's gotta make sure man. Nah. No, that's about that Molly maul window for pooh Bear. Nah nah you never

went over there once. No, it's because you got good parents. Yeah for shure, shout out. Moms. Did you did you hear about Molly Mau's house as a child? Nah? Okay, Blue Baber was over there a lot. Yeah. I don't want to hear about it now because it sounds like some shit. I don't want to hear about. It's a place in Las Veig. Okay, okay. A lot of people would record there though, to be fair, like the motto by Drake was recorded there. Dope Franny and Molly Mau

at the cribbo Oh okay, shout out okay. Yeah for shure, Nah, I recorded a lot of that shit at fifteen hundred and none study okay, Ranch and Brodie, those my guys fluffing all those were you around nip at all? Yeah? They're over there a lot. Yeah for sure. I mean, so you're like a fucking a young old head, young old nigga. I didn't say that. Yeah, no, that is what I call him. Well, yeah, I can't say that. I mean, you know, listen, do you want to win

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I mean yeah, I mean you've been doing this shit for like more than most people who have been doing it, So does it feel good to kind of like know that like you were right the whole time? Because I mean, listen, I'm sure you've been doing music for twelve years or however long. You know, there's probably peaks and alleys in every artist's journey, fact, you know what I mean, Like, did you ever like I guess feel like, man, maybe I shouldn't be doing this shit, Maybe I should try

to do something else. Yeah, and no at the same time, because it was like I felt like I kind of got ahead start because I started so young. But you know, growing up, coming up, you know, I was still in regular school doing a lot of that shit. I was in public school on one O six in part crazy, So it was like damn, you know, I was in

the middle. But I always knew, like this it has to pay off because I'm putting in numerous amounts of effort, you know, thousand hours and just staying focused on my craft. So I knew at the end of the day he was gonna pay off. And you know, we at the

beginning of the it's also tough. I'm sure to be like a kid who's like super lyrics because like I think we all look at kid rappers like a certain way, especially back then, there was like a certain stigma to them, right, you know what I mean, Like I would never like listen to Little Romeo as a grown up, you know what I mean. Even if like if Lupe Fiat like walked you to my radio show when you were eleven or twelve years old and been like this kid is fired,

I'd be like, yeah, I'm sure he is. I'm not going to listen to him because he's a little kid, right, I can't relate to this kid, Okay, you know what I'm saying. So I think it's dope that you got to kind of like experience a lot of ins and out of this shit. So now that you're twenty three and you got a deal with Death Jam and you're you know, I feel like, you know, you're like again, you're like a new artist, but you have so much experience experience already that you can apply to this shit.

Because a lot of people get they get wrapped up in this shit and they they spend money on the wrong shit, or they focus on the wrong shit, or they get lost in this shit. But you got your mom here, your sisters are here, you know what I mean? So how important is it to keep your family around? Very? Very I feel like to have a solid foundation is the key to being you know, secure, whatever you know,

when whatever you're doing, with whatever you're doing. And I came out super super super lyrical ten eleven years old, so it wasn't believable. So we had to switch to the kid market and that's how I got the record with my boys shot at Jacob Latimore. I went on tour with Minus Behavior at twelve and thirteen. Yeah, so it was like nigga, you tourist. Oh yeah, for sure for sh show. So I feel like everything happens for a reason and it's just a part of my store.

You know what I'm saying. Mindless behavior? Yeah, that was my dogs girls man. Oh yeah for sure. Yeah. I was telling people in school, I was I'm finish going to a mind's behavior like yeah, right right, yeah, right when I came to the fucking NRG Arena in Houston and they saw, okay, ain't lying. How was it when you went back to school the next time? Oh my god, was the fucking man? You were the man? What? Because you were in public school? The whole time? Was in

public school? Like school what the principal? Everybody was like, he's causing a distraction to the children. They I had to get out of school. I had to do homeschool for a year. Did the was it? Was it like ever a issue juggling girlfriends in school? Nah? No, no, I was. I was always player, player, Yeah, I played my cards right. Yeah. So like you know, I got a senior, a junior, sophomore. I definitely got the classes each.

That's when the older chicks started flying in for shore. Huh, you had older ch explying in before you're eighteen for show and not like flying in, but like coming in, flogging in. You know about to say for you now, I wouldn't I wouldn't know about this, Like mom, I gotta go somewhere. This twenty nine year old ladies picking me up. I met her on the minus behavior to her, she wanted to file some charges on a bunch of women. Really what look look some of that's some of the

statue little statue statutory. I would say it was it was it was good grooming because now now it was screaming, all right, now I know what I'm doing. Now, I know what I'm doing you know earlier. Wait wait, so help me understand. You're obviously problem or you're dealing with older women as a not eighteen year old for sure, and your mom finds out for show and she's trying to hit him with that statutory. She trying to hit him, She's trying to hit him in a face physically and

then hit him with the law. Yeah, and she walked in college dorms and calls hell, jesus, what, yes, man, has your mom ever sucked up a chick? On Your Behalf No Album. I had to stop her though. I had to stop it for show. She talked some shit big ship to him. They definitely failed her. Isn't it crazy that, like, nevermind, I won't even go I was gonna say, it's like so wild, like the double standard, like the fact that we're like giving you props because

you were bagging like chicks over eighteen. But if you were like sixteen sleeping with like a twenty five year old dude and you're a girl, it'd be fucking wild. Now it's jail time. It's prison time. It's over. It's over. Lock him up, Lock him up? Man, fucking right. Uh, who do you put on your h town Mount Rushmore? Let's just say Texas because you know Port Arthur is not necessarily Houston, and it was no it's shit PMC scar face zero, This is four right, four PMC face zero,

PMC Phase zero. Fat Pat slash kind of do slash, sure, Fat Pat Slash. Devin the Dude, Devin the Dude is that guy? For sure? Deven the Dude is that guy. Yes, I love Devin the Dude. Have you heard of this guy from Dallas name Big X the plugm he dope, he's fucking hard. As for jo, I just add through on like some playlist and he has like some song called Techexash. He's crazy. I was like, who the fuck is this? I like dived into his ship and I'm like, and he's from Dalla, like Dallas, I mean, you know

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Let's get back to the interview for you. Did you find it kind of like it being a challenge making the kind of music and rapping the way you wrap, trying to make it out of your city a little bit, you know, because coming from the South is so much, It is so many shoes to fill just with the culture,

you know what I'm saying. But I feel like I feel like I made that way to let people know that, you know, we got something to say, backing what Andre said, you know, back what Phase did, because you know those guys were like the first goodie mob too, he communion or crap too. I mean that rap is ass for sure, for absolutely, I mean all these guys can rap. I mean, I'm a huge fan of Houston hip hops. Absolutely. I just think it's like a specific style that people look

for when they think of Houston r I absolutely. Do you have a grill just off GP because you're from age town? No, but I want one, Damn. I've had two grills for show. I lived in Florida and they just made them for me. Okay, you had to go to golghit, yeah, okay, yeah. And then I was at the strip club once and I got made fun of by a girl that I liked, and I was like, never wearing these ac Okay, maybe this is not for me right. Also, if you wear a grill, do you

have to clean the grill? Absolutely not. Most motherfuckers who wear grills have god awful breath. It's a terrible thing because they don't. You have to clean the grill every time you wear it, otherwise your mouth smells like fucking metal ginger vitis. Oh my god, it's a bad luck man. What's what's going on with you musically right now? Album coming? What's out? Like? What's going on? Album? Definitely coming. I

got my latest album, The Mecca. They dropped. We're working on singles and just putting content up, but definitely more music coming, more music. Do you feel like, uh, because you know, right now in hip hop there is I feel like, you know, I feel like there's a void for what you are doing and what a guy like SIB is doing and a guy like l Russell, and you know, I do feel like like we kind of need a breath of fresh air and hip hop. Do

you feel similar? For sure? Yeah, because I do feel like, you know, we're kind of like out of the SoundCloud air, thank god, you know what I mean. But there's definitely I feel like a lyricism is you know, it's needed right now, and I feel like it's being more appreciated now because I feel like we got through like a fucking weird era of rap where it was it was like all time low, and I feel like we're kind of on the other side of it. So for show,

I agree. I feel the same way. It's like, good, who's somebody right now that you're you're liking in terms of like maybe a peer or just someone who you're a fan of that maybe you necessarily don't have a relationship with already. Fuck with Baby King, Love Baby Baby King's dope, man, Fuck with Baby drill uh symbol of course dope. It's a lot of new guys, man, I can't really think of I listen to all type of music, you know what I'm saying, But those are the ones

I could think of off the beat. Anybody on the new album that you're working on, no no features as of now, as of right now, as of now. You go to the Streamville Fest, you meet Ja Cole What are you telling j Cole Man you you are one of my biggest inspirations. Nigga, You the fucking truth, nigga, fuck with you for sure. Yeah, that's a good thing to tell him, absolutely for sure because him and Kendrick

is like him, Kendrick and Drake. I feel like there would be no me without those guys, you know what I'm saying. Would you say that like because they're kind of like the three heads on the Mount rushmore of the last like ten years for sure. The fourth spot

is debatable yeah, you can say that. You can say that I think it's Kanye, because I think Kanye you can put on the Mount Rushmore in the last like twenty years from two eras I think, but I think you could put like it's really those three and then the fourth spot. You know, you can make different cases for future or you know, show it's a bunch of guys, But I feel like I'm stepping into the next decade, you know what I'm saying. I'm one of those guys that could be the front run of the next the

next ten years and do what they did. You still keep in touch with Loope. I haven't talked to lou in a minute, but that's still my dog. I talked to Ant and Bishop all the time. So you know, you should get man, because the last Loop album was actually pretty fire. Yeah for sure, absolutely yeah it was. Yeah, Loop is on man, when I'll go that's my dog,

that's my boy. I just hope to learn that about you, man, because I think a lot of times, like you know, when we think of like these new artists, man, I feel like they make so many mistakes, like I was saying, So it's good to know that you got you know, a good team behind you, bros. So the Mecca is out right now. Yes, sure, new project coming soon, Yes, sir, do we know the name of the new project. It's in the air right now. But I'm strongly leaning on

Dear me, Love me, Okay, dear me love me. Sure. Mom ever helped you write the raps? No? No, no, she gave me inspiration, but no, she never give you like a bar or nothing. No. She gave me like topics and challenges, like use these words in a rap. Like she was like a fucking rap major pain. Oh shit, Like I need you to write a fucking rap about for show. Take ten words out of the dictionary, use them in the sentence, use them in a paragraph, Wow, and write a rap with them. Look at you? You

just had it lit as a kid for sure. Man, it was. It was a hard work, but it paid off, you know. And I'm still developing my craft. Yeah, I still have every day to get better. We keep doing your thing. Marcus Clay. We about to have him do a freestyle and be a separate YouTube video. Go check out the Mecca out now, baby, new music soon rolling aloud this weekend, Dreamville Fast April Boom,