#296 - Millyz

for a title, though, I don't think so. I think you guys have enough titles to last. You. You know who's overdue for a title, The Phoenix Suns. You know how many we have? How many? Zero? Oh? Yeah, you gotta stay that way for a while because like Jason Tatum got to have his run. You know, he's having Runny Brown and gotta have there run. Yeah. Anyway, I've been seen you fucking court sided all the Celtics games. Yeah, what are those tickets? Run? You? I don't pay? How

does that work? It's like you just got to be like really iconic and influential in the city of Boston and then they'll hold you down. It'd be crazy for them to not give you free tickets, right, Yeah. I don't want to talk about it too much though, you know, because it's like because you don't like, let them think I pay ten thousand to pay ten thousand of pop, so you're getting free tickets square side. That's that's amazing is that through a player, through the pr or somebody

at the Celtics, they just know what's up. They're like, we gotta tap in with the hottest rapper now. Honestly, like, that's that's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me in my career as far as like, you know, it's dope, selling out shows and all of that shit and you know everything that comes with rap. But I used to get hype when people would give me a T shirt so to give me courtside Celtics tickets to the finals. But you got because I wrap finals tickets

and yeah, come on stop. Wow, Like I really sat there, met pissed and kiss watching the Celtics Wi Warriors as if I if I had came back, like if I had been in another game, we would have won. Again bro, and I got a maca the court side record. I think that's why they let me back like that, because they're like, you're kind of like the actual, like leprecha, I am lucky. Yeah, for sure, they should have flew you out to the Bay for those fucking Warriors. I

should We would have won, for sure. It's something about the energy, you know. But yeah, that's like one of the biggest accomplishments of my life. Like, thank my plug so much, and just thank the organization. They treat me amazing. Yeah. I remember last year I sat Court signed for the first time at a Sun's game and I was like, oh, this is like a dream come true. And you sat in the balcony right, Yeah. I mean I've sat everywhere, but I never sat court signed until last year, and

I was like, this is insane. No, it's different. It's just like, you know, I'm a are you like a die hard basketball fan, I'm a diehard Celtics Fanah, so growing up, like you imagine a Celtics fan, and you got to understand, like I really know the experience, Like I'm from I'm from two train stops away. So we would get on the green line and take it to leech Man watch Ron Mercer. Yeah, crazy all that Antoine Walker, antwoyn Walker Man, shout out to Antoine. That was the

shots of the Celtics. Man. I remember watching Antoine Walker as a kid and then he went to the Timberwolves and kind of flaked out. But you know what was great about the Antoine Walker jersey is when what's his name the other Walker came to the semble walk Kemba came, it was the same number, same last names. He could bust out the o G Antoine Walker jersey. It's the

same thing. It's fire it was. That was like a short lived moment, but kind of a travesty that Antoine Walker's jersey isn't retired because he kind of was like the best player on the Celtics for at least four years. Oh yeah, yeah he made the All Star team. Hell yeah, I think he made the All start to Walker wig You remember to Walker Wiggle? No, I just remember m m yeah. So listen, man, uh, how many blancos are

you going to do? Seven? Seven? I'm capping it that seven is that because it's like just it just feels right. I Mean, God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. Mmm, you had that god number, you know, it's the god number. You have a seven on your face as yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a dad of that seven seven. All right, this new uh Blanco? You somehow got a stand interpolation cleared? Yeah, what is

the process of getting Eminem clearance? So the process of getting an Eminem clearance is not getting Eminem to clear it, it's getting Dido to clear it. Because it was her vocal and it was her sample, nothing off of the stand sample. So when I came out with the ship like and told everybody, I'm like, I just cleared the stand sample because to me, those words people don't know that that she was. That song was her sample that

she said for her. So basically how it happened, I was, I was out here in l A. I laid the song, you know, just on some freestyle shit because I'm really independent, so I don't know how it goes without clearing samples. I stay away from all of that, you know what I mean. I never even thought it would be possible.

So I laid the song my man Tens just on the iPhone real quick, did a video of me like singing and shit, in the crib and you know, it got millions of views online, so my distribution perfect Time Music. They were like hitting me, like, yo, this shit got motion. I think we should try to clear it, and I'm like, go ahead. And he found some lady who knows about clearing samples, and then she got it to Dido and Dito okated, you know, took a little percentage of the

record and yeah, and we had it. So a lot of my fans were mad because the song was like short, but that's the way that I did it in the studio because I'm like this like a freestyle for me to listen to her like to put out on YouTube. So by the time I got this sample cleared, I'm like, fuck it, I'm gonna just put it out in his raw form, and I did an extended version that comes with the albums. That's the process of getting an Eminem sample cleared. Just just get one of the records that

he sampled, so you don't have to know. Yeah, it'd be like if someone's tried to clear sing for the moment, be like, it's not an Eminem song, it's an Arrowsmith. Yeah, but I would still say I cleared the sing for the moment sample. Oh man, you and Ray Sherman got a song coming, so maybe me and Swale we got a diss record coming against against Jimmy. That was kind of a weird thing. Man. I saw that, I was like, why the fuck was somebody? And I know Jimmy, He's

a good dude. I just I just didn't understand, Like, I mean, maybe it's just a way to promote your own ship, but I don't understand the thought process of shitting on somebody else to promote your own ship. You know what it was? I think I think my ship was getting traction, like my ship was having motion online, Like well, damn, we kind of thing the album that was their rollout, like we cleared the stand sample. But

I'm a marketing guys, so I already know that. So as soon as as soon as I cleared it, I put it out there, and you know, sites at rap started picking it up and it started going crazy. And the next day I saw like Sway Lee's camp pushing his ship on Twitter. Sway Lee cleared the same I'm like, oh no, they're panicking. They must have saw my my joint out there, and uh, that's when my ship kept going crazy on academics and this, and it helps and

it just helps your ship. Yeah, Slim Jimmy rolled about it and it brought more a win and so you know, Solution and I really liked them as a group. I talked to sway Lee. You know, sway Lee's cool and I could never have beef with like Ray Trema. That's like being a bully like that. Yeah, you know whos on the new album. I got g Herbo on there. I got Jada Kiss, I got Burner. I got Dave's

Big Burns on the album Big Burns on the album. Man, I'm trying to get him to shoot this running gun, you know, because burn like to shoot running gun videos. You gotta the band man. And now he's like big billionaire burn So he's by the way, he's been big billionaire. Like no, he's on like Forbes list, like right now now everyone knows he's telling it. I knew this shit.

I was telling my homies like a while ago. But I shot a running gun on his album before where we just you know, ran around and shot the video. But now I'm trying to do one with him where I just follow him for two days. See like the life of Burning incorporated into the video. But yeah, he's on there. Man, I'm gonna forget people side of James, this incredible artist named side of James. You'll be hearing of a super talented I forget who else she Heroya

said that, yeah me you. Yeah, I feel like you and Berner because Berner likes to do collab albums with people. Yeah, he's like, you know, he's done now. I love to collabor collab albums with people. I feel like it's kind of hard. If you and bern it did like a whole little fucking six or seven people, that'd be hard.

I actually get fans that come to my shows, like in Chicago and different places, and it'll be like, yo, I met you through burn A lot of Mexican guys, the Mexicans of Burner for sure, a lot of Mexican fans I got through Burner. So what was did he reach out to you? I got a I got a mutual acquaintance with him. My man Taba like a like a og from my city, and somehow they linked me with him. But yeah, it was all love. And then he was like, come get on my album. You know.

I came to his session. I had to beat right there. I wrote my ship right there. I got to feel dope, man, because like you are not a new artist by any means. Like it's like I'm not a new artist, but I'm a brand new artist. But we told the story before, Like I met you at south By Southwest in like two thousand. Yeah, I remember I was walking home in fourteen.

Probably I was walking home in the streets drunk. Nobody at the same hotel, No, I think you Yeah, yeah, you was in the line line for something we're we're at like a hotel bar summer. It was like it was like by the valet or the bar at the that hotel. That's like I remember. But I can remember walking down Sixth Street right lost. Yeah, I remember walking down Sixth Street and nobody knowing me. You know a lot of less towers, like yeah, a lot of less tattoos,

but just nobody knew me anyway. Now they recognized me through the mass. I'd be having a shisty mask like this, hands in my pockets, ship like this, and they like mills and be like wow, bro. But yeah, I remember I remember seeing you because I was walking down Sixth Street. You know, I said, that's pool Calf. I forget even where I knew you from, but I was kind of like back then, I was like on the blogs, allied with my interviews and shit like two Dope boy days.

That's why I love seeing your shit go up because even at the time, to me, you were like popping, right, you know what I mean? So you really popping. But it's got to feel good to be on such a long journey of being up by taking this Rapture series to end up doing you know, records with some legends and then obviously Lincoln with Snoop Dog, and you know what I'm saying, Like, there's like I feel like you've had so many moments in the last couple of years

where like, you know, do you feel like validated. I know you've always know, but like to kind of get the peers to kind of get that co sign that's got to mean a lot, man. Yeah, I picked up a lot of cosine, like I picked up a lot of co signs in rap. But then like I got co signed by the money, That's what That's the one thing, Like I wasn't turning the profit from this shit. Yeah, you were kind of doing it. I was doing it

just getting by like I would make money. I've been getting paid for features for twelve thirteen years, right, you know what I mean? That would you say? That was kind of more of the bread and the butter, like I could get features I'm doing. It wasn't get hot, It wasn't no real money, you know. And the second I did get a little real money, I just put more back into myself. The pandemic did it for me

for real. But like I would say, like, yeah, the validation from you know, whether it's like you know, I'm signing to kiss and I'm like Snoop is like a big supporter of mine and all these guys in the game, you know, and and so so it's that, But then it's I see it reflecting in my bank account, like I got accountants now and ship, and I'll be like damn, like I really made it, Like I shed a tear on a plane one time, like for real, Like I just had a crazy day and I just shed a tear,

like I couldn't believe it, like because I was really thinking, I can't believe that I was dumb enough to believe in this ship that I made happen, Like yeah, but it's hard work. Yeah, it's hard work and sacrifice, and I feel like sometimes you just got to be dumb enough to believe, you know, if that makes sense. Yeah, that's the real shit. I mean, you had a lot of I feel like you had a lot of like like uphill battles to fight being the white dude wrapping

about street ship. Yo, bro, it's almost impossible. It's like an uphill battle on roller skates when you think about it, Like, because I'm actually doing something that's never been done correct, Because you know, we know all the different type of rappers that came through hip hop, and it's never been a white rapper with the streak content to run around with jewelry on, really in the trenches, really moving around, really co signed by the right people like that. It

just hasn't happened ever ever ever. You know, there's nothing close to it, except if you're looking at like my guy, like like Paul Wall in Houston, but his content was more that Houston content. It was like it wasn't like my ship. I'm telling intricate street stories to the point where I'm talking about nationwide, whether we're in Chicago, Minnesota, Cyprus, projects in East New York, wherever, the fuck we at.

I got real street people Miami, the killers come to me and say, Bro, I fuck with your shits so hard the way that you yeah, the way that you break shit down, Like I'm really embraced in the trenches nationwide. And no, it's ill because because nobody would have like people used to think like this shit was impossible. And I'm still not, Like I've never had an editorial playlisting

on Spotify like that. Really, Hell no, bro, I got six hund than fifty thousand, So there's still things that give me, Like I love Spotify, and I know y'all will give me all of my It's coming instant because I learned to not be the rapper like to learn a bridge and complain. So I'm not complaining. I'm just saying the other rappers three million on Spotify, Yeah, I got six hundred and fifty thousand without one with one percent editorial playlisting. Right, My shit's a little different, you

know what I mean. It's I mean, you're about to headline a tour, yeah, and I'm about to sell out a tour across the country hard tickets. So I had to do all my shit. keV I swear to God, I had to do all my shit by just showing and proving because the industry did not fuck with me. I'm gonna tell you something I never told anybody in life. No major label ever reached out or showed interest in me. Never. Never, Still to this day, I used to lie about it. Okay, No,

there's interest today. Of course there is today. On God in Heaven, there's an interest today. But I used to lie about it my whole career. I swear to God, just to people, though, you know, just be like I'd be in an interview. They'd be like, yo, so anything going, yeah, you know a couple of majors interesting? Lie yeah, like or I used to, you know, chill with girls and be like, yeah, so you know Atlantic Records they were

actually talking. Never no major looked at me. And I've been grinding for thirteen years, and I watched all their artists come and go, Like I watched all these people who are right here with me get signed. I don't know where they are. I'm here, you feel me? So would you even consider the major route now? That third Never?

I'd have to have the most unique deal ever, because once you start feeling the feeling of your catalog, you know, really residual income here, bro, I don't got it, like you know, I'm waking up on a certain dollar amount regardless, right because of my catalog. I couldn't imagine what it's like to not have a streaming catalog and you only get these checks and then you live off those You're

pretty much I'm like, really bad money. I got a big evance on my last ship, and I thought I was rich, rich rich rich rich rich rich that time. I was in California. Oh my god, because you know, I never really had money like that. I got that money. Boy. We stayed in there. We stayed in the house for like first thing. We stayed in the house somewhere in LA with the with the basketball court. Fucking how very much a night that is? Yeah, it was like I

don't know, three four thousand the night we stayed there. Necessary, Yeah, we stayed there. SRTs all type of Carl. I mean, this is a chain here, this is new, this is fairly new, I think serious. Huh, Yeah, kiss just gave me this change. This is through kissing Masa. You know, shout out to you with the free chain and the free goa court side finals ticket. That's what happens. We

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