#363 - Fridayy

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Bootleg Caps show Man Special guests here Friday. Welcome Sir. Debut album coming coming soon, man, I mean obviously, man, this album is you guys. A lot of people are looking at you right now.

Bro.

We talked to BT. I said, you're kind of like the new you need the new go to. I need to hook up my rap album guy right now. Yeah, that's what it is.

Man.

Do you feel the anticipation? Do you feel any pressure?

Nah? No pressure, just good music, bro. Yeah, that's all I'm used to doing, giving out good music.

How would you describe the album?

Uh?

Life music, bro, like shoot to live to Yeah, ain't nothing in there.

That's there's something there for everybody. That's what I'm saying. Like, that's why I encourage everybody listen to the whole projects. R and B songs, pain songs, inspirational, afrobeat. You know what I'm saying, It's something for everybody.

How old were you when you discovered this beautiful voice of yours?

Man?

Like, when you really knew you had you had like a unique tone and voice that was very special.

I was like I was singing when I was a young and early at church, but like I ain't know, like I had a unique voice to probably like high school, Okay, my voice is getting deeper. Shit, So yeah, once you start growing up your voice, yeah, and it was like niggas be like then you got like a deeper voice. It was like different, you know what I'm saying. Like that's when I found out I had a unique voice. And then starting to make music every day while I was in high school, That's when I felt my sound.

For you, like, uh, you've done a great job and pretty cool. Like I feel like a lot of artists kind of start off as like writers and they let that rock for like some years and then they go the artist route. I feel like you've done that in a quicker, quicker way, right, Because was it Chris Brown that initially kind of gave you a shot on was it Breezy Breezy?

I wrote Will's fall Off News right here. That was like the first I've been writing for like a year or two. That was like the first big placement I got Chris Brown.

Wow, that's a fucking that's Chris Breezy.

And like that was June last year, right a month after that guy did came out. So like before niggas knew out, like I was a known writer. I feel like I was seeing your name though you was seeing my name. I was seeing your name. I was putting some work in, but it was like it wasn't like, oh he he a go to writer, Like this was up.

On your ship before God did. Like I remember, he was really into your ship. Like, yo, that Friday Due is hard because he's an engineer and a singer. Yeah, because he's probably because he an engineer. Niggas in the industry knew me, but the world didn't know like here a writer, you know what I'm saying. So I got introduced to the world as an artist. The only people that really knew me as a writer was you know, the engineers, like if you know you know type you know.

But I ain't never want to be no writer, bro, I just I knew that was the way that was kind of your way to get you in the door.

Yeah.

Like my manager to me, like when I met him, he like being a songwriter might be an easier way to get in.

I feel like it is the easiest way.

It is the easiest way because because you're.

Kind of there to help the artist. You're an artist, you're there to kind.

Of because look, bro, like when you meet and urs and executive label niggas, you telling them your artists don't really mean ship to them unless you got some.

Motion, because they hear it.

They hear it every day, especially if they go on your Instagram. You know you don't got no motion. They don't give a fun going to check Spotify. Yeah, they're gonna check everything, and they really don't give a fuck. Even if you're nice and ship, it doesn't matter. It don't matter.

Show me, show me the.

Audience, Show me the audience. So if you go up to the niggas and be like, bro, I could get artists ten hooks. That's what they want to hear, bro Like, y' y'all need hooks, y'all need beats. I could do your whole album. Yeah, you go up to an end or like that, I promise you the studio tonight. Yeah, I'm playing some ship. So that's really the easiest way. I

I mean so many grades have done that, like shout to Eric, shout to Neo, I mean ship, Yeah, on and on and on, tons of folks like that. So obviously Chris Brown album comes out and then out of nowhere this God Did record, which is one of the We talked about this a bit on at the BT radio room, but like, obviously, man, this God Did Ship is like one of the craziest jay Z verses we've ever gotten. I mean from performing he Hunt the BET Awards, uh, I mean just just the Grammy Ship he said, get

Somebody else would buy out my manager, Edgar, buy me out my pub deal. So my manager, Edgar, he connected the Eddie Mary J. Blise manager he worked at another pub company, Prescription. He telling him like, bro, we need to looking for a buyout. We needed this buyout like hed one. I'm telling you like he was just pushing that. And then Moneys go by. They finally buy me out with my pub deal. M hm. So we fresh into

Now did you get pretty immediate feedback from Cali that like, oh this is something like this is but I know you didn't know who didn't make You didn't know who actually made it on the record for a while right now.

So look after I made it, right, we called Eddie. We played it for Eddie that Nigga went crazy. He had Cali number texted to cal Cali takes it back like the next day, I need this on my album, you know what I'm saying. Like a week go by, we already starting the paperwork. It's at first it was supposed to be like a like a just me with the keys. How you hear my hook? A couple of days go by, he like I just put three artists on here and a singer said this shit gonna live forever.

So when you heard jay Z had like a fucking I don't know how many minutes long was it? Five minutes longer? Five minutes longer made it impossible to play at radio. I'll tell you that they were trying to make all kind of random versions of that song when they were working at the radio. I'm like, guys, this is too long. Guys, this is not seven minute song is not working at radio.

God bless it. It's a great record.

But what was your reaction here in hope?

Go off? Nah?

It was crazy, bro, quite possibly the best guest jay Z for Top three. Guess jay Z vers ever.

Gonna live forever, Bro, just normal part of that. It's a blessing. Bro.

Were you nervous doing the Grammy performance outside with everybody?

Like? Yeah, I was nervous as shit, like, so they told me I was performing I was. I was bitching, bro, like the whole It's like a month before they told me I was I was performing. I'm like, fuck, Bro, Like, I didn't expect this this early.

Bro, Like, do you like, do you like really like train like a fighter trains training your voice, making sure you fucking yeah.

You know what I mean? Like the week of the Grammys, Bro, every day I was singing Guy did like all day just so it's like by the time the Grammys come, I can't mess up because I've been singing it all week. When I woke up shower singing that shit. I remember, like right before he was about to perform, Calik came to my where I was getting dressed that type shit it's on my TikTok and he played the instrumental in my ear. His whole team, everybody else, jay Z, everybody else.

Talk about like some of your influences growing up obviously being out of Philly Man. Philly is obviously a legendary hip hop city. There's so many different artists. We can go back to the roots obviously all the way to meet Mill and you know, Free Way, all that good ship. But like, who were you influenced by growing up?

I grew up in a church, so it was just like soul for music when I was a kid. And then like when I outside of that, I'll start going to like Boys to Men. You know what I'm saying, Like, what was.

That dude with that deep voice on Boys to Men? Deepest ship? I know you're talking about he was talking shit. I forgot his name though, but that was like, I hope he's on cameo. That'd be the cameo to get like to have him lay down your voice, like your voicemail, like, hey what up, ladies, you call Friday, leave a voicemail and yes, this is me from Boys to Man. Yeah, that was like my like first and obviously Philly legends.

Yeah, so it's like and then it was like right after they was just like all R and B like Jamie Fox, Brian Knight. Then I started like living my life and like Meek Mill, Kanye West and Drake shouts of I mean Jamie Fox alien level talent. Yeah, different niggas don't know, like they sleep on his music.

That first album that Unpredictable. Yeah, what was that song called One Night?

Was it one Night Occasion? That ship? That ship man?

I was, I'm so glad he's all right.

Yeah for sure.

He one of the ones, top tier actor, top tier comedian, top tier singers, singers, just everything.

He's a beast man.

Yeah, and shot to a shot to his new movie The Clone Tyrone going right now, Yeah, it's going crazy. So obviously you you end up for you the catalyst to start writing. And like, I guess everyone kind of you said you had a pub deal that you had to get bought out of, right, So what was like your first initial like real step into being in the quote unquote music industry? Like how did you get that initial pub deal? Like before we really knew who you were, you know what I'm saying?

Uh shit around? Like he was like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, that's when I met my manager. Remember he was like, bro start writing, Yes, So when I met him, I was like making like ten.

Hooks a week, bro, Like were you still in Philly. Yeah, I was in the same room at the crib. At the crib, you're like cutting the hooks, sending him to him, and then he's doing his.

Job getting he's sending it out. So it's like I was made like ten ten songs a week. Yeah. At that time, I was close to my man produced, my producer, the Newso, and I started making a lot of beats on his a lot of hooks on a lot of hooks on his beat, and he was about to get signed. But the person he was about to sign to, they're like, who that on the hooks? Like, you know what I'm saying. He hard. So that's how like, that's how that happened with my first pub deal tape. Shit.

And now when they ask who's that on the hook? They keep you on the hook. Yeah, they keep they keep me. Now now they're like, oh, that's the Friday, Sure, we're gonna need that come over here. How in demand are you in terms of just like artists trying to get you on their ship, and how selective are you being with that because a lot of people burn out pretty quick.

When it comes to oversaturating. Yeah, it's like I look at every situation like do it what do it do for both who us? They like do it benefit me? Or sometimes about the music for like the song's amazed, so amazed, and I'm fucking with you, but it's like I'm down to work with whoever. Bro Like it's just gotta makes sense for the both of us, you know what I'm saying. Like at the same time, I'm giving my own my own, my own music. Yeah, you know

Probably harder for you to give away hooks at this point because you're like, I mean that could that could be my ship?

Yeah, but I make so much music. There's more where that came from.

It's like I got like five hundred that I'm not using. I just wanted to say with the great ones, the great ones aren't greedy because it's just more where that is. I'm gonna just write another one tomorrow, so go ahead take it, like help us out, like it's gonna help my picture the program.

Like in like my music, like I say, and the music I dropped like on my projects lost the melody and ship. It's a very distinctive sound like so like a lot of the ship I make, I'm like, damn, that's not for me. I just give it to somebody else. You kind of you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you don't fit in my album. So everything I make for me is like one hundred percent for me. Yeah. So like say I'm working on an album, I'll make fourteen songs,

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And by the way, David Oh, is how you say his name? Yeah? I say, I thought I thought Listen. I interviewed him, and I watched a bunch of interviews with him from Africa and they were saying David Oh. So when I said David Oh, he was like, you said my name right, And I was.

Like, man, I was like yes, because I thought it was the veto the Vito David Oh say Fireboy, Yeah, Fireboy, Chris Brown, I got Byron Massaliah chat Man.

You got that fucking afrobeat gods right now? That that Taliban's is going crazy right now.

I got the boys on there? Who else on there? And Maverick City. I don't know.

I'm not familiar with the gospel group. It's like a choir. Oh fire I let them on the intro the It's Crazy album. Any rappers Nah? No rappers? Wow?

I might. I might throw some like remix I had. I had some rappers I wanted on there. But you know what I'm saying is timing mm hmm, well hopefully on like some remixes.

That's crazy, Like so is the afrobeat tongue. Is everybody on the on the same song or do you have multiple I got multiple fire. Yeah, that's like that's like my second home. Like music wise, I ain't because I'm Haitian. So that like afro beat feeling is in me. It's the funnest genre. It's like, finally there's music that people can dance to happening like on the mainstream level, you know for sure. It's like the best part of the club night is when like DJ because people are having fun.

My hook gods?

Nate dog Nate Dogges. I feel like undisputed top number one slot, right, yeah, Nate.

Then I'm gonna go to go to Chris Brown. Of course, I'm gonna go to Tire Dollar shout out to Tie, and then I'm gonna go to at the Tie. I'm gonna go to sanfa Oh yeah, like not even though he did a lot of hooks, but but the ones he did d fuck Everybody album look tip on right now.

Like I think back to the video of like when Man and like Artists, and I just remember being like, damn, I really need to dive into this guy's catalog.

If he's making grown Man cry out here, you're making real music, bro. Like a lot of bullshit be overshadowed, but the music, the real music will be put in the back a lot nowadays. But when you're telling like a nigga like Sanfah Special, Bro.

I donna say, like, uh, what what was it like growing up in Philly for you? Because we kind of hear so much. You know, my co host DJ Damages from Philly, and he would always tell me like about North Philly and places like Chester, Pennsylvania, and just like like Philly is like that just that area in general, wild place. And there's a lot of videos that have been going viral recently of like because Fatana shit's really bad.

That's right, that's like near where I'm from, a.

Little bit by the way, also happening here in LA. But you know, but what was it like for you up in Philly? I mean, obviously you were going to church, and you know, I'm sure you were. You had a great childhood, but like, was it was it easier or hard for you to deal with like kind of staying out of that ship.

You know, church was in the trenches. Yeah, like my pop church was in the trenches, bro. So it was like, it's not like I had an easy childhood. Like as soon as you step out of church, it might be a shootout, you know.

What I mean, but you were able to kind of keep It's kind of like you gotta like.

It's a rough neighborhood, bro. It's easy to like fall into in that lifestyle, right, and it's like you really just got to stay out the way, Like just stay out the way, bro, like because it would be like you be in the way, not even on some dumb shit, you just be in the way some crazy way, just like you're at the wrong place at the right time. So what I will say, like I was always focused on music, like everybody knew me, Like that's fried like on some music ship, like you know what I'm saying.

Focused so you don't get fall into you know, yeah, what do you how do you feel about the other trend that's happened in Philly right now? If you think you guys are too rare and just like the dance ship is going crazy.

They have bro, they're having a way. Yeah, they having like it's beautiful bro to see.

Who's the group kids? You guys just signed? Yeah yeah yeah, the sturdy ship is going crazy. I mean, I'm just like it's like everybody's kind of doing their own version Philly thing.

Everybody having fun bro, Like they brought it like a fun.

Vibe, fun energy that was missing.

And that's why I like Afro beat doing what they're doing, Like you being the club. All these somethings about killing and ship, all this Afro shit, Come on, niggas, want to have funny dance, bro, Like I feel that why Afro doing so good? And even the niggas from Philly, like they bring in like good vibes back.

I mean I'm thinking like even like obviously Uzzi's from Philly, right, so Uzzi like doing just want to rock. It's like the biggest song in the club for like a year. It's like just this fun song, like fun music.

Bro. And them regular niggas too from the trenches too, so like don't get it, like you know what I'm saying. Like them they just decide, Yeah, they focus on the right ship, like we don't gotta be on those streets ship making songs about violence and all that. They just having fun.

Bro, did you ever like tap in with like like obviously prior to your generation, but did you ever dive into any of the roots music back from back in the day, Uh, A little bit like Black Cloud's is one of the greatest rappers that walk on the planet. You know, I wasn't really on that, but I wasn't on that though, but I'm familiar, Like I know they legends. You gotta quest love having played drums on a song

Yeah for sure. But I wasn't really on them early, like I.

Mean, you weren't on them early because you also weren't alive exactly, because being on them early would have been you were listening to them m because I think their first album was like ninety two.

Yeah, I was knowing them a lot.

And that album isn't even on Spotify. You gotta buy it like on a real Yeah, it's like yeah. And then you know Scott Storch, Yeah, he was in the roots for that's crazy.

I knew that. Somebody told me that started in the roots. Legend. You gotta get with Storch man.

Have you got in with him yet?

No? No yet? The legend though.

Let him tell you some stories. I know he got some crazy, the craziest ever. Any girl that you think of. When I say this to you right now, that pops in your head.

He is true.

He fucked everybody first, So whatever girls just popped up in your head.

Yep.

Then everybody, everybody, we gotta sit down with skorts. You gotta go out to Miami.

I heard he went stupid when he was up and then he went down. But he's back up. You back up right now.

He got through it.

I heard that story he used to snack.

The amount of money Scott Storts was spending on just like everything was just I mean, Jesus Christ, God blessed that guy.

I'm just a legend. Cousin Mark Sor. We'll be having an argument like who better Timbo or Scortch. I'll be going with Timbo. Yeah, you know, some say stop Scott Storch.

I think I think it's like Timberland's like top three. Ever, so his range is insane. Jay Z he can do Bubba Sparks. He could do it, and he could do it Nellie.

Fortado Like that's why he's my favorite.

The range of him is insane. How you have you heard anybody try to make an AI version of yourself yet? No, I'm waiting it's gonna happen, and I want to hear it though, like crazy like can AI now your your tone? You know?

I mean now?

And some others Crazy Ship they are Rihanna Kanye the Rihanna Tims remixed.

That ship crazy Fire. Yeah, I've seen some other ship. It was a I think it was Kanye and Frank. Kanye is sung a Frank Ocean joint. No, Kanye's under Justin Biever Junk. And that ship was crazy though.

Yeah, it's kind of crazy that a I think is getting a little it's getting little sketch.

They I hope they shut that ship down.

They're not going to the labels are going to start sucking. They're doing the same ship the actors are doing.

The actor You.

See a why the actors are on strike. They're trying to slide in a little artificial intelligence into the movies. Yeah, so like extras, Like they want the extras to be like AI, Like they want to be able to scan like an actor and then use their artificial likeliness. It's coming, bro.

Ship they got that one joint where the boy made a uh I think some boy made a song like Drake Future in the weekend, that ship hit like a million the.

First Oh yeah, yeah, this was like yeah, this was like what maybe like six months ago, seven months and that ship went.

This ship hard because.

It's like also not a bad idea if you're a writer. I wonder if it's a terrible idea to like.

Writers on there right now, writers doing all AI ship.

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All right, So the album's coming out.

Win August twenty fifth.

That's very soon. Yeah, that's two weeks away. Three weeks away. Ship with Day the seventh, Like three weeks What is today? Bro the eleventh? I don't even know. Today's the fourth? Holy shit, dogs like my whole life. I have no idea what's going on anywhere?

Today's the fourth? All right?

Three weeks away the debut album. I'm very excited for it. Debut album, man, Yeah, a lot of people looking forward to this.

Man, it's gonna touch a lot of people too.

Have you picked the next single yet?

Obviously?

The Chris Brown Songs going crazy. But have you guys picked the next singer? You're gonna let the fans. We dropped another one. We dropped a single two weeks ago that when it comes to you.

Who's on that? Wasn't that one? That was just you? Okay, I didn't hear that, So Chris Brown Jump, we dropped when it comes to you, it's going crazy right now, the video going crazy.

And you know what's gonna happen when the album comes out. You guys are gonna see them streams go up and whatever record. And that's usually I feel like that's kind of the new way to you throw out the singles and then you put the album and then let the fans kind of gravitate towards especially with these bigger artists. Now, the labels will hit me and they'll be like, Hey, which song do you like on the album that just came out with no note like Utopia right, like no one likes k pop.

Probably the worst song on the album, Nigga Crazy.

It is the worst song on the album. It's not a terrible song. I love Utopia each on, but it's like, if you're gonna go with a record, you gotta go with the meltdown right to each is on what's your favorite do you like?

Well?

First of all, what are your thoughts on Utopia? It's a great album, great production. Yeah, I liked it, Yeah, I like it. Yeah, what's your what's your album of the year so far?

This year?

Besides you can't say a.

Great question, don't yourself album of the year? And on my phone.

Because the narrative is it's been a pretty rough year for music.

It's been a crazy year, not the best year. I'm gonna have to go on some afro beat shit probably okay, Yeah, I'll be on the asro shiit. Hip hop is like, like you said, it's been I don't feel like niggas. Nigga's not focused no more how they used to be.

Like That's why, in my opinion, the best album of the year so far as Killer Mike's album.

I heard that shit was crazy and somebody played me that John too. It's a joint Andre three thousand on there My Future hard yep. Andre three thousand Future.

Also worked on that album for like four years, so that's I mean, listen.

Based off that sound song alone, bro production, cadence, real music, bro, and that's what I'm saying like that music is not being pushed in front of the bullshit like he dropped the album of the year. I would get on some rap shit how when I listen, But it's like so much bullshit be put in the front of our face. The real music is pushing it back, bro, Like you know what I'm saying. So I feel like niggas gotta

Bro, Like, listen, I'm to get your take because you're a songwriter, right. I feel, for whatever reason right now, like the women in hip hop are like the only people who are really kind of applying themselves and trying

They having any way. Yeah, cat, like the.

Chicks are killing it, like shout out the sexy red dog.

She having a way.

Like I think they killing it more because they being themself type shit. They're not trying too hard.

Just being them and just you know what I'm saying, even they they were origin of themself.

And I also think women are very like, uh, for whatever reason, a lot of women artists are like extremely open to like bringing in help for melodies, for hooks. I'm not saying for verses, but you know, no men and niggas is too. Yeah, I mean, but you can't. You just can't hear it in the songs. Yeah, motherfucker is just rapping like three minutes. You're like, wait, where's the Oh, that's the hook?

Like, oh, bro, these niggas just making These niggas will wrap the whole song and just make the song title or something they said in the song they got no hook.

And then the hook is just like it sounds like an extension.

Of a verse.

And then when you hear it back again the verse, Yes, and it's the laziest.

Ship said in the verse. They will name the title of the song. Oh the fucking bro. We need a new we need a new age. Fifty cent bro, we need something this nigga fifty cent made hooks. Sure that joh Nelly hooks bro Like, so when you're in the club, everybody's singing that hook bro like that ship. That's why I think hip hop not where it needs to be right now. Bro, I agree with you, man, people gotta start making records again. Shout out to uh so everybody.

Look, Friday, the album comes out on August twenty fifth, which is also a Friday. It'd only be right your album comes out on a Friday. Well, all albums come out on a Friday. But we're going to act like

Brother Boom. Hey, what up? Man?

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