#73 - Kenny Mason

I feel like it's gonna be around for a while. So we had to tap in with him on the podcast. Talk to him, get a little bit of information about who he is, where he comes from, and all that good shit. So stay by your radio. It's not even the radio. I want to fucking see. I'm so fucking trained to talk about the radio. Stay through this intro and get to know Kenny Mason. Hey, make sure you go to odd socksofficial dot com. Shout out to our sponsors.

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I was very impressed. Appreciate it. Yeah, talk about like just kind of give me some of your background for people who don't know who you are. You got an album out right now, that's crazy and uh, yo, you can wrap your ass off, but give us some of your background, Like how long you've been making music? You

know where you're from? And all that. Well, yeah, like you said, I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, from the West side, southwest side, and I've been making music, so I probably like I've been trying to rap, so i'd probably like twelve thirteen. But I feel like I became like an artist. I understood what it means to be an artist right probably like nineteen, like right after I graduated high school. How are you now on twenty six? Okay for sure?

So yeah, so you've been doing this for a while then, yeah, yeah, folks think I'm like steal nineteen. Yeah you still like you're about nineteen. You could have told me I'm nineteen. I would be like, yeah, yeah, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah.

So when you say you figured out what it meant to be an artist, you know, some people who watching this might not understand that, because I feel like anybody can rap or you know, put some words together make a song, but like to really like find your purpose and you know what separates you from the rest, Like

like like what do you mean by that? Yeah? Exactly, that like finding finding your voice, what you what you put on here, what you put on earth to say or to do for people other than Jed you know, what I'm saying, saying words flipping words like uh, you know, like you can be athletic, you know what I'm saying, but like knowing your position or like the best position you play on the team, It's like what's important because that's how you win the game. That's some real ship.

That Anthony Davis was a point guard. What the fuck? Yeah? In high school that food was playing point guard. That's crazy. And now he's a center. That's wild to think that that big ass motherfucker was playing point guard. What coach made that decision? That's why he's so good though, because he point Yeah he fast the fuck Like yeah, damn yeah, yeah,

that's hard. So coming from Atlanta, like you know, I feel like lyrically your very very uh point in it, like like and obviously some of the best rappers ever are from your city. Shout out to Outcast Killer Mike, you know, tip guys like that, Like who are some of your influences though, like coming up and that kind of formed your style that they don't even have to be from Atlanta. I feel like I started rapping because I was listening to a little way Okay, you know

what I'm saying, Like just trying to beat him. I was like, thirteen twelve thirteen, of course do that shit he did, and that's what got me like doing it. But like I feel like or some Atlanta shit I used to I used to play. We played a lot of rich kids, okay all the time. You know that I heard of him before. Yeah, they like Atlanta legend, Yeah, and I've heard of it. I never really like tapped

in like that. But I'm like, I know that they're big in the city out there, so I feel like they slept on or they they like shaped the sound for like they shaped a lot of sound for Atlanta and then thus shaping a lot of sound for the

world because Atlanta shaped a lot of sound. I think a lot of people in Atlanta, like you know, I always think about like the SoundCloud era, and like I always remember the first artist I heard we're all from Atlanta, like father, Like there was like a bunch of guys like out there in Atlanta that I felt like really kind of popped the SoundCloud shot off and then the rest of the world kind of ran with it. Yeah, I feel like, no folks like probably like that era

of Atlanta. I'm biased too, so of course nigga's gonna get mad. But I feel like that shit kind of invented SoundCloud or like that type of I think so for sure, Yeah, because I remember those are the first times I'd ever see people like on it, like like go on like two Dope Boys dot com and like there'd be SoundCloud links and ship and they'd be like yeah because people is just driving me sakes, or they were on like z share or like random ass like

media fire. Yeah yeah, And then there was like, oh shit, this SoundCloud ship is kind of hard. It's like I ain't even got to try to download it exactly. You just stream it for show for show. So your album, uh, you know you got one of my close friends on there, Freddie Gibbs, who's you know, one of the in my opinion, one of the greatest of all time. I love for it. Man, I'm saying, how did that happen? Uh? I ain't even know, Like I think my folks like just sitting his folks

a song. I hadn't met him in there like that. You still haven't met him yet. I still ain't met really. Yeah, I dm him. He showed love and ship, oh dams and ship, But I ain't met him in real life yet. Now, oh, Ship, I ain't been nowhere, bro, Like I ain't in the pandemic. Like we dropped both of them, both of the projects right in the pandemic. I ain't been nowhere just being in the house. We did both of them in the house. So you recorded both at the crib, dropped them both

during the pandemic and ain't been ain't been nowhere. Well that's I went to Tennessee for like a month, but it's still messed right there. Yeah, what part of Tennessee did you go to? We was in Nashville, okay, yeah, but we still didn't go nowhere. It was just like it's not a bad drive. What's that? What's that like six hours? Nah? It was like folk. It was like four hours. Yeah. I mean we were in Atlanta and we drove the Chattanooga to shoot a music video and

it was like two hours away. I was like, Ship, it's like right here right there. Yeah, they are cousins. Facts facts. How you know, obviously Atlanta's been wild during the pandemic, because there's been I was there in January and I was like, this ship is wild, Like this ship was why the fuck open the nick. I was a yeah, it was, uh it was. I mean because I live in La so it's been like the other extreme. Yeah,

it's worse. It was worse. I heard, all right, well no, just like I mean, I guess, but just the restrictions, like I feel like we can ship out here. You couldn't go to a restaurant open. Now we were to Atlanta. I was like, yo're I'm over here eating hot wings

and looking at asshole right now. The strip clubs was the first thing, like they I feel like the strip clubs closed for like a month, and then they was like fuck that ship yeah, and the food man, I'll tell you what was overrated, those Magic Cities hot Wings. I was very disappointed. What Blue Flame much better? Okay, cool, I can far with that. And then there was this white strip club that played like Nickelback that everyone told

me to go to. He went to the White Way it with the Pink Yes no no, no, no no no. I went to the Pink Pony with Jared Benton, and he took us to this other place where there was like midget strippers and old ladies, Claremont Lounge. I heard of that. You guys know about that. You know what that is. No, but there's another club that's like, no, everyone goes to to eat food. That's that's Magic of Blue Flag, like no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, some other show. Every rapper was like, you gotta go here.

Don't worry about the music or the women, but the food is fire. I don't know what it looks like. I don't trying to remember the name of this place, but I went to the Pink Pony. The Pink Pony was whatever. Yeah, that's something like it's like a grato type strip club. Yeah. I went to like twelve of them. I was like the whole time, we're just at the strip club. All right, where are we going tonight? You gotta go to the real ratshit five. Oh. I went to all of that. Listen, we was we we went

to all of them. I just told I told Killer Mike, I said, where do I need to go? Okay, you that's that's cool here and go here, go here. And then I said, and he didn't say, go to Magic City, but I was, I gotta go. And then the wings were so tiny. You went to the Blue Flame on Magic first. I went to Magic City first. Then I went to Blue Flame Blue flame was much better. Yeah, that's the food. It's just a preference though. You like rats ship, but I feel like Magic City is like

I'm just in my cuisine. You just just the food blue flames from West Side. You gotta go, can't nobody. I don't eat chicken no more. By the way, I'm vegan. But oh congrats. I mean I think I don't know if that's a good thing. And I feel bad for you. I feel it's a good thing for me. I mean good for you whatever. Float your boat man, because I got now ate too many. I'm from Atlanta. You ate too much chicken? Yes, bro, I don't need that ship, and I know what it takes. Like Yeah, so you

have like lemon pepper like they callarflower wings. Yes, I mean that's but that's colarflower. It's not wings. Just say you have lemon pepper collarflower. Don't say the word wings. But the wing, No, they're not, Bro. I'm gonna keep it a book like the it's cauliflower, bro, But look though, what about it as a wing? Let me ask you this, how this chicken and taste like what like not the sauce. I'm on keto, so I eat a lot of cauliflower in my life at the moment. Certainly don't fucking taste

like couliflower. But okay, I'm saying, oh what folk really like? I think the seasoning is the sauce and ship. Yeah, I like that chicken too. I like to bite. I like I clean the bone. But they got ship. There's like a text. Shit, it's the same bro I have some it's colarflower, but all right, I forget the color flower. Then they got some shit. I forgot what it's call.

But it feels just like chicken. Like I just like, I'll be going through the fucking grocery store and they'll have like the vegan section and it'll say vegan chicken strips. I'm like, these aren't chicken strips. You can't get that ship. You can't get that ship. It's not it. What about like impossible burgers? I felt it impossible? Yeah, does it taste like a burger? Yeah? Take Like a matter of fact, next time you go to Atlanta, go to a place

called Slutty Vegan. I've heard of slutty Vegan. Get that ship. I think they use it impossible. I have somebody where should I go? You you should go to slutty vegan. I said I should not go to summer vacation. That looked like onto a vegan restaurant. You slept, bro, you need to go. We went to a bunch of spots, though I felt like we was like, yeah, Atlanta has some great food, man, nothing like uh obviously hitting the old waffle house at five am as well. I ate Bro.

I ate so much of that ship, Like I ate that ship for twenty four years, like on straight, I know it. I know how it tastes. It tastes same. The thing about waffle House is like you should be only so lucky to have waffle House in your state. I'm from Arizona, so we have waffle house. La. We got no waffle House. It's just old. It's like old reliable. You get out the club, it's three four, five in the morning, like you know, you could go. You got somewhere to eat? Yeah, you know here awful too, oh

out here? Oh yeah. California's got good Mexican food. Yeah taco this bitch tacos and shit on the head. Yeah. Outside of that, h like no boos fire. They got good seafood and ship. But like the chicken is yet Nah, there's a place called what is it called Gusses Famous Fried Chicken. Yeah, that shit, ain't it? People becoming you all? I gotta go to Gusses. I'm like, no, you don't. Where are you from? From the South? Don't go to

Gusses because you're gonna be disappointed. Man. So damn, that's crazy. You got a song with Freddy Gibson. You never even met this cat? Yeah, but I don't know. I always been a fan, like you know what I'm saying. That shit was like, I feel like I just talked about him and I talked him up. Let me see if I can get this motherfucker to answer his FaceTime real quick. Have you meet him right now? I have feeling that shit gonna have. That's hard. We were just with We

just met Drake together the other day. How was that? He's answering, Frederick, what are you doing? Buddy? Oh god, damn? Why are you always fucking going somewhere? Dog? What? What island? What? Hey? What island? Okay? Hey, look I'm doing a podcast with this kid named Kenny Mason. You have a song with him, and he said he never met you. Well look just just uh turn your fucking camera on so you can say hi to this guy. We're filming right now, so trying to do the introduction. Let me let me call

you on my other phone. I'm gone, all right, all right, this motherfucker is going to Hawaii. That's turned just on the wheel. Yeah. If like I just talked to this guy, didn't mention I'm going to Awai, I'm like, probably just like, let's go to Hawaii thanks to Gibbs. You've been in Hawaii? Yeah, Maui. All now, he's a vibe. You've been there. I ain't never been. No, go to Maui. Bro, that ship is uh it looks like Hawaii out here. Nah no no no, no, no no, no, no no no. I just ain't seen shit.

And this ship out here sucks. I ain't gonna lie. I got love for California. The beaches and ship out here are trash. You if you want to go to like a beach o the beach was five. We just went, Nah, go to fucking what this Gibbs cocaine circus at Gmail dot white. They edit that out, yo, Yo, this guy's got the best Gmail ever. That ship crazy. Say hi to this guy. What's up game? What're going on what's going on with the bay. I'm ready. I'm in l

a now ship. I came ahead and do that ship. Really, he said, he's ready, but he's going to Hawaii, so you're gonna have to do it another time. Right, I'm gonna be high all month, he said. All right, Well, have fun man in Hawaii, and uh, you know, do your best to uh I don't know. Don't make the shade room while you're out there, is all I'm gonna say. Just don't beat up any locals. Man. All right, I'm proud of you. All right, Right, we're gonna get back

to this interview. I just wanted to, he said, he never met you, So all right, brother, yo, have to stop the Bootleg cav podcast real quick and shout out our sponsor, odd Socks. That's right. They've been holding us down from the jump man. And they're not only the makers of the most comfortable socks in the world. Shout out to odd Socks, but they also now got the draws man. The boxer briefs are so fire, They're so soft. They feel great on your ass, your nuts, whatever you're into,

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on YouTube. It's like a live performance type situation. Yeah, if it's very original, Like I haven't seen anybody do anything like that. I mean, I mean obviously people do like one tax or they'll do like unplugged versions of their records. But like the way you did it, I thought was dope. What inspired you to do that? My homebody DC thought of it because he was just like, shit, we can't do shows right now, right, so let's just do a show and you can in Atlanta. Yeah. I

wasn't doing that shit. I'm just saying, but you could. I'm just saying, yeah, I wouldn't funking around with them folks. I would not full around with no folks. Yeah, I so ship. He was just like, yeah, we're just going to do a show in this room, and like the first one, it wasn't meant to be like the first one was like you know, I'm doing like freestyles on there and ship, you know what I'm saying. I didn't think it was gonna be like a big like people's gonna fuck with it as much as they did so,

but they did. So it was just like, yeah, we're gonna do another one and like actually, like do it for real? Like you know what I'm saying, how's like the uh, you know, because you've been bubbling for a couple of years, Like what what is like? Uh? I always talk to artists about like what there's always you know, a fork in the road where you could either go independent or you could sign with somebody like where are your where's your head? Out? With that? We I got?

Damn I signed, folks, I signed. Who'd you sign with? We were r A oh r c A shouts over there. I fucked with it because they've also dropped the ball on some good artists, so stay on their ass. Nah. Well, the thing with me is the way my ship set up is like they look like I don't know, they let me do what I want to do, you know what I'm saying. That's all that matters. Yeah, it ain't. No,

it's a respect them folks. They the folks came to where I stayed at, Like they pulled all the way to like un deal like bright Hood and ship like Tunji and s Mark Pitts and you know what I'm saying, and ship they came to my house. So it was like, no, they're good people for like respect you had the nice a nice squad pull up on you for sure. Yeah,

I fuck with them, you know what I'm saying. So it was just like all right, yeah, like yeah, plus like you could like you know, I feel like you got the capability to just kind of you know, be like they're missing what you bring to the table at RCA. I don't know, I don't think about that type of ship.

I mean, look, you got to because like if you think about like who's on RCA, like they need somebody who could be like they're Kendrick, They're cold, like they're like, you know, they're like rapper that brings a ton of artistic credibility to the table. That's that's cool, that's I fuck with that. They're thinking me like that, Yeah, as they should, man, as they sit. What else is on the way for you? I mean, obviously the album is out,

the Angelic shit, the straight shit. I mean you're going crazy, But like what is like, what do you want to like, let's say the rest of twenty twenty one, how do you want the rest of your year to go? Man? I want to fucking perform, bro, Like you want to go crazy live? I'm ready to get I mean a lot of tours are coming back in like October, you know,

are you are you like getting on any tours? You're gonna do your own and some talks with a lot of people that I respect, so that's probably gonna happen soon. And also I'm on like seven festivals, so like that's that's that too. Are you rolling loud? Yeah? Oh that should be fun. Yeah and be there. Have you been rolling loud yet? In life? I did roll in loud in Miami twenty nineteen. Oh that was like the real fucked up year. Yeah, the ship with a big air

riot and shit. Oh yeah that was out there. Yeah, that was some real Yo. It's crazy because I was. That was the year that Josh Jackson from the Phoenix Suns got arrested for trying to get backstage. That's crazy and ill a sudden faned. I was like, yo, roll aloud that year was a fuck it just a free It was like a rapper free for all out there. Now that ship was I I got damn. I came out my trailer and Tianna Trump right by me. I was Na Trump walked by. What you say, I ain't

say ship that she called me out of god. You're a fan. Yeah, she's great, she is great. She's great. Yeah, she's amazing. Yeah. I always tell anybody just go to Gooder Twitter. She got the pin video at the top and tells people tells you exactly why people love her right there off the rip. She's she's a legend, bro, she is who else are legends in the porn game? To you? I don't know like that? No I don't.

I ain't watch porn for real, like and since probably I was like twenty this fucking guy soa trump by I was excited. Now she like a man. That's like knowing who got them. I don't know if you that's like knowing guy if you don't know chefs, but you know you know you know that. N Like, so you're saying the only porn star you know is Tianna Trumph. Who else? I can't well if you if you're saying, you say a name, and I'd be like, okay, I know that. So now so now you're putting it on

me to be the beau. I can't thinking of it. I can't think of like we can go down the list, no face, I can see if they face, I see they face and be like, oh that's pinky, okay, yeah, okay, see I wouldn't even thought of her, but that's oh it ain't it? That's something like ye, she was like a midget that was like the two thousands. She was like a fat little midget chicka. No no, no, no. I met her in person at the av ends. She's a short little lady. Man, she's that's why she she

was so thick, because she was like stubby. Shout out, shout out to Pinky Man. She alleged, Man, well look, uh plug plug your ship and we're gonna have your freestyle man a little bit. So there's gonna be a different YouTube video. We can watch this guy do what he does best. But tell everybody what you got going

on before you get off the podcast. Man. Uh yeah, you can follow me everywhere at Kenny Mason k E N N Y and MA s O N Extra shiit J. Kenny Mason taking the Hawks over the Necks in the playoffs. Uh yeah, all right, there you go, that four or five seed going down. Man, trade a