#8 - Dave East

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dope episode tonight. Shout out to Dave East for coming to La, sitting down with me and having an amazing conversation. Dave's is obviously lyrically one of the top dudes in the game. Just been grinding the last ten years man, doing this thing. I would say I probably learned of Davis twenty twelve and he's just been at it. So shout out to Dave East. And on a on another note, man, just a really horrible week for me. If you're listening to this on Apple Music or Spotify, it's a little late.

I've just been out of it because I had someone to jack me last week. Someone followed me from the bank man hit me for about thirteen fourteen thousand dollars in cash, and on top of that, took my backpack with my laptop and camera, a bunch of stuff. So I've just been honestly, man, I've just been in a horrible space, horrible vibe since that happened. That happened last Wednesday, So yeah, it happened in Burdbanks. So shout out to

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item or two. And yeah, let's get into this episode. Dave East, episode number eight of the bootleg Kept podcast. Let's go What's up. Man, I saw you, Like I want to say, right before the whole ship got shut down. You was out here in like February early March working on Karma three, and then everything just shut the fuck down, world shut down. I ain't like this is the first time I left New York. Yeah, you've been like That's what I was awesome to say. Man, Like you're you're

usually in la a lot. It's been a while obviously. How has uh everything that's going on and just affected your business? Like like, like, are affected your besides having to stay inside and all that shit just was it was their plans is that you know touring or I know Karma three's coming was Did anything get put on hold or delayed because of what's happening? Yeah? I did

the Drop Survival with November. Yep. The whole month of December we did the European tour, and then when we came back from that, we were supposed to start the West Coast and like, uh South and Midwest Legative Toy were supposed to start that in March and all shut down. Have you? Uh? I gained quarantine weight because I was eating all kinds of I was just bored, bro. First like month of the quarantine, I was just at the crib bored a ship before in the morning I'd be

fucking micro waving some noodles or some shit. I know, you're like a really healthy guy. That was your health ever like affected? Like were you eating like eating worse? Sir? No, just I couldn't go to the gym, so that made it a little different doing push ups at the crib and ship. You had to get back on pull up and push ups at the crib the rough riders work out to call it. Yeah, other than that, I'm heating this thing. I'm a heating still still still still smoking

good all that. You're a pretty healthy guy when it comes to what you put in your body. I remember, I think the last time you came to the station, you were drinking a bunch of random crazy juice. Oh yeah, you gotta you gotta gotta watch what you put in

your body. I feel like, if you want to be here, at what point in time did you start to like give a fuck about your health and like started to like, you know, do some research about the you know, getting into the juice and shit, and like probably when my daughter was born, so like twenty sixteen, so I was what like twenty six I was. I was drinking lean a lot at that time. Right, what I'm saying, I was heavy on a lean and I don't know, I just went through like that was like the first time

a drug affected me. You know what I'm saying. I never did no other drug. But that should me waking up sweats or that. If I didn't have it, I'll be mad, Like that is a drug, you know what, right you'd be like, oh shit, this is this Really I really could become that guy I understand. Fiend Like I'm like, oh, I get it, Like you know what I'm saying, you be needing it. So once I was able to shake that, I didn't want to do nothing else, you know what I'm saying, Like nothing, I've been on

champagne and weed. Champagne and weed. You do drink a lot of champagne everything. Every time I see you have a bottle, I mean, look at it. I don't even know what time it is. What is it three? You know why? Because it don't. I mean, if you drink enough of it, you'll be twisted. But it's a you know, just keep you in a good it's a good vibe. Have you all look at you bet? Yeah? I mean for me, every time I drink champagne, I just feel

bloated as fuck. Then I ain't gonna front lately, I guess because I drink a lot of I've been feeling like heartburn like something here. See that. It's that. And you're also getting older too. We're getting old, bro, you know what I'm saying. Karma three, I know you've been working on it. You've put out man a few a few videos. The Karma series is, you know, I think an important part of your career and your legacy. What what is the coach to this project and just that

series in general? When you know that like something's gonna go in that Karma series, Like, do you approach it differently? Yeah? I feel like it's more uh me, or like more of more of me, not really caring about like the standards sort of, you know, or I need this type of record, or I need this that just beat me just in my own zone, working with different producers and just trying to, you know, get some gift constantly let people know I could rap what y'all fell in love

with me for from the beginning. Yeah, I'm always shock with that. So I feel like the Karma Karma series gives me opportunity to to kind of mix it up, you know, have some big records on there, but then have some ship for the streets, has something for the fans that that's into that, that's into what I do. You know what I mean? I was gonna say, did you feel okay? Because when you first came out, man, I remember being like, yo, this dude was like hearing

your early ship. Like I remember finding you on two Dope Boys early on and uh and that was what you were known for. And then ladies discovered you and now to change the game plan and now and now, well now you're you know, shout out to all the women that are all of a sudden listening to some like some dav ship that they would have never have listened to before in their entire fucking life. But because you're Dave's and you're their man crushed Monday, you're bringing

them into that world. Like what did do you remember when you noticed, like you be you were becoming like a thing with the with the women. Oh yeah, me after perfect Chris Brown. When I first linked with Chris Brown and that went like public, it was over it changed, It changed up. I g ship everything. It switched up. Not that it was bad before, but you know, after after you got a record with Breezey, it might it

might change. Would you say that? I think most of the people who are fans of your music right are probably like me or you know, the homies, right because the kind of shit you make. But would you say your fan base as a whole now probably encompasses more women than anything. Yeah, I feel like coming in, like you said, it was more you were like a breath of fresh air to hit the hip hop the people that loves lyricism, like that crowd. Then it transitioned into

the girls, and then I start doing the acting. So I feel like a lot of my fan base is I feel like a lot of my fan base might not even know my music or that's what I was gonna ask. Yeah, I think I feel like some people just follow you because, OK, they're just trying to like, you know what, Come on what I'm saying, it don't hurt it, don't hurt me at all. No, I mean, and obviously I'm sure it. Hey, you'll take any following you can get, man, especially in twenty twenty, talk about

like I just saw was it? Last month? There was this narrative going around on Twitter that you you're bad at picking beats? Did you see that? I don't even be on Twitter, but you know I think somebody did. They tagged like they put it they posted on Twitter and then they tagged me in it on Instagram. Well what's what's interesting about that? First of all, I don't agree with that, but second of all, you nas Co signed you and and the big hang up on nas

historically is that he's bad at picking beats. What do you think do you think? I think people are there for the lyrics, same thing with nas, but do you think you have a good ear for beats or do you think? Yeah? You know what's funny about that post? I know it was one beat. It was like some wow, and I was on my Instagram live like just freestyle into the ship. But the beat was just some loud ship that somebody loaded up and it sounded crazy. No

I heard it sounded crazy. It took that and it was like, oh, his beat selection is hard, like, man, go listen to my music man bad beat selection. Hey, I don't think Na's got bad beat selection. It's just it's what you're into he let Chris web produced a few beats that he could He probably could have kept on Chris Weaver's laptop. You know, I know you're a big sports guy. NBA being back is a blessing, especially for me, who I gamble a lot. So that a gift and a curse that ugh? Oh yeah, like what

am I supposed to gamble? Bookies? Old? I know. That's been a tough time. Korean baseball, like Bill for real, that that was actually happening. Korean baseball was the only thing going on. But how how they gonna do that? Like they gotta we won't watch it from home. You can't go to the games that they doing that. What are we talking about the NBA or Korean baseball? Just sports in general? Yeah. The bubble. They got the bubble popping. Oh, I'm all the way out the loop. What the hell

is the bubble? Really? Yeah? We can't go watch them? Yeah on TV. Oh, but you can't be at the game of course. Not that's weird. They got the bubble in Orlando, so everybody is in uh a contained space in Orlando Disney World. So they have all yeah, every team,

twenty two teams, the other teams that did. They just didn't make it, but all the games are going to be played there and they can't leave, Like like okay, Lou Williams left for family reasons, and then they found him at he was in Magic City two nights ago in Atlanta eating hot wings with Jack Harlowe. So now he's got a quarantine for like ten days before you can go join the Clippers again. The Clippers are trying to win a fucking ring and Lou Williams is eating

hot wings in a magic City. It's crazy. But and then like there was like some you know, you know, I mean, come on, dudes, are gonna try to sneak there. We're talking NBA players here. They're gonna try to sneak the bitches on into the bubble. Some some known Instagram's thought here in La was posting pictures inside of the bubble and Instagram Instagram by like like point of Elimination found the only NBA player that was following her and realized that's who she was there to see. And yeah,

it's crazy. Yeah, basketball is a wild Well I was gonna ask you, like, what are you? I mean, you don't even know what's going on. I was lost with that one. And you know what, I kind of heard something about that my boy Brick Brick was telling me about that. But how they can't leave. Yeah, it's crazy, like a camp for some ship. They can't straight up, that's crazy, super crazy. Yeah, the bubbles. Uh, we were

talking off off off camera. You were telling me, Benny the Butcher's on Karra three, shout the Benny shout Old Griselda Conway, what's not gonna with them? Yeah, I was gonna say, like, I do feel like there's, you know, a small group of artists and you're in that group that I've kind of kept this rap shit alive for, you know, for for guys like me, for people who

really appreciate bars and that grimy ship. And I feel like Griselda has you know, Griselda shout out to Freddy Gibbs and mad Lib and you know, there's just been a lot of dope shit going on in hip hop the last few years. But I do feel like it's starting to become like all the weirdo internet ship is starting to die out and it's getting back a little bit. Man. You know, like Griselda got nominated for Best Group of the Year to be a TA Awards, which is crazy.

So they're paying attention to what people saying again, and I feel like it's it's it's great for you because you've you know, you've always done that. I mean, like, you know, I think you've dabbled in some more radio type ship over the last few years, obvious, but you've never left your sound. And I never was in this ship for the Cloud or nothing like that. I feel like that was the wave for the last like five years.

Like this cloud. It's the worst ever you could do to get something right, Like you know what I'm saying, Like I just now all these guys are falling off. J Cole said the best right about little pumping those guys and now these like and and now what happened

like smoke purpose five thousand units at it. You can get in this ship make enough money to even if you if you're smart with your money, if you're smart, if you get it, even if your ship is some trash year those bags sad with that brand, these motherfuckers buying lean and and all kind of crazy ship. Yeah, I focused on the music. Man that the ship that got me got me here, you know what I mean? The music what is obviously working with Benny on the project.

Who else is on Carmen three? Uh? I got a Popcorn on there record with Popcorn, I got Mary J. Bligh ship and Mary got a joint Trey songs. Uh huh. Trying to think who was rapping on dough. I got Dope Boy on there. We just shot the video matter of fact, a couple of days ago out here. Think you know the expectations for that Merry record as gonna be crazy since you played method man, it's one of them. But you played mathe Man in the in the show on you know what I'm saying, saying, yeah the whole

yeahbody from Wu Tang on the on the project. Nah, I ain't not this one, not this one. It's crazy. Me and Meth got a new record though static selective Static. Is that guy in Meth going crazy on that ship. He got to put that out though, status a static record. Static got the record, Yeah, yo, Static man. I just want to give some props to him because he's like our modern day primo bro and he's been one thing

I could salute, salute the status. He's from day one, always been like the same way with me, like before the na situation. He was always in tune with me, you know what I mean, the static. I just saw you were shooting a video of Jstone. Yeah, we're doing another one today. I'm locking in. We're putting a little little little project, little a little ep, you know, because you know me, and it was gonna do on, you know what I mean. Guarantee we was was already talking

about that. So I'm gonna do I'm doing. Yeah. Shout out to Stone man. I think I think you know he was always like slept on for sure, and Stone are good, just a good, good nigga, you know what I'm saying. Like I just just vibe like we uh we vibe good, you know what I mean. And the and the music, y'all hear the music. That's why I'm just just trying to knock out. How many records you guys got that right now? I think we maybe like

three or four, three or four in. We shot the video the other day, uh in his hood, and then we shoot him one today. You you and Nipsey were supposed to do a project. I remember we talked about that before. Did you guys have any music that you that that's just sitting on a hard drive somewhere that y'all never released. How many unreleased songs do you think

you got? Nick? Maybe three? It's one with me and him and being on whover put out with being overdel being on Calma three two that was another shout out to Beano Bino's Fire by jam Uh and then me and him got two two joints. I had one record that I was gonna put on Calmba three. But yeah, I was gonna ask you, like, is it is it? Obviously you're tight with his team, but like, is it like kind of weird putting something out with your like

with him after he passed. You know what I'm saying, I feel like super weird, Like the the the excitement is going behind it. I'm still excited to do it, and you know, let it be known that we did that and created that. But the phone call because red a job, like, oh that's going you know, I mean, so it's it's definitely weird. You. I think a lot of people have always kind of said, you're kind of like what Nip is to what Nip was to La, to your hood, to Harlem, right to to like New York.

Somebody who is like a man of the people. Somebody who's never really damn, I got my ring tone on un professional, but somebody who uh who? You know, when I think of Davies, I never ever ever thought of goofy ship or I think of integrity. I think of you know, when it comes to music, when it just comes to you as a person, like what was you know? Obviously you know you've done a ton of interviews since Nipsey past, but we're going on a year and a

half since he died. What is the one thing you think since he passed that you've carried with you and that you're like, like from nip to this day because you know, shit, man, I can't even believe it's been a year and a half. I would say, just his model marathon, you know what I'm saying, Like the shitty lived by the shit. He always said, don't stop, you know what I mean, Like, no matter what what come your way, you gotta keep keep rolling, you know what

I mean. In the fact of ownership and turning your brand into a business and and just being more than a rapper, you know what I mean. So that's what really stuck with me the most, and just trying to build my brand from just being Dave East, you know what I mean to where that shit being something else. I want to build an empire. Have you been dabbling in, like getting involved in other like avenues, like like other streams of revenue coming in outside of music. Yeah, I've been.

I've been heavy on the designer to I just I just dropped a pair of glasses, did a collabe with a company called New Vintage. I got the clover line on the way. Besides from the merch I'm doing for the Coma three, So I got my own line coming. I'm about to drop a cognac based like a liquor Yeah, like a but not but it's gonna be like a like almost like a soda almost like it's not something that you ain't gonna be taking shots of it, like you could say. So it's like a pre mixed drink

like yeah, but it's gonna be a coonnac base. So when you pull up to the liquor store, it'll be already be in the fridge like you just crack it open. Okay. So I've just been trying to, you know, use my brand and what I done got my name to to just jump into other avenues, you know, what I'm saying, other avenues I can make money off of, and you know, just build that future for my daughter, you know what I mean, for my team without me rapping, like the

rap won't do what to do? You know what I'm saying. And then the rap got me into acting, you know, I mean sort of the rap has shown me what it could do, but now I want to see what me, being a more of an entrepreneur could do acting wise. Obviously the Hulu shit was fire, but what else I know? I know you watched, yeah, me and my I finally got my wife to watch it, but she I told her with some Wu Tang ship and I tried to get her to watch, you know, the Wu Tang documentary

that came out on Showtime show. My wife don't give a fuck about Wu Tang clan, right, so I put it on and it's a documentary. This was like what you know? And she just left the room. She's like, you could watch that's what the actual I'm gonna go upstairs, right, she don't give a fuck about Wu Tang. But I put the show on and I didn't tell her it was about Wu Tang until about thirty minutes in and

she was like, Oh, this is good. It's just a TV show, so yeah, I like how they set that up though they make you know, I mean you got to watch it really and even like I didn't even know like a lot of the stuff, like like like and then also just had I had to figure out everyone else. I was like, because because they're not just like the actual like everyone's names are different than the show. I was like, wait, who the fuck is this guy? I knew, I knew you were method man obviously, but yeah,

it was. It was. It was good man. But are there other acting roles or have you you have any other things coming out? Because I know that I'm sure that the entertainment game in general is on hold. We're supposed to have been doing season two already. I mean, but the Pandemic, you guys are supposed already start shooting it. Huh damn, You're gonna have to start doing these acting bubbles like the you know, like because when you think about it, so many people on a set, so many people.

There's so many people on a set, So I don't see, I don't I can't in the future even see when that's gonna be free to do again. You know what I mean, even shows I sold anything on TV. You watch movies, concerts, like, shout out to all the Southern rappers who don't give a fuck right now because they're still running around getting bags in the South. Some of these cities in the South do not care. Get your money, put your masks on. We'll get your rod wave out

here getting it right now. I'm like, bro, what random city in Georgia is he doing? Go get your money? Did you see Boozy hosting the pool party? I ever see that? Oh my god, you know what it is. I feel like, you know, it's as many cases that have been proven, it's one hundred percent believable. What's going on? I had it just so you know, yeah I had it. Me and my wife got it. Well you know why, because I was a stupid ass. I went back to Scott Stale and yeah, I just couldn't smell her taste, damn,

like like like legit. I thought I was tripping. And you know, my my my dog's got a little puppy pad and he took a ship and I was like, yo, fam, I'm ana smell. I'm a good down on the floor take away for this dog ship and see if I just smell nothing, did the fuck what you're breathing at all? No. Towards the end, when I was starting to kick it, there was like a forty eight hour period where I just was fatigued. When I got through that and then I you know, my smell was coming back, and then

I went and got doubled. You know, I got two negative tests results in a row. And yeah, but yeah, no I could. I mean I also asked for I literally went into a club full of people in Scottsdale, scott Still for a while, Arizona did not give a either. You went to club See, that's what they could do New York like like a no clubs all that's here's the thing is And not everybody's on the block again.

It's block parties, cookouts, you know what I mean. That's the new ship, people getting the Airbnb just throwing parties. Do you feel like, do you get into the conspiracy aspect of like ship, like not even just COVID, but just in general, do you like I think it's something else? Beh honest, I don't think this is like I feel like this is all like it's something else going on,

Like what I have no idea we never know. It's like they always do some ship, then some other shit happened, like oh, you know what I mean, because if you think about it, this is my opinion. When all the protesting, what's going on? God bless the dead George Floyd. When all that happened and everybody was protesting, nobody, you didn't see nothing about heard the word COVID one hundred at least a month straight and I even heard the word.

And there's people, some people everywhere protesting. Police was packed a hundred cops everywhere, Like so then you know that dies that died down, and then and then they're saying all these cities cases that went up. You know what I mean, They're still protesting, it's just not on the news the hype around it and died down unless it's some wild violent crazy like Portland that's on the news. Because in Portland is crazy going down, Like anyway it's

going down. To show you that Seattle, Seattle they had that little area, did you like, did Seattle they had like a little the protesters. My little brother live out there. I don't know. Yeah, there was a ship called the Chats Zone and they shut it off from police like a whole area of Capitol Hill and it was like you couldn't go in and out unless it was wild. That's going down. They said that they you know that

that flame is set, so it's on. But if it ain't going, if it ain't like something, they don't want you to feel like they need this show, they ain't gonna show you. Well, they ship. They just admitted the Pentagon just admitted the UFOs are real. It was in Washington Times this week. Yeah, they knew. I hadn't seen alien the two with my motherfucking life. You know what I'm saying. I mean, obviously outside of Custy's. You know what I'm saying, I know how to see some ship

like for Men in Black Men and that ship. Oh yeah, yeah, they admitted the aliens and all that shit. Have you ever? Uh, they probably know them. I know you you the last time we talked to you. Oh yeah, God, I think they got aliens at work, probably definitely on, probably in contact with I wouldn't put that past none of that government ship. They got aliens of work, bro, I'm telling you,

they got motherfuckers that work for the government. Every what do you think every fifty one is these motherfuckers live on base bru crazy. It's I'm telling you, we go see that. They're just preparing us slowly. I think if Trump loses, before he loses, he's just gonna fuck everyone's life up and be like, guess what aliens are real? I'm out you gonna tell them to pop out? All right, y'all can pull up now? Yeah, pull up? Fuck this ship I lost lost. There's gonna be a bunch of

aliens come through this. Uh, Dave, I'm curious. I know the last time we talked, we were talking about it was either your the lean ship or you had about with pills where you said your your your thing wasn't working up to speed. It went viral. Yeah, yeah, this amp ship. I'm curious. Drug wise, Uh, have you ever tried any hallucinogenics, like any mushrooms or d m T. You've done shrooms? Like? How was like? You did it twice? What we were what were you experiences? Like? Uh? I

had I had two good trips. I never had a bad trip, so both of them was cool. But it was like, uh, I felt the first time I did it, I felt too high and I couldn't go to sleep. I was trying to like, you know, you try to sleep some ship off, I couldn't go to sleep. Usually when you eat stuff, you can't sleep it off. I couldn't sleep, So that had me. That was the only part of the ship had me Panican like, y'all can't go to sleep. But I was cool. And then the second time I did it, I was like, did you

see some ship? Like I feel like some people like they say, what you just colors, that's the that's the only thing like a lot of people have, they say they all the walls was mel I ain't see all that ship that color. That might have bugged me up. But the colors like all of like like in this room. If I did that ship in here, all these colors would have like did something, would like glare more like. That's all that ship did to me. But I was like, I ain't see no elephants or wasn't no midges running

out the room. You gotta go out to Joshua Tree and you gotta do d MT. Man, is DMT that ship? See you fear pressure man? You hear about a bread some bread new ship last fifteen minutes, it's it's uh, that's some Jim that's some Jimmy Hendrick shit. It's the dyametic.

What is it? Yeah, yeah, in your brain when you were born and when you die, this chemical gets released d MT, right, and there's a toad that sweats it naturally, so motherfuckers will take and you you it's really some crackhead shit, low key right, So you free based no no, no, but it's like you're not smoking crack, but you are free basing DMT for sure off a toad, off of a toad's yeah, you put it on, like yeah, it's

it's it's it's wild. But like it's like fifteen minutes of like you just leave the you leave earth for fifteen minutes and then fifteen minutes later you come back and your life might be changed. Hey we gotta get some DMT. Bro, let's do. Hey, look I'm down. Next time you're in LA, we'll get aj turns up over there and listen. What's the long term effects of that? Nothing? Nothing? Nothing. Mike Tyson's whole life is changed because of DMT. You know.

Mike Tyson's like, you know, back on his ship because of d MT. He smokes the toad man with him and Roy Jones, I don't know. Honestly, I'm not. I'll say this. I I haven't paid a lot of attention to what Roy Jones's got going on, but Mike Tyson looked like I got Tyson, no disrespect to Roy. I got Tyson knocking him the fun out Me too, bro, knocking him the fuck out the fuck out, like the fuck out. Because if you think about it, even if you were to take them both at their peaks, Tyson

is a heavyweight. Bro is still on. He's a heavyweight like Roy Jones was never I mean I think he I think towards the end of his career he dabbled in the heavyweight division. I always loved his style when I was a kid because he was Tyson. And then you just see the way Tyson is being looking Bro, I ain't. I don't know, Bro, I think Tyson is going to take that. Dude's who you got, Nate Robinson or Jake Paul that's the undercard, the YouTube kid or Nate Robinson who used to play for the Bulls and

the Knicks. Yes, so Nate Robinson. Do you remember Nate Robinson n W the Dunk Contest. So he's fighting the YouTuber Jake Paul. I'm not familiar with the YouTuber. He's this little white dude. He's a little uh and they and they boxing the boxes and he's boxing that and that's the undercalled or the Tyson and Roy Jones fight. Yes, crazy world we're living in, right, I'm gonna go with Nate ro I don't know about the YouTube. You gotta go and Nate Robinson looks like a like a miniature

fifty cent Nate Robins. I think you we was like five foot eight or some ship winning dunk contest. Shout out to day Robinson. Are you Are you still sucking with the Knicks at this point in life? I don't know what's going on with them. I respect that, man. It must be nice to not know what's going on with sports. I don't know what's going on with I wish my bank account wishes that I didn't know what was going on with sports. For sure, you didn't get twist.

Nobody got advice though, Yeah I don't. I'll say this. I'm not an alcoholic. I'm not a drug addict. I do enjoy gambling like weed. Weed, a solid, good, good weed, California weed. Do you think there's such thing as because you know how like people say, you can't fuck up pizza. Is bad weed? Even good weed just because it's weed. That was that was like a doctor Shou's question, say that, will ask me that. So it's bad weed. It's bad weed good anyway, just because it's just weed, or is

there bad it is bad? We just like, oh no, there's horrible weed. That's like no point in even smoking, Like why would you bring this to me? Is weed? Like but will it get you high? No? So the horrible weed won't okay, not if you've been smoking great weed, Like, it ain't gonna do nothing for you at all because I know some people. So there's we that's crazy. Feel it's just gonna. It's just gonna. When's the last time

let me ask you something. You're obviously in different cities all the time, and it's hard to like you pull up to a random city, Oh, I bring my weed with me. You breathe the weed unless I come to l All because yeah, because you can just go to the store. It's the only place in the world where I won't bring weed anywhere else I go. I'm bringing weed because it's not gonna be guaranteed. I run into some good weed. What is the best way to fly with weed outside of Yeah, I know, Whiz used to

stuff it in like theodoran sticks. Like you would just gut the odorance, make a big I would get caught. I mean you just totally like, I mean, no, I just pack it. You know, the regulation has changed flying out of lax, well out of lax. I'm talking about let's say you're going to Birmingham, Alabama. Uh, they don't be on you like that. It's about how you move into like you know you you do it in the carry on or the check it. Yeah, you gotta check

it right walk through. I don't I'll be nervous to walk through the ship with But of course I check the fucking dogs everywhere. But you know what I learned them dogs is not sniffing for weed. No they're not. They don't care. They're sniffing for bombs. Drove me fucking nervous. Like yo, that dog does not give a fuck if you got weed. That dog gives the fuck if you got force blunt on the way to the airport, I got a whole fucking half a bud in the bag and he got this big ass dog right here He

just cares if you got a bomb. That's all he cares about. Didn't even pay me no mind. That said, I'm good. Damn. What is the timeline for you and Jaystone? Ship? Uh? Ship whenever that ships done? Because Karma three's coming out August fourteen, fourteen. And then I got I got Calmer three fourteen. Me and Statish Pete doing beloved too. We about to do that again. You bring that back around. That was that was too fun. Stouts PI had a very underrated twenty nineteen. You know, he put out a

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code bootleg cav for twenty percent off. So that's so August fourteenth, Beloved two and then a Jstone project and I'm doing one with Mary Mary Jake doing the album, a whole Mary J Blige album. Yeah wow, yeah, like maybe three or four records right now. Talk about that

chemistry because Mary is a legend. So I mean, obviously, I mean just to do one song where it would be amazing insane, But no, that's you know what, that's one of them, like you such a fan of somebody, or you didn't grew up on somebody in music, or you've been just you know, chun thing in them so long.

It's fire. Like you know what I'm saying, Like it just put me in another zone, knowing who I'm working with, knowing the legacy she already got in the fact that she even got to bring bring out that that reasonable doubt on the one bad boy Mary, when you hear that you're going she she on Mary on some shit. You were just shooting a video in LA and what I thought was amazing. I just scrolling on Instagram. It was a picture of you and J Coles and I

was like, cool, Yeah, that was fire. Shouts to J Cole. It was that the first time you guys met in my life. He like my respect level for him without already like you know, from a far, saluted up everything he'd do. Big fan of his music. But I would shoot a video on Sunday he was driving Bob randomly saw me and pulled over, hopped out. You know what I'm saying. I was gangst a lot of people. I know it would have been just like over up boy like you know what I'm saying, and kept it pushing.

He hopped out. We exchanged numbers, you know what I'm saying. I was a combo man. He just like I thought he would have been man cool. You know what I'm saying. I just told me I've didn't want to get with you, big fan of your work, said Boomerang. Well he stopped too because he saw you, so he must be a fan of your When I was dope, like I said, I never met him before. We never DMD never. That was one hip hop connection I didn't have. You know what I mean is have you ever previously tried to

reach out to Cole or anything? I feel like musically you guys would mesh so well. Nah, not not not personally or direct. I was working with y Cleff maybe four years three or four years ago, and I know cleft no one, and I mean we spoke about it

right and never never put it together. But honestly with me, I like, when ship like that happened, rather than somebody connecting it just letting having that ship, I'd rather just meet you or we just be at the same place, same time, and then naturally you know what I mean? That was dope. Yeah, that's fire. And then did with DMX was there too. As soon as j Cole pulled off, DMX hopped out. I said, damn, this is the same corner. I'm like, this is the corner of the bill. This

is the corner. Shout out to DMX, man, GMx got that dad boy popping right now? That's the X. How was that the I mean, I'm assuming have you linked with X X lock locked? Then I met actually met X with Swiss Swiss Beats back in New York. But yeah, I've been around X a few times. X man cool. I saw GMx is I think he's working on on the album right now. You watched the verses whatever Snoop? Yeah, though, man, they shouldn't have put X against Snoop. That was good

for the coach, it was. It was I think some of those battles, it's like it doesn't matter who wins, like Riser Verse Primo, it didn't matter who won. It was like, yo, it's Riserverse Primo. Like you just want to watch, just enjoy, Like who gives a fuck? Who will to watch it? Yeah? They're talking like I think the next the Rick Ross two chains one just got locked in, which would be crazy change. Yeah, Swiss Chains

got some records. I think. I think a lot of people will say Ross, but I think you got Just when you just said that, I thought about it, Change got some. Of course, I've already thought about it. I've already thought in my head when he was boy, who could beat two change change joints? Think about all the features though nice feature game is a feature run was crazy crazy? Yeah, that'll be wild, like I might have. He might have the meanest feature run in hip hop history,

either him or Wayne. Wayne had that run to like always crazy. But I think it's changed. Change was on everything, everything, body, mercy. You know what I'm saying. That's gonna be a good one. I I saw you saw Juicy J challenge your man Nods to a versus battle Uns. No, I mean it's not gonna happen because that'd be ridiculous. I don't No, I don't see it either. That's a wild thing to do. If you're Juicy J to challenge nas. Come on, bro, but who do you I mean obviously besides jay Z?

Like who if you if you had to. You know, you have a close relationship with nas, Like, who do you think would be a dope opponent to see to battle him? Uh mm hmm, that's coold. Damn, that's tough. I almost feel like it would have it would have to be him, I was to say it, it almost have to be him in hope or somebody like would yeah, or someone like Snooper d m X one of those like yeah, like like anas and and Snoops ing would

have been dope. I would have been dope. Uh I think yeah, I would say, oh, bro, it would have to be that would be that would be the most that would make the most sense to me for them to do, because that's who's that always been that rivalry. Hey, let me ask you this, Dave. You're a stellar MC, You're one of the jedis. What song did you get back from somebody who sent you a feature that made you either a want to change your verse, change your verse, or be like, you know what, I'm just gonna have

to hold the l on this song if ever? Uh uh Forbes list, Okay, the first record I deal with, YEP, that was a crazy record. I wanted to change my verse, but I just say, you know what, I'm a rock because you know what it is with me. I like respect the the sport, you know what I mean? So like, if that's the verse you laid, that's the verse you laid, Like, you know what I'm saying, let's we if we do

it together, we do it together. But I have I did that verse is probably to him recording it, and then he sent that back and I was like, did you know that NAS was gonna get on it when I told me no, when I laid my part. No, no, no, no no, That's what I'm saying. If you would have if you would have known that, then I probably would have did a whole another verse. But that was just, you know, that was what he picked. And then he

was like, it was up with that. I'm playing the records, he said, So with that one, I'm like, all right, and he burnt that ship. He was crazy. I'm like, oh man, but I'm like, you know what is NAS? Like? You know what I'm saying, let me ask you something. There's a what I'm gonna do. There's a big I feel like there's a big community of people who think it was written. Is NAS's best album that I've been seeing come to the forefront. Lightly, I'm an nomadic guy. What,

in your opinion, is Nas' best album? It was written? Okay to me that that's more my my time, you know, Ellmatic Affirmative Action is one of my favorite NS workers ever. Yeah, crazy, like a Z kicked that bitch off something crazy, crazy, just that whole beat selection on that see they talk about beats, the message it was written. You're talking about

beat selection. I think the beat selection. I just think the beat selection portion of career started like after later later, because you listen to God's Son and the beats are fucking crazy. But like hip hop is dead, there was a few that you were like, okay, well, like you know what you know? Yeah, but I would say it was written. I do think who do you think is got the best of ear for beats? If we're talking, I think Ross my opinion, Ross got one of the

hardest for beats. Ross got a good ear for beats. Uh kids got a good ear for beats. To kiss Jada definitely got a good I think who else? Mm hmmm. I fel like Weeze always had a good head for beach to Wayne for sure. Have you ever considered something that I think that's been dope lately is artists doing full projects with producers, right, So, like Freddy did Mad Live Shit, then he did the Alchemist project. Conray did

a whole project with Alchemists. I think it'd be super dope to just hear you do just lock in with one producer cohesive album. Is that something you've ever considered? You know? It's crazy with that. I got like maybe three of those in the works right now, Like I just sain't like all the way like got in that bag just because of the other music I'm working on. But Shouston, Mike and Keys, we're doing the project just they producing the whole thing. They actually did Handsome and

Minutes off Coma three. I linked up with them through nep yep uh a Rap Music. We got maybe seven records. It's just straight a rap, you know what I mean. And Booting Grants that's my home team. He did and work doing all my ship for years. So I was gonna say I would like three, maybe three different tapes.

I think, Yo, you gotta like, I would just love to hear you lock in just with like just nothing but just you know, Razor blades on Ikea fucking plates leads I key or like maybe like no, who ain't got with yet that I'm down to get with out. I was gonna say, I was gonna say an Alchemist project, but I've been not like even I've been in tune with them tape like I love them tapes Action Bronson was doing with him, Oh my god, you know, like all them tapes is because just the way he put

a project together. Action was really good at working with whole producers because he would do some ship with party supplies or yeah, actual producer and like, yeah, but you know what it is with me, I feel like that would that would make an ill sound just because I've always had three beats from this producer, two beats from this producer from this, but like there's always been a mixture, you know what I mean. So that's definitely something I'm

gonna do. That's something I'm working on now, but that's coming up. Do you have a relationship with Alchemists? Yeah? Yeah, Oh my god. Yea be big Man was my guy. Have you and Primo ever worked together? Yea, Primo's on the inshore of Survival? Oh that's right that we talked about that. Yeah, but he didn't do the beat right, he just did did the scratching. But we got some We got Me and Primo I think got two records because I went to his studio to actually do a

record for Survival and we laid that. But then once I got the record and the rest of the songs for the album, it didn't mess. But yeah, that's the big broh. Yeah, when you like, uh, when it's a premo beat, do you feel the same type of expectations as like as as as if you know it's like you're getting on the record with nas exactly same. Like That's what I feel like made me push my pen

earlier in my career. I mean like once I got people knew about me, Like I was working with certain people, I was like, I got the rap, I got the you know what I'm saying, I got to come with it. Each time I'm being heard, I gotta come with it. So definitely with certain producers, like I grew up through all of that. These this is all people that I was reading in the Source magazine and always read you know what I'm saying. So now when they fancy me, you know what I mean, and they letting me know

that what I'm doing is dope. I got to try to like exceed that expectation like even more, you know, I mean I was. I just saw something online. They were talking about how most rappers don't write down anything anymore, and that I think it was I might have been on on Everyday Struggle. Wayna was talking like how like those books, like a lot of people's rhyme books one day are going to be auctioned. You know what I'm saying. Do you keep your rhyme books together? Do you even

write anymore? Like what's your process when it comes to like writing, haven't wrote nine down since belove it. So when you're recording, do you do you punch in or you already got the verse? Like like you go line by line? Depends. Sometimes I punch like line by line

or sometimes I have the vine. I have that shit in my head, I mean, and then I'll even if I got the whole rhyme, I might do like eight me that didn't do the next eight, like you know what I'm saying, But the writing down, I stopped writing working with styles when me and Stass beloved that made me put my pen up. I stopped. I mean, I mean, I'll still jot ship down on my phone, certain little clever little lines and balls, so I can remember it well. I say it in my voice. Don't save it? Was

that because styles is like that? Or don't you don't write nothing. So I'm sitting there watching that. I'm in the boot. I'm in the in the little area with my man days with the engineerl Pools. I'm writing the ship. He's just walking around. He cut all the lights of he's smoking, he's walking around, beat knocking, he's going to move spitch twelve straight. Wait, So I gotta now, I gotta challenge myself now. But that made me just get sharper. You know what I'm saying. He was and me listening

to my own music. You know, even if you don't feel like you're reading it, you're reading it. You're right, you know what I'm saying. If you don't, if you if you don't remember that, even if you write it down, you should still memorize it before you go record it, because if you holding it here, you you still reading it. You know what I mean, regardless how you feel. So I just got more emotion in my music. Do it

the other way. I'm reading it like doing it from my mind because when I like say, I go do a freestyle on flex or whatever, I ain't reading off my phone that shit, I don't memorized, and I didn't you know what I'm saying, So it's more emotion behind it. It's more I know what I'm saying, like I'm not trying to figure out what I'm about to say, like you know, I mean, I know what I'm I'm already

knowing what I'm coming with. So it's just strong. And then when I was listening to Jay and all these dudes that they sit never wrote, you can hear it. It sounds like they wasn't wrong. You could tell the difference as when you hear shit yeah, Eminem rights, you could tell you know what I mean? Like and I ain't never been around Eminem, but you could just you know what I'm saying. It's too you know what I mean, You're not rapping Nobody's remember like it's that's too hard, bro.

That's still bad for like the generation of children right now who only know Eminem for like his last three or four hourbums. Because his new album is is Dope. I'm not even go front that the music to be murdered by ship was fire. The last few prior to that were the history of for for for the future forever, Like you know what I'm saying, he never raps do another song. Well, I'm curious if we're taking out accolades, if we're taking out record sales lyrically, who do you

think is the best ever? Because I got a few guys that I'm like, I think black thoughts in that convo. Royce is in that convo, get busy, busy, Eminem's in that convo obviously, but like who do you got up? I mean nas, of course, let's go hole. There's guys like Sean Price, God rest his soul was like one of them dudes, you know what I'm saying, who didn't have the record sales, but like by God, talk that talk uh big L for show, Big L l L was different with the how old are you da? Schemes?

Thirty one, so we're almost the same age. So I remember as a kid, I lifestyles are the poor and dangerous. I didn't hear until after the Big Picture dropped. So I went to the warehouse, I bought the Big Picture. And then there was that Napster wave. Remember when Napster was talking. But I remember, yeah, Kaza, you would go online and you download all these free styles, and I remember the first time I heard the jay Z big L free style. It was like seven minutes big L

washed stretching, stretcher, Yeah, stretching, babido. That was like but yeah, like big L man fuck, big L was so fire and it looked like then though like a lot of people you see flow got they got ella later on that back then he was talking like that, like sh Russian piece. That was different. Yeah, well you I would say, Andre three thousand wheezy. Uh. There's a few lyricists like

that could rap rap rap pusher. I put pushes up there, Freddy Gibbs us up there, had a crazy career, fred the God's son, Fred the p Yeah you know what I mean, Like it's a few, it's a few. Yeah, shout out to big L Man. I do feel like we our generation always brings big L up, But I don't feel like like kids really I put Kim in that.

I put Kim in that. Like I feel like Caim was one of the ilis with the the like uh like like make like he was like he had to wave like you know what I'm saying, Like he could he can, let you know, he could out wrap everybody and he could play something I would enjoy. I just I feel like him and Joel's had some of the most unconventional rhyme schemes where they would rhyme the same ship, like six lines in a row, but it'd still be fire. It was. It was that was. I feel like they

they just created an error. Oh for sure, what I'm saying. They created free Jewel Santana. Yeah, free Jewel's. They created an era. Who I think there's three of those eras out of New York work, at least from our life, right because Wu Tang was popping, but we were like kids, like real small kids. I was, man, yeah, but we're talking d block, dipse at G unit. Those three movements were fucking that's my that's my life. That's me right there. That's what what I came up on. What which Which

was your favorite out of those three? Uh staus p Personal relationship aside. Yeah, i'm a i'm a I'm a i'n say like this. They always my favorite at different times. So I had my time of G Unit, like when fifty was dropping the mixtapes. I was locked into that shit crazy, you know what I'm saying. Staves was always my favorite rapper during even during all that time, so I was always listening to d Block and then Dip

shit was you know what I'm saying. I actually was around them, seeing them like yeah, all three of them at different times, but I was, you know, I mean I didn't I probably never would like Pick and I mean I can say I'm personally now hosts with Dip said in the Locks, you know what I mean? I heard that Lloyd Banks is working on coming back. Yeah, I had Banks on what was the project? What project I had Banks on? What was that P two? Yeah?

To think so Banks he retired and then I'm hearing he's another one that Yeah we're talking about back to that list of the Yeah, put that Banks work out that victory Lloyd Banks on that bro. There was this like best the Lloyd Banks Volume two mixtape that I used to sell with the Swami, that was just like non stop, like you gotta put Banks on that list, all of them, all them ju and free styles. He

was going crazy. I do feel like it's dope to to see like Griselda's like I feel like as far as a movement out of New York, it kind of just gives me that that nostalgia. I feel like that's what really makes like they all individually super fire, but they they reminiscent of that those times of a group or a crew. Each one of them is different, and they all got a different swag, a different stab, but they are a crew, you know what I'm saying, Like

I came out dolo, Yeah, Davies, you know what I'm saying. Like, but when that that that crewel essence is fire, like you know what I'm saying. Like that, That's why I really like be sitting back watching them because they all individually can spit, but when they move together, it's like, you know what I'm saying, it look it looks it looks dope. It reminds you of that that that g unit, that d block, Like you know what I mean to

remind you of that? And each of them are you know, like west Side Gun, You're gonna get that fly ship. They all got a different but that's what make it dope. None of them is, none of them alike, you know what I'm saying. With dipset, none of them was like that's how different, and none of them was alike. You know what I'm saying, yo, share, I feel like we got to give styles pe his flowers while he's still here because he's one of the all time grades. Give

us like a cool Stoles peace story. You got, man, that that that nobody knows about, that you haven't talked about with Pe. I got a bunch of stories with Pete. I can honestly say this. My best friend passed this year, King Shooter. Uh my look video out now by the way. Yeah, that's so. But he is the only rapper. I mean a lot of people reached out and you know, said the condulences, but Peep he called me. He said, Yo,

pull up to the juice ball. You know what I mean, Come let me come, let me give you a hug. You know what I'm saying, Like, so that just showed me a he's a you know what I mean. We I just my vibe for him is just different, you know, I mean, because it's beyond the rap. He really that's really big, bro, you know what I mean. But he

was one of the only ones that did that. You know, I mean, I got a lot of friends in the in the hip hop industry, you know what I mean, or or or even I think with with with like we use that word friends in the hip hop industry. I feel like a lot of the relationships artists have with each other it's it's they're very like finnicky like it's almost like, you know how it is you run into an artist somewhere, yehs break up a lot of

people you're cool for the moment. I can count on maybe one hand people that since I came in but I signed with tenty fourteen, that we've built the relationship and that's my guy to this day. How's your friendship with Nas in twenty twenty? Solid? Solid, same, same, Yeah. I feel like Nas is one of those guys who we like. We don't know as much about Nas as we know about all these other legends because he is

so low key. It's like his character in Belly is like low key, like since hearing Belly is kind of like the way Nas is in real life, like the more low key guy. You know, Buns was wild. But you know, I feel like you learn in this industry, man, when you've been in this as long as Nas. You know what I'm saying, You don't ad your little mistakes. You don't have you slip. You understand everything ain't for the public. Everything ain't for the world to see, you

know what I mean. You want that peace of mind, that privacy, and that's that's some shit I be schooled like it's getting from him. Like that's why a lot of you don't see me in every headline, every this one. I didn't have my little troubles here and there, but for the most of the part, I be out the way.

Do you have you ever? We were talking earlier about how the last like three four or five years it's been about the clout bullshit, and I think like a perfect example of that is like what's going on with six ' nine right now. It's like a spectacle more than it's about his music. But have you ever felt any pressure? No, No No, I'm not I'm not asking you

about him. I'm just saying, like, like, have you ever felt any pressure to like do more bullshit on Instagram or or like just based on that, because I feel like the entertainment industry has been in such a weird space, specifically hip hop, because we've been seeing people who are just Instagram guys getting record deals like actual Instagram dudes getting signed because they have followers and shit, and it

hasn't worked out for anybody yet. The record, I got a lot of people that ain't on Instagram, you know what I'm saying. Like a lot of my people that I know or that I grew up with or I be around, they ain't got Instagram pages. So ata ones that that salute me? And you know what I'm saying when they see me outside somewhere, like, keep doing what you're doing, homie, Like you know what I'm saying. You move, We like how you move, like, you know what I'm saying.

So I can't be one way like that. But then't be a goofy on the internet, you know what I'm saying, or just doing shit to do it like? And I feel like everything you put on the internet is going It is public record and it's there forever, it's gonna be there. So my daughter grow up and see, oh dad, he was a goof You were doing some stupid wo Like, Nah, it ain't gonna be none of that, you know what I'm saying. There's a lot of shit you can't help. You get caught up here and there. But as far

as the things that's in my control. I'm never gonna goof off. That's fair. Karma three is coming out August fourteen, fourteenth. We're here. A whole project with Mary J. Blige is on the way. Yeah, that's gonna be. That's different. J Stone Project on the Way, Stone Project on the Way. But love it too. What are you cooking? Man? That's what the quarantine did for me. Listen, Dave, you move like you move like an independent artist with the amount

of shit you're putting out. Hey, man, I like to work. If it's one thing anybody has seen about me since the day you heard the name Davies, I've been working. You know what I'm saying. It ain't never been no where anytime. It's a. It's a. It's a it's something not coming out from me. It ain't got nothing to do with me. You know what I'm saying. It's higher powers, not because of you. It ain't because of me. If it's up to me, I'm going drop. I'm gonna give

you music, I'm gonna give you visuals. I'm gonna give you everything I could give you. You You know what I'm saying. Tomorrow ain't promised, so I got to go. That's how I sit and watch pot documentaries and Nip all these people that that that passed on and they was working like they knew they was gonna go. You know what I'm saying, I'm not thinking in my mind I'm gonna go, but I gotta leave shit here for when I do leave,

you know what I'm saying. So in the meantime, while I do got while they all the girls is saying, Oh he's handsome and I got my good health and I'm gonna work. I ain't got time to just be Nah, I made it. I'm Dave's all dropped. Next year, I got to go. Let me ask you, man, I don't know if you had a relationship with Pop Smoke, but obviously he's from New York. Great, we got great So you got some unreleased music with Smoke. But I'm curious, like his passing was so tragic, man, I just I

talked to him the night before he died. You know what I'm saying, Like, great kid, man, like seeing that happen. Obviously, you being so close to Nip and having him passed away he passed, does that affect you at all? Being a public person who obviously comes from your background, and

be around certain certain environments. Do you do you like become a little bit more protective, do you you like even paranoid might even be award like like like is that something where you like adjust the way you moved? Because fuck man, like it's you know what's crazy about that before and before that happened to him? Or that my first album I dropped on paranoia, yep, And that's what that was. If you go watch them interviews, that's what I was talking about, the same shit that that

you know, unfortunately happened to them. Like, but I've been felt like that, you know what I mean. It's just that kind of make like scared me more. Like damn, you could be that lit, you could be that known, you know what I'm saying, Like in Hollywood Hills, you could be that known though, like with everybody, Like you know, I'm far away from home, that far away from anybody you probably got any personal beef with. But it's all

about how you moving, you know what I mean. That's one thing I'm learning about life is like, you know, some shit is just out of your control, but you gotta pay it. Once you become a certain figure to the world, you gotta pay attention to every move is chess. You know what I'm saying, Like it's not or I could just you gotta really be Oh no, I can't

move like that. Let me send him to go do that, or I gotta let me stay here, like because you don't understand, Like you don't know your effect on people. Most of the time you've seen people they want to take pictures. You think, and it's love, But you don't know how a person really knowing about you or what they would do to you to get their name. What Jay said, if I shoot you, I'm brainless. You shoot me? You were famous? Yeah, you know. I mean that's a fact.

Like you know what I mean, So I just use both. I was, like I said, right before that happened with Pop Smoke, we was in the studio every day for maybe six days. Yeah, talk about your's relationship. I wasn't really aware that you guys were Like he was locked in anytime I'd be in quality being here. He knew I was in the building, coming there, come in the room. You know what I mean. Me him in Trouble to the record Trouble from Atlanta. In Trouble, he and Pop

did like three four joints. Last time we spoke, it was all star. I was in Chicago, so you're coming out here. He was like, Nah'm about to go to La whoo. All right. You know what I'm saying, I hit you want to get back to New York. That shit happened. But yeah, I mean that kid was a superstar even when you like just meet him, Like what was something something about about him that you kind of

took with you in the short amount of time. You guys, it was that good energy like he was he like he really Uh it was one of them people that liked the room up. You know what I'm saying when he come in the building, Like everybody don't got that, and it don't take jewelry, It don't take none of that. Like some people just got that or you know what I'm saying, Like Pop had that, you know what i mean.

He had a good oral around him, good vibe about him, and you could just tell he was excited to be escaping poverty, escaping the ship we come from, you know what I'm saying. You could tell he was just excited to be getting up out of that. So that that that crushed me. You know what I'm saying that hurt. I was. I'm still more than Nip thinking about Nip very ever, you know what I'm saying. And then that should happened, and then my boy, my boy should have

diedrect and this past May. So it's been these last two three years been nasty as far as people you know, dying. But I just I take each experience and try to move or do something with it. Everything I got from Nip and the time I got to be around him, fortunately, I try to apply it to my life, you know what I mean. Here it is, man, we look the album is dropping, and hopefully we just get a lot, a whole lot of music the rest of you. I mean, got four videos off the album so far. Yeah. I

did handsome minutes, believe it or not. My low, uh, my low not on it. I did. That was like a tribut record for my boy. But I just shot Mission featuring Jozzie. Shot that yesterday. That's going. I'm gonna drop that. The data that's like the it's like the first big video, you know what I mean. But mother

Joints is running up right now. I want to I'm going now, I'm gonna go visual crazy because I'm shitting on a lot of music, and it's also been hard to do videos, like yeah, it's just like when the world was closed up, it was you really couldn't you know what I'm saying. Camera crews wasn't trying to really

do nothing. Plus motherfuckers look at you crazy. If it March, you was out of the street shooting videos and I've ever cast it over had to apologize because he was outside outside Shout out the cast man, Yo, Davies, appreciate you. Pull it up always, bro boy perfect