March 27, 2024 • 38 mins
Episode 317 - "The Baller Alert Show" Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Octavia March
Topics include: West Coast Music Dead??? Financial Freedom, No More TikTok, Soak City Still Viral, Squabble Up Dance & More.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Word with me here you know, BT know how it
goes shout at oct no real color what we see
whole game? Wait the baller something. Oh you can't stand
on their own sci I already know you can't bother
with me because up with the squad of me. They
get into that.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
They called me.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Love he love.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Baller Alert Welcome to the ball Alert Show. Podcasts available
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go by the name of Ferrari Simmits c T with
that three went by in the building, just walk you're
just waking up, bro.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Man, I just said, that's just that l A swag.
Are you from l A?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
From okay? Three one know? Just so people don't know,
you know.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Like well obviously when people people in Atlanta were saying
three ten baby, now.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
People say I mean out of town when people say that,
not even just out of time. I think even in
l A people say three.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Ten okay, But it's like that is that like a
pro or I.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wouldn't say it ain't that serious? Right if people know
me in street and know me s three ten even
though it is doing up, you know, what I'm saying
if you were mispronounced artist names all the time, but
it's like it's doing Yeah, I'm not. I mean if
somebody keeps saying over and over I told them once,
it's like bro.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Now it's just like you know, four or four, you're
just gonna automatically divide the numbers. Nobody's gonna say six
seventy eight. They're going to say six seven eight. Yeah,
so three one oh yeah. Man, But we're glad to
have you here on a Baller Alert show. Now you're
from LA and Inglewood, Inglewood. Okay, how was it growing
up in Inglewood?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I don't know. It was cool, not me. Nice family,
good family.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, you come from a good family, like a two
parent household. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I used to watch music videos a lot. I mean
they stopped, you know, people stop watching them on TV.
That was when I was real young and then but
that stopped. I don't remember a specific year, but I
remember that stopped, like one on six in Park or
like MTV time like MTV or BT, like they just
used to have them all. I remember one on sixth
in Park. I was a younger, but I remember like
really watching I remember, like you would be on at times,
(02:04):
but I'm saying in general, like I used to see
music videos on just like BT or like MTV, and
so early on. That's how I was, you know, really
diving into music aside from like maybe radio. But even
at that time, you know, when you're younger, when you're
listening to radio, you really don't like pinpoint the artists
like you just maybe like the song you don't really know.
(02:25):
But I really didn't start diving into like artists I
liked specifically until like twenty fifteen. And that's what SoundCloud.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Who would you like? From SoundCloud?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was on migos like early and Chief Keith and
Gucci Man. That was like my go to when I
was And did.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You didn't make you start writing? Did you say, hey,
I want to go to the studio or.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, I didn't. I mean at that I was like
ten maybe, so like I didn't write like that. I
remember I used to write stuff down like thinking out something,
but like it really like the rap stuff. Really didn't
like okay, dang, I want to do this until like
maybe eleve been twelve. Then I started like freestyling with
my cousins and stuff, like they weren't wrapping, but like
(03:04):
I would rap like when I'm with them and they
like hype me up, and like we would play beats
all day, Like that's all I would want to do
because I'm the only child, So like getting around my cousins,
that's when I would like freestyle or like play at
a hundred beats for them and like tell.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Show like somewhere you download YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I just played different type beats and be like, oh
I can rap on this type B too, and just
it just turned me up. So like that's really the start.
And then I would say, like thirteen fourteen, it's when
I like had my first piece of equipment really like
it was like a USB mic and like an older
MacBook and then logic on there, okay, And I remember
(03:41):
I tried to figure it out and it was hard.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Bro it's kind of complicated to start there, not.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Even just I mean I ended up even though I
was young at that age. After a while, a couple
of months, I learned how to use the program, but
it was more of like I didn't have what I needed.
I didn't like it was so much stuff that I
know about now that I didn't know about this.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Like preamps, like a certain type of mic, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, they're not having an interface, not having a mic
like a real mic used to be my kids in
high quality any one with XLR cable. So this is
so much stuff I learned now that I wish I
knew back then. B At the same time, I'm grateful
for how I penned out because I would have never
ended up going to band lab because I went to
band Lab in twenty twenty. So around the age fifteen
to sixteen. That's when I really got in my band lab.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So you're still in school and this is something that
are you still in school now?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So like when do you graduate in gym? Wow? So wait,
I don't want to skip, but my bad. So you're
around fifteen, and when did you write your first song
and put it out?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I did that in seventh grade, so I was like, how.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Maybe it's like thirteen thirteen fourteen.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So that's like that was through the logic stuff, like
I put out songs to there, like I made it
on logic, I put it out on SoundCloud, and for
you to.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Start on logic because you were making the beats in
logic too.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
And rapping or no, I never maye beats Okay, you
never tried to maybe so YouTube them.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, I would just get them off YouTube. Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Usually people usually go to pro tools and just record
themselves there.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
For me, I mean it was because that's what it
was on the computer. It was no like fl was
like a.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Garage band usually come with with mac.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Not I was on garage band at the time. I
just said logic because that's that was like the newer version. Okay, okay,
So like I did both because logic wasn't always out
like it was garage band. Then they did the logic,
So I was on both at the time. That was
the go to for me.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
So you're putting out records in seventh grade? Are you
taking it serious? Because I know you still got to
go to schools.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean, in my head, I'm taking this like I
mean not.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean, are you walking around saying are you three?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
One? No?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Baby yet?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
No? No, no, no?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
My name was like I don't even remember. I changed
it like two three.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Times, your real name. M You don't like it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, it's online.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's online. It's online. Okay, I don't think. I don't
think like, I don't think. It's nothing. I don't like it.
I just feel like here like this is doing No
Baby the business, like right now, it's just the business
when we get into that. That's like when I'm talking
big corporate and I don't know, like right now, it's
just I kind.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Of wanted to know who three well No Baby, how
that came to be. That's why I was asking about
your early life and how you grew up. You know,
how did you grow into three you are now? But
we can just you know, straight into business.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean doing No Baby it is to me, the
name it really doesn't have men like a strong meaning
like a lot of artists, they got their name from
somebody or like somebody died and gave him this name
or nicknamed him this me it was just doing No Baby,
like that's where I'm from. I'm a product of not
necessarily my environment, but my tribe, and my tribe is
from La Inglewood, you know, to be exact. So like
doing No Baby, that was it. That's at that time,
(06:48):
I didn't really overthink my name. I just did what's me.
And that's even with my albums like nice and Weekends.
My album maybe album just dropped It's Nice in weekends
because I only could work at night and on the weekend.
So like a lot of my stuff even more and
like down to my brand, it's always like authentic, Like
I don't have to overthink because like the answer is
usually right in front of me.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Eighteen?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I don't really get that from an eighteen year old.
I kind of get yeah, we're outside, we getting lit,
you know what I'm saying, So you very very polished.
Where does this come from?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I would say the way I was raised and now
who the people have around me.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It's both because you came on time and you know,
we had twelve thirty on there and you actually thirty
minutes early, which again is telling me a lot about
who you are and who's around you. And it's all business.
Now back to what my co host a table was saying,
does it ever get personal for you? Cause, yeah, you're
(07:44):
in a business, but people gotta tap. People are eventually
going to tap into past the hit records, they're going
to pack, They're gonna tap into who you are as
a person to stay with you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think for people that want to like get to
know me more, like more than just the music, and
like get to know the artists, I feel like recently,
if they want, like if they want a piece of me,
like aside from music, they could tap in on like
my TikTok maybe not my Instagram as much. Right now,
I will say like I'm starting to do better with
like having more stuff of just who I am as
a person on my socials. So like I mean I start,
(08:15):
I'm starting that now, Like this past week, I really
like got into it like tiktoks and.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
So you didn't really care for it that much.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Not that I didn't care, but before I blew up,
I was already not really on social media. So I
to like learn why I just I never really I
just never was a social media person, I guess because
for me, I didn't have a reason to post, like
if I didn't have like I used to post just
my music, but like that was it. I didn't really
have like a reason. Like now it's like I know
(08:43):
or maybe I didn't know the reason, Like I didn't
know the reason why, Like dull you a post? Bro?
Like do you a post yourself? Talking to people?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
So you're like you never post on your birthday like yeah,
I'm seventeen, Happy birthday to me.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No like videos no, people might posting I'll just repost
what they say on their story. But like I just
have to do like I know, I have to do better,
like talking to people that like my supporters. It's like
recently I've been like dming them, sending them videos like
I'll do that, but overall, like I'm just learning.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
You know, would you say that you are more of
an introvert.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I feel like it's at times when I feel comfortable
is when it changes to extrovert, but introvert, like maybe
in general, I would say it just depends because I'm
kind of people tell me I'm quiet. I don't feel
like it. I feel like I'm more just I'm observant
and then i speak and I like.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Feeling out the room, the vibe, you know, see where
your energy fits.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, does that come from how you grew up, the location,
how you got to be smart in specific ways out
in LA because LA is a different breed, Like it's
not like you can just walk anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say, and I mean you're fair.
I mean I think that's kind of everywhere. I mean
not I know what you're saying, though, I know what
you're saying, but I wouldn't say it's because of where
I'm from. I think more of just how I was raised.
I guess I mean not even that. I don't know.
I think that's just me. I think that's just me
because it's it's people in my family that aren't like that. Okay,
(10:11):
you know so yeah, No, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I feel like, because you're here, record is a party
song bro that She's like, it's a vibe.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I like having fun. I wouldn't say I like having fun.
I'm not gonna make I'm not gonna make a smile.
I don't, okay, I like having fun. I feel like
I'm just not I'm the top to read the room first,
then react like read okay, then I'm on that his
real name.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Towards the end of the interview, who are you all right?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
So? Uh is it true that you took like fifteen
to twenty minutes to make So City?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah? I was like fifteen too. It was quick.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
What was the vibe? Like, you know, take us to
that to that.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Moment when you you know, made the record in that
short amount of time.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I was recording like I would in need it after
school and.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
In your bedroom after school? You record that song after school?
Where do you get to be?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
From YouTube? YouTube? And one thing I remember, honestly is
I wanted like a party song. Like that was like
because a lot of things I do is like everything's
like intentional, right, Like I always have like the objectives
like what do I want for today? Like what do
I want this song to be? Or in general, before
I even pick a beat or listen to a beat,
(11:16):
that's like what do I want for today? Like what
it is today going to be for me? And I
wanted a party song, and that's what I did, Like
that's what I was visualizing. I saw the party already,
so all I have to do is say what I said.
And it may have not been the most lyrical song, like,
but that's what the kids want at the end of
the day. Kids my age want that. And we see
(11:37):
now it's like, yeah, the kids wanted that, but now
the world is starting to receive it as well on
the universal level for sure, So I feel like that's
a win. But even in general, like I've other records
where it's like that's my thing, like the party records
is my thing. I could do different types of records,
which I have before, but right now it's like the
party songs is my thing and a lot of people
(11:57):
aren't doing that everything right, And I was pretty like negative,
I would say, And I'm bringing like a different taste
to music right now, like I feel like we don't
have as many party songs as we once did.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Now again this is songs blowing up.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So what happens the squabble, because that's what people across
the nation knew was a squabble. It was a routine
to my song in the summer that a girl named
Beauty in La started. She started that just the routine.
Now the squabble was already a dance, like the thing
that everybody like the NFL like that dance people in
(12:35):
La already knew about. This is just new to like
the world to where that's why it's such a big deal,
like and it's like catching people like it. People love
new dances, so like it's new to you know, to
people across the world. So that's like the last face,
not the last phase, but the most recent phase of
my song is like the squabble resurfacing and like being
much bigger. That was it for that.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
But but to Rri's point about high school. You know
you're going in there. You said you've been doing it
since middle school, really because you said seventh grade for.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
A year consistently. But I have been making music since
middle school. It's just that in middle school I was
playing basketball a lot to wh I didn't really have
too much time to a big thing.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, we getting to know you. Okay, so you playing sports?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Was you good?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Was you a guard? Was you a point guard or
shooting guard? Shooting guard? Okay, yeah that was my position. Okay, cool, Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I could shoot, maybe not dribble as much. I feel
like I feel like I feel like knowing what you're
good like you your strengths and your weaknesses is very important.
A lot of people think they could be MJ, but
everybody ain't MJ. You know, you could work to try
to be MJ. But I was. I just knew what
I was good. I was a shooter.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
He was like Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Now I would say Steph, I'd say more like a
like a Ray Allen, Okay, because Ray Allen wasn't going
to just take up the ball every time. Like he
wasn't taking the ball. He's probably gonna go sit in
the corner or like wait for a screen, off ball
and move around, run around.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
So we look forward to seeing you in some celebrity
basketball games, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Man, tell them they're not ready for me, but that
you can dribble. No, I could shoot, then.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Get at the ball to me and then I could
do that. I can finish you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I can give them twenty no dribbles.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Spot.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
We will be right back with more of The Baller
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Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's good to do, no baby, and you are now
tuned in to the Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Like, Bob, Now you're graduating in June. How are you
gonna go? Are you gonna walk? Oh? Graduation?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah? Yeah, so that's gonna be crazy though, Like yeah, no, no,
we're not.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Like how y'all gonna pull that off? Like, how how
you're gonna pull this off?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I'm not I mean, I'm not the first. I don't
think I'm the first person to like graduate with like
people knowing them.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay, in your school, I don't think so, Oh my
California talking about your school though, Like that's got to
be pandemonium a little.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Bit because it's normal. Now, Okay, school normal, not like
it's not too much going.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
To wait, you're still going to school.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, it's pretty true, like people that say stuff, but
it's not like cameras in my face walking up like
it's so regular, like it regular. It's more like just
like say, take the musical my day. Day to day.
School is like just a kid that's like I guess
popular just to pro in Atlanta. I think it's the
school I go to.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, what kind of school do you go to? Is
it like a performing arts school?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Or there are other big popular kids in your school,
So you're the most popular kid in the school.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I guess. I really don't like saying that, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I guess you want to be regular so bad?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
You're not, bro, you got the light on you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
It's like sweet, It's like it's like it's very.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's a very select few people that have the light.
You have the light, young brother. You have to accept
that do a.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Lot of You get a lot of people just wanting
to be your friend for popularity or no.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I don't talk to people. Okay, I'm kind of like
the thing is like I'll talk to people like, but
I got to see like it's a reason to talk
to Like I'm not just talking to everybody.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
It's hard to get people. It's hard for them to
get into your space. You're a little bubble.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah they could say something to me, but that's not
that doesn't get them in like the same rooms as mere,
like the same friends you.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Grew up with.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah, okay, that's how it's going to say.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You're not switching up. Nobody knew no.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
But about the what about the girls at your school?
How do how do they react to you?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I'm sure they they like what's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You know?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I'm saying, do you get a lot of girls approaching
you a girl friend?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Nobody? Nobody comes up to me?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Okay, do they go into your cat?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's got to be I mean a little bit. My
damns aren't too crazy. I feel like they could be
worse than they are.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What it like? It could be more? It could be,
it could be it could be more. In my DM
th it is it's like, it's.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Like, is that like less than one hundred?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
They're a hundred plus. But I'm saying, I'm saying, like
it's not what people may think, like to SNY four,
what you think an artists are like a young kid
that just had to hit song blow up? You think
it's way crazy, like tat you my DM is Okay,
I get it, but it's not.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I mean that's a lot now, one hundred plus d ms.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You know what I'm saying, not not the quantity but
necessary it's what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Oh like they're just saying nice song or.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah it's it's something crazy, but it's not as much
like it's not like little baby dms you little I'm
just assuming like I mean his little baby.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Did you have a girlfriend before the song blew up?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Did you?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'll just be working, so you just be having friends.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, just be working.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I can't appreciate. I can't appreciate that you're not letting
this get to your head because eighteen year old about
to graduate high school with the number one on radio
Urban record Like I'm lit.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's like it's like okay, boom, Like what's the number
one that's out because then it's.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Like any any number one, it would be number one charts.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It's up there. But you know TIK talk about to
go away allegedly, well yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh damn.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Let me ask you, because you're you're a young guy,
what do you think about that? Do you is going away?
Everybody your age to telling me that TikTok is and.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
It helped you a lot because the song blew up
on TikTok and everybody around the you know globe was
doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
TikTok has played a very important role with music within
the past like four years. Right, there's too much money
in TikTok, way too much money, which I think, like
that could be a scary part. So like I really
don't have too much of an opinion. I wanted to
stay like it would be nice if it stayed at
least into another like platform came around, because if not,
we'd be naked. We'd have Instagram. But Instagram has been
(18:33):
off for a long time. I feel like we need
that new if we're going to get rid of it,
we need that new.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
So for up and coming artists and you know artists
out there who are on TikTok. When you say there's
a lot of money to be made on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What do you mean, so like you have to think
there are people that are not maybe I wouldn't say rich, right,
but on the way to being rich off of just
going live and just talking or like responding to comments.
And they're regular people, like they're not necessarily like celebrities,
but eventually they could become a celebrity just off of
they're on TikTok. They're looking at commis, they're yelling out
people's names and saying thank you for donating to me,
(19:08):
and that's going viral. There are people that are like
eating eggshells online, like selling candy. There's somebody right now
on live on a TikTok shop selling candy that you
can go to the store to get. It just looks
better on your phone, and they're gonna buy it. That's
so crazy to me. Over they're overpaying too, Like it's wow,
it's just too much money. They are artists aside from
the artist stuff, like we know, let's talk about artist stuff.
(19:29):
People songs you could leak a snippet, it's gonna go
viral and them that's the next one you go with,
Like before you even have to test the waters with
dropping the song, TikTok is your first tester.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
I just acted as a black creator because a lot
of black creators had issues with TikTok and them, you know,
putting their their their art up and not getting compensated
like a white TikToker.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, I'm not familiar with that honestly, or that what
you're exactly what you're talking about. I haven't heard anything
about that. I feel like it's just there's issues within everything.
There's never a time where everybody would be satisfied. I
think that's just the world, not even just the world
of business, but I think that's just life. Like there
will never be just this perfect Cinderella story with any platform,
any business or anything like. There will be there always
(20:13):
will be a negative thing or negative story, but there
also will be positive things. I think it's just for
us to gauge what's best for us and maneuver throughout
this world the best way we can.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Wise words three wise eighteen year old younger.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Everyone know name mystery. So today, like I said, you
have Silk City that is like going crazy remix. Yeah,
the remix, And you said everybody reached out to you
via DM.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, everybody just show love. Man. Everybody from the city
was just getting behind me. And I think that's just
that contributed to like.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Me blowing It was easier like that for sure, I
think that's the other way around. It's legalities and all
other stuff, but it's a more organic co sign.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Everybody just show love bro me, it's crazy. I think
that's what's needed. I think in rapids, when there's a
new artist, people out to back them, especially from their hometown,
because I think if you have home, it's a lot
easier to go out and go to different markets, order
atlant and go to Texas. If you don't have home first,
I think it's like that, what do you have right? Like,
(21:20):
you got to have home. You gotta have the routes
right for sure.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Question now, because you're still in school, when do you
perform on weekends?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah? Nice? Nice and weekends?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How does that affect you? Because you could be tired
going to school the next day.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I think being eighteen, you're not tired like maybe twenty
five year old, thirty year old.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
You know, it ain't hit you yet.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I think it's times I'm tired, but I'd rather be
out tired, moving around making money, networking, meeting people, connections,
and being at home in my bed or on the game.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Now, when you travel, do your parents go with you
or no?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
No, so you don't have a Mama, your or dadager, No,
you're you have this big record. Now the money is
rolling in. What are your parents saying?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Like?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Are you control of it? Are you in control of
your own money? Or does mom or dad say all right,
look x y Z.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I mean I think not even I think. I mean
my mom doesn't really like have too much to say,
like in regards to control of my life. Like I
don't see like anything I need for my mom, she's there.
So if I needed any assistance or anything, she's there.
But she doesn't. She wants She's down for me figuring
it out on my own because she knows that I'm
(22:35):
not going to make any dumbest decisions right or that
may not be my intentions. So yeah, like she trusts me.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
What about your dad?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Same thing? Trust me?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Do they still work, go to work regular and just
live their life how they've been doing?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, nothing really changed, but eventually it will potentially Okay,
this day by day grounded, very grounded. Day by day
his businesses, it gets it gets crazy, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
So day by day, So when you start making some
big money, you're gonna make a big purchase. Do you
have your eyes set on something.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I like a franchise, like maybe like a Chipotle.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Okay, you like Chipotle, Yeah, Chipotle.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Is good for sure. I think I do a franchise
first rather than like start my own, so I could learn.
You know, if I have a Chipoli, Chipotle is already Chipotle.
I just got to drop it in a nice location.
Usually Chipolis Chapoli is usually gonna go wherever you put
it is Chippola. People always love Chipotlet. So I do that,
learn that business, but like having a little bit more
security because it's not my own, so it's less liability.
(23:41):
And after that, once that hits, then I start my
own whatever that may be within the next couple of years.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Okay, so you you are like an entrepreneur at heart.
Who instilled that in you? Was it a teacher? Was
it your mom?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Was it your coach? Like who instilled that? I want to,
you know, own something.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
When I was younger, like maybe like thirteen fourteen, it
was just weird to me, like waking up knowing that,
like I can't get everything I want right now, like
not necessarily like everything in the world, because it's not
I don't want everything in the world, but it's things
I do want for myself that maybe right now at
this age I can't get because of lack a dollar
or lack of liquid, Like I don't have the money
(24:19):
to do it. But it's like how do I do it?
By working and learning certain things that people don't know,
because the thing is that the success, the success kicks
in once you know things that other people don't know
because the knowledge is the true like currency, really time
and time and knowledge is a true currency. Like the
dollar is cool, right, but you have to know certain
things to do with the dollar to make the dollar work.
(24:40):
Because the one hundred dollars bill is just one hundred
dollar bill, but you have to know what to do
with that tool to make it go. You know what
I'm saying. You can always turn one hundred to million,
but you got to know where to put it in
place at the right time. So I think for me,
that's that's it. It's just the knowledge and understanding that
time is money because people I remember people used to
tell me like, oh, you have time, you have time,
But it's like bro, nah, like what do you mean? So,
(25:02):
because then I'll be chilling, like I'll be on ice
for four to six years. So if I'm eighteen maybe
to like twenty four, but I just wasted six years
or nothing where that could have been six years of knowledge,
maybe not necessarily like me putting work in, but just
learning things like me learning things to middle school to now.
I feel like it's what got me here, as in
like the things I know, but it's so much more
to know. So then at thirty, when it's like that
(25:24):
time where people be like, oh, like you had the time,
Now it's trying to lock in at thirty. By thirty,
it's like, what do you mean where we already did
this at twenty, you know? So I just always don't.
I don't like that feeling of like not being able
to do what I want, not being able to buy
my mom certain things or provide for my family in
the way I would like to. And I think it's
just having that balance, like people's attention shouldn't just be
(25:46):
on necessarily negative, ignorant things, like we should be trying
to like figure it out, because I think for so
long we've been behind, right, we haven't really been on
like the other side of the ball. We've been on
the side were like the cheat codes and like the
tricks in this world were like hidden from us, right,
(26:09):
and a lot of times even when they're right in
front of us, we ignore them because we're not even
used to having like those tools available to us. So yeah,
I think I'm just gonna be taking advantage of every
opportunity that's presented. I feel like as an artist, I
maybe might not be the best when it comes to
like going viral or like having the most trendy moments
or being in the mix and messy, which I think
(26:30):
that's what makes artists go. I may not be that,
but I feel like I'm achieving my goals. As in
financial freedom.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah, because you feeling with a lot of knowledge. Where
does that come from?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It really just came from me trying to figure your
stuff out. Nobody Really, my mom didn't talk to me
necessarily like oh, you're gonna turn this age and you
need to learn this stuff by this age, Like it
was not really that. My mom gave me so much freedom,
And I think the freedom is what allowed me to
find this like who I am now at this age
because I could change tomorrow, right, especially in this business,
(27:03):
like I could, you know, my head could. Ah. Now
I'm on a whole different thing and it's all negative
and I'm not who I once was, right, But it's
really like my mom and the freedom shit a lot, and.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
I'm watching her go to work and all that is
what made you want to change things.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I would say, not not just that. I think that's
a part of it. I think that's for everybody, like
a part of it. You see, like your parents working hard,
I think it was to that. But then knowing that,
like even with the hours put it in, like with
the work or like taking care of me, it's like
there's still a lot that may not be available. Still,
no matter if it's six to eight hours of work in,
(27:41):
it's still something that you can't have just because you.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Can't go on vacation where you want to.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, you can go on vacation after maybe a year
of saving up. So like just knowing that, but it's
like people in the world that are going whenever they
want them and it's not necessarily jealousy or chasing their
life or like trying to be them. That's not it.
It's just that, like I feel like it's so much
more to this than what a lot of people like have.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So your motivation is financial freedom, being.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Able to do whatever I want whenever I want, I think,
I think, and then people are like, oh, well then
like once you have the money, then what meant then,
Like that's when you continue the journey because you.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Create opportunities for other people who think.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Like you, right, because the journey doesn't the journey never stops.
People allow people people get in their head up and
like kind of create this like false reality like oh
the journey stopped. I made the money, and they get
stuck and they lose themselves. But I think that's when
that's when like the emotional intelligence kicks in. You have
to know, you have to be aware of what's going on,
Like you can, you can make up twenty million dollars,
(28:42):
but if you're not really aware of where you're at
at that time, that twenty million dollars can hurt you
more than it can help you. You know.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So it's like eighteen, that's a that's very wise logic.
Are your friends similar to her? Do you do you
strin yourself around people that have conversation like.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
This with them?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I have conversations with people I think I can't really
like talk on like who those people are and say
like oh they think like this, they're like me, because
I feel like we're two different people. But I've had
conversations with people like that, but usually, like like right now,
like twenty twenty four, it's really been just like minded
like I because the thing is you can have friends,
and a lot of your best friends may not be
(29:20):
the most like minded individuals, like in regards to how
you guys may think, but that doesn't make them lesser
and more of my friend. That just means it's like
a time and a place, you know, Like maybe we
could play the game twelve hours straight, but I can't
really talk to you all day about that because my
head is on like trying to get it in a
different way, you know. So I think it's just case
by case, Like I have friends that like might wake
(29:42):
up a da da da, like I just read this
on TikTok or this book, like tell me more about
this because they might think I know a little bit more.
Then it'll be that's how the conversation will start.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
So and I love this conversation because you're just putting
a lot of your peers and younger people on game
and older people too.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Is everybody don't get it?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
What are a couple more things that people can do
and to be conscious of in their everyday life to
you know, move forward into.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
What their goals are for whatever they may be.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
The number one thing I feel like for is like
maybe young teens or like kids right now and well
my generation, I feel like right now what we need
is we just need clarity and like clearing the fog,
because there's so much fog right now, right it's so
much negativity or not even just negativity, let's just say
like rarah in general that like maybe are just distractions
(30:35):
from what the bigger picture is. But me, I have
to understand that everybody is on their own journey, like
their own journey and their own path to where like
what I might think is right, Oh no, right now
at this age, you should know this. You should know this.
There's never just a right time, Like it's never just
the right now. It's just everybody has their own time.
So I feel like as long as they know what
(30:56):
they want for themselves, and that's the biggest thing. I
feel like everybody knows what they don't want, but nobody
know what they want. So I think, once you know
what you want and just get that, and it's so
many different ways to get it. I didn't have to, Like,
if I wanted, I was already big business before the
rap popped.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Big business.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, So it's like if the if the if the
mind was already on big business. I didn't really need this.
This was just the extra though, right, I don't. I
might not be the most turned up or the best
rapper for like maybe headlines or drama, but it's like
on the side that I love, I'm alright, you know
what I'm saying. So that ship whatever, whatever they want,
(31:30):
they got to just get it. It's not too much
to it researching.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah, it's good to doing, no baby, and you are
now tuned in to The Baller Alert Show, like Bob, do.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You when you're doing when you're making your records like
I saw, I remember when you brought that up. You
wanted to do you want it to be like a
little dancy that day or whatever? Do you do you
have a theme like every day, like oh, I'm gonna
be on this type of vibe today. Do you theme
it out each day and you decide how you make
your records that way, or you just kind of it's
(32:08):
basically however you're feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Usually like when I listen to a beat, right, the
beat usually sets the tone.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Okay, right, smart man.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But it's it's times, especially with like the music business,
not just making music, but the music business. It's times
where an artists may need this type of record toward
that might be the like maybe right now I need
a dancy record, so I'll be in that mindset of
like okay today aside, like I'm gonna look for the
beat that fits what I'm feeling, like what I know
(32:38):
I need. Yeah, so I use It's not just one.
I think it's all strategic. Like sometimes the best is
like do maybe, okay, make make this like whatever the
beat tells you to make, like the tone or whatever
it gives off. Didn't do that? Cool, But that's more
like freelance, Like when it's the structure, the objectives are set,
and you know what needs to be done, then it's like, Okay,
(33:02):
right now, I could use this form my album, so
I'm gonna make this. So I think it's just.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Case by case when it comes to your album nights
and weekends, what is some of the reception that you've
been getting from your.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Album, appreciating the versatility. I think a lot of those
singles were already going up to whur like most of
them were maybe like fillers, like a lot of the
A lot of the songs and album were good songs,
but like the key ones like Soilk City, back it
up another dance record going up five see through DDG
(33:32):
like those records. Is what did it like to make okay?
Like to where I'm happy with the album because every
one to eleven or one to fourteen doesn't have to
hit really like it could be a good song, but
like the hit, as long as you got the two
or three, you're good. And I feel like that's what
people appreciate and people are saying, I want very smart.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
We were talking about the parties earlier. What is a
an Englewood party, Like.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Well, we could say la, it's like it's lit, like
it's shttle though, but it's like we that's what we love, right,
But it's lit. I mean, it's people dancing, it's girls twerking.
Is it's a lot. You just got to know when
to leave, you know what I'm saying, or just not
going at all. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
If you leave too late, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I always leave early.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I don't know what he called the matrix he lead
too late?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Man, I feel like, but my music is like kind
of like if you ain't been to LA Party, it's like,
that's the LA party. So see is the LA party
and it's I love the fact that, like the world
can like vibe to that, you know, because that's that's it.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Who else are you listening to outside of yourself?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
A little Tyler Kanye. I'm listening to listen to any
Kendrick or not recently. No, the last album he dropped,
I did listen to it.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
He kind of shaking up things right now with like
that on the Future record.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, it's funny they say West Coast is dead, but
then you got baby charting and go and go. Who
said that?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Who said West Coast?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You say that? We say that at home? You don't
like the West Coast.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Dead my favorite artist?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And they say at home they say they be like,
oh we did, but it's like we got me, We
got Kendrick.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
I think sometimes that people get into their own bubble,
especially people who don't really travel outside of their city
or state.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Because your ship is in full rotation in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, we got we got got tired the creator, We
got a lot of people. I think we just looked
past that.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
And and in Atlanta, we have four urban radio stations.
Usually in big cities is one or two. Yeah, we
have four. It's rotation in all four.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
You guys have legends like Snoop is forever, dre is forever,
like the West Coast will never die. I love hearing
this ever like that is beyond me. That statement is crazy.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I can't wait. I really can't wait to see this
graduation because I'm really gonna be Are you gonna like
put it on TikTok?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's gonna be everywhere. Okay, they'll probably go virable without
me posting it. Probably we'll see, Yeah, we'll see. We'll
see what happens.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I don't know that you're gonna walk across the stage.
Everything you're gonna do the dance walk across.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Got to be hilarious.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Huh. That was probably a viral.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Yeah, we gotta do the dance right now.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I'm not the best dancer. I ain't neither not the best.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
It's not an excuse. Whatever your name is, do you
want to she.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Still don't want to tell us your real name. We
can we could google it.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Though, yeah, now you can't necessarily, No, you can't google it.
It's online up, but you can't google it yet. Okay,
soon soon, I'm sure it'll be.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
I said something, Yeah, because your Wikipedia.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Is not up because you know the ball this baller,
So they're gonna clip this up. They're gonna put it
in the comments. His name is.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
What's his real name?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Not his It is hilarious. Yeah, I wouldn't be mad
at it though.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
We go viral for them all as dumbest shiit?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
What's three? One old baby name? Nights the weekends available? Now, man,
we appreciate you something about the yeah, every one old
baby the mystery. Did you feel a little comfortable or
with us now or yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Just because you came to there, I got got the
you know, the West Coast nikes.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
For you. That's super West Coast.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
It's super West Coast out whoever?
Speaker 4 (37:25):
We for sure, hey.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Man, Before we get out of here, though, we do
have a pep talk with through one o baby.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yo, it's good as doing old baby words of advice
from me, I would just say, whatever is you want
to do, do it it could be cliche or something,
but I feel like that's what I did. I just
I did what I wanted to do when it worked.
But it only worked because I stayed consistent. I was
confident in myself not to rely on anybody else for
like the the like drive, Like nobody had to like
(37:52):
necessarily motivate me. The work was the motivation. The reward
from working was the motive. I don't really need anybody
to like sit behind me and tell me, oh no,
do this, do this, do this or this. You got it.
I always knew I had it, so I did it.
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
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that three went by in the building, just walk you're
just waking up, bro.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Man, I just said, that's just that l A swag.
Are you from l A?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
From okay? Three one know? Just so people don't know,
you know.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Like well obviously when people people in Atlanta were saying
three ten baby, now.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
People say I mean out of town when people say that,
not even just out of time. I think even in
l A people say three.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Ten okay, But it's like that is that like a
pro or I.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wouldn't say it ain't that serious? Right if people know
me in street and know me s three ten even
though it is doing up, you know, what I'm saying
if you were mispronounced artist names all the time, but
it's like it's doing Yeah, I'm not. I mean if
somebody keeps saying over and over I told them once,
it's like bro.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Now it's just like you know, four or four, you're
just gonna automatically divide the numbers. Nobody's gonna say six
seventy eight. They're going to say six seven eight. Yeah,
so three one oh yeah. Man, But we're glad to
have you here on a Baller Alert show. Now you're
from LA and Inglewood, Inglewood. Okay, how was it growing
up in Inglewood?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I don't know. It was cool, not me. Nice family,
good family.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, you come from a good family, like a two
parent household. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I used to watch music videos a lot. I mean
they stopped, you know, people stop watching them on TV.
That was when I was real young and then but
that stopped. I don't remember a specific year, but I
remember that stopped, like one on six in Park or
like MTV time like MTV or BT, like they just
used to have them all. I remember one on sixth
in Park. I was a younger, but I remember like
really watching I remember, like you would be on at times,
(02:04):
but I'm saying in general, like I used to see
music videos on just like BT or like MTV, and
so early on. That's how I was, you know, really
diving into music aside from like maybe radio. But even
at that time, you know, when you're younger, when you're
listening to radio, you really don't like pinpoint the artists
like you just maybe like the song you don't really know.
(02:25):
But I really didn't start diving into like artists I
liked specifically until like twenty fifteen. And that's what SoundCloud.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Who would you like? From SoundCloud?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was on migos like early and Chief Keith and
Gucci Man. That was like my go to when I
was And did.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You didn't make you start writing? Did you say, hey,
I want to go to the studio or.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, I didn't. I mean at that I was like
ten maybe, so like I didn't write like that. I
remember I used to write stuff down like thinking out something,
but like it really like the rap stuff. Really didn't
like okay, dang, I want to do this until like
maybe eleve been twelve. Then I started like freestyling with
my cousins and stuff, like they weren't wrapping, but like
(03:04):
I would rap like when I'm with them and they
like hype me up, and like we would play beats
all day, Like that's all I would want to do
because I'm the only child, So like getting around my cousins,
that's when I would like freestyle or like play at
a hundred beats for them and like tell.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Show like somewhere you download YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I just played different type beats and be like, oh
I can rap on this type B too, and just
it just turned me up. So like that's really the start.
And then I would say, like thirteen fourteen, it's when
I like had my first piece of equipment really like
it was like a USB mic and like an older
MacBook and then logic on there, okay, And I remember
(03:41):
I tried to figure it out and it was hard.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Bro it's kind of complicated to start there, not.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Even just I mean I ended up even though I
was young at that age. After a while, a couple
of months, I learned how to use the program, but
it was more of like I didn't have what I needed.
I didn't like it was so much stuff that I
know about now that I didn't know about this.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Like preamps, like a certain type of mic, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, they're not having an interface, not having a mic
like a real mic used to be my kids in
high quality any one with XLR cable. So this is
so much stuff I learned now that I wish I
knew back then. B At the same time, I'm grateful
for how I penned out because I would have never
ended up going to band lab because I went to
band Lab in twenty twenty. So around the age fifteen
to sixteen. That's when I really got in my band lab.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So you're still in school and this is something that
are you still in school now?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So like when do you graduate in gym? Wow? So wait,
I don't want to skip, but my bad. So you're
around fifteen, and when did you write your first song
and put it out?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I did that in seventh grade, so I was like, how.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Maybe it's like thirteen thirteen fourteen.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So that's like that was through the logic stuff, like
I put out songs to there, like I made it
on logic, I put it out on SoundCloud, and for
you to.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Start on logic because you were making the beats in
logic too.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
And rapping or no, I never maye beats Okay, you
never tried to maybe so YouTube them.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, I would just get them off YouTube. Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Usually people usually go to pro tools and just record
themselves there.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
For me, I mean it was because that's what it
was on the computer. It was no like fl was
like a.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Garage band usually come with with mac.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Not I was on garage band at the time. I
just said logic because that's that was like the newer version. Okay, okay,
So like I did both because logic wasn't always out
like it was garage band. Then they did the logic,
So I was on both at the time. That was
the go to for me.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
So you're putting out records in seventh grade? Are you
taking it serious? Because I know you still got to
go to schools.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean, in my head, I'm taking this like I
mean not.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean, are you walking around saying are you three?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
One? No?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Baby yet?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
No? No, no, no?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
My name was like I don't even remember. I changed
it like two three.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Times, your real name. M You don't like it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, it's online.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's online. It's online. Okay, I don't think. I don't
think like, I don't think. It's nothing. I don't like it.
I just feel like here like this is doing No
Baby the business, like right now, it's just the business
when we get into that. That's like when I'm talking
big corporate and I don't know, like right now, it's
just I kind.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Of wanted to know who three well No Baby, how
that came to be. That's why I was asking about
your early life and how you grew up. You know,
how did you grow into three you are now? But
we can just you know, straight into business.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean doing No Baby it is to me, the
name it really doesn't have men like a strong meaning
like a lot of artists, they got their name from
somebody or like somebody died and gave him this name
or nicknamed him this me it was just doing No Baby,
like that's where I'm from. I'm a product of not
necessarily my environment, but my tribe, and my tribe is
from La Inglewood, you know, to be exact. So like
doing No Baby, that was it. That's at that time,
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I didn't really overthink my name. I just did what's me.
And that's even with my albums like nice and Weekends.
My album maybe album just dropped It's Nice in weekends
because I only could work at night and on the weekend.
So like a lot of my stuff even more and
like down to my brand, it's always like authentic, Like
I don't have to overthink because like the answer is
usually right in front of me.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Eighteen?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I don't really get that from an eighteen year old.
I kind of get yeah, we're outside, we getting lit,
you know what I'm saying, So you very very polished.
Where does this come from?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I would say the way I was raised and now
who the people have around me.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It's both because you came on time and you know,
we had twelve thirty on there and you actually thirty
minutes early, which again is telling me a lot about
who you are and who's around you. And it's all business.
Now back to what my co host a table was saying,
does it ever get personal for you? Cause, yeah, you're
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in a business, but people gotta tap. People are eventually
going to tap into past the hit records, they're going
to pack, They're gonna tap into who you are as
a person to stay with you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think for people that want to like get to
know me more, like more than just the music, and
like get to know the artists, I feel like recently,
if they want, like if they want a piece of me,
like aside from music, they could tap in on like
my TikTok maybe not my Instagram as much. Right now,
I will say like I'm starting to do better with
like having more stuff of just who I am as
a person on my socials. So like I mean I start,
(08:15):
I'm starting that now, Like this past week, I really
like got into it like tiktoks and.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
So you didn't really care for it that much.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Not that I didn't care, but before I blew up,
I was already not really on social media. So I
to like learn why I just I never really I
just never was a social media person, I guess because
for me, I didn't have a reason to post, like
if I didn't have like I used to post just
my music, but like that was it. I didn't really
have like a reason. Like now it's like I know
(08:43):
or maybe I didn't know the reason, Like I didn't
know the reason why, Like dull you a post? Bro?
Like do you a post yourself? Talking to people?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
So you're like you never post on your birthday like yeah,
I'm seventeen, Happy birthday to me.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No like videos no, people might posting I'll just repost
what they say on their story. But like I just
have to do like I know, I have to do better,
like talking to people that like my supporters. It's like
recently I've been like dming them, sending them videos like
I'll do that, but overall, like I'm just learning.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
You know, would you say that you are more of
an introvert.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I feel like it's at times when I feel comfortable
is when it changes to extrovert, but introvert, like maybe
in general, I would say it just depends because I'm
kind of people tell me I'm quiet. I don't feel
like it. I feel like I'm more just I'm observant
and then i speak and I like.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Feeling out the room, the vibe, you know, see where
your energy fits.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, does that come from how you grew up, the location,
how you got to be smart in specific ways out
in LA because LA is a different breed, Like it's
not like you can just walk anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say, and I mean you're fair.
I mean I think that's kind of everywhere. I mean
not I know what you're saying, though, I know what
you're saying, but I wouldn't say it's because of where
I'm from. I think more of just how I was raised.
I guess I mean not even that. I don't know.
I think that's just me. I think that's just me
because it's it's people in my family that aren't like that. Okay,
(10:11):
you know so yeah, No, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I feel like, because you're here, record is a party
song bro that She's like, it's a vibe.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I like having fun. I wouldn't say I like having fun.
I'm not gonna make I'm not gonna make a smile.
I don't, okay, I like having fun. I feel like
I'm just not I'm the top to read the room first,
then react like read okay, then I'm on that his
real name.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Towards the end of the interview, who are you all right?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
So? Uh is it true that you took like fifteen
to twenty minutes to make So City?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah? I was like fifteen too. It was quick.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
What was the vibe? Like, you know, take us to
that to that.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Moment when you you know, made the record in that
short amount of time.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I was recording like I would in need it after
school and.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
In your bedroom after school? You record that song after school?
Where do you get to be?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
From YouTube? YouTube? And one thing I remember, honestly is
I wanted like a party song. Like that was like
because a lot of things I do is like everything's
like intentional, right, Like I always have like the objectives
like what do I want for today? Like what do
I want this song to be? Or in general, before
I even pick a beat or listen to a beat,
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that's like what do I want for today? Like what
it is today going to be for me? And I
wanted a party song, and that's what I did, Like
that's what I was visualizing. I saw the party already,
so all I have to do is say what I said.
And it may have not been the most lyrical song, like,
but that's what the kids want at the end of
the day. Kids my age want that. And we see
(11:37):
now it's like, yeah, the kids wanted that, but now
the world is starting to receive it as well on
the universal level for sure, So I feel like that's
a win. But even in general, like I've other records
where it's like that's my thing, like the party records
is my thing. I could do different types of records,
which I have before, but right now it's like the
party songs is my thing and a lot of people
(11:57):
aren't doing that everything right, And I was pretty like negative,
I would say, And I'm bringing like a different taste
to music right now, like I feel like we don't
have as many party songs as we once did.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Now again this is songs blowing up.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So what happens the squabble, because that's what people across
the nation knew was a squabble. It was a routine
to my song in the summer that a girl named
Beauty in La started. She started that just the routine.
Now the squabble was already a dance, like the thing
that everybody like the NFL like that dance people in
(12:35):
La already knew about. This is just new to like
the world to where that's why it's such a big deal,
like and it's like catching people like it. People love
new dances, so like it's new to you know, to
people across the world. So that's like the last face,
not the last phase, but the most recent phase of
my song is like the squabble resurfacing and like being
much bigger. That was it for that.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
But but to Rri's point about high school. You know
you're going in there. You said you've been doing it
since middle school, really because you said seventh grade for.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
A year consistently. But I have been making music since
middle school. It's just that in middle school I was
playing basketball a lot to wh I didn't really have
too much time to a big thing.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, we getting to know you. Okay, so you playing sports?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Was you good?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Was you a guard? Was you a point guard or
shooting guard? Shooting guard? Okay, yeah that was my position. Okay, cool, Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I could shoot, maybe not dribble as much. I feel
like I feel like I feel like knowing what you're
good like you your strengths and your weaknesses is very important.
A lot of people think they could be MJ, but
everybody ain't MJ. You know, you could work to try
to be MJ. But I was. I just knew what
I was good. I was a shooter.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
He was like Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Now I would say Steph, I'd say more like a
like a Ray Allen, Okay, because Ray Allen wasn't going
to just take up the ball every time. Like he
wasn't taking the ball. He's probably gonna go sit in
the corner or like wait for a screen, off ball
and move around, run around.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
So we look forward to seeing you in some celebrity
basketball games, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Man, tell them they're not ready for me, but that
you can dribble. No, I could shoot, then.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Get at the ball to me and then I could
do that. I can finish you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I can give them twenty no dribbles.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Spot.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
We will be right back with more of The Baller
Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of The
Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's good to do, no baby, and you are now
tuned in to the Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Like, Bob, Now you're graduating in June. How are you
gonna go? Are you gonna walk? Oh? Graduation?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah? Yeah, so that's gonna be crazy though, Like yeah, no, no,
we're not.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Like how y'all gonna pull that off? Like, how how
you're gonna pull this off?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I'm not I mean, I'm not the first. I don't
think I'm the first person to like graduate with like
people knowing them.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay, in your school, I don't think so, Oh my
California talking about your school though, Like that's got to
be pandemonium a little.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Bit because it's normal. Now, Okay, school normal, not like
it's not too much going.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
To wait, you're still going to school.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, it's pretty true, like people that say stuff, but
it's not like cameras in my face walking up like
it's so regular, like it regular. It's more like just
like say, take the musical my day. Day to day.
School is like just a kid that's like I guess
popular just to pro in Atlanta. I think it's the
school I go to.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, what kind of school do you go to? Is
it like a performing arts school?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Or there are other big popular kids in your school,
So you're the most popular kid in the school.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I guess. I really don't like saying that, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I guess you want to be regular so bad?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
You're not, bro, you got the light on you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
It's like sweet, It's like it's like it's very.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's a very select few people that have the light.
You have the light, young brother. You have to accept
that do a.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Lot of You get a lot of people just wanting
to be your friend for popularity or no.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I don't talk to people. Okay, I'm kind of like
the thing is like I'll talk to people like, but
I got to see like it's a reason to talk
to Like I'm not just talking to everybody.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
It's hard to get people. It's hard for them to
get into your space. You're a little bubble.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah they could say something to me, but that's not
that doesn't get them in like the same rooms as mere,
like the same friends you.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Grew up with.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah, okay, that's how it's going to say.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You're not switching up. Nobody knew no.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
But about the what about the girls at your school?
How do how do they react to you?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I'm sure they they like what's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You know?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I'm saying, do you get a lot of girls approaching
you a girl friend?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Nobody? Nobody comes up to me?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Okay, do they go into your cat?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's got to be I mean a little bit. My
damns aren't too crazy. I feel like they could be
worse than they are.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What it like? It could be more? It could be,
it could be it could be more. In my DM
th it is it's like, it's.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Like, is that like less than one hundred?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
They're a hundred plus. But I'm saying, I'm saying, like
it's not what people may think, like to SNY four,
what you think an artists are like a young kid
that just had to hit song blow up? You think
it's way crazy, like tat you my DM is Okay,
I get it, but it's not.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I mean that's a lot now, one hundred plus d ms.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You know what I'm saying, not not the quantity but
necessary it's what it is.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Oh like they're just saying nice song or.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah it's it's something crazy, but it's not as much
like it's not like little baby dms you little I'm
just assuming like I mean his little baby.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Did you have a girlfriend before the song blew up?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Did you?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'll just be working, so you just be having friends.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, just be working.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I can't appreciate. I can't appreciate that you're not letting
this get to your head because eighteen year old about
to graduate high school with the number one on radio
Urban record Like I'm lit.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's like it's like okay, boom, Like what's the number
one that's out because then it's.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Like any any number one, it would be number one charts.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
It's up there. But you know TIK talk about to
go away allegedly, well yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh damn.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Let me ask you, because you're you're a young guy,
what do you think about that? Do you is going away?
Everybody your age to telling me that TikTok is and.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
It helped you a lot because the song blew up
on TikTok and everybody around the you know globe was
doing it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
TikTok has played a very important role with music within
the past like four years. Right, there's too much money
in TikTok, way too much money, which I think, like
that could be a scary part. So like I really
don't have too much of an opinion. I wanted to
stay like it would be nice if it stayed at
least into another like platform came around, because if not,
we'd be naked. We'd have Instagram. But Instagram has been
(18:33):
off for a long time. I feel like we need
that new if we're going to get rid of it,
we need that new.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
So for up and coming artists and you know artists
out there who are on TikTok. When you say there's
a lot of money to be made on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What do you mean, so like you have to think
there are people that are not maybe I wouldn't say rich, right,
but on the way to being rich off of just
going live and just talking or like responding to comments.
And they're regular people, like they're not necessarily like celebrities,
but eventually they could become a celebrity just off of
they're on TikTok. They're looking at commis, they're yelling out
people's names and saying thank you for donating to me,
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and that's going viral. There are people that are like
eating eggshells online, like selling candy. There's somebody right now
on live on a TikTok shop selling candy that you
can go to the store to get. It just looks
better on your phone, and they're gonna buy it. That's
so crazy to me. Over they're overpaying too, Like it's wow,
it's just too much money. They are artists aside from
the artist stuff, like we know, let's talk about artist stuff.
(19:29):
People songs you could leak a snippet, it's gonna go
viral and them that's the next one you go with,
Like before you even have to test the waters with
dropping the song, TikTok is your first tester.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
I just acted as a black creator because a lot
of black creators had issues with TikTok and them, you know,
putting their their their art up and not getting compensated
like a white TikToker.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, I'm not familiar with that honestly, or that what
you're exactly what you're talking about. I haven't heard anything
about that. I feel like it's just there's issues within everything.
There's never a time where everybody would be satisfied. I
think that's just the world, not even just the world
of business, but I think that's just life. Like there
will never be just this perfect Cinderella story with any platform,
any business or anything like. There will be there always
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will be a negative thing or negative story, but there
also will be positive things. I think it's just for
us to gauge what's best for us and maneuver throughout
this world the best way we can.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Wise words three wise eighteen year old younger.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Everyone know name mystery. So today, like I said, you
have Silk City that is like going crazy remix. Yeah,
the remix, And you said everybody reached out to you
via DM.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, everybody just show love. Man. Everybody from the city
was just getting behind me. And I think that's just
that contributed to like.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Me blowing It was easier like that for sure, I
think that's the other way around. It's legalities and all
other stuff, but it's a more organic co sign.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Everybody just show love bro me, it's crazy. I think
that's what's needed. I think in rapids, when there's a
new artist, people out to back them, especially from their hometown,
because I think if you have home, it's a lot
easier to go out and go to different markets, order
atlant and go to Texas. If you don't have home first,
I think it's like that, what do you have right? Like,
(21:20):
you got to have home. You gotta have the routes
right for sure.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Question now, because you're still in school, when do you
perform on weekends?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah? Nice? Nice and weekends?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How does that affect you? Because you could be tired
going to school the next day.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I think being eighteen, you're not tired like maybe twenty
five year old, thirty year old.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
You know, it ain't hit you yet.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I think it's times I'm tired, but I'd rather be
out tired, moving around making money, networking, meeting people, connections,
and being at home in my bed or on the game.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Now, when you travel, do your parents go with you
or no?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
No, so you don't have a Mama, your or dadager, No,
you're you have this big record. Now the money is
rolling in. What are your parents saying?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Like?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Are you control of it? Are you in control of
your own money? Or does mom or dad say all right,
look x y Z.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I mean I think not even I think. I mean
my mom doesn't really like have too much to say,
like in regards to control of my life. Like I
don't see like anything I need for my mom, she's there.
So if I needed any assistance or anything, she's there.
But she doesn't. She wants She's down for me figuring
it out on my own because she knows that I'm
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not going to make any dumbest decisions right or that
may not be my intentions. So yeah, like she trusts me.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
What about your dad?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Same thing? Trust me?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Do they still work, go to work regular and just
live their life how they've been doing?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, nothing really changed, but eventually it will potentially Okay,
this day by day grounded, very grounded. Day by day
his businesses, it gets it gets crazy, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
So day by day, So when you start making some
big money, you're gonna make a big purchase. Do you
have your eyes set on something.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I like a franchise, like maybe like a Chipotle.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Okay, you like Chipotle, Yeah, Chipotle.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Is good for sure. I think I do a franchise
first rather than like start my own, so I could learn.
You know, if I have a Chipoli, Chipotle is already Chipotle.
I just got to drop it in a nice location.
Usually Chipolis Chapoli is usually gonna go wherever you put
it is Chippola. People always love Chipotlet. So I do that,
learn that business, but like having a little bit more
security because it's not my own, so it's less liability.
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And after that, once that hits, then I start my
own whatever that may be within the next couple of years.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Okay, so you you are like an entrepreneur at heart.
Who instilled that in you? Was it a teacher? Was
it your mom?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Was it your coach? Like who instilled that? I want to,
you know, own something.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
When I was younger, like maybe like thirteen fourteen, it
was just weird to me, like waking up knowing that,
like I can't get everything I want right now, like
not necessarily like everything in the world, because it's not
I don't want everything in the world, but it's things
I do want for myself that maybe right now at
this age I can't get because of lack a dollar
or lack of liquid, Like I don't have the money
(24:19):
to do it. But it's like how do I do it?
By working and learning certain things that people don't know,
because the thing is that the success, the success kicks
in once you know things that other people don't know
because the knowledge is the true like currency, really time
and time and knowledge is a true currency. Like the
dollar is cool, right, but you have to know certain
things to do with the dollar to make the dollar work.
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Because the one hundred dollars bill is just one hundred
dollar bill, but you have to know what to do
with that tool to make it go. You know what
I'm saying. You can always turn one hundred to million,
but you got to know where to put it in
place at the right time. So I think for me,
that's that's it. It's just the knowledge and understanding that
time is money because people I remember people used to
tell me like, oh, you have time, you have time,
But it's like bro, nah, like what do you mean? So,
(25:02):
because then I'll be chilling, like I'll be on ice
for four to six years. So if I'm eighteen maybe
to like twenty four, but I just wasted six years
or nothing where that could have been six years of knowledge,
maybe not necessarily like me putting work in, but just
learning things like me learning things to middle school to now.
I feel like it's what got me here, as in
like the things I know, but it's so much more
to know. So then at thirty, when it's like that
(25:24):
time where people be like, oh, like you had the time,
Now it's trying to lock in at thirty. By thirty,
it's like, what do you mean where we already did
this at twenty, you know? So I just always don't.
I don't like that feeling of like not being able
to do what I want, not being able to buy
my mom certain things or provide for my family in
the way I would like to. And I think it's
just having that balance, like people's attention shouldn't just be
(25:46):
on necessarily negative, ignorant things, like we should be trying
to like figure it out, because I think for so
long we've been behind, right, we haven't really been on
like the other side of the ball. We've been on
the side were like the cheat codes and like the
tricks in this world were like hidden from us, right,
(26:09):
and a lot of times even when they're right in
front of us, we ignore them because we're not even
used to having like those tools available to us. So yeah,
I think I'm just gonna be taking advantage of every
opportunity that's presented. I feel like as an artist, I
maybe might not be the best when it comes to
like going viral or like having the most trendy moments
or being in the mix and messy, which I think
(26:30):
that's what makes artists go. I may not be that,
but I feel like I'm achieving my goals. As in
financial freedom.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah, because you feeling with a lot of knowledge. Where
does that come from?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It really just came from me trying to figure your
stuff out. Nobody Really, my mom didn't talk to me
necessarily like oh, you're gonna turn this age and you
need to learn this stuff by this age, Like it
was not really that. My mom gave me so much freedom,
And I think the freedom is what allowed me to
find this like who I am now at this age
because I could change tomorrow, right, especially in this business,
(27:03):
like I could, you know, my head could. Ah. Now
I'm on a whole different thing and it's all negative
and I'm not who I once was, right, But it's
really like my mom and the freedom shit a lot, and.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
I'm watching her go to work and all that is
what made you want to change things.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I would say, not not just that. I think that's
a part of it. I think that's for everybody, like
a part of it. You see, like your parents working hard,
I think it was to that. But then knowing that,
like even with the hours put it in, like with
the work or like taking care of me, it's like
there's still a lot that may not be available. Still,
no matter if it's six to eight hours of work in,
(27:41):
it's still something that you can't have just because you.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Can't go on vacation where you want to.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, you can go on vacation after maybe a year
of saving up. So like just knowing that, but it's
like people in the world that are going whenever they
want them and it's not necessarily jealousy or chasing their
life or like trying to be them. That's not it.
It's just that, like I feel like it's so much
more to this than what a lot of people like have.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
So your motivation is financial freedom, being.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Able to do whatever I want whenever I want, I think,
I think, and then people are like, oh, well then
like once you have the money, then what meant then,
Like that's when you continue the journey because you.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Create opportunities for other people who think.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Like you, right, because the journey doesn't the journey never stops.
People allow people people get in their head up and
like kind of create this like false reality like oh
the journey stopped. I made the money, and they get
stuck and they lose themselves. But I think that's when
that's when like the emotional intelligence kicks in. You have
to know, you have to be aware of what's going on,
Like you can, you can make up twenty million dollars,
(28:42):
but if you're not really aware of where you're at
at that time, that twenty million dollars can hurt you
more than it can help you. You know.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So it's like eighteen, that's a that's very wise logic.
Are your friends similar to her? Do you do you
strin yourself around people that have conversation like.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
This with them?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I have conversations with people I think I can't really
like talk on like who those people are and say
like oh they think like this, they're like me, because
I feel like we're two different people. But I've had
conversations with people like that, but usually, like like right now,
like twenty twenty four, it's really been just like minded
like I because the thing is you can have friends,
and a lot of your best friends may not be
(29:20):
the most like minded individuals, like in regards to how
you guys may think, but that doesn't make them lesser
and more of my friend. That just means it's like
a time and a place, you know, Like maybe we
could play the game twelve hours straight, but I can't
really talk to you all day about that because my
head is on like trying to get it in a
different way, you know. So I think it's just case
by case, Like I have friends that like might wake
(29:42):
up a da da da, like I just read this
on TikTok or this book, like tell me more about
this because they might think I know a little bit more.
Then it'll be that's how the conversation will start.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
So and I love this conversation because you're just putting
a lot of your peers and younger people on game
and older people too.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Is everybody don't get it?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
What are a couple more things that people can do
and to be conscious of in their everyday life to
you know, move forward into.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
What their goals are for whatever they may be.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
The number one thing I feel like for is like
maybe young teens or like kids right now and well
my generation, I feel like right now what we need
is we just need clarity and like clearing the fog,
because there's so much fog right now, right it's so
much negativity or not even just negativity, let's just say
like rarah in general that like maybe are just distractions
(30:35):
from what the bigger picture is. But me, I have
to understand that everybody is on their own journey, like
their own journey and their own path to where like
what I might think is right, Oh no, right now
at this age, you should know this. You should know this.
There's never just a right time, Like it's never just
the right now. It's just everybody has their own time.
So I feel like as long as they know what
(30:56):
they want for themselves, and that's the biggest thing. I
feel like everybody knows what they don't want, but nobody
know what they want. So I think, once you know
what you want and just get that, and it's so
many different ways to get it. I didn't have to, Like,
if I wanted, I was already big business before the
rap popped.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Big business.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, So it's like if the if the if the
mind was already on big business. I didn't really need this.
This was just the extra though, right, I don't. I
might not be the most turned up or the best
rapper for like maybe headlines or drama, but it's like
on the side that I love, I'm alright, you know
what I'm saying. So that ship whatever, whatever they want,
(31:30):
they got to just get it. It's not too much
to it researching.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah, it's good to doing, no baby, and you are
now tuned in to The Baller Alert Show, like Bob, do.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
You when you're doing when you're making your records like
I saw, I remember when you brought that up. You
wanted to do you want it to be like a
little dancy that day or whatever? Do you do you
have a theme like every day, like oh, I'm gonna
be on this type of vibe today. Do you theme
it out each day and you decide how you make
your records that way, or you just kind of it's
(32:08):
basically however you're feeling.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Usually like when I listen to a beat, right, the
beat usually sets the tone.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Okay, right, smart man.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But it's it's times, especially with like the music business,
not just making music, but the music business. It's times
where an artists may need this type of record toward
that might be the like maybe right now I need
a dancy record, so I'll be in that mindset of
like okay today aside, like I'm gonna look for the
beat that fits what I'm feeling, like what I know
(32:38):
I need. Yeah, so I use It's not just one.
I think it's all strategic. Like sometimes the best is
like do maybe, okay, make make this like whatever the
beat tells you to make, like the tone or whatever
it gives off. Didn't do that? Cool, But that's more
like freelance, Like when it's the structure, the objectives are set,
and you know what needs to be done, then it's like, Okay,
(33:02):
right now, I could use this form my album, so
I'm gonna make this. So I think it's just.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Case by case when it comes to your album nights
and weekends, what is some of the reception that you've
been getting from your.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Album, appreciating the versatility. I think a lot of those
singles were already going up to whur like most of
them were maybe like fillers, like a lot of the
A lot of the songs and album were good songs,
but like the key ones like Soilk City, back it
up another dance record going up five see through DDG
(33:32):
like those records. Is what did it like to make okay?
Like to where I'm happy with the album because every
one to eleven or one to fourteen doesn't have to
hit really like it could be a good song, but
like the hit, as long as you got the two
or three, you're good. And I feel like that's what
people appreciate and people are saying, I want very smart.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
We were talking about the parties earlier. What is a
an Englewood party, Like.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Well, we could say la, it's like it's lit, like
it's shttle though, but it's like we that's what we love, right,
But it's lit. I mean, it's people dancing, it's girls twerking.
Is it's a lot. You just got to know when
to leave, you know what I'm saying, or just not
going at all. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
If you leave too late, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I always leave early.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I don't know what he called the matrix he lead
too late?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Man, I feel like, but my music is like kind
of like if you ain't been to LA Party, it's like,
that's the LA party. So see is the LA party
and it's I love the fact that, like the world
can like vibe to that, you know, because that's that's it.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Who else are you listening to outside of yourself?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
A little Tyler Kanye. I'm listening to listen to any
Kendrick or not recently. No, the last album he dropped,
I did listen to it.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
He kind of shaking up things right now with like
that on the Future record.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Yeah, it's funny they say West Coast is dead, but
then you got baby charting and go and go. Who
said that?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Who said West Coast?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You say that? We say that at home? You don't
like the West Coast.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Dead my favorite artist?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And they say at home they say they be like,
oh we did, but it's like we got me, We
got Kendrick.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
I think sometimes that people get into their own bubble,
especially people who don't really travel outside of their city
or state.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Because your ship is in full rotation in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, we got we got got tired the creator, We
got a lot of people. I think we just looked
past that.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
And and in Atlanta, we have four urban radio stations.
Usually in big cities is one or two. Yeah, we
have four. It's rotation in all four.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
You guys have legends like Snoop is forever, dre is forever,
like the West Coast will never die. I love hearing
this ever like that is beyond me. That statement is crazy.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I can't wait. I really can't wait to see this
graduation because I'm really gonna be Are you gonna like
put it on TikTok?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's gonna be everywhere. Okay, they'll probably go virable without
me posting it. Probably we'll see, Yeah, we'll see. We'll
see what happens.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I don't know that you're gonna walk across the stage.
Everything you're gonna do the dance walk across.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
Got to be hilarious.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Huh. That was probably a viral.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Yeah, we gotta do the dance right now.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I'm not the best dancer. I ain't neither not the best.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
It's not an excuse. Whatever your name is, do you
want to she.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Still don't want to tell us your real name. We
can we could google it.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Though, yeah, now you can't necessarily, No, you can't google it.
It's online up, but you can't google it yet. Okay,
soon soon, I'm sure it'll be.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
I said something, Yeah, because your Wikipedia.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Is not up because you know the ball this baller,
So they're gonna clip this up. They're gonna put it
in the comments. His name is.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
What's his real name?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Not his It is hilarious. Yeah, I wouldn't be mad
at it though.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
We go viral for them all as dumbest shiit?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
What's three? One old baby name? Nights the weekends available? Now, man,
we appreciate you something about the yeah, every one old
baby the mystery. Did you feel a little comfortable or
with us now or yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Just because you came to there, I got got the
you know, the West Coast nikes.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
For you. That's super West Coast.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
It's super West Coast out whoever?
Speaker 4 (37:25):
We for sure, hey.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Man, Before we get out of here, though, we do
have a pep talk with through one o baby.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yo, it's good as doing old baby words of advice
from me, I would just say, whatever is you want
to do, do it it could be cliche or something,
but I feel like that's what I did. I just
I did what I wanted to do when it worked.
But it only worked because I stayed consistent. I was
confident in myself not to rely on anybody else for
like the the like drive, Like nobody had to like
(37:52):
necessarily motivate me. The work was the motivation. The reward
from working was the motive. I don't really need anybody
to like sit behind me and tell me, oh no,
do this, do this, do this or this. You got it.
I always knew I had it, so I did it.
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