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the Bay Takeover with Ian Kelly was popping it. I'm excited. I was

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like saying, we keep rescheduling. I finally got you in here, so

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full of it out out everywhere with you Beannga. Yes, how you feeling

2:47

out that it's out? Man? I feel great. The reception from it

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has been amazing. After a listening party and like seventy plus people showed up

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and it was just it was nice to see the way the community it kind

3:00

of embraced it. I'm like, okay, we're making some moves. Yeah, it's hard. So I noticed on the first record you got a little

3:06

bre from Soul Food the part. So was that kind of the concept for

3:09

you right away going into it? I was gonna be like, kind of

3:13

based on the movie a little bit. Not right away. Ba. At

3:15

one point when I started listening to all the songs, and I stopped and I was like, oh, you know what, And the first one I

3:20

heard was the cousin Faith one, the cousin Faith, Yeah, you messed

3:23

my husband. And that was the first one. I'm like, ooh,

3:27

I'm gonna use multiple Okay, what's so funny? So when I when I

3:30

press start, I heard yeah the first one. I was like, okay, there's a solt food theme. And like I kept listening, I was

3:35

like, if they don't have the family, fuck my husband, I'm gonna

3:38

throw this. Also windowns like you got it include out, I gotta be like a relationship joint and then he gets a distance and then right Around'm like,

3:44

okay, they put it in there. Good. I was like,

3:46

you can't miss that. No, I thought that was hard with the concept,

3:50

So exactly what was it for you? Like when you guys were creating

3:53

it? Because you got you bang on it. Yes, he produced the

3:55

whole thing, the whole thing. I love that because I don't remember when

4:00

when actually Bronzin first came out like that Blue Chips era. Oh, Like

4:02

for me, I was like on action tough because like he would have producers

4:06

just produced the whole thing, like you know, party's probably is going to

4:09

produce this whole thing, you know whoever it was. And at the time,

4:11

I feel like a lot of artists, not that these projects weren't dope,

4:15

but at the time it was really popular to have like twenty producers on

4:17

one song, like even like I remember watching the doone came out like it

4:21

was like crazy to kind of see that. So there was something refreshing about

4:25

that, And I still get excited when I say that to this day, Like I think Alchemist anounced he's gonna do Benny's whole shit. So when I

4:30

saw that, there's just something special about it, and I feel like it's

4:32

kind of rare for you. Did that happen organically or were you like,

4:35

did you hit him up like I want you to do my whole shit?

4:38

Honestly, it just kind of happened organically. First. I was like,

4:41

bro, let's just start cooking and make some more music. You know,

4:43

I was on an independent label situation that had just kind of started leaving in

4:46

and I tapped in with him. I'm like, let's let's build. And then the next thing, you know, it just started growing piece by piece.

4:50

I'm like, let's make it a project. He was like, come

4:53

on, and then a time at that point it was smooth. I love

4:56

it. I love it, and I feel like this project for both of

4:59

you guys came together really good. I mean, you know we're gonna get into both of your guys' journeys. But for me on the outside, looking

5:04

like I when I knew about Drew Bango. When I heard about him,

5:06

it was more like on Club Flyers, I knew he was a DJ,

5:10

and then and I'm sure he's been producer forever, but it wasn'tntil like recent

5:13

years where it was like, oh he's a producer because he's been on he's everywhere now, like he couldn't really ignore his name. And then even for

5:18

you, like I think I saw you first at a black woman made this

5:23

tour. I think that might have been the first one a minute ago,

5:26

and I just want to see her. I really wasn't driven about the opening

5:28

acts. And I remember seeing you and I was like, way, Brock can rap because I find Casina she knew you, like so we have mutual

5:33

friends. But I was like, oh, like he could actually wrap and

5:36

you had like good states where like I was like, okay, bron control,

5:39

like he actually like is a real performer, you know what I mean.

5:41

So and then but then after that the recent years, like you're everywhere

5:45

like freestyles everywhere, like blown up, So like for me, it was

5:49

like I saw both of you guys grow and then like this project came,

5:51

you know what I mean, how did you guys get a popping together?

5:55

So Drew, I've known Drew for like over a decade. I remember before

5:58

Drew Bang, it was Drew Bank. He was Drew Beaso and he was always a bass player and you know, just kind of building on the side.

6:03

So when I knew he had that bag already, and I had seen

6:08

the shift into the DJ world and the Drew you know and all that,

6:12

I'm like, Bro, I'm like, let's bring it back. But no,

6:14

Lie, I just want to see you get deep into your bag. Because Drew is an amazing artist. Like, he can play multiple instruments,

6:21

he can produce, he can DJ. So I was like, bro,

6:25

I just want to showcase that and then me showcase my elevation with his lyricism,

6:30

and then let's make something special that's toff. So you guys go back already. You guys are already good friends. How did you get started to

6:34

music? Man wrapping in my partner's closets and in basements age probably like eighteen,

6:43

I used to I started off singing the first song I ever got on

6:46

I singer hook. Really, I didn't even know that I can't sing, but I harmonized the hook and sound. You know, a lot of people

6:53

he started off singing because they're like, Oka, I'm gonna get the girls.

6:55

You know, I didn't no auto tune. Then now auto tune,

6:59

I'll singing that you like, I might be able to get something off you. So then I went from eighteen then honestly, when I got to college,

7:04

I started rapping in my dorm room a lot, and then going to

7:08

ciphers out in the yard and different things of that type of nature. And

7:11

then as soon as I came back home, I'm like, okay, let's let's take the career on one. Has music always been around you like growing

7:15

up? Definitely? Even like when I used to play like Pop Warner Football,

7:18

I would like recite Versus to kind of calm myself down. Really that's

7:24

crazy too. I would start singing Jacket Edge if it's like first and ten,

7:27

I'm singing Tupac like, you know, different things to kind of like

7:30

keep my mental, like the Kenning hardball where you got to listen to that's

7:36

me. That's funny. Do you come from like a musical background, like

7:40

you know, with your family or anything you know, not so much a

7:42

musical background, but I will say I think even just kind of looking at

7:45

a little bit of entertainment, at least when it stems from my dad. My dad was in radio for a second. Oh really, he actually got

7:50

a way for it, became like a mortgage broker and wanted to help out

7:54

community based stuff. But I saw his old tapes and he played them for

7:58

me and everything. So it always just like the love music was always there

8:01

and every Sunday one o two point nine just you know, oh the oldies

8:07

everything. So I'm just like music was always around me, but I wasn't

8:11

just around like musicians per se. What moment for you were? It was

8:13

it like, okay, I need to start taking this seriously. Hmm okay.

8:18

I was like nineteen. I was wrapping in my dorm room with my

8:22

pot and then we were all freestyling and I just kept on going. And

8:26

afterwards he pulled me to the side and he was like, hey, bro,

8:28

you want to take this serious. I was like, no, we're

8:31

just having fun, he said. He said, nah. He was like,

8:33

it's not just fun for you. Take it serious, you know.

8:35

Sad to say that friend passed away rest and soul, but yeah, he

8:39

was really want to spark your mind to be like, oh maybe I could

8:41

do something. How much do you think you've grown from soulful up now to

8:46

your like beginning projects? Oh a lot? Like like what does this album

8:52

like really tell you? This project, I think you can see my control.

8:56

I think you can see more of my expense and when it comes to

9:00

song making and songwriting ability, I feel like my earlier music, you know,

9:03

some of it was like boom bab, some of it I still didn't

9:07

have control of my voice or know how to you know, exactly captivate people.

9:11

Yeah, I think my newer music I understand now what people like.

9:15

I understand now how I've kind of like progressed and kind of like blossomed.

9:18

So now I'm just kind of cohesively putting it together. Yeah, that's that's

9:22

interesting. You said that because I was talking to Money too. Money JP came through a couple weeks ago. But we're just saying how like the Bay,

9:28

for sure, it gets put in a boxes. People like think there's

9:30

a bass sound, but like in general, rap does too. Yeah,

9:33

you know, like even you say like, oh, he's doing the boom bap and like It's true, those are all sounds. But at the end

9:37

of the day, it's like, can you rap exactly? Because like you

9:39

could switch it up if you wanted to. I could start singing tomorrow if

9:41

I really really exactly wanted to, you know, just heavy auto tune,

9:46

put a little justin Bieber effected right right right, we could take it on.

9:48

But even just like with the rap, so it's like, Okay, what is making me be a high few artist or whatever? Just because like

9:54

it got eight a ways on the beat, you know what I mean, Like, you know, what does that all really mean? So, but

9:58

I guess you're saying you found your voice a little bit more in this project.

10:01

Definitely. I think the biggest thing where my mind shifted was you know

10:03

how some people say like conscious rappers and things like that. To be real,

10:09

everything is conscious. It's conscious to who you are. So you feel

10:13

me if I'm slanging dope and I got peas in the trunk and that's what

10:15

I'm talking about, I'm speaking from that level of consciousness about that. So

10:20

me what I just kind of finally did, I'm just like, man,

10:22

I'm gonna talk about whatever, right, make sure that this story's painted that

10:26

you feel it, and I think at that point that's where I kind of like stepped outside the box for myself, right and exactly. That's another one,

10:31

like I hate when people say conscious rap, Like even like with somebody

10:35

like who's your favorite rapper, and it's like, okay, well, if I say this person, I think I'll listen to conscious rapper, or if

10:37

I say this, I think I'll listen to this, But it's like it's

10:41

all rap, Like that's okay, that's storytelling exactly. Maybe not everyone's a

10:43

storyteller, but you know that, don't mean like I'm just subjected to like

10:46

this kind of rap music exactly. Even with Diller people, a lot of

10:50

people think like Diyla was just like conscious, Like nah, if you listen

10:54

to Deler cars close exactly in like a tone and a vibe that sounded like

11:00

it was conscious or like that's what people we worked with, like Little Brother

11:03

all that exactly. So I definitely feel you, like it's rap, it's

11:07

music to put so many boxes on it, but it's hard to like find

11:09

your own Lena into when everyone's like trying to throw some kind of tied on

11:13

you. So when did you go independent? Man? Officially went independent about

11:20

a year ago. Okay, and what made you make that decision? Like,

11:22

how did that come about? Honestly, I saw myself going in a

11:26

different direction. I think sometimes when it came to the labels a part of

11:31

and for me, it's just about believing the power you have. I think

11:35

a lot of artists don't understand the actual power they have. Yeah, And

11:39

the more that you work on that and build that, it opens up and you start seeing it's like, oh there, there really aren't any rules.

11:45

You can make things work. You just have to learn what works best for you. So as I started seeing what worked best for me, I was

11:50

like, you know what, I I do appreciate this help here, but now I want to try this and I've created my own team. I've been

11:56

blossoming ever since. So it feels good. Yeah. So it's no like

12:00

be U with John lenn All that like it's still y'all terms and there's still

12:05

people over there like I chop it up with here and there, Like once

12:07

again, I learned over there, and I'm never gonna have beef with a

12:13

situation where I learned from. It'd be different if I was just treated like,

12:16

you know, Cinderella and nobody. No, they was scared of there

12:20

there was love. There is just at some point I think, you know,

12:22

just grew in two different ways. Yeah, it was just your time.

12:24

You're like, this is what I want to do next? Yeah,

12:26

okay, so is it this is kind of the first project? Then have

12:28

you been independent? Oh? It's crazy? So you you guys kind of

12:33

had full obviously full control. Yep, what's gonna do? How is it

12:37

working though with someone like you? Got you and Drew? Like, is

12:39

there a lot of sometimes you guys like don't agree with something like how do

12:43

you? How do you work through that? No? Lie, me and

12:46

Drew just work effortlessly. I don't know if it's like some zodiac shit like

12:50

signs or what. I don't know, but me and bro really just like

12:54

it's easy. And then as well as if he feels something, then I'm

12:58

gonna listen, you know, he's like, ah, your flow might not

13:01

sound cool like that. Try this here. I'm gonna try it. Respect

13:05

each other's opinion, so it's like the count on you to tell me if

13:07

I don't sound good here. Definitely, I think we've built that rapport to

13:09

the point where was like man, it's no hard feelings, like we want

13:13

the best outcome, the best music, the best product. That's what it's

13:15

about. Do you think it does? Does it take longer when working with

13:18

someone on a project, but it's like this is ours together. No,

13:22

But I think it all depends on who you're working with, you know. You know, some people are harder to catch, you know, and I

13:28

respect everybody's schedule and timing, you know. I think that's the that's the

13:31

biggest thing. But no, for for our stuff, it's pretty easy.

13:35

And then you know, like I said, Drew Man, our families live

13:37

close around each other and everything. It's hard not to catch. Bro, that's fire, Mike. I feel like now people are blessed to like have

13:43

good chemistry, right, you know, with the whole project like coming together

13:46

like that. Let's talk about the features though, because I loved a Sunner

13:50

Man. I think bounces one of my favorites. Bounces up there, Yeah,

13:54

because you just do that, like I don't know that rawness on there like you made it, you know, I made it a little like okay,

13:58

like this might be a my gym play less how did it these come

14:01

together? So no loud of the one with Stunnerman came about very organic.

14:05

I had slid on Drew. We were working on a session and he pulled up and it was funny. At first he started juggling with me. You

14:09

know, I don't got no haircut right now, but with my haircut, he was just like, he was like, you know, you look like

14:15

you like Makai Feiffer. The whole session he see it. So the whole

14:20

session he's jogging with me about Makay and then you know, I get up

14:24

and I start rapping and then at that point he was like, bro, he was like, wait you call actually yeah, I never heard of you

14:30

like that. And then we just tapped in and then he heard the song

14:33

as we were making and he was like can I get on this? Okay?

14:37

Yeah, And to be real, I don't even think. I don't think Big Steppen had came out yet or had just came out, Like oh

14:43

wow, that started making that song so like perfect timing. He's such a

14:48

good dude, like even if you're not even familiar, like if you meet

14:52

him, you just want him to win because he's such a good dude.

14:54

And then he has really good stage presence. We uh, I had to work like some NBA watch party with Google and like actually Kamaia was supposed to

15:01

perform during halftime, but her flight got like canceled. We had to find

15:03

a lost minut artists and he end up coming through. There was a lot

15:07

of white techy people in there and he had them turns like he just knew

15:09

how to talk to them. He did a freestyle. It was like it

15:11

was really strict because it was Google pixel right, so like even in the

15:15

song he threw it up and he was like, uh little rock no iPhones,

15:18

Like he was just like going off the rib and like he just everyone fell in love with him, so similar to you, Like you just notice

15:24

like everyone has got that star power right away. So that was one of

15:28

my features. But what were some of your favorites? Well, No,

15:30

I definitely that went And another quick thing about stunning Man the first time and

15:33

not the first time, one of the times I saw him perform, he

15:35

actually like did a prayer at the end of his prayer of the Google one

15:39

too. The other artists I saw do that and it kind of hit me when I saw it was DMX. So seeing those two do that at the

15:45

end of sets is just kind of like impactful. That must be his thing,

15:48

because yeah, he did that show out the Google band and it was like cheering for the basketball game. He's like, hold on real quick,

15:52

yeah, keep it, gonna get this prayer off. I love that.

15:56

But another one of my favorite features is Jane Handcock. You know, that's

16:00

one of myas, that's one of my dearest friends, and she's just amazing

16:04

and it's effortless to what I loved about that song. I had asked her

16:08

for a certain type of hook and she gave me a different hook at first,

16:11

and I was like, you know what a friend, I like this,

16:15

but I was looking for like something different. She's like okay, spent

16:18

like fifteen more minutes on it and they made that hook. And I appreciated

16:22

the professionalism, like it's cool, bro, Like what's the next? And

16:25

that made everything like smooth working with her. So she just want to iminated

16:30

for two five killing it. It's crazy. I got, like all these

16:34

talented people, But when did you start this project then? Man? So

16:38

no, lie, Like we started the project probably like a year and a

16:41

half, like two years ago, but like it didn't just initially start.

16:45

I was like, all right, man, we're running and we're making this

16:48

project. I was still in my own situation, so we kind of came

16:51

back and forth. It wasn't just all in one big sitting, but you

16:55

know, we spent time in the studio for a minute. Since then, Wow, it's kind of crazy the time, Like I just talk about you

17:00

and Drew like that perfect timing, but like even the future is like look

17:03

at everyone doing everything. You know, it's like perfect timing. And then

17:06

another one of my favorite features, Isaiah mo Staffa to be real, that's

17:11

like one of my people who I know, like, you're gonna hear that

17:14

name a lot. I think pretty soon here give it, you know,

17:17

one to two years. I feel like you hear that name a lot. He does it all. He can produce, he can sing, he can

17:22

rap, like his creative visions the way he does stuff. So every song

17:26

I made with him, I made with him right on spot. So the

17:30

first song we did was all this game. So when we did that together,

17:33

we spend time on it, and then the session was almost over.

17:37

We had like twenty minutes left and he was like, oh, I got something for the other b too. I'm like, all right, lay it

17:41

down real quick, and he laid the hook and I looked at him like

17:44

he was an alien. I was like, we just did this in five minutes, like what And yeah? So no, lie, like all the

17:49

features on this project blessed and but I'm really blessed about it that they're really

17:53

friends, real friends, right Yeah, Like I could say these are good

17:57

people, yeah, and they all my shit. Yeah, I can help

18:00

come pick up and get a plate. You know, it's Christmas dinner.

18:03

I can say that to these people, and that's a good feeling. That's

18:06

dope. I was gonna say that about that was All this Game. One

18:08

of the first music videos for it. No, All this Game I think

18:11

was the last music video. Oh okay, that music video was fire,

18:15

thank you? So how did you What was the concept for you in like

18:18

creating a bunch of music videos for it, Like did you know already a

18:22

plan that you had like rolling out, rolling out the album or how did

18:26

that come about? So honestly, I didn't have a complete plan. I

18:29

did have some ideas visually where I'm like, you know what, this song

18:32

feels like a barbecue, so let's try to give that vibe. I'm like,

18:34

this song makes me feel like that intro to Dangerous Minds were like the

18:38

spotlight y, like, let's do that, you know, That's that's what

18:41

I did, And I started kind of putting it together just to kind of

18:45

get the imagery going, and I think it just kind of wind up being

18:48

like, oh, this messes well. So I think that was the cool

18:51

part about it. It's dope and it's not just like you know, obviously

18:55

the movie aspect is really dope, but you really, I really the whole

18:57

thing is a vibe like I don't know, you obviously like cared about the

19:02

transitions, you know, what was the process of going into that? No?

19:06

Lie. So one thing I've learned just kind of just doing multiple projects

19:10

is that you have to think like a DJ when it comes to transitions for

19:12

your projects. You gotta know the tempos. You gotta know the highs and

19:15

the lows. And that was the biggest thing. Like I had a DJ

19:18

friend Timmy about it was a actually she goes by the name Stony Creations and

19:21

one time she did a set and she was doing stuff and she was rocking. I'm like, how you do it so effortlessly? And she was like,

19:26

I look at time and then when I when I started peeping that.

19:29

That's how I started doing like my soundtracks, when I started putting songs together,

19:33

or even if I have projects you haven't heard, I'll listen to him

19:37

like a DJ now, And that is such a DJ thing sounds with the homely viol He's really big on that too, like he's like, if I

19:41

got it up here, I got to take him down to bring him back up. But also I think it's just so important in an album, Like

19:45

I mean, I guess in the streaming era, it's maybe we're going away

19:49

from that because like unfortunately there's all the people that listen to albums all the

19:52

way through. But I was talking about this and money too, like the

19:55

transitions can mess up your shit from being a classic and not like it could be mad HiT's on it. I always say this, like Volume ja Z

20:00

is like one of my favorites, but like it's together as an album,

20:03

like you look at it later, it's like, oh there's who hits on that. Hell of my favorite songs are on here, but it didn't really

20:07

mesh well together the way it was, you know what I mean exactly,

20:10

and no lie, And I think that sometimes that's the difference from like an album sound like an album, and a project sounded like a compilation, right,

20:17

like a mixtape. You know. I feel like albums feel like, oh I'm at my popcorn. It feels like I'm listening to a movie.

20:22

You know. So off the review were like really adamant about that, Like,

20:26

Okay, this gotta flow a certain way. Definitely. Sound soundscaping is

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art, you know, like like that little click sound, that little bird

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you hear in the background. It all adds that little bit of feeling to

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a song. Is there any is there? Was there like a lot of

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songs that didn't make the cut. There were some and me and Drew actually

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are working on some other stuff too. Okay, cool little deluxe, so

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you know, we want to make sure everybody gets the full dose. But yeah, like we got it brewing up. Would you guys do like another

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like complete different project too, Like could we get maybe like a trilogy or

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something else all of it? Like is this just like one extension? You

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know what? I got to sit down with Drew. We haven't really exactly

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talked about like a soul full of his series. You know, I'm not

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mad at it, especially with the reaction this has gotten, right, it's

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kind of like okay, like yeah, we had to sit on the draw on board with that one. SUPERB all right, So what's next for you?

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Because I feel like now the album's out, yo poping, what's going

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on? It was next for me, honestly, just to give people more

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music. I think this year, more singles. This upcoming year, more

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singles. A few projects already in the tank. I actually have a project

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with DJ d Sharp that I have in the tank that I'm working on.

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Me and the Homi name Tico, who's actually from out here. We've been

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working on stuff. So there are still a few producers who I have like

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projects with, but I think some of those might be smaller. I definitely

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want to give more singles out. I think the biggest thing with me is

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that I do feel like I'm a great artist, and I feel like I'm growing into what I've been meaning to grow into. Now. It's consistency and

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yeah, people got to see and feel you. And honestly, nowadays,

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even when you drop music, it's all I algorithm. You feel me the

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same way you drive on Instagram and the more you drive on Instagram, yeah,

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same way with music. See, I have such a like I don't

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know, I feel different ways about that. I agree, and that is

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how it is, unfortunately, but like I also feel like sometimes people will drop stuff and then they kind of stop promoting after a while because they think,

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like not enough times past. It's like this is your baby, like you know, just because like it ain't popping the first month, like and

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it's still new, like I writ and I used to be a little shit

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kid that used to say stuff like this too, like you know, a new song called to be like oh you late that came out last week,

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because that'd be the popular thing to do, is like download the music right away. But now that I'm older, it's like this is their latest project.

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I am not late, Like nothing came out after this just because it

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I wasn't in the studio right when it drops, you know what I mean

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exactly. But you know something I started to realize too, So even with

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me wanting to drop more music, I also want to make more pieces of

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art around the music too, So you know, I don't want anything just

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to be like, oh, I drop a single here this week next week,

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and then we just forgot about that one. Yeah, I'll probably still

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promote this, okay, that's all. Makes sure like we still gotta keep

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pushing the make it a continuous Like you said, nothing is all. I

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had somebody tweet me I had a pot and that text me like like two

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weeks ago, like, bro, you and Drew dropped this project. It's

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gonna be crazy. I'm living what I'm saying, and I'm just like yep, yeah, and knowing that it was already out, so yeah, and

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I'm like, you know, like, hey, you can't take offence to it. You know, people just in the world where there's so much stuff

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coming at us all the tame. If it ain't viral, more than likely

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people didn't see it. So keep promoting it, keep pushing it. Yeah, it does talk with the singles. I mean, me and my friends

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talk about this whole time. It's like streaming did kind of kill everything because

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a lot of times like whatever, these albums will go never one is.

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But it's like you didn't even listen to the album. It's popping, or

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this artist is popping because that one song with viral, or everyone's streaming that

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one song, but the whole time, the whole album's whack. But now

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this person is the bar because they got these two popping songs and then ma'am,

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now you got ten million streams off of really Yeah. I really want

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streamings to blow up because it's like you and I like people need to go in and buy the albums, like you don't have to do that anymore.

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And it's making like people who are sorry it's trash, you know, be

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great or vice versas. It's it's just hard to get music. It can

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they made it easier, but it somehow became harder at the same time,

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you know what I mean, right, And it can feel a little watered down and oversaturated at times. I trust me, I know the feeling.

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But I think that's why you still, even if to another artist, if

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you want to drop consistently, still take care of your music, you know,

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don't just don't just drop blah blah just to just to be doing it.

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You know. I still say like get ready, stay ready soon.

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Ain't got to get ready me. I like to do like the three months plan, where it's like I always stay three months ahead of what I'm about

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to do, so then that way, when something pops up, I'm already

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settled in and I don't feel like the mister krab me and you feel me

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like, yeah, focused, yeah, will we get any like vinyl or

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anything for this one? This is what I like, I need to play

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like in my living room, you know, like walking in and I got

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like a record player, like, and I know we all got bluetooth. I do. I guess still connected to that, like I can still bump

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it in my car. But no, no, lie, yes, I

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still actually we want to get vinyl, still planning to get some merch going.

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We want to do some shows. Like I said, nothing nothing is

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nothing is dead until I'm dead. So you feel me like I just want

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to keep on pushing and keep everything rotating. I'm excited for you. It

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go streaming out out everywhere. He said, you are working on shows.

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It's just it's not. Oh yeah, no, we still got more shows

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coming. We got merch on the way, and me Andrew have a deluxe

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project we got on the way. So we've been cooking some more stuff. So no, we got a lot coming. Okay, let people know where

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they can follow you. You can follow me at first name Ian pretty much

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on all social media. You can find me as Ian Kelly on YouTube and

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no life were really friends. You can pull up on me and bring a

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play. Hey, thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Just

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just all the wack it on the record, I be caught off w