ACDONTLOVEME on THC - #84

Welcome back to The Heir Cast — Episode 84 features AC Don’t Love Me, an R&B recording artist originally from the West Coast who made the move to Miami and is carving out his own lane in the city’s music scene.

In this episode, we dive into AC’s creative process and what goes into making music that feels real and emotionally honest. We talk about the major lifestyle shift of moving from Los Angeles to Miami, the cultural differences between both cities, and how that relocation influenced both his sound and mindset.

AC also opens up about fatherhood and how becoming a parent completely changed the way he approaches life, responsibility, and long-term thinking. We get into his dream collaborations, the artists he’d love to work with, and even uncover why—despite being from the sports-obsessed West Coast—he never really played sports growing up.

Of course, we had to have some fun too, so we wrapped things up with a draft of the greatest California artists of all time.

Great conversation, great energy, and plenty of gems throughout this one.

Make sure to follow AC Don’t Love Me and tap in with his music for more. And if you’re rocking with the show, don’t forget to like, comment, subscribe, and share The Heir Cast.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Can't even explain it. Like when I had her, like I always did music, you know what I mean? I always did music, I always wrote songs, wrote for other people, wrote for myself. But it's like when I had her, it was like, you know what I mean? Like let uh let you feel those moments of your kid. Like feel being present like in those moments. Like, cause the more the more life you live, the more creative you are. Uh don't give up. Don't quit. Like whatever you're doing, whether it's music, whatever, like don't quit. Keep that energy, keep God first, and uh have faith that it's gonna work out.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna take a look at me. It's a bit of a new better.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Let's get it, let's get it, let's get it. Let's go. Welcome back, folks. Welcome back, folks. Another day, another podcast. Thank you all for coming along as we uh sing this song, as you already know. The aircast and uh we do special things here, and today it gets hot in Miami, so I I think everybody in Miami, whether you're born here or you're visiting here or you move here, we all know you need AC, but I think we got a different type of AC today. Because AC don't love me, right? Oh coming through the T H C. Yes, sir. Let's go, baby. Um, I I gotta ask, because the people, the fans, the world, everybody wants to know.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

What does AC stand for? Oh, AC, um originally it was my um, it's my initials. But you feel me, but the government. But the whole AC don't love me, um, it comes from like like you know, like relationships. The shoreties. That's what the shorties say. Like, you know, dealing with like certain relationships and like, oh, you know, I heard like you you don't you don't give me this type of energy, you don't love me or whatever. Like, you know what I mean? So I just kind of package that, I guess I package that trauma into the name into the name. You feel me? So that's what's up. AC don't love me, AC, you know what I'm saying? So that's how we rocking. I I I I went with it.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

It's also like you're letting them know off the rip, you're letting them know from the beginning, like, hey, just so you know, you feel me? This is what this is what you're getting into. So if there could be like you don't love me, it's in my name. Like, what are we doing right now?

SPEAKER_03 2:09

It could be. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

Yo, and then so what's AC like as a kid? Like, what are are you musically in, like, are you in church doing music as a kid? Like, what's that? Well, talk to me as young AC.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

Well, see, inch, uh, I did grow up in church. Um, I didn't I didn't get to church probably until like uh I was probably about like 10 years old.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Okay, so you you live talk to me before church. Like, what is church keeping you from like as a kid? Because like as a kid, I'm sure you're like, damn, I want to be playing my toys or something. I was going to church right now. So what toys are you into? What are you like, what's your dream? Like you want to be a Power Ranger?

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Like So like as it like growing up as a kid, nobody in my family like musically inclined.

SPEAKER_02 2:44

Nobody. Oh, okay. That's that's important to point that out because I like it both ways as an artist. So like either you're musically inclined or this is new for you. Either way, it's an interesting going. So nobody in the family's musically inclined. Anybody like in the creative and movie arts, anything like that?

SPEAKER_03 2:59

Hell no. No. Wow, okay. Nah, I don't know why. I don't know why it it jumped on me, but like, nah, my mama can't sing a lake, nobody, nothing.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

F from young, from from young, you you you were like us, like recreating, like like on some rock star stuff as a kid? Like what?

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Like, like like every kid, like, you know, I love Michael Jackson. Hell yeah. Like, you know, dancing and all that, and then just kind of snowballed into like me actually getting the pad and trying to write songs. Like, I was writing my first song when I was in like middle school.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

Middle school.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

Yeah, and then uh like I said, we went to we started going to church like when I was about 10. So seeing the choirs, and I was like, damn, like this, this it's crazy. Like, oh, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do that. So ever since then, like when I got to middle school, I started writing. That's what's wrong. And like I was just I had a whole pad, and I was just writing to make my first song when I was like four, recorded it down when I was like fourteen.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

Do you remember your first bars or the concept of your first song?

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Yeah, it was it was that shit was trash, but it was a uh But yeah, it was it was about a girl, you know what I mean? Like every like everybody's first song probably is about a girl. So you'll be surprised. Yeah, yeah, you feel me? So it was yeah, but uh, but yeah, it started seeing it early in church, like seeing the choir, and and and I don't I love music videos growing up too, like NTV jams. What are some of your earliest memories from a music video?

SPEAKER_02 4:22

Uh because I love Michael Jackson growing up, but I don't remember seeing a lot of Michael Jackson videos besides thriller, like you feel me? And like maybe the one where he like tells the people to put down the gun. Like, I don't like I don't know, maybe I'm tripping on the club.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

You don't remember the Rock My World when he was fighting the people in the club? Okay, when they was fighting in the club, yeah, but that's that's not at the top of my mind with videos.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Like, you feel me? Like, I'm a I'm a 94 baby, so like I for me, like like the early 2000s stuff when they really like DJ Your Fen. Shout out DJ U Fen. He tweeted, like, I think two years ago, like, what's your earliest memory of hip-hop? And for me, it was a Wu-Tang video where they had like a Mortal Kombat style. It's called the Gravel Pit, is the name of the song. And the whole video, they're like in a stadium doing like Mortal Kombat. Like, you feel me? I love Mortal Kombat as a kid. I love Mortal Kombat as a kid. I'm bringing that up to say that's why I related to them. Like, yo, they're out some fighting shit. This is crazy. And it's hip-hop. This is cool. What what are your like earliest memories of like watching a music video? It's not even have to be like RB or hip-hop, it could be anything.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

I ain't gonna lie. Uh I used to see Buster Ron's videos. Like his videos used to always stick out to me. Legends. Like, you'd be like, damn, like what is this? Like legends come on, it'd be like, damn.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

Like he in the either he in space or he in like crazy hairstyle, or it's like a whole, it's like a whole scene going on. And they don't really do that with music videos no more, like how they used to, but I I just like distinctly remember his videos, like, damn, what is going on in here? Yeah, Buster's a girl. Shout out Buster if you listen to it. Shout out to Buster, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Oh, and when I told you when I when I actually it's funny you bring up Buster, because when I'm telling you, like, oh I'm a 94 baby, you know, so the early 2000s, that's what visually came to my mind. Missy Elliott Buster in those big outfits, you feel me? Like, that's that's the trippy type of videos. And it's funny you say that nowadays people don't put effort into videos because it's kind of like gone full circle where people would try a lot and then it kind of got whack, and then now it's like less is more almost, you feel me?

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Yeah, it's I mean, but you gotta you kind of gotta go with the times too, though, because it's like you it everything is like this, and it's like as fast as people working, it's like you still want to put that, you wanna put that energy, that creativity into it, but it's like yo, we gotta I gotta knock out three videos in a day. Or like you know what I mean? It's like the more you can work, the better it is. So sometimes it's a good and a bad thing, you know what I mean? Because sometimes it's it's like the quicker you working, the less creativity can be put into it, but the more that you you sharpening, you sharpening the tool and you getting out there faster. Like, you know, the more work that you do.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Like content is king.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

Content is king. Yeah, this day, these days, content king. So it's like I gotta work as fast as I can.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

But it's it's a little bit challenging. Actually, this is a cool conversation to have because it's like I love Tyler the Creator, and he recently came out, like maybe not recently, maybe like in the last two years, but he came out like talking about his last album, Call Me V Glossy, and he's like, yo, I'm still going on tour for an album I put out two years ago. Yeah, so he also like that that interview, like he kind of went about it as like, yo, don't move on to the next thing so much because you also got a promote our shit. But I feel like it's it's unique when we're just coming up because it's also like we we don't want to stay on the same song. We want to show people we're we're working, we're working consistently, we're constantly dropping. That's what's cool about the pod because it's like it's a way for me to drop constantly without it just being about the song. You feel me? But as artists, we could repackage our songs. Like you could you could easily drop, like, oh, this is the making of like that. This is like that performance. This is like that a live performance. This is like that in the concert, this is like that in the crib, you feel me? This is like that on the pod.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

You can package, like you can let that shit live on, like, you know, a lot of different ways. And that's that's what people are getting into now with social media, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's the making of the song, it's the song, it's after the song, it's you performing the song. It's like, you know, it's a lot of ways that you can because everybody wanna see something different. Yeah, it's it could be the same thing, but it, but like it's the same song, but you gotta you gotta find different ways to to touch the people as if they're seeing something different. But like, nah, that's the same song that I've been promoting, but it's just a different way that I'm showing y'all, and I'm just putting it on social media and letting y'all see that. So it's like creative in that way. So I feel like you know, you got that chance to be creative, like the and that's how the mu mu uh human mind works too.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Have you ever had a song that you didn't like when you first heard it and then it grows on you? Does that ever happen to you? Yeah, yeah. Future honestly was like that for me. When you first came out with Tony Montana, I didn't like it.

SPEAKER_03 8:24

You ain't fucking telling me.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

I didn't like Tony Montana, and now I love it. Like I think I know Drake's reverse bar for bar, but like the future's part of the song. Like, it didn't, I didn't understand it at first. And I was younger too, you feel me? Like I didn't get it, like I guess the catchiness of it.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

But it definitely grew on me. Racks on Racks is a banger. He wrote that for I don't know, no. Yeah, it's a banger. So as someone who worked in a tire place, when is the good time to switch tires?

SPEAKER_03 8:48

A good time to switch tires? Shhh, I ain't gonna lie, don't ask me, bro. I probably run I need to change my tires right now. Like if I go take my car to get service, they gonna be like, hey, you gotta change two of these tires, you need new ones. But like I feel like what, like eight months, six to six months, six to eight months?

SPEAKER_02 9:06

If you're dogging them, the tires are right. Yeah, you're saying six to eight months if you're driving the car, the tires are. Yeah, I mean is that right?

SPEAKER_03 9:12

Like, it should it should it be?

SPEAKER_02 9:13

I don't know. Like it wasn't a quiz. I'm just asking you did you work at the time for real or was that for the music video? Uh uh.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

I didn't work at the top place.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

But the video, you feel me? Where the kids come back and rob the dude.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

Yeah, you would have thought I was a mechanic, but nah.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

I thought Madonna was on that. I thought my dumb was flipping the shit. And that was in Florida too, right?

SPEAKER_03 9:33

That was uh that was uh Roddy Cost Street from Strawberries, um in uh Miami Gardens, yeah. Okay, hell yeah, that's what's gonna be. Shout out Miami Gardens. All right, shout out Miami.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

That was Bag, right? That's the name of that song. Bag, okay. That's a minute ago.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

And um, life happens to all of us, dog, and and this is kind of cool to have this conversation, and I think coming from you, I think it's gonna be a cool answer too. So, and I I relate music a lot to the gym. You feel me? Because like, and and you you stay in shape clearly. A lot of how many times do you hear people with exercises like oh I don't got time? My work, my job, my kids, this, that. You feel me? This, that, and the third. I hear that shit all the time. But I honestly think like exercise makes all that easier. I bring that metaphor up for like music. You feel me? Because I I I'm already 31. I've had best friends, countless people I've met through music and entertainment that stop music and art because life happens. You gotta get a job, you gotta get this, you got a kid, you got another kid, you got a third kid. And so as uh girl dad?

SPEAKER_03 10:32

Girl dad.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

Hell yeah. Shout out to all the girl dads out there. That's what's up. As a girl dad, what's a good piece of advice as a parent creator, as a as a creator who's not just of life, but also of music? Like what's the way you keep keep both going on?

SPEAKER_03 10:47

That's a hell of a question, bro. Cause it's like uh it's not like it's nothing like your daughter, bro. It's not like a being a girl dad is nothing like it. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's like uh but the thing is, I feel like it gives you that energy, it gives you that drive to to wanna be better. Your why. You know what I'm saying? It gives you your why, it gives you the it just gives you an extra push. Like I can't even explain it. Like when I had her, like I always did music, you know what I mean? I always did music, I always wrote songs, wrote for other people, wrote for myself. But it's like when I had her, it was like bro, you like bro, you gotta, you gotta, it just gave me a a different type of energy. You know what I mean? Like I walked around different. Super shame. You know? Yeah, bro. Like I just yeah, it felt different. So it's like to people that don't have the time, it's just like you gonna you find the time. You know what I mean? With being a dad, with with being with her, it's like it's when I'm with her, it's like no other place that I'd rather be than with her. And it's like you know what I mean. Wherever she, if she sleep, I'm like, all right, let me clock in. Like I she she knocked out, let me let me knock two songs out. It just make it, it just it just gives you a different type of feeling, it just goes harder. That's awesome. How old is she? She's two. Two, wow, okay, so crazy. She's crazy right now. She's talking four sentences. Oh wow. She wow. So she keeps me on my toes, man.

SPEAKER_02 12:08

Terrible twos, I think is what they say. Terrific twos. I don't like negative connotations. As a kid, you know, you're growing up. There's a situation.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

Terrible one, terrible two. It's all terrible. But nah, yeah, man. It's it's it's nothing like it though. Like, you feel me?

SPEAKER_02 12:21

It's it's it's all uh and that's real, and I appreciate that that honest answer and having expressing some vulnerability with that. Um what about let's talk to let's talk to the parents out there though, that are maybe tripping, or maybe the dad or mom that just stopped making music or doing a podcast or doing comedy, whatever it is. Talk to them right quick. What's an advice you'd give them to like not necessarily get back on? Because that's another thing too. I feel like with content creating and entertainment, people feel like it's it's very final. Like, uh, it's it's I gotta do this or no. It's like, homie, do it. That you're doing it for the wrong reasons if that's the case. You feel me? You should do it because it's it's in there, because you want to do it. So talk to those people right quick, and maybe maybe uh just if they don't see that, you know, they can't get on it. You know what I mean? Life is just beating them up and they kind of quit. Like, what would you say to somebody that you know is outside looking in it like they can't they can't get back in it?

SPEAKER_03 13:07

I would say like let let let life happen. You know what I mean? Like let uh let you feel those moments of your kid, like feel being be present like in those moments. Like, cause the more the more life you live, the more creative you are. You know what I mean? So it's like you you have your daughter, like it's not an instant. It's like your whole dreams don't die. You know what I mean? It's like you look at them and you see, like, I want to show them that I kept my dream. You know what I'm saying? I kept I kept the promise to myself even before you was even thought about. So it's like something that I could tell you, it's like a resilience I could show you. It's like a like a single mom going back to school or whatever, you know what I mean? I want to show it's not even always at that point, it's not even about me. You know what I mean? It's about me showing how resilient I am. So when by the time you get of age and you dealing, you dating or whatever, you know that your dad was resilient, he didn't give up. Wow. You know what I mean? The blueprints.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

You want to be the blueprint for that and show you could go through it because we're all gonna go through their life one way or another. Whether it's through music, being a nurse, being a doctor, whatever. Whatever it is. Whatever. Hitman soldier, you're gonna have your journey and battles in life. So when your parents go through it and you see that they keep with it, that's that's powerful, man. Yeah, man. Salute to you for that. Salute to you. How old are you, basically?

SPEAKER_03 14:22

Uh 31. Good shit, man.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

94 as well?

SPEAKER_03 14:24

94. We out here, 94 babies. 94. That's what's up, man. September, September.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Hell yeah. Um, and staying on that on the topic of advice, what's some advice you'd give to somebody coming out to LA for the first time?

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Uh, don't go to Hollywood. Don't, don't, don't cut it out. Like, if you go into LA, find you a find you a native. Not nobody off the street. I mean, like, find you somebody like, you know what I mean? Like an Indian, like a Native American?

unknown 14:52

No.

SPEAKER_03 14:52

Find a native from the city, somebody who's born and raised in LA, that could like take you around, that could take you to the city, they could take you through West LA, Englewood, like they could, they could like show you the city instead of just going to Hollywood, because everybody, they they be like, you from LA? I'm like, yeah. They're like, well, I went to Hollywood and it stink. I went to Hollywood and it was it. I'm like, well, yeah. I mean, that's like, you know, we don't even go there. You didn't know him. You know what I'm saying? That's like, that's like going to somebody from Miami, be like, I went to South Beach.

unknown 15:22

Yeah, we don't go there.

SPEAKER_03 15:23

You don't go there. You feel me? You don't go to South Beach like that. Like, it's not, that's just what's on TV. Speaking like a real Miami veteran out here. I've been in Miami for a long time for a minute, man. Oh, yeah, he's a Miami veteran.

SPEAKER_02 15:36

How long have you been in Miami for?

SPEAKER_03 15:37

I've been in Miami since uh I moved, I I moved out here to go to school since in 2012. Oh, wow. So you're already 14 plus almost 14 years old. So within that time, I like I was I was back and forth. Like I was uh I would go back to LA, I'd go to Atlanta, come back here, but but this I was here for for like a long time, like probably like maybe eight, nine years straight.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

That's like high school and post-high school 2012, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:00

So I was like, so that's after like after high school, like once I graduated high school. Cool, okay. I came out here to go to school to study music and shit. And and I ended up staying on his side, like, you know, expensive as it is over there. So I just ended up, you know what I'm saying? I ended up studying music down here. And shit, that's where I ended up. Like I ended up I ended up loving it.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Like studying music, like at college? You wanna call for music out here?

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Where would you go for? Yeah, I went to uh Florida Memorial. I went to study music over there. That's Fam U, right? That's uh not Fam, no, the one FMU. It's right on yeah, FMU. Yeah, right here, uh, not too far. Not too far from my leave uh Miami Garden. That's what's up.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

And do you eat a lot of organic fruit?

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Organic fruit? Food, fruit, organic fruit.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Food or fruit, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Both technically. I ain't gonna lie, I ain't too big on an organic. Like I understand like organic.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

It's labeling, it's it's it's advertising too. It's it's marketing.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

I'd be like, yo, if it's they got organic and then organic beef or organic chicken or like just give just give me the regular, brother. I if it's organic, I ain't tripping. But if it's not, I'm not tripping. I'm not tripping either. You feel me?

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Yeah, I ask because uh with entertainment, uh with rapping, with music and music, a lot of times, like I look at it kind of like there's there's organic collaborations where you're in the lap, you pick a beat, you feel me, you vibe off each other, you you write to it. And then there's also other types of collaborations where like, oh, I got the open verse, I'm gonna send you the open verse. And I've done both. I've done both, you feel me? But I clearly have a preference. I love to be in the studio, build, vibe. We get that record from beginning to end. So I kind of wanted to ask, what's the what's the relationship, the artist producer relationship like with uh the new album Bobby B produced?

SPEAKER_03 17:37

Bobby B, my brother, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

So how'd how'd y'all attack that? Did y'all like did you have a pack of beats and you pick through them? Did you guys start from scratch?

SPEAKER_03 17:45

Like like how you said, like your favorite way of creating, that's how we create.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Oh, like that, locked in from the beginning and start with a sound and just build.

SPEAKER_03 17:51

Yeah, because that's my brother for real. Like uh I met him a freshman in high school, bro, like oh nine. You know what I mean? He didn't he didn't start making beats till later in life, but when we link, it's organic like that. So he'll start on the beat. I'm like, damn, that motherfucker hard. Like, you know what I'm saying? Let's do this, run it like this. And then I go in there and lay it down. But so it's like it's a vibe. Like we might go out, you know what I'm saying? We might just rode through LA, hit a burger spot, come back.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

But it's what's a good burger spot in LA?

SPEAKER_03 18:17

You gotta put me on that. Uh shit. Um Damn, what's the one that I went to? Uh for the win. For the win? FTW? Yeah, when I went, yeah. When I went uh back the latest time, it's in uh it's like in Hollywood. It's it's that that shit is fire.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

You just gotta cover your nose, but fire. Fire.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Yeah, don't don't yeah, don't go walk down, just go straight to the burger spot, get your shit and go. Yeah. So yeah, that's fire.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

Hell yeah, the Mexican food's off the chain. I stayed in downtown LA, which is crazy, but I walked to so many spots and just yeah, downtown fire them.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

So they like they uh they updated downtown.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

So risky too, though. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Shh is risky.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

It's a motherfucker, but yo, it was it was fun. Yeah, that's anywhere though. You know what I mean? So the whole project with Bobby B produced from beginning to end. You guys revisit beats though? Like, so you revisit a beat and you're like, oh, add this, add that to it. You feel me?

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Yeah, so like while he's making it, I'll be like, damn, um, try this synth, or maybe that'll go right here, or you could take, you could pull the bass out, put the bass in. You know what I mean? Like, shit like that. But for the most part, he like we've been working together for so long that it's like it's kind of like he knows what he knows what I like. So when he starts making a beat, and then I just I just go in and I just I put my laptop, I bring my laptop and my mic everywhere I go.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Everywhere, okay, so everywhere I go, right.

SPEAKER_03 19:33

It's in my chunk right now. You're on okay. You never know, you know what I'm saying? You never know. So it's like the vibe. So it's like, damn, we here, let's lock in. That's what's up. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Have you streamed yourself recording music yet?

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Stream, uh, not like on a live stream, nah. Not on a live stream, but I won't I might want to get into this.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

I'm sure AC fans already on his IG are watching this on live now, a couple weeks before the episode comes out. But I that would be cool, dog. You can stream yourself if you got the mobile setup already, pull out the phone, bro. Because full circle movement to what you said earlier. I think that's where content's going now. At least for people like us, where like we consume content, but like we also I I personally love to see the behind the scenes. I love to see the how. How do they make this? How do they do that? Oh, for real? That's that's how you got that shot. Oh, that's crazy. That's the moment that inspired the song. I think there's gonna be a market for that, not just with movies, like uh, like uh, I just finished watching the you fuck with Game of Thrones and shit like that.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

I I fuck with it, but I ain't never really what I ain't never really tapped in. That nights, dragons, this fucking nerdy shit. Nah, I used to think the same way. I used to think the same way. No, I fuck with it, but it's like I I I haven't had the time to sit down and lock in for real. But I will though. I will though.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Listen, I was against it for a long time. I remember laughing at my dad, like, you're watching this dragon shit? What is wrong with you? Dragons, broke whatever, all this crazy. But that first episode, I like that first episode's crazy. The politics, the human politics, the human interactions of what's going on in the show. Wild. But I bring that up to say is I just they came up with a spinoff and I just finished like binge watching it. I appreciate HBO because at the end of all their like main shows, at the end after the episode, they'll drop like a uh 10-15 minute joint of like the behind the scenes of the episode.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

That bro, they get me with that. So I feel like music might be lacking that. You feel me? Like the big artists have that, but a lot of times I'm watching what Drake and these people are doing. I'm like, oh, that's cool. When I get a multi-million dollar budget, yeah, that's cool. Oh, when I get a private debt. What about the people that are on our level? You feel me? The people that we could relate to more and like, oh, that's how they did it. Damn, that's how Easy got that. Oh shit, there's a chance for me.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Yeah, that'll definitely be um, I'm definitely gonna look into doing more behind the scenes. I feel like that's and it and and uh fans get to know you or people that fuck with you get to know you more. A thousand. Like any any time, like not even just um like behind the scenes in the studio, just your day to day. Like I I learned like they wanna just know what you into. They wanna just see, like, you know what I'm saying? They just wanna see what you like.

unknown 21:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

You know what I mean? Like, and it's I wasn't really into that like too much. Like, I'd be like, damn. You want to follow me a camera everywhere? Like, you know what I mean? Like a streamer. Surveillance day, yeah. Maybe no streamer, you follow me everywhere, but it's like they want to know, like, authentically, like, who are you?

SPEAKER_02 22:09

And you don't got to do it everywhere. But when you're doing work, you feel me? When music like LeBron, everybody knows LeBron, but how much do you really know about LeBron's life? You know he balls, you know he's healthy as hell. What does this guy do? He's working, you see him, you know. Exactly. That's crazy. That's that's actually crazy, crazy way to look at it. Um, so for any producers out there, you know, trying to get on Bobby B's level, you know, produce for you, what's like the what what kind of sound are you listening for now? Is there like a certain aesthetic? Is there a certain uh uh uh I don't say BPM because it's too technical for maybe the audience that might not get it, but you could even say BPM too, but like are you listening for more like uh slower stuff? Are you like looking for maybe like more country stuff? Are you looking more for like more on the melodic type of joint?

SPEAKER_03 22:48

Um I ain't gonna lie, bro. I I don't I don't put a limit on like the beats that come in or what it's it's whatever hit the desk, and if it's fire, like we gonna we gonna either, even if it's not for me, I'ma write it. You know what I mean? If I get a country record tomorrow and somebody send it send me the beat, I'ma write, like I'm gonna write to it. You know what I mean? Because I like I like all dramas, all genres of music for real. So it's like even if it's not for me, like I'ma just give this give the track what I what I think my perspective, what I got for it. And if it's not for me, then I could be for somebody else. Yeah, but for me, like, but just for me, like I like, you know, uh we real RB with it, we real LA with it. Um being in Miami so long, we we we dab into that too. Um I got a song called Las Olas. It's it's uh Miami as hell. Uh so it's like being here so long kind of influenced me with that sound too, like in my sound. So like LA and Miami, like that's like those type of sounds from from those cities. Yes. I feel like they kind of formed and shape.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

And you're killing Las Olas because a bunch of Miami guys love to go to Fort Lauderdale, get Fort Lauderdale girls in Las Olas, you feel me? So you're killing it with that. Oh fact. Shout out to Los O'Leas. Facts, facts, Fort Lauderdale. Uh the Fort Lauderdish is what we used to call them. We never used to call them. You know, you know. It's a new thing, but yeah. Um you got our favorite E40 song?

SPEAKER_03 24:12

E40. Shout out E40. Shout out E4 uh uh uh Sprinkle Sprinkle Me. Sprinkle Me?

SPEAKER_02 24:19

That's a crazy name of our song. I gotta hear that. Sprinkle me.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

Yeah, that's my favorite. Shout out E40.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Yeah, E40's dope, one of the 40s. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

I feel like that's I feel like we're gonna go crazy. We're gonna say this again. E40, I need I need the feature.

unknown 24:40

LA or you from the Bay?

SPEAKER_03 24:41

From LA. I'm from LA, but you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Right down the street from E40, bro. It ain't down the down the street. No, hell no. It's a big metaphorical street.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

Long ass street. But uh, but yeah, I gotta get one in with E40 for sure.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

Yeah, E40's dope, man. Um I I want to talk about your song though, because you have the RB vibes, but it's also like in uh like a new, I don't want to say pop, it's like it's it's an upbeat way that do you have do you have like uh because I doubt you could say I'm a rapper. You feel me? You say I'm an artist, right? You feel me? So like in your mind, if you have to like what what do you are you like on some RB pop shit? Like if you have to like what's Apple Music putting your music, guys, do you think? Uh they could be wrong, but um what do you think?

SPEAKER_03 25:22

They probably putting me under like RB hip hop, probably. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it's like uh I fell in love with I love RB, I love everything about RB, and I love to to slow it down, but I also love rap. I also love hip hop. You know what I mean? I love to to incorporate the two. And I feel like, you know, I a lot of times I feel like you can't have one without the other. You know what I mean? Like it can't always be slow, you know, and then it can't always be upbeat and fast. Like you gotta have, you know, you gotta have a mixture of both. By default, yeah. Yeah, you feel me? So I feel like if you listen to my music, um, I feel like you can get the best of both. Like if you want to live soon, so you want to turn up, or if you wanna, you know, you and your lady, you know what I'm saying? I feel like either way, you can go either way.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

I like that approach, uh, because there's a lot of artists that stay with one type of sound because it works for them. And hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But like Rod Wave, Rod Wave is cool. Shout out Florida, Florida do it as well, but all of his music's emotional and sad to me. It's not my my my my cup of tea so much, you feel me? And don't get me wrong, I have emotional and sad moments where I'll be bumping his shit, but it's not always, you feel me? So it's not dominating my you know what I'm listening to all the time. I like how you strive to make to touch different boxes, you feel me? To hit different moments. Kind of like we were talking about earlier with the pod. There's not one way to do it. Some days you might be funny, some days it might be more serious, some days it might be debateful, you feel me? Some days it might be more on some back and forth, you know, shit like that, but there's no one way to do it. Nah. Do you have any genres you haven't done yet? Or you're like, damn, I gotta, I gotta get on something like that.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Um I haven't I haven't went like poppy. Like, you know what I'm saying? Not that I want to be a pop artist, but I I haven't went like in the lane where it was like a pop sound.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Or I thought you were saying Latin.

SPEAKER_03 27:04

Oh no. That's funny. No, but I love no, I love I love that. I love Latin too, bro. I love I love uh I love reggaeton. Like I love uh like I love yeah like growing up in LA that's I love reggaeton too, you feel me? Growing up in LA, bro, that's they all them late night parties keep me up in the neighborhood, like, but yeah, that's that's something I want to get into too. But I feel like it's just I want to be able to um like cement me, like cement AC, like the sound that I have, and then be interested in branching out in different sounds. And you know what I mean? I just want to make sure they know who I am, you know, where I come from before I try to, you know, venture off. You feel me?

SPEAKER_02 27:44

You don't want to necessarily experiment with different sounds because you're trying to really formulate, like, you know, set down like this is what my sound is. But as artists, we're gonna, you feel me, dive into different shit.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

No, you definitely gonna dive into different shit for sure. Like, you know what I mean? But for the core, like I want y'all to know, like, this is just to know like where the artist is from, like, you know, where I'm from, how I grew up, like my my upbringing, like you don't know everything, like the sound of me before I, you know what I mean, start venturing off. I wanna make sure y'all know like who I am first. Oh yeah. And what what what are like some of the biggest differences when you first came from LA to Miami that you tripped out with? Bro, first thing, bro. That fast ass music. Like when I first like like the first party, everything fast. Everything is like, you know, they speeding up everything. Like, so it's like I'm like, what the hell? Like, you know, you know what I'm saying? What is that?

SPEAKER_02 28:35

What you mean like chipmunk music? Like juke music? Like, yeah, like joking. Yeah, like I'm so high.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

But it's fast as well.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

You hear that fast version of I'm so high. That's a big one, too.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

Yes, that's just I never heard that song before I came here either. Like, I never I never heard it, nothing, nothing.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

Did you hear Maui Wowie but Kikurdy?

SPEAKER_03 28:52

I did. Okay, yeah, that was mainstream, right? But the way that they spin it, like, yeah, like you in the club, and it's like, what the hell? But that fast music, that's what caught me off, like off guard. I feel like I'm like, y'all speed this up. Like, why? Yes. Because you know, LA, everything is we don't speed up nothing. Like everything is just regular, everything is regular and it's slow.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

I was gonna say chopping screw, but that's more Texas style.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

Yeah, that's Texas. Not really. Nah, nah, nah. We don't hear chopping screwed. Yeah. So it was a culture shot.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

Yes, yes. It's kind of like the reverse of chopping screwed when you fast pitch it in the the trimong shit like this.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

What the hell? And it was like Survival. Survival.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

You feel me? It's the juke.

SPEAKER_03 29:32

I played my LA shit and they like, bro, what is this? Like what's LA shit?

SPEAKER_02 29:35

Describe LA shit. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 29:37

Like when I first came here, like I listened to a lot of uh growing up. I listened to a lot of rap. Like I listened to a lot of a lot of Snoop.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

Snoop?

SPEAKER_03 29:43

Growing up at that time, 2012, it was like YG. YG was like, yeah, it was like early YG, like jerk music YG, or like like I mean, that was a part of the of our culture, you know what I'm saying? Jerking was big out there? Hell yeah. Yes, okay. I think it got out over here for a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

You jerked? No, jerking was huger. I was I used to be a jerk. I was in middle school. So you was jerking on my father kid? I was a fat kid my whole life, so you remember I couldn't jerk too cool. But I would look at my dogs and they do the jerking mixtapes. I'd be like, this is the shit. Y'all going to the theater? Jerking. This is like this is before music videos were hot and everything before.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

That shit, that shit took over the world, though. So yeah, no, we definitely did that. You know, jerking was the shit.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

A lot of people know YG was on jerking. I knew YG of jerking music before any of that. Like a little B in the pack, they kind of went that. Oh, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 30:35

That's all that's yeah. That's definitely our era for real. Like coming up, like high school. Like, once we got into high school, we was all jerking. It was the thing. Like, you feel me? Jerking was the shit, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

We're the same age too, so like you experienced what I was probably even more though, because out there was real.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

Yeah, it was all over the internet.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

The power rangers and shit like that.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Niggas was pulling up to each other's school and battles.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Bottles, bottles, real battles. That shit was a real time. Better than gangs. Like my dad, my dad was growing up. They had like real life gangs and shit like that. My age, I'm gonna be able to tell my kids, yeah, we had jerk battles. Why are people jerks? Listen, kids. Different kind of jerks. Hey man. Um, where was where was the phone lines video film that? That like beachy area.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

Uh phone lines. Um Damn, where was that? That was Miami already? It was like seven years ago, I think, when you guys show you. That one, it was it was a it was a ducked-off ass beach, though. I remember the the video.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

It had to be North Mi Florida if y'all were in Miami or like a private beach.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

We was in we was in Miami though, but it was like a ducked-off beast. Hey Grizzly, if you if you watch this, let me know where that beach was. I've been trying to find that shit for a long time. But it was like, it was literally like he was like, just follow me. And I follow him, and he made like a like a cut off in the room, like he made a right turn, and it just was the most beautiful fucking beach you ever seen. Crazy. So it was like I I I couldn't tell you where it was at. But hey Grizzly, and he goes crazy. He's still filming, he he grizzly films. But yeah, we shot that video somewhere at a beautiful ass beach down here somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

Do you have a go-to beach out here in Florida? Because we know South Beach isn't the spot, but like do you have a spot that you like going to?

SPEAKER_03 32:16

You know where I used to go? I used to go, uh, I used to take my dates here. We used to go, like, you know, late night. We used to go to Sunny Isles Beach. It was the most like the little, like, yeah, it was like a little boardwalk where you pull up late night. You know, you know, you know your little shorty, y'all go. You know what I mean? And y'all go on the beach, y'all get a little nighttime walk. Y'all ain't really gotta worry about too many people.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Sure, very romantic. You got the pier too. Don't blow the spot up.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

Don't blow the spot up. You know what I'm saying? Keep it low-key. But yeah, sunny, sunny house beach, that was the spot.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

Hell yeah, I'm gonna go on the late night walking little date.

SPEAKER_03 32:48

Late night walk. Take your lady out there, man.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

What are some dating advices for uh uh are you dating out here?

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Are you with the uh it's it's complicated, but yeah. But I'll blow up your spot, my bad. No, no, no, you good. You good, you good, you good.

SPEAKER_02 33:03

I was gonna ask, like, what the what the what's uh dating like out here in Miami? Because it's a culture shock for people that live here, like you know, but people moving here that experience dating, I'm sure elsewhere, it's they're probably like, damn, this ain't like you know, home. So I was curious to see if if you had like a perspective on that, like the difference between dating back at home versus out here.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

Dating in Miami gets tricky. Like, first of all, you gotta know where you at. You gotta know the ladies you're dealing with. Um, LA. North their ladies. But yeah, LA, uh, you gotta um, I don't know. LA is I feel like it's hard to date now, just cause it's so like it's so many people, it's like a melting pot. Like everybody is coming there for streaming, coming there for modeling, coming like most of the people that you probably meet over there are not even from there.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 33:49

So it's like yeah, you end up you end up dating somebody from Virginia that's not even from LA. And then they're gonna base them.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

Yeah, they'll go out there chasing the dream type shit. You feel me? Right? That's what you're saying. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

And it's filled, and it's you know what I'm saying, it's filled with that. Yeah. So it's like you gotta, if you if you could catch like a real like somebody who grew up in LA, like, you know what I mean, it probably wouldn't be too hard for you to find some. Okay. Facts.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

That's that's funny you have that perspective like about LA, and I kinda I could see that. Well, everybody goes to LA sp specifically to chase the dream. I feel like Miami has a lot of people coming in, but not everybody's specifically chasing a dream. Like, I know a lot of people just come to Miami because it's turned up and like, oh, this is the spot. You feel me? Like, not so much about the dream aspect where LA feels like a lot of people are coming out just to chase the dream.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

Yeah, LA, LA is more so like I'm trying to make it, like, you know, I'm trying to find I'm trying to find a way. Miami is like, shit, we can turn it up for the weekend. Like, you know what I mean? Like that. Yeah, nobody really trying to nobody really coming down here for that. Like, if you're not already from here, trying to break out of here. True. So it's like they just come and just enjoy themselves and go back where they're from.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Oh yeah. And then so with your daughter being two years old, do you envision raising her the whole time out here? Or do you want to maybe bring her back home?

SPEAKER_03 34:59

I definitely want to take her back to the city, take her back to LA. Okay. You know what I'm saying? You got family out there? Yeah. Okay, so uh my family's still out there, friends, best friends, whole family still. Um, but uh, you know, I de I definitely want to get to a point where we'll be able to uproot and go back home.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

Yeah, it's the home base. Bring her back to the habitat. Okay, I like that.

SPEAKER_03 35:18

For sure.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

And outside of music, what what are you doing? Like, w how do you stay in shape? You just hitting weights or shit like that?

SPEAKER_03 35:23

Uh yeah, bro. Uh I've been on the I've been on the gym, in the gym crazy. Like I've been, I feel like ever since I've been locked in, I feel like every other asset of my life is just like elevated. Like I'm able to think more clear. Definitely goes hand in hand. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm able to make better decisions. Um it just keep me, it keeps me grounded. It keep me like it keep me, my, my ritual, my daily. You know what I'm saying? It keeps me grounded. Like with everything else I'm trying to trying to accomplish, it start there. For real. Like start with God first, and then it started with, you know what I'm saying, taking care of your body, taking care of your health. Did you play sports growing up or anything like that? Nah, hell no, I was too short. Too short? Hell no, I went out for the basketball team. That shit didn't work out. It ain't work out.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

But basketball was cool, basketball's what you were into. You like it?

SPEAKER_03 36:11

Nah, I love basketball, man. Yeah. Like, you feel me? My hot my highlight of my basketball career is I crossed over one of my homies in a tryout. Like, he wasn't expecting me to do nothing, but I crossed him over. I was in him with that, uh, a little step back. We talk about that like 10 years, like 15 years later. Like, yeah, I crossed you over.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Well that one time though.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

You remember that?

SPEAKER_02 36:31

His friend is LeBron James. So that one time he got LeBron. Never forget. All it takes is one time.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

I wish. I wish. I wish.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

Are are you are you watching basketball now? Do you are you like a fan of sports, like life sports? Like natural sports, professional sports. We're big Lakers guy. So what? I didn't even see LeBron when he was a Heat. I hated on LeBron so he became a Lakers. I never liked LeBron. And I'm glad I did that because the first time I saw LeBron play, he dropped 51 on the Miami Heat. With Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, a bunch of Jits. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:00

So you weren't a Heat fan.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

I'm I love the Heat because they're my second, they're my home team, but I'm a Lakers fan. 100%. My dream is Lakers Heat in the finals and game seven, Lakers win by Lakers where it happened in the bubble. It happened in the bubble. You feel me? We were just in the bubble. Yeah, that's the thing. God listened to my prayers, but he just didn't get 100% right.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

Nah, he's my team too. I was a D-Wade fan for sure.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

Yeah, Wade's dope. Wade's dope. You know, I loved Wade a lot. I lost respect for Wade when he left to Chicago, and then when he followed LeBron, because I was a LeBron hater. So then he followed LeBron to Cleveland. I'm like, oh, so you left about money? Now you left because of LeBron? What's going on here? Whatever. Shout out to Wade though. Wade's Wade to Kobe.

SPEAKER_03 37:40

I'm a Kobe guy at the other day, so you feel me. Me too, man. Me too. How you feel about Bam breaking that, breaking that record? What? Is it not our thing?

SPEAKER_02 37:49

I saw Luca drop 60 shortly after. So, like, you know, that's crazy how God works. Listen, I'm gonna say this, but I'm gonna get a heat for this. They didn't chant MVP when Bam dropped 83. Luca, it's from the Lakers, and I started one of three MVP chants for Luca in the third quarter. You feel me? Like a whole other city across the country was yelling out MVP. You feel me? That 60 was crazy. That was a close game. We were losing by 15 to the Heat. Fact. Halftime. Everybody was looking at me, oh, bad seats, huh? You guys made all this money to watch you guys lose. And I'm like, bruh.

SPEAKER_03 38:20

Weakest 83 I ever seen. Weakest Eddie point game. But shout out to Ben.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

Yeah, shout out Bam. Shout out Bam. Shout out basketball. RP Kobe. Crazy. Horror looking at us crazy right now. Okay, AC, we play this game on every episode called the Shoot Your Shot segment. Now, of course, you make music, so we can open it up to producers, artists, anybody you'd like to work with in the future. Industry could be people locally, anything you want. Anyone you'd like to reach out to, maybe you'd like to get on a record with, maybe even on the music video tip too. Anything at all.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

A40 is huge. That's your submission. Let me give another. Let me get a different one.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

Um E40 produces as well, or he's just a he's just spitting. No, he's just a rapper. Yeah, he's just a rapper. Oh, his voice is so crazy. It's almost like he's the producer. He's on point, he makes a lot of bread off a lot of a lot of things. Oh, really? First independent record label? One of the first sick facts.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

If you for you to be that rel, it's still relevant to this day, and like people still want to work with you, like that's a testament. Yeah, that's a testament to how you do business. For sure.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

And that song you got with Baby Kim, I think you posted on your story, right? He's on that sex appeal record, right? Yeah, the sex appeal record. That record's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

No, no, that's uh that's uh that's too short.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Oh, it is too short. Is that both of them together?

SPEAKER_03 39:43

No, no, no. That was just it's just too short. That record's crazy, though. That record is too short. Shout out to the back. That record's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

That record's crazy. Damn. Facts. I think it's the second time we mentioned him. You said you you were too short for the basketball team, but now too short is a legend. That's a good one. Yeah, no, yeah, it is it is fucking too short. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Also, uh E40 then who you said the second thing? I ain't gonna lie, I love to do Snoop too. Snoop! Give me some Snoop. That's cool. I used to listen to the like that's what I used to listen to, like growing up. Snoop's generational, bro.

SPEAKER_02 40:14

You're like my age, so you probably look at Snoop the same way where Snoop's constantly been relevant.

SPEAKER_03 40:19

I need a fire Snoop verse, though. I don't want like none of the new like the new, like I want like a lot of Snoop line verse. Give me like a nah, hell no. Give me like a give me a 90s, like go tap into the 90s Snoop real quick and give me a verse. Yeah, yeah. Snoop freestyles, really? Nah, he do.

SPEAKER_02 40:37

Shout out Snoop, man. He fucking saved the WrestleMania a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_03 40:40

Like, uh for real, what do you do?

SPEAKER_02 40:41

So Vince, you know, Vince McMahon, right? The boss? Yeah, his son, Shane McMahon, is part of the program and all that. So like he comes out in wrestling or whatever, and there's a WrestleMania where Snoop was on the commentator table. So he's like calling the thing.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

Oh, I know he's talking about.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

Yeah, the son came in, and the son, I think it's funny because his dad have like 20 years ago. The son had a moment, uh, the dad had a moment with John Cena and Batista, where the dad goes in the ring in a Royal Rumble and he pulls his hamstring, and then he stays on the floor the whole time, and he's just like on the floor bitching at everybody, like, you got you can't do this, but he can't get up because his hamstrings pulled. Something happened with the sun like two, three years ago in WrestleMania, where the sun comes out and the same shit happens. He gets injured and then he stays on the floor the whole time and he can't stand up. And Snoop, like everybody says that no, it wasn't scripted or nothing. Snoop just took it upon himself to go in the ring and you know, be, you know, be like uh the hero and help, you know, and kind of make the segment done. So Snoop's a gangster. Shout out Snoop. Snoop crazy. Hell yeah. And um, so uh the last uh we in the every episode with the big three draft. I usually let the conversation dictate where the draft goes, though. So actually, this is a bit challenging. This is gonna be a bit challenging, but I think you're you're musically inept, and then you're from LA, so this is gonna be uh a testament to the knowledge of uh not just LA Cali. We're gonna open up to Cali artists. Big three. So we're gonna big uh pick our we're gonna draft our big three Cali artists. Artists from Cali that represent Cali. Okay. You feel me? That shout out Cali. Big three. And we go one by one. It's a draft. So whoever you pick, I can pick, and vice versa. So who's your first pick for Cali representative? Cali big three? Yes, for the Cali Big Three.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

God damn.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

The Cali Big Three. That's a cool title for this draft.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna go. Ooh. I gotta throw, I gotta, I gotta throw Snoop in the big three.

SPEAKER_02 42:25

Snoop's a big, a great first pick. That's a great first pick. And I'm gonna match that great first pick with a guy we've mentioned almost 40 times. E40.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

You gotta throw, you gotta throw him in there. Cause are you talking just you talking, you talking in California or are you talking in LA?

SPEAKER_02 42:40

Let's make it Cali. Let's make it Cali some Cali's pick. And then when you come back for episode two, we could do the LA draft, the LA specific draft.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

Yeah, so no, you gotta put you gotta put E40 in there. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 42:49

Well, no, yeah, E-40's my number one pick. You got super hard. Oh, okay. Now we're in round two.

SPEAKER_03 42:53

Who's your second round draft pick for Cali Legends? Let me go, let me go, I gotta go cube.

SPEAKER_02 42:59

Ooh, cube. Wow, you see, my dad reacted to that off camera. I knew he was gonna be like, I gotta go.

SPEAKER_03 43:04

I gotta go cube. Yeah, cube's a legend. Yeah, bro, especially how long you've been around.

SPEAKER_02 43:08

Legendary rapper, actor, screenwriter. For all y'all, I don't know. He wrote Friday. Fucking legend, legends for that.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

Wrote most of Easy's verses, I believe, too. Pay the way, pay the way for a lot of shit in LA. Facts, facts. And then uh his wife.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

And part of great movies. If you think, look at the uh 21 Jump Streets uh franchise. Bro, my dog's been in crazy movies. Are we there yet? Bruh, my dog's been in some good classic movies, bro. Come on now. Friday's because the thing is, I bring this up because he did they dropped like a pandemic movie that I think was like an Amazon commercial. Oh, you didn't. I haven't seen it yet, but I I see memes of it all the time where people are making fun of like, oh, this is a terrible movie for Ice Cube.

SPEAKER_01 43:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

And I just want to, you know, use this opportunity that since he drafted Ice Cube film, put some respect on Ice Cube's acting uh talents. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_03 43:55

Shout out the Cube, man.

SPEAKER_02 43:56

My second pick then, I'm gonna say Tyler, dog. Tyler the creator is dope, man. Tyler's second pick. And Tyler, I didn't get into Tyler till later in his career, but I really like Tyler now. I really like Tyler. Not just the way he approaches music, but the way he approaches putting on the homies, the way he approaches making beats, the way he approaches his business, the way he's approaching like the fashion, everything. I think Tyler's really dope. And and I similar to LeBron, I didn't appreciate it till later on. So he did Igor and he started getting more melodic with his stuff. Like the Yonkers, the whole eating the cockroach, that didn't do it for me. I was younger, I was like, alright, what are we doing right now? We're just doing shock rap. But later on into his career, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 44:31

He definitely the most creative out of the city for sure.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

Like he definitely liked uh and and he seems like hip-hop, and to me, hip hop in its essence is being true to who you are. Be different. You feel me? Be crazy, Buster Ryan, be crazy, Mr. Elliott, be on your shit. That's what hip-hop to me is about. And I feel like Tyler does that in the modern way. In a modern way where a lot of people are like, oh, he's painting his nails. He's like, that's homie, he's doing that. He's doing what he's on. You feel me? He's on his wheel shit. You can't take that away from him.

SPEAKER_03 44:58

Definitely ain't give a fuck. Facts. And that was his, you know, that was his motto. So yeah, he's been rolling with that since he came out.

SPEAKER_02 45:03

You gotta uh who you're ending the draft with for Cali Legends. Ending the draft.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

I gotta go, I gotta go dot. I gotta go K-Dot. We're gonna go, we're gonna go K-Dot. You know what I'm saying? We gotta give like the new, you know, new generation. We gotta throw dot in there, man.

SPEAKER_02 45:16

We've officially lost Drake. Now Drake lost the episode just already.

SPEAKER_03 45:21

We can say goodbye to that Drake verse.

SPEAKER_02 45:24

Well, listen, Drake. We got a whole bunch of other episodes you can listen to if you're not listening. Still listen to it if you're listening, Drake. Tell you, no man. Don't be a hit. So got you into the situation, anyways. Um, my third pick for Cali representatives on the big three music tip. I'm gonna shout out my dog AC don't love me. He's coming up, he's paving the way. He's out here in Miami representing as well. So that's just a fun episode, fun time.

SPEAKER_03 45:48

One last message to the people before we get out of here. Um last message. Uh don't give up. Don't quit. Like, whatever you're doing, whether it's music, whatever. Like, don't quit. Keep that energy, keep God first, and uh have faith that it's gonna work out. Felix.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

It all works out. And if it doesn't work out, get your asses of gym and work out. We'll see y'all next week.