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Dive into the world of Neek Bucks as he sits down with SlopsShotYa at WonWorld Studios to discuss his latest project, "El Barrio 3." Neek breaks down the inspiration behind the powerful cover art, his roots in East Harlem, and the vibrant culture of "El Barrio." He also shares insights into his personal growth journey, his evolving music, and his ambitious plans for the future, including building a multi-story business empire. Discover the stories, the hustle, and the authentic sound that defines Neek Bucks.
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What's up? This Nick Bucks and I'm
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rocking with all hip hop.
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What's the word? Your man slap shot you.
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Come from time square at the legendary
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One World Studios and I have a very
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special guest. Can you please let the
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people know you are?
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Nick Books. What's the word?
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Ain't [ __ ] ain't [ __ ] man. We are here
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to talk about Bario3.
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Yeah, El Bario.
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El Bario3. Man, explain that cover. Um,
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the cover is just
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the cover is like it's it's like kind of
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a spin-off to like something I'm doing
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in the future, which is my my clothing
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line called Protect the Trenches.
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So, um, you know, with that, I was
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running around, you know, just different
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places in in New York, just capturing
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photos of, you know, like, um, like
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homeless people, you know, fiends and
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[ __ ] like that. Um, and yeah, bro, you
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know, just just just letting the world
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know like these is like regular people
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just like us. no matter what they going
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through, they they a part of our
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culture. You know what I'm saying? And
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with that joint, um that that that guy
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that I met, he was like one of my
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favorites. Like just interacting with
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him. So, you know, I'm like, "Yo, I'm
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going to make you my cover." And yeah,
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that's just, you know, giving you a
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representation of where we from.
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Damn. I was going to go funny with it
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and you just [ __ ] the whole thing up.
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No, no, for sure. For sure. That's what
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it was. That's what it was though.
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No. Oh, what you call? I think that's a
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great representation of the east side
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for people that may not know.
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Right. Right. Right.
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Um I was living out there for a year.
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Shout out to 126 and Lex.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um
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crazy place, man.
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Yeah, man. Crazy place.
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One block up.
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Okay. Okay.
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You a block over.
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Oh, okay.
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You a block over. You a block over from
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the madness.
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Yeah, I was I was Yeah, I was a block
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over, man. And um
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somebody tried to sell me a rabbit 3 in
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the morning.
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A rabbit?
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Oh, bunny. 3 in the morning. Right.
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It's a lot going on. Yeah. I mean, it's
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it's like
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it's it gives you old New York vibes,
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you know? Like [ __ ] ain't selling VCRs
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no more. You know what I'm saying?
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saying and we don't get that feeling.
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You understand what I'm saying? Like
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where'd you get that boom box? You
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understand? I don't I don't know. But
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imagine coming home seeing that drunk in
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the morning. It's like, oh man, you
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saying a rabbit? That's a whole
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responsibility, bro. That [ __ ] might be
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sick. No, I'm good. Yeah. But um so east
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side um so for the people that may not
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know cuz I think anybody that's not from
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New York hears Harlem and you know
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immediately we think
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uh Frank Lucas or Bumpy Johnson, Rich
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Porter. You understand? Just but when I
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say those names, I mean like the cars
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and the you know they the paid the
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beginning of paid in full. You
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understand what I'm saying? So people
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may not be too familiar with the east
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side. Can you can you please break down
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what the East Side Elario is?
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Yeah. I mean, we just we we I I like to
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say, yo, we like a whole another world.
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It's a whole it's a whole another
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culture. Um, you know, we based off a
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lot of projects. So, you know, so many
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project babies. It's a lot of energy,
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you know what I mean? Like just a lot of
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a lot of different energies and, you
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know, um different ethnicities, you
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know, we real like diverse, you know, I
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mean, I mean, I'm pretty sure the whole
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Harlem is diverse, but we like kind of
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bunched up all together. So, you know,
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in school you'll be with a Mexican,
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Italian, a Muslim, a Puerto Rican, a
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Dominican, you know what I mean? So,
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it's just a lot of culture there.
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That's a It's a It's a That's what I was
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saying. It's like um it's not exactly
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what you would expect for somebody
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that's saying like, "Yo, I'm just going
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to Harlem." You understand what I'm
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saying? For like the first time and
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things like that.
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We the hidden gems. Like, we like to hit
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It's like a lot of hidden gems over
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there.
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That's a fact. Um how often um do you go
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back to the East?
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I'm always there. I work out there damn
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near every morning. You know, I don't
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live there no more, but I'm always
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there.
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You know what I mean? Like I I I come
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stop through there. I probably in on
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East Harlem 5 days out of seven days of
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the week.
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Ricard Ricardo's frequency.
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Yeah. No, no, no, no. I I I grew out of
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Ricardo's
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Yeah. I've been there. No, no, not even
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that. It's just, you know, I had it
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since I was a kid. So, I I I rather I
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rather, you know, like the regular
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spots. I rather go to Harlem Breakfast,
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you know.
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Okay. Okay. Okay. I got you. I got you.
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Um, so let's talk let's talk about the
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tape. Um, I think your pen has
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definitely got better. I've been [ __ ]
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with you since streets is watching. Um,
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I think with Streets is watching what
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attracted me to it was like I'm I'm from
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Brooklyn, right?
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So like stop specifically. So like okay
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like damn like who who is brave enough
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to put put the roll in the bulletproof
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vest on? You understand what I'm saying?
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And when I listen I was like no boy is
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actually like good. And um I've kept
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following you through through and but I
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do think like the pen has definitely
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titans and stuff like that. Um so for
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the people that may not know, we get the
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um we get the mixtape vibe with Hot
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Murder on it. Shout out to Hot Murder.
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Um
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how would you explain um Elario 3 from
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the rest of your work? How did you
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separate?
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Um me going into Elario 3, like the
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difference is um I did like a 60-day
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cleanse over the summer um to where you
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know I kind of like put everything down.
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no alcohol, no no um no no weed, no sex,
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no no none of that. I was just like, you
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know, locked in, focused on myself, just
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like getting better mentally. And
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Elario3 is I was recording that in that
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process. So I feel like, you know, when
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you listen to it, you even even when I
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say certain words, how I pronounce
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things is like very clear. Like
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everything was just very clear about
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Bario 3. And um I went and got her
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murder to host it because you know I
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remember when I was a young I mean him
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putting me getting me in the studio and
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working with me and he was doing what he
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doing on there then
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and he believed in me early so I'm like
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yo let me just get back to to that that
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feeling and that's all that's what that
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was.
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Uh I know you pointed something out that
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I didn't even peep I wasn't even
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thinking about. Your words definitely
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were clear. You know what I'm saying?
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Definitely clear definitely concise. And
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I guess that could play into like you
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even sounding like like a better
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lyricist. No, I'm putting I might be
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putting together the same words, but it
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just sounds different cuz you can hear
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me actually hear the things that I'm
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saying.
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Production is out of this world.
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That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a
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fact. Um so I thought um Wonder when I
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told Wonder I booked the interview and
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stuff like that. Wonder was like he put
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tape that he just put out was fire.
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Yeah. Christmas Eve and stuff like that.
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Um shot once again um Hot Murder. I've
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been [ __ ] with him since he was
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[ __ ] with Fire Flame. So, shout out
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to the whole East Side. Sean Don, I see
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you sir.
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Um, all right then, man. So, getting
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back to you. We are at the top of 2026,
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man. How what what are we what's in
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store for us for this year?
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Um, man, just a lot of uh branding, you
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know, a lot more branding. Last year was
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more, you know, last year I mean, the
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previous years, not just last year was
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more about me just getting better
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musically, but this year is more about
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branding. Um, I got a threetory building
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that that I just got in Allentown, PA
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that's, you know, costing me an arm and
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a leg to rebuild. You know, I got the
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juice ball on the first floor. Um, my
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own studio on the second and another,
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you know, like extended studio on the
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third. So, just more of that. I'm just
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locked in business-wise, you know.
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Every New Yorker go out to PA to hustle.
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This is crazy.
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Yeah. Yeah. But I'm, you know, we we
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hustling the real way, you know. We
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going to take York,
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we taking New York around the world, you
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know.
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That's a fact. That's a fact. Yeah.
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every but you know you none of them
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white women please the fat ugly woman
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get the fat ugly white
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I ain't even thinking about no woman
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[ __ ] I don't even want no woman right
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now
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yeah um yeah um but shout out to um
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Alent um so I mean but I've you always
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had I always thought like if anything
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you've always been strong at branding
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every um project that you have is themed
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you understand strongly themed so where
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you can obviously like separate
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what it is and what you're going through
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so how How is it different now you
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talking about branding?
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Um I mean branding at at a at a higher
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level, you know, at the at the at the
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highest level you could possibly brand,
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you know. Um it might have looked it
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might have looked like I was doing a a
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great job, but I really wasn't. That was
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me just like trying, you know, throwing
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things out there and you know, trying to
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just make a buck, but now I'm looking at
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it like longterm and um you know, making
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the brand stick cuz you know, brands
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come and go. I'm looking for you know,
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McDonald's type.
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You get what I'm trying to say, bro? I
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got you. I got you. All right, then. So,
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what is is that is going to be open to
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the public?
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What?
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Yeah. Um the juice bar studio.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm taking
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that this my whole health journey and
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and vibe. You know, everything I
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learned, I'm bringing it to my to my
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place of business and
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it's going to be real authentic. You
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know, where you getting your stuff from,
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you know what I'm saying? Everything is
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100% organic. And
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yeah, you know, and then I'm looking to
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just keep building these joints.
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All right. Um, how long ago was streets
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was watching? I want to know how long
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I've been tapping.
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I want to say 2018.
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So
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maybe 17, 18.
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Been at this close to a decade now.
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I've been doing this forever.
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Yeah. I mean, when people see this and
8:37
they think it just happened. Nah,
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I've been working at this thing forever.
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I get you. Um I think a lot of people
8:44
now are like cool with the I mean, you
8:46
have um the um Griselda song, what's the
8:49
name?
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Griselda flow.
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Grisela flow, excuse me. Um, and I think
8:53
like Westside is like completely cool
8:55
with the level that he he is. You
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understand what I'm saying?
8:58
Is the level you're on, is that okay
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with you or are you still like are we
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still going to strive to like,
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you know, we going we going to run up
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this billboard or do do you want to be
9:07
like crossover? Do you want to have
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crossover up here? Bring the trenches to
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pop.
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Um, yeah. Yeah, I mean I'm always
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looking to um expand and grow, you know,
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like and I can't I can't even tell you.
9:18
Um I I won't even want to give myself a
9:20
wind like a window or ceiling. I just
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want to go as high as possible, bro.
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Like, you know, people say, "Yo, I want
9:26
to do this and I want to, but I can't
9:27
even I'm not trying to even limit myself
9:29
to where I'm trying to go." So, yeah,
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bro. For sure.
9:32
How do you how do um you position
9:34
yourself into that? you know, how do you
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position yourself into that from, you
9:38
know, from a New York main state to like
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global, especially like with the
9:42
internet now and stuff like that? Every
9:44
it does, it seems like everybody right
9:46
now the game is is like
9:47
seems everything is like so kind of
9:50
niched, right?
9:50
Like once you got your fan base, you
9:52
just rock with that. It doesn't seem
9:53
like
9:54
any new superstars is being made. So,
9:56
how how do you do that?
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I mean, I think it's like a it's a self
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thing. So, it's like getting rid of old
10:01
habits, you know what I mean? Um, once
10:02
you start getting rid of your old habits
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and the old way of doing things, the old
10:07
old way you used to doing things, you'll
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start to expand and and and and get
10:11
around different people, you know, eat
10:13
different things, travel different
10:14
places, and that [ __ ] is all part of how
10:16
you expand, how you get bigger, you
10:18
know, just learning, constantly
10:20
learning, constantly learning,
10:21
bringing in music. I got you. I got you.
10:23
Um, so as far as like with Nick also, do
10:27
you want to um do you want to uh what
10:29
you call it? cross over into other like
10:30
genres, try other things and stuff like
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that.
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Yeah, I'm always I I love music, bro.
10:34
I'm just a fan of music and you know, a
10:36
lot of the times where people try new
10:37
things, they scared of what people gonna
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say about it,
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but not me. If you're a fan of music,
10:41
that's the point of art is to try new
10:43
things. And you know what I mean? And if
10:45
people don't like it, that's on them.
10:46
You got to do it for you and not for
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people.
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You know what I mean?
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That's a fact. All right, man. So, um,
10:52
Harlem has its own thing right now. I
10:55
think there's a lot going on. Um, Rocky
10:57
just dropped today.
10:58
Ferg and Fergie baby, they working on
11:01
their own things and stuff like that.
11:02
What's what how the state of Harlem to
11:04
you right now? How would you say it?
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I mean, I think it's we getting a lot of
11:07
eyes on us, whether it's for negativity
11:09
or positivity, whatever it is, as long
11:12
as we getting them eyes. I think that,
11:13
you know, it's been a minute since, you
11:15
know, since we had some some new energy,
11:18
you know, like um every time you think
11:20
of Harlem, you like I I I say this on
11:22
every interview, people think about the
11:24
dip set because that's the last, you
11:25
know, group of people that did it
11:27
majorly.
11:28
ASAP don't count.
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Um yeah, he he count. I'm not talking
11:33
about ASAP Rocky. I'm talking about ASAP
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Mob. The
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I mean, I don't think all of them was
11:37
from from Harlem. I know Ferg,
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right, right? No, you're absolutely
11:40
correct. Okay. But the way they did it
11:42
was just like so major
11:44
that it might have skipped. It might it
11:45
might like people might have missed how
11:47
that they from here.
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You get what I'm saying? Like it's not
11:51
like it's not like they they [ __ ]
11:53
started on the corners of
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Nah, that's not how it happened. It
11:56
happened so majorly and overnight that I
11:58
think people forget, you know, like
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that's a fact. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
12:02
Um shout out to um Knock. I be seeing
12:04
him every now and then posting about
12:06
like when he was running around with
12:08
rocking and stuff like that and stuff
12:10
from my from my not from my block a
12:12
[ __ ] that I watched when I was younger
12:14
like damn like boy on some other [ __ ]
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like
12:18
yeah yeah I remember like you he he was
12:21
he was exactly what you expected a
12:23
Harlem [ __ ] on Da My page to be you
12:26
understand what I'm saying so
12:28
was doing that [ __ ] Meek Mill was doing
12:29
in 2014 and back in the days like you
12:32
know is flashy, like all that type [ __ ]
12:35
Facts. Milliondollar baby days. I
12:37
remember that, man. That's a fact. Um,
12:39
so I mean, [ __ ] What What was What was
12:43
Tell me like what was Nique like back
12:45
then? Like during the MySpace days like
12:47
what was your Harlem like? You know what
12:48
I'm saying? I'm saying
12:48
me I I I think I was always the same
12:51
way. Just real laidback, chill. My early
12:54
days, I was real quiet.
12:56
Nah, never. I ain't nowhere.
12:58
No, I ain't nowhere online doing that.
13:00
Yo, but yeah, I think back then when I
13:02
MySpace days, I was real quiet and
13:04
observant. Observant. I knew what I
13:06
wanted to do at a young age.
13:08
I knew I wanted to do music. I knew I
13:09
wanted to be a star
13:10
and I just kind of like sat back and
13:12
always just waited my time. I've been
13:14
around everybody, you know, like I I've
13:16
been a web star um music videos and I
13:19
seen Naka and I seen, you know, Jim
13:21
coming through the hood as a younger. I
13:23
just used to sit back and watch and
13:25
observe like, yo, this is what I want to
13:26
do. Like
13:28
that's how I was, bro. laidback, chill,
13:30
quiet, you know.
13:31
Oh, okay. Okay. And I mean, then you had
13:33
um also uh Mace and stuff like that.
13:37
Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, how would you
13:39
define your journey as far as like what
13:41
it's been like? Are you are you
13:43
satisfied with it?
13:44
Um the way my journey, the way I came
13:46
up. Yeah. I'm satisfied with everything
13:47
I've been through. I endured so much
13:49
[ __ ] like from
13:50
You ever thought about quitting at a
13:51
time?
13:51
I mean, yeah. I think every everybody
13:52
who does art always think about that. It
13:55
always cross their mind like damn, is
13:56
this [ __ ] like working? Is the is it
13:58
going to work? You know, you start
13:59
thinking about your future.
14:00
You know, once a kid get involved, you
14:02
start thinking about how you going to
14:03
support your baby. And is if is this
14:06
more important than that? Or, you know,
14:07
you always think about those things. But
14:09
I'm strong minded, bro. I I I got the
14:11
ability to hustle. Super topnotch
14:14
hustler. Like,
14:15
so my hustle always helped me do every
14:18
everything I wanted to do.
14:19
I got you. I think um also like um you
14:22
do mention your religion a lot as far as
14:24
the music and stuff like that. How
14:26
important is that to you?
14:27
It's it's very important. You know, you
14:29
you wake up, you know, you you you wipe
14:32
that dirt off you,
14:33
you hit that prayer rug clean, you know
14:35
what I'm saying? And you just
14:37
just talk to the Most High, bro. Like,
14:38
you know, for for just just thank the
14:40
Most High for everything.
14:42
And that's beautiful, bro. Like,
14:43
that's a fact. Um I think it's also um I
14:47
think it's also like a really weird time
14:49
to like um be a Muslim at this point. We
14:51
have a Muslim mayor, Donnie. But I do
14:54
see like a lot of conservative people do
14:57
talk about like, "Oh, I see what's it's
14:59
leading up to like Muslims versus
15:01
Christians and stuff like that." Do have
15:03
you ever like looked at the um news and
15:05
stuff like that as like was you like
15:07
felt like hatred towards like your
15:10
religion or anything like that?
15:10
That [ __ ] is not all that [ __ ] is
15:12
nonsense. They I mean all that [ __ ] that
15:14
they doing is not is not is not cool.
15:16
you like um and I don't even want to
15:18
touch too much on religion, you know,
15:20
because
15:20
that [ __ ] that that's a whole, you know,
15:24
conversation in its own and people gonna
15:26
have, you know, [ __ ] to say about
15:27
anything I say about religion.
15:29
So, I'm going just say this though, like
15:32
having a a a Christian versus Muslim
15:36
conflict, that's just that [ __ ] is all
15:38
nonsense.
15:38
As long as you praying to somebody,
15:40
that's all that matters. You know,
15:42
it's always weird to see a New Yorker
15:44
talk that cuz I'm like, "Yo, we all grew
15:45
up with different, you know, this person
15:47
there, that person there."
15:48
I grew up like that, though. I a lot I
15:50
think a lot of people grew up
15:52
with, you know, their households being
15:53
like church
15:55
and Jesus and, you know what I'm saying?
15:57
You got the one person that came home
15:58
now, they Muslim,
15:59
right? And then, you know, you I think
16:01
when you get older, you start to you
16:02
figure out what path you want to go.
16:04
Once you do the research and you see
16:06
what makes sense for you,
16:07
then that's what it is. is I mean ain't
16:09
no knock on what somebody believe in.
16:10
That [ __ ] is crazy to me.
16:12
That's a That's a fact, man. That's
16:13
definitely a fact. Um All right, man.
16:16
So, um you talked about like the
16:18
different cultures and the different
16:19
influences in what you call it from
16:22
Albario and things like that. Mhm.
16:24
Do you possibly think that
16:27
y'all get the um the credit y'all do
16:29
deserve from being on the east side like
16:31
being like as a separated entity from
16:33
you know 40th Atlantics and you know we
16:36
don't like I said bro we don't we we
16:38
don't I'm I'm we like hitting gems like
16:41
for example me right I'm I'm from the
16:43
east side like holy like
16:45
like my catalog is bananas it's like I
16:48
got one of the
16:49
the the most outrageous cataloges in
16:51
Harlem like I'm talking about period
16:53
Yeah, whoever you name,
16:55
but I'm from the east though. You know
16:57
what I'm saying? Like I'm from the I'm
16:58
from the east side, so it's like we like
17:00
just hidden gems. Nah, we don't.
17:02
You don't.
17:03
We don't.
17:04
Do you I mean, do y'all want do you want
17:06
to be looked at as like a separate
17:08
entity on it own?
17:09
Man, I think so. I think that's just how
17:11
we are. I think that's that's what it
17:13
is. We just we shine bright in our own
17:15
ways. You know what I mean? It's like,
17:17
see, I went and got I went and got DJ
17:18
High Murder. I could have went and
17:20
hollered that drama and anybody I wanted
17:22
to get, but I went and got my man cuz he
17:24
understand them corners we from. He
17:26
understand that that you know what I
17:28
mean? That that that [ __ ] that we
17:30
pushing.
17:30
That's a fact. You have there's a
17:32
mixtape feel to it. You understand what
17:33
I'm saying? The drops throughout. Um but
17:35
I think like the unique part about
17:37
Murder is Murder tell like a story in
17:40
between. He tells stories like in
17:41
between and it makes it that much more
17:43
epic. Um
17:46
you said it's always been like that,
17:47
right? So, as far as like with that, how
17:50
do you know like all right, like this go
17:52
on this song or that go on this one?
17:54
As far as what?
17:54
As far as like when he's him talking or
17:56
the drops and the things like that,
17:58
I wish we would have recorded the
18:00
process. I kind of like called him last
18:01
minute. It was the project was already
18:03
done when I called him. I was listening
18:04
and I heard it, but I wish we would have
18:06
recorded like the process of him doing
18:08
it cuz he was rusty at first. He hasn't
18:10
done he haven't done it in a minute.
18:11
This is his first time back out of
18:13
retirement. And I'm just giving him the
18:14
pep talk over and over like, "Bro,
18:16
you know, when you do this project, when
18:18
you do this now, you back in, you back
18:20
in the game." It's like, you got to look
18:22
at this [ __ ] as competition with every
18:24
DJ in the world. I want you to take this
18:25
[ __ ] personal.
18:26
You get what I'm saying? And he nailed
18:28
that [ __ ] Like, he he came with energy.
18:31
He came with the right things to say.
18:32
And you know, like, he nailed that [ __ ]
18:34
Like,
18:35
so, but why why the mixtape vibe for
18:37
you?
18:37
Because I wanted to bring that back. I
18:39
wanted to bring that that's how I
18:40
started.
18:41
I wanted to bring that that pitfield
18:42
back. And I'mma keep doing that [ __ ]
18:44
until,
18:45
you know what I mean? Like I I even want
18:47
to even get back to like direct like
18:49
direct to consumer
18:50
with that type of vibe because you know
18:52
all these platform these streaming
18:53
platforms is like [ __ ] us over.
18:55
You're not making no real paper off that
18:57
[ __ ] if you do your research.
18:59
I mean like you don't even need to once
19:01
you hear the numbers that you make, you
19:03
know, like um it take like a million
19:05
streams to get like what 10,000 or
19:08
something like that.
19:08
Yeah. It's crazy. It's bananas. Yeah.
19:10
So, I think that, you know, like people
19:12
like myself and others, we should, you
19:13
know, get back to how can we make like
19:16
money off our fans directly? How what's
19:18
a way that we could do that?
19:20
And and so we could be all right, you
19:22
know, like
19:22
do people still want physical things,
19:24
you think, or is everything just online?
19:26
Is everything digital?
19:27
I think the the physical things is
19:29
coming back for collectibles. I see a
19:30
lot of people do vinyls and [ __ ] like
19:32
that, you know, and the collectibles is
19:33
always cool to have,
19:35
but I think that, you know, we should
19:36
get back to that. We should get back to
19:37
like, you know,
19:38
physical. That's a fact. I mean, well,
19:41
since we on like this new age and things
19:43
like that,
19:44
how do you feel about people like
19:46
letting like AI and stuff like finish
19:48
their sentences and things like that?
19:50
I mean, um I I I get it.
19:53
But from a creative creative aspect, I I
19:56
don't I think it's it's cheating kind
19:58
of.
19:58
Yeah.
19:58
If you if you a creator, you're a
20:00
creator. Like, I've been doing this [ __ ]
20:01
so long that it's hard for me to
20:04
be thinking about a song and then go
20:05
online and say, "Help me finish this."
20:07
Like,
20:07
yeah.
20:08
I mean, to each his own.
20:11
To each his own.
20:11
So, you don't think that'll ever be part
20:12
of like a neat bucks catalog or
20:14
anything? Like that?
20:15
Nah, but look like I got chat GPT and
20:17
all that [ __ ] on my phone. I use it for
20:19
research, you know? I think that's what
20:20
that's the best thing. Yeah, that's what
20:22
it's for.
20:22
For research, but as far as like being
20:24
creative.
20:25
Yeah.
20:25
Nah. But then again, it's going to be
20:27
hard to beat the computer.
20:30
I mean, [ __ ] that's the thing.
20:32
Computers, it is nothing. It can't be
20:34
come up with nothing new. You understand
20:35
what I'm saying? That's nah, not not the
20:37
way that AI [ __ ] set up. That [ __ ]
20:39
I feel like
20:39
it's never ending. Like Chad GPT,
20:42
if I ask for something,
20:43
they give me the answer and then if I
20:45
ask what for the answer for that answer,
20:48
they got an answer for that and the
20:49
answer for that and that [ __ ] is never
20:51
ending. Like
20:52
you could Yeah, you could. So it's hard
20:53
to trying to do if you trying to do the
20:55
research and like run through it. But I
20:57
think like it can't tell me what the
20:59
next Nick Bucks move is before Nick
21:02
Bucks. You understand what I'm saying?
21:03
Yo, you you got GBT on your phone? Yes,
21:05
I do.
21:06
You could type in right
21:08
um
21:09
can you write me a rap like Nick bucks
21:11
for rap and they going to give you a
21:13
whole one
21:13
and they might spit it in your voice.
21:15
That [ __ ] is bananas to me.
21:16
It is like I said I don't I don't know
21:19
like there's something about human
21:21
creativity bro and that's always and I
21:24
guess that's just me as a as a as a
21:25
creative you understand what I'm saying
21:27
cuz that [ __ ] is kind of scary to me
21:29
especially when you have like super
21:31
producers
21:32
put helping it with it. They got [ __ ]
21:34
Sorry to cut you off though, right? Cuz
21:36
I just seen this on my phone on my way
21:37
here.
21:38
They got some [ __ ] to where you they
21:40
could make you could make yourself sing.
21:42
So I could change my name,
21:44
right? I could change my name right now.
21:46
Go home, change my name,
21:48
download that [ __ ] and I could sing
21:49
like Tory Lanes
21:51
and pop and blow.
21:52
Yeah.
21:53
Like you get what I'm saying? Like that
21:54
[ __ ] is crazy.
21:55
See, but you put the battery in his
21:56
back. You had the songwriting ability
21:59
for it and you just couldn't sing. You
22:01
understand what I'm saying? So, like I
22:02
said, and that and creatively that was
22:05
something that was always in a pocket of
22:06
your mind. Like you probably right now
22:08
could write one of the illst R&B songs
22:10
ever. You understand what I'm saying?
22:11
Because you just that dope with the pen.
22:13
Like even 808 and hard. Imagine if Kanye
22:15
had
22:16
GBT back then. You understand what I'm
22:18
saying? But I think it still need the
22:20
brain into it, you know? And when I say
22:22
brain, I don't mean like smarts
22:24
necessarily. I'm thinking just the
22:25
creativity. So I don't it so might not
22:27
even bring be the brain. It might the
22:29
soul, you know, just like it needs that
22:32
to like figure out how to,
22:33
you know, like how to how to [ __ ] up the
22:35
game, how to bring something like brand
22:36
new to it cuz then it's just always
22:38
going to be like a piece of this here, a
22:40
piece of this here, and we gonna make
22:41
like a a stale gumbo. You understand
22:43
what I'm saying? So, that's my feelings
22:45
towards it. That's all my feelings
22:47
towards and [ __ ] like that. Yeah. Um,
22:49
another thing is like I think a lot of
22:51
people you being that you're one of the
22:52
first people I see correctly pay homage
22:54
to something.
22:55
Um, but you owe you still do. You
22:58
understand what I'm saying? Even when
22:59
you just rap, you um kind of like a
23:00
throwback to the yesterday and stuff
23:03
like that. But I think a lot of people
23:05
are saying like there's a thing with
23:07
like newer artists like blatantly like
23:10
taking from the 90s and they're like,
23:11
"Yo, live what's going on now." You
23:13
understand? Tell us about this era
23:15
today,
23:15
right?
23:16
Where to you is like the line of like
23:18
homage versus like, "All right, [ __ ]
23:21
just biting." Like what's going on?
23:24
Um, what you mean like homage with from
23:26
like
23:27
how you pay like you know a lot of
23:28
people are borrowing from the 90s,
23:30
right? You understand what I'm saying?
23:31
Like whether it be like album covers,
23:33
aesthetics, you know, even like we bring
23:35
back a lot of the older styles and stuff
23:37
like that to you. Like what is the line
23:39
between like all right, they just paying
23:41
homage, you understand what I'm saying?
23:42
Versus like damn, like bro, like a
23:45
certain point it got to be you.
23:46
I think I think there's no line though.
23:48
I think people, even artists from the
23:50
'9s, right, should embrace people doing
23:53
that because it's giving them life
23:54
again. You know, a lot of people from
23:56
the '9s ain't
23:58
nothing in this [ __ ] no more. Like,
24:00
I'mma be real. You know what I'm saying?
24:01
So, it's like if if if somebody come
24:03
through with your style that you
24:05
inspired, you should embrace that [ __ ]
24:07
You know what I mean? And that [ __ ] will
24:08
give you back give you light in a new in
24:11
another six months to figure something
24:12
out for yourself. Or, oh, that was my
24:14
[ __ ] He body that. Let me get behind
24:16
that. You know what I'm saying? I think
24:17
that um
24:19
Yeah, that [ __ ] is crazy. It's no line.
24:21
Yeah, it's no line. It shouldn't be no
24:22
line. I love like how people come
24:24
through with the 90s fashion, 2000s old
24:27
that [ __ ] just it it bring back a time
24:29
where real men was in style. You get
24:32
what I'm saying? Like that [ __ ] that
24:34
[ __ ] is faded now. It's a lot of, you
24:35
know, feminine men. Not not nothing
24:37
against like not nothing against like
24:39
gay people or none of that. I'm just
24:41
saying it's a lot of lot of, you know,
24:43
I want to see more masculine.
24:44
I want to see more masculinity. Yeah,
24:46
man. But the woman came through and took
24:48
over. You know what I'm saying? Like
24:50
spot for they had they spot for a while.
24:51
Yeah. Yeah. That's a fact. That's
24:53
definitely a fact, man. Um what I do, we
24:55
always ask, man, I need to hear who's
24:57
your top five that are alive.
24:59
Oh, damn. I [ __ ] switch all the time.
25:01
But
25:02
let's update it.
25:02
Yeah. Um Jay is always number one
25:05
and that's like above everybody. I don't
25:08
care who it is. Like
25:10
um I go I go Jay.
25:12
I go uh big.
25:15
No politically correct. These are just
25:17
my guys. Um, Pac for sure.
25:20
Um, four, I go I should always switch.
25:26
I go
25:31
[ __ ]
25:33
Damn.
25:35
Depends on what I'm feeling. I go I go
25:37
kiss.
25:37
Okay. Kiss. Okay, there you go.
25:39
Right. And then five is just multiple
25:41
people.
25:42
All right. All right. So, give me a
25:43
couple honorable mentions. Just a couple
25:44
more.
25:44
So five I got See, it depends on the
25:46
day. Five, I go Beanie Seagull,
25:48
right? I might go I might go um Esco one
25:51
day. I might be feeling like Esco.
25:54
Um I might be feeling like
25:55
X by the way for you young.
25:57
Yeah. I might be feeling like Fifth. You
25:59
know what I'm saying? Like
26:02
but yeah.
26:03
Okay. Real 90s. Like
26:05
50. My favorite rapper of all time
26:06
though. That's who that's the reason why
26:08
I rap.
26:09
Okay. So what's the difference between
26:10
your goat and your favorite rapper? Um,
26:12
my goat is 50.
26:13
I thought you said Jay.
26:14
Yeah. No, like my goat is 50. Okay. My
26:17
goat is 50. My favorite rapper is Jay.
26:19
Explain that for us.
26:20
All right. So, Fifth is the reason why I
26:22
rap. He inspired me to do everything I
26:24
do. Everything you see
26:26
like is it's cuz of Fifth.
26:28
Jay-Z rapping ability is just like illst
26:31
[ __ ] I ever heard. Like I never heard
26:33
nothing like J.
26:34
Okay. Okay. So 50 is everything with
26:36
everything. Everything. It's like a It's
26:39
holy. Like
26:39
I was just thinking the other day, man.
26:41
That man said N's wife smell like full
26:43
court basketball.
26:44
That [ __ ] is crazy.
26:45
I remember that back in the day, man. I
26:47
ran into K the other day. She bad.
26:49
Yeah. No, Swift is crazy.
26:50
Full court basketball. I was like, why
26:52
you say that? Why' you do that?
26:55
Swift is crazy.
26:56
Shout out to 50, man. Um Bill. All
26:58
right, man. Before we get you out of
26:59
here, any more visuals coming up? Cuz I
27:01
seen Was that the Williamsburg Bridge?
27:03
When? [ __ ]
27:04
The um the one with the drone. The um
27:06
Oh, no. That was actually in Harlem. And
27:08
I was on 128th Street. Yeah, that was on
27:10
the east side.
27:10
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
27:11
Yeah. But yeah, we got more visuals,
27:12
man. I got video shoot tomorrow. Call
27:14
time is 10:00 a.m.
27:16
You know what I'm saying? [ __ ] I got
27:17
another
27:18
another video shoot on Sunday. Um, next
27:20
Saturday I'm in the A shooting. So,
27:22
yeah, we rolling.
27:23
Okay. Okay.
27:24
We rolling.
27:24
Congrats, man.
27:26
Appreciate it, man. Barry 3 out right
27:27
now. It's the hottest [ __ ] in the
27:29
planet. People tapped in from all over
27:31
the world checking that [ __ ] out. You
27:32
should too, man. For sure.
27:34
Don't Don't go there, man. They tow down
27:35
the path mark and they went crazy. They
27:38
moved to IHOP. There's no IHOP there no
27:39
more. When IHOP go out of business to
27:42
the McDonald's,
27:44
the [ __ ] McDonald's, man. Shout out
27:47
to the Esop, man. Slap shot. You won
27:49
behind the camera as usual. And we out,
27:51
man.