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“The Church Owes Us” Brodie Fresh Talks Preacher's Kid Life, DJ Drama, Drake, Money, Houston + More
Dec 21, 2025
Brodie Fresh pulls up fresh off a Houston flight and gets real about Preacher’s Kid, DJ Drama hosting the project, and why “Glory” is landing on MTV and Revolt with no feature and no club formula. He breaks down the “PK” rumors, the family sacrifices behind “Collection Plate,” and how he’s fighting to build real work-life balance while staying independent and owning his catalog. Plus: touring with Dom Kennedy, Nipsey Hussle, Benny the Butcher and more, the label calls after “Glory,” and his Top 5 rappers list (yes, Drake made it). Tap in and drop your Top 5 in the comments. Interview by SlopsShotYa
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What up? What up? It's a popular
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stranger, the preachers kid, Brody
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Fresh. We outside with all hip hop. Make
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sure y tap in or tap out. Love.
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What's the worst? Your man slapshot you
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here for allhip hop.com, the legendary
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one world studios and I got 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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What's up? What's up? It's Brody Fresh,
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man. We here, man. What's up?
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I'm chilling. I'm chilling, man. How you
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doing,
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man? I'm blessed.
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That's a fact.
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Tired. Fresh off the airplane.
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Ah, okay. Okay. I got you.
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I landed an hour and 20 ago. Oh wow.
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Where you coming from?
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Houston.
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Houston. What's going on out there,
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man? I moved to Houston like uh two
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years ago. So
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yeah, it's good vibes, man.
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It's good vibes. Okay.
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I came from the 90°ree weather, jumped
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on a jumped on a plane, got off and came
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straight here
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through this traffic. You know what I'm
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saying?
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Through this traffic.
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I was only and I was only four minutes
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late.
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Ah,
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because of parking.
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Because of Exactly. That's You hear
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that? That's professionalism.
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Yeah, we no excuses. I got you. I got
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you. All right, man. So how one thing so
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is there any more spice being added to
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the music now that you Houston is the
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Houston being integrated a little bit
1:00
into the music?
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Um I wouldn't say uh
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Houston's integrated but some of their
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grind is definitely integrated.
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You know what I'm saying? Like Houston
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Houston is uh you know it's a big a big
1:12
place where they come from um what's the
1:14
what's the correct word? Like really
1:16
like underground you know what I'm
1:17
saying? Like building up when you think
1:18
of like PimpC and a lot of their artists
1:20
that they have are really like homegrown
1:22
and they really built they up in their
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city. You know what I'm saying? But us
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being from New York,
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Texas is so big that an artist could
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survive in Texas alone being an artist.
1:30
You know what I'm saying? Like they can
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have a song that went and they perform
1:33
in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Houston,
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all these different markets and you
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still got places eight, nine hours away
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and you still in the same state. So, you
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know what I'm saying? They big on like
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really building their platforms in their
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home state.
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Okay. Okay. I got you. I mean, shout out
1:46
to Houston, man. It was a weird kind of
1:48
vibe when I went to the club because
1:50
they still play like they oldies like
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it's the young kids know it. You
1:55
understand what I'm saying?
1:55
They don't really play too much New York
1:57
music.
1:57
They don't.
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You hit a 50 Cent
1:59
and like a Pop Smoke.
2:00
That's Yeah. One of those. Yeah. You're
2:02
like, "Yo, and don't ask him for no
2:04
reggae or nothing."
2:05
Oh, no. It's over for that.
2:06
You got to go to a brunch and you might
2:07
get afro beat. You might get essence.
2:09
You understand what I'm saying?
2:12
Okay, man. So, um, so we're we're
2:14
building up. We're building up to the
2:15
project, but you got the EP coming out.
2:18
Okay. Okay. Okay. But your um thing from
2:20
what um Sam, this is your um debut
2:22
album.
2:23
Yeah, I would say so. Um I think it's
2:26
it's more like
2:27
I never really call something a full-on
2:29
album. Okay.
2:29
So, I think maybe, you know, just at the
2:31
point I'm at in my career, it's kind of
2:32
like Yeah. You know, it's like it's like
2:34
that one.
2:34
Okay. The sort of irony in it is it's
2:37
hosted by
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DJ Pastor Drum.
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Pastor Drum.
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Exactly. Exactly. So drama. Yeah. Facts.
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Okay. Okay. So, how does that go?
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Because you know, like usually when it's
2:48
hosted by a DJ drama, it's a gangster
2:50
girls. It's a mixtape. But what to you
2:53
separates
2:55
um like a gangster girls mixtape from
2:58
the past kid album?
3:00
Um so it technically is a Gangster Girls
3:03
still, but um I think more recently
3:05
drama started really venturing out into
3:07
more albums. you know, he did a he did a
3:09
Gangster Girls album with Simba and a
3:11
few other people that
3:12
got the Grammy with Tyler.
3:13
Exactly. Exactly. He just did the new
3:15
album with Jeezy. Um, so, you know, he
3:17
he's starting to do more album stuff.
3:18
So, for me, it's, you know, the
3:20
preachers kid is is just me embodying
3:21
myself and and telling the story about
3:23
my story, being a preachers kid, and
3:25
just like what that's like in a life
3:27
that I grew up in. You know what I'm
3:28
saying? From every angle. So,
3:29
Okay. Okay. So, are the rumors true
3:31
about PKs?
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You know what I'm saying? It's funny
3:33
because I was having that conversation
3:34
the other day. You know, everywhere you
3:35
go, they like, "Oh, the PKs is the
3:37
worst. I feel like um you know it's
3:39
never really been highlighted why like
3:40
why are the PKs are worse. You know what
3:42
I'm saying? So it's stuff that I talk
3:43
about on my album like
3:44
there's a song called Collection Plate.
3:46
I'm essentially talking about the fact
3:47
that I feel like the church owes us like
3:49
they owe my family because
3:51
they took away so much time from my
3:52
pops,
3:53
you know, from us because they needed
3:55
them. Like I could have a basketball
3:56
game at on Sunday at 2:30 and church in
3:59
that too. And he's going to come he's
4:00
gonna come straight from church but
4:02
sister Mary needs him. She crying. So
4:03
now he ends up talking to her and
4:04
missing my game. It's like a lot of time
4:06
that we need with our parents, we end up
4:07
missing out because they got to be there
4:08
for all of these adults. And once you
4:10
get older, you start really realizing a
4:11
lot of these things were things that
4:12
these people could have handled on their
4:13
own, but they just, you know what I'm
4:15
saying, were irresponsible or or not
4:17
taking accountability for certain things
4:18
in their life. So they would try to cry
4:20
on the passes and try to get an answer
4:21
for things that they really knew what
4:22
they needed to change in their own life.
4:23
You know what I'm saying? But
4:25
essentially, it took a lot of time away
4:26
from the family.
4:27
I mean, all right. So, but you're
4:28
married, you know? Okay. Um, but you're
4:30
also an artist, a traveling artist, you
4:32
understand? you're just from Houston to
4:34
New York. How do you not repeat the
4:36
cycles that happened beforehand?
4:38
I try to uh create a work life balance.
4:41
It's something I'm still working on. I
4:42
can't say that I'm perfect at it, but um
4:44
I definitely do my best to do that. You
4:45
know what I'm saying? Like with my kids
4:46
and talk to my kids every day. I have
4:48
two kids that don't live with me. So, um
4:50
the ones that do live with me, they see
4:51
me every morning. You know what I'm
4:52
saying? I'm there with them every single
4:53
day. So,
4:54
we do our best to take them out every
4:56
week and just be there, be present a
4:57
little bit more. I feel like, you know,
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as we got older, we really didn't
5:00
understand why our parents was gone so
5:01
much,
5:02
but you know, they were in survival
5:03
mode. You know what I'm saying?
5:04
Especially us being from Long Island.
5:05
Like, a lot of people be like, "Oh, Long
5:07
Island this, Long Island that." But it's
5:08
like,
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you know, my pops is from Harlem. My
5:10
mom's from Queens. You know, them moving
5:12
to Elmont at that time was like a It was
5:14
like a It was like a like a an award. It
5:16
was like, "Yo, we made it out to Long
5:18
Island."
5:18
But what people don't realize is what
5:19
comes with that is, hey, we moved to a
5:21
place that might be a little more
5:22
expensive to give you a better life, but
5:23
it also got more bills. Mhm.
5:25
So now it's taking away more of our time
5:26
from actually being there with you cuz
5:27
we at work all day long, two jobs to try
5:30
to maintain this new life,
5:31
you know what I'm saying? So it's a lot
5:32
that comes with it.
5:34
Okay. Okay. I got you. All right, man.
5:36
So your um So what is the what is the
5:39
difference between that um pastor kid
5:42
and the alter call?
5:44
The alter call. Um so you got the
5:46
preachers kid is more like um really
5:49
just it breaks down a bunch of different
5:50
stories in my life. It's not just about
5:52
like it's not a church album.
5:54
You know, because I've experienced every
5:56
single different walk of life. You know
5:58
what I'm saying? From being outside,
6:00
from gangster stuff, from going to jail,
6:02
from different things that I experienced
6:04
in my life, and I'm just telling all of
6:05
that, but in a in a story that's kind of
6:07
like bringing light, but also not
6:09
praising the other the wrong things.
6:10
Just kind of showing things that
6:12
happened in my life that kind of drew me
6:13
to those things. You know what I'm
6:14
saying? So,
6:15
the altar call is kind of like um you
6:17
know, essentially in the Bible, it's
6:18
kind of like bringing yourself to God
6:19
and just, you know,
6:21
making that that change in your life.
6:22
So, it's kind of just building up to the
6:24
preachers kid where I'm talking about
6:25
the things the necessary changes that I
6:26
made and things that I went through that
6:28
caused me to make these changes and then
6:29
I go into the life story.
6:31
I got you. Have you um have you ran like
6:33
this series past your dad and what would
6:35
be his feelings on it?
6:37
So, uh my dad actually passed in 2022.
6:39
So, no, I appreciate you, bro. So, um
6:41
you know, my pops
6:43
when he was here, it was something that
6:44
we would talk about all the time, you
6:45
know, me doing music and we kind of came
6:47
to the conclusion that,
6:49
you know, my pops didn't grow up in
6:50
church. You know what I'm saying? He
6:51
turned to God at a certain point in his
6:52
life. You know, he got shot. My dad was
6:54
a below the knee amput. So, he had one
6:56
leg. So, you know, a lot of talking
6:57
about glory,
6:58
right? Exactly. So, um
7:00
you know, for him, it was like
7:02
he could reach the people that decided
7:04
they wanted God in their life and they
7:05
wanted to change. And I could reach the
7:06
people that feel like they don't know
7:07
yet. You know what I'm saying? Because
7:08
as I got older, I realized that
7:11
for me, churching God was just knowing
7:12
what's right and what's wrong. Doing
7:14
your best to do
7:15
what's right and the least of what's
7:17
wrong. You know what I'm saying? So it's
7:18
like he would be like, "Hey, you know,
7:19
you could reach these people that
7:20
haven't decided yet or haven't taken
7:22
accountability for their life." You know
7:23
what I'm saying? Because they look at
7:24
you and they feel like, "Oh, I could
7:25
adapt. I could relate to him." You know
7:26
what I'm saying? He's outside. He's over
7:28
here. He's with these people. He's
7:29
around this. He's around that. So they
7:31
feel more comfortable, you know, hearing
7:32
it from me than hearing it from a pastor
7:34
because they feel like they're being
7:35
talked down on and not talked to. You
7:36
know what I'm saying? Or talked with,
7:37
you know what I'm saying? So we kind of
7:39
came to that conclusion. So my is cool
7:40
with it. He was a big supporter.
7:41
Oh, okay. That's dope. So, um, so do
7:44
you, um, do you think about him when
7:46
you're making something like The
7:47
Pastor's Kid and stuff like that? I
7:49
mean, I'm
7:49
preach. Yeah, absolutely. Um, you know,
7:52
this album is definitely, uh, dedicated
7:54
to my pops.
7:55
Um, you know, because I wanted to not
7:57
only tell my story, but our story, you
7:59
know, and tell parts of his story
8:00
because he he made it through a lot in
8:02
his life. You know what I'm saying? So,
8:03
I wanted to definitely represent that
8:04
correctly and and show his story like in
8:06
Glory and just show the obstacles that
8:08
he made it through because sometimes,
8:09
you know, people need to see that other
8:11
people made it through something that
8:12
they're going through to be able to get
8:13
through it. You know what I'm saying?
8:13
So,
8:14
yeah.
8:15
All right. So, um have you ever thought
8:17
about maybe like this thing being so
8:19
inspirational like you would work with
8:21
like other like inspirational artists
8:22
and stuff like that?
8:23
For sure. Lrae or something?
8:25
For sure. For sure. Um, I never actually
8:27
linked with LRA, but I met him at BET
8:30
uh, Music Matters years ago, like 200, I
8:33
want to say 13 at A3C Festival. I was
8:35
actually there with me as Biscuit. Meek
8:38
Mill performed on the same show. This is
8:39
a long time ago, but um,
8:41
definitely fan of his work and what he's
8:42
done. I'm trying to do something with
8:44
Kirk Franklin.
8:45
You know what I mean? So, I'm I'm
8:46
working with a couple different people
8:47
trying to get in that lean.
8:48
That's that's okay. That's definitely
8:50
dope. All right. And so for an artist
8:52
like you being this is your debut, what
8:55
are like the actual like goals that you
8:58
want to achieve dropping this album? And
9:00
I'm talking about whether it be numbers
9:03
wise, like tour wise, like what is the
9:06
impact that's like you would like to
9:08
have with this album?
9:09
Um, I would say ultimately just that
9:11
next level up.
9:12
You know what I'm saying? I've been
9:13
blessed to do a lot of things in my
9:14
career. I've toured almost every year
9:16
since 2013. So I most recently just came
9:18
off tour with Dom Kennedy in April. So,
9:20
we did a tour April and uh March and no,
9:22
yeah, April and May.
9:24
Um, so you know, I've done that. I've
9:25
with Dom. I've to Nipy Hustle. I've toy.
9:27
I've told with Conway the Machine, Benny
9:29
the Butcher, Baldi James. I've done a
9:31
lot of tours in my life. So, I think uh
9:33
just really getting to that point where
9:34
I could be the headliner and just kind
9:35
of, you know, gaining that that that
9:37
next level of um of fan base and really
9:40
just growing that base for real.
9:41
I got you. All right. Then, so what are
9:43
some of the things you've taken away
9:44
from some of these artists on the tour
9:46
that you've toured with,
9:47
man? just consistency and um
9:50
consistency and and just building your
9:51
team, building the right team.
9:53
Do you think you have that right now?
9:54
I think I'm I'm definitely getting
9:55
there. You know what I'm saying? I say
9:56
I'm about 80% there.
9:58
Uh what's missing?
10:00
Um I would say just a couple little
10:02
little pieces, you know, having the the
10:03
the right uh like my management team is
10:06
coming together, but I feel like it's
10:07
more than just one person.
10:08
Um I've always managed myself. I never
10:10
had a manager my entire career. So I got
10:12
myself on tours and different things
10:14
like that. You know what I'm saying?
10:15
Building relationships with them people
10:16
and just doing it myself. Mhm.
10:17
So trying to get to that point where I
10:19
could fall back and be like, "Yo, let me
10:20
not
10:21
try to do everything." You know what I'm
10:22
saying? Because when you love it so
10:24
much, you get to a point where so many
10:25
people let you down that you just like,
10:27
I ain't nobody a shot to do this. I'm
10:29
going to just do it myself cuz if I
10:30
don't, it's not going to be done right.
10:31
And um this this project itself is so
10:33
special to me that it has to be done
10:34
correctly. So, you know, I'm just moving
10:36
things around to make it fit where it
10:37
needs to be.
10:38
So, besides it being a debut, what makes
10:40
it so special to you?
10:41
Just that it's an honor to my pops and
10:43
really that it's my life story. Not that
10:45
I mean in my music I've always told my
10:46
story, but I feel like there's a lot of
10:48
stories I never actually spoke about in
10:50
my music and I'm kind of just taking it
10:52
there where I'm actually giving you like
10:53
everything about my life.
10:54
Okay. And what made you decide to um
10:56
like this would be the body of work to
10:58
make a gangsters girl cuz you know like
10:59
most people they want to hit them with
11:01
like the the best freestyles or maybe
11:03
like the best remixes. Yeah. What made
11:05
you think like this and drum would go
11:07
well together? I think like back when
11:10
dro started I think about like Dream
11:11
Chasers too with Meek Mill different
11:13
things and I feel like you know that
11:15
that mixtape that gangster girls was
11:17
like a a level up in somebody's career.
11:18
It was like a staple like you know from
11:20
here everything is up saying so I feel
11:22
like this was that time and um
11:24
everything was coming together to
11:25
actually make it make sense and I felt
11:26
like it was just the right time.
11:28
Got you. Are we expecting any features
11:29
on this?
11:30
Yeah, there's a couple couple features
11:31
on there for sure.
11:32
Are we allowed to talk about it?
11:33
We got a couple um I'll tell you a
11:35
couple. I got uh my man lights is on
11:37
there. lights for Philly.
11:38
Uh, I got a record with Sauce Walker on
11:40
there. Um,
11:43
Houston, the Houston leaked in there a
11:45
little.
11:46
Okay. Okay. Okay. Got you, man. So, how
11:50
are we ending off the fourth quarter?
11:52
So, we definitely going to close out
11:53
with this EP. Um, I was supposed to go
11:55
back on tour top of November. It's
11:57
looking like they may move that, but uh,
11:58
I may still end up on a roll for like
12:00
two weeks,
12:01
uh, mid November.
12:02
But, um, closing out with the EP and
12:04
just getting everything together for the
12:06
holidays, man. you know, after December
12:07
is closed. So,
12:08
yeah,
12:08
I'm just going to drop a couple more
12:09
visuals. I got like two visuals I'm
12:10
going to drop before the year is out and
12:12
um go from there.
12:13
Any visuals for Glory?
12:15
Yeah, Glory came out already. Okay. So,
12:17
Glory came out uh
12:19
two weeks ago.
12:20
Um you know, it's doing good. It's doing
12:22
really good. It premiered on Revolt.
12:24
Congratulations.
12:24
It's on MTV right now. Currently, we're
12:27
doing 30 spins a week on MTV right now.
12:29
That's dope. Good. And it's a blessing,
12:31
man. Independently is a blessing for
12:32
sure.
12:32
Yeah. That's powerful music right there.
12:34
It's not something that you know that
12:36
you automatically be say like, "Okay,
12:38
this is what's going to bounce on the
12:39
CL." This is a story you're telling. So,
12:41
it has
12:42
I think that's the best part about it,
12:43
especially being independent cuz like to
12:45
be able to hit MTV and Revolt and all of
12:47
these blogs with a song that's me by
12:49
myself with no feature and it's about my
12:51
my pops and you know what I'm saying?
12:52
Like it's not a club record. It's not
12:54
like the typical single that you would
12:55
hear that would actually, you know, I
12:56
mean,
12:57
take it to itself.
12:58
Okay. Okay. So, what it So, what's the
12:59
next single after this?
13:01
That's what I'm That's what I'm figuring
13:02
out now. I think uh more than likely
13:04
we're going to end up dropping a S
13:05
Walker record in the next couple weeks.
13:06
Okay.
13:07
I think that's kind of where we're
13:07
leaning, but that's going to be off of
13:08
Alter Call. So,
13:09
I mean, we're going to just bounce
13:10
bounce back and forth a little bit.
13:12
Oh, okay. Okay. You ever thought about
13:13
like maybe combining them together on
13:15
like a deluxe version or something?
13:16
So, I'm thinking about doing something
13:17
like that. What ended up happening was
13:19
um
13:20
when Glory came when Glory came out, it
13:22
gathered so much attention and I started
13:23
getting a lot of calls from the
13:24
different labels and different
13:25
situations. And um you know for me I'm
13:27
big on independency and and being able
13:29
to hold your own and have your own cat
13:31
own your catalog and different things
13:32
like that. So I have a couple people
13:33
that reached out that were that were
13:35
cool with that saying and wanted to
13:36
bring something to the table that helped
13:38
get it to that next level but still
13:39
allowed me to maintain you know my
13:41
independency. So okay
13:42
um we're kind of shopping that around
13:43
right now. I have a couple meetings
13:44
while I'm out here this week and just
13:45
trying to put that together and let it
13:46
land at the right home.
13:47
So you know that's kind of why we jumped
13:48
to Alter Call but uh essentially Alter
13:50
Call be like the prequel to the album.
13:52
Okay. So Okay. So that's why you're
13:53
holding him back just in case you do get
13:56
the right partnership. Ah, that's smart.
13:58
That's good. And what when did you
14:00
realize like it was it was the Glory
14:02
Glory sing that made you think like,
14:03
"All right, well, let's hold back a
14:04
little bit. Let's see what they talking
14:06
about."
14:06
I feel like I I always knew it. Like I
14:08
felt like it myself. Um, and as we
14:10
started sending it out, people started
14:11
responding the way we thought. But um, I
14:13
still was like, "Yo, you know, people
14:14
like, yo, just hold off on anything."
14:15
But I was like, "No, I want them to see
14:17
the quality that we're going for and
14:18
we're doing on our own so they
14:19
understand the standard that we're
14:20
setting." Once we dropped Glory in the
14:22
video, people were like, "Man, that
14:23
video was crazy." And it kind of just
14:25
went from there.
14:26
Ah, congrats, man. Congrat show, [ __ ]
14:29
right?
14:29
Type [ __ ]
14:30
Yeah. So, we
14:32
for a fact, man. All right, man. Um, you
14:34
know, this is all hip-hop tradition,
14:35
man. I need the top five that are
14:37
allowed [ __ ] shot, man.
14:38
Man,
14:40
that's tough. Top five. I feel like it
14:43
changed so many times. You asked me this
14:45
five years ago, even 10 years ago, it
14:48
would have been different. Um,
14:51
I'mma start out Jakus.
14:53
Uhhuh.
14:53
Um, Jay-Z.
14:56
I'm going say, uh, see, I could say
14:59
Biggie and Tupac, but I feel like it's
15:01
tough to say them because they didn't
15:02
get to fully live out their, you know
15:03
what I'm saying? So, that's I feel like
15:05
they're just like legendary stats.
15:07
That's everybody's list. You know what
15:08
I'm saying?
15:08
Biggy and Tupac are everybody list, you
15:10
know what I'm saying? So, um, they're
15:12
definitely honoraries, but I I say, like
15:14
I said, uh, Jakus,
15:16
Jay-Z. Um, I would say,
15:20
um,
15:23
JCole.
15:24
Okay.
15:25
Um, I go Kendrick.
15:28
And I would have to say Drake. I know
15:30
people hate Drake, but
15:31
Well, okay. No, but you I think you got
15:32
In my opinion, Drake is Drake is, you
15:34
know what I'm saying? Like, he's one of
15:35
the greatest artists to ever live. So,
15:37
regardless of how much they try to You
15:38
know what I'm saying? He like LeBron.
15:39
LeBron,
15:40
you're going to get the hat. You going
15:41
to get the hat. You're going to get the
15:42
hate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you
15:44
going people going to compare you the
15:45
ones you once was and everything like
15:47
that. Yeah. So, you got both generations
15:49
of the goats. You understand? Do you see
15:51
any like um do you think like we'll ever
15:53
have that again? Like another generation
15:55
of goats. Yeah.
15:57
I feel like it's coming back around to
15:58
it right now. Um I think we just kind of
16:00
got to adapt to what it is. you like
16:02
changes and you know people they fall
16:05
into different pockets of of music and
16:07
we can't knock them for doing what they
16:08
doing because if it's working it's
16:09
working. We were just talking about this
16:10
in the car just now like
16:12
you know you got the younger artists
16:13
like Zetti will and they doing their
16:15
thing. We can't hate on them but
16:17
the era we came up in it wouldn't it
16:19
wouldn't have flew at all. You know what
16:20
I'm saying? Like nobody would have would
16:21
have rocked with that but it's like
16:23
times change. You know what I'm saying?
16:24
And we got to kind of adapt and just
16:25
give people respect for
16:26
but everything seems like fly by night.
16:27
Not to say that I don't think like the
16:29
music is subjective, but it doesn't seem
16:31
like anybody has like the 10 plus year
16:34
staying power anymore.
16:35
Well, what I was just telling, bro, was
16:37
um
16:38
I feel like when I was a kid, like, you
16:40
know, when you looked at an artist, you
16:41
looked at who you want to be. You know
16:42
what I'm saying? Like you'll see El Cooj
16:44
and be like, I want to be El Cooj. He
16:45
got the girls, he got this, he's he's
16:46
fly, he embodies somebody that I want to
16:48
be, and it's like nowadays,
16:50
you know, who do y'all want to be? I'm
16:52
saying like which one of these artists
16:53
do you say, "Hey, I want to be that
16:54
artist.
16:55
I want to be like him." You know what
16:56
I'm saying? It's more so,
16:58
you know, but it's like, you know, now
16:59
it's like, you know, the branding is so
17:02
much more important in the music because
17:03
people want to see people's lives and
17:04
understand their lives and and see how
17:06
they relate to them. So, it's kind of
17:07
coming back around to, you know, seeing
17:09
who somebody is, you know what I'm
17:10
saying? Not just the music because a lot
17:12
of these people aren't even who they say
17:13
in their music. So, now getting to see
17:14
who you are outside of the music, I feel
17:16
like it's going to start to come back
17:17
around to people actually, you know,
17:19
falling for people enough to be like,
17:20
"Hey, we can we can keep this person
17:22
around." You know what I'm saying?
17:23
All right.
17:24
Because I think me and Wonder we we
17:26
discuss it all the time like can they
17:28
can that happen again? And you know some
17:30
of us theorize like the labels might not
17:33
want somebody to have like that much
17:34
power ever again. Yeah. You know cuz I
17:37
mean you gota I mean when somebody has
17:39
10 years worth of hits which is a lot of
17:41
power you have to acquies. You
17:42
understand what I'm saying? And so you
17:45
like maybe there is something where the
17:47
labels are trying to keep people
17:48
somebody from ever being that big again.
17:51
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think I
17:52
think it's just it's just how you look
17:54
at success. You know what I'm saying?
17:55
Like,
17:55
I used to look at music and be like,
17:57
which I'm pretty sure every single
17:58
person in music from you to one, all of
18:00
us have been at points in our life where
18:01
we like,
18:02
man, [ __ ] this. I'm quitting.
18:03
Yeah.
18:03
I'm done with music. And and you know, I
18:05
had to talk with somebody that I I look
18:07
up to was like a big brother to me and
18:08
he played football. He was in the NFL.
18:10
And it was at a point in time when I was
18:12
thinking about leaving music behind. And
18:14
you know, I asked him, you know, it was
18:15
something that was hard for me to cope
18:16
with. So, I asked him and I said, "How
18:17
did you cope with because he got injured
18:19
and he couldn't play no more." So, how
18:20
did you cope with the fact that you got
18:21
injured and you were essentially forced
18:23
to no longer do what you love?
18:25
Yeah.
18:25
He was like, well, first off, you got it
18:27
wrong. I didn't love it. I loved what it
18:29
could do for me. It put me in a position
18:30
to take care of my family. It put me in
18:31
a position to put my friends in in a
18:33
position to take care of their families.
18:34
And then he said to me, you know, when
18:36
you started music, what did you want to
18:38
do?
18:39
I'm like, you know, I wanted to tour. I
18:40
wanted to be on the radio. I wanted to
18:42
do songs with people I like and I look
18:43
up to and you know what I'm saying and
18:45
be able to do all these all these
18:46
things, these cool things with music.
18:47
And he's like,
18:49
"You already did that.
18:51
You've tooured. You've been on the
18:52
radio. You've been on TV. You know what
18:53
I'm saying? You've made money off of
18:54
music. So,
18:56
you know what I'm saying? What is it?"
18:58
Cuz everything that you told me you
18:59
wanted to become in music, you already
19:01
did. Whether you're at a higher plateau
19:02
or not, you still achieve those goals.
19:04
So, it just goes to show you that your
19:05
goals will never, you know, I'm saying,
19:06
you you'll achieve it and it's not
19:08
enough. It's never going to be enough
19:09
for a creative. So,
19:10
you know, you just got to monitor what
19:12
your success is and just figure out what
19:13
it is for you and what you're actually
19:14
looking for out of it. You know what I'm
19:15
saying? Because if you say as an artist
19:17
and say I'm only looking to be uh you
19:18
know on TV and nah it's not that because
19:21
after you spend 100,000 200,000 on your
19:23
career you like you know what [ __ ] I
19:24
got to make some money off of this. You
19:26
know what I'm saying? I can't just do
19:27
this cuz studio time is 125 an hour. I'm
19:30
saying I come to New York I got to I got
19:32
to be in outfits. I got to look a
19:33
certain way. You spending so much money
19:34
it gets to a certain point where you got
19:36
to turn this into some kind of career
19:37
and monetary way you could you could
19:39
make something off it. You know what I'm
19:40
saying? So
19:40
type of [ __ ] All right. Yo, Broady,
19:43
man, before I get you out of here, let
19:44
people know how they could stream, where
19:46
they could see the video for Glory and
19:48
when, um, give me some dates for when,
19:50
um, the EP and possibly the album might
19:52
drop.
19:53
So, uh, everything is Brody Fresh on
19:55
social media. It's B R O D E Fresh.
19:58
That's on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
19:59
uh, website, pretty much everywhere,
20:01
every DSP. Um, for the EP, I want to say
20:05
really in the next like three weeks,
20:06
we're gonna be gearing up to drop that.
20:08
I say like first week of November,
20:10
somewhere around there. And as far as
20:11
the album, it's kind of up in the air.
20:13
Um, but you know, potentially end of the
20:15
year, potentially December 5th, which is
20:18
uh the third year of my dad passing, and
20:19
then uh if not, definitely first
20:21
quarter.
20:21
Copy, man. This was dope.
20:23
Appreciate Appreciate you, King.
20:25
No problem, man.
20:25
Shout out to my man Wonder too, man.
20:27
That's big Elmont. You know what I'm
20:28
saying? I'm always I'm always shout my
20:30
bro out because he's doing it. You got
20:31
to you got to give your flowers where
20:32
it's due.
20:33
Eli in the building, man. Shout out to
20:35
Strong Island, man.
20:36
6B, man. We about to race track, man.
20:39
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