The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
Challenging Toxic Masculinity: Brotherhood, Music, and Authenticity in Modern Times
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What if societal expectations are holding men back from being their true selves? Join us for an engaging episode as we welcome back the ever-energetic Spillah, a Chicago GoGetter, and Yung Rico, who are currently setting the city on fire with their latest music and videos. We dive right into Rico's monumental move to New York and gear up for Spillah's highly anticipated Toxic Takeover event on July 23rd. We dismantle the concept of "toxic masculinity," scrutinizing societal views on masculinity and the trials men face when they stand firm in their values. We'll also look at how early gender-specific teachings shape relationships and personal growth.
Our conversation seamlessly transitions into the essence of respect and accountability, both in personal and professional spheres. We emphasize the importance of handling conflicts privately to strengthen bonds rather than creating unnecessary drama. Reflecting on the wisdom of our grandmothers, we discuss the diminishing influence of traditional values in today's youth and how that impacts life decisions. Then, we shift our focus to the creative process behind music production, contrasting the raw, guerrilla-style writing of the past with a more structured, experience-driven approach.
Tuning into this episode, you'll get an insider's look into our future plans for the music industry, including a strategic three-year vision that balances social media presence with real-world legwork. We discuss upcoming events, introduce emerging artists, and stress the need for unity to collectively elevate the Chicago music scene. Dive deep into the changing landscape of hip-hop and the growing demand for more thoughtful, meaningful lyrics. As we wrap up, we call upon men to stay true to their identity and never lose sight of who they are. This episode promises to be a blend of insightful discussions, nostalgic memories, and future aspirations.
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Hey, hey, that's fine. Aka. Dj Booty Rubber Like no other. If you don't believe me, man, go ask your mother. Hey, man, check it out. This week in the motherfucking studio we got reoccurring guests. Guess who this is? I don't know how to say that shit. I'm in public school. Yo, these motherfuckers got a dope-ass crew going on and doing big shit in the city, man, they dropping hot videos, hot videos. They dropping motherfucking hot songs. I want y'all to put y'all hands together for my man Spiller, chicago, gitter Rico. Yeah, yeah, aka, get used to it, y'all, let's go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How y'all feel, man, how y'all feel, how y'all feel Nah, man, we good to be back bro.
Speaker 2You already know, man, it's always love.
Speaker 1What's up?
Speaker 2These niggas got drinks, they got blunts, they got all types of shit, man, we ain't actually turning up. We turning it up with you, bro.
Speaker 1There it is man.
Speaker 2So since y'all are the phenomenal guests this week. Man, I want to do a.
Speaker 1Somebody said they was being a whore.
Speaker 2It's been great. I played the stuff.
Speaker 3Hey, we've been great, man. One thing about this week and these last few weeks, man, I'm about to transition now to New York. I'm finna move to New York, so oh, shit, I'm still finna. Do my thing, we'll give you a chance.
Speaker 1Let's go Damn. What about you, bro?
Speaker 2I've been cooling man, I'm working man All right all right, yeah, no complaints from me, man you already know every day is another day to be blessed For sure, so we're blessed to be here.
Speaker 1For sure, and before we go any further, I got to put this out there my man Spiller got the toxic takeover happening July 23rd man, the Toxic Takeover going down at the Wow. House 2016 North Halsted $3 tacos, $20 admission how much are the margaritas bro?
Speaker 2I think they $7.
Speaker 1$7 margaritas. Hey, man, listen. And it's hosted by.
Speaker 2C-Stacks, that's my guy?
Speaker 1Yes, sir, and it's hosted by C-Stacks. That's my guy, yes, sir, and it's also about C-Stacks.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. Music by DJ Montana. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1She dope. Yeah, she pretty dope man, you know what I mean. She dope, there we go, you know what?
Speaker 4I mean.
Speaker 2But yeah, man, the Toxic Takeover is going down. Man, it's gonna be a Taco Tuesday. Toxic Takeover, the new album. Man, I'm gonna be performing all my new joints off the album exclusively. Let's go why?
Speaker 1why toxic?
Speaker 2oh, man, it's a couple reasons why toxic man? Um, well, a couple reasons, man. Well, first reason is um is because I'm not sure you know, I'm saying if you've been experiencing it, but I know myself and my brothers and a lot of other people that I know have been experiencing where us just being stand-up men having our own opinion working hard feeling like we should get what we deserve, and people having a problem with that and saying that we are toxic masculine men.
Speaker 2God damn so. But that's growing what we do every day and we pushing forward and we putting in work you know what I'm saying. We taking care of our families, we feeding our children, we being there for our children, we doing what we got to do. I'm just stepping up and you know what I'm saying and claiming to be a toxic individual.
Speaker 1Hey, bro, the reason why I responded to what you just said, because I swear to you, bro, since March I feel like I've been experiencing the same shit money, no doubt, like real shit, like everything that you just fucking said. So it really makes me think about this. Man as men, how do you think men are being taught since shorties? How men are being taught since, since shorties?
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1How men are being taught to treat women, compared to how women are taught to treat men.
Speaker 2Good question. Um well, yeah, with that being said, man, same thing you know, and that's what the album kind of brings about, is that, um, coming up. You know, yeah, same thing you know, and that's what the album kind of brings about, is that coming up you know, yeah, we taught that the woman is the princess.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. She's supposed to be provided for. You know what I'm saying. We supposed to be out here. You know what I'm saying. Hustling hard. You know what I'm saying. Working hard every day, putting food on the table. You know what I'm saying. Doing what it take, you know. So it gets to the next level. But yeah, I don't see that, because I got sisters and I don't see them being taught that. You know to. You know, the flip side of the coin is what you want to call it like how?
Speaker 1how are y'all being taught to treat the nigga that's doing everything that we supposed to be doing?
Speaker 2exactly you know what I'm saying, like watching other people, you know saying what they going through, like even looking at being this, being in relationships, and seeing how you know I'm saying my others, their parents and my parents. You know what I'm saying and you know other generations and what they going through. So uh, yeah, with a lot of that man, I've been seeing that a lot of men have been getting the short end of the stick. It's kind of been being neglected and not really looked upon.
Speaker 2I feel you on that, yeah, and I take pride in what I do.
Speaker 1That's what's up.
Speaker 2Yeah, bro, and I ain't got nothing against women. I love women to the death. I got a daughter. I'm 11 years old and I teach her to be independent and to what I'm saying, independent and, you know, to be able to do for herself. But, yes, if there is a man that will be able to step up and provide for her, yeah, she gonna have to actually step up and do her part as well.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2My nigga my bad.
Speaker 3No you good bro.
Speaker 1My nigga Neo. I was just talking to him the other day. Man, he made a lot of sense. He said men, men should have an edge to him. All niggas should always have an edge to him. You should keep an edge to you because once you ain't got that shit, no more you pretty much a suck ass nigga you know, and that's just pretty much standing up for something exactly having some morals, having a fucking backbone, I mean right.
Speaker 1So when you start talking about toxic masculinity, it I I kind of hear like people get upset because you do speak up for yourself. You know what I'm saying? No, bitch, I ain't going to let you talk to me like that. I shouldn't call you a bitch but you know what I'm saying no bitch, I ain't going to let you talk to me like that, no doubt.
Speaker 2And just you know what I'm saying being proud of what you do, you know what I'm saying, and you know I'm saying just not walking around with my head down. You know what I'm saying exactly. So, yeah, that's all it is, you know. So if I'm out here doing what I'm supposed to do, you know saying I I feel like I got that right my man told me.
Speaker 1He said, look bro. He said, man, I told my daughter, if you bring home a motherfucker that just listens and let you do whatever the fuck you want to do, hell, no, you ain't getting my blessing.
Speaker 2No doubt.
Speaker 1He said don't even bring that motherfucker in the house. Don't even bring that motherfucker in the house. He was like because hell, no, why the fuck would I want my daughter to get with a motherfucker that ain't going to challenge her at all?
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying Exactly. You said what I'm saying Exactly. You know what he ain't leading.
Speaker 3He ain't leading at all. Exactly, he going under her wing and trying to. You know, oh yes, we can do this. No, we going to do this. We going to do A, b and C. Right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1We going to man right up.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying? Man is a dead man to me because he brother, brotherhood. If we can't bump his and come to agree on that bump, then if you just, yes, and I don't want to be around you no doubt I like that.
Speaker 1Yes man is. You say yes, man is a dead man. Y'all heard that shit. Yes, man is a dead man. Um, but I like I like that shit, bro, because it really make me think about when you start to think about subject matter in music. No doubt.
Speaker 1Especially hip-hop. You know what I'm saying? It's like hip-hop slash rap, slash trap, whatever you want to call it A lot of motherfuckers feel like we don't have no subject matter, we have no content. You know what I'm saying? It's just, we're talking about hoes, we're talking about bachelor pads, we're talking about motherfuckers being whores and shit. Uh, no doubt that's what gordon was talking about, but uh, we don't do. Do we really talk about the shit?
Speaker 1that's real to us yeah you know I'm saying, like, do we really talk about the shit that we actually fucking going through and we put it in a way that's fucking interesting? So I say that to say this I'm interested to hear what.
Speaker 1What's gonna be your take on it on this album, bro, real shit because motherfuckers need to hear what's going to be your take on it on this album, bro, real shit. Because motherfuckers need to hear it from a man. You know what I'm saying Like because we got younger kids, younger boys and younger girls that have no fucking clue about what the fuck is going on, you know what I'm saying. So then, when you do say something, it's toxic masculinity.
Speaker 2Fuck outta here. Yeah, fuck outta here. But you can say whatever the fuck you want to say to me. You can say it's cool.
Speaker 1You can say whatever the fuck you want to say to me.
Speaker 2You can say it's cool, Nah man Fuck that shit yeah, so that's all it is, man. And there's a lot of other things going on with it, but that's the main concept of it. For sure, for sure, for sure, who you is. On the 24th I'm releasing the original album, which is Toxic, but then on August 16th, I'm releasing the Toxic Deluxe. Oh, which is going to have additional four new joints on it.
Speaker 1Really going to make my folks mad on that one man.
Speaker 2But on the original Toxic joint I got my boy right here, c-o-m Y'all Rico. Okay, you know what I? He featured on that joint. And then on the deluxe album, my boy Chicago Getter.
Speaker 1For sure.
Speaker 2I'm going to be on that joint. But yeah, man, everything else is just me man.
Speaker 1For sure. We got to take a break real quick. Shout out to all the motherfuckers out there that's living with their girl and they can't even speak up because she might kick your ass out. Get your suck ass out of here, man. This is just podcast, man, it's the Shits. My man Speller got a new album coming out Toxic, yeah yeah. July 25th, baby, July 25th Taco Tuesday at Wild Hair y'all. Y'all see that man. That's July 23rd.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Y'all make sure y'all show up. Everybody love tacos, and if you don't shit, that's your fucking fault. So you said earlier, man, you was talking about. You know, the main people that you got on the album is your brothers. You know what I'm saying? Oh man, chicago, get a young Rico, right? Yeah, so I was thinking about it, man, when you call them your brothers, you treat them like your brothers. So how do you hold your brothers accountable? How do y'all hold each other accountable? So just say, if it was a situation where a motherfucker just kind of getting reckless too much, how do y'all hold each other accountable?
Speaker 3We got to come with the real Like man. You got to slow that down, bro.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, it's no filter with like man hey, you got to slow that down, bro, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's no filter with us Communication Straight communication.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3We don't let that shit go on for weeks. We don't let it linger. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1We hit it on the head and it's over with.
Speaker 3Okay, I feel that In the moment right yeah, in the moment we we talk about it, then it's dead. You know what? If a nigga say fuck you, then he dead.
Speaker 1Yeah, that nigga say, he dead Nah.
Speaker 2I don't mean literally dead. No, no, no.
Speaker 1But you know what I mean.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's going to get handled Like that shit cut off Like nah, like for real, that part Like ain't no get handled, it's just we ain't got to deal with that you know what I'm saying Like we're grown-ass men bro. You know what I'm saying so if that's how you feel, that's how you feel. Okay, great, you can feel that way over there.
Speaker 3I love that you did some regular shit that night. You know what I'm saying. You're putting your place. Like you know what my Because man if somebody show you their hand, bro.
Speaker 2that's what it is, bro, that part Ain't no trying to fix that, bro. You know what I'm saying? Ain't no trying to rectify that.
Speaker 1It's showing you the fuck you got.
Speaker 2Now, okay, like for real, like on some real shit, like I guess I give a nigga the benefit of the doubt Because, like you know, for example, you might do some shit you know out of pocket or whatever, or some shit that might rub somebody the wrong way, but they just didn't know. So they oblivious to it. So if I let you know, great, all right. Cool the first time, cool you slide.
Speaker 1Cool Now you know, don't do that shit again Do it again.
Speaker 2But now, if you come with it again, bro, there's you.
Speaker 3Now you just openly disrespecting yeah now I can't go For a motherfucker to blatantly come out and just say fuck you after that, exactly, bro, and then your ass cut off bro yeah, we, we ain't got time for professionals bro you know what?
Speaker 2I'm saying at the end of the day, we've been street niggas, we done, did that already right so we on to the next level with this. So if you on that, bro, we gotta keep moving and leave you where you at I feel that, I feel that from this train boy because it ain't stopping for you.
Speaker 3No, I mean that that's a.
Speaker 1That's a good mindset to have, man, and the thing about it. What I liked about that is, like you saying we handle that shit in a moment. You know what I'm saying, like it ain't no, just lingering with the shit. Because the thing is, what people start to understand is that little shit that you didn't say nothing about becomes big shit later on.
Speaker 3But you know the best thing about it is when shit like that do occur between us. Brothers like motherfuckers ain't running around talking behind your back.
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying. We ain't doing no shit like that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3We'll do it amongst each other, but it ain't leaving the motherfucking group.
Speaker 1It ain't leaving the room, right? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3If, I feel some type of way yeah, bro was like this, or who out the band feeling like that? Okay, I'm going to go approach bro you know what I'm saying. Be on some man man shit, not. Yeah, fuck this nigga, you know what I'm saying we don't do none of that shit bro.
Speaker 1Yeah, I feel that To me, I feel like that's stand up shit and it kind of go back to it kind of go back to what Spiller was saying earlier. In all honesty, bro, like niggas, like men just knowing how to be fucking men, you know, I'm saying I think, I think that's what. I think that's what we're missing these days, bro it's like they're getting raised by the women.
Speaker 3Now you know, yeah, bro this generation is raised by a lot of women, versus when we was coming up, we either had a father we didn't know, we had a stepfather, we saw a lot of something but we saw a lot of toxic shit back then right, we had the father.
Speaker 1That wasn't really our father, but I'm just just knocked your ass down, right you know what?
Speaker 2I'm saying they're getting raised by the internet that too and it's like motherfuckers just going off of anything.
Speaker 1Like you know, you can have somebody with 300,000 views that say oh well, today, not only are we, you know, disrespecting our mothers, we're disrespecting our grandmothers. That's the new trend. You know what I'm saying. You know you got a whole group of motherfuckers that want to slap grandma.
Speaker 3That shit dead to a nigga like us because you disrespect my grandma. I'm knocking your shit clean, the fuck out there you go, my man.
Speaker 1He always say he felt like this generation has kind of been on a decline because we've lost the big mamas. You know what I'm saying? Grandmama just had a way of doing shit that you respected, that shit, that was law.
Speaker 2But like I say at, but that was the thing they. But like I say, at the end of the day they were old school yeah, a lot of these new grandmamas, young bro yeah, a lot of these we got 30 we got 35 year old grandmamas now 40 year old grandmamas now going with the new wave shit, right, yep, you know I'm saying yeah, yeah, bro.
Speaker 1I mean and be more and be more into the shit than the motherfucking grandkids. Alright, so when you put an album together, bro, this is your. Which album is this how many?
Speaker 2I can't even go there. Nah, for real, though, we got Best Revenge and Success, more to it like that um, we just put out the identity as a collective. Um, I got straight up. Um, so, as far as official albums, yeah, this would be number five fifth album yeah, but I put out massive mixtapes okay, okay yeah, like which. So you know things you would call mixtapes or eps. Yeah, yeah, you're saying so, um, but yeah, as far as, like, official collective albums, number five so what's so?
Speaker 1what's the process? Is it, is it you, you, you can, you can hear somebody else, you can hear somebody else, you can hear somebody else's music and be like I want to write, that inspired me to write and you can just write to that beat. Or you got to have your own track and then you custom make it to that track. What's the process?
Speaker 2Well, before like coming up, I just I was kind of like what you call it guerrilla style with it you know, I just write. You know, I'm saying if I somebody told me a, b, a, check this, beat out, okay, great, it's dope. I put a verse to it, I write something you know, um, but now, bro, like I gotta, I gotta, like you say, like it gotta be something going on. You know, I'm saying like for real going on in my life, to where I feel like it can become a real concept.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying and I can make a body of music around it. You know what I'm saying, um. But when it comes to that now, like how I put toxic together, um, I put all my sound together first okay, so I didn't put no music. I didn't put no lyrics behind none of my music okay, so. I found every beat that I wanted. You know what I'm saying. So I collected all my beats first and I actually put the beats in order of how I wanted them to go. How?
Speaker 1you wanted the sound on the album From start to end. Okay, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2And then from that I built my concepts on each song, because now how I look at albums, because what makes me easier to listen to somebody else's album you know what I'm saying and create an album is I look at them like movies. And I look at different songs as different scenes in the movie. Right, that's a good way to look at it, you know what I'm saying, so, yeah, so that's how I can even make me stick to that concept. Okay, you know what I'm saying and create that.
Speaker 1So, like the album has a theme to it, it correct. Yeah, okay visionary shit yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 2So that's how I do it, bro. So that's how I did it with toxic. So yeah, I got all the beats together first and then after that I put the hooks together you know, I'm saying over each one so that it all made sense and then slap the verses on there for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1All right, speaking of speaking of things that make sense or may not make sense, do y'all think it makes sense that you got a big girl who can't cook?
Speaker 3That shit don't make no sense, so why your ass big?
Speaker 2I've got a big ass that can't twerk, what you just eating.
Speaker 3Microwave dinner, shorty, nah, you got a big ass. That can't twerk, you can't cook no coffee.
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Speaker 1I mean, I thought about that shit. Okay, okay, and I'm not see them up. I was be like, well, you just, but that's crazy cause.
Speaker 3You know what nowadays? You know we had the real grannies and the ladies had cookbooks back in the day.
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3And then the grannies was like shit. I cook from the soul. Whatever the ancestors give me, i'ma put enough seasoning in that shit.
Speaker 1And they didn't read no recipes. They didn't read not one recipe. They just like you know.
Speaker 3I know what I'm doing. And I'm like shit you got YouTube, you go Google that shit and show you one, two, three how to cook that shit.
Speaker 1Yeah, that makes sense, man, that makes sense. Hey, man, we're going to take to all the big mommas out there that got that, that muumuu, that dress you know what I'm saying that dress that's responsible for all of us being here, and shit, you know what I'm saying, cause this show just just enough nipple and nothing. Alright, man, it's just podcast. Man, it's the she's yeah, zsa Zsa Smith.
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Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not back at the Shits podcast and we're chilling with Spiller. Get used to it. Chicago Gitter, young Rico.
Speaker 3Yes, sir, yeah yeah, hey, man.
Speaker 1so all right, we ain't got no problem with big girls. I don't know why I think that though.
Speaker 2Not at all, we ain't got no problem with that.
Speaker 1We have a link. Link too, man.
Speaker 4Y'all got a link out there. Where the fuck that link come?
Speaker 3from Like a motherfucker man, what the fuck.
Speaker 1Give me about three, four hundred in my career, but I love you hey bro, listen, you know, I tell you I'm an old school motherfucker so I remember food stamps. He looked like that, a nigga Old as hell.
Speaker 4Hey, nah I remember too shit.
Speaker 1I remember food stamps. You know what I'm saying. Like I remember we used to walk down the street. We would drop the food stamps and act like we just found them. Bitches, like damn, I just found the book of food stamps. You know what I'm saying. But I'm going to a store with a list of groceries. Like nigga, you didn't just find them, motherfuckers, you almost sent your ass. But anyway, like I think about that shit, man, and I'm like the shit that we've been through you know what I'm saying. The shit that the poverty, everything that has ever happened to that's the shit that makes the material you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1That's the shit that make you be able to write some shit, and then it relates to somebody else, and I think that's the beauty of it. You know what I'm? Saying Like when you can write a song and somebody be like damn bro, I felt that shit you know yeah, can I piggyback off that?
Speaker 3four-step thing Hell yeah, hey, ball fucker. Hey, this is a joke. They can feel bad when that peeing don't work.
Speaker 1You got to call it All that food up there.
Speaker 3Long ass line they like this goof ass.
Speaker 1What's that?
Speaker 3PS Son.
Speaker 1Shit but hey. But I appreciate the motherfucking link cards. Boy, Straight up, Say your ass some money. And guess what? I'm going to go on the motherfucking grocery store and act like I'm about to be a chef for real. You know what I'm saying Bitten seasoning all type of shit. Man, let me get some of this paprika and this cumin. I don't even know what I'm putting cumin on Cayenne pepper man.
Speaker 2No shame in your game, man, I know lorries lemon pepper, seasoning garlic powder onion powder black pepper, lemon pepper. He said it yeah, lemon pepper.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's all I know.
Speaker 3Motherfucker might get fancy and use some of that. You got to have time, I ain't got time to have time you got to put that shit on your steak and your pie roast. Really, yeah, that shit, good boy.
Speaker 1See, now I just learned some shit. Now I got to go get that.
Speaker 3I'm hoping all these guys Shorty cooked the.
Speaker 1Hey, man, hey, it is something about. It is really something about a woman that can cook you.
Speaker 1Like straight up, it's just something about it, it's something powerful shit about it it is, and my girl got it on the cooking side. I ain't going to in front. There you go. That's what's up. Big dog, there you go, big time. You should see all this shit for real, bro. Doubt, motherfuckers don't realize that shit will have your ass coming home. Real shit, that shit will have your ass coming home. If you know that you got some shit waiting for you at the crib like some food, nigga.
Speaker 3I had a little sad piece of it. Nigga, come on, I had a sad piece of it.
Speaker 1Straight up. Hey, nigga, I'm over there. You know what I'm saying. Definitely over there, your ass would be tired. Definitely over there, man, look. Definitely could cook you like man, I'm tired as fuck.
Speaker 3She be like man. I made this, I made that I made that.
Speaker 1I'm be over there you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2I'm on my way.
Speaker 1I don't understand that shit. But anyway, man, them old school, them old school, nah that's what's up though. So out in the spots, man. Like I said, the first time I saw y'all, y'all was at hideaway kill shit. So how do how do y'all feel like y'all support? Y'all movement supports other artists the same way. Y'all want to be supported one more time. How do you feel y'all movement support other artists the same way. Y'all want to be supported.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, man, we definitely show love. So we didn't have plenty of events where we bring out artists.
Speaker 1I remember the Pink Cipher thing.
Speaker 2Pink Cipher you know what I'm saying. That was the 10 girls. You know what I'm saying, 10 female artists. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to all the Pink Cipher. They came out out, did they thing. They still doing they thing. You know what I'm saying? With Tay Lexus. But even before that man, we had the joints at the Lodge over there on 51st and Prairie, where we was with Shab Liz you know what I'm saying and yeah, we had artists come not charging them for free free platform that come out.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying and you know what I'm saying. We actually back artists. You know what I'm saying. Like we. You know what I'm saying. That's what the get used to it page is about. You know what I'm saying. Like we showcase other artists when we do them events. We posting them. You know what I'm saying we showing them love we getting them likes.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. Stuff, that like that, because that counts. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, that's what we do, bro. You know what I'm saying. But that's what we do with each other as well, you know what I'm saying we pushing each other every day. So whenever you know we collab with somebody or whatever, we make sure we show that love also being prepared.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying we coming on the forefront and we taking care of business. You know I'm saying nobody half stepping, we getting the job done. You know I'm saying we some stand-up guys when we step out. You know I'm saying nobody over here starting no bullshit, everybody collectively out taking care of business. You know, meeting people, he over there meeting greeting he is.
Speaker 3I am bro is so you know when it come to that, man's just all love and people see the loyalty and the love behind everything that we do and they see the brothership that we got and they want to take that and run with it. They want to fuck with it.
Speaker 2Yeah, they want to fuck with that shit.
Speaker 1Me personally, I got a few artists that I need to jumpstart at that shit, Like you know, help them actually get to where they put them in play. You got the radio show. You got to write people so they can keep on going tight.
Speaker 2And this got to that point. I've been hearing it. Even people have been telling us oh, people feel like they got to step their game up. Now, if they come into one of y'all's shows you know what I'm saying it's all bringing it.
Speaker 1So, yeah, I feel like that's a good thing, it is like you know, that's a good thing, it is, it is so, yeah, like you, I mean like, I feel like friendly competition is always good. Yeah, you know, I'm saying like I feel like any show that a motherfucker do. I don't give a fuck if y'all cool or not. I'm I'm trying to destroy your ass, no doubt when I get on stage.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm trying to destroy your ass. You know what I'm saying and it ain't. It ain't because I'm trying to fuck you up, I just need to let motherfuckers know like nigga, I got some shit.
Speaker 4You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1So you need to. If you coming after me, you got to step your shit up. You know what I'm saying. That's how it works. I think it makes motherfuckers better. So is it good? Oh, okay, you can't.
Speaker 2My dude. Oh, you kind of threw me on that one, me too. That's all good.
Speaker 1Speaking of motherfuckers that need to bring it what y'all think about Bronny James man.
Speaker 3Boy, that boy be getting two-piece stuff on the court, boy, Boy. I just said last week motherfucker the two-piece, the Cupid shuffle on the court. Motherfucker hit him with a hoo-hoo. He slid to the court. What if we hit him with a he?
Speaker 4Slide to the left.
Speaker 2I'm happy for him.
Speaker 1I'm glad that he in position where he at, hopefully he take off, hopefully he live up to the hype. You feel me Well, you know what? Honestly, I don't even think there's no hype to live up to. I don't think there's no hype to live up to, even if there ain't no hype. I hope he take off. I do. I do hope he take off, man, because I feel like those are some big shoes to fill bro.
Speaker 1Think about it, none of my kids did well? None of them. You know what I'm saying None of them. So it's like who else have you Like when you think about the greats, when you think about that the greats, none of the kids did good, nigga, none of them. You know what I'm saying. Like you got, none of them did good. Nah, I mean you could think about Anthony. It's Anthony Cole, right On the Magic. Cole Anthony, huh, cole, anthony, my bad. Cole Anthony, my bad, my bad. He decent. You know what I'm saying. His father was decent, but it's like my kids, no, not even Dominique kids. No, you know what I'm saying. Shaq, shaq, dorda, decent, shaq Dorda's decent, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 3For the Curry side they stepped. He snapped for his pops, though you know his pops was a killer back then.
Speaker 1Right, but Curry didn't. That's the exception.
Speaker 2That's the exception. Curry, that's an exception, bro. What about Karl Malone?
Speaker 3No, no, no. Did you just talk about the mailman Message?
Speaker 1Y'all was going on with Karl Malone. No, I remember. Wait, what was going on with the Carl Malone kid. What, what? So he had a kid that he ain't claim, oh yeah. I knew about that and that kid is like famous and he like a big old, like he a famous football player.
Speaker 1Yeah, I heard about that Famous football player now yeah, I heard about that, but I ain't know. It seems like it's a curse G, Like there does not have been one great player and their kid came along and was just as good. Really Well, the exception is Dale Curry. Yeah, Dale, and yeah yeah.
Speaker 2I was just about to say Dale Curry, yeah.
Speaker 1All right, man, we got to take a break real quick. Man and man, shout out to all the kids out there man who pops this cold back in the days and your ass a bomb. It's just podcast man.
Speaker 4It's comedian Marnie P checking in from the Shits Podcast.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got nothing back in the Shits Podcast. We got nothing back in the Shits Podcast. This episode is sponsored by K-Swiss AKA. Take them bitches off, alright so so let's talk about Toxic Takeover show. Are you going to be the only act performing? You got somebody else only me, my nigga.
Music Industry Strategies and Unity
Speaker 2Nah, I'm just. But nah, man, it's going to be a dope show act performing. You got somebody else. Only me, my nigga. But nah, man, it's going to be a dope show. I got a few openers going to be opening up. It's hosted by Taylex's All the Media. All the Media is my boy C-Stacks. He actually hosting that event. He going to actually lay some joints down at night. Y'all into my boy C-Stacks, come on out and support. But of course, like I said, I'm going to be performing my album, my new album. So I'm going to have my brothers on stage with me. But I got a couple open artists because we've been expanding bro.
Speaker 4We got new artists, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2We got some new artists with us. We got Crystal Lejeune, oh, from Gothic Soul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, crystal Lejeune, she a new member, get used to it. And we just got Keisha Cash.
Speaker 1Cash. I've been hearing her name a lot.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, so she with us as well, that's what's up? But Crystal Lejeune going to actually be doing a set that night. Okay, you know what I'm saying. She going to be doing some joints and then I got my boy. Dino.
Speaker 1I got to get familiar.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, he dope bro. So he going to come out and he going to drop some joints off his new up and coming joint too, For sure for sure, yeah. So we got Chris Lejeune, my boy Dino, Mr Know-It-All See Stacks and the fam. Okay, we're going to rock out.
Speaker 1So let me really get into your business and shit man. No doubt, Give me the three-year game plan, the three-year map out to get used to it.
Speaker 2Well, right now it's on autopilot, you know what I'm saying. So what I created as far as that is a recording process. You know what I'm saying for the first quarter.
Speaker 1You know what.
Speaker 2I'm saying which will be the first three, four months. Second quarter will be visuals. You know what I'm saying? Which would be the first three, four months. Second quarter would be visuals. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1Putting out videos and visuals. Y'all been dropping some videos a month Exactly.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying? That's the era that we in right now you know what I'm saying With the second quarter. So within the second quarter we always dropping visual after visual. We try to do at least two to three a month, month, um, and then stay consistent on social media and stuff like that with shorts and everything like that um, and then after that it goes into performance okay, saying and touring and getting out the end and the world hit what we created for sure you know what I'm saying and causing attention, bringing attention to what we did for sure, and that's just on autopilot, with every artist, yeah, every artist that comes in.
Speaker 2That's just.
Speaker 1That's the same process, that's how y'all gonna do it right in the studio.
Speaker 2They hit, they start, they record, they get their tracks done after that video time yeah and get your visuals, your photo shoots, get your social media up, get your profiles and all of that, and then that's how to get on stage for sure, for sure, yeah and um, and then on top of that is just we you know uh upgrading the marketing and promotion on a daily basis. With that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, do y'all think people put too much thought into social media and not enough into the legwork and really getting outside?
Speaker 2Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3Yeah yeah. They stopped a lot of that. Man Like niggas ain't getting outside no more. You know what I'm saying. Right, right, there's been times when I had to use social media.
Speaker 1They not doing this, no more, they not.
Speaker 3They not stepping outside, no more.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3But since day one, when we all met, we all had our styles of doing shit, but we all had the same mind frame of getting outside.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 3Ain't nobody say hell.
Speaker 1no, if they get outside, we out here we out here, bro, I feel you, that's dope. That's dope as hell. You know where to be. A lot of these people be hiding behind the internet, exactly.
Speaker 2Can't come outside. They gotta stay inside, they gotta be on the internet.
Speaker 4You can't come outside. You can't come outside.
Speaker 1You can't come outside.
Speaker 3You can't come outside. I ain't never heard her speak before Now. They got a voice like what the fuck? You can't come outside.
Speaker 1That's a chorus nigga right there. You can't come outside.
Speaker 4Hell no.
Speaker 3That's fucked up, cause they do a lot of.
Speaker 1Face on flyers. Oh, you're going to be like Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 3Fold your ass up. Taco Tuesday, I got you.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like okay, cool, we know where you're going to be at. What's the date? 23rd of what this month? We there, we there.
Speaker 4Let's go call the ignorant niggas.
Speaker 1Make sure the ignorant niggas get there. That's a good ass point, man, I mean. But you know, okay. So I'm glad you said that, man, because it really made me think about the type of music that's being made like.
Speaker 2So niggas really love dissing motherfuckers and their songs and shit right, that's the way, that's the way, that's just the way, that's what they say, okay, yeah, that's cool and it's like that's what the media push. Yeah, that's what's the way right now.
Speaker 1Do you really think Okay for the artists that do it? Do you really think that they consider the repercussions behind it?
Speaker 3Nah, nah, I was just talking to Spill it about earlier. I'm like man, why we just can't collectively, y'all come together, like we got enough artists and enough people and enough promotion to get our hands just really take over chicago if we really wanted to you know what I'm saying and with that being said, it's like a lot of niggas following trends and shit and a lot of people ain't we setting our own trends? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3yeah so we like the trendsetters and you know we got people that follow trends because they don't know how to, how to settle, you know so it's.
Speaker 4It's a different platform for everybody you know what I'm saying, do they?
Speaker 3reap it. They might, but you dissing another local artist is what it's just gonna be. Local, right, right, you know, hoping that it blow. Okay, cool, you just this this man. Okay, why y'all ain't get together and put some shit together? It's just like I was just watching Power with Tariq, like all them motherfuckers making power moves, with y'all against each other. Y'all could've took over New York if y'all really wanted to.
Speaker 2Yeah, you just decreasing versus increasing your eyes.
Speaker 3You know what?
Speaker 2I'm saying Amen, all them niggas listen?
Speaker 1I don't think they listen to that shit. Y'all stay dissing the motherfucker, not knowing Nigga. They're four blocks away from your ass. Catch your ass right there, the Piggly Wiggly.
Speaker 2Over nothing, over music. We can't stand together, and it's over music.
Speaker 3You know what?
Speaker 2I'm saying Over nothing else. You know what I'm saying. I'ma see you, yeah.
Speaker 1So Like that's the part that I don't get. Like. I don't know like I mean, but I understand the competitive nature of hip hop yeah, now that's dope. So I mean like if a motherfucker wanna really get down with some you know, my wordplay is better than yours and woo, woo, you know what I'm saying, but that's a different genre.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying? That's rap battle.
Speaker 1I might throw in there that your mama ugly or some shit like that.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying, like but I'm like, but you should be at the fake thing. You know, it's all. You know, it's all for the good, your mama still wearing that muumuu, nigga, you can't come outside, nigga exactly, I ain't gonna lie, I just had.
Speaker 3I had a short beef, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1I had a short beef. It was dope. No homo, he's stupid. I was just he's stupid nah, I ain't got to say no good yet. No, I ain't say no good yet, that's what you put it.
Speaker 3I just had a versus.
Speaker 4They called it short beat. We called it short beat oh okay okay, yeah.
Speaker 3Tay, lexus put it together and it was song for song, his category versus mine. You know what I'm saying. It was How'd it go?
Speaker 1It was dope. I smashed bro. That's a lie, okay, c-stacks, it was against C-Stacks. Oh, but now y'all working together, so that's dope as fuck. Exactly, it's all good, it's all good. You know what?
Speaker 2I'm saying that's how it's supposed to go.
Speaker 3It ain't nothing else ain't no animosity but for stuff like that to occur and have a show cause a lot of people don't know how to put on a show. That part right there it shows like a nigga can make a song, but with your stage presence, like what you finna put together.
Speaker 1Man, he be dry as fuck. You know what I'm saying. You steady rapping over vocals and shit it's like.
Speaker 3what you finna do is like see-saw, you feel me how you rap over vocals and forget the shit, Nigga.
Speaker 1You rapping over the vocals. It don't fucking sense, nigga. It might not just be hype.
Speaker 2Like I said, people don't even listen to their own shit bro.
Speaker 1That's crazy as fuck to me, man.
Speaker 2I know bro.
Speaker 1Man, okay, okay, okay, so y'all been doing y'all shit, laying y'all stamp.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah. So this year alone. Give me two challenges y'all faced this year alone and we just said July. All right, two challenges was to drop the identity and free nights and weekends. There we go. So free nights and weekends in Chicago, get it, that's Chicago get it For sure. Why free nights and weekends? Why not free nights and weekends? Why not have a free feeling? Why not free nights and weekends? Why not have a free feeling? Why not have a cool time? Why not tune out the bullshit? Why not, you know?
Creative Vibes and Musical Projects
Speaker 1No I like the way you put that together. At first I thought you was about to answer the question with a question you know what I'm saying but then you elaborate on it. Yeah, but now it makes sense. It makes sense. Yeah, it's a weekend, it's not like what we're having right now. You know a cool discussion. Yeah, you know it's a natural feeling. Yeah, that part, it's a whole natural feeling. That part, that part, you can't get from nowhere. It's like you can't pay for this. You feel me. And the thing that I like about that, bro, is that what I've been experiencing more lately is that I have conversations with niggas. That got sense.
Speaker 1You know, what I'm saying, like whether it be in this type of situation where it be a motherfucker who paint the crib like you find yourself talking to a motherfucker and they say some shit and you be like man. That make sense, my nigga you know what I'm saying and it's thought provoking.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying, and I think the what we were kind of experiencing motherfuckers was just stupid and like motherfuckers was cool with being stupid. You know I'm saying like, like that was the cool shit to be. You know, you gotta take a break real quick and man shout out to all the motherfuckers out there man, they're still trying to get their ged and uh, everybody be talkinging. It's the shit it's driving.
Speaker 3Everybody be talking like they know what the shits is. The podcast is real. Check it. On the monsoon and bubble ball this Black Knight, shy the shits.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not back at the shits podcast, man, and we ain't hear no man spell it. Chicago get it. And we ain't hear no man spell it. Chicago get it. And my man, young Rico, man Get used to it.
Speaker 3god damn it. Get used to it Get used to it nigga.
Speaker 1So we were saying, man, like it felt, like it was at a point one time where motherfuckers was cool with being stupid. You know what I'm saying. Like I sound, the cooler motherfuckers gonna think I am. You know what I'm saying and I really feel like that shit is changing nowadays. You know like motherfuckers is looking for more. Motherfuckers is looking for more lyrics in what they listen to. You know, like I know I do Getting back to that era bro. Yeah, like you.
Speaker 2It always come back to that with music. Music don't always do that. If you pay attention to it, so do that. If you pay attention to it, so like and as an artist, you just gotta, you know keep up with it. It's kind of like the stock market, you know how it goes up and down in waves. You know what I'm saying, so like lyrics gonna always be the core of it it should.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2It is, you know what I'm saying but with it, if you're looking at, if you're looking at to me, if you're looking at hip-hop as a role, you know what I'm saying lyrics and bars and all of that and concepts, and what makes sense is going to always be the straight road, but you're going to always have forks. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, because music is vibe.
Speaker 2You know, what I'm saying so I feel like that's what it is right now is more vibe music. You know what I'm saying? A lot of these new artists is bringing vibes.
Speaker 1The energy. They're bringing the energy to your life.
Speaker 2It's not even really about what they're talking about? The lyric part of it or the actual creativity in the wordplay you know what I'm saying it's more the vibe that they bring. You know what?
Speaker 1I'm saying that's dope. I felt that.
Speaker 3I talking about with like challenges. And you know, getting through the albums I'll have to say identity and um, I mean everything collective we, we put out. You know I'm saying at the beginning. You know, shit, shit had to get weeded out. You know I'm saying we had to cut the grass, though, to get get the, get the, the fat, the fat out of that.
Speaker 1You know, I'm saying that didn't belong, so shout out to the big girls whenever I love the big girls.
Speaker 3You know y'all good y'all good y'all swiping that link.
Speaker 2Nah, man, I really appreciate, and also real shit, bro, like I appreciate both of y'all. You know what I'm saying, without being something that y'all said Likewise, because for me you know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying Making sure everybody collectively is doing and getting what they yeah being staying on their shit and getting what they deserve.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying. That's why I said that was a challenge for me, because I didn't know how it was going to go. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3Once we got through with that album, like we grew on each other but at the same time it was like we had to see what we held each other accountable, but we had to see what we as an individual held accountable for ourselves. Everybody had their way of moving and if anybody that stepped in our way or wanted to be a part of us wasn't trying to take accountability or be on type of time we was on, then it was. It was a waste of time. You know.
Speaker 1I'm saying it was a waste of time.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying. I feel you. We didn't get any benefit of the doubt, you know what I'm saying we did this and we done moved on, but the bigger picture is that we gonna keep successfully grinding and getting to it and never stop. What the fuck is you talking about? What I'm talking about.
Speaker 2But nah man, but nah man For real though.
Speaker 4I'm serious, I'm serious.
Speaker 2But both of them, bro, both of them, they did their thing on their projects. You know what I'm saying. Like I said, rico, he dropped in May, he dropped Rico's World. You know what I'm saying. How many joints Nine.
Speaker 4Nine joints.
Speaker 2You know what? I'm very proud of both of them. That's what's up. That's what's up. They did what they supposed to do.
Speaker 1And you got Speller coming through with Toxic Adding on to the catalog.
Speaker 2That's going to be dope. That's going to be fourth baby.
Speaker 4Let people know what y'all got coming up man and where people can find y'all on that, All right. Well, yeah, like I say Toxic.
Speaker 2Takeover, baby. You know what I'm saying. Taco Tuesday, you know what I'm saying. That's the big joint right here. You know what I'm saying. It's going down at the Wild Air, like I say, hosted by my boy C-Stacks, promoted by Auto Media and Tay Lexus. Like I say, you're going to find Chicago Giddy. But other than that man, I just dropped another joint with Nino Corleone, which is another dope hip-hop artist, and he got a big show going on August 2nd. That's going to be at the Heritage Museum. You know what I'm saying At the Heritage Museum, august 2nd.
Speaker 1Where's the Heritage Museum?
Speaker 2That is right on the corner of 47th and King Drive. All right, yeah, king Drive, and then to be announced the location, but it's going down with my boy, ken Folks, which is the Summerfest.
Speaker 1Oh, I'm sure that's Ken Folks. Yeah the big.
Speaker 2Summerfest 2024 Summerfest. That's going down August 24th August 24th, so you're going to see us on stage doing our thing that day as well. But like I say it's going down my album dropping July 24th Toxic baby. So y'all lock that in. Make sure y'all tune in. Yes, sir.
Speaker 3And if your ass ain't invited next week on the 21st for that, on the poppin' shit, we finna definitely get it poppin' shorty. I don't think it's.
Speaker 2Hey, and I need y'all to tap in with the Free Nights and Weekends project produced by King J hey, when y'all tap in right, when y'all tap in press download and stream.
Speaker 1You feel me Do both. Why not? Yes, sir. All streaming platforms? Yes, sir.
Speaker 2Y'all make sure y'all tap in man. Like I said, rico's World is out right now on all platforms Free nights and weekends. My boy, chicago, get it is out on all platforms right now. Produced by King J. Produced by King J. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4Yes, sir, and we got some video coming real soon about.
Speaker 2Produced by King J, which is Pivot. We actually shooting that this Sunday, baby Y'all on the move.
Speaker 1Y'all been working. Baby Y'all is hey man, hey hey. I always tell motherfuckers man like first time I saw y'all to come through. Motherfuckers came through, yeah.
Speaker 2First time. So I mean I, we got to follow that sub-T baby. Yeah, yeah, hey, I can't wait till you say come through again. Yes, sir.
Speaker 1You feel?
Speaker 4me, I've been waiting.
Speaker 1Hey man, look man, I appreciate y'all brothers coming through. Man. Hey, y'all, make sure y'all tap in with get used to it, the get used to it movement, man, because they're out here, they trying to help motherfuckers. They pushing their own shit, they on their business, you know what I'm saying. They checking motherfuckers if they do some bogus shit. You know what I'm saying. And all of them got their GEDs, nigga.
Speaker 2And we make the whole world say get used to it.
Preserving Masculine Identity
Speaker 1Hey, man, I'm gonna leave y'all with this. Man, make fans, not followers. Followers will get you clout, fans will get you work. Trust the process, man. Be patient, be passionate. Have something that gets your ass out the bed in the morning. I'm gonna say this shit, man. I'm gonna say this shit for real, and you know what? At first I was gonna just say it to everybody, but fuck that. I'm directing this shit to all the men out there. Nigga, don't lose yourself, no doubt. Don't lose yourself Real talk Stay toxic.
Speaker 1Don't lose yourself. Don't lose you, don't lose sight of who you are. A it's no slight to the women or nothing like that, but I will say this to all my men out there Do not lose who the fuck you are.
Speaker 3Gotta have a free night and weekend man Because, yes, man, there's a dead man.
Speaker 1Let's go, because if you once you lose sight of who the fuck you are, you're gone. You know what I'm saying, so I'm going to leave y'all with that man. Y'all make sure y'all check out the shit spot Damn. Shout out to my Podcast on Spotify, apple Podcasts, anywhere you get your podcasts, man. Find us on Instagram, facebook, tiktok, all over, and we'll holler at y'all next week. This Just Podcast. Y'all shout.
Speaker 3Yeah, y'all do.