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Nightly Stange Podcast - Young Lew
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Special guest host Young Lew, we talk fame, music, life and mental health
You're welcome to the Nightly Strange, Range, Range, Range.
SPEAKER_00It's not like Good evening, sir. What up, what up, man? What's going on? Welcome everybody to The Nightly Strange. I'm your host, D Makuno. Special guest in the building, looking like the swab of Jesus he is, Young Blue. How you doing, man?
SPEAKER_01Living life all the way out the way.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but no reason. It's fine news like seeing a Bigfoot sometimes. I'd be like, is that young Blue back there? Where do you get all that hair from? Yeah, when did you decide to grow your hair out?
SPEAKER_01Uh just randomly. I don't know. I just got lazy and then I and then I liked it.
SPEAKER_00I feel you, I'll feel you. That's why I grow a beard. I don't want to I don't want to shave anymore.
SPEAKER_01You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00I shave right around it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, back when, you know, I I used to get my hair cut, you know, it costed a certain amount.
SPEAKER_00And then nowadays it's like, man, I walked into that place over by Jinx's, you know what I'm saying? I'm trying to dip to Columbia. I'm like, yo, how much for a cut? He's like, they started 50 bucks. I said, start my ass. Yeah, that's crazy. Let me go get some clippers off Amazon. I can, I got this. But I was like, I messed up. Go ahead, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01No, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I get it. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Get your money, but nope, you ain't gonna get it off me.
SPEAKER_01I got the news. I'm good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. No, I said I was cutting, I was trying to cut my hair the other day, uh, and I tried to put a two-guard on there, but I forgot to put it on, so I started right here and it was like zzz, and I had this patch, and I was like, well, I can just I can just shave around it, you know what I'm saying, and make it look fly, but I was like, nah, I had to cut it all off. Everybody was like, Oh, you look good with the bald head. I'm like, yeah, shut the fuck up. It was killing me, man. Hey, so you uh let's get kind of get right into it. So where have you been, Lou?
SPEAKER_01Parking. Just uh I've been roofing, or I was roofing for some years. Uh the homie Colton, who uh from Rainy City Roofing. Uh I was actually feeding a homeless kid one day, you know, outside my pop's house, wet, you know, years and years ago. And somehow that that homeless kid comes up to me and he's like, Hey, do you need a job? You know what I'm saying? And then so he was like, Yeah, I roof and everything. I'm like, yeah, man, I need I need to get going. I need to do something. And then so he called his boss, his boss called me, and then it just so happened to be, you know what I'm saying, one of my best friends from sixth grade. So I'm just gonna go.
SPEAKER_00Hold on, so how why did you think he was homeless? He was living in the the woods by my house. And he all that's crazy, because he looked at you and he was like, you know what? I think I need to help you out.
SPEAKER_01Hey, man, play the fuck up too, you know what I'm saying? He managed down and out.
SPEAKER_00He came out the woods, he was like, You look like you need a job, homie. I got you. Come in my tent, fill out this application I got on a pizza park. I got you.
SPEAKER_01Right, you know what I'm saying? But it's just, you know, things happen for a reason, you know what I'm saying? I was feeling, I had EVT, I was chilling, you know what I'm saying? I was living at my dad's for the mean time. So I'm like, you know what I'm saying? I'm good. I got enough food to give to him, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00So Yeah, I mean, I went back to some EVT. I mean I I had food stamps for like three months. Oh, it was glorious. Yeah, I miss it. I I do I miss it too. I don't need it, but I missed it. Like you know what? It just felt good to just spend somebody else's money. Well, actually, you know what? It was my money because I worked for it, right? But I would like be I would be ashamed to use my EVT. Yeah. Yeah, that comes out of, you know, you work for that. Like everything that you pay into the government for taxes and stuff, it's it's your money. They just get to tell you what you can and can't do with it. But like, yeah, I used to be scared. I used to be all nervous, I look around, I'd be like, slide it, you know what I'm saying, hella quick. Because, you know, nowadays you put the card in there, so you know you can tell somebody got some food stamp. Like, and people expect me to have them, but I'm like, nah, I'm using real stolen money for this shit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, man. Yeah, so I I did that for a minute, and then uh, you know, years and years later, I'm selling them now. I just I ain't getting up on no roof, banging it out. Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00I'm good. Nah, I feel you. I feel you. That probably wore on your body after a while.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think I was doing it for like six years on and off, seven years on and off.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I can't do it, bro. I get on my little stepladder and I get a little nervous. I'm holding on, like shaking and shit. Yeah, it was this last winter that got me.
SPEAKER_01I was like, I realized I wasn't mad enough for that one. So uh that wind, that you back down the nature. It's like no The Water River or something like that was coming through, bruh. And it was on new construction, so they don't care if it's raining, it's winning, or nothing. Just get up there, knock it out. And I just I said, uh, I'm not man enough. I started applying at gas stations, bro. I was applying at gas stations and everything, and then and like McDonald's, everything. I just wanted to get something so I could find the next one after because I couldn't keep doing that, and then this grouping company hit me up and was just like, you're qualified to be an estimator.
SPEAKER_00So and that that's that's a good hustle. That's a good hustle too. Cause I met people, man, they they they're acting like gas stations and working at McDonald's is a bit beneath them. And I'm like, bro, you ain't got shit. You know what I'm saying? You better get a job while you can get until you can get the job you want.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I everything I seen on there, I click, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I'm just you know what I'm saying? Because I just want to get off a roof right now.
SPEAKER_00I feel you, I feel you. Yeah, like I mean, I used to work outside too, man. You know, I was a bus driver, I was driving for like 18 years, and you know, it's cool during the summertime. It's a great job to have. You know what I'm saying? Being outside, it's it doesn't get dark till nine, but you know, then when you're doing that job, November hits and it gets dark at 3:30 in the afternoon, it starts raining, that wind's kicking in, you get that cold chill, like nah, I don't want to do this anymore. Like I did Amazon for three weeks, man, like right at the end of summer and right when it switched. I was like, I'm good on that. So, Lou, let me ask you this. Have you been keeping up with like the music scene out in Kitsab looking for new artists at all, or have you just been out the way all the way?
SPEAKER_01Look, every once in a while I'll hit up um, you know, like Jinx, or or I'll make a post or something, or you know, I'll just ask somebody like, hey, who's the new young, young artist? You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm talking like like 17, 16, fresh out of high school, young, like that has that, because they have a different swag than us, you know what I'm saying? Like they they are the new ones that are gonna go, you know what I'm saying? Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00If I was I remember being a rapper, yeah, exactly. You don't pay rent, you ain't gotta have the job. So I mean this should be your dedication. I found this new guy, his name's um, he's not new, he's new to me, his name's Nick Cheney. You're damn? Mm-mm, not yet, not yet. I just I I go to Spotify sometimes, I type in the word Bremerton. You know what I'm saying? Find me somebody. What up, VZ? Find me somebody from Bremerton. And I found this guy, Nick, Nick Cheney, and it's pretty dope. He's singing, he's singing RB on there, and his album's called as Bremerton City. So I've been bumping that today.
SPEAKER_01Okay. No, I'm gonna have to go, I'm gonna have to go check him out. I mean, the thing is, like, I'm not really trying to like manage nobody. I'm not trying to do do nothing like that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh I I ain't got the mind for all that. I'm just strictly music, etiquette, you know what I'm saying, or studio etiquette type stuff, you know what I'm saying? Like help you with your, you know what I'm saying, writing and everything, like give you, you know what I mean, a push. And then, you know. I know a lot of people out here as well, so it's like, yeah, you know, I can I can put you together with you know what I'm saying, with the connections and stuff, yeah. Yeah, exactly. You know, so that's that's kind of what I really want to do as far as music goes.
SPEAKER_00So you want to be an AR then? Yeah, yeah. I mean Yeah, that's what they call it. Yeah. You know. It's all good, bro. They called me a sharecropper last night. I was like, I'm just trying to get somebody a job, like Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um uh, I mean, I'm I'm writing. I'm uh I always wanted to be a ghostwriter. Like when even when I first started, I uh like Lone Star, he gave me he got me an opportunity to write for like a hook.
SPEAKER_00He said Lone Star.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. He had me an opportunity, uh, you know, because he got in touch with some ARs and stuff, so that uh for me to write a hook for Ariana Grande and then Kendrick Lamar. I'm like, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get one for Kendrick Lamar. But but you know, like I could I might be able to squeeze one for Ariana Grande, but then you know, the homie pass, so I just that that was out of sight, out of mind, you know what I'm saying? But Lone Star was a was a dude out here, but yeah, I mean, man, I heard that name in a minute.
SPEAKER_00Just like when someone said Phil Pyro, I was like, oh, good God. I ain't heard those names in a minute. Yeah. And so, you know, you was you was you made the Kit Tap County list. That's kind of started everything here. Shot and I always said a shout out to Direct because I wasn't I wasn't even doing this, bro. Like it was just sitting here, you know. I'm doing I'm doing what I'm doing with the web's network media. You know what I'm saying? That's boom, and I'm like, yeah, I ain't gotta do this right now. And Direct was like, Come on, man, I need that Nike Strange, you know, interview. Yeah, yeah. Friday Fix, that yeah, the uh Uncommon Curse. We got a lot of shows. Um Clean Money, you can find that on TikTok. We're always there. Um Yeah, plug them, plug them. That's what that's what I got to, man. I got to. Facebook took my stuff, I gotta come back. You know what I'm saying? So but like how how did you feel seeing your name again up there on those lists?
SPEAKER_01I didn't I didn't see it at first. Like, you know, somebody hit me up about it. They're like, hey, you know you're on that list, right? You know you're on that list. And I'm like, what? This is another one, you know what I mean? Because they always they come out every few years, you know what I'm saying? And really lists? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I just saw that's the first one I seen, and I was upset my name was on it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. They come out every few years, and and you know, people just start beefing about it or whatever, and it's it's always just been funny to me because I I don't care. I don't I don't really care what you think of me on as far as the list because as far as Bremerton goes, like I like I did a lot, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I didn't I know a lot of people, I met a lot of people, and yeah, like I don't really think there's anything that people in Bremerton can say about my, you know what I'm saying, like what I did, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, too negatively or whatever, but and that's not even all no no hate shit. It's just I did something for the city, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, we made a whole part project and put through a bunch of people on the city, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, no, I was I was there, I was there for the big city, small uh small city dreams, small city, big dreams, my bad. I remember because I remember when Doc invited everybody to his house, right? And y'all was rapping and freestyling, but he fucked up and gave everybody a bottle to like write. And then everyone got lit, lit. Then they're outside, everybody's outside freestyling instead of inside, all in a circle, man. Those are some times. We should. I was like, I was I remember sitting there, bro. I'm like, I'm looking at doc. I'm like, we should be I should be recording this. We should be recording all of this. Like, yeah, everything.
SPEAKER_01You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Like the candy. We should record the the time thing about the time we went to Seattle to film No Thoughts.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just on the way out there and everything. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Some spoke hand trips and everything. Like, I don't know. I had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun doing it, you know what I'm saying? Like, like a lot of fun. I grew up super fast because of music. Like I was doing it when I was 16. Or maybe even a little bit before that, because you know, my dad, nobody knows this. My dad was a rapper back in his day, so he just likes to play around at home and like, you know, do his thing. So I had, you know, he had the music equipment. He had and he had really got a new yeah, he had just got a new mic or whatever. And then that mic became my mic. You know what I'm saying? Like, I just I was like, dad, let me try this.
SPEAKER_00And then I started, and he was like, Oh, you might, you might got a little potential and just know your dad's a rapper. Next time I'm in trouble, I'm gonna go street battle him right there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Give me my documents.
SPEAKER_01I'm this mode, go up to the courthouse, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00No, don't tell nobody what he's doing. I see, yeah. What are they gonna do? Mess with him?
SPEAKER_01He's gonna put the bars on you. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So do you feel like anyone's ever like do you feel they treat you differently now since you haven't been active in the scene from when you were rapping? And then how how how has it changed for you also like before you got an your name started moving to when it did? Like the way people treated you.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, I mean, like, bruh, I didn't like I didn't grow up still to this day, just because I grew up like that, like I'm not the most well dressed or anything like that, because I didn't have the money to be well dressed. So you know what I'm saying? Like who does? Like and my parents weren't giving me J's and shit like that, so like, you know, people just looked at me like, yeah. I had I got no attention from women. Uh the only real attention I got, like, as far as like popularity was just like basketball a little bit uh when I was younger. Yeah. And then um Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00I just uh what kind of men was the were what kind of let me ask you this. You said you got no ladies, right? What kind of men were the women that you liked chasing after? The ones that were well dressed.
SPEAKER_01You know what I'm saying? Like the the ones that the parents gave them the money, you know what I'm saying, or bought them clothes. It's fair. You know what I'm saying? The niggas was looking fly, you know what I'm saying? Like it's all good. And then, you know, I just I became, you know, uh athletic basketball player, and that's you know, kind of when attention started swaying, and then in junior high, ninth grade, uh regretfully, I I put somebody, I put a kid in a coma in a fight, and then and then all of the CK district, it was like a thing to be like, eh, I'm gonna delude you, blah blah blah, dah. So I was infamous before I even started doing music. Like in school, like throughout schools, and I went to six schools five in Bremerton, one in Silverdale. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00What what was you fighting a kid about?
SPEAKER_01Uh he was beating up my friend decently, you know what I'm saying? And then and then, you know, I'm a good friend.
SPEAKER_00Hold on, so your friend, so you jumped him then.
SPEAKER_01Nah, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because my friend was winning the first time. I stopped the fight. You know, you know what I mean. They stopped the fight and were like, stand it up, you know, because they got him on the floor.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then so they were like, stop it, and then vice versa happened, and then bro wouldn't get up. Like your bro wouldn't stop hitting him while he's on the floor, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, you should have ended the fight the first time. If he had to get as soon as you have to pick somebody up, oh get up, let him get up. Nah, nah, nah. The fight's over. Because if we don't let him, if we don't let him get up, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. We we were little, bro. Like, so it was it was just some dumb shit. You know what I'm saying? Not something I'm proud about. It was just that I had a name issue.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you know what I'm saying, before music. And so when you started music, were you getting the ladies after that?
SPEAKER_01No, no, they thought it was because I was 17, 16 talking about fucking and stuff. Like, like they were like, ew, that's so gross. He's a hell already. You know what I'm saying? There are certain ones that liked it, but those, you know, those weren't the ones that you wanted to be around at a as a young man. You know what I'm saying? And then, but like as I was speak for yourself, brother. Yeah, you know, there were certain ones that we know from school that you didn't want to be around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, nah, nah, nah. I'm just talking shit, but nah, uh yeah, realistically, it just once I started doing all like the love songs and everything like that, you know, like most of my music was for girls.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's how you're supposed to do it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like I didn't I I wasn't worried about anything that niggas thought about me.
SPEAKER_00Well, you know it's crazy. The great the great poet uh Tupac Shakur once said that, you know what I'm saying? An interview, he was like, Don't make music for the homies, make music for the women. He's like, You'll have some homie tracks. He's like, but make music for the ladies. Because if you make music for the ladies, they're gonna listen to your stuff and be your fans forever. And the men gonna bump what they're bumping because they want to know what the ladies is doing.
SPEAKER_01Bro, they're gonna play it because the girl was like, Oh, have you heard that? You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Like, yeah, like, yeah. That song you sent me last night, is that your oldest song?
SPEAKER_01That's probably one of my oldest songs. I I kind of wanted you to, you know what I'm saying? Like, this is what I was making at like I don't know. I think I put it out at 18, but I remember writing it like at 17 during the school year after I got cut from basketball. Damn, how'd that feel? Oh man, it was it sucked, but I mean I now that I'm older, I get it, man. I was getting into fights, I was like just I was a bad, uh I wasn't a good student, you know what I'm saying? Disruptive in class. Uh, you know, the the coach told me I was a ticking time bomb, and man, I started crying.
SPEAKER_00I was like, man, I'm just what what what made you so what why were you such an angry kid?
SPEAKER_01Uh I don't know. Like I had, you know, I didn't know I had ADHD until I was way older, so I'm just not for this school stuff. You all want me to sit down. I'm trying to do this, I'm trying to do that. I'm I think I'm funny. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm I'm answering every question and I'll answer them right, but then I have to say some slick shit after.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So she stopped calling on you, even yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So you know, like school wasn't for me. Uh and that's not to kids go to school, finish.
SPEAKER_00No, that school, that school system wasn't for you. You know what I'm saying? Like now, now they're helping those kids out. You know what I'm saying? They have different programs and stuff for them, you know. But I get I get that, dude. Like, I was the same, I couldn't I would sit down, but I wouldn't be paying attention. I'd just be like doodling, you know? Like I always joke with people and stuff like but I was at school, like my whole issue was I was a stinky kid. You know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't gonna lie. I didn't shower like that. I didn't see the reason for it. I would like sit on the toilet and let the water run. So I'm while I was taking a shower. You know for a little bit. Yep, yep. No, dead ass. Like, you know what I'm saying? But you grow up and you learn, man. That's just what it is.
SPEAKER_03Um I used to sit on the toilet and let this.
SPEAKER_01You know, I mean I feel like I I I might have tried that one time, but like, you know, you you you can hear when the shower's running off somebody, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's why you gotta put your hand under the water a couple times, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01Like, man, where was you? I got I could have been stank too, man. I just wasn't clever enough.
SPEAKER_00Uh no, no, you know what I'm saying? I was just trying to be lazy. Now, now I find that not my older, like I'm cleaner, like I know what to do now. Like, I'm not walking out with stank ass. But you know what I'm saying? Like, unless I go to the gym in the morning, right? I roll right out the bed and go to the gym. Put on some, put on the socks I had on last night, like you're getting funky me. I'm trying to look ugly for the ladies, but they just keep I got stalked by a lady with a BBL two nights ago. Hell yeah. Man, so you said you you said you've been riding, right, Lou? So have you been thinking about coming back? Yeah, that's the question, huh? Yeah. That's a question. You my bad, I missed the text last night. Y'all was supposed to roll up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um, yeah, I know we were gonna pull up, but uh, yeah, you know, um I've just been trying to come. Yeah, I'm I'm just I'm always writing. I always have something. I got a million songs that haven't been released, you know. Uh just because you know, I I went away at, you know, like the peak of where I was at that time. You know what I'm saying? Like it was going up, but I just once left, you know, because man, I had you know just the biggest anxiety and everything. Um I always I never really want to come back you know what I'm saying but just because I I when when everything was going really good you know I couldn't I couldn't move and this sounds crazy every everybody might think I'm you know I'm saying like I'm no no go ahead go ahead no no no no you're good but you know I'm saying I couldn't move like I wanted to like everywhere I would go to I have to like talk to somebody or like shake a hand or whatever like I'm going to my little sister's graduation and I'm signing gr autographs. They never wanted me to come to another anything of theirs again.
SPEAKER_00That sucked you know what I'm saying like I just I took all the attention you know from them uh you know uh so it was you be you became famous and that's that's and that's anxiety like that it is yeah I didn't realize I thought I wanted it and then it and and then it started to happen and then it freaked me the fuck out just because you know my my own mental issues and everything you know uh and it's not only the people that like I'm not famous but people know who I am they've seen me around you know I'm saying so it's it's it's it's the people that come up to you it's one thing right but it's also those people that just stare at you. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like they're looking at you like and you don't know if they're like trying to recognize you or they're trying to pull a lick on you or they got an issue with you because they girl like you or something.
SPEAKER_01Especially with like all the stuff I was doing back then and everything like somebody's looking at me I'm thinking they're plotting you know like I'm I'm I'm taking people's ladies and everything I'm I'm I'm doing this off in the street I'm doing you know what I'm saying people looking at me I'm like what's up and they're like are are you young Lou I'm like oh my dad my dad but you know what I mean like for for the longest time like when girls would just call me David like that was like like a sign of affection for me you know what I'm saying like because I'd never heard my name you know I'm saying anywhere yeah that's true my name you probably still don't hear it now and we have the same name that's what's funny yeah yeah barely you know what I'm saying it's as soon as somebody recognizes it's not David you know what I'm saying like I introduce myself as David and then people I can be anonymous and then I say I'm young you know because I look a little bit different especially if I wear my hair down but you know as soon as I say young Lou they're like oh that was you you know what I'm saying like whoa what happened to you where'd you go you know like and it was it was it was anxiety and so how did you deal with that when you walked away like how did you get yourself kind of are you do you feel better now or did it take you time to progress that like to fix that mentally for yourself I didn't I didn't fix it for a long time I just ran away and drank you know what I'm saying like I just ran away and drank and just hid you know and then uh you know it took it took a long time just to because I don't know I didn't grow up hearing like I don't know mental illness was like some weak shit when when I was growing up I feel like you know what I'm saying like and that's crazy to say it is but that's how that's how we all thought about it like you know that's just what it was. Yeah you know what I'm saying like so so I I didn't I didn't want to go to a doctor and get told that I'm you know I'm saying I'm crazy or like blah blah blah blah blah that's not fucking that is not what I wanted in my life and I also didn't want an excuse you know what I'm saying yeah but at a certain point you gotta realize it's not an excuse nigga you need help you know what I'm saying so I just I later on uh I think once I started roofing and everything and like I think 27 28 I started getting like medicated and everything but for like you know four years and and you know I'm saying you can look at my videos from the first one to the last one like it's a completely different person you know what I'm saying like my whole my Facebook pictures like you can see that this guy was so happy younger and then he's just sinking into himself more and more and more my last song that I made uh I recorded it with Jordy and it was just it was a fucked up song you know what I'm saying Jordy was like you are you okay you know what I'm saying it was like completely about you know what I'm saying just uh I don't know it was basically about you know what I'm saying not I ain't want to live no more you know and and I you know I've said it in my songs a million times people don't really notice they don't catch you no and so like like I I you know in there I was like paint a picture with the paint down listen they just sang this to you is all attuned my cry for help is all in vain you know I'm saying like blah blah blah yeah uh you know I was I was asking for help through music but I was too manly to do it in real life you know what I'm saying like yeah yeah no there's the whole thing you just you don't want to seem weak in the eyes of others but it's like it's not a weakness it's you looking at yourself like yo I want to better I want to see if I can better my mental situation yeah and I get it bro like I people don't understand it like you know you are famous like some everyone knows what your name is you know I'm saying from from our era and stuff you know I'm saying this and a lot of people still I mean every when you bring it up like yeah young Lou okay yeah no he was he was moving in the city and people don't get it just like I'll I'll give everyone an example we'll say MM right before he got famous he was a regular white dude you know I'm saying just regular dude now he can't go anywhere he has to wear like my like you know um he has to wear like fake beers and stuff to just even go and enjoy like regular life so I totally get that um but you said you've been writing you said he had like a hundred songs written written I I probably probably more than that but like recorded you know I probably have I don't know I I got a lot I have a lot of my email you know I l I listen to them here and there just you know just to reminisce and everything but you know I mean do you have anything like you have you you've been writing freshly right just like over the years oh yeah yeah yeah and that's one thing I like people need to understand like Freeze talked about that too because there's so many people they start to rap right but then it doesn't work out for them and they quit you know I'm saying because you were just trying to be a rapper you're not an artist because you know like like hip hop is an art form so you continue to write about it like for me it's like I might have writer's block for a couple months but I'll write I'll still write a song that first one's angry as hell you know what I'm saying like it's I'm just I'll stomp you out run you over you know I'm just mad like just mad at getting my frustrations out but it's just it's an art form and it helps you express your soul and uh Lou I'm happy you got you got better because I mean like if if you was crashing out from behind the scenes you was kind of doing it um a little bit on your Facebook back in the day ladies and gentlemen I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you a post from young Lou's Facebook that stuck to my soul one time. Bro I tried to I was as I got older I tried to go back and delete everything bro I remember I told you I was like bro you shouldn't be posting this you're like no I'm like he's gonna get canceled as soon as he gets home like he you had to wait okay before you say is it funny ish or is it just crazy?
SPEAKER_00Oh no it's funny it's funny it's about the time you you got okay so Lou was talking about he's like man I just got off the county because the cop came up to me and he said something he's like don't be mad at me because I'm fucking your wife and the cop arrested he's like and the cop gonna arrest me for that shit and it went man the way you said it though was hilarious.
SPEAKER_01I was like damn because at the time you know and and I'm I was drunk as fuck out of when I got arrested um at the time at the time there was a viral vine videos of Tyrone the big old black dude who would go up to the Tyrone and be like I'm Tyrone and I'm here to fuck your wife or some shit like that. And so I did my version of that to the cop because my friends were there and I thought it was funny. And I also didn't know what a physical control was. You don't have to be driving I was literally just showing my friends my music you know I'm saying because I had just wrote La La You know what I'm saying um another song that I never put out that that you know it was a mixtape joint that I just wanted to throw out um but I was showing them that outside but we had been drinking in the house but you know speakers are better on the car. That was when I had the you know the Mustang and everything blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah they pulled up and and I I didn't think I was doing anything wrong but I had the keys in the ignition.
SPEAKER_00I was about to say the keys were in the ignition yeah but I'm I ain't driving but you know I get it now but yeah yeah no that's that's that's that's the law like if is if you have the key in the ignition if it was the key was in your pocket you'd be fine right but the key if you have the key in the ignition period yeah they hit me with the book I had I had I got my license suspended for like six years.
SPEAKER_01Damn for that my first infraction it's because you insulted the police officer it yeah and then I'd I'd certain I'd try to holler out his wife regardless I'd find her I'd have to find her after that but I already did six for trying not trying to knock it out you know what I'm saying it's not really just that I insulted the police officer I got down onto the the station and then you know like they left me in a room by myself I've never seen a big breathalyzer machine like there's like the big one it's making it like it's bubbling it's making I thought it was a I thought it was a pipe I thought we're gonna smoke weed. There's some there's some buttons on it and I'm handcuffed like this and I but I'm fucked up bro if I if you can charge me with driving or you know like a physical basically a DUI without driving I think you can let me go because I you know I was a little curious I just want to see what the button did so I just put over my nose and I just and they sent me to jail immediately.
SPEAKER_00It was over and then they hit me with then they hit me with malicious mischief and like and like tampering with or bro they tried to hit me with everything bro I yeah damn anyway damn damn that's crazy just don't just don't drink man just just relax bro you know people gotta know that man you gotta you gotta pick your battle sometimes you know like like you get some as you get older I just I look at people and I you know people that mess with me and I think about the time I would get if I fucked them up you know what I'm saying and then I'm just like not today not today and so spe speaking of stuff like that I you know I gotta bring it up I had Jameer on my show he's watching watching perfect perfect and he was on the show and he had a a couple choice words to say about you have you guys talked ever since have you and you've seen it have you talked since not at yeah I think you guys should talk that out you know I'm saying like at first I was like I was like yeah I'll set you guys up for a fight all this stuff but you know we we're grown men if you guys still want to do it we can do it on the Friday fixed but anyways I see you guys should get on you should get on promotion promotion promotion all day no I mean like you guys should talk that out like bro I I hear what you're saying but I mean look I don't really care I I called you as soon as somebody called me and told me what was said what what did I tell you I put in work like there's a kid yeah who me oh you're talking me yeah yeah what did I tell you you're yeah you told you you told me your side of the story right and so well but not even that yeah I'm talking about promotion promotion and like and like stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01Okay boom you took the shot this is a good motherfucking time to drop something this is a good time to push all your shit now people are looking yeah drop and so people if we're if if if you're just catching up this was the incident that happened when they came out someone came off the Kidsap County rapper list right and there was a lot of talk a lot of commotion going on and you know a lot of stuff was said here on the strange and so I wanted Lou to be able to express himself on it I wanted people to understand what the energy was at the time because the city was jumping you know I got my you know I'm saying it was I mean well the internet was jumping and I'm just like like I said I was mad I was on the list because then I had to talk about it like yeah no I mean the list was happening everybody's beefing about the list so him and you know or uh Wayne and Rob are going back and forth or direct are going back and forth Wayne you know Rob makes a second list I can waste my time gotta jump in all over again. Then fucking Wayne decides he wants to go paper you know I'm saying uh uh a magazine post or whatever the source yeah uh the source yeah and then but but only puts his best friend so I just thought that that was funny like not I was Wayne that's what you're supposed to do that's what you're supposed to do you know I'm saying promote your your home I liked that I thought it was hilarious but I also was like you know this is biased and I just thought that was a little funny and then so he got mad that I said it was bi uh Jameer got mad that I said it was biased hopped in my inbox and you know it's whatever damn funny it's funny to me use the moment you said all that use the moment man like you had people watch it yeah no he just he just did a show today shout out to Jameer you know I'm saying I fuck with both of you guys you know I'm saying if I can get y'all on the phone can we talk that out look this this isn't the first time he's he's done yes okay this is this is he's but I get I get it at the same time because you know it's fucked up and you know I'm I'm yeah let me let me stop being my asshole self and just be like a real fucking I understand that back when he was younger he hit me up about me I didn't give him the best response because I was in my own shit I was doing my own thing I I probably gave him harsh critiques or whatever he didn't like that back then you know what I'm saying he's always had a bad taste in his mouth for me a little bit but it's always you know our families know each other it's all good bro like I don't I just seen his family and him yesterday you know what I'm saying I didn't say we ain't say nothing to each other but it's all good like what what is there to say like uh small city big dreams am I tripping if I say that your best decide me yeah I don't think I am as far as music goes I can help you yeah and so I mean like the I think the because I talked to him a little bit off camera I don't really want to bring it up too much um but hopefully you guys can like hash that out you know I'm saying because uh you he told me what what he interpreted the conversation as and then you told me what you interpreted it as too yourself you know I'm saying like I don't want to set you guys up here to clash or nothing like that I just want you to explain your side of the story.
SPEAKER_00And then Lou, how can we get you back in the studio? Or how can anybody get a hold of you if they want you to ghostwrite for them or AR?
SPEAKER_01Because you I mean basically you're in AR now right you were there who did or actually hold on before that question you showed up to the bar exam I saw you back there oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I had a lot to say about your haircut so look man I came out of nowhere looking looking different yeah different as fuck was there they played a lot of a lot of the music out there did anybody's music stick out to you during that session there was this one dude who was on a feature with uh it's Frankie and about I don't remember his name I asked uh I asked um uh Jinx about like what what was his name because his sound just uh you know it spoke to me and I you know I see things that we can work with and work on and I get it people have a lot of pride in themselves you know I'm saying like most people don't want any help don't want it especially rappers that's why I don't want a rapper I you know I'm saying I want a rap singer I want somebody that is you know I'm saying like yeah but rappers hit hit certain ego plateaus right like you start rapping someone likes it right boom you're going up now you're looking and you're thinking some rappers are thinking they're gonna move like the famous rappers you know I'm saying never comment never do anything you know just be cocky as hell and then that that fades their star and then either some people quit or they adjust themselves yeah yeah I mean bro I came out straight off the bat when I you know I think I made uh the deja vu mixtape it was like 20 songs yeah um and then right after that I came on Facebook talking about boom I was like I don't respect Bremerton rappers who aren't trying to make it out of Bremerton you know what I mean because that was my end goal that's always the end goal yeah like you know I'm saying like now that I'm older I'm like let me help somebody else do it but um so that was my end goal but that caused a lot of strife in the community because I was just you know getting established and these niggas lit me up they said who the fuck are you blah blah blah you're trash nigga blah blah blah you're a singing ass nigga you're not even really a rapper blah blah blah bro I I'm when I tell you I took screenshots of all the crazy shit that these so I I get it like having animosity towards other rappers I get it so I took screenshots of everything that these dudes said to me I probably still have it on the computer at my dad's house it's funny I was I'm a spiteful nigga I and I hold register I'm petty I do I do too I do too but I tried to work it the right way and so I just kept the screenshots I kept it to myself you know I'm saying I went back to to the uh the cave with doc and them and we're just talking about everything we're like man you know what I'm saying like Doc's like you just had to start some shit you just had to start some shit man and then you know what I'm saying Wes uh you know what I'm saying No Rock he he came in there he was you know because Doc was giving me me hell because he wanted to shout out Wes shout out Doc yeah doc wanted be the me to be the people's man but you know Wes is a little something you know what I'm saying like when you want to get flashy you come talk to Wes yeah and and so you know he he said man fuck that shit that's how the end of the night video happened oh I remember that one yeah because people were talking shit and then you know me and Doc are doing our thing and then bro was just like we're about to shit on these niggas.
SPEAKER_00I remember that I remember that yeah I mean yeah man what a time what a time to be alive man yeah but then after that I could you know that was a phase and then and then I started working with other people and I really like I ended up becoming friends with a lot of these people but I really wanted to just get on one of their songs shit on that verse and then you know like now everybody knows that I'm I'm I'm you know like you guys take me serious bro I came on everybody's songs and I did my thing you know like yeah like like I was I came that's what you're supposed to do you know I'm saying like yeah that's what you're supposed to do I'm gonna run over here I'm rapping over there like I don't know but so yeah what can we expect the next new young lose song I don't think the city besides Rob Rob or Direct excuse me direct got a banger on his on his album I posted that or we posted on the Nightly Strange page you know say I love that song little RB song on the hook oh man that's just hot yeah Direct got some shit going yeah but but uh you know what I'm saying and then um yeah even YB you know I'm saying he has he has that one song that he has like six
SPEAKER_01Six different videos too. You know what I'm saying? Like the one take videos, right? Yeah. Or I I've seen a few, but I'm sure I'm sure he's gonna do some more. But that's getting views. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And I'm sure he has a TikTok or whatever, so like, bro, just consistency. Consistency.
SPEAKER_00I just saw I saw YB today. Yeah, so I saw YB today, man. Like, I I wholeheartedly believe in YB right now. You know what I'm saying? Like, every time I see, and I'm I should have I forgot to tell him that today, bro. I'm so proud of him. He's posting a lot, you know what I'm saying? He's putting in the work.
SPEAKER_01Me and Doc were just talking about him yesterday before we were about to pull up on y'all. We were just talking about him. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. And I understand that I don't he probably doesn't have the best taste in his mouth either for me because a lot of those guys started right, you know, after I remember hearing from somebody that he, you know, he was annoyed or upset that, you know, like like I don't fuck with the younger artists like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah. But I th and and I respect that opinion because I didn't to a certain degree because of how people treated me. You know what I'm saying? So I was like, you know what I'm saying? It it's and especially when they first when it when people first start, they're not coming to you with their their best, you know.
SPEAKER_00But that's what that's what you heard from somebody though, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, come on. He I mean he didn't he didn't say anything bad. I'm not saying he said anything. The person never said he said anything bad. He's just saying, like, you know, like Lou could be more like forthcoming and like friendly about this music shit with these younger artists. And I'm not saying he said those exact words, but as I'm but I heard that a few times. Not from just him, you know what I'm saying? Like, so I uh you know, I'm glad, you know, I I'm glad that he's on his shit. He's fucking doing his thing, you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. No, when you get to I think a young Lou in a uh YB song would be fire right now. Fire in the city.
SPEAKER_01You know, yeah, so Lou, man, I don't want to he's killing it.
SPEAKER_00So Lou, I don't want to hold you too long, man. If if if anybody wants to reach out to you and possibly, you know, um just talk to you, man, about mental health, because it seems like you kind of helped yourself and they could do that, or if they want to try to get you on a track and bring you out of retirement, how can they get a hold of you?
SPEAKER_01Uh I mean Facebook, really, and then and then other than that fuck fuck the music, man. I'm trying to I'm trying to get back into like you know, going out, feeding the homeless, doing doing, you know, the backpack drive where Doc loves the kids and all that stuff. But that's that's my I'm trying to come back. If I do do music, that's why I'm trying to come back because I understand what my music did to help make all that happen. You know what I'm saying? Like me and Doc went. I was still rapping when Doc made, you know, Doc loved the kids and everything, you know. Like we were we were still we were chopping it up, doing all that stuff. Like he understood that, you know, we can we can really fucking, you know, make this shit happen way better if we're for the city. Like it doesn't have to be for just our friends and everything, like like let's go help some people. And and I think that's what a lot of artists are missing. You know what I'm saying? They a lot of these artists are just unfriendly. Like, as far as not unfriendly, but they don't want to go shake hands and kiss babies.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, that's that's facts. That's facts. That's that's the and that's what you need to do. Like, your music will get you where you need to go, but you have to be there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, your city doesn't know you. Yeah, your city doesn't know you. There's a lot more of the city that people don't, you know what I'm saying? Like, just the festival yesterday uh um Juneteenth yesterday, you know what I'm saying? Look how many people were there. You know, like, and those are just they're not they're most of those people probably aren't even tapped into anything Bremerton hip hop. Now, if somebody was there passing out something, a fucking a fucking uh card with a QR code to their music. Hey, yeah, I'm this person. Um you know, anyways.
SPEAKER_00No, that's what you gotta do. You gotta hand out QR codes. You gotta like I have them on my phone. I make them myself. You can go get a QR code offline for free. You get a little art program, you put a picture of yourself and put the QR code there in the bottom. I want y'all to see what's on my phone. I'm a whore. Um, but yeah, you put the QR code right there at the bottom and you can just show it to people that can scan it, they can get your music from you. Because there's one thing to get on stage and do a great set, a great set, but another thing is if you don't if you get off that stage and people you don't give people the things to remember you by, you know what I'm saying? You're just hey, I listened to some great music on Saturday. I don't know. No, merch.
SPEAKER_01Merch is is like people will buy your shit because it's just cool, like it's a memory. Hey, you remember when we went to that festival and that person did this, you know what I'm saying? Like, talk to these people at the festivals have or or or any of these places or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Hip hop festival, you know what I'm saying? We're doing the music or the hip hop festival, Bremerton Hip Hop Festival, August 23rd and everything, man. Like, send your music in.
SPEAKER_00And what's the email they need to send their music into?
SPEAKER_01Man, if you shit.
SPEAKER_00Uh all right, I sent it in there myself. I I don't know why I called you out like I didn't send it and already say it. I believe it's hip hop musicfestival at gmail.com. Let me check that and make sure for sure. Because I did I sent my music in. All my music is clean from a certain like I have four or five albums of just clean music. You know what I'm saying? And if you send your music in, all you have to do is clean it up and they will play it. And this will be a representation of Bremerton.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And even if let's say you can't, you don't have like the files and everything to like make it clean all the way right now. You know what I'm saying? As long as you're not cussing every single word, just a jinx or something, have them fucking, you know what I'm saying? Take it. Don't worry about that one part, you know what I'm saying? Send it in. Let's get your music there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, in the background, like you can come kick it to your music as well. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and the email every my bad, go ahead. The email everybody is Bremerton Hip Hop Festival at gmail.com. That is the email, everybody, if you want to send in your air. We're gonna direct out it right there. Thank you, sir. If you are an artist in Bremerton and you make hip hop-ish music, because I have to say that these days, send that in. Yo, Lou, I appreciate you, man, for coming on to my show, bro. I should have I should have had you in here, but I got things, I gotta run around. I'm doing things in my house. I need to take a nap.
SPEAKER_01Nah, nah, you good, man. Like, I appreciate you for having me on, man.
SPEAKER_00And uh, this is the second time. People don't realize. Lou, Lou has been on the screen. You know what I'm saying? Like while I was disappeared. While I was disappeared, yeah, I got him to come out. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02Like, way back.
SPEAKER_00Wave back. Yeah, I was like, come on out. He's like, all right, cool. We kicked it. Yeah, we kicked it at the house, you know what I'm saying? Around COVID time. So you know what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01My sister in the background talking crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We love it up.
SPEAKER_00We love it, really. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to her. Hey, yo, everybody, thank you for watching the Night Be Strange. Uh, Lou, you got any shout outs you want to send out?
SPEAKER_01Man, shout out Direct, shout out, shout out to everybody doing their thing. Doc Loves the Kids, uh, Hip Hop Music Festival. I just ran into Jay Freeze and everything, you know what I'm saying? Shout out Freeze. Uh, you know, YB keep keep you know what I'm saying, sending them out, whatever. You know what I'm saying? I I see what you're doing. I like it. Uh everybody else, uh, you know, shout out. I I don't know. Shout out to young Lou. Oh, shout out V, man. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And anybody watching or partaking on this show, this is the Nightly Strange. My name is D Makuno. Are you an artist? Uh do you have a restaurant? Do you have a play you're making, a movie script? Um, do you do skits? Do you do comedy? Send it to me. That's nightlystrange at gmail.com. If I like it, I'm gonna post it for you. If you're an artist and you have music, I'm gonna play I'm gonna put a song up once a week that I'm bumping, and then after a while, I'm gonna make a playlist of all Northwest artists. So send that in to me at nightlystrange at gmail.com. Young Blue, I love you, brother. Love you too, my guy. All right. Hey y'all, this is the Nightly Strange. Until next time.
SPEAKER_01Appreciate it, y'all. You're welcome to the Nightly Strange, Range, Range, Range. It's not hot.
