For Steppers Only: Raw, Uncut, and Unedited
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For Steppers Only: Raw, Uncut, and Unedited
Switchin' Lanes with RR Hunxho
What happens when you blend raw talent with the courage to stay true to yourself? In this episode, we connect with RR Hunxho ( Real Rare Hunxho) to uncover the layers of true artistry, the resilience needed to chase dreams, and the spiritual guidance that fuels their journey. RR Hunxho opens up about his musical evolution—from his early days in drill music to finding his unique voice through personal trials and triumphs. RR Hunxho brings a powerful perspective on divine intervention and the strength drawn from higher powers to navigate life's challenges.
Through compelling conversations, we highlight the importance of celebrating small wins and the unexpected joys that emerge from creative endeavors. RR Hunxho shares heartwarming stories of his first paid performance and how those initial milestones shaped his confidence and dedication to his craft. We discuss how creative outlets, including podcasting, serve as therapeutic escapes, transforming adversity into positive action and underscoring the value of humble beginnings and perseverance.
We also tackle the hard truths of the music industry—Instagram shadow bans, the critical role of networking, and the often-overlooked machinery behind an artist's success. RR Hunxho provides insider insights into how personal experiences like heartbreak and betrayal fuel artistic expression and the strategies needed to sustain growth in a competitive landscape. As we close, we look forward to upcoming music projects and emphasize the importance of community support in truly appreciating an artist's work. Tune in and get inspired by the blend of passion, perseverance, and profound insights shared in this episode!
RR Hunxho Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@rrhunxho3753
RR Hunxho - 5 In (Prod. By @Midwstbeazy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQwWS7w9G8
RR Hunxho X AJET - The Same (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un1LdLkRl8w
RR Hunxho - Sam (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxN7kkKDhII&list=OLAK5uy_mU2a5ScJXn-bOpFG9l2zVZfiq9qny3Q_M&index=
All Music Links and Social media Links
https://beacons.ai/rrhunxhobusiness
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Speaker 2:Bro, let them folks know what God did, bro.
Speaker 1:I know my time. Yeah, Make a cheap knock on my ghost.
Speaker 2:I know who that is. Brand new bus now why? These bitches ain't playin' James. She pull up whenever I call yeah, that my main thing. Keep on stuck in my pay, don't tryna get paid. So bitches ain't find me a thing. Folks on my name. We're about 90, bitches know I'm tryna go buy me a chain. Raps say you know a lot of shit. Now change. We fold up. Now I go do it for days. Nobody in the city. I'm rockin' the stage Shit, so slap just all they pocket watchin'. Tryna see what I make. I'm trippin'. I'm on shoes. I'm livin' in. I read the news. I'm on the e-trip. I'm not rainin'. In Belize spent thousands on shoes, but I don't show. See like how you feelin'.
Speaker 1:I thought that you trippin', you do what he do. Woke up from prayer, had dreams of a million man. Welcome to Four Steppers Only. That's why we tell y'all to sit down and watch Step 4 Steps, because I'm here with Real Ro, real, ro, real, ro, real, real.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, nah, he's straight, he's straight, he's straight.
Speaker 1:Man shit, but y'all don't understand man, this motherfucking. I call him Real Ro Because he come from the essence. This shit come from the insides, this shit come from his innards. For sure, this come from the essence, this shit come from the insides, this shit come from his innards, this come from his roots, because he real raw, he real real. Appreciate that, bro, and that's motherfucking honcho, what's going on, man I mean shit.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you gotta salute folks and give them they got on gems and they berries to where they know they doing some shit. Yeah, appreciate they know they got some some shit. Yeah, I appreciate they know they got some shit.
Speaker 2:You got something going on too with your podcast.
Speaker 1:I appreciate it, bro, appreciate it because a lot of folks don't understand, bro. Um, when you sit down and meet individuals and you hear they wave and you hear, actually hear what's in their lyrics, yeah, and when they, when they still like we were talking about it earlier they still chasing, yeah, they chasing their dreams For sure, they that that, that hunger still in it. So you hear everything. You hear them from the essence. It ain't like they on a pedestal now and they looking down, they still trying to climb them stairs to get to where they want to go. So you hear the true essence of the creator there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so so bad shit. Where'd you find your lane from man? Where'd you find your sound from man? Gee, I listen to so much music bro. It's so crazy like I ain't even got like no certain. I never could actually like pick a favorite artist because I listened to so much bro. So just when I started rapping I was like bro, I wanna I I started, I ain't gonna lie, I started out doing like the little drill shit like you can, um, go listen to like some other music. But I just it didn't feel like me when I was making it, like people were messing with it like one of my drills on. They got it, actually got the most views. Like they got like 10k views on YouTube and they I done had that for like A couple years now. But shit, they just like I'm like they want me for real, but like the music I make now, like from the, from the heart, for real, like you know what I'm saying, like what I be going through, and shit.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you a lot of folks don't understand when you say that god did, bro. A lot of times people don't understand shit. Sometimes, like my mama, my pops, my grandma, all of them used to tell me baby shit, hey, you know why you got out of that situation. Hey, god helped you through that situation. Boy shit, you think you at your lowest.
Speaker 1:He ain't gonna put you through nothing that you ain't prepared right right because he puts everything that you can handle in life and a lot of folks fail to realize that they think they got. Don't got themselves out of mud. Nah, is it somehow you got a high power? Yeah, for sure that they got. No one speaks to you. Yeah, without speaking to you. Yeah, for real, though. That's the truth.
Speaker 2:So I'll be saying like, bro, I ain't gonna tell you, I can't tell you who to believe in, but, bro, find you your guy, your guy, and just lock in with him. But then you're gonna see everything unfold. Bro, that's the best thing I did.
Speaker 1:I ain't gonna kill, okay a bad thing I done, did so, so. So, since we speaking about that Talk, soon. What made you start rapping? What made you find this lane? What made you change? Chase this avenue.
Speaker 2:Um, I started rapping. Um, I been, I been like, I been using like Since I was growing up, but I started rapping Cause, um, the group I'm in now, um we called, started rapping because, um, the group on me and now, um we called it, started off double r real rare, like I'm telling you got now. So it was my partner, rj black, rr colby and rr ladere. So shit them boy. They was already rapping, like they were doing a little show, going to atlanta, doing going to the studio, with shit like that. So I'm just saying no and I'm around them, but I ain't really. I know I like music and I know. Well, I ain't gonna say I know I can probably rap, but I'm like I want some chill shit. So I ended up just trying it one day.
Speaker 1:Then I fell in love with it and then Okay, okay, yeah, like what you saying, you've been doing shows, man. Yeah, how was your first show?
Speaker 2:My first show ain't a lot. My first show was a paid show. Bruh, it's so crazy, Hold up, hold up, hold up.
Speaker 1:You got paid for your first show.
Speaker 2:I got paid for my first show, like we were on. It was in Monroe on, for I don't know if it was somebody's birthday party. I think it was somebody's birthday party. They had booked us because group and we were popping like, so they called it like I got you like four, five hundred, come perform, no couch. Oh shit, we pull up shit.
Speaker 1:We brought the show out and yo man, how they started bro, because to me, the reason why I'm looking shocked is because that's unheard of, because a lot of, a lot of you right, it's a blessing. Because a lot of folks, you're right, it's a blessing, tell me, bro, because a lot of folks chase that bag for years before they get their first show For real, before they get paid for their first feature. Yeah, I mean shit, that's a blessing, I'm telling you, bro. So how did that make you feel like being on that stage and people just fucking with you?
Speaker 2:I mean, ain't a lot that made me feel good, like I ain't never like got the big head or nothing like that, but shit, I definitely feel good. Okay, it made me feel like I can really do it, because before then I would just like I told you I just started rapping, like these niggas, in my opinion, like these niggas who I'm rapping with way harder than I am right now, like I don't want some shit, like damn, but I gotta, I gotta, I gotta catch up. This is how I was thinking when I first started rapping, because I told they already had a group together and shit like that. I was like, bro, I gotta work, I really gotta lock in and find my shit.
Speaker 1:So when we got paid for that show, it just made me feel like definitely confident and it was like, bro, we can, I can really do this yeah bro, but ain't ain't gonna lie, it it was.
Speaker 2:There was a small confident boot, but it was still like some doubt in my mind. Like damn bro, I ain't hard to do, I gotta get harder around that. So what makes you chase it? Like what rapping? Yeah, like, like I said, I've been loving music Since I was Growing up, for real. So and I just feel like Anything I do, like I wish I was like that when I was younger Like just put everything In whatever I'm doing, but like Anything I do now, I just try to put my all in it, just like Not try to have bad.
Speaker 2:Like I try to do something Rap related at least Every day, where they just like posting some tiktok shit, but it's instagram, real anything. I just be trying to just get consistent with it because it I feel like if I would have been more consistent I mean, I know it's all time and like god time with everything but I feel like if I would have been more consistent back in the day, like I probably would have been a part of, but do you think that some of the stuff that you went through in life made your music a little bit different from others?
Speaker 2:yeah, definitely. But I mean, yeah, I'm gonna say that, but I mean I feel like everybody go through something, so ain't like I went through nothing harder than anybody else. I already know it's always somebody who's going through worse than what you're going through for real. So I mean that that is what I put into my music for like people I done lost stuff. Done lost stuff. I done been through. You know what I'm saying. Even the good Like I be putting the good in the music too, I just pull my heart out. That's my only time I really get the vent, Fred, Because I don't really. I ain't no talkative nigga. Like I don't really talk when I'm in the room. I know what I'm saying. You ain't gonna really hear me say too much.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, for real Cause, like, like, who is your biggest supporters, Like who is in your corner that tells you bro, shit, hey man, you messing up, or you, or they sound good, or mm.
Speaker 2:Tweak it a. Even with the music I got my girl. She be helping me. My mama, my mama love music. She be helping me. My partners for sure, my little brother, even my grandma. It be crazy I come around my grandma, singing one of my songs, one of my lyrics. I be like bro, this shit just be crazy. It just give me that itch to move, to make me feel like I make it like these people believe in me for it.
Speaker 1:You know what's crazy when you're saying it. Yeah, it takes you back like when I used to hear my um, my grandma, my dad and my mama telling me shit. It's like to the point where it takes a village.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it do for real.
Speaker 1:It's like, but my dad also told me that um blood don't make you family for sure though, because you gotta learn that though, but you keep talking.
Speaker 2:I ain't mean to go ahead. Go ahead, bro. No, you got, because, man, it'd be people you can just meet, like I'd be. Um, I ain't trying to get too spiritual, but they were like I read something like strangers, that's how you know. Like you're doing something good, like god gonna bring you strangers to congratulate you because the people beside you it ain't. It might not even be like really no hatred, but it's hard for people to really see you being as big as you finna be, because they, like they know where you came from, but a stranger they don't. They don't know you from a can of paint, they just see your greatness, bro.
Speaker 1:So they gonna, in a way, like give you your flowers and shit, like before somebody close to you like that's like like even when, when you had a conversation on the phone, man, and I said, bro, it don't take nothing but two seconds for me to tap something, yeah, and repost, repost.
Speaker 2:That's how I'll be. I'll be trying to repost all my bro shit. Like you know, I'm gonna do the same thing when they go up, because it's just like I don't know it's. It takes that little because, like bro, like because I think a lot of people are so afraid to be that first person that's happy yeah or to be seen supporting some that might not be so good or be the trend or something like that, but I don't be worried about it, man because, like I tell people I don't say it.
Speaker 1:Like like somebody asked me, uh, um, one time I said, man, fuck your opinion. Yeah, I see it. Because at the end of the day, I'm the one that has to judge me when I look in that mirror, because my moral compass tells me whether I'm fucking with it or not. It don't matter if it's popular or not. It shows me my moral compass because, at the end of the day, I'm not facing y'all, I'm facing that mirror for real.
Speaker 2:It take a lot to get to that because I ain't alone really just getting to that point day. I'm not facing y'all, I'm facing that mirror for real. It take a lot to get to that because I ain't gonna really just getting to that point where I'm just like with my music or anything I do, I ain't really worried about what, nobody thinking like their opinion on it, because shit, whether you doing good or something bad like somebody will always have something to say right you can't really just dictate your life off opinions, because you ain't gonna never be happy you.
Speaker 2:You ain't going to find no peace tonight.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, I used to laugh when people used to say opinions are like assholes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for real, my mama loved it. I'm like she got some crazy little sayings and shit, bro, shit.
Speaker 1:Because, like when you were saying about that whole complaining stuff, like a lot of people respond to yeah, um, they always say, um, tell me, why don't you complain about certain things? I said, man, shit, ain't. Ain't no reason to be complaining, but because it's better to be seen and viewed. Yeah, because a lot of people don't understand that. They say they sit back and say what you mean by seeing. If you nigga, you can see me, right, yeah, but you can view a dead body? Yeah, dead bodies, don't complain, but when you see me, I'm still, hey, I'm alive and well, I'm healthy, I can go about my life. You can see me for another day? Yeah, for real.
Speaker 2:That real. I ain't even never heard that, but that real for sure.
Speaker 1:That real, because a lot of people sit back and say, man, I got this going on, I got this, bro, it can always you never know, you never know bro. But you can be out here On your ass, bro, not knowing how you gonna eat, not knowing where your Next dollar gonna come from Yo Shit.
Speaker 2:Nigga done been up Some time, bro. Damn bro, black guy done changed Everything. Nigga be up Like man, like how did you, how was you Complaining? Yeah, that's why I be trying To stay away from, like you say, complaining, like you say, complain. I just be thankful, bro, I'm breathing bro, bro, shit.
Speaker 1:I try to avoid the negative motherfuckers Especially like I don't need.
Speaker 2:Like I don't need like seeing negative shit on the internet. No more for real. I used to love like little shit and shit, but like I don't need like that shit.
Speaker 1:Bro, like, like, like, that's like. Um, I get told all the time shit. I be watching like little fights and shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like what? Like? I saw one the other day where this girl was kicking in somebody's front door no-transcript to make you go kick that person's door in. Yeah, there's nothing that serious to make you go kick that person's door in.
Speaker 2:Bitch, I don't know. You got to go through it and learn it. Maybe she'll learn, Like it wouldn't even work.
Speaker 1:Now you would have like shit. Since I'm in my 30s, I'm on cage right, yeah, so. But now in my 20s I was with the fuckery, yeah.
Speaker 2:I, I was with the bull shit. I ain't no lie shit. I ain't no but 20, but I'm so glad Like cause I hang around All like older people. I never, like I don't even really got Like no cousins Close to my age and shit like that. So only person my family really like Close to my age, like my little brother, but, um, even my partners and shit they are like Two, three year older than me. So when I come around, like how I even carry myself, like people don't even think I'm that young and shit Right, right.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I definitely get what you're saying, because I know when you told me that you were that age and it's like you. Sure, yeah, because, but that shows you where you have influences that are older than you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That want to push you to become a better man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Because it took me a long time to get to this point where I'm just like, okay, shoot man. Hey man, I'll let you talk man. Yeah, I'll let you pop, as long as you ain't put your hands on me we good, yeah, but it ain't gonna lie, it do take a lot to.
Speaker 2:I done grew up a lot. I, the people around me, they be like, bro you changing, like you can just tell Like, not even in a negative way. They be like, bro, you growing, like you can tell Like, and I just be glad to even hear that shit, because when you go through that process of change, bro, it feel like everything the same, like it's hard for you to tell that you changing.
Speaker 1:Right, right, absolutely, do you. Okay, I know you were telling me earlier that your story about your feature, your first feature, yeah, which was crazy, and a lot of these people need to hear that, because a lot of these people get discouraged because shit ain't coming faster to them, yeah, and I and I hear like folks that come out rapping and they might drop their first ep and think they're supposed to get a hundred thousand a year.
Speaker 2:Yeah I ain't gonna lie, that's how I started off. I'm coming. I came in I was like bro, if I don't get like 10 000 plays on my first tape, I'd be probably ass or something, because I'm just seeing what other people are doing. But I'm glad, like I I got. I'm going through the process I'm going through now. But about the first feature though Um, actually I'ma shout out On a nigga who got it From my boy, lil Snap, from um From Green County. He had that and hit me up Like bruh. He been fucking with my music. Like I said, it's in the junk. Bruh, he was my first feature. He paid me like 25, 50 dollars, $50 or some shit like that. But shit, I was grateful, shit. I don't even remember what I did with the money, but I know I probably gambled it or some crazy shit.
Speaker 1:But see, but a lot of people don't understand.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The small wins are the biggest wins to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Because it's a bigger confidence boost. It shows you I got a further road to go to. Yeah, definitely and everything ain't. Everything ain't promised, right out of junk yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:Like you know, like the company boost, like, um, I ain't sure if it was the first show I did, probably like it was wearing the first couple and um, like I was telling you earlier, like little bro had asked me for that picture, like that shit, I don't know, like stevie thinking about it to this day. Like this nigga really asked me for that picture, like that shit, I don't know a lot of people be thinking about it to this day. Like this nigga really asked me for a picture like I'm just that guy already.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:This shit made me feel so good though, but yeah, it'd be magic, though, like the small shit, be the magic to me for it because a lot of folks don't understand, like, yeah, I can go out here, do all this extra shit, but it's the ones that walk up to me just. Hey, man, can I get a picture with you? Yeah hey man, like bro, I shit you not um. I was walking into work one day yeah white girl walked up to me. I love your podcast. What the fuck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they really catch you on guard.
Speaker 1:You listen, oh god let's do it every time you drop an episode, yeah, when you're dropping another episode, and it's like what the fuck? Because, like I, was me and my own, my co-host yeah we're talking. The other day um smiling, and we were looking at our numbers for this month and it's crazy because we were laughing about something that happened.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because our first month we only did 148 streams.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a blessing though.
Speaker 1:It's a blessing.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, but you like.
Speaker 1:It's like now. It's like bro like me and him were talking last night. I said, yeah, bro. I said we only did 156 this week and we bust out laughing. It's not because of the number yeah it's, it's, it's us remembering where we came from. Yeah, it's where we started from. Yeah, and we, we're like bro, we ain't even think we were gonna be this far for real man.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you yeah, it real, though I feel you on that so how long y'all be doing the podcast shit, we just started in february and like, like the crazy part about it is I was going through some bullshit. I ain't even gonna hold you, bro. Shit I had to have, like I had fucked on my shoulder. I had to have shoulder surgery. Um, I was going through a divorce, um, bro, I was lost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel you man.
Speaker 1:And the reason why I started the podcast was because I was like everybody was talking about something. Bro, you need a vent, yeah, and I don't want to talk to nobody about my bullshit. I feel you Because I said because I feel like if I talk to you about my bullshit, that means you can spread my bullshit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 1:Right, so I needed what they'll do, right. So I needed an avenue to talk without talking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, like I was telling, somebody the other day I said, shit, this is my therapy, this is the way I converse, this is the way I released like, between this, the gun range and spending time with my kids, those are the best times of my like, the best times that I have yeah, I relate though that how I be with my rapping shit, because I ain't, like I told you, I don't really talk, so I ain't even sitting telling nobody like what I'm going through and then, like it's still hard for me to do it to the day, that why I just I run straight to the music, like you know from in the how I'm recording on band, like I gotta get this shit on my mind.
Speaker 1:That's just how I be, though but a lot of folks don't understand. That's as simple as it comes like. A lot of people ask me all the time like you asked me before um, the ins and outs of the pod. Yeah, a lot of folks don't even think I'm recording off a garage band yeah, for real, you never know, but it's like, like and you start learning bro, everybody starts somewhere.
Speaker 1:You ain't gotta have the most fancy shit just to do something. You just got to find something that you enjoy doing. Yeah, that helps you just relax a little bit and takes your mind off of the bullshit. Yeah, and like, because I was telling somebody I said shit, it's me, I can go out here and do negative shit when I'm pissed off. Yeah, but why not take that negative, that angle and everything and transform it into something positive to where I can make progression?
Speaker 2:you look back on it, right? I done changed the way I move and react to shit, and that's how it be because a lot of like.
Speaker 1:I was telling somebody like this morning when I was getting off work uh, I was just on the phone and I was driving home. I said, shit, man, I looking at all the bullshit I've been going through and it's like man, that water on the bridge. And I was driving home I said, shit, man, I'm looking at all the bullshit I've been going through and it's like man, that water on the bridge. Man, I ain't got to worry about that shit At the time. It's like man, shit, I'm going to crash out, I'm going to hurt somebody, I'm going to broke my phone. I was drinking. It got down to 6 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2:Tell they gonna get me but you gotta, you gotta go through that to learn that like shit, that ain't. That ain't the way. That ain't the way because it'd be temporary, like it'd be temporary like satisfaction for like only you, because you still ain't no thing about the shit right.
Speaker 1:That's like somebody was asking me um boy, since you, you fresh and single you out here, out there hitting everything, man, fuck that shit nigga don't even realize.
Speaker 2:like bro, when you get out of some real shit you don't even be wanting to go to nobody Like you, only used to what you was like a customer.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:You invest your time into something.
Speaker 1:You don't even be wanting nothing new, bro. Man, I told somebody. I said that's a little boy mentality. Yeah, I said shit. I said what's that? I said what I said what's a piece of pussy Gonna do for me? 15 minutes of gratitude. What's the rest of the day, bro? I got 23 and 45 minutes Left in the god damn day After I done hit this shit. Now what am I gonna do For the rest of the day? And now I'm back to square one. I'm gonna go hit something else or shit. That's how you end up With itchy and scratchy. I mean for real, bro. That's when you got them ended up at the doctor. Nigga, don't think they real, though. Boy, what you talking about? Boy, they be got down swallowing them pills, talking about some shit. They going to the goddamn ER, to the doctor, with a whole hoodie on. I got a discharge. What you mean? You got a discharge.
Speaker 2:Boy.
Speaker 1:Ain't nothing to play with it. Hey, boy, what you talking about? Well, they got some that'll wipe your ass out nowadays, bro, but a lot of folks thinking and glorify that aspect of life. Yeah, which, why do you? Why do you glorify that?
Speaker 2:religion, social media and and like the music that the people they listen to, because they're I ain't gonna lie, I be doing this shit too, like I might sing, like I just be on there in my music, but it's just like I have fun with my music and I know what you gotta. At the same time, you gotta make music for you and you gotta make music for like you gotta be real, like you know what's going on in the world, like you know here for real. So you gotta kind of throw that in there but while at the same time being yourself like doing your own way because I was listening to somebody one day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because, like, if you look like I'm, I ain't gonna be, I ain't gonna hold you. I listen to a lot of like shit because I grew up like, between like, because I'm 38 yeah somebody asked me oh boy, what you listen to right now, shit, I'm gonna say I'm gonna be honest with you, but you'll catch me listening Dolph yeah, jeezy, nudie yeah. They said.
Speaker 2:Why you listening to all?
Speaker 1:that I said, bro, let me tell you something, you listening? I said them just my go to, them just my top three. They said why you listening to that? I said number one, dolph and Jeezy. Bro, they gonna, they gonna motivate me To go make me some money.
Speaker 2:For real, no matter what you doing, you, you ain't gotta be on no traffic shit like they be on. Like that motivate you to go to work right now.
Speaker 1:For real like hey, just motivate you, just to get in your bag nudie, just on the vibe. Yeah, yeah, he gonna crash out a little bit, but nudie he gonna make me think crash, not fun right, right like I just want to have some fun but, it's just like but they were like god, no, I, god, I ain't look at it like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I said a lot of people don't look at a lot of things like that because they don't understand or they don't ask questions. Yeah, for real, because people don't like, they don't know why they like a certain type of music, like shit. I was listening to 4 Bats.
Speaker 2:Oh, certain type of music, like shit.
Speaker 1:I was listening for bats. Oh yeah, I ain't gonna lie, when, bro, I played any shit for like a whole week straight, like I'm like this nigga talking, bro, bro, what bro? It fucked me up. When I first saw his video, though, when I was like, bro, wait a minute, it can't be this nigga, real voice man. But when you start listening to his story and where he came from, and this and the third, it's like okay, okay, I see it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for real.
Speaker 1:I see where his roots coming from.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He on a different way. He found his sound.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then he just he was just expressing what he going through, like on some heartbreak shit, like, and then people can relate to that. Everybody can relate to a heartbreak. It ain't got to be no relationship. It can be some family shit, some friends shit. You don't feel some heartbreak in a week.
Speaker 1:Bro, I told somebody one time I said I got crossed by my best friend, I had got shipped overseas. One time I was overseas in Japan. Bro, I get a call from one of of my other homeboy. I said, bro, you know what fucking you got? No, oh, like I said what you talking about. Bro, I've been gone 30 days. Bro, I'm over here for nine months. But I came back, bro, shot a goddamn pregnant. I'm like, oh, what's my good and big Bro next thing I know. But hey, this is the way the karma work, though, boy, that motherfucker caught two packs for the nigga. I'm talking about itches and scratches. Hey, I ain't have to do nothing. I just sat back and laughed Shit. You got some shit you can get rid of. But hey, it is what it is, it ain't what it ain't.
Speaker 2:I don't mean, but I don't know. I can't even say nothing about that. But yeah, that karma, shit it real for sure.
Speaker 1:You read what you saw hey shit, no, like karma, karma has its own way. Just because you don't do something to somebody, don't mean it ain't gonna come back to them. It ain't gonna come back and harm them yeah that's all I'm saying, man, because a lot of niggas fail to realize that and have the misconception of what they have in their brains.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, or what happens, but it's life be.
Speaker 1:Lifin' Life is a teacher, life be lifin'.
Speaker 2:My partner Raj love that. My brother guy, he love that. Life be lifin' shit. Because he do though. Life be lifin' bro, Life be lifin' man.
Speaker 1:shit, bro, like be like man shit when your EP dropping man really I ain't.
Speaker 2:I ain't got no date for no, no EP. But I am putting a little tape together, like I just brought up my boy bro the guy, me and him supposed to be putting a little EP together too. I'm just dropping some singles. I got some videos on the way, still like this, I'm just trying to network, network, get out there.
Speaker 1:But that's the thing that a lot of people fail to realize If you ain't networking, your spider web ain't going to grow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for real, I had to realize that too. They weren't glad I done it's taking the time that it did, because I'm glad I didn't just jump in the game and get turned up. Then I'm stuck in my play because I don't know how to network, I don't know how to talk to people and shit like that do you think that's what happens to a lot of artists, that they don't know how to network?
Speaker 1:they just jump out in the game and don't know how to communicate with?
Speaker 2:yeah, because, like when you, I feel like I mean it might not be for everybody, but I feel like when you pop off and then on the thing, it's like you ain't do none of that, you ain't have to do none of that to pop off. So you feel like, damn, I don't even need these niggas to keep going, cause shit, I got here without them. So you feel like you ain't gotta do none of that. You get laid just to shit like that.
Speaker 1:So I feel like that's why I didn't get because me and one of my partners were talking Young Mo yeah and me and him were just looking at certain numbers, because Mo does music and he engineers also, so we were looking at certain artists. When you look at certain artists and they on a label, they might get three, four million, a hundred thousand goddamn views in a day. Next thing, you know, boom, they get cut from the label. Now they ain't getting no kind of views, bro. Was that you or the engine working the machine? You know what I'm saying. With the angle out, don't get me wrong. Now they ain't getting no kind of use, bro. Was that you or the engine working machine? You?
Speaker 2:know what the angle. I don't get me wrong. Ain't nothing wrong with that machine, but shit you gotta put some work into it.
Speaker 1:Uh, some of that got to be you you're right got to be you, though, but it gonna get exposed because because that's what I think that's what's happening to a lot of them. A lot of them get that complacency because they rely on that machine so much and they don't understand there's more work, there's more shit behind the scenes that they could be doing to grow that fan base even higher, because that machine only goes so far.
Speaker 2:I feel like it be the labels too, though they rely too much on that machine. They don't really be trying to hear what the artist like. Like shit, i'm'm still a person, I still got, I was, I got ideas and shit like that too. So I feel like it's hand in hand with it too, like you can get messed up in a bad situation and shit like that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I've heard so many folks get flagged because of the machine sometime and they fail to realize, like I was telling, I was me and him were talking because, like we see all these artists, they might have 24,000 um people following them, right, but you only had 30 views on your goddamn shit bro. I did the math on math.
Speaker 2:To me I hope I don't never get to that point. That's just. That's just what I be trying to stay away from. Like I don't shadow ban on Instagram right now, but I don't really be tripping because I still fuck around like grab like 12, 13,000 views on my reels and shit, so I don't even be tripping, but I just I don't know, I don't want to be like that have 24,000 followers and 100 views and shit. Like that 24,000 followers and then like 100 views and shit like that, bro.
Speaker 1:The reason why I say that Is because, like, like my kids, like my kids are my best teachers. Nah, shit, cause I don't know Nothing about this Goddamn Instagram. Tiktok, shot, shit or nothing. Look, I'm gonna be about To say shot, but um, because they're the one that tell me some Old dad shit. Or the reason why this might not go? Because you shadow man.
Speaker 2:But I had to learn this. I was like, bro, they don't even make sense. But like how they work, like they told me, like people don't even get informed when you post. Like they'll just have to find your profile and just happen to see like damn, you post something like like I just dropped that song on the song you played the first song five and y'all was gonna tap in with it. But, um, like people don't even like know that I really dropped the song. You played the first song 5N, y'all was gonna tap in with it, but people don't even know that I really dropped the song. I still tell it like they're dating. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:A lot of times, like I was telling somebody the other day, sometimes you gotta go find promotions to push it yeah. Because somebody was asking me the other day how many? What did they ask me? Oh, how many folks subscribe to your channel? I don't know. Yeah, I don't really know. I said, the only thing I care about is how many people it actually touches and listens to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fair.
Speaker 1:Because they'll never know what we go through if they don't listen. Yeah, hey, but that's all we got to say for four steppers only I'm here with double r huncho man, y'all go tap in.
Speaker 2:I just dropped the song, a new single five in I need y'all, boy, go tap in with it. And I got some some, some different shit, some root, y'all go listen to the roots on fire. Y'all gonna be like where what they need any on some different shit. But yeah, that one for the lady, for real, y'all go tap in with it hey we out peace.
