It's a Vibe with Zoey Babi Podcast

Conversation with Charlie G

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It survived, it survived. We Zoe baby, we gon' buy real target time. It's survival.

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What's going on? It's your boy Charlie, G aka Southside, Charlie AKA Left Lane, Charlie. Represent St. Petersburg, Florida. And I'm here with that girl Zoe, baby. Let's get into it.

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Tune in like and don't miss the show. Zoe, baby, got the energy, let it flow. Real vlog truth, that's how it goes. It's survived. Zoe, baby, we gon' ride.

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Y'all ready for the night? Survive.

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What's going on, y'all? You already know this is your girl, Zoe Baby, tapping in for another episode of It's a Vibe Podcast, honey. As you know, this is the Vibe Corner, and this is where all the dopest artists and the hottest entrepreneurs come to vibe. Okay. Now I'm super excited because tonight, honey, we have one of the amazing artists. If you've been tuned in, you already know who I'm talking about. But if not, this guy plays the saxophone like nobody's business, okay? This guy has lyricism that is unmatched. Not only that, he does modeling and he actually did a little singing back in his day. And I didn't know that. But without any further ado, you guys, I'm gonna go ahead and welcome my boy Charlie G to the motherfucking set.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, okay, God damn.

SPEAKER_09

The nigga on the tomb, my boy did not want to turn that bitch. I'm Charlie, he'll finna give them motherfuckers the whole song. And y'all know I don't never give y'all lasses the whole goddamn song. But Charlie G, you look live in the vibe corner. What's going on, Vito?

SPEAKER_06

Man, I can't call it a mice father.

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I'm so excited. But before I get into it, now I know I did like a slight introduction for you, but I want you to let the people know who is Charlie G.

SPEAKER_06

Uh, I'm Charlie G, a rapper, a singer, part-time shit talker. Uh I I don't know who the fuck models. I saw you modeling. Where do you see me modeling? On LaDue page. Oh, damn.

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Yeah. Cody!

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I I just completely forgot that I did that. You forget a lot. Shout out the dewey. Shout out the dewey.

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Yeah, that's my dog. I know it. I know it. So much. Yeah. You do so much, Charlie. Now, I actually see that just last night you did a live set. Um, and you was playing your saxophone, Charlie. Now, do you do this every Wednesday? And if so, where so?

SPEAKER_06

So, first of all, the clip and the confusion, because I know there's gonna be a lot of confusion. Um, Charlie G does not play saxophone. Okay. Chandler St. Laurent plays saxophone. We are not the same person, we are just two niggas that look alike. Charlie G. And Chandler St. Laurent.

SPEAKER_09

Chandler St. Laurent. Chandler did play.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, he played saxophone playing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Charlie G is the okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like Martin and Roscoe, right? Like you don't never see them in the same place at the same time.

SPEAKER_09

I actually get it because I was gonna ask you, like, what was the reason for the different names?

SPEAKER_06

Just because, like I understand that they're two different demographics. Um my parents really love the fact that I play saxophone and they really hate the fact that I rile. Really? Oh god.

SPEAKER_09

What do your parents do? Your parents like professional, professional.

SPEAKER_06

Um, so my mama worked for child support enforcement.

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Okay.

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Um, my daddy nigga died. Um before he died, he was a pastor.

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Okay.

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Yeah. Two people.

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So you was a church baby.

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Yeah, man.

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You were the church baby.

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Very much so, very much so.

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Okay.

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So yeah, you naturally they wouldn't be happy about their child saying nigga all the time.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, they like they they love the fact that I play sex and a lot of I understand that it's something that they could be proud of.

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Yeah.

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So I kind of want to keep the name they gave me attached to that. But like, niggas call me Charlie. Like, my whole life, niggas have called me everything but Chandler. And I don't I don't know if this, like, maybe it's just because they just didn't believe that my black ass was saying that my name is Chandler, but I got I got called everything but Chandler. Charlie. Charlie is just a name I wouldn't believe.

SPEAKER_09

Like you say Chandler. I'm like, Chandler. That's why I say Chandler.

SPEAKER_06

I done Taylor. I done been everything but Chandler. How the hell do you get the Taylor? That's what I'm saying. Like, I just I just think they'd be surprised at the name. So yeah. Um, a few people called me Charlie, and I was like, you know what? Yes, yes, I am.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. And it just stuck. And that's how you got Charlie G.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty much.

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Now, when I first saw you at my showcase, and by the way, he won first place, honey. That was my first showcase that I ever did by myself. That was so much fun. Oh my god, thank you. And you won first place, and you sung origami, and then you sung your new song. Did you play that song? Yeah, you sung that song. I didn't show that yep. And listen, everybody loved that song. And Charlie won. Charlie won.

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I wasn't gonna do origami, but like everybody that went before me had a nasty song, and I just didn't want to feel left out. Especially that that old dude from like, where was he? Was he from like Miami or something? Oh my god. He was from St. P. Mr. P. No, not DMs. No, he's talking about Mr. P. Mr. P. Mr. P say, uh He said a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_09

That was a fun time. He was actually from Miami. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, him and um the other girl, I can't think of her name right now. She was out, she was a great artist, but she was from um, they was from Miami. They came way down here from Miami to come to Daddy Ben. I was so happy. But Charlie, you dominated the state. Did you feel like it was harder for you because it was like no violence, no drug? But your music really don't have that to it. Yeah, yeah, right, right.

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So you can have it easy anyway. Um it's always maybe, maybe it's just like a mental thing for me, but I think there's always a challenge of willing acceptance. So, um, yeah, every every showcase, I'm I'm nervous.

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Are you nervous at every showcase?

SPEAKER_06

All of 'em. All of 'em. All of 'em.

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So when do you feel more free as Chandler or as Charlie?

SPEAKER_06

It really depends. It really depends. I think I think Chandler might be a bit more widely accepted. So that that does make things easier when I'm in different places. But you know, I think I love Charlie.

SPEAKER_09

But that versatility has gotten you far because you actually get paid gig for being on your saxophone. That's super dope. Like, and then back to the Wednesday night last night. See, we almost curved to that because you actually perform live at various venues. Um, where were you last night? And kind of tell us, do you do that every Wednesday night?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I was at a place in St. Pete called Black Leaf Cigar Like. Shout out to Black Leaf. Um that's my family over there. Come there every Wednesday from 8 to 10. Uh I got into some dad and they took care of my dad. And I was like, no, you're not playing every week now. So that's what I do. Um yeah, yeah, come too. If if you're in St. Pete. Like if you're not in St. Pete.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, anywhere. Tampa, Orlando, Port Charlotte, Brayton. It was super dope. And then you play with a live band, but you're the hairliner.

SPEAKER_06

So I do play with a band sometimes, and I do want to shout them out as well, because they're they're a group of musicians who are a band in their own in their own right, and they just let me rock with them. So shout out to What About Mama. They're from Tampa. That's super dope. Oh, yeah. Shout out to What About Mama.

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That and that's super, super dope, Charlie, because I would have never known. Like, it seemed as if y'all performed together forever. Like, you just fit in. So, do you prefer to be in solo or would you mind being like in a in a group that travels and stuff?

SPEAKER_06

I would if if if the group was what about mama, I absolutely would not mind. You would that'd be the only group. So far, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Now your music really took you far. And y'all heard a little snippet of that song now. I'm telling you for sure, then it is actually outright now. Now, what was the motivation behind that?

SPEAKER_06

Um pretty much my entire life has been people telling me that I couldn't or I shouldn't do something. And my answer has pretty much always been initial, okay, alright, uh, I I started writing it on my way to work one day and I was working a job that I absolutely fucking hated. Um the beat was sent to me by quad and listening to it. The first thing I heard was Okay, I'll for sure then. And then the kind of just went.

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How long did it take you right now?

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The first verse took. Alright, so I had already kind of worked out the framework of the first verse and like half of the second verse in my head and was kind of playing around with what words were fit in that space. Um I won another showcase in the prize of studio. So I met it with a free hour, I think an hour or two hours. Um that's why I landed up with my engineer shot, a German engineer. But that's when we first met. Damn. I think I think it took me about maybe 30 minutes to an hour to actually put words to what I was playing with in my head.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. But do you ever get to a point because you have a catalog, but your catalog is hidden. And I'm so ticked off about it, okay? And I told you I was gonna tell you on live, your whole catalog is actually hidden. Okay? You gotta catch him live, and he performs enough, and he's out there enough for y'all to catch him. So y'all have to go to Callum Charlie on Instagram and TikTok.

SPEAKER_06

The thing about it is, it's just like I've I want to become somewhat like my idols. So um I noticed that a lot of them are perfectionists of the crowd. Um I understand that it's early and uh the exposure/slash notoriety part of my career. So perfection don't have to be so paramount in my mind, but it really is. Like, if it's not right, I'm not putting it out. Showden was the one we got right on the first try.

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Listen, and then when you working with names like Pusha Premium and Caleb Music, and you see like the big things that they do, it is a lot of pressure. But where did you wait? Before we get any further, um I'm gonna do a lightning round for the people at home, and then I'm gonna let their ass go because the fun shit happens after y'all tune the hell out. Y'all already know how it goes. Y'all gonna have to meet us on InstaVide.

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I didn't even know y'all was over there. Hey y'all.

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Yeah, they right there.

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Hey y'all, how your mama them? Y'all mama and them good.

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They all good.

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Y'all baby today.

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See, look, everybody, they join in. I hope y'all bathe together. Maybe they tune in this motherfucker every now and again. But before we do this, we finna actually do a lightning round with Charlie, motherfucking G. Let's do it. Um, here we go. All right, so um, I'm gonna give you two words. I'm just gonna throw two words out there, and you gotta think fast. Don't think about it. Ain't no reason why you just gotta say it. Okay. Um, my mom, push your prima caleb. Wow. You got three.

SPEAKER_06

Um can I drink if it's both?

SPEAKER_09

You definitely, but you gotta take a shot. You can't drink it. Oh, yeah, but you drank it straight. Okay, so yeah. Both. Yeah, that's the same answer. I know that's right. Um, Mama Mam. Charlie G or Chandler.

SPEAKER_06

Chandler paying the bills right now. I ain't gonna lie to you. Chandler's paying the bills right now, man.

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Chandler charged that bag.

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Charlie just look good right now.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Um when it comes to best showcases, St. Pete or Orlando.

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St. Pete. 'Cause that's home and I've never done Orlando.

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St. Pete to Tampa.

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Tampa.

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Tampa.

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Tampa cause of frequency.

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I said no reasons. Take a shot. Go ahead, take your shot. You ain't like that nigga.

SPEAKER_06

I don't know that that felt racist for some reason.

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Yeah.

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That's what it was. They always trying to make St. Pete versus Tampa a thing. And like, bruh, no. We two different cities, but if you sneeze in Tampa, a nigga in St. Pete can hear it.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, that's the truth, because it's so close. It's so close. It's so close. It's so close. Um, saxophone or rapping?

SPEAKER_06

Rapping.

SPEAKER_09

Rapping? Why?

SPEAKER_06

That's what I did first.

SPEAKER_09

Really?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Oh, yeah. As soon as I learned how to talk, I was trying to make words round.

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Uh-uh.

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Swear to God. Did you do Christian rap? Uh yeah, I did for a little while. Um got mad at me because I tried to, you know, the Lord's Prayer? She got mad at me because one night I was in my room rapping the Lord's prayer.

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How you was doing it.

SPEAKER_09

How you was doing it.

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Hold on, let me see if my mama answered. Hello.

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Exclusive, exclusive.

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Hold on, she might still be up. Hold on.

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Hold on.

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I'm on the podcast right now. And the host just asked me. Um, I told her that like I started rapping as soon as I could talk. And that you got mad at me because I was trying to rap the Lord's Prayer. And she asked me how I did it. And I don't remember. You remember how I did it? How I did it.

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You said you were saying that.

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Okay, I'm just out of here. We just gonna find that one.

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Y'all gotta do it, fuck that.

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If we gonna ignore it, then that's fine. We can do that, but I just need to know.

SPEAKER_09

That is fashion. Cool. But guess what? I wanna do now. Make this red.

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Don't make me guess. You don't want to answer that.

SPEAKER_09

You gotta stop this shit. You gotta stop this shit. Act like Chandler. Oh B. Chandler.

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This is how that nigga acts.

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B Chandler. That's what I'm telling them.

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Who got the best chicken wings in Temple?

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I like ATL Deli. They got one in Tampa? Yeah. Right on Hills, bro. But they cloned. Shut up and keep talking.

SPEAKER_06

Why? You wanted some chicken wings? Uh that's That's your high food. I think I think I am off the duce. I think that's.

SPEAKER_04

You hungry too? So what y'all gonna do? You know, Buffalo Wild Wings the Thursday. You can buy one, get one on the ball.

SPEAKER_06

Well, if you don't get the fuck, I'm sorry.

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That was follow him.

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That that reaction was not for you. That reaction was not for you. I apologize. I apologize.

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I'm just trying to help. I'm trying to make it easy. Man, just get some fries.

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From McDonald's.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, so aside from.

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We're gonna go to a McDonald's. You eat me down. We can get French fries.

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Okay, so aside from McDonald's, BB dubs, ATL Deli. Absolutely not. Um, who got the thing? So I don't like my wings fried hard, and that seemed like the default way they fry their wings.

SPEAKER_09

How do you like yours, half done?

SPEAKER_06

I eat somewhere in the middle.

SPEAKER_09

That's nasty. What you eat your steak medium rare?

SPEAKER_06

Oh, like rare. Like, yeah. I eat that pink. Um, anyway. Anyway.

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Um, we got to go around the room on this.

SPEAKER_06

I don't like my wigs fried hard. So, like, when I put fried sauce in the shit, they usually don't do it.

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So what I have to do is not, we're not about to bypass this rare motherfucking meat right here. Wait. Keeping it in the cool. Wait a minute. We listen, wait a minute. This is what I'm telling you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. We're finna go around the goddamn room right now because I wanna know, okay? Y'all two eat this stuff medium rare. Hell yeah. I like my food well done. So it's one you see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06

From my from my historical understanding that my from my historical understanding, us as a people like our shit well done because we used to getting shitty parts of the meat.

SPEAKER_02

What?

SPEAKER_06

Like we out of that part of life. Like we get good. It's not like you don't have to cook that shit all the way.

SPEAKER_09

We get well done because we don't want blood on our plate.

SPEAKER_06

They drain all the blood out before they serve it.

SPEAKER_09

They don't drain all the blood out. No, they do not.

SPEAKER_06

They can't they legally can't serve you blood.

SPEAKER_09

They serve it because people have blood on their damn plate and they soak they goddamn veggies up with it and eat it, and then them people say that it's good for their iron, you fucking carnivores. That's what I say.

SPEAKER_06

Ain't no no iron pills.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, people who eat raw meat is carnivores. They will eat you, okay? If an apocalypse comes, they will be the zombie. They will fucking eat you.

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Okay, I eat corned beef, hash, and pussy. I'm not afraid of sleep.

SPEAKER_09

Whoa! No, we're not afraid. To make this no freak nick party.

SPEAKER_06

I'm 30 and I like older women. What the fuck makes you think I'm trying to entertain these people? Who is the older woman? I just said in general.

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31.

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I'm 30.

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These babies. You 30. Do it. 33.

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31.

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31. 30. Gang. Take a shot. You the baby. Take a shot. Take a shot. Take a shot. Take a shot. Take a shot. Oh, boo. I'm sick.

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DJ Millie, you better take a shot. Yeah, bro. You gotta take a shot.

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No, take a shot. I won't take a shot. No, you take one. No, you take a look at the one. Now, where y'all going to get food from? That's the debate. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04

The world may never know. That's crazy, what?

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Literally.

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Yeah, you know where I'm going, Cardi. My favorite.

SPEAKER_06

What at it? Where is that?

SPEAKER_09

Popeye's Hills Open. Oh, Popeye? The one on Hillsboro open. What time they closed?

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Closed now. It's 10.

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Check it out.

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I'm telling you. The one on Hillsburg by the casino. Yes.

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No, they don't close that early. I know they don't.

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I got you. The one on Hills.

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I know they closing soon. They ain't closed now. What time they closed? 11's gonna be.

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What time?

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10.

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COVID done changed the game.

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With that bullshit. Waffle house to open. That's what I was thinking.

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We can go to Waffle House.

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Waffa House gotta get your stuff.

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At the 11th, from 11:30 to 6, you gotta get your shit to go.

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Fuck the Waffle House. Don't even get us to go inside. You gotta order that bitch from the look.

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From the drug dealer window. I don't even buy my drugs from the drug dealer window.

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Yeah. I went in there once you go eat the chicken.

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After 12 o'clock at the fucking Waffle House.

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Bro, come and change everything. You can't even be ratchet from the same hours.

SPEAKER_07

It's not even that. That was Roscoe. That was Roscoe's.

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That was Roscoe's. That ain't Waffle House. That was Roscoe's.

SPEAKER_04

Even in Atlanta, I went to Atlanta for the uh street market. They it's the same thing out there too.

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Inside closed. You got the order from the windows.

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Oh no, this camera going.

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It's been gone.

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Yeah, I wanted to go around the room.

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I done say some shit. I hope you do.

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I'm not I'm not deleting that.

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We're gonna go viral. I just need to edit it out.

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I ain't editing nothing.

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All right, well, straight raw. Let me take some apologies right now.

SPEAKER_09

You better tell them how apologies right now. You want to take some apologies or give some apologies? Text them.

SPEAKER_06

Take some apologies to who? Not important.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, so here we go. This is the question that all the ladies want to know. Okay? Are you single or are you in a relationship? I'm an EP. Are you single or in a relationship? I'm an album. Are you single or in a relationship? I'm a mixtape. We ain't gonna get that. So, ladies, you know when they don't answer. You know what that means, lady. You know what that means, lady. You know what that means, ladies. You know what that means, ladies. Oh my gosh. So how long have you been in a relationship?

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Um shit. I got married to the streets, like, oh nah.

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So that was a test. That's my boy.

SPEAKER_06

I made the game, my wife. I you know make a visit.

SPEAKER_09

What do you want to McDonald's? Babyface gonna turn into a Big Mac.

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Shit.

SPEAKER_06

Don't do that. That's my only advice. Don't do that.

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Yeah.

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I used to be in love with their chicken nuggets. Like when they fresh, when they hot, but did you hear that McDonald's was serving human pieces? I mean, yeah. I mean, all these people going missing and don't never get found.

SPEAKER_09

Who used to be back in the streets?

SPEAKER_06

Back in, yeah, when it was like it was a thing with Wendy's. Niggas used to find like severed fingers and rats in their chili.

SPEAKER_09

No, the fuck they didn't. I never heard of that in life. Y'all heard of that at home, y'all. Y'all heard when they had severed fingers and wendies. You heard of that, dude? You heard of that, Cardi? Yeah. It happened down here in Tampa. No, the heck it didn't. What Wendy's was that? Cardi pull that up and see if that would happen. For real. You heard what they said happened, Cardi P. Yeah, they found fangers in the Wendy's in in Tampa.

SPEAKER_06

I don't know if it was in Tampa. But it was in Tampa. But this was like late 90s, early 2000s.

SPEAKER_04

What you gotta what you gotta know, I don't know if y'all really was paying attention in in during the time of COVID. Within like that second week, going to the second week of COVID, they posted all the documentaries on Netflix.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. I saw that you talked about that the last time. You talked about that the last time.

SPEAKER_04

All that shit was on Netflix from the ST5s, the McDonald's joint, uh like everything that been going on that nobody was supposed to know to kind of sweep under the rug and put all that shit on Netflix.

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Yeah, in 2005, a customer claimed to find a several human finger in the hole of Wendy's chili.

SPEAKER_07

Well, it's something it happened though. That's all that matters. It happened a few times because I remember hearing about it. Yeah, they covered up because it was a situational time. They cover up, they try to cover up the life. It was like all over the states. Yeah, everywhere.

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Now, Charlie, because your mama literally said since a child you was rapping something as simple as the Lord's Prayer. So that goes to show that you was really into church because you said your dad was a pastor, right? So what was it like growing up in a household when your dad, because normally the daddy is the is the iron fist. You get what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, and crazy enough, my dad was a very chill person.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Um maybe, no, no, no. He's all from from what I understand, he's always been a very chill person. Didn't really have a lot to say. Um I guess that's kind of where I get my way with words from, because he didn't speak often, but when he did speak, it's almost like he wanted to make sure his words had impact. Right. And I kind of carried that with me. So yeah, my mom was really the disciplinarian and the the the the loud voice in the house. Um I knew not to fuck with my daddy. Like it wasn't one of them things where I could just like run over my dad. But yeah, like I knew not to fuck with pops. But mom was really the the the disciplinarian, the the one that was really putting that foot down. Um it was loving, you know? I think I think they had an idea of what they what they saw for me as a child. But as as I grew older, I kind of just went my own path. And we still we still you heard it. We still we still close. That's still my dog.

SPEAKER_09

But it's still gotta be hard because especially when it's something that you're passionate about. Like, let's say for instance, my family wanted me to be a lawyer, right? So I went into my adult life and I've acquired all these little degrees and different things that was putting me on a path to be a lawyer, but I realized that wasn't my passion. You know?

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Yeah.

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Um, so how long did it take for you to really kind of like set your own set your own journey, really? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06

I think my parents kind of knew from junk that I was I was gonna do what I wanted to do.

SPEAKER_09

What's the worst thing you did that you got in a lot of trouble for?

SPEAKER_06

It was always some shit I said. Yeah, because you was bad.

SPEAKER_09

Were you a bad kid?

SPEAKER_06

I mean, I ain't no killer but don't push me.

SPEAKER_09

So you was like a nerd.

SPEAKER_06

I wouldn't even say a nerd. Like I did, I did well enough in school to kind of fly under the radar for a long time. Um I got into my fair share of mischief like kids do. But I don't think I was a bad kid, but I know for damn sure I wasn't no good kid. I wasn't no nerd. Yes, I was. Yes, I was. I wasn't an academic nerd. I was a nerd about music. Anything outside of music, I really didn't care.

SPEAKER_09

Right. So were you one of those people? Because I remember I had a classmate in college. He was like sitting in our English class and he'll be writing in his composition book. And one day I just asked him, like, what are you writing? And he was writing lyrics and he wasn't even paying attention to what he was.

SPEAKER_06

Absolutely, absolutely. And the thing about me is like, I hear what you say as far as being in class, like, I hear what the teacher's saying, but I'm I'm kind of focused on this idea, trying to flesh out this idea. But the thing about me that was so crazy was like teachers would see that I wasn't paying attention and they would try to call on me just to like trick me up. And then I answer it correctly, and then they be mad and they couldn't do shit with me. So that was that was always fun.

SPEAKER_09

So, like, when did you um so did you start off playing instruments or were you um were you just were you did you start off as a rapper?

SPEAKER_06

I started off as a rapper. Okay. Um because of my parents just being the people that they are outside of, you know, their professions and religious beliefs. Um just very mature, intelligent people. A lot of the old school music, a lot of jazz music was played when I was growing up. So that's a lot of the stuff I heard. Uh saxophone has kind of always kind of always been a part of like my upbringing. So it was it was kind of a natural thing for me to play it when I eventually started playing it. But like rap was the first thing I I fell in love with. So that was the the first thing I started doing creatively.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Now you said that um when you when you putting in your music, you kind of compare it to some of your idols. You want it to sound just as good as your idols when you put it out as far as um the quality of it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who are some of your who are some of your idols growing up?

SPEAKER_06

Growing up. Yeah, like as a child. Funny enough, the the thing that made me wanna rap was I had to be like five years old, four or five years old, and my mama was watching one of them daytime shows. I couldn't tell you which one. One of them daytime talk shows, and it had Lil' Bow Wow on. This is what he was Lil' Bow Wow. He was, you know, rapping doing his shit, and I was like, I can do that. I was going to do that. So, like my earliest influence was Bow Wow. And I got older, of course. I think I think after Bow Wow, I got a little older, Lil Wayne was on the rise, T. I was on the rise, listened to a bit of that. But then T-Pain came out.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

And T Pain so crazy, because the time T Pain came out in the time that I was growing up, it kind of coincided in a way to let me know that like, yeah, you can rap, but like you can also sing too, and it should be smooth.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

So that's that's what opened up the door for me singing. I started singing like after I hit puberty, like 13, 14.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Okay, okay. So now since you want to talk about the singing and stuff, and you didn't bring your saxophone, and I gave you a warning outside of what I was gonna ask you to do on live. And I know he thought I forgot, but what I told him, he uh Brown make me remember, tequila made me forget. I keep telling him, if he watched that podcast for real, he'd have known that wasn't a Dewey. Period. Dewey don't want no problems.

SPEAKER_06

He should have gone back to sleep.

SPEAKER_09

I was working on how he was. I know that's right. Period. Dewey always working. I'm so proud of you. I can't wait to be one of Dewey's models. Yeah, he chose me, bitches.

SPEAKER_04

Should have said something. You done went to the uh the Rebel Fest event that was two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_09

Crop top, crop Rebel Fest.

SPEAKER_04

Uh agency. They're like a model agency. Uh Jay like the letter and they'll be doing it.

SPEAKER_09

I just want a model for you. That's it. I don't want to be a model. That'll just take the modeling off my bucket list. Cause I was telling Charlie outside, I have some hell of a story for my children. Like I told my story on this, so I'm not gonna tell you why, but I did a walkthrough in jail a long time ago. And I told Charlie, when I have children, I'm gonna be like, I went to jail. You know, I got caught with a little weed. I'm gonna say, I sold drugs. Make the ass scared as hell. So now when I be a model, you know, I'ma tell the ass. You get what I'm saying? I used to be a drug dealer girl, and I transitioned into a model. Then I turned into a talk show host. But if it wasn't for I am La Dewey who had a dream in me, and Trill who put me in my first movie, I wouldn't be nothing. That's how I'm gonna talk to my children. Then I tell you outside child.

SPEAKER_06

You did, you did.

SPEAKER_09

I told you. In those exact words, in those exact words, I added the Dewey and Trill. See, every time somebody comes, every time somebody comes, I added Uncle Dewey.

SPEAKER_03

What kind of drinks you sow?

SPEAKER_09

Big dog Trill, huh?

SPEAKER_03

What kind of drinks you so?

SPEAKER_09

Weed pills. I ain't said them, I promise. I did. I did try to be a drug dealer, y'all. But they took me. I did too.

SPEAKER_06

That shit was I I I that's when I realized I was smoky for Friday. I spent my whole life thinking I was crazy, but I'm smoking for real. Oh, big pearl. I was only shipping the weed so I can have money to buy weed to smoke. It was such a bad business plan, bro.

SPEAKER_09

No, well, I'm not gonna put all my stuff out there, but I was doing pretty good as a uh a weed lady. I was doing good till I wasn't, you know. That's when you had to go. They took me to jail and I was like, listen, this ain't that. I had to pee so bad. And you know, when you go in the bathroom, they lock the door behind you. You ever experienced that?

SPEAKER_06

No.

SPEAKER_09

It's the scariest thing in the world. I bet. Right? And then you have to bang on the for them to let you out. I wasn't in the four hours and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Well, I got a few people that maybe not. Don't tell them. Don't wink at me. I'm no, I'm not jinxing you, I'm just telling you. But I really do. I really do. I wouldn't wish that on nobody.

SPEAKER_06

Who but So you a drum or a flat person?

SPEAKER_09

I am a flat person.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_09

What you wait, wait, wait. So we're gonna answer. What you like? Drum sticks? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

So, so boom. I understand I understand your POV. I used to be, I used to be I used to be non, I used to be nonpartisan. I used to be equal opportunity. I used to think a wing is a wing. Why are we separating what we could put together? Right, you know? Um, but since everybody wants to fry their shit super hard, give me a flat because I'm not finna cut my mouth on the drone.

unknown

That's wrong.

SPEAKER_09

Where the fuck did that come from? Make them all flat. You want some wings?

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. He said ten piece, make them all flat. Period.

SPEAKER_06

I just said fry them soft, but if you're gonna fry them hard, give me flats so I can save you.

SPEAKER_09

I fry my chicken hard first.

SPEAKER_06

I don't want to start.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I don't eat medium rare. Now, the first time I cooked chicken, you might have liked it then. Because it was brown on the outside and bloody on the inside.

SPEAKER_06

And I thought it was that's a your grease was too hot.

SPEAKER_09

No, I'm saying I had to grow, but I was trying to cook at like 11 or 12. So my mama at work and I see her. All I know is she put this bitch in, and when it's brown, it tastes good to me. My homegirl ate it all. Yeah, she did. And told me it was good. Shout out to her. Did you check on her home life? No, she's she's a nurse right now. She's brown. Bless her heart.

SPEAKER_10

She's a nurse.

SPEAKER_06

She got a she got a life saved by a nurse that was like, you know what?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, but my mama told me, like, the grease too hot. But what's some of the lessons that you learned from your dad that was like some shit, that's something that stuck with you and you might pass on you. Cause you got a boy and a girl.

SPEAKER_06

Ooh. My daddy was the king of one-liners, boy. He used to just have one line out of just um.

SPEAKER_09

Give us one of the lines. One that used to crack you up. I heard one the other day. I don't know if y'all hear this. Grandpa, he put, he be like, put a card to me, yeah. Fuck with your.

SPEAKER_06

Like when you were upsetting my dad or like getting on his nerves, he would just take his glasses off and start cleaning them.

SPEAKER_08

And that's how you knew.

SPEAKER_06

Like, everybody who knew him knew that was your cue to shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_08

You're doing too much.

SPEAKER_06

And like people who didn't know, they just weren't around for long.

SPEAKER_09

And that goes back to the face. Like, what's your face look like? Like when your kids getting on your nerves, how your face look?

SPEAKER_06

I can't even be too mad at my kids because I made them.

SPEAKER_09

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06

Like. So you spoil them. They they do shit that I did when I was their age. So I can't I can't even. So you excuse it. I I laugh.

SPEAKER_09

You pissed their mother off.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Like when she comes home, she be like, why the fuck did you let them do that, church?

SPEAKER_06

So my kids look just like me, so that that pisses them off enough, right? Okay. Um. But my son says shit that I would have. So like my son was over at my auntie's house, and my great niece got some roller skates. My son put them on, it was kind of like walk around the house in them. And her whole place is carpet except for the front part when you first walk in. That's tile. And he was walking on the tile part. And she was like, you know, be careful. I don't want you to fall and hurt yourself. And he goes, but this is my life.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Like, I can't be mad at that. Cause I, yeah. Yeah, that's that's me. I got the witness to me at the wrestling.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, at the wrestling, right?

SPEAKER_06

Bro. Oh female. Your son? My son ran. You ever been to Crowbar?

SPEAKER_09

Just one.

SPEAKER_06

My son ran all around Crowbar the whole night.

SPEAKER_09

And you ain't say shit.

SPEAKER_06

I couldn't. I was a part of the I was a part of the event.

SPEAKER_04

You just letting them be great. It wasn't even that. It was like you see them run for like two minutes that she knows a female arms. Okay. So he's a good one.

SPEAKER_09

So you have good kids though. They just do kids' stuff. Because I'm telling you. It's some churn that you got to see. Nowadays you got to specify with these churn. Like, is your churn good children that just do children's stuff? Is your churn just bad as hell?

SPEAKER_06

My son is also three, so we're gonna see.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, my niece have a hell.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, it's it's it's too early to tell.

SPEAKER_09

My grand uh nephew. My niece have a hell with him. Yeah, I got a grand nephew, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I remember you telling me just every time you said I'm a grand auntie.

SPEAKER_09

Can y'all believe it? Period. What is that?

SPEAKER_06

It's when your it's when your like say you got a niece and your niece have a baby.

SPEAKER_09

That's it. I'm a grand auntie. My niece did have a baby. So you a grand uncle? You're a granduncle.

SPEAKER_06

Here with your chest out. At your age, baby.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, the baby too. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, you a grand uncle. You get what I'm saying? It's something better than just the uncle. See, they got uncles, and then they got grand uncles. They grand. You know, better than the rest. Just like you. The grandest brand. You know, you the grandest uncle. There's no better feeling than that.

SPEAKER_04

Granduncle. I'm my only uncle. Don't talk to us.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, but you the grand uncle. Just hit her with that shit. I'm your grand uncle.

SPEAKER_06

Don't don't do that. Don't, don't do that. Don't.

SPEAKER_04

It's nine o'clock out there in Texas.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, no. Wait till tomorrow.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. I did that to my niece. I said, yeah. That's my grandnephew right there. She's telling us auntie grow up. Ain't that amazing? Yeah. They gave me the idea to put the flowers up here, you guys. So I hope y'all like the new decoration because I'm trying to make this a home for the artists. Y'all know I love artists. I love artists. I love artists.

unknown

Are they real?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, they real.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Your highest smoke. Nah, I'm looking at from this angle with that light. Them on the end don't look real.

SPEAKER_09

What they are. They just dying.

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_09

I'm just playing all these motherfuckers fake, but you know, don't tell the people on camera that. That's why you have to whispers motherfuckers. Right on the mic. Oh, it's okay. Yes, we manifest it. Dewey's gonna have his shit everywhere, and I'm gonna have my cups on his website soon.

SPEAKER_06

That sounds crazy as well.

SPEAKER_09

I'm just fucking with y'all. I'm just fucking with that.

SPEAKER_06

Crazy out of context.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I'm just fucking with y'all. I'm just fucking with y'all. I just like to get doing right.

SPEAKER_04

I'm glad I got him on my shit.

SPEAKER_09

What?

SPEAKER_04

On my uh on my website.

SPEAKER_09

I'm trying to tell you because Charlie is.

SPEAKER_04

I didn't do you like that. I didn't do you like that.

SPEAKER_06

I ain't gonna lie, that's fire.

SPEAKER_09

You got one with a birthday cake. What were you doing with the birthday cake? Because Charlie was like.

SPEAKER_06

I'm just saying with a birthday cake.

SPEAKER_09

Charlie, in 2020, did you really have an OnlyFans? Because somebody told me that in 2020 you had an OnlyFans. Now I'm only gonna ask you the questions that people put in my inbox. I wasn't gonna ask it on live because I told them that they had to tune in, but there was actually people who told me that you had an OnlyFans. And I want to know, is that true? Yeah, I know anybody. Charlie, do you did you have an OnlyFans?

SPEAKER_06

First of all, who the fuck are these people?

SPEAKER_09

I don't, I'm asking a question.

SPEAKER_06

Me too.

SPEAKER_09

You're not asking, I'm the interviewer. You're the interviewer.

SPEAKER_06

I yeah, yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_09

You did? What were you doing on your OnlyFans?

SPEAKER_06

Uh that was 2020. I'm not the same person I was. But what were you doing? I don't I can't recall.

SPEAKER_09

What were you showing? Was it your feet?

SPEAKER_06

Yes, it was a bunch of feet picks.

SPEAKER_09

You're a liar.

SPEAKER_06

So it started out as a rumor. Cause like anybody from St. Pete knows that when it comes to women, I like plus size women.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Like that's never been a secret rumor. Right. Never. So it started out as a rumor started by uh a friend of mine. The rumor was that I had an OnlyFans where I was feeding big girls donuts. And the rumor got so much track. The rumor.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

The rumor got so much traction that I was like. Maybe I should. So I started the OnlyFans and Did yeah, you gotta close up on this motherfucker. Just somewhere along the way.

SPEAKER_09

You gonna close the camera?

SPEAKER_06

I never found a woman that I felt comfortable enough feeding donuts on camera. And I never got comfortable enough with the concept itself to actually do it. So the OnlyFans is just is just blank.

SPEAKER_09

So is there's not but you made OnlyFans. I created an account because you really wanted to find. Okay, so are you?

SPEAKER_06

So it was 2020.

SPEAKER_09

So I have a lot of plus size women here, so let me tell you opportunities still present. No, no, no, no. This is not this is not Chandler speaking. This is Charlie G. This is Charlie G. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. This is Charlie G in the place to be. Oh my big girl. No means Mr. Duce. Mr. Duce himself.

SPEAKER_06

No means no.

SPEAKER_09

Oh big girl. How many we're talking? 250, 300?

SPEAKER_06

Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Anybody 250?

SPEAKER_06

No, wait, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_09

Is that a max? No, no. What kind of donuts? There's no because these are questions that big girls want to know.

unknown

Is it strawberry?

SPEAKER_09

I'm telling you. Is it feeling? Did you have what you did on that?

SPEAKER_06

I'm working on the album.

SPEAKER_09

I'm working on the album.

SPEAKER_06

Was it gonna be filling in the uh the album should be ready by like January of next year? Next year. I think I'm calling it it's a we talking about tomorrow. Um, I got children now. I can't afford to be doing that fuckery. Dude.

SPEAKER_09

Um, I just want to know.

SPEAKER_06

Not good enough, bro.

SPEAKER_09

Charlie. Don't be trying to be all sweet with us. We can't have no kids. Picking up Charlogy.

SPEAKER_06

I ain't had no kids in 2020. I can afford to do that.

SPEAKER_09

No, no, no. Listen. Did you plan to have feeling in the donuts?

SPEAKER_06

I didn't plan any of it, which is probably why it didn't work. I just thought that word of mouth was so strong because of the rumors.

SPEAKER_09

Did you ever get a chance to feed a big bitch a donut?

SPEAKER_06

No.

SPEAKER_09

Never.

SPEAKER_06

Never.

SPEAKER_09

Is it on your bucket list?

SPEAKER_06

No, no.

SPEAKER_09

It should.

SPEAKER_06

I don't want to have a bucket list because I don't want to think about the bucket list.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, but I don't want to be that big no more. But I only ask you these questions because I used to have the biggest crush on this boy. And he's now he's a comedian, but he's from my hometown. Not from there, but whatever. But he's a comedian now. Huge comedian, be with like celebrities and shit. But I had the biggest crush on this boy growing up, right? And I used to be on the phone with him trying to sound sexy, but he told me, why the fuck you breathing like that? Sound like you breathing for a donut, you know. Yeah, he told me sound like you reaching for a donut or some shit. He said, Yeah, he had me fucked up by a big thing. But now he fat as fuck. That's how God worked. Because he don't play by me.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, you don't play with God.

SPEAKER_09

He don't play by me. Period. Yep, he big.

SPEAKER_06

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_09

And his tooth chip.

SPEAKER_06

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_09

Fucking got me fucked up. Yeah. That's how God worked. But he's famous though. Almost. But he's getting there. Mm-hmm. Shout out to Chandler.

SPEAKER_06

So yeah. Um all right.

SPEAKER_09

So Chandler. When is I like, I like your name. I really like your name. I feel like your name is very like, it's like a rich name. And that's why you're getting rich off of Chandler, Saint Laurent. You get what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06

I like the way you think.

SPEAKER_09

Um, and then that's why you you in big names right now. So what's new? What's next? What's coming up?

SPEAKER_06

Um, I'm working with Pusha Pream. I didn't that shit was not on my 2026 bingo card. But I'm so grateful that that it happened. Super dope. Uh work on Pusha Preme. Working with me, and that's always fun because I never know what that nigga gonna say. Um just really trying to trying to make something. You know? Just trying to make something.

SPEAKER_09

If you could do, um, and I'm only if you could do a collab with three artists and they could be super famous or they could be up and coming, who would it be? You can only make three.

SPEAKER_06

Tom G.

SPEAKER_09

Tom G.

SPEAKER_06

Andrew Lamar.

SPEAKER_09

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06

Andre 2000.

SPEAKER_09

Those would be dope. Those would be dope. Those would be dope. Would you do like some um let me see, who would you do like some um country rap type thing, like Big X of Pluto doing right now? You wanna vibe with a country rapper?

SPEAKER_06

I'm from St. Pete. Ain't really like like we got country shit, but ain't too much country in St. Pete. You feel me? We got country people, we got habits and customs that come from the country. But as far as a real country music presence in St. Pete, I'm not familiar with it.

SPEAKER_09

How do you feel about that St. Pete rapper list? Because they have a list that they're taking around St. Pete of top rappers. And um, a lot of the rappers I didn't even know exist. Not that I know every rapper and I don't really check into their music, but I realized there wasn't really a lot of um, I don't know. You tell me, because I'm from Tampa.

SPEAKER_06

I don't care.

SPEAKER_09

You don't care?

SPEAKER_06

I don't care. I love the fact that St. Pete rappers are getting the recognition that we deserve. I absolutely love it. But as far as the discourse and the the oh, I'm not on the list, this person not on the list, I understand the politics behind it, so that kind of that kind of takes the emotion out of it for me.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. But do you feel like um between Tampa and St. Pete, do you feel like these are like clout-based cities?

SPEAKER_06

Show me a city that that's striving for success in the entertainment industry that's not clout-based.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

You know? Um, I feel like while it's a very real issue in some cases, it's also a cop out in other cases.

SPEAKER_09

Why a cop out? Like in what cases?

SPEAKER_06

So I'm not saying if you feel like the cities are based off of clout, this applies to you. But a lot of people who feel like this, it also applies to. A lot of niggas' music just be trash.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ain't nothing wrong with saying that. That's a fact. I think like 75% of the people who are doing music right now are trash, and I think it's a strong 25 who actually pushing something that's worth it.

SPEAKER_06

The crazy thing is. The artists don't really take the art seriously, but they expect the listener to take it seriously.

SPEAKER_09

That's right.

SPEAKER_06

And that shit don't make no sense.

SPEAKER_09

Exactly.

SPEAKER_06

Um I felt a lot of the frustrations that other artists have felt. Like, man, they not fucking with me, man. They my name ain't on these lists. I'm not on these shows with these people. But ultimately, what's for you will be for you. And if you spend your time and your energy crying about what's not, then you really neglecting what is for you and what could be for you. And I just don't want to get caught up in that.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I don't want to get caught up in that.

SPEAKER_09

And I don't think you should, because I feel like with your lyricism, it stands out. I mean, like you said, you doing a huge feature. You got a new song that's about that's set to drop soon with Pusha Premium. You get what I'm saying? So even without you, you may feel like you may not have all the clout. I think you got the clout. I think you got the juice. I think you got the swag. I think you got the lyrics, I think you got the saxophone and a voice. Sang something for us. So like the thing with being You so fucking I really thought he was gonna say this thing.

SPEAKER_06

The thing with like with myself, I I consider myself a dope individual, a dope artist. The thing with being dope is like even if you look from a purely literal standpoint from the word dope, cocaine always been cocaine. Niggas ain't you have to like boost up cocaine. All it took was for yeah, uh. Like, if you dope, just be dope, bro. Yeah, you ain't because if you if you try too hard to try and show people how dope you are, you become fit and all.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, that's a fact. Now, how do you feel? Because like, let's say Tom G, um, for years everybody was talking about how much Tom G did for the city. Everybody was really vibing with him, but then as of recently, well, I mean, he's starting to build his momentum back up, but you know, for a while, he had a lot of slack um for saying whatever he said on Instagram. I don't want to misquote him, so I don't want to say it wrong. But it was like he said one thing that certain people didn't agree with, and it was like, to me, it feels like if the cer if a certain person says a certain thing, then everybody just kind of follows suit, despite everything that he's done. It was a rapper who got ticked off with Tom G because he didn't help him with the lyric challenge.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

I mean shit. He how you feel about that as an artist, because I'm not an artist, so I don't know how it would feel as how you feel about that.

SPEAKER_06

Um, I understand that at a certain point artists come with a certain sense of entitlement. Um I I work daily to try and shed that so I don't end up in situations where I look like a jackass. Yeah um Tom is solidified. He is Tom is solidified. I've I've I've had conversations with Tom and I've seen Tom just out and about and ain't nowhere he can't go. Mad at him or not, he sleeps comfortably at home. Period. And there are a lot of artists who have made it to very far places who can't say that same thing. If if if home ain't if if home ain't where you safe at, then what are you actually doing?

SPEAKER_09

I actually had Tom G on my podcast and he was absolutely amazing. So I felt something totally different when the boy came out and he was like, oh, Tom will have. I'm like, maybe you ain't wanna. And he don't even charge a lot. Like to get Tom G on a platform, like it's not like he charge an astronomical amount. He just be like, especially if you from Tampa, he always showing.

SPEAKER_06

But like if you if you look deeper and see exactly what kind of help individuals wanted in them situations, you could kind of you wanted him to help you right up on a challenge, you want to help him.

SPEAKER_09

On a challenge that him and somebody else created to put rappers on in the city, and you wasn't.

SPEAKER_06

Shout out Tom G.

SPEAKER_09

Shout out to Tom G. That's my boy right there. Could you push in on that? Who the hell? My mama from my whole heart. Answer that. Put it on speaker. Hey mama, say hey to everybody. Everybody say hey, mama. Hey mama.

unknown

Hey everybody.

SPEAKER_09

What's going on, Mom? We're wrapping it up. Cardi got to go to work. Yeah, you know, she be sleepy in the morning at the podcast. Oh, yeah, but you know, I'm true to this. I ain't new to this system. We had two mamas in one show. Ain't that crazy?

SPEAKER_06

That is crazy. And it's gonna be Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_09

And it's gonna be Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_06

It's gonna be Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_09

Period, put it there, Charlie. Charlie mama came on the podcast too. Oh, yeah. Charlie mom came on the podcast too to talk to Charlotte. She called him Chandler. Say hi, Chandler. Tell him, Mom.

SPEAKER_06

You don't have to. Okay, she did. Hey Ma. How you doing? I'm baked in Holly Flavor.

SPEAKER_09

We're trying to wrap up, Ma. Give me five minutes. I'm gonna call you as soon as I leave. I gotta let them go. We're doing a podcast. Ma, I will call you after. I don't want to hear nothing about Big Eddie. I call you after I finish. I ain't got to talk to Eddie. I call you after I finish it. Let me let these gentlemen go.

unknown

Okay, I'll be safe.

SPEAKER_06

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, love you, sure.

SPEAKER_06

Hallelujah, anyhow.

unknown

Good night.

SPEAKER_09

Good night. Yeah, she was gonna get ready to go wave and brush. She don't give a fuck. Nobody can walk in the door's calling. Like she's gonna keep going. I don't think how many times did I do that?

SPEAKER_04

I feel better. I wasn't gonna ask her how she was feeling because you remember I take care of her. But nah. No. When she hit that button, I'm like, she was feeling better till Eddie.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. But here we go. Damn, Charlie, she done fucked up the training dog, but that's gonna be good shit. You don't want to answer the fuck because doing though.

SPEAKER_04

He was like hanging up. I'm like, ah, you're like, who is it? I'm like, my mama holds. Oh, answer that. Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Y'all know that's my girl right there. And I don't play by my dude.

SPEAKER_06

I don't blame you. I don't blame him.

SPEAKER_09

I don't play by my girl. Where was we at? But how did you link up with Pusha Pream? And how did that whole collab happen?

SPEAKER_06

That shit crazy because I won that from another showcase. I think, I think at this point, my whole career, the whole start of my career is just gonna be funded by showcases.

SPEAKER_09

And that's super dope because I know a lot of artists, like how you said that with for show there. You went in the studio and you won studio time from a showcase, and a lot of the artists that are up and coming, and babyface, you could probably contest to this when they have these showcases and stuff, and they only offering, okay, they might say $200 an hour studio time, but a lot of artists be like, an hour studio time, but you actually made a whole song with that free studio time.

SPEAKER_06

You know?

SPEAKER_09

You get what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06

It's really about how you uh how you value time and how seriously you take your crowd.

SPEAKER_09

You dope. You just dope. Oh my god. You ain't cocaine. You was dope. Period. I love you.

SPEAKER_06

You made me blush.

SPEAKER_09

That is it, Charlie. So what's next? Where can we meet you? So Wednesday for sure.

SPEAKER_06

Wednesdays, you can meet a nigga that looks just like me, except he plays saxophone at a place called Black Leaf Cigar Lounge that is in St. Petersburg, Florida. The address is 237 2nd Avenue South St. Petersburg, Florida. I'm there from I'm not there. Uh Chandler is there from 8 to 10 p.m. Um I heard he's a pretty nice guy, so go check him out. Uh as far as me personally, um I got some shows coming up. I'll be dropping them on the Instagram, so follow me over there to find out. Because if I tell you now you won't follow me. So follow me at call on Charlie, that's C-A-L-L-E-M-C-H-A-R-L-I-E.

SPEAKER_09

Um I'm gonna let you finish.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, man. I'm I'm I'm I'm just trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents for real.

SPEAKER_09

That's why you only own that band app because they got to pay to hear your catalog, huh?

SPEAKER_06

So, my thing with Bandcamp is I don't agree with a lot of the policies of major streaming platforms.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

I also don't like how I have to submit my music to a distributor in order to be on major streaming platforms.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

I don't like the concept of my song being played a million times and I get somewhere around a thousand dollars that don't sit right with me. And I also like I like the direct approach of communicating with supporters.

SPEAKER_02

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_06

Um for me playing saxophone or to me being just the the child of my parents, it's my a lot of my interactions have been face to face. Or if not face to face, then then very personal. Like not a lot of not a lot of value up.

SPEAKER_09

You're just keeping that value up. Just say that, Charlie.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I just want to keep that connection. I want to keep that connection. Because ultimately, um Ultimately I can be as as dope as I want to be, but if don't if don't nobody listens, then you know listen. Um and then with with streaming platforms, if you don't pay that that $14.99 or whatever, you might not be able to hear Charlie G till you get your shit together. If you buy it through Bandcamp, you got it. You got it. That that one-time purchase, and it you know, just fosters a different relationship with the listener.

SPEAKER_09

That's so amazing. And then it make it gives you that exclusivity. Did I say it right? I'm a little tipsy. I'm a little tipsy right now. But yeah, it gives you that because you're not easily accessible. I can't just go on Apple Music or Spotify and just pull up Charlie G. You get what I'm saying? I have to explore your page. I have to explore your music and see exactly where you're gonna be and pull up on you live in person. And I've experienced the Charlie G experience, and it is amazing. I have not experienced you on the saxophone yet.

SPEAKER_06

That is my course of action. You gotta come out on Wednesday.

SPEAKER_09

And y'all got to come out there with me. Y'all let us know, cousins, when we're going out there to see Charlie G. Do. Do he single? And girls, make sure y'all bring y'all last on and bring y'all fixed on Monday. You see me? Make sure big girls, all the big girls come on, come see Charlie G and bring your favorite flavored donut. Okay. All right. Okay. Yeah, it's gonna be better than usher them with them cherries.

SPEAKER_06

Hey, man. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_09

Check it out. Okay, for the love of Charlie coming soon. In your dreams, my love. Tell them one more time where they can find you. I'm gonna let these folks go.

SPEAKER_06

You can follow me on Instagram. You can find me on Instagram at call them Charlie. That's C-A-L-L-E-M-C-H-A-R-L-I-E. You can follow me on TikTok at Charlie Set It. That's C-H-A-R-L-I-E S-A-I-D-I-T. If you like saxophone, if you like dark-skinned niggas who play saxophone, you can follow Saint Lauren on Sax. That's Instagram and TikTok. That's S-T L A U R E N O N S A X. Um, yeah. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_09

Thank you. I might put a little clip of you playing a saxophone. Is that okay? I got to dig through your archive and see what I'm saying. I'll send you some. You gonna send me some? Yeah, I gotta do that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I got you.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, cool. So yeah, I'm gonna put that in here right after this, y'all. Charlie G playing his saxophone, because I love his saxophone. I just gotta see it in person. If you love jazz music and you want to experience that different side, that versatility of Charlie G, make sure y'all check out his page. All of them. He gave you every last one of them. Okay, well you can check him out. Um, if you are watching this on YouTube, kudos to you. Um, you can actually watch the full thing. Well, not the full thing, a sneak preview and be the first to view it live. If you go over to my Instagram, Z-O-E-Y-B-A-B-I. That is where all of my content starts. This is where it ends. Um, again, if you listen, tune in on Apple Music, Spotify, iHeart, all that good stuff. Yeah. Tune in, tune in, tune in. Amazon too. All right. Thank y'all for tuning in. This has been another dope ass episode. All my people sleepy, so I'm finna let them go. I love y'all. I love y'all. I love y'all. And as y'all know, I'll see you next time in the vibe corner. Period.

SPEAKER_01

It's a vibe, it's a vibe. We so we maybe we gon' high. We'll talk a time. It's a vibe I got you know the vibe. Yeah.