 What's up y'all it's your girl Brianna Imani and you're tuned into another talk of the town interview and today let them know who we got in the building. Got your boy Rich baby himself, Mr. drip check, I already know it man. Alright, yeah it's Mr. drip check himself so let's get right into it so I know you're from Rochester. So we've had like a couple of people from Rochester lately on the show like I don't know what's going on. That's a good thing. Yeah I mean y'all doing our thing. So like tell me who's on your radar right now, who's on your playlist? My playlist from up there? Yeah. Really um I've been listening to a lot of artists like Klaas, B.C. Ani, Yojah Son, like Hii, like I fuck with their music you know what I'm saying. So if you had to describe like the music scene in Rochester right now how would you describe it? The music scene is like it's good like everything going good with the music scene like it could be like it could be better for certain for certain artists like to get back into working like consistently consistently but as in my lane that I'm going right now I feel like it's good like for me personally I can't speak for everybody else but I know like music going good for me but just like you said is a lot of people you know what I'm saying coming on here from Rochester and shit that's just going good for everybody. So tell me about like your story growing up how was it like growing up and you grew up in Rochester? Yeah I grew up in Rochester um growing up in Rochester it's just like it's just like growing up out here in the city like it's just you know how people uh we all call it like a stoop or high up beyond the blocks and stuff like that like it's just like that out there like we just young kids running around having fun playing basketball and some people get caught up into the you know what I'm saying the streets and some people go straight forward with their dreams stuff like that but growing up up there is just it's lit. So you said some people they get caught up in the streets some people they go on and pursue their dreams so where would you put yourself on that scale? Um I'm not gonna lie right now I'm taking the music serious but before then it was just like it was a hobby so I was like one foot in one foot out like yeah music was just a hobby like it was just like me making music for my area and my hood like everybody else in Rochester got an artist from their hood that they listened to so like we had multiples of artists but I was like you know what let me try it you know what I'm saying let me try to make some music and see if they fuck with me. So when was that that you decided to start taking the serious? I started taking the serious like I say probably like three years ago like three years ago but I'm learning everything with the marketing side of it the business side of everything like that's what I mean by start taking the serious now like I say like this year is when I start taking that part of the serious because other than that I was just making songs and just one of my songs to be heard so I found out like I could make a good song that not just people in my city like then I'm like nah I really gotta do this for real. So I'm curious like what was the wake-up call for you like what inspired you? The wake-up call for me really was just like understanding like you know what I'm saying you see my eye I'm sure I can't play basketball I'm not a sports player nothing like that you know what I'm saying some people take the school route but I felt like I wasn't the way I wanted to go and it was like before music or anything like that like I always like just have like a certain style myself like I dress people like to just tell me like oh man like just like the rappers like you feel me drip my head like you might as well rap mm-hmm so I just started I just started off making songs with other people that I was cool with in the city and people was like taking the air to it and was liking it so I was just like you know let me do it so you had the support from your city from beginning not from the beginning like no funny I was one of the first artists out my town like using like the autotune sound and you know some people just like buy-for-buy our music and some people just like like you know people call it mumble rapping all that right it wasn't really trying to hear that because everybody that was lit for my town was basically like bar for bar artists is like like class murder becyani 38 people like that but other than that like I always be make I always been making music the sound that I'm that I'm making it now mm-hmm like it ain't nothing new I just got better I mean but everybody wasn't really liking the song like oh no I don't like that sound like oh you know I'm saying people are you trashed this and that and third but now people like caught the hang of it now it's like I was ahead of my time so now everybody like the sound like oh now I like this song so it's just so different so what song was it that everybody started fucking way um I had a couple I had a couple I had one way back in the day like this was a couple years ago I had all opened up with Bobby Smurder like before he did his time stuff like that but the song was called by Felicia like I always was a artist to know like yo you got to make songs that's like trendy you feel me so I made a song called by Felicia and I had everybody in the town like oh that's crazy I did a show with um I did it I did that show uh I think now I don't think it was Bobby Smurder I did Bobby Smurder at the club I did that one with Meek Mills Meek Mills bought me on stage you know like and how how do you like performing like how you like being on stage compared to like being in a booth now that's a different it's a every time look I'm gonna say like this every time I'm in a booth I make my songs it sounds crazy but I make my songs in in in a booth as if I'm at a concert like every lyric that I say it gotta have a reaction you know same thing all right so just so I could get a visual picture all right we in the booth right now so how would you like make it so that how are you envisioning a crowd in front of you like what's the difference a difference is okay look all right so you know some I'm versatile artists so if I got some songs where it's like paying songs I'm just telling you my lifestyle and stuff with everything I went through this week or that I've been through through my life mm-hmm like it'd be just I'm reaching out to other people like I'm like I'm saying stuff of my songs I know everybody else could relate to it but then if I make the turn songs I'm going off of what I know people want want to hear like if I hear the beat and I'm in a beat and a beat lit I'm like I let me make this type of song because the crowd ain't gonna react to always paying songs like I want to have that turn I want to have that turn music I just try to make the music that's gone had a crowd lit so when I make the music in the studio I just make sure I be saying saying the right stuff so make sure I say the right stuff so would you say like you genuinely like making music yeah I really do I really do like I really do I've been sitting I've been sitting making music for a while like I'm talking about to the point where you know everybody when you're young I want to be a basketball player like oh I want to be a rapper I was just rapping bullcrap like just walking from the store when I was young not even probably sounding making nothing up just just humming making words up all that like I just knew I wanted to rap but I didn't know that it'd be it'd come later on down life like how it is I ask you that because you mentioned like a few times that you keep your audience in mind like while you're making your music so yeah because it's just like ain't like that's why that's why certain people uh uh it's celebrities now and rich now it's because of their fans so I'd rather put my fans first like I don't want to make no music that ain't gonna give me no fans and ain't gonna have nobody relating to me and nobody understanding me so it's like I want to have a fans that understand me okay so hypothetically speaking right if you made music but nobody was like reacting to your music nobody was listening like you weren't getting no streams no views right would you keep making music or no you wouldn't nah I'm gonna go give me some money so what would be the alternative because you see like sometimes I'll ask like artists like would you still be making music and you'd be like yeah it'd be like it'd be like it'd be like I'll make it for me but it wouldn't be like I wouldn't throw like thousands behind it and I know ain't nobody liking it so you would just turn to something else and like I would figure something out I ain't about to just be rapping all my life and it ain't working out because at the end of the day it's like something gotta give man do something else so the end goal for this is what like the music the end goal for this is is like to be at least one of the biggest artists like from upstate new york for me but but but get the same respect level as people in the city of new york I saw you take a picture and you see like my geography is not that great so don't don't judge me for this but you had a picture on your instagram and you were in front of a bridge I don't know what bridge you were in front of but you were like I'm the hottest in the city or something like that it was like the caption oh yeah you tell mom um I think it was the uh what is it called dumb dumb oh bridge so that was in new york city yeah so you're saying you the hottest in new york city are you saying you the hottest in your city I'm the hottest in new york state you the hottest in new york state yeah y'all just y'all just once everybody catch on man I'm telling you it's gonna be a different wave because this is like I'm bringing something different I'm not and and I ain't saying like no disrespect to the drill music and stuff like that but y'all see what lane that is is going with that now like they trying to like wash that down which they shouldn't be because at the end of the day they just expressing themselves but I'm just coming with a feel good music for everybody I don't do this in my music and stuff like that so it's just like everybody could fuck with my music like I'm not about to be dissing nobody saying oh smoking him I'm doing this and doing that like I'll probably be saying f the ops and all that everybody got somebody that don't like them and if you don't like me a feeling is mutual so I'm gonna say f the ops but I'm not gonna name drop I'm not gonna do nothing like that like you know what I'm saying just like I said earlier I said I just make I make stuff that's relatable everybody feel like it's f the ops feel me I was like it's f me I feel like it's f them and I ain't gotta give you no clout I'm not about to put your name in the song I'm about to just make me a hit song out of this song you're that's why that's why I feel like that's why I feel like that personally honestly so many people in New York City is focused on dissing each other and just giving each other clout like they giving people clout that don't need it so what I just got from what you just said is basically like you're you don't stand by the whole boycott drill music but you also don't stand by dissing and yeah because look like what I mean by I don't I don't um stand on that because that's how people is making it out a day uh uh hoods here like some people making it out they struggle doing that so at the end of the day I ain't about to I'm not about to support nobody stopping somebody money flow feeding their family but then again I'm not about to support nothing that's you know what I'm saying that could have one of my little cousins or you know what I'm saying end up killed in the streets I'm saying over a song like now so do you think that like what these artists are talking about in their songs right you think it really like shows itself on the streets you think that that like I mean at the end of the day I feel like look if if it's real if it's real beef out here and everybody know you posted just leave it in the streets at the end of the day because it's leaving the streets I don't know why you put it on the song because you know I'm saying see you know I'm saying free free all them everybody that's locked up from over music they getting the they getting police locked no they getting locked up for their lyrics these days right so at the end of the day if you rap about it they're gonna really thank you for doing it even if you're lying yeah you're incriminating yourself you're incriminating yourself so let's get back into you just real quick so you had a name change because you used to call yourself a little yeah so what because I was like going through your youtube and I saw it like first it was like Lil Luwab and then in parentheses rich baby and then it switched so boom so so so boom when I when I had put my name in parentheses I had to had to do a name change so I could like legally like drop music and it wasn't nothing to where the label that I was with was like not letting me drop music or anything like that it was just like I was just in a situation where I couldn't drop music because the head person that was running at the time they had something they was caught up in something for me so we came to agreement where it's like I they didn't want to they didn't want to let me go so it was just like I y'all could keep all the music I ever recorded you know what I'm saying keep all the music I ever recorded and y'all could just push Lil Luwab with me if I want to drop this new music my sound that I want to make like I'm gonna drop this new music so you just started fresh yeah and I came over the name rich baby because my team like my little label you know how everybody got it in in eight hoods in eight cities it's called like living rich so I took the rich and put put it with the baby if I got a baby face you for me so it's like go together now there's another rich baby yeah that's a fact it's more than I think more than one like I saw one from like Texas yeah we had a we had a little altercation yeah how what do you think about that like do you think that it's a problem for two rappers that have the same name or for multiple rappers I mean at the end of the day I don't it's just we're gonna get more lit with it we're gonna be bigger with it and whoever bigger with it eight eyes me not change your name so did anybody say anything to you like once you change your name to anybody yeah a lot of people like I had a lot of fans come up to me like yo when you gonna drop new music now I did drop new music like what you mean so you got such a rich baby now so that's where the Lil Luwab in parentheses rich baby mm-hmm when everybody says Lil Luwab they see rich baby music pop tonight right okay so when you making your music is it based on like your real life experiences yeah that's a fact everything that's a fact yeah okay because I got a question for you so you said um in first class okay I was really listening to this song and I'm like what are you talking about you said you paid two bands for the cookie what what exactly were you referring to see look I ain't about to discriminate myself I wasn't talking about uh pushing pee I'm talking about that because I say like that I'm saying that so I'm pushing pee I'm talking about cookie because oh okay because I took a lot of content because I'm like you talking about you was like yeah but look though but see look then I say like I say certain stuff that you'll make you'll think you'll you'll think it mean this but it mean this it could mean both ways honestly some people big tricks out here yeah that was the energy that I was getting from that if you want to if you want to take that lyric and you want to look like you know I'm saying you paid two two bands for the cookie you went out sad but at end of the day I'm talking about desire oh so you say you're going out sad you don't think like nah I mean shoot you could you could you could check on somebody you love you got it you know check on somebody you love man don't be fooled out here man don't be fooled do you feel like now that you like late you going up like do you have a lot of like females like on you yeah that's a fact but I'm just rocking with one right now oh how is that like it's exclusively you know man out of sight out of mind uh-uh not out of mind out of sight out of mind don't do that you're about to pop out like that because you know when you do pop out when you're in relationships or with vibing with people and maybe it'd be the history other stuff popping up that you don't really care about and it's just I mean good that's true I try to stay out of I try to stay out of drama I just keep my my energy positive okay because at the end of the day everybody don't have a female that somebody had before you so it's just like right I don't even feel like the old dude or whoever and I'm saying not saying that that's my situation right now but not saying I don't want the old dude coming at me like you know I'm saying like I'm I'm uh I'm somebody with a name so it's like I'm not about a I might have took I might took you a girl or something and I didn't know some females just be dumb they do and the dude still be wanting them and then you be vibing with her not a dude want to start problems with true because right she want true like I am good so at what point do you think like as an artist going up like when do you think is an appropriate time to bring your shorty out in the public or you think that like she got to stay low key for the whole time I mean I like being low key man no fun you know because at the end of the day it's like when I do say okay say when I do blow up right it's gonna be like it's not gonna be hard to notice me I'm too damn sure oh that's him that's him I want to have somebody that they don't know like oh that's her like you know I'm saying you'll go out here for me yo yo like I it ain't really gonna be like that but she could be able to to do her own thing without her ass like I feel like you don't you don't gotta bring that in on everybody they might not want to live that type of lifestyle okay because being known ain't ain't it you can't even walk nowhere you can't even do normal stuff like how you used to I can't walk to a corner store really no what's the craziest like band interaction that you had when I was at Walmart like no lie it's on my um it's on my IG a fan ran out a Walmart took her vest off at her job and I don't know if she got fired or not I don't think so but she ran on she's like you rich a baby I'm like yeah she's like I knew that was you my friend said that was you she's like I ain't gonna lie I had to run up I had to run off the register oh run off the register oh yeah she lost her job she ran off the register but that's nice like that's the first time I was signing somebody's skin and how did that feel that felt good like it felt good because it's just like that's why I do it for the fans at the end of the day so just to know somebody ran down on me like that right I was like yeah I'm on my way that was in Rochester yeah that was in Rochester oh that's that's why you was getting support from like from your people that's so fat well we segued like from from first class I do want to say that's my favorite song of yours so far but I think it's interesting like you said drip check is your hate yeah but see so go ahead go ahead no go ahead go ahead because I don't know where was going no you might not okay because my my question just is like how do you know that that's your hit like to you what is a hit how do you know that a hit a hit is something that's that's viral that's that's trendy like anything that's that everybody could relate to like you know I'm saying some people that don't even some people that don't even put it on you feel like they put it on I don't care what it is you know I'm saying drip ain't just always design or everything like you know I'm saying you go to h&m get drippy you know I'm saying so you feel like that's the hit because it's just yeah it's just everybody it's just me personally that's the one that's getting the most feedback right now so that's how I say that that's a hit like it's going viral like earlier I was explaining like people used to be saying outfit of the day kicks of the day like I dropped my song you know I'm saying a while back but before then nobody was really saying drip check nobody was saying that for real like if you really think about it like some people probably was but it wasn't like big as it is now so and I explain and I'm saying I'm everything I say be no cap like I was never cap on camera these people go vouch like I know uh Meek Mill's nephew you know I'm saying he heard the song and you know I'm saying Meek Mill's probably not heard it from me but you know I'm saying if his nephew been around he probably heard the song you know I'm saying uh I know people that know Lil Baby and they they mess with my music you know I'm saying Lil Baby said drip check polo G said drip check and I know somebody that be around polo G is named Skory that's his artist you know I'm saying so they said drip check like from your song or they I'm not saying it I'm not saying it like it's from my song but I feel like I made it I feel like I'm making it like viral because at the end of the day I'm looking on them platforms and seeing what I what I what I what I daily listeners is coming from and this is the main song that they playing so it's just like this is I know I know that I know somebody important heard that from me they watching me you know I'm saying it's definitely labels stuff watching me right it's just like they don't know when to approach me they want to see if they saw how big the song is so I mean speaking of labels do you like what are your thoughts on signing to a label versus being independent being independent the best honestly the best way to be because at the end of the day you see young boy he just popped up on IG just to post don't sign to the label that he's talking about don't sign to you know I'm saying so he's the biggest artist like he's the biggest artist out right now so how you one of the biggest artists and you feeling like don't sign to a label so how you think I'm gonna feel I'm like not big yet right and I mean earlier in the conversation you mentioned like you had a little situation where that's a sign to so I'm pretty sure you could even speak from your own experience yeah exactly so it's like when you do everything the right way like when you do everything the right way you you you you want everything when it comes to business the right way and then at the end of the day when it's when it's time for people to let you go they don't want to let you go so I really just build my team that I got now like I don't partner it up with Valley Entertainment like they out of my city you know I'm saying partner it up with them and we on some type of level where we just locked in like we we don't really care for no label unless they letting us have our way and I'm saying they giving us our rights to our music and stuff like that and letting us drop when we want to drop but other than that we ain't gotta we ain't gotta sign nothing because we already having the money that label got like we don't gotta take that money and you know I'm saying and and and get it invested into us when we already doing it for us so are there any labels that you would consider signing to like if you had to pick one I mean honestly like really I wouldn't even say I could say a label I was signed to because right now it's just a name I don't know their business like what they do like I can't be like oh I signed to G-Unit or I signed to Atlantic or stuff like that like because that's just a name I don't know the contracts that they got that's a very good point because I feel like a lot of people when they like speak on labels that they would like to sign to they look at it from like they grateful when they see how the other artists be right you're not knowing how that relationship gonna be with you you know I'm saying like you you could go like no funny like I know somebody that know somebody you know I'm saying they offer me something like yo you want to come over here with us it's one of the it's one of the biggest artists in the industry like they offer me like yo they like your music but it's like 17 people over there so it's like why would I be the 18th person and then it ain't even not one out of the 17 biggest you know I'm saying the main artists so it's like I really just yeah yeah so who like would you say because I saw what was his name Jose Guapo yeah Jose Guapo that's my brother he mentioned you when he was on Dirty Love that was game that was game for real so like what other co-stigns have you gotten since you started making me meet Mills um you know Guapo for sure um a GT that's a Bay phase rate okay um so a lot of artists that I personally know I can't really say like a co-sign because they just friends like like they they actual real friends so I wouldn't say like they like co-sign to me or not like that because I'm not under them or yeah that's what I really feel like a co-sign and the co-sign I feel like it's one like like you really under them for me really yeah yeah so if somebody like shouts you out like yeah you know all right so boom all right so boom I feel like once you shout somebody out like how um let's say this how how meet Mills was feeling about Roddy Rich I'm saying he was shouting Roddy Rich out the most and he feeling like you know I'm saying he gave him that co-sign he got him out so at the end of the day they know what that was you know I'm saying after you get a co-sign I feel like it's it's obligated that you know I'm saying you show back love back to them it was just like y'all locked in off of that co-sign they just put you on what you was gonna say I appreciate it now I'm out you know I'm saying so in your so in your opinion a co-sign is basically like putting somebody on as opposed to like showing them love yeah okay okay like I just say like a shout out is a different from a shout out on the co-sign you know I'm saying co-sign is just really like yo I go listen to his music like he fired like I'm saying a shout out is just a shout out to bro man you know I'm saying artists just do that every day like we shout out we companies need to shout out shoe sellers everything that's just a shout out so I heard that you are related to a big person in the industry future yep he's your that's my blood cousin yep so how is it like being related to I don't really it's crazy because I don't really know him I know his brother boss man casino okay like we really like didn't I got a song with him and everything like that but future is like he ordered in me so he got he lit right now he I don't even think he really be having time for really like a lot of family members but I got family in the south in New York but my family that was in the south went to New York once we went to New York we just separated you know I'm saying but my grandma is his aunt oh wow so yeah y'all like blood blood related related would you do like would you do a song for future oh yeah I do a song for future I'll do a song for future family time listen I already got already got one boss man casino and I'm already locked down with a lot of people from free band so just like yeah I'll do a song with him who else would you like to like do a song with uh if you had to give me like so I'll include him in your five so if you had to name four more people that you would like to collaborate who would it be four more people um I'll do a song with Uzi I'll do a song with uh thing really who I really really gonna do a song with go Wayne Drake um last song I'll do a song with uh I'll do a song with Benny the butcher man I'm not saying we upstate okay and like who are you who are your top five artists right now like who's on your playlist right now well my playlist uh I couldn't really say I got top five I just like I just like I just like would pretty much with everybody else like honestly like I wouldn't say like I'm just oh I got a pacific person that I listen to like you just listen to what sounds good yeah okay so if you had to give some advice to any upcoming artists right now what would it be um my advice really would be like come up with a plan that you know I'm saying that you really want to uh that you really want to knock out you know I'm saying and and learn how to market market it yourself learn how to uh know what fan base you want because you know a lot of artists should just be making a lot of music and not knowing what type of fan base they want they just want to make they just want to make music just know just have everything planned out for yourself because this game like the music game is not easy but it ain't hard at the same time if you know what you're doing so I like my best advice is just be know what you're doing uh stay independent if it's possible but if that's if that's not the the route that you want to do if you want to just just come up a couple hundred thousands or a million real quick and do that but just make sure it's the it's the best and I'm saying fit for you it is just out of curiosity like how do you know that you know what you're doing because I feel like there's a lot of okay really really I feel like you know you know what you know when you know what you're doing is when like everything is going in your favor like when you've been making music for a while and it ain't been working out you're like damn I'm trying this one song trying this hot song it only take one song for you for you to blow up you're like damn this ain't working out for me I feel like once you get that one song you know it's working like that's when you know it's working you got that buzz your name your name getting out there okay so we're like at the start of 2022 where do you think what can we expect down the line for the rest of the year I got a lot of music that's dropping like a whole lot of music like hot music like what kind of it's a it's a bunch of music that it's it's turn up music paying music everything but it's good music like it's gonna be some of the best music okay this year so it's giving versatility for yeah yeah yeah any like collabs anything we could look out for oh yeah um drip check with a little reek I'm saying I remixed that with him on there so nice we by the by take that one all the way to the top I'm saying nice I'll be on the lookout for that too though for real for real like remember I shout it out first on talk of the town feel me on talk of the town so so if you were to come back let's say like five years from now you're sitting on the couch and we interviewing you where where would you be where do you see yourself at that point dumb lit dumb be dumb lit by then what's done late dumb lit is like living girl like happy about my success you know I'm saying like still being me like dumb lit like I feel like that's that's dumb lit like one of the biggest like one of the biggest in this in the in the music okay one of the biggest in the music industry that's dope that's dumb lit to me so is there anything else that you would like to like shout out or mention before we close out shout out valley entertainment shout out living rich shout out talk of the town shout out all my fans so I want to shout out nice well thank you for coming it was nice having you appreciate y'all so make sure you shout out your instagram and any other social media too my instagram is only number one rich baby you know what I'm saying and y'all can look me up on all platforms rich baby all right well thank y'all for tuning in and see you on the next episode