 What they gonna do with me now, I'm still a twerk of the town, got me the sisters I'm hooking them down. What's up y'all, it's your girl Brianna Imani and you're tuned in to another twerk of the town interview and let them know who we got in the building today. It's RJ man from New Orleans, Louisiana. RJ from New Orleans, so happy to have you here. Yeah, I appreciate you. So, you know, before we hop into it, we're gonna do a quick, like a quick little icebreaker. So I'm gonna start a sentence and you just have to finish it, okay? Okay, okay. Just so that I'm sure we're on the same page, if I were to say, my name is, what would you say? RJ. Okay, perfect. All right. My favorite song that I wrote is, Letters in the Sky. I can't do business with you if, You're not business orientated. This chapter of my life is called, You're the Problem. A song on repeat of mine is, Over and Down. If you want to impress me, Flowers, Yes, hold on, let's just take a moment, man can definitely get flowers too. Love that. Okay. Um, my biggest turnoff is, Odors, Odors, Oh, my goal to branch order is, Um, avocado toast. My friends would say that I am charismatic. My favorite place to live is, A place I would want to live is, A message to my haters. I appreciate you. And something that you will want your friends to know. I love you all. Okay. Haters and motivators. Get all the love. Love that. Love that for you. So, yes, so we're, the ice has been broken. Welcome back to New York. How has your time here been so far? It's been lovely. I've been all over the place doing a bunch of things, but I love being busy. So it's been fun. Okay. So let the people know what you're here for, because you want like a press one right now, right? Yeah. What is it that's coming out? What are we expecting from RJ? Well, you know, I'm dropping this album real, real soon. You know the problem? Um, it's going to be fire, but you know, I just, um, about to drop this single with a boogie that's coming out this Friday. Yes. Yes. Got another single. Like we just, we just in motion, but you know, yeah, it's all for the album. No. You're the problem. Okay. So we're going to jump right into it because you just brought up a boogie. I know the charts who have known each other since like 2016. I think it is. Yeah. So, so happy to see y'all working together. Yeah. Um, what sparked this collab now? Like what made this time the perfect time for y'all to collab on a song? I think it was just all about timing. You know what I'm saying? We, we've been locked in for a while, but we just never had the time to really sit down together and go through some music and, you know, put it together. We got other records, but nothing special like this one. You know what I'm saying? And I was out here working with Stunna Gambino at the time and, uh, you know, uh, boogies producer Moe, who's like a brother to me, hit me up like, yo, A's in town, pull up to the studio. And I had just like the couple weeks prior knocked out like mad records, probably like 60 records and like, like, like a week's time. So I pull up on them and, uh, remember that is the first record I played for him. And he's like, yeah, I got to hop on this. So it's just, it's just all about timing. You know what I mean? Okay. So what's the, what's the vibe? Is it giving a summer bop? Cause the people have been waiting for a summer bop. We still, it's definitely giving some a bop for real. And it's, and it's, and it's tight women empowerment too. So I love that. It's definitely for the ladies. So I love the record. I love that. And I'm really excited to hear something from a Boogie Tube. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like I think that you're a sound together. Like I think it is really going to give cause you have that melodic sound. Yeah. He has that melodic sound, but you both can get in your rapper bag too. Facts. The homies say that this, this, this is like one of his best verses. Oh really? So yeah, we're going to let the world decide for sure. I feel, yeah, I feel it. It's like one of his tops to me for sure. Okay. Well sure. I'm definitely looking forward to it. So in terms of art, artists in New York, you just mentioned Stunna also, are you tapped into the New York music scene? Yeah. Yeah. So who else you listening to from New York? I like Shice. Free Shice. I like Shice, but I rock with K-Flock too. K-Flock's hard. K-Flock. DD Osama, my producer Moe, he's working with him right now too. He's going crazy. I rock with DD. Okay. Booba. Booba been going crazy for a while. Like Booba Savage a lot. Mm-hmm. Lola Brooke is crazy too. Yeah. Biggie. Shout out to Lola. Yeah. They got a lot going on right now. I saw, I've been watching Scarlet for a while on TikTok. Yes. And she finally getting her recognition. She's definitely doing her thing. And yes, I'm so glad you said that. She's finally getting her recognition because I also was watching her on TikTok. Yeah. Like I was watching her live. She was rubbing about like noodles and Doritos and shit. Yeah. The glizzies, all of that. Like she really would just like be freestyling like doing her own thing and I feel like a lot of people gravitated towards her personality first because she's very unique. But now like she's putting her songs out. People listening. This is New York definitely. It's on rotation everywhere. She's going crazy. Yeah. HD been doped. And that's like my brother's song. Shout out to HD. Yeah. New York's going crazy. I got a lot of songs right now. Yeah. So we just did a song with Fergie. Shout out to Fergie. Thanks. I saw you shirt. That's all I mentioned. We love Fergie over here. We love HD been doped too. So when talking about the New York drill scene, I think something that's interesting is, well, New York music scene in general, but you mentioned a few drill artists. I think what's interesting is with your story, I know that you were going to sign when you were like young. You were like 17. Your mom told you not to. She felt like you didn't know what was going on yet. You didn't have a grasp of the industry. A lot of the artists that we're seeing in New York these days are very young. So I feel like it's very similar to you because they're coming up with age and they're still like filling out the industry as they get older. What do you think about, for one, your decision to sign at a later age? Just kind of take a break from that. And then also, what do you think about age being a factor in coming up in this industry if it is at all? So yeah, I ain't going to lie. Well, my mom turned that deal down. We wasn't living in the best condition. So in the deal, it had some cool numbers in it. So when she turned it down, it was pissed off at her. I ain't going to lie. You know what I'm saying? But now I feel like it's one of the best decisions she's made because during that time, especially during the pandemic, I was able to sit and learn the ins and outs of the music and kind of like really reflect on the direction that I really want to take it rather than just jumping into it when I had something hot. You know what I'm saying? So it has its pros and cons, but I love seeing the young guys turn up the way they turn up. It looked like they're having a lot of fun. And that's what it's all about. So I don't know. Like I said, it got its pros and its cons, you know what I'm saying? I definitely want them boys though to take their time knowing and like I said, just learn the game. You know what I'm saying? Because that's the most important thing about it. You see them with all the money, all the geranium shit, but all that shit could be gone in a second if you don't know what you're doing. So you know what I'm saying? I pray them boys, you know, just get their business in order, but I love to see it. So of course hindsight is always 20-20 and what you were saying about just making that decision and that decision being one of the best decisions that your mom could have made. How important do you think it is to have somebody like in your corner giving you that advisement as you're coming up in your career? It's very important for real because I think, you know, when you start to pop into music, things are happening a lot faster. You know what I'm saying? It's a lot coming at you at once. So my mom was really able to really like allow me to step back and look at it and analyze things as they come in instead of just jumping on every little opportunity. You know what I'm saying? Because I feel like you jump on every single opportunity and kind of devalues your artistry. You know what I'm saying? Right. So I love my mom. I'm glad she was in my corner to help me seek, you know, and find what I really want to do before I just jump into it. It's very important. Shout out to mama. Shout out to mama. Shout out to mama. So let's go from, let's start from the very beginning. What is your earliest, see, I know this is going to be kind of a tricky question because I know your dad was like musically inclined. He was an artist. So what was your first music memory, musical memory that like comes to mind? You think like childhood music, what comes to mind when I say that? I remember sitting in the back of my cousin's car and my dad was in the passenger seat and we was riding and my dad was a big fan of Eminem. I had to be like five or six and this is how far back like it goes. I had to be like five or six and they played Renegade by Eminem. And I remember just rapping the verse like from the top to the end of the damn song flawlessly. And I just remember my, yeah, I just remember my pops being like mad proud of me. Like that was, I don't know that's such a small moment, but that's just one of those pivotal moments in my life to where I knew like this is something I like to do. Like, you know what I'm saying? Of course now I don't remember like that fucking song at all type shit, but I remember that. But at that time you were a word for word, bar for bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad was heavy on Eminem. I love full circle moments in conversation. And I feel like we kind of just, we're having one right now because you said your earliest memory was Eminem. And then obviously why did you drop? Um, now question when it came to why were you sampling Stan? Were you sampling? Thank you. The original. What was, what was your inspiration behind that? Stan was definitely the influence for it for sure. Cause I said my house was heavy in Eminem for I don't feel like he got enough credit like the numbers show, but niggas in the streets behaving on him, him, him, you don't think that he gets enough credit? Nah, man, especially not from the younger generation. I don't know, I see a lot of like memes and shit. You know what I'm saying? This ain't no game. M is top dog for real. That's so interesting. Maybe it's like a generational thing because you see, I don't, I do know how I know around how old you are, but I think that Eminem got his recognition with me, at least when I was growing up, I feel like Eminem got like a lot of recognition, especially because he was a white rapper that was doing his thing amongst in the hip hop culture. Like I feel like people gave him his props. But as music became more, I don't want to say accessible, but I'm using that for lack of better words and more people started popping out. You have like a lot more white rappers nowadays. You have a lot more people just like make a different kinds of music. That's when I felt like his name started phasing out because he wasn't really doing that much to keep people's attention. My, my, not saying that that's facts. You feel free to correct me. I mean, cause he's still like what number one on YouTube right now. Like, you know what I'm saying? And it's been for a while, if not number one, at least top five. I know that for sure. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, hell yeah. He been, he been up there for a while. You feel like he's not getting his props. Yeah, that's why I said a number show. But like even my homeboys be like, man, I don't want to listen to no fucking Eminem. I be like, what? Like you while the last time you listen to Eminem. I listen to Eminem every day. I play Superman every day. Cause like, okay. All right. All right. So that was just a quick little. Okay. So that was your first memory. So do you feel like the music that you listen to growing up influenced your sound? Or do you feel like the music that you listen to as you tapped into your artistry is what helped you? Kinda as I tapped into the artistry, like, um, like I, I like, of course, I love the music that I grew up listening to, but I just love it because I love it. Like it didn't necessarily influence the way that I create or make my music at all. It wasn't until I got into like, you know, high school, first year in high school, I really started tapping into artists that I wanted to have influenced my music, but I ain't gonna lie. I always been a fan of Nas and Nas. When it comes to me, um, trying to story tell, it always helps to, yeah, it always helps to try to think what, what would Nas do? Right now, what would I say? So yeah. Okay. So who was, so Nas is one of your, um, inspirations from growing up. But who would you say like is like a current one, somebody that you were looking or people who you were looking to as you were developing your artistry that you were like taking those from? Drake, Wayne, Boogie, Trey songs, Primetime, all those make sense. Yeah. Yeah. All those make sense, um, content wise, I guess, like lyrically, um, cause one thing I was saying to my friend about you was I feel like you were really been tapping into your like certified love of boy bag, um, not even in terms of like the album, just name, like it very much gives like who hurt you, but like, it's really like, dang, you, you tapped it to your emotions though. Yeah, yeah. Um, so that, all the people that you just named, it definitely gives that, um, lyrically, sound wise. Is there anybody that you were listening to that you felt like you wanted to emulate, not like replicate, replicate, but. Damn, what's your boy name, man? Fuck. Forgot his name. I got a couple of names on my mind, but I don't know if they're going to be the most interesting. Rich Homie Kwan, for sure. I feel like he another one that don't get enough credit. He definitely doesn't. I will definitely agree with you on that one. As far as my sound, like when I go into my trap lane, I try to think about like Rich Homie, but like when I'm singing, singing, it's definitely the weekend and Trey songs, like as far as like the sound. Yeah. Okay. That's your inspiration or like your people, who are people that people tell you that you sound like. Man, I didn't, I didn't have, Rich, I didn't have people tell me I sound like Michael Jackson on God. I didn't have people say, hey, the weekend, for sure. And I hear a lot of Drake too. But yeah, that surprised me. I heard that this week, actually. Somebody said that shit and I didn't heard it before like them. But yeah, that's so interesting. Tory Lanez too. I definitely, I definitely heard Tory. You know, I heard Tory in Louisiana. I heard Tory in Louisiana and I heard PNB a little bit. Okay. Oh, yeah. And I also heard PNB and Y too. RRP, PNB. I forgot about PNB. He was heavy. You definitely give me a PNB. When I first started making my videos, like before I pop, making actual records, you know, I was making videos. Like I was mimicking PNB for real. Cause that's how I found PNB, making videos, being on cars, that makes a lot of sense. Cause I was like, I have somebody in mind, but I want to see if you're going to say that's exactly who I was talking about. Another one is Rock Wave. I don't know if people tell you that. Nah, yeah, I've gotten that before. I've seen that in your comments. Yeah, I've gotten that before. I don't, I've gotten that before. I don't think it's the sound as much as it is like the pain. Yeah, yeah. I guess maybe it's just the soul that I put behind that. Yeah. Yeah. Now, how do you feel though, when people compare sounds from like one artist to another? Do you think that that hurts? Do you think it helps? Do you think like, what do you think? I don't know. I feel like a lot of the times they'll sit in a negative light. But, you know, if it's positive, it's cool. But if, if you got somebody saying, oh, you just trying to sound like blah, blah, blah, blah, like you think I'm sitting here studying this mansion? I'm sorry. This person like, no, music is music. So, but again, they're sitting in the positive light. It's all good. I'm really chill about it. Like the other day, um, Rico beats the producer. He came here and he was telling me a story. I think I know Rico. Okay, shout out to Rico. Yes, he was, he was here the other day. He was Pop Smokes manager and he's a producer. Um, and he was telling me a story about him getting a song thinking it was future. He thought the future had hopped on one of his tracks. And then like, he was hyped. It's like, oh, I got a feature on one of my tracks. And then he later on found out that it was designer. And I don't know if you remember that's not bad, though, but so I, and I was going to say, like, when designer first came out, that was something that a lot of people were saying, like, oh, he sounds like future, but it got the buzz going and it like, it was like, I don't want to say it was because he sounded like him. Cause obviously the song was good. The song was about, but it was that like talk about how he sounded and who he sounded like. I guess in that sense, all publicity is good publicity. You don't understand how you work it. I never got that from a designer, though. They sound like future. Not even with Panda. That's crazy. We're gonna run it back after we use this. So, um, well, um, I know that a big start to your career was also freestyling, specifically a video that went viral. That was recorded of you in school. Talk to us a little bit about how that came about and then what happened after. Yeah. So I started those videos in my room, like, you know what I'm saying? Before I took, cause the one that blew up, I was in, I was at school, you know, that was their P, but I started in my room, just me and my cousin and shit like that. But see what happened was that I was, I started in my room during the summer, but then I started going to school and I'm like, I don't got time to do these videos like during the day anymore. I'm getting, I'm getting home from school. I got to do homework. I eat, then I go to sleep. So I'm like, man, I need to figure out a way to keep making these videos. So I'm like, shit, we just gonna do them when we got free time in gym. Right. Did it at the gym. I did like two of them. And then the third one took off and, uh, that prior, that mean that next day when I went to school, that's how I knew that it took over. Cause I went, I wasn't being on social media at that time. Like I post, throw my phone down, go to sleep, whatever. I ain't really care about it. But yeah, I went to school the next day and everybody was just all in my face. I was like, I had this shit crazy. It took over the school for real for like a week. That's all niggas was talking about for real. So was this like, uh, you were already popular and people were just like coming up to you with, oh, so that's different. I was not popular at all. Like I wasn't, I wasn't like a lamb or no shit like that. But I was quiet. I stayed in my own lane. I had my own little bubble of guys and shit like that. But now I was going popular at all. And then nobody really getting up up on the RJ for real. What? So, okay. So you went from RJ to student, to artist, to RJ, the artist in a matter of a day. Everybody want to hop on the song. Niggas walking up to me freestyling to me like I'm about to sign y'all shit. I'm like, nigga, wait. Okay. Well, that's how was that though? Was it exciting? Was it like, I mean, yeah, because you know, when I was young, I always envisioned just being a superstar. So that was just like my superstar. So this was in the plan already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fast. I've seen it coming. So after that, when was like the first time that you like made an official song? It was it wasn't too long after that. Um, because I because I knew right away everybody was telling me like, man, you got to make that into official song, like a real song. And I had never been in a studio before. So I just hit up one of the homies. Like, yo, you know anybody who got studio? Like, yeah, my homeboy got one in the hood. So I took I really left because my mom, I was 16. My mom didn't want me to leave the neighborhood. This nigga stayed like 30 minutes away on the bike, 40 minutes away to hood. So I told my mom I was going up the street went road over there, pulled up to the crib. I'm thinking I'm about to see like a crazy studio. You know what I'm saying? I never seen one before, only on the TVs. He had me right in the closet recording. That's how it be. That's the true come out. Yeah, I'm right in the closet. So I did that, but only had one verse on it. So he was like, man, the song too short. Man, you don't want to stand it. I'm trying to come up with a verse. He like, man, let me just hop on it. And it's my brother to this day. He hopped on it and then that record just took off. Like, it just took off like a hundred K in just some weeks. And for me at the time, that was crazy. I wasn't seeing nothing like that. People are not even seeing a hundred K now. It's some sense. So it's still that's the big deal. Yeah, at that point, I just knew like I got something. Okay, that's so interesting. And so when did that segue into you dropping music consistently like to gain more people's attention? Like when did that happen? Well, we did the record and then, but I knew that like I wanted to do bigger things. Like I knew I didn't want to stay in that closet. You know what I'm saying? I didn't mind, but I had the vision of my sound and what I wanted, how I just wanted shit to go. So I just, I just, we just started reaching out to people. You know what I'm saying? Seeing who could get me in the studio, seeing who could get me around, good producers, and stuff like that. And then I ran into an OG in my city by the name of Marcelo. And he, that's when, yeah, I started to see the real studios. I started to see what it really felt like and what it's really like being an artist. And what we're recording is, you know, really liking working and shit like that. And once I got into that workflow, it was over. I knew that I wanted to drop a tape. I knew that I wanted to, you know, get features. I knew that I wanted to just do everything. Start making money off the music. Like I wanted to tap into everything. Okay, so you said you knew that you wanted to get features. So who, what were like your dream collabs when you were first getting into the industry? Somebody who I got on my album right now was a dream collab. And I know everybody don't even know I'm like, even from my city, but he was somebody I listened to and was a fan of Holly Grove Keem. Okay. You know, he's from the city and shit. I always wanted to work with him. So it was full of circle getting him on an album now. So that was one. I wanted to do one, a song with BTY who's also from the city, but he passed away, unfortunately, young greatness as well. But then he passed away, unfortunately, R.P. Those guys, yeah. So yeah, I was really thinking a lot local when I first started. Like I needed to get songs in with these guys before I could branch out to the world. And when you say your city, you're talking about Louisiana. Yeah, New Orleans. New Orleans. So how would you describe the New Orleans sound? Because I saw an article about you that said like the new sound of no love. And I thought that that was so interesting because when I think about New Orleans music, I think about like the bounce music. Like, I don't know if I've ever really tapped into like the R&B melodic rap sound from New Orleans. So if you had to describe that sound, how would you describe it? New Orleans as a whole or just that? I guess like, how would you describe the new Orleans sound? The new New Orleans sound. I mean, everything still bounce heavy. Everything still bounce heavy. I ain't gonna lie. It's a lot of drilling type of rap going on in New Orleans. But we got our R&B singers too. You know, I'm Bray from New Orleans. She's also signed a rock. You know, Lucky came out of New Orleans. Day? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He came out of New Orleans. And he's incredible. So yeah, and then there's me, you know what I'm saying? Coming with the R&B sounding with the rap shit. So I mean, yeah, so far that's what I'm hearing. But it's still a lot of bounce. It's bounce heavy, yeah, for sure, for sure. Would you do like a bounce song? I got one. You do? Which one? Louisiana. That's considered a bounce. Because Black and Model is who produced it, or co-produced it. That's so crazy because I literally was just talking about Louisiana. I didn't even think about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a bounce. And then they also took First Time Lovin' and put that on the radio with a bounce beat behind it. So technically, you know. They put it on the radio with a bounce beat behind it, but it wasn't recorded with one. No, no, no. Which one do you like better? Oh, sorry, because you were about to tell me. Go ahead and tell your secret face. I like Louisiana because it was recorded that way, you know, purposely to put out in a bounce way, for sure. But I got a couple more records that's bouncing the tuck. I'll be, yeah. Oh, in the tuck, because I was like, okay. Yeah, for the city, you got to, like, for real. Okay, okay, okay. So if it wasn't music, I mean, you said you already knew you were going to be a superstar. So you were already manifesting that from early. Did you know it was going to be music, or did you just know that you were... I knew it was going to be music. Okay. Either it's a basketball, or they're every nigga from the hood got hood dreams. Everybody got hood dreams. Yeah. But nah. Wait, but were you playing basketball? It's cool for you to even have hood dreams. Yeah, I was like, because you just said... I wanted to though, I tried out, I just didn't make the team. Damn. I mean, but it wasn't meant to happen. Everything is for a reason. Yeah, that's what they say. No, no, I believe that. I really believe that. Okay, so, you know, I think that, like I said earlier, your sound has changed over time. I think that you're also very versatile, which is clear from just the conversation we've been having already. If you had to describe your sound though, how would you describe it? It's melodic heavy. I don't know, it's very spacious. The sound, you know, the quality of it is crazy. But it ranges, it's very versatile. That's really the main word, it's just very versatile. Because I do a lot of singing, but you know, I can also rap to it very well. I like that you make music for everybody. Like, I feel like there's a song that everybody can relate to, no matter like what kind of music they make, or what kind of music they listen to. And that's really what I aim to do, like just tell as many stories to try to reach and touch as many people as I possibly can. That's what it's all about. And I'm like, I'm an R&B girl, so I really, really love R&B, I love melodic music. But you're on the radar for style. You ate that up. Thank you. You did that. Thank you so much. It was like five minutes long. You was in your bag, you was talking as shit, and it was really like four people that probably are more inclined to listen to like your R&B music. It was like, oh, but let me remind y'all, just in case you forgot that I could do this too. Yeah, yeah, facts. I gotta drop by Gayberry once in a while and let y'all know what I could do, you know what I'm saying? You did that. That was really, really good. Yeah, really good. So let's get into you signing and your signing process. I know that, or at least I think I know, that you were going to sign to Highbridge at one point. Yeah, something like that, yeah. Okay, at one point and you didn't, and then you wound up signing. So what came first in terms of you signing? Did Rock Nation come first? Did Young Boy come first? NBA. Yeah, that's what I thought. That was first, yeah, through feed banks, that was first. Okay, that's what I was thinking. All right, so talk us through that and then I'll give you my follow up question. So how did you get connected with NBA? So to like clear the record though, I don't think I was necessarily ever supposed to sign with Highbridge, it was just more so like, let's take this kid, let's bring him around, let's take a chance. For whatever reason, it didn't work out, but I just don't want that air out there, like, you know what I'm saying? They didn't want it, like, you know, like it's bad blood or anything like that, you know? It just didn't work out. I didn't think about it that way. I just thought maybe things just didn't work out. Nah, but the fans be like, what's going on? That's true. You know what I'm saying? It just didn't work out like that. Like you said everything happens for a reason. So started working with Fee. You know, my mom told me I couldn't sign until when I was 17, but he stayed like working with me. Like he ain't just be like, all right, but like, I'm saying he stayed working with me watching the grind. And once I hit 18, I really locked in with him. That's when he introduced me to YB. YB like the sound and we just, we just made it happen. So what was that, what did that decision process look like? Because I think that there have been times that I've spoken to artists that sign other artists and I'll ask them like, what was it that made you wanna sign an artist? You know, being that you're still working on your career, you know yourself, but now from the opposite perspective, curious to know as an artist, what makes you think that like, this is a good move for me to sign to another artist? What was it that did it for you? So like, you know, I was working with A. I was like, he basically mentored me for like two years, but I'm on the road with him. And you know, in the back of my mind, I did think, you know, I was gonna sign to him and shit like that. And we was doing a bunch of stuff, you know what I'm saying? And then in that way, so I had already knew what it was like to be under an artist down there. You know what I'm saying? I already knew what that felt like and shit like that. So when the time came to have a sit down with YB, you know, all of that played in the back of my mind. Like, damn, I just was with this dude and we just all this wasted, you know, all this, I'm thinking this and it didn't happen the way. So when I sat down with YB, I had to really reflect and think about that shit like, damn, is he gone? But I don't know. Some just said, go for it, just do it. You know what I'm saying? I felt like it was the best thing for my career at the time, you know what I'm saying? And not to mention that he's from where I'm from too. So it made a lot more sense. You know, a Nola artist signing to somebody from, you know, Louisiana rather than me signing, you know? But I think, like I said, everything just happened for a reason and it just made the most sense. And it's been good so far. I know, okay, well, that's good that you're happy with your decision. I know that you went on tour with NoCap and that came, that was by way of you being signed. How was that experience? How was that going on tour? Man, that was crazy. That was my first tour, Fex. Like, well performing, I went on tour with A, but I ain't never get to perform. I just seen him. So being on stage in front of all them people, it just was crazy, but it was hella fun. I got so much love that I ain't think, cause you know, when you doing music and you see in the comments, it's different from you doing the music. You get to see the actual people, you know what I'm saying? Shake hands, give hugs, you know what I'm saying? So it was incredible. I can't wait to get back on the road for real. It was tiring, but it was crazy fun. So what was like that first performance like for you when you went on tour? Like the very first time you stepped on stage, so all of the people out there, what was going through your mind? Like, what did you have to do to prepare for that? We was in Dallas that night for the first night. And then on the way to the performance and shit, I'm just on YouTube trying to say, like, what do I say when I first go on stage? Like, you know what I'm saying? And before I perform, I was like, all right, if I fuck up, I'ma just, in case I fuck up at the beginning, I'ma just say, yo, like this my first time being on stage in a while. You know what I'm saying? So I put a YouTube video on the first thing that niggas say is, don't say that this your first time doing that shit. You know what I'm saying? But I was definitely nervous. Butterflies in my stomach and shit. But man, once they say, coming to the stage, all right, all that shit gotta go. And you just turned up. And yeah, I just turned up. But it was cool though to see, like, every show I just got better and better and better and get more comfortable with the crowd and shit. And yeah, by the time we made it to Cincinnati, it was over with. You bet it in a bag. You already know how it's gonna go. It was going crazy. So I feel like you kind of answered this already, but would you like better recording or performing live? They performed. Yeah. I was like, just for the way that you were like staying there, I figured that was gonna be your performance. Okay, so of course when you outside, you know, especially as people get to know you a little bit more, get to know who you're around, sometimes things don't always go the way that we would expect for them to go. I remember hearing this in real time. I don't know if you wanna talk about it only if you're comfortable, but there was an incident with you and somebody shooting up your car. Do you feel comfortable talking about that? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so what exactly happened with that situation? Because there was like a whole lot of speculation about it. So yeah, I'm gonna let you go ahead. I mean, to be honest, we still don't really know. You know what I'm saying? Like when the shit happened, I really felt like it was just more so, I wanna say I feel like it was more so just wrong place, wrong time type of situation. Because I don't really be for nobody like that. You know what I'm saying? They got guys from the other side that we may not get along with, but as far as me going back and forth on the internet, they're like, you don't really see me doing that. So it was a surprise, but I can't say. Like I don't know what happened that night. I know I was tripping though. I wasn't even, I was somewhere that I wasn't supposed to be in my city. Everybody know you don't go in this area. And I was there just on some tripping shit. Yeah, I was messed up at that time. I was going through a dark time. Yeah. So, okay, we're about to get into that. But what, so in that moment, the way that I knew what I saw was you went live after to kind of like, I guess tell people what was going on. Was that more for like a safety reason? Was it just to make everybody aware? Yeah, it was more so safety. And at the time of it, at the time of me going live, my mom was still just, of course, just so heavy in what the fuck just happened. And then I'm thinking too, like I don't know if they about to like spend back. Like I don't know what's about to happen. Let me go on live and speak to y'all whether if this be my last time speaking to y'all like type shit, you know what I'm saying? Just in case I gotta do whatever. So that's really what that was. That's just wanting to touch bases. I think that that was like kind of like a walk in testimony. One thing I've noticed about you is that you seem to be very like faith-based. And I truly believe that like God had you in that situation. Even when you pan the camera and you show like what it looked like, you know things can go left like this. So I think that that was really like a, for once to some like a wake up call to you. You said, you knew you weren't where you were supposed to be in that situation. But you know, that was a moment that you could take from and learn from. Yeah, hell yeah. I didn't get hit one time. That shit is crazy. The only damage that I took was glass from the windshield cut off my leg up, but I'm here. So I'm definitely blessed. Thank God for that. But did that change the way that you moved though? Like after that incident, did you like start bringing more people with you to places? Did you watch where you were going? Was that a factor at all or no? Coming from where I come from, it's not true that you have your head on the swivel. That night I didn't. I was tripping. So, you know, of course going forward no matter where I'm at. I got my head on the swivel, but it more so changed me mentally. Like I said, during that time, I was going through a really dark, depressed, you know, moment in my life. And it wasn't because no particular reason other than the fact that I just felt like I could be doing more. I don't know. It just, I was, I was at the edge. Like I really just didn't want to do anything no more. I felt hopeless. And so, you know, started contemplating some real dark stuff. But that moment just kind of taught me like I'm not in control of my life. Like, you know, it could be taken from me at any moment. So I need to be grateful and thankful for every second that I have. And that's kind of how I've been moving since this situation. Because before I went moving like that, I wasn't appreciative of what all of these blessings that I got. I'm signed to a label. Like I've made this person do that person. So I just wasn't grateful. So I felt like that was God just like waking me up. Like you tripping. So I've been moving like that. I still, I still don't really move with like too many people around me because I feel like that's, that's damn near equivalent to like, you know, the same shit can happen. Like, you know, somebody being too close to you and they know you. I don't know. I just, yeah. The only way I've just been moving different though is just been moving in a much more positive and appreciative way. I think that I definitely received everything you said. Even from a personal standpoint, I feel like I can relate to a lot. I also just want to say, of course, I'm not taken away from what you're saying. But I think that gratefulness is very subjective because you may say that you weren't grateful in the time but sometimes we're just really not aware of like all the blessings or like all of the things that we have going on. So it's not coming from a place of, I'm not grateful because I don't have it. It's just like, I'm not stopping to even think about what I have. I'm thinking about what I'm lacking more than anything. So I just, I don't want you to feel like, oh, you know, like I wasn't grateful enough and I wasn't. It's like maybe you just weren't in the headspace to really appreciate all that was happening in the moment. So mental health check-in on a scale from one to 10, how you feeling? I'm good. You're good? Yeah, this hour about to drop, I feel good. Very, very happy to hear that. So I know we just talking about, you know, we were working through a very dark time. What kind of things did you turn to to get yourself to where you are now? Where you were very, very good and you back to working? I think, and it's crazy too that before that moment happened, I had just like, because I had got, it's random but I had got tired of going to like studios. Like I wasn't catching vibes. Like I just, it was weird and that kind of fucked with my sadness too. So I had went out and I spent a good grip on studio equipment and I had put it in the house and I had it just sitting there. Like I wasn't, I wasn't motivated. I was too in a dark headspace to even fuck with. I wasn't, you know what I'm saying? So when that situation happened, I just like, man, I feel like requires a music. Like, you know what I'm saying? And I just got on it, learn how to mix and master, record myself, all that type of shit. And doing that every day gave me something to go for. Like it gave me peace. It brought me happiness. You know what I'm saying? Just I create more and more music doing something that I love anyway. Something that I knew I should have been doing anyway. And that's what really took me out of it. So would you say that music is like your therapy? Hell yeah, 100% whether I'm listening to it or doing it, whatever music. I think it was interesting. Like I heard you talking in one of your interviews about, I think it was what gave actually where you were saying that you'll go to the studio but you don't necessarily write. Like you'll just freestyle. Do you still do that? Yeah, yeah, I still freestyle. I love the freestyle. Cause writing, I don't know. But I've been getting back into writing more too. Cause I don't know, I just feel like you gotta be in a certain mood. If I hear a beat, it's like crazy as hell. And I know I gotta sit down and write. I'm gonna sit down and write. But majority of time I just let it flow straight from. Okay, well I'm glad that you found your vice. I'm glad you found something that can make you happy and can get you out of that headspace. Because I know that there are a lot of people that feel the same way. And that's also why I didn't want to invalidate how you were feeling. But at the same time, you know, like I said, gratefulness a lot of times is very subjective when you're not in a headspace to think about it. It makes sense. I'm glad I could look at it that way too, you know. So now let's get into you signing to Rock Nation. How did that come about? We did the deal with YB. And I was working with YB for like, I don't even think it was six months before bigger labels started calling and stuff like that. And Fee got in contact with another partner who put us in direct contact with Sherry, who's a president over at Rock. And we hopped on a meeting with him, conversation went swell, everything made sense, and we made the deal happen. Okay, so what's the difference between what you have going on with YB and what you have going on with Rock Nation? I guess what YB, it's a lot more distance. So it's more so an affiliation, you know, we work. And what I do, you know, YB never, that's my big brother, he never take nothing from what I do and no shit like that. It's all just been family oriented working over here. It's more like we really locked in, you know what I'm saying? Every day, day to day doing this and that, I don't really be with YB or speaking to him too much or doing too much over there as much as I'm doing over here. Okay. That's all it is. So how did it feel to sign into like Rock Nation? Like, whoa, big deal. It still feels surreal. How was the year? Like that's such a big, a big thing to be proud of. It still feels surreal, you know what I'm saying? Especially to be the first one in my family to do something like this. Like, you know, I got a bunch of uncles that rap. Like, you know, my father rap. So it's just surreal, for real. I'm so grateful. I'm still taking it all in. I'm sure 10 years later, I'll still be taking it all in. Well, I will give you a congratulatress for that because that is very big. Do you have any collabs like with other Rock Nation artists that you would like to head out? Yeah, hell yeah. Damn, I love them right now. Really? Yeah, hell yeah. You don't? Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, shout out to HD. Man, HD got Hella Records. Shout out Ruben from Charlotte. That's the guy. Is he from Charlotte? Y'all know? Yeah, he's from Charlotte. Yeah, shout out Ruben, shout out Charlotte. So yeah, me and him got records. Tyree is another Rock Nation artist. That's like my brother for real. We got records. Kailin is another artist. Oh, OK, I like Kailin. He's from Cali, yeah. Yeah, we did some joins. I like his music, too. So yeah, I'm trying to lock in with everybody for real. What about Cash Page? I really, really like her music. Oh yeah, we tapped in. I seen her at the 4040 last year for an event at J-Through. OK, because I was like, I feel like y'all really like her music. Yeah, we tapped in. She followed the sound and shit. I told her I followed her. I got a number. I'm a hitter. We're going to lock in to do something. Yeah, shout out to Cash Page. I like her music, too. And I feel like y'all's sounds would work very well together. And she's signed some outnations. Yeah, she's up as hell. She probably was there tonight. I just didn't even see her at the 4040. Oh, that was 1080. Yeah, we had. OK, it was like. No, it wasn't. Yeah, so I had this one. It was a little out. Sorry, y'all. I don't know what's going on. So how are your relationships, though, like with artists? Do you have like artist friends or is it like business? Yeah, yeah, I got some friends, for sure. OK. Not everyone you see me shaking hands with my friends. Oh, no, I would never assume that. Not even just for you, with anybody. But yeah, I got some friends. Like I said, the guys that I just named, like we're really, really cool. I'm glad I have that relationship with them, especially with them being on the label. And yeah, yeah, so. OK. So I want to get into something with you real quick. What's up? You have posted something on social media about another R&B artist. And you said F that crap. Yeah. And I won't say who it is if you don't want me to, because I don't know where y'all staying in your relationship right now. Man, listen, bro. I just, that whole situation, I just don't do the fake celebrity shit. Like I'm a human being. Like, I don't know. OK, all right. So my first question is, can I say the name or no? Yeah. All right, so it was about Jacquees. And it was very random to me because I feel like I don't really be seeing him in no drama. I don't really be seeing you in no drama. So it was like, what the hell happened? And then I didn't see any response. And then I didn't see any follow-up from your end. So I'm like, you can't just say a statement like that. And I had people wondering what was going on at the time. I stand on what I said, man. I just don't do that weird shit. So what happened was I see him at the Rock Nation brunch. They invited me to go. That was earlier this year. So I seen him. Not only did I see him because to even get to where the actual brunch is, you got to take a bus to get up there at a loading dog or some shit. So we all there. And it's a bunch of celebrities, you know what I'm saying? But he's close to me. I shake hands with him. We chop it up. We take pictures. Shit was cool. We get to the brunch. I see him there. We chop it up. It's cool. A week later, I'm back home. But I'm about to fly back to LA again. I just so happened to run into this nigga at the airport at MSY. So I see him. And people are not crowding him. It's not crazy in there. Everybody moving, doing what they got. They probably got like one or two people trying to take a picture with this nigga. He so happened to cross my path. So when I see him, I don't immediately say something because I'm waiting for that eye contact. We make that eye contact. And then that's when I know, oh, he acknowledges me. He remember me like, what's up? So as soon as we make the eye contact, I'm like, what's up? But bro, I think, look at me. I think, keep walking. Yeah, I'm like, that's weird. Like, yeah, that's weird. Like, you know, I'm a human being. Like, I don't do that shit. Like, and then if you could give attention to these people, even if you were like giving him the benefit out, even if he didn't recognize you right away, it could at least acknowledge my presence. Yeah. Yeah. So my fuck Jacquees ain't even coming from an artist standpoint. It's coming from a human, a human standpoint. Like, you're not like, no, nigga, you're a human. Just like me, nigga, you put your pants on. Too late, too f- you know what I'm saying? At the time, just like me, nigga, what the fuck? Like, nah, we not doing that. I'm so happy that you were able to clear it. Thank you for clearing it up. I'm happy that you did. Because me, I'm an over-thinker. I've created all of these scenarios in my head. You said crab. I'm thinking Nicki Minaj. She said bitches like crabs in a bucket. You see a bad bitch getting shot. That's some crab shit. I'm like, maybe you did something like... I'll never do that. I'll never do that. I don't care. OK, so let's say from an artist standpoint, Rosa Reverse, you at the airport. You know, you just, you either just came off a long flight or you about to get on one. You know, we had a long day. And people coming up to you asking for pictures, asking you to talk. Like, are you always gonna get pictures? Are you always gonna talk? Hell yeah, I am a public figure. I signed up for this. OK, because you know there are, not even this situation aside, there are artists and just celebrities in general that are like, you know, respect my time, respect me as a person. Yeah, that's all cool. But if I'm seeing that you conversing with other people and I see that we make eye contact, I'm not just gonna disrespect you or none like that. Because like, as a man, that's like, damn, that disrespect. If we know each other and you see me, you don't say nothing, I'm charismatic. I'm gonna be that person. My mom always say something, speak up. I'm gonna be that person. So I just, what's up, bro? Yeah, I feel that. What's good, bro? How you been? And the nigga just like, come on, bro, now. Yeah, well, to walkway is crazy. Not even like, oh, yo, you know what I'm doing. It's been a long day, you know. I catch you. That's all good, I let him have it fucked up too. Have you seen him since? No, I haven't seen him. OK, so we're gonna leave that where it's at. So something else, on your Instagram, you said, I don't fit in. On your Instagram name, that's literally what it says. Can you elaborate? Yeah, I was more so speaking about this right here. Like, I think when I first signed to YB, a lot of the people from my hometown didn't respect it. Just because a lot of them did, but a lot of them didn't, because they were like, what is he doing with this crowd? These guys rap about this and this and this and that. And what are they doing trying to sign this guy who's singing about women? You know what I mean? Like, it just don't make sense. So for a while, that was like, I felt like that was my downfall. Like, damn, man, I got to rap like these guys to fit in. Like, I got to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it came to a certain point where I'm like, man, I'm fucking awesome. Like, I got some shit that niggas don't have. And I like that I don't fit in. Why would I want to fit in? You know, while you were saying that, I was looking kind of confused a little bit, because I wasn't expecting for you to say that they didn't respect it. If anything, it's like I stood out enough that they wanted to put me. Nah, they didn't respect it. And I'm going to tell you why, because there was on some shit. He going to sit up here with these guys that rap about this and struggle about this. But he wasn't struggling or whatever, because we grew up in poor conditions, but by the time I got a little older, my mama made it a little better for us. She moved us. OK, but you were still like, I feel like struggle is social objective. Like, let's not act like he was not living in your car. You had, you had struggle too. Like, I feel like people don't want to compare struggles. And it does not, it never needs to give that. Talent is talent. Exactly. And I feel like any good label or like even artist, if you want to have people under you, you don't want everybody to have the same sound. Exactly, yeah. So I was like, hmm, this is a little interesting, like give it everybody. But it wasn't like a, I'm not going to respect or anything. It was like, huh, what does he bring to the table that would make him be the standalone person, like the standalone R&B person or whatever in this situation? Exactly. Like, you know what I'm saying? Lil Wayne went, you know, when he was creating YMSNB, he didn't sign a bunch of Lil Wayne's. You know, he got Drake, he got Nicky, he got Euro. He got, you know what I'm saying? They're all different type of artists that, you know, step in a different type of lane. So I think investing in me was one of the smartest moves for real, because I just, I don't fit in. So do you feel like you've had your like, I made it moment yet? Nah, not until I sell out my first show. Sell out your first show, okay? So let's talk hypothetically speaking with this show. What would like your dream lineup be? So obviously you'd be the main act, you the headliner. But who would you want to like open for you? And who else would you want to perform? Damn. I definitely want, I think, I think I want, I think I want YB to open for real. He'll, he'll have him going crazy. Okay. And then I definitely want Boogie to be a filing record. Cause you know, I got him on some records. So it'll be crazy. And like, if I'm out here or whatever, I just bring him out. Should it be nuts? I don't know, I'm from New Orleans. So if I could, if I could bring Wayne out, like that would be epic. Like that's it. Okay, you've got a star, I love that feeling. So, but you're not going to have anybody opening, like upcoming or upcoming artists, people that like, people don't know, like the same way, like not saying people didn't know you, but I'm sure that when you went on tour, everybody wasn't familiar with who you were with. That gave you an opportunity to get your name out there. No, no, yeah, cause I'm thinking like, who would you, yeah, no, who would you put on tour with you that doesn't necessarily have a name out there across the country or across the world, but you think they deserve to be heard? 4AM, he's on my album. I think he's from Memphis, but he's in my hometown right now. He's fire, like he's crazy fire. I definitely have him open for me cause the world need to hear him. Like he's crazy. Shout out 4AM. Yeah, shout out 4AM. I'm trying to think, my homeboy Bang, he's like my hype man. Man, it's crazy, bro. He gonna turn this show up for sure. I probably have him open too, for real. I should be crazy. I haven't robbed, I haven't robbed. That'd be crazy to rob for now. He's from my city. Okay, okay, this is given. I don't know what it's given yet, but it's given something. This is like something for everybody. I don't know if I'm getting an order right or how I want niggas to, you know. That ain't okay, cause we're hypothetically speaking. Yeah, he'll definitely have to pop out for me though. Okay, that's fire. So what do you think like if, if somebody were to go to a show of yours cause obviously the shows are coming cause the project is coming. So I can only assume the show was gonna follow. What would your show give? Like if I went to a RJ concert, like what kind of vibe, what should I be expected to like get into? Expect to be in your feels, for real. We gonna touch some bases. We gonna talk about some things that may be uncomfortable to talk about, but we gonna talk about it. We gonna, yeah, I'm gonna give you all some stories. So just expect to be open and hear some things. Okay. Okay. Survive. Speaking of getting your feels, have you ever gotten your heart broken before? Plenty of times. Plenty? Yeah. I wasn't expecting you to say that. Plenty. Okay. Do you wanna talk about one or no? I'm not gonna give you the option or no. I'm here with you right now. Okay, let's talk about one. Is there anybody that you, okay, why? Let's start off with that. Was that inspired by any of your real life situations? Yeah. Okay, let's talk about that one. Cause that one had views like that. You said a lot of heavy, heavy things in that song. Talking about ending it all. Talking about not being able to feel anything. Heart broken, but still praying for somebody. How, what was that situation? What did that look like? Messy. I've been through, man. I've been through all type of emotions. Like you can go through for real, like to where it's like, I've been so heartbroken. I don't know where to turn and I go to, you know, I had a drug addiction that I just got over. Like, and that all stemmed from me being in a relationship that was so that I'm toxic and it just caused so much pain. I didn't know how to deal with it. So yeah, I was definitely on drugs heavy. Just going crazy. You know, having me that night that I got shot at, it was because of, I ain't gonna speak too much on it, but it had something to do with the fact that I was in a relationship that had me so messed up in the head, had me acting out a character. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you can't let nobody take it. And I know you know this now. Yeah, yeah. And I like, and it's so tricky sometimes because you don't even feel it happening. Yeah, I know. You just sit back and like, yeah. And that's when you, like, you know what's going on. But in real time, it's like, you don't even see like this is not me. Yeah, no, you don't even see it. Well, I've been blinded. I also want to say congratulations on getting over your addiction. Thank you so much. Cause that's really big. Yeah, thank you. People don't always make it out of that. So congratulations to you for that. Thank you so much. But wow, so that inspired why. Yeah. Does that situation kind of like, I don't know, like do you use that to navigate your situations now moving forward? Nah, man. I feel like, I feel like I'm a pretty hard-headed lover. Like it take, it take a lot of time for me to get my heart broken to like learn a lesson. Like, oh, I'm tripping. Like it take a lot of heartbreak. Nah, cause you really a certified lover boy. Wow. I don't know what it is, but I just know. Okay, but you know what else. So in the conversations about like R&B, I know you're not just like an R&B artist, but in the conversations about R&B being dead, when Diddy was talking about it, he said that he felt like there was like a vulnerability that was lacking from the music that we get now. And I think that those situations and those like real life experiences are what help give that feeling, where you can actually listen to a song and actually feel something from it. Like, damn, let me run that back. Cause like, I listen, but now like, let me hear what he's saying. Cause it's like, you feel like what you're going through. So I mean, it's good that you use that for your music. But I think that some would say that that's what we're lacking. So however many times you gotta get your heart broken, that's what they say to Abe Boogie too. Like get your heart broken again. Like we can really be plotting on Abe Boogie's love downfall just so that we can get some. Shout out to Abe Boogie, man. Give my man music. Shout out to Abe Boogie. I would never root for anybody to get their heart broken. But his best songs do come from when he's going through it with my girl, Ella. So, um. That's typically how it be. Yeah. So how, what's your love life looking like right now, RJ? Like, are you dating? Are you working? What you doing? I'm single. Yeah, screwed up. But I'm working though. I'm definitely working. I barely have the time these days, but yeah, I'm definitely big single. Big single. All right, y'all wanna, okay, big single. And then what is it that you look for? Like, okay, no. First, have you changed your preferences? A lot of people when they get like, names for themselves, they only talk to like, you know, the ladies with the blue checks, or like influencers. Oh, no, no, I ain't doing that. No, I like, I don't know. Like yeah, I'm a human being. I don't look at all that blue checks and all that, no. Okay. Yeah, I just like you for who you are here type situation. Okay, okay. So now, what do you do for fun? Like, what are things like outside of music? I feel like we like talked a lot about the music. What do you do? Like, let's say you have a free day. You don't gotta go to the studio. You don't gotta do nothing. What's on the agenda? I'm a workout for sure. I gotta start my day with a workout. I'm actually, I actually, I'm actually in a boxing now. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna do that for sure. A lot of people getting into boxing, like artists, like blue face. It's the best way to exercise. Yeah, I swear it's the best way. Okay. See, I'm gonna work out, probably spend time with my family since I don't get to see them as much as I do. I'm gonna cook cause I love to cook. That's fun to me. Oh, great. Yeah, I like to cook. So I probably cook. What's your favorite thing to cook? I like, I like red sauce a lot. I'm big on red sauce. I ain't gonna lie. So. That must be a, wait, red sauce? Yeah, just like tomato sauce. Oh, I'm like, that was me. Like nah, I like spaghetti. Like spaghetti always been my favorite go-to, but I make spaghetti and meatballs. Like that's, that's my go-to. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So I'm trying to get that grub on at the crib. Okay, okay, cool. So you cooking, you boxing, you working out. All right, that sounds good. So now let's bring it back. We got, remember that coming out? Friday. The second? Yeah. June 2nd. What else can we look forward to? You're the problem. That, that is so crazy. You're the problem. Just based on your situation, I'm not gonna say too much, but the title definitely gives a lack of accountability, but I won't say that for you. I won't say that for you. Is that about one of your, that title was inspired by one of your situations too? Yeah, yeah, that situation. Damn. Wait, so when you make music about like your past situations, do they know? Hell yeah, they know. I heard your little song or whatever. That's what I said. No. I heard your little song or whatever. And what are you gonna be saying about? Like, are you like a no, is a general statement or are you like, yeah, that was about you? Nah, yeah, that was about you. Oh damn, I don't see. I don't even think I would say anything if I heard a song about me. I'll just take, in your case, I would take the L because you be talking shit about, well, it depends on the song. Yeah, I gotta stand on business for sure. Okay, so yeah, I mean, I think that we really talked about like a lot of things that I wanted to get into. One thing that I did forget to ask you about and I know we gotta go because it's really getting late and thank you again for being here so late. Yeah, it's so good. Your affiliations. Do you feel like your affiliations have helped you, hurt you or just like, it is what it is. And I can elaborate if you need me to. Yeah, elaborate. Okay, so example, if you go to your YouTube, your first video that you have on there is the song Wakanda Rondo. There's a lot of controversy around him for multiple reasons at this point. And sometimes artists will say, like when they've worked with an artist that's very controversial, that has a lot of words to be said about them. It hinders them from getting collaborations with other artists that may be like their ops or that don't fuck with them or anything like that. Do you feel like not even with him specifically but just with the people who you are affiliated with, have you seen anything that has like either hurt you or helped you? I mean, like going into the game, I was a fan of just music in general. So of course there was a bunch of artists that I wanted to work with that I may not be able to get the chance to work with but I mean, it's the game at the end of the day. You know what I'm saying? I'm hoping to work with anybody who still is trying to work. I'm kind of out the mix. I kind of don't say too much or speak on none of those type of situations. So like I said, I'm hoping to work with everybody but I know how the game goes, it's the game. You can't, I don't know. It's just the game. I just charge it to the game, it's whatever. Okay, well it's the game but once again RJ is willing to work with anybody. Not anybody. Anybody that fits the, you know. Fits the status quo. Right, fits the status quo but that's really good to hear. Glad that you cleared that up. But is there anything else that you want to get into before we, before we wrap up? No, not really man. Album on the way, you're the problem. Make sure y'all go get that. Remember that, dropping on the second with A Boogie, the king of New York. He said it's gonna be a summer bop y'all. Yeah, yeah, we got a lot of emotion right now. I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate you for having me here. Yes, we appreciate you for coming. Let them know where to find you if they don't know. Yeah, on Instagram you can find me at RJ, A-E-R-A-P, Twitter, Facebook, Arie Daneson.