 Let's talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk, we gon' have fun. We be on fire, we be lily. It's a unique hustle, big shit. Big shit, big shit. It's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy E.C.O. And I'm here with the lovely official, Miss Jamaica. Yeah, my dad. What's going on? Man. Say another day, another dollar, a dime or what? A nickel or a fifth of a cent? Man, hey, man. We here on Boss Talk 101, man. And we got a special guest, man. And this guy right here, man. Listen, man, when I first seen him, man, I really, you know, cause I think I could sing a little bit. You know, I was watching TikTok and I seen this cat come on. And you know, I, you know, being that I work and I'm an engineer, I'm used to that country music. And I was like, man, who is this cat, man? And I said, this cat sound good, man. And this is a brother. It ain't Darius Rockle. Check it, man. T-dash is in the building, man. How you doing, man? I'm good, man. I'm good. I'm good, man. It's a long little drive, you know. Straight out of H-time. Yeah, man. Thank you for pulling up, man. Yeah, man. Say, you know, when I think about T-dash, man, and what today is doing with our music, man, you know, you're a breath of fresh air, brother. We needed that on them social media ways, man. Ain't no real... See, we got some brothers that can sing. I know cause they go all the way back to Marvin Gaye and all that other stuff. The world we really supposed to be ripping that thing apart. We ain't really where we ought to be on social media. If we really show our talent on social media, we'll take that thing over quick. Yes. Cause our people are some talented people, and you are the epitome of that. Man, I appreciate that. No, no, no. I've watched the videos, man. That's sound good. I like that. Oh, you on boss talk now. This is a real... This thing right here, man. Hey, man, I'm trying to do like you did. Yeah. I want us to go viral. Yeah. Cause you went straight viral. I wasn't even trying, man. I wasn't even trying to, man. It's crazy. I was just sitting there, man, doing my normal thing in the hood, man. Yeah. They got to talking like... I say, man, look, man, I can sing whatever, man. I can sing R&B, blues, country, whatever. Rock and roll. They was like, country. Like, they looked over all the other stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They was like, country, man. You can't sing no damn country, man. I know it. Yeah, I can, man. Yeah, and I started doing it. Hit them boy. Cause it was abnormal. A lot of black folks don't love country. No, no, no, no. It ain't that they don't... I love it. I love it. I love it too. They do? You got certain words. Really? Yeah. But it just made me think of work because of my job. Yeah. That's what the hell they play. Yeah. So when I come home, like, I'm not at work. I'm cutting this country off and put on this R&B. Yeah. But when I'm at work, I turn it on. I'm on the Wolf. We got a channel down here called 99.5. The Wolf. The Wolf. And I would get on that at night when I go to work and I know it's on and popping. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, man. So just being from Houston, man, just tell me a little bit about coming up in Houston and just kind of what side of town you were from. And just kind of who did you dance to? And were you always singing from a baby kind of? I've been singing for a long time and I'll be from a part of Houston where we call it South Park, Texas. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that's what we call it. You know what I'm saying? It's in Houston, but it's like its own entity. You know what I'm saying? It's South Park, Texas. You know? So shout out to my peoples, man. Shout out to The Block, 5800. You know what I'm talking about? Yes, sir. And... That boy saying, you know what I'm talking about? That's how we do it, baby. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I've been singing a long time. I mean, my mom, she, you know, she burped that into me. How's your mom sings, too? Well, she used to. She sings now, but she can't carry it like she used to. You know, she's old and now, so she... Well, she just out of tune. I'll put it that way. You know, sometimes it just takes... Because I'm an ex-basketball player. So if you don't play it from the younger days like you going from seven days a week all day to once a month, you're not going to play the same. You're not going to play the same. Mentally, you still got it, but your body going to say now, man. You tripping. How was you when you started to know that you sent a great voice? Yeah. Well, probably by 19, somewhere now, I kind of felt like I can carry a tune and mimic whatever, because that's pretty much how I was taught. Exactly. But I would just basically listen to whatever and mimicked everything I heard. And if I can match it to the best of my ability of how they sound, then I can try to make it to my own, then I feel like I can sing. Because if everybody said, man, you sound just like him. Oh, you sound just like... Okay, you say he can sing. Or he or she can sing. So if I'm sounding like them, I mean I can sing a little bit. Oh, okay. And did you start in church? No, I'm the oddball. I don't have that church background. I don't have the choir discipline. I just raw sing. Man, somebody was telling me some notes or something one time. I was like, what is that? They said, do you know what you sing in? I was like, nah, I just sing. Yeah, I just sing. And they was like, man, you sound like you're a tenor, you're a soprano. I was like... I don't know. Okay, cool. That sound good. Yeah, that sound good. But yeah, I just sing. Because a lot of people start in church. Yeah, and you know... The people that we interviewed. I know a lot of people do too, but a lot of people we've been interviewing. They always say that they start off in church with gospel or something like that. And then they graduate whether into blues or rap or something else. But a lot of R&B singers usually always start off that way somehow. Yeah, I come from... My grandmother used to hum all the time. Early in the morning she getting up to cook breakfast, she humming and chewing her tongue. All little good stuff. And then my mom, she was like, I always sing to me before I went to sleep. So that's what that country was introduced. Oh, she sings to the country too? Yeah, my first artist as far as country was Randy Travis. So that's where I went viral with. Okay. You know, that's crazy. Have you ever met him? Nah, nah, nah. I've been seeing the TikTok thing where they do him and then he reposted and all little good stuff. Yeah, they've been waiting on me to do it, but I haven't done it. When I've seen you, man, like I said, it was a breath of fresh air, you know. And because that's needed on those waves, man. The market is so over saturated with rap music and a lot of stuff that basically not only rap, but just some negative vibes you see a lot of times, or just booty shaking. That's what's going on there. Now don't get it wrong, you're also gonna do that. And you know, back in our day, it was, and I say my day, it was short, you know, the Daisy Dukes or something. Yeah. They just translated into twerking and all this other stuff. So it ain't that, you can act like you don't realize what's going on with it all. We never did that back then. Oh, for me tripping. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I do. But then, you know, one thing I know about Jesus, he meets you where you at, in your Daisy Dukes. He meets you wherever you at. And that's the way we try to be on here. If you ain't got, you know, if you messed up, I'm coming right there to your messed up self and love you until you get to where you feel you ain't messed up no more because we all got a little bit of messed up in us. Yes. You know what I'm saying? And you're full to think you don't. That's it. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, you know, but just to see what you're doing, it's just straight, pure positivity for me. You know what I'm saying? Because if it wasn't, then I'd tell you, because I'm gonna throw it off a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. But it definitely is a great vibe, man, just to hear your voice, man. The way you sound, it's so organic. It's like you went to some kind of school or something for your voice. I'm being real. I appreciate that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? This is God-given talent. Yeah. Yeah, man. Like what's the most crazy, ridiculous thing that has happened to you since you've been singing for as one of your followers, what did they say, supporters now? Supporters. Well, you got the DMs. Oh, that DM go. That where me, I make it a point to let everybody know, hey, I'm married. I don't want no trouble. I say this all the time. Hey, man, I don't want no trouble. Y'all are married. You know what I'm saying? But my wife, she understands, you know, I'm an artist and I have to put a show on and this that and the other. She gives me a time limit to interact. You know what I'm saying? If I surpass that, then it's like, hey, hey, hey, you know, so I got to make sure I'm good. But at the same time, you know, interact with the fans. But I did get a DM one time where it was like, hey, I know you said that you married, but if you ever felt like going out on a date, just let me know type deal. I'm like, okay, wait a minute, you know, I'm married. I ain't said I got no issues going on, just letting the other. So why would you do that? No, no, I get it. You know, so it's like a test of, you know, so I don't know if it was a setup. And I'll be paying attention to it. No, man, it's just the anointing that's seeing you, brother. I mean, you understand that, don't you? We done had our situations where, you know, vice versa both ways when you've been around a lot of people in the industry. Yeah, yeah, they're going to come at you, man. And it's going to only get worse the more you deal with it. You know, we've been dealing with it a long time and we've met a lot of people. And I've seen a lot of things happen to where you had to be, you had to be, you had to be stern in your faith in order to keep past this stuff because the devil is crappy and deception. Yeah. So he's looking for a way to kill, steal and destroy. You know, a divided house, you know, it can't stand. Right. So this thing here can be, it can go totally berserk. And yeah, he'll give you, he'll give you, yeah, he'll give you some things where it can cause some skills if you're not careful. So you got to have a good foundation, right? And that open communication with your partner as well. We very open. We was in a debate on the way here. Yeah, we exercise that pretty much, you know what I'm saying? We don't miss too many days. You know, let's just keep, you know, they say iron sharpens iron. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? We got to keep each other sharp. So that's what we do. We don't do the domestic. We don't do that. You know, as far as physical. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? You get a little verbal every now and then because she said, I get on others and she damn sure gets on mine. I'm still. I'm still. How long you guys been married? 12, 12 years. 12, we got y'all be a little bit. We up at the 18 years. One on 19. But you come on with it. You know what I'm saying? We'll be there. Come on with it. It ain't easy, but you just have to learn to sacrifice for one another. And for your children. A lot of people say, man, don't do it for the kids. Don't do it. Yeah. We got five. Five. Wow. You got a birthday sign? We had twins on the last one. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm the same way. I got two and then we got two. That's a hug over there. That's mine. Doesn't any of you kids sing? Yes. My oldest. My oldest. Well, all of them sing. But I think my oldest is taking it a little bit more serious. She, she. Oh, she got it. Four girls, one boy. And I looked up and got a boy because he's a twin. So that was the only way I can get a boy. And that's the last one. Yeah, that's the last one. Yeah. Wow. So you're done? Yeah, we done deal. Yeah, we done deal. They got up straight, but they reached over and, you know, looked at me and say, hey, you need us to, I say, no, don't touch me. I want to do the same thing. Yeah. I ain't doing that. No, I tell you, I say, I might be the first one you make the mistake on. I'm good. No, no, me too. I'm not, I'm not trying to hear that. Shout out to the ones who hold it down. Yeah. So this song, man, side piece. Side, side, side. You say it was wrote by T Char. T Char. Shout out to my boy, T Char's, man. Yeah. Yeah. I know that he was saying that. Y'all don't say that. See, this is the one, I had to ask that first because I've been on her about people not going to admit that somebody else wrote for her, but that's in rap. Now I got to bring her to R&B and hip hop and R&B is different. Why? You know what I'm saying? You have the talent to deliver. Some people don't always have the talent to write. A lot of rappers feel like, okay, I have to write and deliver at the same time. Know your craft and know what you're good at and stay in your lane. I admit to that. Y'all ain't not going to admit that now. I'm telling you now, but the R&B guys will because it's a different type of job. Do you agree with that? I do agree with that. But this is what's said. This is the foundation. Hey, you got to be real and you got to be doing your own thing. So it's about what you're rapping about, right? So if you're rapping about robberies killing and jacking and knocking out a bunch of women, but this is somebody else's song, that means you fake. That's not you. That's right. That's not you. So it's like, hold up, man. I can't rock with you, bro. You ain't rapping about it. You ain't living what you're rapping about. Which is kind of crazy, but they got to make that shift because look at all these rappers dying because they got to live what they rap about. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, man, I mean, I wish they go ahead and shift it because we losing too many great people. I spoke with PGF Shout last night. Doe Boyd is out Atlanta and he was like, he has to be careful what he's saying because it becomes you. We got to talking about that. So he can't just say, like he was just saying how they talk about it. He won't rap about stuff like that because he knows the energy that it brings. And if you say it, we create when we say things, guys. Everything we do. You speaking in existence. Everything we do, most of the time we either say it. Most of the time we're going to say it in our mind or some kind of way. We'll just do something and we'll speak it and we'll make it develop. I can promise you that. Yes. We need to get enough of us to speak. Positivity. Positivity. Stop killing each other over this stuff, man. We are just rapping to make money and then paint stories and all this, you know, pictures and all that good stuff, man. Please don't take it wholeheartedly, man and take these people out, man because we are losing a lot of great people. And it's so crazy because a lot of people always tell, a couple of people have told me before negativity sells, just like to say sex sells. You could put something positive every day on your Instagram, on your YouTube but you have somebody out here with all that mess, all that gossip, all that. They will have way more supporters and way more viewers and way more everything than this person who is trying to promote positivity. The old sanny of misery loves company. Loves. It loves it. I mean drama will sell. Oh, it's nothing but positive. Oh, you're too good. No, no. You know what I'm saying? That's boring. You know what I'm saying? So you got to have a little craziness going on because that's what people's, this is life. Everybody got some craziness going on. So that's why they can easily relate to that and that's why they gravitate to it. Side chick, back to that. That song, I sent that to my brother and boy, they really, man, is that his song? They say, yeah, I guess, hell, I'm just letting you know the cat coming on the show. They say, man, that's song, man. Let Assimus Daddy's song, you know? It sounds so good. They think it's something you just sing because you do sing a lot of people's songs, you know? Right, right, right. And it was like, I feel like that was one that, you know, you put in a bunch of poems. Yeah, well, I made it my own, you know what I'm saying? So, but it wasn't wrote by me. Yeah, but it still, you made it your own, right? It was my own, man, but I'm telling you all, I did not write this song. So, it wasn't anything in his personal life that was going on? That's what he's trying to say. No, that's what I want to make sure they don't get constrained. I don't, yeah, I don't want that. No, no, no, no, no, no. We good. Knew an up-and-coming artist of the year award. What's up with that? Man, that came out the blue. I didn't even know that that was about to happen, man. And then it happened. I was like, man, that's great, you know? I'm hard on me, man. I'm hard on me. I just sing, you know what I'm saying? I don't really be just expecting too much, you know? And my wife tells me all the time, sometimes she say, I think you're just a little bit too humble and modest. You need to know what you're worth and just move like that. But I'm like, man, that's just me. I'm just being me. Keep that humble spirit. Yeah, you still keep that humble spirit. But I understand where she's coming from, you know, at the end of the day, when you do get to a certain level, you have to move differently. You have to do things differently. You have to know how to move to where you don't overexpose yourself. There are some things that you have to do when you're going to the next level, and that's the change that I bet she's talking about because at the end of the day, when you move now, it has to be articulated in a way that it makes sense for your career. And your professionalism is, I mean, like they say about me on this podcast, they say, you give too much away. You drop every day. Don't they say that? But it's just me because I want to give to the people, and that's the way you are with your singing. I get it, but at some point, we have to articulate better because people starting to recognize us on another level. So we have to move with that change in order to orchestrate it correctly so that it can be something that benefits us but also it connects with the people in a way that they respect it on another level as it keeps elevating because it's going to break through culture barriers. Yours already did early, but I'm just telling you that's what's happening. And as you begin to deal with all these different spirits, you got to be focused anyway. Yeah, yeah. Right? Yes, yes, yes. You got to be focused. Yes. So are you going out of town doing shows and stuff? Yeah, yeah, man. They don't open back up now. Yeah, I wish they open, open, open. Everybody, you know. So I can spread my love. What's the name of it again? The show I do. Oh, the love experience. Yeah, the love experience. Hey, hey. I've been telling people because they want me to come to South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi. And I'm like, hey, y'all set it up. I'll be there. Do you have, like, I'm pretty sure you got a management team and all that stuff. I've seen you with Real Bup Nation, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that a thing? No, no, no, no. No, we was doing a show with them. Yeah, just doing a show with them. Yeah, shout out to them. Shout out to Real Bup Nation. I thought I was like, okay, is this the people that he's with? No, no, not now. Because we just had a situation. So now T-Dash is by itself. Independent? Independent, okay. You know what I'm saying? I can book T-Dash. Yes. Okay. But I got some stuff down in the country that we got some. I talked with Sir Charles on. Okay. I'm gonna try to put it together to where it's in the country. Shout out to Emma, man. You know what it is. It's my stepmother. But at the end of the day, she's gonna try to do something. And I told her I would reach out to the right people, try to set it up so it'd be something special. I love the country. My family is from the country. The ballpark. Mine is from West Texas. They from Carwell. Oh, yeah? Summerville, Dimebox, Tunis, all that good stuff, man. Okay, you know about Lubbock? Lubbock and Lubbock and all that? A little bit? Yeah, we know a little bit about that. You know? And then... Rightland, Texas. Oh, yeah. Her people's, yeah, they from Greatland, so... Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's hot right there, man. Palestine. Palestine. That ain't East Texas, but yeah. No. They say it is. So, what magic mic, R.I.P., what did he mean to you? Man, he reinstilled, he put some more fuel into me when I was running out of gas at one point in time. And he was like, man, you got it, man. Can't nobody do what you do, T. Come on, man. I'm telling you, I'm behind you 100%, man. We're going to make this happen. So, we started working because I don't trust, I don't really trust nobody. You know what I'm saying? I got trust issues myself. Yeah, you know, so it's like, he earned my trust. And I felt very comfortable with him. And that's, that'd be my thing. You'll get the best out of me when I'm comfortable. If I'm uncomfortable, I'm edgy. Well, I hope like you're comfortable today. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because most people, we try to get them comfortable. That's why I'm messing with you. I'm trying to ease you on into it. Yeah, I'm getting out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's get him comfortable, baby. No. But let's finish that. Yeah, like I say, so magic mic, man, he, like I say, he saw something in me and we was working on it and we had an album that was about to drop and come out and man, boom. They took my man's out, man. Very much unfortunately, way before his time, but you cannot question God. Man, come on now. You know what I'm saying? As far as what he has in store, you know, I mean, you know, other, you know, faith believers and all that good stuff. You say you can question God, but I mean, what's done is done. You can't change it. That's it. That's it. You know what I'm saying? You can't change that. So now it's time to understand it. Why? Why? When that happened, that kind of shook me a little bit and it was like, man, right when I started getting my groove and trusting and getting comfortable, bam, this happened. Yeah. So it's like, now, who am I going to trust now? Yeah. So now I fade it out. I fade it back out. Fade it back out. So right when I was giving up, the viral thing happened. Wow. Wow. So that was basically the good Lord. That's a sign. That's a good Lord telling you, man, hey man, I got you, man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, good and bad times in your road to success, you just have to stick with it and face through it because every downtime is also testimony whenever you come up for someone or even something you can put in a song as well, just to motivate people to tell them that don't give up on your dreams. Don't give up when, you know, there's hard time that comes at you because there will come. It's just the way in which the devil tests us to make us stronger. You know what I mean? So you're talking about your daughter earlier. Are you helping her with her craft? Yeah. She takes a little advice from me. Not much. Not much. Yeah, she's 17. So you, oh my gosh. You're not cool. Yeah. Does she have any songs out? Yeah. No, she doesn't. No, she doesn't. But what I tell her is to work on her craft as far as kind of the same way I did as far as mimic everything you heard that you hear, I mean. And your favorite artist, get that person down pack and then make it to your own. So she's getting her confidence up to where now she's singing more and more and letting people actually hear her sing. At first it was like you and nothing else. Like you had to catch her, you know, like she was in the closet somewhere and you just, she didn't see you coming and then you heard her. Now she's starting to, you know what I'm saying, open up. And yeah, when I heard her, she was killing that Tamar Braxton man. Love and war. Man, I'm talking about she was hitting all the notes and then, you know, and then. Look at her daddy. Look who her daddy is. Time to play. Yeah, so yeah, I was proud. You ought to be brother. That's something to be proud of. You should be somewhere recording her like on the slide somewhere and then actually let her hear herself back because sometimes when she doesn't have the confidence and she hear herself back, she's like, is that me? Yeah. Really? Okay. So she will get that chance. She doesn't know it yet but I'm setting the studio up now. I was almost done before I came down here. It's going to be right there in the house. So now I can be like, hey, come here. Come here. Come do this right quick. And then play it back and then she'll be able to hear herself. That's cool. Yeah, we got that in the works. We got that in the works. That's good. And you can have a whole family of singers. Yes. Because the twins, they sing. And how many of the twins? The twins are eight. Okay. And in my 12-year-old, she sings, but she plays a lot but she's more of a dancer. Okay. That's her thing. And I'm talking my gymnastics, all that good stuff. She's a little slim, Jim, like me. So she can, you know, bend her body all kind of ways. So, yeah. So I think she's leaning toward being a gymnast versus a singer. How does it feel like being in a house full of all women? Oh, you got a boy now. I grew up. I know, but he's so little. Once you get that boy, you can say, yeah, you got a boy now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I'm used to it because I was raised by women. You know what I'm saying? So my dad, he left at nine when I was nine years old. I meant to ask about him because you mentioned your mama a lot. You hardly mentioned your dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He left. Yeah, he left, so that means the conversation left. Already. Yeah. So you never had a relationship with him? No, not really. No, we, by my mom saying the things that she said, if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have no relationship at all. So she basically said, no matter what me and your father has been through, whatever you have witnessed, I'm going to remind you of this. You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. So honor that and respect that. Wow. That's all she had to say. So I honor him and I respect him, but he didn't take his responsibility. Yeah. So I can't, I can't really vibe with you. Did you have a male role model in your life? I had some, but it's a man. I didn't have that person like right in my corner corner. Like, hey, stop. Chill. Keep going. Do this. Man, you tripping. I didn't really have that person. I was kind of, you know, pretty much on my own. I mean, my mom, she had to raise us three by herself, you know what I'm saying? She was doing two jobs, just that any other. So it, I was basically on my own. You know, I can't say the streets raised me because I was another oddball deal. I didn't do the, the drugs and all that and I don't do drugs now. You know what I'm saying? I sip, I sip a little, a little wine here every nine days. You know what I'm saying? I'm not no drinker, but I mean, don't take much old bottle cap. I'm out of it. Yeah, I don't drink either. Yeah. Hey man, just know that you take that energy and harness it and make it a vivid and positive towards your kids and that seems to be what you're doing. Yeah. That's, that's a good thing because it motivates you to do, you know, go harder as a father. Bring you back to that country song that you sung and went viral. Yeah. I want to get a little bit of that. Okay. Yeah. I want you to give me a little bit of that on, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Cause, cause, cause they need to, they need to know my people want to hear that. Okay. Have you ever made anybody cry actually? Yeah. We're singing? Yeah. Hell, I made somebody cry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't have that effect. I didn't know, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, I'm really, I'm hard on myself. So a lot of times I don't see what it does, you know, but if they validated and confirm it, then I know, you know, so. Yeah. Because I always tell people, cause this new generation, a lot of people talk about singing in the rapping and stuff like that, but they use the auto tune. And I'm not in that generation hearing all this auto tune and stuff. I want to hear singing. We're going to get to singing. For me personally, it's like you can touch my soul. It's like I can feel everything. I can hear everything, but with the rapping, I don't, I can't connect with it. Well, I can. Hell, I can connect both of them. I just, when I put my connectors like turning the dial on the radio, I flip it on the other channel. Now I want to flip it on country. That's what I want to hear from you. Get you some water. He's like, I'm ready. Yeah. I'm messing with it. So I did a little brandy travel song. It says, Oh, my love is deeper than the holler. Stronger than the river. Higher than the pine tree standing tall upon the hill. My love is pure than the snowflake. And that fall, late December. Yes. Yeah. Hell, that's how I did it on the thing. I was like, you got to take it to the back right there. You know, I'm talking about to get that fall. You know, you can't just regularly just sing that. Right. You got to know how to go to the back back there to get that. Man, but that's because you listening. Your ear, you got an ear. That's all that. And you mimicking, but you listening. You got to have an ear to do that, man. There's a lot of kids listening, but they only listen like you and they don't produce. Man, man. And it kind of, it irks me sometimes because I get that a lot. And it's that shout out to my boy Jason, man. If he's listening, if he going to catch this, man, my boy Jason say, look, man, you sing Anthony Hamilton song better than him. I say, nah, don't do that. That's my boy, man. That's Anthony. That's my boy. I'm compared to him the most. And I'm like, man, I don't accept that because I wouldn't be able to do it if it wasn't for him. So that's how I look at it. It's like, I'm not going to, I'm not going to play the Karate Kid vs. Miyagi deal. Karate Kid never went past Miyagi. He never tried to. You see, I'm saying he understood his place. I understand my place. Hey, man, Anthony Hamilton said that tone. I matched it. Bam, we good. I'm not for the city and say I'm better than him. That's the humble side and you give homage to who you respect. But at the same time, people have their own opinions. Wait a minute, I can, I can saw this right now. Go ahead and sing it. Point of it all. Point of it all. Okay. So I do it a little slight difference. Like I say, I make it my own. Make it your own. So I do it like this. I can't stay away from you too long. Even if I do, I'll always call check in on you. Make sure you're okay. And be the one to brighten up your day. Yeah. And the point of it all is I love you. And that's how I roll. I can't make no decisions right now. Y'all got to get back with me, man. You know what I'm saying? I was going to do it too. I got brave up front, but you shut me down. I would've come right on in your living room and just, no. Yeah. But I couldn't do it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Now you're very talented, bro. I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God has blessed you with a gift. Thank you. You see, there's a lot of people that, yeah, they sing, but you sing. Yeah. It's a totally different thing. Yeah. It's not me, see. Yeah. That's it right there. South Park, Texas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. You see this right here? Look right there, good. Yeah, yeah. I don't play no games about it. And they say don't mess with Texas. Yeah, not at all. Yeah. Not at all, right? I ain't mad at you. But you heard what we got. Bring your best man. PMC said it like this too. You get your best sing. I don't care where you from. I'm going to bring mine. It's going to be T-dads. You niggas go be a troll. So, I mean, you know, you just, you just, man, you got to keep going with it, man. This time. Hey, man, ain't no slowing down from here because the internet, to be guys like you, man. I really be upset because you talented as ever. And I'd be like, man, you know, it got to be some kind of way to articulate it in a way to where you can contact your people in a way to where you, you know, just, you know, I think Nick and them do it like they got to, they call them little names or whatever. But there's some people out there. Yeah. To T-dash. Yeah. And I think you do them a disservice if you don't give them something. Yeah. That's intimate between you and them. Yeah. That's just my opinion. Right, right. Because they are there and everybody don't have that. Yeah. And everybody, I know I seen what happened on TikTok. Yeah. I seen what happened on Instagram. And it was unbelievable. You don't see that all the time because of your gift in you. Yeah. You see where I'm coming from? Yeah. Because it's, it got to be a way, man. Yeah. I see Plyes deal with the people that he rock with. Yeah. Where they just always connecting. You talented, overly talented. Mm-hmm. So that's the part what if I was T-dash manager, that's what I'd be telling them. Say, man, we got to be able to deal with our people more constantly, more in a way privately or something to where we connected. Yeah. Even if it ain't about the music, it's about a cup of tea or whatever. So, you know, queen dash. Okay, okay. I'm going to say the queen dash. She tells me this all the time. Oh, she on par with me. So, I have an issue. Man, like I say, I'm hard on myself, man. And sometimes like you can tell me something and I'll be like, okay, cool, cool, cool. And I, and it sounds good. Yeah. But now you got to give me to do it. Mm-hmm. So that's where the hard work comes in. Yeah. So it's, it's like, no, you can schedule it, but am I feeling it? Okay. If I'm not feeling it at that moment, then no, it's not happening. Yeah. And then you may say something real sideways or something. And I'm, I'm really done. I'm saying, okay, cool. That was good. Yeah. That was good. Okay. But it ain't happening today. Yeah, yeah. No, I get it. I get it. Like I said, gotta be something organic. That's what you say. I think it's something you want to deal with. Yeah. And I'm praying that that's what you find because those people are connected to you and it'll never change. Yeah. I'm to my white folks and everything. They listen to that song. I got it. I can pull it up. I've seen it. Yeah. You connected to a group of people out there who really love what you do. Which song that was? The one on the country song that you're saying just, they kept reposting it. Mm-hmm. You know how they do on TikTok. Oh, okay. Okay. That's your supporters. Okay. Now you see where I'm coming from like if it's something real. Now only you can come up with it. Yeah. So with that being said, I want, you know, the same way they, you know, sharing that the Randy Travis version of what I did. Oh, I mean, the Randy Travis cover I did. That country song that I have, my single that is out, you can stream and download all that good stuff called I Want It All. That's why I need them to do that one like that. You know what I'm saying? Have you heard it? Yeah. You haven't heard that? No. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Y'all need to check that out, man. I gotta get that. How about giving us a little bit of it right now? It started out, it started out and says, Have you ever done something crazy? Something crazy like missing around? Now your baby's going crazy. She bout to tear down the whole damn house. She yelling it's all your fault. Get your things and walk cause I don't want you around. And this is what I tell her. Now you can treat me how you want to win a spring, summer and fall. But one thing I know about this thing called love is I want it all. Man. That's how that goes. Man. I'm going to share it. I'm going to share it. I like that. It catches, if you, you know, the things that you do, it's crazy the way the internet is, bro. Like it could be somebody or anybody take that song and do one little crazy thing and it just flips out. You don't ever know what it is. You don't even know. But then as well, what we found out, you don't ever know when because this could be something you've done. Like you do this song now. The next five years from now it's going to go viral. You don't know that. Somebody take it and just do something creative with it all of a sudden comes back. Yeah. And you're like, well, that's an old song. Right. Yeah. Hey, how they want to do it? However they want to do it. I know Busset did that. Like it was years later. And you don't know. That's the whole game going on now. You don't know, but you got to work. Right. And you already working though. I know you're working. And you have the personnel. That's the thing about it is that you have a lot of artists out there who just love the craft and do it. Don't like to deal with the people. Don't like to, you know, say plus you are humble, you know, I see how people can fall in love with you and what you do because of how you are. So even you could get that through social media. You know what I mean? Because right now I love where social media is. You don't have to wait for a concert to go meet somebody. You feel like people, you let them in on certain parts of you. So they feel like they know you, they'll walk up to you on the street, think that you're friends. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's the generation that we're in right now. People are more open or supposedly be more open because they still tell what they want to tell. They don't tell it all. Yeah. Yum, yum, juice. Hey. Hey. What the hell going on with that? Save, man. The yum, yum, juice, that's my thing that I say, man. I see, I see. And I want nobody to steal that. Just know T-Dash is the one that came up with yum, yum, juice. And yum, yum, juice is when you, for the fellas, when you first come into the club and you get to, you know, you scan, you scan, you check, man, you see this little girl, she ain't looking too good. She look like she bought at a two or three. Yeah. If you was the, you know, greater. Yeah. And then you get, you start hitting that yum, yum, juice. Man, that girl that was at a two or three then turned to about an eight or nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been there. I've been there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, white versus for the ladies, you know, she come on in and you know, that's how they get down. Yeah. So, yeah, she like, all right, talking to him next, you know, she full of the yum, yum, juice. She be like, hey, cute it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's all nice. Yeah, that's what they yum, yum, juice. They yum, yum, juice to do it. That's the head of duty. Yeah, I just snuck away the next day. Like, and see him and be like, no, I ain't do that. You know what I'm saying? They yum, yum, juice got me on. I shift gears and I seen what had happened that next day. My partner say, yeah, that's how I sitting out in KB. Yeah, I had one, one time, man, and my brother say, huh? That's what he say, huh? Nah, man. Nah, I say, look here, man, you have to find something unique in everyone. Uh-huh. Everybody needs love. Yes, sir. Because you can go get that real beautiful pretty one and I'm talking about boy, she ain't worth $2. $2, not even a penny. She ain't worth $2. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And then you go get this ugly duckling over here. She'll love the bottom of your feet. Okay? And you're gonna really misuse her. Yeah. Because you're too busy chasing that beauty queen who gonna treat you like SHIT. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You learn how to, you know, balance that, man, and get it right, man. You know what I'm saying? I'll take me a ugly duckling. Every 90. Yeah. So, you know, you're a cold guy. Let me ask you, top three artists of all time that are alive, any genre. Any genre. Top three. Top three. This is your top three. My top three, of course, is gonna be MJ. Michael Jackson is first. Okay. Ari Kelly is second. Okay. Okay. Those are the goats. Okay. And then if, on the male aspect, it's gonna be Luther Vandross. Ah. Okay. Only three. And then that's my top three as far as on the males. No, no, no, no. No, just top three. Of all time, any genre. Of all time. Any, any gender. Anything. You have to minimize that. All right. Here we go. Michael Jackson, Ari Kelly, Aretha Franklin. Okay. That's easy. Yes. Some people take, like, minutes to really figure it out. You know it. That's easy. I like that. I like that. They're the goats. I love it. I love me some Aretha. I love Kirk Franklin. I mean like Kirk Franklin. Ari Kelly. Yeah. I love Ari Kelly. Yeah. So where do you see yourself in the next two years? Hopefully, I'm touring all over the United States. And some of, please y'all get this COVID stuff out of the way. And you know, overseas. Have you taken a shot? No. I ain't gonna do it. I ain't gonna be able to do it. We haven't either. We haven't either. Yeah. I ain't gonna be able to do it. I'm hearing too much stuff. But you know, I think they're eventually going to force you to, because like, if you can't, you're not going to be able to travel. You're not going to go to those places that you want to go to for the shows, unless you've taken that shot. And you can't drive everywhere. Look here. So what you're going to do then? They need to learn how to leave well enough alone. Leave that alone. Don't force nobody to do it. No, no, no, no. Because first of all, y'all force this upon us. So don't force us to try to take a shot for something that you started. Won't y'all end that stuff and leave us alone with it? You know what I'm saying? Don't try to force us to go take something that we don't really know. We don't really know what you're doing. We don't know. We don't know what y'all pumping in us. See, that's my thoughts. But my thing is that, I know it's going to eventually boil down to that, especially when you have kids, and your kids have to eventually go back to face-to-face school. And just like any other immunization, they cannot come to school unless they've had these shots, unless you're going to homeschool them. How can you give your kids to go into school and get that shot, but you're not taking it yourself, but you're going to have your kids take it? That's the part. I'm like, how can I be that hypocritical to be like, okay, my kids can take it, but I'm not going to take it? Yeah. Yeah, that's crucial right there. But you know... I'm going to see her at home school now. Knowing that... No, no. It's my wife, she... She seems like she's shaking her head like, uh-uh. She ain't going to want to do that. And it's just that word called sacrifice. So, hey, we're going to ask them, hey, do y'all want to take that shot? Y'all want to be at home, having to, you know, deal with us or go to school? We're going to let them make that decision. You know what I'm saying? We're going to let them make that decision. So we're not going to make it hard. We're not going to make it hard, because I mean, who am I to force it on them if I don't want it? Exactly. You see what I'm saying? So we're going to let them make that decision. Okay, okay, that's good. That's good. And so you have the country song. Any R&B coming up soon? I have three. He just already noticed what I'm going to ask. I have four singles out right now. So it's the one country single, which is I Want It All. And then I have three R&B Love Train featuring Paul Wild. I have Beautiful, which is uplifting for the women. Women, ladies, go check that out. And of course, Side Chick. Yeah, so y'all make sure y'all go check it out, man. Go support your brother. Yeah, I got a lot of them in the, you know, in the safe right now. You seem like you work a lot. I'm not for the lie on this station. So I'm like, how do you find time for family and then all of this working and traveling and everything else? It's, we balance it. How? We, hey, right now we had to do some phone calling to make sure the kids was good. You know, shout out to the mother-in-law, man. She does a great job. When we do, I have to like, at a spare moment, she comes in, shout out to moms. And then, you know, I leave my side. Mostly I go with my wife's side. I leave my side as the last resort. You know what I'm saying? That's just how I do. That's how I've always been. And that's just how my family is. So your wife always travel with you? Not every time. Majority of the time. Yeah, majority of the time she does. You know, it's like, because she does, she has own, she's entrepreneurial herself. She has her own business to where she do a bunch of great decorating, like those, how you know how they do with the balloons and all that, man, she can make whatever. She's like an event coordinator. Yes. She can turn your normal boring place into something amazing. I'm talking about, it amazed me. I used to thought she was just wasting time and wasting money on all the adventures that she has. But now to see it with my own eyes, because that's where I'm at. Especially when you see the money rolling in. Yeah, you know, I believe in everything. I have that faith. But it's like, seeing is believing, man. Seeing is believing. So now I'm seeing her work. And I'm like, man, you are truly amazing. That's good. You know what I'm saying? That's good that you can give her the props for that. Yes, yes, yes. She called with it. So do you make her a part of your team? I know she's your wife and your supporter, but like it helps when you can say, okay, baby, can you do the paperwork side to do with it? She's the boss lady. She's like, I do everything. Yeah, she's the boss lady. You know, that's queen dad. She does it all. She does it all. And that's what keeps us. You know, she's going to have your best interest at heart. Yes. And sometimes she just do too much. Oh my goodness, man. And that's why we be having all the debates, because she just be doing too much. Like the same push and drive that she gives me, she doesn't want that in return. And I don't like that. You're not for to be just the button pusher, and I can't push the button. Nah, we can't rock like that. You putting all that pressure on me. Now let's see how you act. She know it's true too, because I can see the expression on her face. Well, you know, y'all one. So, you know, being one, you know, y'all the same thing to me. I look over, I just see one. Yeah. You know, there's some oneness in that. And sometimes your elbow hurt. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes you get a headache. But you, hey man, y'all one body. And two is better than the second man. I'm back, hey man, one thing I wanted to do, you know, I'm working on some here, man, that Michael Jackson favorite song out of my life. I wanted to hear a little bit of that. Because I know already you said your favorite song. You know what I'm saying? I did something different about my mics. I like to, I like, I want to hear it. Okay, so, so, you know, yeah, that she's out of my life. She's out of my life. And I don't know whether to live or cry. And I don't know whether to live or die. And it cuts like a knife. And I don't know whether to live or die. Man, you show it. Hey man, you saw, I thought I could sing. You know, I had a little bit before you come up here. Don't you come back up here no more, man. You're gonna get you kicked out, man. Come on, man. I just, I just try to do it, man. I just try to do it, man. I can't wait. So the whole album, you got an R&B album as well? Yes. It's, it's, it's, man, it's in the works, man. I got to have the R&B album, man. Yeah. So what I'm gonna do is... Are you gonna come back and lunch it on here? I'm steadily growing. It's going up. And we got the best looking pack for them. I can promise I'm gonna put money behind. It's gonna look better and better every time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like this. Thank you. I got a very good look. Oh yeah. Watch how I come out. Watch. I don't play. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I got, I got something in the works, man. I can't wait, man. I can't wait. Man, I'm trying to put it all together, man. Stretch this way. Like, man, you should do country, man. Because there ain't a lot of us doing it. No, no, no, no, no. And then, man, man, bring R&B back in. No, no, no, no. And I'm like, you know what? I'm doing both. I'm doing both. Come on, man. I'm doing both. Yeah, yeah. Because you got a gift. Yeah. You know, that's what old Jamie Foxx, he tried to run up there and he was gonna say, but he ended up acting. So he can do both. Yeah. Say, sometimes when you can do two or three things, other people can't understand in no way. Right, right. You, you riding on a whole another wave. Yeah. You can do nothing. Maybe one thing. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? If that, but they gonna tell you what to do. Most of the time you gotta watch that. Yeah. Because God got a gift in you and can't nobody even understand or explain it. Right. If they could, then they'd be doing it. Can't do it. Right, right. So I respect it, man. I'm gonna sit back and watch and be happy and applaud and try to figure out ways to do something. If I can help, you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm talking about. I want to be a part of that process, man. Okay, that's good. You know, the thing I can say is, man, you extraordinary guy. T-dash is going down. Text is representative. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Yes. I was so upset because you did that top three like that without me. You know what? That was wrong. Yeah. I was trying to do more. I ain't never seen anything like this in my life. That's the first time that ever happened, man. Oh, but I would have been influencing it. Believe that. Yeah. I would have been an influencer. Man, I was trying to give. I was trying to give more, man. No, he only, he, he wants to do more than three. No, no, no. He wants to do three, man, and then three. No, no, no. No, he only had to do just three. The three, yeah, yeah. You know the rules, but you know how to have been an influencer. It's some kind of way. Yeah. But now, man, so if it's, and I know you got kids, but there's a big question for you. If you could go back to that 15-year-old T-dash. Uh-huh. And you had to give him something. You know, I asked this all the time. Something that helped him to come up. Yeah. Because he got to go through some things. What would you say to him? Right, right, right. Man, to that young T-dash is be vocal, but not as vocal to the point it comes off negative. Yeah. Um, because I had some opportunities, like I say, I'm an ex-basketball player. And my attitude had it where, like the whole neighborhood thought I was going to the league. They thought, man, that's how... You were that good. I was, I considered myself that good. And they considered me that good. And my attitude and not having that person, like I said earlier, in my corner to say, hey, stop, get it right. Don't do this. You know, focus more here. Um, I would tell that young T-dash is that, hey man, the sky is the limit. You can make it happen. Just believe in yourself. And no matter what goes on, just keep pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing, man. Hey. You know, so... Yeah. Yeah. So you don't mess with that ball no more. Oh, I still ball. Well, let me just be honest with you, man. Yeah. I had the role on here. And he say he really ball. Like he say most... I'm going to put me on celebrity or something again. Y'all, I want to see, because y'all do a lot of talking. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's a lot of talking going on. These mics make people get excited. Yeah, they do. They say things, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to the role. But T-dash say you ain't got nothing for me. Is that what you said or no? No, I ain't saying that. Oh, that's what I thought. No, I ain't said that. All I said was this. Oh! T-dash go get it in. Never done. Now, if you think you can have the me, then that's something different. Oh. But I don't know his game. Well, he's... So I can't say... I wish Watts was in there. Tell Watts to come in here. I want to see his expression. You know what I'm saying? I can't say what he can and can't do. Yeah. But I know... Because he brought up a couple of names. He said Chris Brown. You know, he said he's in that league of Chris Brown. Yeah. Two chains. Okay. Two chains played, you know, professional and stuff like that. But it's only certain ones that can really get it. Yeah, I brought up Yellow Bees. And he like, Yellow Bees, them boys ain't ready for me. Like, I'm really bald. The Roe act like he really can bald. And you keep saying that you can bald. So do I. So I need to put this together and try to find out which one of y'all got some. Because you... Yeah, he say he can bald. Can he bald or what? Same. I'm talking about the Roe. Yeah. He ain't got nothing. Nah, he can bald. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's a partner right there. I ain't never seen him. He wouldn't have heard himself in high school. Oh, yeah. Hot tallest. Hot tallest. He's 63. Yeah, he's 63. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So me and Steve Francis used to go at it, man. Back in San Jack days, man. We went to San Jacinto College together. Okay. Yeah, yeah. See, he wanted a pair of you. Yeah, me and Steve Francis used to go at it. So you see how cold Steve was, you know what I'm saying? Me and him went at it. You know what I'm saying? He's way taller than me. Oh, so you're saying it don't matter. It does not matter. Now, I will say this because I'm against Steve's props. Steve is the truth. Franchise is the truth. When I say at 63, he was like a seven footer. Yeah. Because that's how he can jump that high and it was quick. And he was fast. So it was like... I used to get upset with him because, you know, he'll just wait on me to make my little move and soon as I go to try to lay the ball up, he'll just go glassing. Wow. Because he had that much hops. We talking about 40, what, 43? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? You're 63 with a 43. Come on, man. So you had to be on it. You had to come on with it. Your fade away game had to be right. Your hesitation had to be cold. Okay. Because he going to go get it. Wow. Yeah, he was going to go get it. Man, shout out to Steve, man. You know what I'm talking about? I mean, we going to get us a celebrity ball game going. I can promise you that. If I had to pay for it, put it up. Hey, something for charity, something to give back, man. I want to see what y'all, because they used to do it. They ain't done nothing in Dallas or nothing here lately. So let them know in advance, T-Dash going to give you the business. He going to come after me. And that's whoever. Oh. Oh, he said that. I said that. Y'all, y'all. Hey, man, that's a shout out to two chains. All you other cats out here. I seen you with the basketball. Snoop, Doggy Dog, all you cats. Yeah. Yeah. Come to Texas with it if you don't, hey, you know what we got down there. He can out sing you. I'll play basketball then you. All that, you know, they don't even go together doing that. But now we're from Texas too now. They say we do everything in Texas is big. We do it big in Texas. Yes, sir. So you can't come here. You got to have it together, man. So you got anything else? No, sir. Man, thank you for coming on the show, man. Tell people how they can get a hold of you. Look here. You can follow me on IG, Twitter, TikTok, TheRealT-Dash. Make sure y'all go subscribe to my YouTube channel. Comment, give me some, give me something to talk about. You know what I'm saying? Tell me what you feel and think about it as far as on that YouTube channel, which is TheOfficialT-Dash. Because I do be looking at them comments, man. And some people, you know, they got a lot of negative and some got a lot of positive. One thing I know, you wouldn't be able to embrace and value good if it wasn't for bad. Already. You know, so I'm cool with it all. I'm cool with it all, man. So much for coming and blessing our platform, man. We look when that R&B album come out, when you want to do something else to try to let people know that you're about to do this or that. Yeah. Man, anytime you're in Dallas, man, feel free to come by here, man. It's all love over here. We love T-Dash. I appreciate it. And that is what it is. Yeah. Say, man, thank you, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. And we have.