 Big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit, it's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit, name another podcast. 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, Ms. Jamaica. What's going on? Hey, man, another great day, man. Get some rest last night? You ready? We powered up for the day. We got a lot going on the day, man. You better have that game face on the day, man. We just getting started, man. Check it, man. We got a special guest in the house today, y'all. Hey, I ain't playing with you, man. I listened to this guy's music, man. He woke me up, man. There's a lot of people out there talking, but they ain't talking about nothing, man. This brother right here, man. I had a few like that this weekend. It's a couple. I wouldn't even compare them because I don't play no games, man. LD 300 is in the building, man. What's going on, man? Man, it's all good, man. Appreciate you. Check it, man. I just really want to say, man, thank you for coming on the show, man. Say, man, you are... You're doing your thing, man. And it's needed. A blessing. It's needed. Yeah. How people need it. That's what they're telling me. No, no, no. Real talk. That's what I'm telling you. See, I got my opinion. I can give it to you. You know what I'm saying? And I really, really like what you're doing. And when Trio talk really called me about it, and I was like, okay. But then I started to key in on the things that were being said. Not only by what me and you talk, but just by the music, man. Yeah. And it's needed, bro. We need something that's going to tell us a story on how we can come out of our situations, bro. Oh, yeah, man. Man, it's been a long journey, but I'm thankful for T even had the opportunity to be able to do it. Man, just going back a little bit. Tell us a little bit where you're from. Yeah. And just for the people who might not know, give us a spiel on how you came in and all this. Just give us a back. And how long ago you started doing it. Give us a back story. We need all our help. We're going all the way back, man. We're going to mess with it. Okay, we're going to really get into it. Yeah. I want the people to know, because somebody can grow and learn from this, man. It can help people. That's what this is about. To know how you started, where you started from, and all of that. Man, Addy 300. I'm from Longview, Texas. Born there, moved around a lot. Ended up in Long Beach, California. You came back, you know. How did you end up in Long Beach, California? I went to stay with my uncle a little bit out there, getting in trouble down here, you know. What age? That was 16. Okay. But half done, it has a lot of trouble too. Yeah, but structure, the home structure, I was able to go out there and take a good look at that. So did you have your mom and dad in your life here? Well, my mom and my aunt and my grandma. So a lot of females. A lot of females. A lot of females. Structure. No, not it. So I went out there to be with my uncle for a little while. That proves the fact that you always need a man to raise a son. Of son, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But I wasn't the only one in that situation as far as out of my homies. So we, through our life, my best friend Sae, a lot of people that was around, my little brother, we all helped each other because we all pretty much had that same situation of not really having no father. But for me, I wasn't the best child or whatever. I was seeking the streets at an early age. How old were you at that time? I've been active since 92 or since I was 12. 12? Right. Did you have siblings, like other brothers? I have one. My first cousin, he's, because we was in the house together, you know, I call him my brother. So he's the only, but other than that, he don't have no, I don't have any brothers or sisters. Did he go to California with you? No, he stayed, but he could have went, but he stayed. So, you know, it's funny because all of that happened. I was really heavily influenced by wanting to be in the streets, wanting to sell drugs, wanting to just be active, just wanting to be out there, you know, and did it, you know, not like I say, 12 years old jumped out the porch, you know, 12 to 16 active doing everything to come with it, acting wild, crazy, you know. Even in California? Cali was where I learned, like, how you can really take it up a notch, you know, so as far as like, you know. They're moving fast out there, like when I was your age. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, slow down. So I mean, for me, when I was living out there, because I was the same age, that's what's so crazy, but I'm just sitting there listening to you. And for me to come from the sticks, I came from the sticks, and I moved to Vegas. And to see all those lights, and to see all the stuff that was going on, and then to be introduced to the Bloods. There was Bloods there too, cars getting burned up, gang banging happening. It was something different for me at that time. That kind of took me from something that I had never, ever even thought about being anything. Then bam, you know, I hadn't even watched, you know, back then it was, it was before colors and all that. I'm older. So it was like, dang, these niggas, I don't really know what, I was trying to register it all. Then I jumped, you know, into it with them, and fighting every day and banging with them. And yeah, yeah, I got right with it. Vegas is different in the way that it had game. Yeah, yeah. Kids didn't have a game. That's some Texas shit. In Long Beach, they didn't have a game. They didn't, they wasn't making money. They was really caught up in what they was doing. And you know, like my uncle, you said all the time, damn, I don't know how to play cards, no how to, you know, shoot dice. You know, all of it, like having, like how are we going to get some money? Then I was really into females, like just the whole, I was just caught. No, this, yeah. Yeah, me too. But all the way, all the way right throughout, you know what I'm saying? So I get back at 16. After, you know, my time out there, I got back and, you know, I just was being full blown gone since then. 18. I caught a aggravated robbery. And I'm skipping some just getting to kind of aggravated robbery. I got 10, 10 aggravated years, which just means you got to do half your time. Right. Did that change to 85% later on? It's just, it just works out that way. That you end up doing about 85%. Yeah. But if you got anything under, you know, pretty sure you're probably going to do it all. You know what I mean? So I did the seven. Yeah. That time I get out. Two or three, almost three years. And that's when I get, I had caught for a lot of difference. She aggravated a South Coke drug. Task Force hit my high, all of this type of stuff. February 5th, 2007. So I ended up getting a stack sentence of 20 years, 10 years and 10 years. So 40 years combined is what I had. You got to do them. Consecrated. No. Consecrated. Consecrated. Meaning do one, finish one, make parole on one, then do another. Wow. And then when you get through with that. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it was bad, but to be honest, I never really accepted it as like, it just never really hit me as nothing too terrible. I always been one of them dudes that would ever come in it because I'm in it. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever would ever come in it, it come in it and you know, it's the same as when you riding around and everything looking good. And you know, you got your music, you got your cars, you got all of the things that you want. So what's your mom by your side during all of this? Now, I mean, my mom had addiction issues. You know, she had, I think she for sure loved me. But you know, childhood traumas that she had, you know, as you grow, like that was on me too, you know what I mean? So I don't think she really knew how to just really be a parent. My father definitely didn't. You met your dad? Yeah, I was with my dad. Both of my parents sold. We got a chance to get on good terms before he passed. Okay, that's what I was wondering because I know the early part he wasn't in your life. Oh yeah, man. You can't hold on to that. Come on now. You can't hold on to that. You tell me sorry. That's good. Because there's so many people out there who would hold on to things. And then they wonder why their life is a mess. Exactly. They play tug of war with it, man. Yeah, and they don't got to be like that because at the end of the day, I know that they, they weren't horrible people. They just, you know. Well, they only know what they learned. Right, yeah. And in the case of my mom, she had it rough. Her mom died when she was seven. There you go. So, you know, all of her brothers and sisters moved in to the house with their aunt. Come on now. And they, they had already had, you know, kids. So it, you know, it's going to be some favorites. You know, it's a lot of different things. Well, it becomes dysfunctional at that point for her. But my gramp, but my great aunt, Gypsy, Russell So just passed last year, she did as best she could with her sister. You know, it's a lot, you know. And nobody's perfect. Everybody got to do the best they can. I believe that they did the best they could. Yeah, man. You don't got me. What's this therapy? I don't know. I love them too. I mean, I believe that's what I show great. Grandma, ain't nobody asked me about that. We bring it totally different. That's why it's like it is. We do. It's really like it's therapeutic. Somebody hear that they understand that they went through some, because your story is so similar to mine. Yeah. And I'm saying that because my mama mother died early on and I never met up my grandmother. And my, my, my, my grandma, her, her daughter, her mother helped us out a lot. You know, she, I can remember going on the set of some bus and getting us some food with our little old pants and check, you know, the little old social security check. They come in that brown envelope. And man, and I used to be waiting on her to get back with them little old, you know, all the little treats, man. The little orange, you know, like vanilla, they candy. I mean, they're like oranges, you know, the little slices. All that, man. All that did give you a little bag. Boy, that got safe for eight days. I know that's right. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, you don't play there. I go there. I got to say that my grandma, my, my dad's, my dad's mom, Goldie, she, my hustle came from her and my uncles and my, my relative pool. But my grandma had her own cafe. So I really got my business side from her. Yeah. You know, another thing that when you're talking about, you know, this being therapy is not only to help people who or have people recognize something that they've already been through and watching them that, oh, somebody else went through it. But there are people who are going through situations and think that I'm going through it by myself because when you're going through something, you're not thinking anybody else is going through the same thing you're going through. All you can focus on is your situation. And I always tell people, I said, no matter how much you think that you only have one option, because when you're going through a hard time, you think that I have no other option, but whether it be on the streets or whether to go prostitute or whether to go do something else. And I've heard that so many times. But after years and you look back on your situation, you realize I had other outlets. But at that moment, I had such tunnel vision but then hearing people on this platform, because people are stuck to YouTube all the time. Yeah. All I ever wanted to be was a G. Like, I wanted to be a G, so. Oh, so you were? Yeah. So I chose it. Like, you know, I realized, I probably could have did my uncles, my relative pool, my grand, like, I was, that's what I wanted to do. And that's what I did. And I didn't compromise my morals and principles in it. So, you know, no regrets. Because the people who I know that are like that, they always say that I'm going either die on the streets or die in prison. That's what I used to say. I was, that's how, you know, we was only like that. When you think, when you feel like that, you know, like I was into the money, like I'm getting this money. Yeah. My mom would say, don't, you're going to have to, you're going to have to get out of here. You know, what I'm going to have to do. And I left. I'm never going to stop. You know what I'm saying? I'm never stopping. And hey, look, man, I'm going to die out here in these streets. Yeah. I mean, in my mind, I felt like I was comfortable with that. Right. Either I died here or either I'd get a whole big bag. That was just the way I felt about it. And I don't know where it come from, but it was something about the way the people was applauding me. It was like it was. Yeah. It was like they made me feel like I was the president of the United States. I've never been there, but the way they was like, yeah, every city, every city, every time they see me, I had a, oh, that's him. You know, and then when I got in my situation, it was even applied down there. So it was, I can't, oh, he here? Right. Yeah. It's like a movie, bro. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, yeah. Then my, you know, partner that even that was, that's the man of devil. Yeah. And I remember that, that even had been in the streets with me, he was there. Yeah. You know, I didn't know you could, you couldn't eat. You had to eat fast. It messed me up. I'm like, you know, this is my first day. I'm like, okay. So he said, we're going to eat when we, we end up getting that little line and going in and, and we getting ready to eat. And he started talking to me. He said, man, I got 12 ag man. You know, because he had, he did, he chopped the, they didn't pay us unemployment. He chopped people up, you know? Right. And I was like, okay, he's like, man, that thing about this, you first get there. He said, when you get home and make sure you look out for my, you know, my kids and my own lady. Right. And I'm still trying to get, you know, I'm lighter than him. Yeah. But he said, this the first day, like Eve, when you get back, make sure you look out for him. I just got here. Yeah. So that's the way it be. Because you can't be on it. They be thinking about it. Yeah. And it'd be that real. Yeah. So what did your mindset change from being in the streets to being a family man? It took a long time. It took a long time. It took a long time. It took a long time. And what changed it? Reading. Information. Learning that my thoughts was creating my reality was like a big thing for me. I did not know that. I had no, and then as like, the books that we was, that I was reading at the time, like Think and Grow Rich, you know, just the Prosperity Bible or anything about Ernest Holmes and stuff like that. And just realized, because I thought about it and I was kind of seeing that it really was, every situation I had ever been in, I realized that I was like cooking that mood up way prior to it. And so I just started to consciously like, okay, I'm going to just, I'm going to do my best to think about what I want to happen and how I want to live and what I want my life to be. And then of course prayer and the religion of al-Islam and just being Muslim for real and as best as I could. And that's so crazy you say that because we always say that before you speak something, you think it first and it starts in your mind. So when you're talking about your thought process, that's what comes to mind. Thought process was the big deal. And then realizing what type of stuff leads to blessings and success and what doesn't, you know. But I wouldn't discount anything that I went through before. That's what I was going to say. Because that's what, that's my canvas now. That's what I use. That's what I use. That's what I prepared because my question was going to be if you had those books when you were younger, would you have changed at a younger age or you had to still go through? I wasn't going to read out here. Okay, because I wasn't going to read. It was about the environment and it was about seeing my uncle and my uncle Larry, my uncle Alfred, seeing them looking like that and seeing my cousin, Poo, seeing him develop like that. And then it was our generation of kids, like the one our friends, like my neighborhood, like us figuring out the game and then excelling in it at a young age, having money, people is telling you stuff what you should be doing but then they don't got no money. And it's like, I'm trying to attain something. Here recently, I just got my son a car for graduating, right? It was his son's name. Dillon. Dillon with the A-Rollin, I tell you. Right, right. That's what it might be. They ain't going to look back. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, well, I gave him this ultimatum and this is like the, in my mind this, you know, my wife probably, she got to probably get tired of me saying this, but this is the big deal for me. I told him that if, you know, I give you this car if you get your CDL. Okay. Not because I want you to be the best truck driver in the world but just because if you don't have a passion at this time, this is something quick that you can do and attain. And if you want to, I know you'll have a hustle that can sustain you, right? Mm-hmm. And he didn't put up no resistance. He just said, yeah, right? You ain't got that. Well, he's, he's, he literally just graduated a week ago or something. Right, and he already got a job as well, too. But here's the thing about it, though. I wouldn't have took that deal. At that age. None of us, and I talked to all of my partners about it. I don't think I asked you about that yet, but none of us would have took that deal. Mm-hmm. That's why I feel like he's smarter than, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. I wouldn't have took that deal. You're a different generation now than what it was back then. He's smart. Like, he's, I asked him and he was like, um, uh, I said, so you gonna do that? You gonna do that? He like, yeah. I said, so you ain't got no, nothing, you don't got nothing, no fight for that? You just do it. He said, I think it's fair. Wow. That's good. What the hell? No, I mean, and a lot of times just being around people that's really thinking on a different level, that's enough. So I mean, you can talk to mine, they gonna come with something that's gonna be intelligent. You know, like, my daughter, what she say about why she was going to college or something? Oh, she says she, the only reason she's going to college is for networking. Yeah, they think different, bro. That's the key. Yeah, just for networking. She, you know, that's the key, but let me tell you, when her and one of her best friends sat down and I heard the discussion, thank God I was there because you have to overhear your kids a lot of times to really know where their mindset is. Yeah. And they started looking up colleges. They're looking up how much the parents make who are sending those kids to college because they look at that so they know the type of people who are going to the college. Right. So they know the type of networking they need. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's not just the college itself and what classes. You know, it's who will be attending. Influential people who are attending. Are they in the field that I need some connects with? That's smart. You know what I mean? Early. So they're researching all of that and I'm like... Yeah. Yeah, just the in-depth research is something else. You know, I love my kids. Yeah. So, let's get to the music, man. Yeah. You know, like I said, the sound is great, man. Yeah. I mean, I tell people, I'm sending it to people. Mm-hmm. I'm taking your YouTube and forward it or telling my brother and the song, Prayers for Increase. Oh, okay. Yeah. That song right there. Is that one of the latest ones? Yeah. Yesterday, actually, I'm just coming from Houston last night. We just shot a video on Houston last night. Got home at three. Well, we got up, we hit it right here. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, yeah, the last ones. Say, man, it ain't jamming, man. Yeah, man. I ain't gonna lie, Mr. Lee, man. What inspired that? Um, it's just, as with everything, as far as my music goes, it's just to like to basically put people in the mind frame of what it is, what it takes to be in this position to actually, you know, to make a living in music, to be, to have them being gone like that. You know what I mean? Like, just everything. Like, for me, it's just pulling back the veil and showing that, like, Kiki just told me the other day. Like, if, whatever, when you want this to even pray for this, to be in this game and to be moving in this game, you gotta take everything to come with it. Okay. And it carries a lot of stuff with it that you gotta be mentally prepared to be able to persevere through, you know, a lot of people, they really, you know, I'm not gonna say, but it's just that this guy right here, he just really exposes like who your real friend is. There's a hook on there. It sounds like a singing. Who is that? I don't know that. Listen, man. It's a sample there. I gotta say this. As, as Lee, I'll ask him, but the best, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The sounds, I mean, the mixing master and all that stuff is incredible. Thank you. How old were you? Um, 19. 19. Um, I mean, probably when you locked up there. Yes. Thank you. Like, you started in press. I started being serious. Yes. With, um, yeah, yeah, I had a first of all, I ended up going to this unit. I first of all, I always thought I was the best rapper even when I didn't have nothing. So remember that. No. No, no, no, no. I just checked some of that here lately. I thought I was the best. Everybody told you the best. Everybody told you the best. No, I just had the attitude. Right. But, um, being in there, it was a lot of people on that unit where I was at right then. There was so very talented and the, the most, you know, people got time. They got time to really get good at it. That's like the thing that I be telling people out here, like the craft and actually perfecting your craft. Like, I really put the time in over there and the person who was the best there who really helped me and be with me every, the only reason he ain't here right now because he was with Houston with me last night and, uh, he's in Galveston today, but other than that, he from Dallas, so he would be here, you know, talking to me, talking to J-Daw, you know what I mean? I was going to ask you about J-Daw. Did J-Daw come on the way when the rivalry ended up in. It's a story, online, that like illustrates like the power or rivalry and pressure. The, that's the, yeah, he's from out here. He's from Oakrie. Okay. He had a 18-year center. Now yeah, I forgot how much time he had but he did like a long time. So he worked with y'all in there? Um, we wrote songs together when I was- Okay, that's a chemistry. It helped me to learn what I could do in a song that would make me stand out, like bar structure and deviating a pattern in rhyme. And if you deviate like a pattern that's like Mary had a little lamb, you know, fleece was white, it snuck, da, da, da, da. If there's one line in that, that deviates totally from that pattern that everybody's gonna remember that line, that was like lessons and stuff that I was learning. Melodies. Did you learn how to be on the computer? No, I learned it by dealing with him. You see how different I'm dealing with him. And then just, you know, as I went on with it. That's a lot of information. Man, that was like that first week. But they got a lot of time. So yeah, they can definitely talk about it. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? So we just kept going, but then you still have to draw from a place. So moving from where I was at and another thing is classifications. I just, you gotta talk about, you know, as far as TDC goes, being incarcerated in Texas, classifications. I'm somebody that commits, has been known to commit crimes with pistols, you know, shooting and what have you, you know? I'm always in prison around people like that. They gonna classify you with people like that. Yeah, aggravated people, aggravated youngsters. So I grew up with the worst of the worst in the state of Texas, so to speak. These are my friends. Gladiator units. I am the person that's at the gladiator units at all times. So this is what I'm trying to say. Everybody that I'm around to this day is like, you know, I got D-Women. Everywhere I go in the state of Texas, I got people around me that that's where our bond was solidified at. Yeah. Sometimes I say it and I be trying to pick my words or whatever, but it's just a different type of brotherhood. It's a different type of everything when you was locked up with somebody and they know you about whatever and you know they about what, like that thing right there. So, you know, basically what the devil meant for bad, it ended up being good and that's my, But the thing also, when you're going through that a lot of times, I've always been amazed at people when they say, man, you changed, but then nigga, I got older. Yeah. Hell, I'm old. I ain't, you know what I'm saying? When I left, when I left, I was this age, I come back, here we go six years later or five or four, three, whatever you, and I had this time to study, I used it wisely. So I'm going to be different. Anyway, you look at it. Right, but we, some people made me worse and then I got better. It's up to you. I always tell people that the change happens right there. Yeah. It don't, if somebody's like, oh yeah, man he, you know, I'ma change, I'ma stop this when I do this and that. When you get out, yeah. I told them kids at the juvenile detention center, you gotta stop now, you gotta change where you at. Yeah. Respect people where you at, whoever around, you know. Because I thought I was very aggressive until I met him. Yeah. I had to take the aggression of, you know. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He was worse. Really? And me, you know, where I'm from, I was aggressive. He was on six notches higher. Do it seem like. Like I had to go up. I don't mean to cut you off, but does it seem like, cause to me it was like, you meet your match. Yeah. Like it's like, you meet your match in this place where you're in college. I met a lot of my match. You see what I'm saying? Like it's like, okay, that ain't, okay. And you quiet, you know, of course, but you see this and he like, okay. No, we not quiet. That's what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no, I'm just saying for it, you don't, you don't, you don't just, you don't just, I mean, you know, the dude that, yeah, you know, you got this certain people that you deal with, right? But it's a certain energy. You don't even have to talk to a person where you know already y'all not vibing correctly. You know, all this stuff be going on cause you sitting in these, you know, different situations. It's like, it's a different world. I always say it's not the same as out. No, it's not. It's it's own world. I think. It's definitely it's own world. Right. Yeah. Yeah. All the stories about what happened. And they said that I know some people who come out and purposely commit a crime to go back in because they cannot reform to this society. They prefer inside more than they do outside. I met a cab when people going to the walls unit. I said, man, did you, what did you, I said, you, you got out. He was telling me a story now. This is why we, we locked up and I'm like, you got out. He was like, yeah. I said, man, well, how long was you out? He said, I don't even want to tell you my name. Damn. I said, did you, he said, man, they called me in Huntsville, man. I never made it home. Damn. Yeah. They say he tried to do some with the little cash they gave him and ended up right back. Wow. Never made it home. Now that's the new one. I don't, I don't see in the week. I don't see in the 30 days. No, no, no. I ain't seen it. Never made it home. As soon as you got the bread, you went into the cabin. Never made it home. He didn't even make it to the halfway house. Never made it home. Listen, man, I was laughing so hard cause I'm throwin', you know what I'm thinking. You ain't making it home. I'm already, you know, just the way things be. I want to get back to the music, man. First day out. What's that all about? Yeah, man. First day out. Actually my best friend, Saeed, told me when I was in there that I needed to write a first day out song. Yeah. And, Dope. Yeah. Like, he don't give me no if, like when he say something. It's hot. It's just some, you know, because he just livin' his life, you know what I'm sayin'? So, you know, you need a first day out. First day out. He tell him like giving me artistic direct, like, but everybody do a first day out song. You know, I think you should do it. Yeah, yeah. Like that, you know. By being him and like, you know what I'm sayin'? I'm gonna go ahead and do it and it ended up being like one of the ones for me. Right, you know. But of course that track right there was done by my producer, Kane. I was gonna ask you about how you and Mr. Lee linked up. Oh, that's great. I've been out, it's important to know, after doing 12 years the first time, so you gotta think I've been locked up half my life really. Of course. I was only out for three years, or close to three years. So, I get out on March 25th, 2019, and within one month I put out my first album within 90 days I put out my first album. By the time it was, and you know, I gotta learn this business. Like, try it, because I need to make money out of this. And there's so many people, it's so much cap and bullshit going on. See, that's what I was wondering. Bro, I couldn't figure it out. It was like, damn. They were confusing you. Yeah, because they telling me basically to put the music out for free is what they telling me. So, I'm saying like, damn, but the music is costing me this. Yeah. To make. Yeah, that don't make sense, cause you saw in the sheet and it don't seem to me like it's supposed to come back. It wasn't no business in what they was doing. So, but I was still selling CDs, flash drives, or whatever, you know what I'm saying? And on my second album, since I got home when Crowns II, the second Crowns. When did that come out? I don't know when it came out. You gotta. It didn't make some music. 27th, this is my 27th month out. Okay. Right now, right? Friday, next Friday will be my 11th album since I've been home. So, it's 11 albums in 27 months. I done forgot when Crowns II came out. So, when you were doing music inside compared to when you came out and started doing your music, how different was that compared to, you know, for you to adjust? In there, it's, well, it's not much of it. It's still, it's an adjustment, but in there, my goal was to be the best. So, it was battling. It was, you know, going. Thaline services down there was an opportunity for people to basically. Network? For short, network. The whole prison is network. Whole prison is network, but a chance to display your talents in front of the. A massive crowd. Right, from everywhere. You see what I'm saying? Shout out to Smooty. Smooty went to college and he's got all of his college friends that he then gave his music to and they know about him and it spreads the word. Well, me, by being in prison like that and being like on this type of time, the same type of time I'm on right now, that's why, that's my network. So, people that's out, if they was, you know, if they was locked up or they didn't heard about me from being locked up, like I know who that is. I was in there perfecting my craft for years, like years. And I was receiving new information just for years. So. So when you came out? So when I came out, the only thing that I really needed to understand was the business cause I know can't nobody beat me rapping. I know that. You know, I know, I know that I'm the best rapper. And to the audience. No, wait a minute. Now that's why I get involved there. Do you think you the best? I know I'm the best rapper in, I know I'm the best rapper. In the world. In the world, I'm the best rapper in the United States for sure. In the United States. That I know of, yeah. I'm told him that. Oh, okay. So you, you, so you lyrically think you, you vibe with Kendrick Lamar is not a problem. Drake, all of that. No, no, Drake, I don't know. Cause he, this got lyrical. Now Drake is the smartest businessman slash, know how to get on people records and make a hit. That's what Drake do. I'm talking about lyrically, you gon' get on this record with Kendrick. That's who they try to say it can flip and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You feel like you can, you can deal with that. Nobody can beat me rapping. I've been tried and tipped. Like I, nobody can. Rapping is the thing I do the very best in life. It's the best skill that I have. It's the one that I've put the most out. He told me you could be you on that level. If you get in that room, it's a problem. This is something. We already know. And that's why Mr. Lee, that's why Mr. Lee reached out to me. Mr. Lee, shout out Lee, Lee Roy, Gunther Abner. You know, he, he come, he come reach out to you. He found you. The best producer in the game or in the top three in hip hop history. Yeah. Yeah, he reached out to me. Yes. After you being out, did he actually come get you? Me and Lee been messing around now for over a year. And we got, me and him got 10 albums together. Where we got this out? We double digits albums of just me and him. I got, he got two. I'ma turn in another one next week. We work at a feverish pace. How do y'all process it so fast? He's the best, I'm the best. We love what we do. We love music. Y'all just go. I love music. You have a, what, the process. You had a studio in Austin? Yes, I record in the studio in Austin, but I don't like the confines of writing in the studio. I like to be able, give me all of the, I got a phone fully, like the best, the best, the best. I got a phone full of the best, man. And you know, I write to it as things occur, whatever my vibe is, when it get to 14, 15, I'm always in an album mode. So it's this feel, this feel, this feel, this feel, this feel. Once that album arc is complete, I record it all in one day. I go to the studio four hours, three, three, four hours at the most, record the whole album, send it to him. He makes a master, send it back to me. I send that for the USB drives. I sell them. That's very important. I'm gonna stop you right there because I wanted to, I wanted to talk about that a little bit. Me and you talked offline on the phone and you put it to me real slick, like, hey, man, these guys, you know, how they making money? So this has been my question, right? Thank you. I've been dealing with this ever since you educated me on it. You know what I mean? I'm gonna be able to keep asking that. Oh, I'm gonna ask them else. That's why I'm free. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm gonna ask them because at the end of the day, it's a question that needs to come to everybody to where we can get creative control over the music again, to where they can understand. If you ain't making no dollars, it don't make no sense. I'm being real. If they don't do it, then it's gonna, to come on this platform, it's not gonna look right. I need to know. There is an industry that prays on people who want to be in music. I get it. It's a whole thing. You wanna pay to go anywhere you wanna go. You wanna be on this show. Who's coming down here next week or whatever, you know? Money man or whoever's gonna be here. You wanna be on the show. You wanna get your pay this much. You wanna be on the radio, pay this much. You know what you need to do? You need to get you some digital marketing. Pay this, like you, there's all of these different outlets for artists to pay. And then the illusion. Thank you, babe. I just wanted, I didn't want everything. But the illusion of what it looks like to be a rapper got all of these kids and shit confused, you know what I'm saying? So it's got them thinking that they need to act out or they need to do shit that could potentially get them killed. They looking at people behaving ways and then they thinking that that's what they gotta do too. Music for sure is about your life and the truth that you have and they are acting. But in the process of you acting, this is why I said that probably the most important thing was me learning about my thoughts and my thinking process. You got these kids coming in or these people. I ain't gonna say kids, people is coming into the hip hop and saying shit that they are not. And you're saying it in a way and not like ignorant to the power of your voice and your mind and you making it happen. And you putting yourself in a position where you gonna have to kill or get killed, you know what I'm saying? And the higher you get up or the more you start to manifest that type of shit in music, it just makes you more and more powerful to make things happen quicker. So it's not a surprise to me that some of the dudes that I have seen after getting deals, when everybody be like damn, he dumb, the man is getting powerful in his ability to manifest or female. And as it keeps going and going and going and you started talking about killing whoever and you know this and that. Then you catch the case, the inevitable case. It happens all the time. It's a way to talk about it. That's not ignorant. That won't conjure up this shit on you. I'm reflecting. I'm on the mic reflecting in the illest way possible. I'm just remembering. I'm talking about things that I wanna talk about. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying from a real life experience. It's not difficult for me to do this shit because I perfected the craft. They haven't really perfected the craft. They just speaking bullshit into existence. A lot of people, not everybody, a lot of people that speaking bullshit into existence, they don't have a business model for what it is that they trying to do. And they just really just, and they want things, a lot of people want things that they do not deserve and they know they don't deserve it. You want all of this recognition. You want all of this acknowledgement, but you haven't done the work. You don't even got five songs. You don't got 10 songs. We've seen that, huh? Yeah. And another thing about hip hop as an independent, if you put something out today and you don't put nothing out for a month or two months, you don't remain where you was at when you put that out. You're going backwards. You got to work. It's like a treadmill. Dude, I had... You got to work to go for it. I had a role on here the other night and ended up calling, that's gonna come out next week. Trio Talk, No Peel Talk and Ro and him was going back and forth about that list. Shout out to my mother-in-law. And it was funny because they was really, really, Ro was like, you know, my son came out with a hard living and you know already it was good and you should have put me on that list. And he was like, but you haven't been doing nothing lately. He was like, yeah, but that's still the hardest song down there, but you were just, this is what you were just expressing. I gotta say, Ro wants it. He really, he wants it. I get it, but Trio Talk was saying that he hadn't put nothing out here recently that was, and this was before he just put down this other one. The one, he got a new one that he working on now. Trio is my, I gotta say this. So people know, Trio is my dude. Well, yeah, he was here a day before yesterday. We had a good time too. That's my dude. I've been knowing him ever since he was all his life. So, but the thing you gotta understand is the thing, the work ethic and putting that music out like you doing in a volume that you're putting it out, that has to be respected and recognized because a lot of guys, look man, you've been through a lot, bro. You got something to say and you've mastered your craft. And can't nobody, I agree with you. I would be really nervous if I was putting my money up against you rapping against somebody that I thought was the best in the world. You know what I mean? And whatever, because I know I done listened to you. I'm not trying to, I'm just being real. I like what you do and y'all need to check him out. Man, I need 300 is the one. Need to truth, man. He really speaking truth, you know? I had a guy on here yesterday, day before yesterday, PGF Shout from Atlanta. He came in, you gotta check him out, man. Nice with it, bro. Like speaking the truth too and came through from the same background. And it's people like you guys who really speak about what's going on. Your life. It's in depositivity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. PGF stand for putting God first. Yeah, yeah, he own it, man. And it's like, when you see this, I feel good about the music. It's going back to where a place where it could bring somebody out of a situation, man. Yeah, even if it's not for the, just to see somebody like doing something looking like they progressing in it. But as far as like in life in general, I just artist, man. My mind just be like for artists. That's how I know that one day I'm already like, I'm gonna start signing artists. When did you get a name? No, no, let me ask this, man. Yeah, go on and ask him. I got something real heavy on my mind. The name Audi 300 came from and who gave it to you? Okay, Audi, I always been. My name is Alderian, you know. I like that name, that's it. Yeah, Alderian, that's my name, Alderian, David. Easy to look up. That's why everybody know my name anyway. I can't even be Alderian, David. They know that's my name. I'm from 300 block. I'm from David Street, Long Beach, 300 block. Wow, just like that, yeah. And the next question I have. Whoa, okay, so you're married right now. Yes. And I see you hustling real hard, always doing your craft. How do you balance both life? Work-life balance, you hit you with it. Yeah, that's great. Oh, okay. Well, first of all, my wife is definitely very understanding of what I'm doing, but we're around each other a lot. So you take her to the studios with you? No, but when you're working music, that's like a vibe. And in my case, it's really an energy that the only way I could describe it to somebody else is violent. Okay. Not to say that you're about to do violent, but it is an energy of violence and aggression. That's what I am. Even when I'm relaxed, the feeling of what I'm doing is like, urgh. So I don't really, if I'm writing or if I'm about to record or anything like that, her energy mellows me. So I can come away from a situation and when I'm around her, I can mellow. She makes, it's an automatic mellow. And that's another thing about videos and whatnot. Anything got to do something with rap. I want my energy ill and urgh, you know? So again, I'm with her the majority of the time. Anything I'm about to do with rap, I really don't be wanting her around because I feel like it's like flawed. I feel like I'm going to fight. I feel like, you know. She doesn't come to any performances. She comes, if it's grand enough to where she gonna be like in dresses and stuff like that, I be wanting her around. If it's hood and stuff like that, I don't want her to come. Like I won lyricist of the year in Houston. You know, you want to get dressed up and barred up. Yes, I want her around for that. I'm finna call her Lil D and Rory and 18 niggas and all of that shit. I don't want you around. I'm finna be around a bunch of dudes with the same mentality as mine. Yes, and we know whatever, if it go foul or whatever, we gonna be moving as a, you know what I mean? I want, when I'm with my dudes on some rap shit, I want to be on that. Especially like, if it's anybody from my hood, just anybody that's around me and we moving on some rap shit, I'm with people that understand consequences, life and death, like all of these types of things. My wife bring about a higher energy, like a higher, you know what I mean? I love that communication. I love that vibe that y'all have together. Oh yeah, let me ask you man. You know, you been in this music ever since you came home. You got the algorithm down packed. Algorithm? Yeah, algorithm, meaning you understand how to be have creative control over what you're doing, make dollars out of it, live off of it, and that's why I want to see our people go. I told you this, I mean I'm not gonna let up off of that. You know what I'm saying? It gotta happen, because at the end of the day, you got a blueprint, okay, the younger people, they gotta be able to look at you and be able to understand, I can tell you that, you can't get it by not doing nothing. And that's the part where it's really, it's like the work ethic, people think cause they get on the internet, views being fake, you mean you talked about that. All type of stuff, I mean, I'm looking at your views. Matter of fact, I wonder if this is real views. Oh my God. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you, if I'm gonna put the South Sun, it's gonna be way more than that. Yeah, I'm gonna put the South Sun, cause I'm gonna tell you, it don't cost nothing. Yeah, I don't know. Well, let me tell you that if you wanted 100,000 views, I think that's $100. Really? You want 400,000? But the reality, and it's not necessarily a bad thing that people are buying views because all of these artists Are buying views. Or their labels Are buying views. Because they want them to be perceived a certain way. If you are, you know, artist A, and you perceived as the biggest artist in the world, you gotta look at the times that these videos, if it's on YouTube, look at the time that they drop. Typically, videos, but before you're aware of them, they have been out for four hours, five hours. A video can exist in a private link on YouTube. So, I mean, it's common. Anybody, anybody with a YouTube channel can have a video on private. So, if you are- And just share the link. And everybody who has the link can see it. And we're gonna boost it up. Right. Before we put it up. Behind the scenes, and put comments on it. Behind the scenes, and then we're gonna release it. And if you're looking at this artist, That makes sense. The biggest artists in the world, or some of the biggest artists that you think are the biggest artists in the world, then it's not gonna ring no alarm to you that it's only been out 46 minutes, or six hours in something. And it's at 786,000 views. And you're like, damn, who all know this? And remembering what a view is as well, that 30 seconds of a watched video is supposedly what counts as a view. You gotta ask yourself the question of how many videos do we watch over and over again? I watch videos all the time. I may watch a video, a music video, I may watch it twice. I'm not gonna watch a video five times, or nothing like that. So these are just things you gotta remember. See, that's the thing that I always would wonder about, because whenever I watch, before we started the podcast, and I'm on YouTube, I'm always a DIY person. That's what I do. Everybody go on YouTube to learn how to do something. But whenever you're doing it, you fast forward, fast forward, go to the part that you wanna know, stop it, learn how to do it. But someone told me that hurts your channel when people fast forward through it, your view time, compared to actually watching the entire thing. I don't know for long form videos. But it could even be short, because... Well, this is what I'm asking, because I definitely know that watch hours are being tracked. And that's how you get paid. Exactly. So you wanna have long form that people stay engaged in to long. But what's always the big mystery, which shouldn't be a big mystery, is how exactly... How long? Yeah. Right, cause people have short attention spans. Yeah, but... People don't like to sit down and watch something for too long. Nah, if it's good. If it's good. No, no, no, no, no. We'll watch it. Everything goes. You watch movies. For sure. Or two hours, three hours. You know, I don't watch. Yeah, Joe Rogan and all those guys, those guys are $100 million Spotify people. Because even like, look at Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club, they have theirs for like an hour. And when I watch it, I might watch a little part of this part and I'll fast forward and see what else they're talking about. Not me. I watch the whole thing. Or if I let the whole thing go, I'm moving around, so I'm not really just sitting down here watching the whole thing. Guess what I'm doing on a Breakfast Club or anything else? I'm only watching that they're gonna put a clip on if there's an artist or somebody on there that I wanna see. I'm not gonna watch the long form. They know they gotta make a clip, a block for that. If it's just a little clip that's got this little 40 or 35 minute interview session on there, I may watch that. I'm not about to watch the whole Breakfast Club. You know what I mean? And I don't mind that. If I like it, if it's something I wanna hear, I've been interested in, I'll watch it. But if I don't, I won't. I pick certain ones. It's what make me tick. I might not like this one, but if I rock what this do, like, okay, say it's a tip. I've been knowing this dude since I was eight and I've been hearing about different things going on with him. And he come on and I'm like, let's see what's going on with him. I may watch it too. Not watch the thing. You know what I'm saying? But I ain't watching like every. No, not every episode. I'm not gonna watch the whole thing. And that's why a lot of times on our platform, we talk about so many different things because you have so many different type of people out there. Somebody might not wanna just watch it strictly for the rapping. But they like to hear your story, your backstory, you know, how you overcame it and where you are today compared. So there's so many different reasons people watch this show. That's another thing I feel like rappers need to begin like, I think rappers are not really honest about what they're doing that's allowing them to have sustained success. I will tell you that the people that I know that in this industry that got sustained success, they married or been in long committed relationships, why is that so? Because having that proper foundation for y'all, I mean, it's what God said. Said why, right? Yeah, it's a good why. Also to go along with the fact that it's a good why, it's like the proper foundation. Some people are trying things and they not working and they don't know why it's not working. And it's just because you just standing on some wrong shit. Your foundation is just fucked up and it's like you don't even know it. So you just kind of, and you believing the rap too much, not thinking that or not understanding that it's entertainment primarily. I'm glad you said that, because that brings me back to something I was thinking when you cut me off or something. I'm sorry. So how, you know, but it's all good though. I know you know me, I ain't trippin' on it, but I'm just gonna go on and try to figure out what I was trying to figure out back then. Okay. I just gave you some extra time. I was trying to just something, do you feel like the rap is in a place where it can, I mean, it's driving our children, mentally, the things they say, the guns they display online, all this stuff, do you think, do your music contribute to that? I think sometimes people would probably say that, but I think rap is huge, man. Rap is huge. And I say that because, you know, movies and stuff come out, you got guns, slingles and all kinds of stuff. So there's a place where you can put it intelligently in the right position, but there are some guys I do, and that don't have nothing to do with you really. Because you do have to take some responsibility for what it is. But I want to, the reason I do it, along with those things of me having my life intertwined in it and using and picking from those things to create music or whatnot, I do it to be the best, to make the best music. Like each one of my albums are like time capsules. They represent a complete idea. There's going to be, I got songs about marriage, I got songs about gangster shit or whatever. I'm being true to what the track elicits from me. Like it's an experience, a whole, I wouldn't tell a person, okay, you just get my shit. But I ask people, I say, what do you get from them? And that's what they say, they just say the truth. Like it's just the truth. It's like you saying the truth and it feels, so even if I talk crazy and just go rah rah rah rah rah rah, it's the same as like, I've seen 50 Cent say this, that when he made Get Rich or Die Trying, it was like people trying to kill him. These people are trying to kill me and I'm trying to live my life. And there's a lot of stuff going on. And he said he put all of that intense energy from what was going on at the time only to hear later from people that had graduated college. Like, hey man, that got me through college. But I work out to Get Rich or Die Trying. So it's about what we use the music for.