 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town I'm looking at the sisters, I'm hooking them down I'm reaching the smiles and the frowns What's going on, y'all? It's Lauren K. We here at Tokyo The Town And who's in the town today? St. Rose, St. Rose I know, that's alright Okay, so to start it off, we're gonna get started with a game A rapid fire question just to get to know you better Okay Quickly And so quickly Okay, quickly Alright, first question, where you from? Brooklyn If you could have any accent, which accent would you pick? Mine No Spanish Okay What's your sign? Capital Favorite bar from you? Everything I can't say everything, come on No, spit the bar Spit the bar A bar, right, let's go MC, come on I waited a minute to get while I'm at The money be calling, I travel the world, I need me a mat I know, that's right Favorite bar from somebody other than you? Shit Damn Quickly Oh yeah, Jay-Z, Jay-Z Niggas fantasize about the shit that I do really Like these rappers rap about all this shit that I do really Like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah That's my shit, yeah A one hit one though who should have had a longer career It's a lot of one hit one and shit 10k, 10k count 10k? Yeah Okay, 10k count Celebrity crush Ice spice If you could listen to one artist for the rest of your life, who would it be? Kanye, Kanye West Favorite fashion brand? That's a good one Louis Louis Best fast food restaurant Damn, I got a couple hold on, I'm trying to think Oh brother I do have a couple, I'm sorry It's given McDonald's, Wendy's No, hell no, no Popeye All right, steakhouse, I love steak So I say steakhouse Wait, I said fast food Oh, you said fast food Oh, Wendy's, oh Wendy's, my fault My fault, my fault It should fast about steak What's your least favorite water brand? What's the Pepsi one? The one that No, no, no It's the Pepsi sponsor About that water You know what I'm talking about, the Aquafina? Yeah, Aquafina Yeah, I don't like that Okay, respectfully And one song that you hate that everybody loves? Yeah, I ain't really like my shit from Able Even the first came out, I ain't go a lot That's a tough one Okay, and last one One song that you love that everybody hates? Everybody I ain't go a lot of family ties Baby King and Kevin Yeah, my boy don't like that I don't know why Wow That's all Yeah, that's all Okay, so before we get into the interview, y'all Off camera, it was some Aquarius Linda And personally, I gotta know what that's about Because as the big Aquarius I gotta know what's tea What's the problem? It's my ex, y'all She's the problem? Yeah, she's the problem So that one person made you dislike my whole song? Yeah Wow Yeah I think that's a little insane I feel like once you meet that one person from that song And you see that bad song You kind of think like, I owe them I kind of like that I think that you should speak for yourself Because I don't do them Okay And I don't think that you should either I think that when you look at the list of Aquarius that we own Aquarius is an Aquarius Oprah is an Aquarius Michael Jordan is an Aquarius Okay, so you did Girish I know my song And I know my Aquarius sisters And my Aquarius brothers I might reconsider I like that I might reconsider I got you Just all I'm asking is you give it some thought You know what I'm saying? I give it some thought Okay, so Cory St. Rose Yes, sir What made you want your rap name To be your real name? I ain't no cat I always wanted awards saying my name Because I never had awards Like in middle school and stuff So if I ever got an award for rap I wanted to say my things So I can give it to my mom and stuff Okay, period So when I got my first plaque recently I gave it straight to my mom Congratulations We love that I gave it straight to my mom So I know some people feel like When they have that separate name It gives them a persona It's making them perform And it helps them separate Artists from the person Do you feel that at all? Do you agree with that? Yeah, yeah Sometimes I'll be like The rap inside is Cory And I do auto tunes The auto tunes like St. Rose I'm trying to do something like that I know exactly what you mean Okay, so you do break it up Just still you Like Beyonce too Beyonce got Sasha Fierce I know you're talking about facts So what made you get into music To begin with? My brother We used to always go to the movies Together Me and my brother, my pops And we used to see like Shrek SpongeBob All that thing But it was one time I didn't go with them Come to find out My brother showed me It was the 50 cent movie The Girish of Doc Ryan So he showed me the movie Illegally online And then that's why I just fell in love with the rap Just fell in love with the rap from there So 50 is one of your main influences? Yeah, so 50 My brother slash 50 The reason why I even like got into rap Okay, so I seen an interview That you say it took you like No, you only been taking it serious For 10 years 10 years So what was the click Like the Okay, I'm going to do this for real I dropped the song Before I got out of high school And like You know People were jacking it They were jacking it in the schools I'm like, I think I'm going to do this for real And then I just didn't like At that same time I just kind of had You know when you go to high school You're like, damn Like what I'm really going to do I'm like, I'm not really passionate Anything like besides this I'm not going to do this That's real shit You know what I'm saying Because a lot of the time I feel like Even when you graduate high school When you graduate college It's like That first step You always imagine it to be planned But then sometimes you get there You be like I don't know what I want to do Like I don't want to do None of this shit for real I just want to exist Now that was me in college I didn't know what I was going for my mom And then I know a lot of people that say that Then pandemic happened And I had One of my guidance counselors Called me Called me He was like, yo You got 30 credits You need 30 more Why you don't just do it at home And I just did it at home Literally Got my shit You get to getting that Quizlet on the low You get that Quizlet Passed them classes with flying colors Shame me So you mentioned 50 You mentioned your brother Who else are some of your Musical influences? My son, yeah Trab Trab Scott Dre I can hear that a little bit My son, Rocky Okay Big Sean Wes Khalifa It's giving real like 2000s rap right now Yeah like All the people I grew up on I listened to Every day when I was in high school So I'm just trying to think of everybody Did I get everybody Yeah that was mainly them You from Brooklyn and USAJ I'm not going to lie That's crazy Oh no, no, no Hope too Hope is like Like what? Like that's like If you from Brooklyn That's like automatic It's a given Yeah it's a given You feel me? But the people that's not from Brooklyn Don't know that I feel you We gotta remind them Hope for president Shame me Feel me Still the best rapper alive No Is he? You think so? One of them I think that he's number two I think he's had the greatest career I think he's had the greatest rap career But on paper I say Drake will have something to say About that I think Drake had the best rap career Not gonna lie Okay this is interesting Drake never had a damn Because in music I definitely feel what you're saying But I feel like Jay-Z really just took it All the way outside the music I feel you with the business And all that But I could take Drake But I feel like as far as like Wrapping goes I think Lil Wayne is the best rapper alive Oh I ain't gonna lie I can't argue with that Yeah You ain't definitely top five for me For sure Okay so real quick Who you top five? Alright so my top five In order if you can In order? If you can't Then I get it Alright in order Nah nah I think I can do order Okay From five to one Okay top five Okay rapping or artist Cause I could do both I could do top five All this I could do top five rappers Do rappers Okay rappers Okay so my top five rappers Definitely okay Hope Wait I'm sorry At five Hope is five Oh you say in order Start at five If you put it in order Start at five I put Okay I'ma put Wayne Okay Four I ain't gonna lie I'ma put Drake Okay Three I ain't gonna lie I gotta put Meek up there I ain't gonna lie Meek over Drake and Wayne No no wait okay Let me put Okay let me put Meek fifth Okay My four cause I forgot We doing order Cause I ain't lie Meek like Despite that pain No he do Dan Wayne Dan Drake Then I say Pop No I put a whole Dan Pop I think pop overall Like I fuck with Tupac I'm not gonna lie He's not even in my five Name me a five I think At some point I'm gonna put King Tupac and Biggie B1 Okay see I was literally about to say I think that at some point We as hip hop lovers Have to let go of this Big and Parker number one And two things I'm sorry I think we do I really think At some point We have to stop No I I understand it If like That's genuinely how you feel And given like That you're really into music I believe that That's genuinely how you feel But I feel like A lot of people say it Because they feel like They're supposed to say it I feel like The people that didn't Really grow up Grew up in it I feel like Biggie had two albums One album One two Now but I'm not gonna lie Like The way Biggie flowed Like I ain't gonna lie What he did do Was incredible But when you look at the fact That it's 2023 now And we have Niggas like Wayne And Jay-Z And Nicki Minaj It's just like But you could say The same thing about Hold Cause hold Like No you can't But you got two things Yeah Yeah Yeah Okay I see Okay I see what you're saying The album has evolved It's 20 years That's what I'm saying I feel like Just at some point They're gonna age out Age out? Yeah So I was watching a podcast The other day And they were talking about They were debating Whether Instant Classic Is a thing Okay So What do you think Especially given Like all the people That you listen to Like do you feel like An album can be Instant Classic Hell yeah When I first listened To Washington I said Travis Scott Not Astro World Days before Rodeo Just like his mixtape I thought that was a classic When I heard ASAP Rocky, Long Live, ASAP I was like no This is a classic What makes the album Instant Classic to you? To me personally Like Multiple songs That I'm like I feel that Like you know I feel that shit Or just like I could listen to the project And there's not a lot of skips Cause I ain't go a lot It's like All the projects I name It's probably Skipping whatever the case may be But If it's majority of them songs It's fire to me It's a classic I don't care It could be It could be It could be a low tier rapper You know what If he Or a local rapper A low tier A local rapper If he drops some shit And I fuck with him Like that's shit A classic That's shit So let me ask you then Do you feel like The impact Has anything to do With something being a classic Because a lower level rapper Can make good music But of course The impact But if like Okay Okay that's good how you said it Cause me like I do Like I said If I naturally just like it That's cool But the impact I do I do agree with that Like give you an example Like if you say The Rocky album Like when he dropped that album I feel like it shifted music As far as like The The Manhattan Soho Harlem You know what I'm saying It gave a whole different perspective Like of New York Or like When Drake drop Take care You know And change everything You know what I'm saying So yeah All my beautiful dark twists That one was old Exactly so Now I feel you I feel you Facts So describe your sound In three words Someone who's never heard it before They want to know like How is How does Corey St. Rose Make them feel Swaggy Okay Inspired Okay And And hustle Yeah Like I'm gonna make you want to hustle I'm gonna get you expired And yeah I'm gonna make you want to put that shit on too Period You know what I'm saying Yeah cause we put that shit on I'm chilling today but you know A lot of the beats that you pick Make me very much like Not fire Fire Now I appreciate that Now I'm big on beat selection For sure So how do you pick your beats To be honest I'm like Cause Every time I Even with flash We be like listening to beats Like I could listen to something In two seconds And know I don't want it Like just how it Just make me feel like If I don't like Give example like I didn't even gotta hear the drums Or anything Like if I just like the sample Damn You don't listen to the drum kicker Nah Sometimes you don't need to That's a feeling Like me personally Like Especially if I'm rapping on it too So Sometimes like It's a feeling thing Like if I feel Like you know Like oh yeah Or I just start rapping to it Automatically Then yeah I'm like yeah I gotta rap on this Okay So you like natural Organic stuff Yeah a feeling like No It's a feeling yeah So now I get that from you Because I heard you talk about MMM And I know what you're thinking folks Mmm Yes sir I thought so too MMM So I heard you say That like It was very natural The way it happened Yeah My natural Okay so Do you feel like And I know that you have Flexing on us You got the at home studio MMM So do you feel like things Come more natural to you In that studio Do you feel more at home Or Hell yeah It's crazy you say that Cause like Like I could be in different studios MMM I could still catch a vibe I could still do my thing But it's like It's when I'm home MMM It's just something About that Being at home Vive I don't know And then like It's the fact that Like I can literally walk Wake up Walk to my studio And just throw out ideas And some of my like Best songs Like that did good on streaming MMM Late at night Like walk about my sleep Or just tired or Just came back from the crib But I don't feel like recording But this beat sound fire So let me put something on it And it was like Oh shit let me just MMM You know the song Starts sounding fire So I keep doing it So yeah So what type of environment Do you like when you record Are you like Nobody around me Nobody Nobody I like being quiet I'll be turning on some lights Put a candle Light my blood And I'm in there here Really And I don't like too much People in the studio I feel like It made me think too much Cause I feel like I'm trying to cater to them as well Pressure You know what I'm saying Like not even pressure Just like Because like When you in the studio by yourself You can make a wax song And it's like Alright whatever But like when there's Other people in the studio Regardless of what Like every song you do Not gonna be fucking fired Right But regardless of what Like just other people In the studio Like sometimes it makes me like Damn maybe I should cater to How they feeling Cause I don't see them Headbopping You know what I'm saying So I like to just be In my own mind space Count You know what I'm saying Cause when you think too much It's like It's gonna show you Thinking too much If that makes sense Now you mentioned a wax song Yeah What is the indicator That a song is a hit Versus a song is like It's a wax Yeah Okay A song is a hit Beat Okay Flow Okay What you saying And Not even what you saying Just the flow, delivery And the beat Okay Literally like As far as a hit And then a wax song The complete opposite Your flow horrible Damn The beat trash Yeah Like yeah Like I said I'm bigger on the beat Like if I don't like the beat I'm not gonna listen to the song I'm sorry Like the sample I'm not listen to the song Shit trash Damn Right away too Yeah So okay I know rap is not the only thing that you do I know you get into fashion So tell us a little bit About the fashions that you Um What you wanna know About the fashion Like tell us about the line Tell us about Okay Where like how you got that type of So Where you get influence to do that Do the fashion Alright so first was It was definitely rocky Yeah Cause um I used to Wear you know Back in the day Macy's Polo True Religion Rockin' Dreams Classic Classic Exactly And then um I went to the city I used to go to school in the city And Soho was like a ten minute walk Okay So I used to walk to Soho Oh you was one of those Yeah just walk to Soho every day Just for no reason And then I had It was a store called Atrium Okay People that I used to go to Atrium Y'all know Exactly what I'm talking about In Soho Y'all know what I'm talking about But I used to go to Atrium And um Look at the clothes And I used to peep Like oh This clothes more than Polo This clothes more than True Religion What is this Right And then at the same time My bro introduced me to Asap Rocky And he was wearing all the fly clothes That I didn't know about But my boys knew about all this shit And then I was like Oh nah this is fire Like I'll fuck with this So that's what inspired me to do it And then um As far as like my brand Y'all got a brand called True Colors Worldwide Period Um And what Actually I wasn't trying to make it a brand At first literally it was like A project I was doing And I just wanted to do some merch I never tried it So I went You know let me do some merch And then The sales from the merch did so good I'm like Shit I'm not even gonna make this shit No as you should Like you know what I'm saying So I made it a whole brand And um Yeah you know we We lit now You know I got a I got a new season coming out this summer You know we've been teasing a lot of stuff But You know we dropping with it And um Shit And then yeah we doing the modeling too For the fashion We going all out with it Yeah I know that's right Well make sure you send some merch to I got you I got you I got you Exactly I got you now So I wanted to play another game with you Okay We're gonna do this or that But fashion edition Okay So you gonna tell me At least two people who really be having that shit on Okay Alright Okay First one Rihanna or Tiana Taylor Tiana Taylor She flies fuck I ain't gonna Okay Rihanna fly too But Tiana fly too Life is so long Future Okay Jada or Jada waiter Or Ella Benz Jada like Jada pick and smith I said Jada waiter Oh Jada Jada pick and smith I said a whole government Why the hell would she be in this I don't know I don't really think she knows For having that shit on That's why I was like Ella Benz And I said Ella Benz like what oh I'll say Ella okay okay low baby you're gonna low baby fab or fabulous or Cameron fab if it's so fab Uzi or JT why are you funny a bookie or Lola Brooke a bookie a bookie and the last one for all Kanye Kanye now Kanye Kanye Kanye Kanye that one almost stumped you yeah cuz they both yeah they be having a shit oh yeah that's a fact so you seem like you're real like business minded as well and of course you have to be to market your music and market your clothing line and that makes sense because you did go back to school tell the people know what you majored in oh business major period and tell them that you got that degree yeah I got the degree yeah BMCC shout out thumb they know I love that and I love that you went back to school so what inspired you to go back and get the degree I know you mentioned earlier with your mom now um like I like I told you my guidance counselor to the cold man was just like yo come back and I just felt like I'm not doing nothing it's the pandemic I'm just saying oh yeah yeah so this is the third it was a no brain type shit so that was basically the whole reason like I literally came back but even before that I was going back to school but it was the mom purpose it wasn't for yourself for myself purpose cuz at the end when I graduated it was like yeah that's the fact yeah I did that shit you know so do you find yourself applying the things that you learned in college to your career or do you feel like put that right there now I just I just you know have that arsenal you know I mean like yeah I got that you know mom hold oh you know have it and continue with life and stuff but no but that there's nothing when nobody going to school like you know I got nothing against it just it don't correlate with my life yeah yeah but I mean still an accomplishment under your belt it for sure for sure yeah well I'm telling my kids absolutely everything yeah so I saw you say that you were having doubts and he was ready to give up yeah in terms of like this music shit so what made you like really hanging there and what words would you have for anybody that's also up and coming when me okay the first question was what made me not okay so it's a mixture of things it's one I thought about I was always the person telling people don't give up and then how I look giving up and then to it was the mixture of my son flash over there he ain't give up on me you know I'm saying when stuff was hitting rock bottom almost like he ain't give up on me so I appreciate him and then just I don't know I still always felt like I had a puncher's chance if that makes sense like the underdog right I just so it's just just because of like the people I knew and then how close I kind of was yeah and then yeah that's basically like kept me going and then um advice for other artists I'll be real just keep dropping like job and being consistent because I literally I was on I had an interview yesterday and it was asked me like what's something you really like prod yourself over like what are all your accomplishments and I was like it was thinking I was gonna say mad other shit I was like now is my consistency because at least somebody that see me from when I first started to now is that I ain't gonna lie my son he don't quit like right at it you feel me and it's like you know something you know I'm I and shit so yeah we love that so what's next for Corey St. Rose my new product well may back out right now we got a new song goes down crazy a shout out my boys bro I ain't like you ain't you ain't crazy you um real quick is my one of my boys here from New Zealand I really got shot him out again my son's sprout I'll be cooking up with this man and he's like 15 hours away from me like we cook up on discord so sometimes like I have to wake up like three two in the morning just so we could cook up like just so we can like get a session on because by his side it's like six eight at night it's some shit like dedication like you feel me dedication but um yeah we got the may back coming out we got the brand we got more true color stuff coming out must I'm out to drop my project real soon I don't got a date but I just know it's coming out in the summer okay big features on it to my shit change change your life features on it type shit can we get a hint or we can't get it now we got I got ATF Jacob on it and it's not no turnip shirts on for the ladies okay cuz I don't really do songs for ladies so I got yeah so yeah look look being to him for that um and then um yeah my son flies dropping the flies he about to drop his shirt and then yeah we just just being to him yeah those are like the main things God we got coming up for sure all right you got a lot to look forward to okay yes sir thank you Corey same roles for comments appreciate you appreciate you thank y'all for watching let's go