 What they gon' do with me now, I'm still a twerk of the town Tell me the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down Thank you so much for tuning in to Talk of the Town and today we got a very special guest on the show Spli-vabi Yes sir, the one and only Yes sirski Alright, so we're gonna start off with a little game of rapid-fire questions just a little something to break the ice So the first one is, which rapper would you not let date your daughter? Trace Longs Okay, who is your celebrity crush? Violet Mars Okay, who's her? Come on bro, you don't know Violet Mars? Yeah, yeah I do You don't even know who that is Absolutely That's a corn star right there Nah, I don't know if I'm that deep down the rabbit hole actually I gotta get the tuna It's not a rabbit hole, it's an ice break What is, in your opinion, the worst song ever? Damn, I ain't gon' love What's the worst song ever? That's really a good question My heart is beating, I don't know what song I like a lot of songs, I don't listen to bad songs You know what, I would skip that question respectfully Nah, you good I don't know Nah, it's good because the next one is actually, what is the best song? Oh, the best song? Yeah Oh, Jessica Agbat How do you pronounce it, Jessica? Yeah, Jessica Okay, because this whole time I've been saying Jessica Yeah, you could say Jessica too But I just recently changed it, I put Agbat on it So now you could just say Agbat Okay, Agbat, that's been good for him Who is your favorite artist outside of hip-hop? Outside of hip-hop? Damn, I guess you could say like, like Homeshake Okay I like Homeshake Yeah? Yeah, I like putting that on when I'm cleaning and shit It's like some like, in the lo-fi white people music sort of I guess, like the Yeah, everybody's got their little pockets, you know I like some Mac DeMarco song, I'm into that indie Yeah, there you go, it's indie, that's what I was trying with That's the genre called indie, Homeshake Yeah, they got some nice stuff What's the best thing about Bushwick? CM, CM Coffee Shop Yeah? Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, because every time me and A go there to eat In the morning after the stew, it just feels like we're in a movie Like, it feels like love in there, feel me? Yeah I ain't gonna lie, I just, I fuck with my people out there So it's a little breakfast spot in Bushwick Oh, where? Yeah, you can sit there, they only open from like six to like one or something Only breakfast is fire though, feel me? So, that's the best thing about Bushwick right now is that spot Shout out CM Coffee Shop What is your favorite app on your phone? Instagram Okay, very common answer, but honestly, me too I ain't gonna lie, I don't be on nothing else really much, Instagram What is the last thing you spent money on? A cup to get the shorties here and a bottle of Espel Shout out Espel What is your hardest bar? M.A. What's that? Damn, I don't know, damn, I'ma just say any bar at this point Fucking, just say act bad, act up I was gonna say, what is it, Get Tipsy? Act bad? Act bad, act up, I'm from the tipsy There we go What's the last song you listened to? Oh, I think it was the shit we just made, the split happy 30 minutes Okay I mean, it was a file that we just made Alright, but that counts What is a song you know every word to, but it can't be one of yours? Oh, Telly's L.E.T Who's that? Telly's L.E. She the girl that got sucked my dick tighter than her eyebrow above right here Oh shut up Yeah, she has a song out there called T I thought I'd sing that song word for word, bro No kid, bro That shit is fire From him, who give up on my love Like that's all you know I'm still stuck along the goal Nah, she body that Nah, you gotta send me that, bro Stop and tell these L.E.T, she nugs, bro That's the queen of butchery real shit I'ma do it better than her What is uh, what is a conspiracy that you think is real? Favorite music video of yours Wicked split happy with that shit still to this day is crazy fucking having on like 250 plus Latinos out with the flags out the low riders in Bushwick at the Tony's pizzeria At the train station on Nicobarca Avenue for me just showing like the people at the end of the day I'm getting loving my own towns and I'm getting love from the right people like it's not like on some I'm trying to sit there and portray like what this nigga did you for me like I'm out there with my people for me The right way like we turning up You know saying like we don't need all that extra shit and split this for everyone, but it's just a that video proved my point Mm-hmm, that's the best video ever out. No one shot a better video in Bushwick since with you for me thanks to no one did that But I put that on my back for me Yeah, I think that one thing I really like about you is that you take like any opportunity You can't like really put your hood on but as well as like, you know your people, you know That's why I named the song week for me I couldn't name that I don't like you but I named it with because it was like I'm gonna shoot this in Bushwick I'm gonna shoot it at the spots people know about and I'm gonna show them like look I'm gonna bring the West the West Coast so I should culture over here with the low riders and showing them like this is over here too For me. It's not just over there. There's people out here that have low riders There's people that have trucks out here that you know, yeah, the low I had a chinello's and shit different things like that, you know, yeah, just showing the east coast like your look It's here. Yeah, some real unity shit Nice. All right, so that wraps up rapid-fire questions. So let's get into it. So spliff. How did I'm um, How did how did your musical journey start? In the crib, okay off Laptop on laptop with Ableton and the USB mic in 2018 for my first song out and So I was started really did you did you produce a lot of your own stuff initially? No, no, I mean I punch myself in I recorded myself, but Got it on my beach from YouTube and shit So one thing I've noticed is that you're and you've mentioned this a lot in your interviews, too That you're you really you've grown a lot as an artist And that's why like you keep your stuff up to see that and I was skimming through some stuff earlier And like I think your earliest Spotify release. It's crazy because it sounds nothing like Jessica So what is them? What's it been like, you know being on that on that journey and evolving your sound like pretty much like almost every time you draw I want to say It's been a it's been a like how ages that I was on uphill battle since the beginning just every day kind of on Deciding if I'm gonna really take this thing serious or not and Just go through my flows, bro, like mad different little tones mad different little flows trying to figure out where it was me what was my sound so It's tough, but every artist out there just know it's every day. It's a constant battle, but you don't get nothing worth living if you don't Fight for it. You feel me every day and put your soul into this shit So I'm here because of that, you know, just put my soul work my heart Yeah My earliest song that hardly so that you talked about in the beginning of the question That song sounds nothing like what I'm putting out now because at that time it was a Different energy that I was at a different state of mind. I just got broken up with my shorty For me so put my pain into the music and it was just a song and now that shit is I like what 125,000 Plays on Spotify and it's a four-year-old song and I should get a thousand plays a day Wow, I'm like, what the fuck? Just goes to show that's That's just the power of you putting actually genuine Yeah, I'm like really putting your like your heart into it honestly because like yeah, even though it is one of your if not Your oldest song that's like publicly available on there still it's Yeah, we're really like it's crazy because like the like the melody you were writing on that really good So like I'm kind of surprised that like that you don't really do that too much now But you're also like in your pocket with like the the whole EDM slash rap slash like house rap side shit I'm glad you glad you said EDM house like yeah, because it starts with that. It's more of a EDM Jersey sound It's not a dark Jersey s dot B. It's not a fucking a Batman real type B MC. No, it's a split happy x a turn me up type B Like it's a EDM rave, you know, I'm saying loud hype fast music Mm-hmm, I don't have to this and that shit to me. That's a hot that should just sound hot be spitting your How I'm uh, what made you want to step into that territory because like you gradually got into it more and more as your releases Went on but I feel like now you're like really like deep entrenched into it Yeah, oh deep cuz I feel like now I see where I want to go I mean the beginning it was still Experiment in my first year of just making music was still just experiment and like I ran into the Jersey Club shit Cuz I was always on YouTube. Mm-hmm. I met a Through just booking a studio from there. It was like I clicked up made the Jersey Club shit I'm like, you know going up in there and then now we like I Came back looking he's making beats now back then he wasn't making beats Okay, now he making the beats now we can actually sit there go through sounds this I And make some make something that's in our own pocket. Mm-hmm. That's exactly what we doing. Okay, so How did Jessica come about What was the creative process like behind that's right? That's a good shot every time you say Jessica. Oh word. Okay Yo gangsta It was genuine shit ever. Mm-hmm. It was B. Jax birthday party I'm not just filming She was drinking honey. I Was standing on the couch. I asked for a shot. She poured it in my mouth pause I was like fuck it's a free shot. I couldn't I can't complain. She just did I'm like I'm not about to I never met this girl damn my life So I just let it happen cuz I needed that shot God knows I needed that shot We got lit into the night exchange information It was a great night by the way all in between our great night just vibe that will click like we just Instantly was just you know I'm saying So her gun the next night Same shit madly Me and a Was in the crib in a sanctuary And I'm like act bad act up. I'm like yo just kept saying that shit all night I want to put that shit in the song. She kept saying act bad act bad act bad So I literally was like y'all want to put that in the song Next morning, right? Like after all the party days and shit Go to the studio He said damn he make a little song Make the next beat. He's like, yo, I got this sample on my I thought I heard in the club He pulls it up. It's the push me Yeah, loads it up cuts the beat in an hour. I hop on it start over act bad act up We start the chorus out then we do the verse It was rest was history from there all because of me me and her and just riding that energy of like just like just being like so like non-caring just like really being this this This ball of energy that just infectious to everybody like even to me Yeah for me, so I Named it after her that that when we finished the song. I said, yo, this is what I'm gonna call it just because Yeah, that's how just goes me just from her I think I'm It's crazy because when I first listened to it I was surprised by like by the sample because it's such like a commonly known sample, you know Like I think I've heard it out mad mad DJ sets and I had never heard anybody spin it like that, you know So I thought that was really interesting shout out a turn me up. What do you think the what does the reception been like? You know, I look good, bro. I ain't gonna lie. I'm only put it out My love for me because at the end of the day It's a fun ass song like it starts off saying Like bad act up like it's just like a one of those songs you put on when like you getting drunk One of those songs you just probably want to say it like it's like I don't know if it feels so good and then the way this nigga made the beat and mixed it and just made it sound just like this Feels like one of those song that's already on the billboard So the reception's been really good and it's only gonna keep getting higher because as I keep pushing myself and growing myself That's home grows and you know saying everything else just follows who's behind it, you know Yeah, not most definitely I feel like this song is really infectious, you know, and now like I feel like that speaks so much to the Like EDM sample that you guys use because like it's such a such an accessible genre, you know So many people from so many different walks of life really like unite under EDM So I feel like that was the perfect sample to use to really like make your song more accessible as well Thanks, bro watch the year from now Wherever just know that me a gonna be at this crazy European EDM festival and one DJ is gonna be like, yo I'm gonna bring you out if I be pulled up 80,000 we don't even if it's just Jessica and Yachty that people from crazy because those samples are crazy and the way we came on them Yeah, what I'm What we're on the topic of songs What do you think is like what a like your most underrated song or one that doesn't get enough love? Yeah, you're right. It's spicy spicy. Yeah, that song That's on me and a wanted to pour almond milk on so these buds, but we couldn't do it I Was scared it was young at the time. Yeah, it was a it was a bother We're supposed to shoot that shit on murder weapon Broadway right in front of the checkers and potbots. Just cause a scene, but Yeah, most underrated song was spicy man, but I split back you smart smart shit It's something that I feel like I've noticed about you from your music and also just like watching your other interviews is that like you've Got a lot of motivation like I was watching I was watching your on-the-radar interview And I was hearing the story of how you put together. I think it was the audio music video. Yeah, and I feel like You're one of those people who like if you have your mind set to it. It's like you can fucking move a mountain Like how do you how did you end up developing that or did you like always have it? I ain't gonna not the most simple answer. I could put but I is I always think about my mom and my pops And what they sacrificed to get me here My mother crossed the border my father drink his own pissing vomit Filming had to come out here learn English get a job same shit with my mom Just anytime I felt like I Couldn't do something. I just thought about them and as corny as I say it's like That's really just what gave me that motivation to make anything happen. I'm like It's no just no you're not telling me I can't make it happen right now They like I'm not about to sit there and cross the border for a whole month walking or this extra I'm not you know, I'm saying like I didn't go through that They just did that for me to be here and I'm out to say and tell myself. I can't do something. Are you dumb? I can't do it Never that I could do it You feel me? That's why I said makes I can't so you know that I can for me I could do it Yeah, that's that motivation for me if you don't got parents for that then you find your own motivation There's life always throwing you shit to pull fuel to your fire So figure it out find it out for me put some fire in your body to move Get to it. Yeah make it happen when you got nothing there because you always got something Yeah, honestly, thank you for sharing that because like that's that's real I feel like not a lot of people have especially like if they're not in the Latino community Like they don't really know those kinds of stories You know like this shit that people really go through just to come here to America You know to have that chance for their offspring and even for themselves. So now thank you for sharing that bro That's real And like honestly, yeah contextually it makes so much sense You know like I'm sacrificing all of that and you having what feels like this like burning fire Under you, you know like shit once you know your why It's like especially if you like feel so strongly about it People can't I talk about that shit and that should make me shake cuz I was I still feel like I'm not you know I'm saying but I know at the end of the day. I gotta stay calm Keep working keep my pace. Don't you know, I'm saying it's not a it's not a race. It's a marathon for me. So just Well, for me if you gotta take a Breathe to take a breather for me. It's not a race You don't gotta be first place with a tongue for me. No, that's the fact I feel like a lot of people get so caught up in social media in that whole aspect of like keeping up with the Joneses, you know and like it's it's you know Social media is it's like a highlight reel if you will, you know Cuz like not everybody is gonna go ahead and air out their dirty laundry or show you how they're really feeling You know, it's like it's what people want to see and because that's like so much of what it is I feel like a lot of people kind of just get lost in that, you know Oh do the yeah, man. What's it called? So You found this pocket this like EDM wrap pocket. How do you plan on expanding more of that going forward? Tough question. Good question. Tough question. I mean, it's just rolling out the songs. We got the Me and Abe been cooking up on every day, but any chance we gotta be cooking up So to expand it really just put it out and then oh, yeah, like I tell this nigga That's on the mix tape once we put the mix tape out to is like coin in it You know I'm saying I texted William Foster the guy that broke Beyonce the song we're hurry I texted him I told him I say oh look this gonna be the new shit I'm saying I said it when I came with Jersey Club in the beginning. Yo, this Jersey Club won't be in fact He elated boom same shit with this this rave Jersey EDM Sam 100% drill rappers are gonna try to get on that for me. They don't hear it for me And they don't hear it for me to hear from someone else cuz it all starts with producers then artists Bro, there's already producers trying to do what me and a doing bro. We'll say they trying to call it Fucking whatever it is. What is it more like EDM rave Jersey Club? Yeah I feel like it's such a really smart pocket for you guys to get into because right now like Jersey Club is exploding as it should You know, it's like it's a nice vibey bouncy sound and it's really easy to get into it You know, but I feel like a lot of dudes, especially when they're using it for like that drill basis kind of just doesn't like Hit the same way, you know, like it gets tiresome really quickly What I'm uh, so do you plan on like keeping on that Jersey Club route or like at least like variations of it as you go forward It all she's not broke. Don't fix it So, I mean to me and him like We fuck with it. So Four months farmers. I mean who knows Might throw in a Spanish shit there. Who knows anything anything happen. I'm saying well me and a do is not like oh Yeah, like no, but we create so at the end of the day, whatever we create we feel like Don't put this out. Don't put this out. I mean, it's like yeah, we're gonna make mass room. Yeah But it's the way we present them. It's the way we sell them how we how we put them out Yeah, that execution I'm saying yeah, that's it Excuse me Um, what's it called? So you have a mix tape that you're you're working on currently. Yeah, okay mix tape working on I'm executive produced by a turn me up for me I'm right there in the scene with it. You know, I'm saying I'm always there Um That should be coming out soon, right? Coming out very soon because by the time this interview come out skip it a few that mix tape Basically done already. Yeah Just a lot of a lot of behind the scenes since we want to make sure we get right so No, I feel that let me guess out Are there any like coming futures? Yeah, yeah cash go beam. I would just start saying it now because It's my heart. I ain't gonna laugh. I mean shout out cash Tap me on the club while we use that gay piece birthday party Yo, I want to hop on this All right, say that don't play with me. I'm gonna send you to over send that DM the ocean mouth Send it two hours later Yo first song I ever sent this man I'm and I known cash for like a whole year, but I told him too. I was like I was just never the man to overstep Feel me. I was never the artist to be like, yeah, because we knew each other. Yo, I'm with cash Yo, bro, I don't do that. I put love. Yo was good. Uh-uh Fummy chill smoker blunders. I'm sharing a session. I go back down and do my own thing Femme to keep it like that for my long never. Yo, bro. We got a guess on it. No, none of that None of that, you heard me when the time was right the time was right Yo, I wanna hop on up That's all he had to say That's you gonna hit. No, good shit, bro I know like a lot of people um, there's other people who like take their opportunities when they see it But I know there's also people who like wait until the time is right You know because that's what you want to do is like Overstep or jump a shot and then brick. You know what I mean? I mean look man I play ball too. So I I know where to take my shots and when not to take my shots Sometimes you got to just play the back side play the wing Femme and if they pass you the ball, they pass you the ball When you get that ball, make sure you make that shit. So next time Pass it to you again Not real shit. Everybody feeling to get the ball and shit. Yo, bro, you know, like relax Let You know what I'm saying? Yeah, everybody gonna get minutes. Everybody gonna get you know what I'm saying? Everybody gonna get a touch. Just chill, bro. Keep working. Keep training next pickup game You're gonna get it. If not the next one, just keep training. So when you do get that you prepare You've been taking your shots already Just like what I did. I've been taking my shots already by the time I got that cast region I was ready for that Femme Head up Yeah, and then it's like You you might not have been ready. So it's like now. It's like that timing is perfect, right? Devon Thomas. I don't Kirk Knight. So my brother told me Devon timing, bro Real shit What I'm uh, how about this? Let's play another game This is called the last game So it's just like the last time you did xyz. Oh, right So what's the last movie you watched? Uh You know, I just be playing old movies Suits. Yeah, it's not a movie. But no, no, what's the last movie I watched that has Fuck you got good questions, man. You making me feel like I need to go fucking chuck me Thank you. I don't know skip the question, bro. I'm not gonna skip it skip it last song you listened to that wasn't yours Uh, uh, damn, um Oh, yeah, uh some of my story, right? Oh my son, um Slum Valley my son real slumber slum valley. He uh called ball made paris. Okay Mexican kid from uh west coast Go to in texas. My mom is staking Femi pardon, but I just tapped in with him on some like really listen. I'm like, damn Okay, let's kiss fire. I'm definitely gonna tap in Excuse me. Uh, what's the last thing you ate? What was it? What was it? My mom made some like She made like mexican chinese rice Her version of it and then Nice Some beef stew sounds mad game fire Uh, who is the last person you texted? Um dreams. Hmm last concert you went to I just want to Where do we just go? Hey, we went to publics, and we Who's in a concert though? I guess the last concert could be a Matthew Matthew Ali his concert Matthew Ali Well, what is the last time you recorded a song? Last night, okay When is the uh, what's the last album you listened to in full? Uh, jaco sondland story. Okay best album Damn, that's a throwback. Right that is a throwback. I gotta I got a song with a sample from From the sideline story in the interlude. I love that shit. If y'all ever get a chance listen to that That pushes me to a lot to keep going. Damn shout out jaco. Thanks. What is uh, when's the last time you smoke? Like 30 minutes ago This is literally right downstairs. I was like, I'm not going up there without smoking first. I'm like I was smoking 30 minutes ago And last one is when's the last time your opinion changed? Uh, literally like 30 minutes ago Like real shit. I was down with 10 of cars. I'm like, yo, hey, I'm like, yeah, this sounds Gucci That's so good. I just need a mix like you know me yesterday. I was like, fuck this shit. This nigga fucked my shit up I hate him A week no, it's not funny. Um, okay. Yeah, that's that's the last of the last game So we talked a little bit about the uh, the mix tape that you guys have coming Um, what else do we have to look forward to towards the end of the year? Any uh, split happy features coming up or the you're aware of any well Any split happy feeling I was What if I like about 15? Because I did on I was sending features and shit, you know, I mean It's like a hundred bucks made some money. It's a deal. Yeah I mean money good deal. So about like 12 12 13 They're gonna put it out. I know they don't mind them for me end of the day You're gonna see a bunch of those come out Yeah, but anything else from anybody else? No, I don't think so Wait, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trapped We're running that back real quick B. Jax Oh, we had B. Jax on the show recently. I interviewed him and he was telling me you guys got some shit in the Yeah, I'm bugging out. I'm so lost, bro Because he actually I immediately when he said features. I'm thinking about What am I this is? This is about to be Now you're good bro. Shout out B. Jax. But yeah, B. Jax. We got like a basically like a fake little table ready. Oh, okay That's my god. Love the chemistry there like Both long hair both fucking Just like crazy. Wow. So do you guys have like a song out now together? No, you don't right? Okay, now that's some dynamic duo type shit over there. I could see happening That would be pretty good It's gonna be crazy though. He's on a lot of songs that I got coming up though for show So everybody just be on the lookout for that All right, but um Spliff, thank you so much. We appreciate you for coming by. Why don't you uh, tell people where they could find you All right, now you got me there now But now games little you can find me in butchers forever. I'll be walking out. Nicobaca Wilson central all the time Tell me I get love there, but you can find me on instagram to spliff happy twitter spliff happy one word All of anything you look up just look up spliff happy. No one got that name. So Yeah, it's very much it. You know me happy music all that shit I bet Am I missing something? Hold on. Hey, am I missing something? Not right I got checking with a for me executive producers That's my guy right there All right, spliff once again. Thank you so much. We appreciate you man. Thank you brother. No cap I Know a solid there we go. I don't want to feel left out my bad. Uh, thank you so much for tuning in everybody and we'll see you next time