 He know how to hustle, he scurry out the streets He got it, you want it, he's charging a fee Official, Miss Jamaica, wait, roll a tape She ain't never fade, no, she gon' be the one to really try to motivate Tell it to your face why the mother holds hate Money poses, he gon' be the coalist If you got a secret, he the one that's gon' expose it If you wanna laugh, he the one that keep you rollin' He gon' keep you rollin' like a motherfucker bowling And they be goin' hard on the interview With XO Music on the interlude XO Music on the interlude Damn man, check it man, hey man I had to let that thing roll for a little bit that time man Hey man, check it, check it, check it, it's your boy E.C.E.O. man I'm here with the lovely, amazing, outstanding Official, Miss Jamaica, what's going on? Not even on my dad walk on Man, man, man, here we go again, man This guy right here, man, he don't need no introduction, man This guy right here, man, if you listen to music, man You better keep it real, hold your own, man Tango is in the building What's going on, man? Man, how that boy end up on that dang boss talk They trying to find out I know Yeah, take on man, so man, you know my wife, man If you watch any of our episodes, you know she's gonna go down through that Have you watched any of our episodes? Yeah, yeah, a lot Okay, just checking, just checking So, okay, we'd like to know a little bit about you Tango, where you from? Who you know, what's going on in your life? All right, my family, they are Kenyan So like, my origin, like they from over there But I'm born down here in Arlington, Texas Have you been to Kenyan? Yeah, I just came back from over there That's awesome When was the first time you went? When I was five years old Oh, you don't remember that? Yeah, no, I remember You do? Yeah How did you feel about it? What did you see that just like tripped you out? It's the lifestyle, like it's different But it's like, it's more, the culture is like You feel more, it's like, it brings you in Like, being over there, I like being over there More than I like being over here So you'll move over there? Yeah, I'll move over there Really? That's the goal, yeah, yeah Oh wow, so you can make money over there? Huh? You can make money? Yeah, a lot Really? Yeah More than here? Yeah You got to think about that for a second You paused for a second like you wasn't so sure You can make a lot of money over there Really? Because like the currency is cheaper over there So like, say if you bring a hundred thousand From over here, you take it over there You gonna It's way more, I know, but at the same time It's like the dollar difference So you buy a pen over here for fifty cents Over there it might be ten thousand I'm just, you know, saying whatever Ten thousand But that fifty cents still equi- Equivalate to that So it's like, it's almost like the same But it just sounds different to everybody Cause I'm from Jamaica So it's like It's the same thing with our dollar It's like a hundred and fifty five to one US dollar So when people go down there and be like How much this over here cost a dollar To pay a hundred and what? It sounds ridiculous, but it's really the same They got kiosk and all that over there The kiosk They got a lot of stuff Would you go back and move over there? I'd have a vacation home But the only reason I wouldn't move over there Because I have kids here You know what I mean? My kids probably wouldn't want to move over there So that's the only reason why When it comes to education I think when I was over there I found myself learning more When I was over there Then compared to when I was over here They focus a lot more on the education Over there than they do over here When I was over there From what I remember When I was five The teacher was slapping you You got weapons in school You get a whoop If you don't answer the question right They whoop you Or if you didn't turn your homework in We had a line of people Sending down waiting to get whooped Because they didn't turn their homework in I'm telling you But I don't know I left school a long time ago I don't know if they changed that Because a lot of times As things get more modern And US changes stuff Other countries do adapt To the US culture in a lot of different ways So I don't know if they're still doing it or not My mom said they changed it Yeah, so they ended up changing The way of life over there When it came to school But some of them When I went over there Just recently they said They still getting slapped And all that stuff in school And it's not abuse It's not they're not getting abused Or nothing like that Yeah, it's not abuse Right It's like Structure Right, exactly Yeah Y'all can dress up How you want to They're beating the hell out y'all Where y'all niggas conditioned You know what I'm saying It's not abuse y'all But yeah That nigga I had whips on me And he hit me He slapped me He slapped me Yeah, what? That's abuse What the hell? So you have brothers and sisters? Yeah, I got a twin sister Ooh Then I got a brother He's seven years older than me Oh Okay So they also went to Kenya When you went Yeah, we all went As a family Yeah Did you stay like a whole month? Nah, we stayed for three years Three years Yeah I'm talking when you recently just came back Oh, nah, nah I thought you were talking about When you just recently came back Three years Nah, I stayed for a month Okay Three years Three years when I went The first time Because you were young And you were just like They just left you over there They wanted him to learn About his culture I guess my mom wanted me To learn about my culture Exactly So she had us there for three years Which is good You were ready to come back Nah At first I was ready to come back And then Got you still Being out there a little more It's like I started adapting to it And then I took liking to it And I didn't want to come back to the States So we ended up coming back to the States And I had an accent and all that I didn't even I had to You had an African accent You had an African accent I had to sound You know how to talk do it Do it What's the African accent like? Like they was like Yeah, yeah, yeah You can't even imitate They can't even do it He had to be able to do it That's his family You know how to speak They have the language They have a different language as well Yeah But you also know how to speak the broken English I don't know how to speak it as good anymore Yeah, but you was around them But you can understand it very well I can understand Okay Did your mom she was proud of that? Proud of what? Taking you over there like that? Yeah That's good man Yeah, she was Like when she took me over there And we came back It's like I was already accelerated More than the kids over here So like When I came back They thought I was Dumb because of my accent So they automatically Wanted to push us back Because of the accent They thought we was like Aliterate Is that the word? Yeah, they thought we was Aliterate Well, we weren't Me and my sister So like We had to prove to them Like, you know I ain't gonna say I'm smart And the other kids But like we were Accelerate What you learning Second grade over there Is what you learning in Fourth grade over here Wow That's how the same thing It is in Jamaica Because I had friends In high school Who weren't very smart at all They come like Last in the class And they migrated United States And they were They were like First in their class I'm like How is that possible? Yeah You used to goof off Every time in class You never did any work I know you went up there You did the same thing But they were like It's just easier So it's the same thing But I'm going to Going to different countries When you're from a different country Because I knew that I wanted to do that But I wasn't able to do it But everybody else That I know that Live here in the states What they normally do Is send their kids home You know They're normally See that He wasn't gonna Stand for it But Normally What you do You send your kids Back for schooling Down there All the way up till Maybe even high school They come up here And go to college But otherwise from that You know so Or Go to school up here They go down for summer holidays Or You know Any holidays they can So that can learn About the culture Learn about the culture Is one thing But I'm pretty sure That it's some Jamaican kids Up there at the school With my daughter And that's a senior My daughter is Number three Right now in that whole School And I'm guaranteeing you It's some Jamaicans Up there There's no Jamaicans Up there She's number three Right now And So At the end of the day I don't agree with that But you know You bring them on over here If you want to We got something for them And you're not just Gonna come over here And be smarter than somebody Cause you Cause y'all Up in the class Is a little bit That ain't nothing No The way the education system Set up over there It's set up It's like Set up different It's not no Answer questions Like A, B, C, D You gotta know The actual material Well we gotta know The actual material here And don't get it twisted Y'all keep Talking about how There are millions over there But When I look around Everybody from over there Come over here A lot of them To work and make money To work and make money To work and make money To work and make money But there are some people Who built this country On the precept Of getting people To understand that They were good at what they do I'm not saying We're better than every country Cause I don't play that game But there's a lot Of opportunity here And that's why y'all Keep showing up To work and make money That's why Your parents showed up Yeah They showed up Because they wanted Money And how do you make money By people who create opportunity So there are some people here I trip off y'all people Because What I trip off of Is y'all so sharp And so intelligent But when you look around And see the things That were created here When it comes down To your Apple computers And all the stuff That we The computers And Bill Gates And all that All of your billionaires Billionaires Cause you had the money To do it Cause you had the money To do it And actually A lot of times I look at I hate to I don't want to get banned Like Kanye around this thing But there was a lot Of slavery And a lot of activity Went on here That made it to where It advanced the people You understand what I'm Saying So there's a reason Why this country Runs the way It was built on A lot of African-Americans Backs And then You reaping the benefits Of it Riding around In whatever You got your Bentley Coops Or whatever Yeah That And I don't want to get Banned Like I say Like Kanye But our ancestors Built this country Man For free A lot of times And a lot of situations With the help Of our constituencies Our white constituencies Yeah So it was a combined Combination Of building together And then You look up Fast forward And you say I come over there Because the finance Is better It's better Because it was built On the backs It was built on On our patriarchs And some of the You know You're founders Of this country So don't get it twisted Don't think brothers Over here I don't stand in The gap for my people I'm not fit To play with y'all Because y'all Come over here And think y'all Smarter than somebody Thinking people lazy A lot of times And I just want To check y'all up On that car I ain't now Now one of y'all Going out Working me Now I don't Think I'm Smarter than I'ma I'ma get you known Play with me If you want to No So I love the way That you was Actually Sent over To me Shout out Mr. Lee Yeah, Mr. Lee Real Mr. Lee told me That you was one of Those guys That I had to talk with Because of you You were special And he's seen Something in you That says That There's greatness In you Yeah And I just want For somebody to Even look at you In that way And say Hey man There's something Great in that guy Man talk to that guy How did you And Mr. Lee Link up And what is that All about Mr. Lee and I Met Due to Rudy Rudy at Rap a lot Okay Yes So Rudy Artists I worked with And Johnny They came down Here for Johnny's show Mr. Lee's house Rudy was just like Oh yeah We're going to Mr. Lee's house I was like Alright cool We're going to Mr. Lee's house And then Mr. Lee just Staring at me the whole time And then he said I remind him of Himself when He was at 20 years old Wow That's a compliment Yeah And I Didn't take too much Into it I just was like Okay And then We ended up talking You know We ended up talking Even more And then We ended up going Into his place Like you know We ended up just Kind of like Showing me game And giving me game And insight about Certain things That I didn't know about And like You know he just kind of Like brought me in Like a son or something Wow Yeah That's heavy man You know Mr. Lee Brought up Brought up in a When I interviewed him He was brought up In a foundation Of his parents He would go play Instruments in the church And You know Just was A love music From a very young age You know what I mean And for him To even see Something in you That says man When I was your age I seen that I seen that before That's live man You should be That guy got about 31 plaques man Yeah He had nothing to play with Yeah You know what I'm saying And got a lot of love For what he Brought to the music man Yeah I thanked him like crazy When he came over Like man I just love What you brought To the To the Forefront For the music Down here in Texas From Texas to Louisiana man Real talk So Okay So you one of those People man You work with You work with You did some stuff With NBA Young boy Yeah NBA Young boy Like right away But Just tell me the link We're gonna Ride to the Ride way But what How did you end up Linking with NBA Young boy to do Boy like I haven't necessarily ever You know Yeah man But he picked some beats And like I need to Get that sauce Yeah like With young boy on this Last recent project I was on He had ended up Getting a beat off Of this Produced name bands It was a collab That we did And He ended up I guess hopping on it Bands told me Like the night Like three nights Four nights before Like We on NBA Young boy project I was like alright cool But we had some other Records prior to that Like Not wrong now And see the motions On his other last projects That When I first linked up With I think it was Eli Eli his old His manager Or something like that Like A&R That's how I ended up Getting them other First ones with young boy So like I've had Prior to These ones I had like You know ones Back in the day with them Like three four years back Wow that's That's heavy And Rod Wave How did you He just picked out some How did he end up Linking to your sound Rod Wave I think It goes way back Because I was doing Tight beats I guess Rod Wave He was real into the sound And He ended up Picking a like into the beats And I found him Always using the beats Like he would use a beat Take the beat off you to Wrap on it And I'll see it on this Story So like And this one he was First coming up But he had this One song when We first first first link It was called heart for sale We did that one Heart for sale Yeah heart for sale You know that one It's a song that He kind of like Blew up with Heart for sale So we did that one And then we He ended up You know taking a like Into one's beats And he was Always going on my YouTube to Listen to beats Take them And then rap on them And I literally see him Go on the story Like you know rap And post a snippet with it I'm like damn got another one Got another one Got another one Got another one How many did he do like that Me and Rod Wave Got a lot of songs A lot Yeah How many He put out four projects We been on I've been on Well he's put out More than four projects But he I've been on All the The projects pretty much That he's put out Like so we We got stuff that's Even that hasn't Even came out yet Like you know we Have a whole lot of Songs that we Didn't did Could we reach out to you at all Yeah Me and Rod Wave talk He calls you Like we talk This one last Recent like We ain't like just Old buddy Buddy talking Best friend in our business Yeah like we talk But we like Remember he called me Early this year And he was talking to me About the project That he wanted to put out Like just recently So like he was telling me about it And all that stuff And you know About linking In Florida To go do it and whatever Etc. So like yeah Me and Rod Wave We go way back That's big man Yeah That's big It's because of the sound Right I like that man I think that's dope man You got some You got some music on that phone Send me something man Let me listen To some of the beats That you done created man Oh yeah got a lot Send it to me Can you text it to me Yeah yeah I'm gonna play it I'm gonna play it on here Some stuff that you ain't You know put out yet or not You know but I got you I always do that With the producers Like And you never see Did you ever say Why you even got into this business Um Yeah Just send it to me I've always been in music Okay how Like when I was young I was doing piano And then when I was a How old were you saying Like fourth grade I was always doing piano And all that stuff So like The crazy part is I was always in music Didn't know I was going to be doing music When I got out of high school Personally I just wanted To figure out What I was trying to do With life Did your parents love music Because they got you Enrolled in music My parents My mom She didn't give me Enrolled in music That was actually my aunt She got me enrolled in there Yeah At that time My mom was still in Kenya Okay So when she's there You stay with your aunt Yeah Okay So like she got me enrolled In piano And all that stuff And then It's crazy because I was in a band in middle school And I was playing trombone I ain't taking serious And my teacher I remember him getting on me He was like Man you know You could really do something You could be something with it And this and that This and that I just didn't take it serious There was no Importance No future Right And I Was being more Of a follower Than being an actual leader Right Like I saw all my Homeboys And all them going to play football And doing all the athletics And sports When I Could have took a liking To Being in that Like because I was In choir And I was in In band Right That's how my kids My kids don't want to do No sports In choir And all of that That's what they do Yeah And they love it Yeah Does his sister do the same thing? Music No That would have been dope Both of y'all are twins Yeah That would have been dope People expect that though Let me see what you got Man So how long Can I take you to make a beat like that Just For certain beats Like when it comes like Stuff like that That won't take me a little bit Because it's like A lot of elements in it Yeah But when it comes to Like just Like Just trying to make something real fast Or something like that I'll end up making a beat Like ten minutes Five minutes Or it just depends But when I'm like Really trying to put Something into a craft Like Making something Like for real For real then it'll take me A long time To make a beat Like that one Took me a long time How long That one I came back to it Like it took me like A week Oh, that's a long time for you Yeah, that was a long time Like it just took me a week Because I kept coming back Coming back to it But then there's sometimes I'll even be making a beat For months Like depending on like How I'm trying to actually like Hear it or make it I'll come back Probably to lead a sound Or Make a beat in different ways Or whatever Do you ever try to add Like African elements Into your beats Yeah, all the time Yeah, because to me I was like I hear certain things in that And it reminds me of it Yeah Like that I don't know if that's a drum But it almost reminds me of Like a conga drum Like that Yeah And then, you know That in particular Made me think about it Yeah Like every time I make a beat I always add like Some type of like Drum movement Like a tribal drum Because I love the drum And I love that It's not a tambourine But it's almost like that What's you call that It's like I'm seeing the instrument But I can't remember the name It's a bongo Is that what that is? Mm-hmm It's not a drum Isn't a drum a bongo? Not the drum It's like That sound when you have like bells Which It's in there It's in there Like a chime Yeah, like a chime I can hear that in there too Yeah I like it I like the way Because when you're doing that You have to really keep going over To know when to introduce These instruments Yeah Because you can introduce them At a wrong time Yeah And sometimes when you're making a beat You have to hear for the artist On the beat Like sometimes you just freestyle Then sometimes you want to also leave room A lot of times for the artist to like Still speak on and have room And I remember at first When I was first making beats I used to want to put like A hundred sounds Right And forget about the artist Ah And it's like I remember somebody telling me like Remember the artist is the last instrument So like I started trying to cut down Or even if I'm adding a lot I would try to like Tone it down a little bit Tone it down a little bit But you don't ever know which artist Is going to like your beat Because when you make a beat You don't know who's going to jump on it Right Yeah, nah Sometimes I have in mind And if some beats Yeah, I do save For like Certain artists Certain artists, yeah And then sometimes When I make a beat I'll just make a beat Just to be like, alright Let me just see what I come up with And just send it out And see who takes a liking to it Do you feel that would feel bad When an artist hear your beat And be like Okay, I love the beat And I want to jump on it But I need for you to change this Change that And then we can work Say that one more time Like you present a beat to me I'm an artist I love this beat But maybe I want to take out the bongo I want to add something else to it To make it my own Do you feel bad about that When they change up your beat A little bit Just to suit themselves? Nah Cause that just happened to me recently Oh really? With who? A artist named Treaty Okay And I had to redo my own beat Like, literally I was like What? But I was like They ain't shit like you But then I was like Oh, I mean She want me to remake it Okay So I had to redo my own Personal beat Did you like it better afterwards? Yeah, I like What she was coming up with Okay Cause she was telling me Like certain things That what she like in this and that Et cetera And I was like Alright, yeah I see what you're talking about So like I end up having to do it In a way of How would she Want to get on it Right Yeah Okay, let's show your versatility That's the reason why I like To ask that question To show that you are Open to changing You know, because some people Don't like to work with Difficult producers You know Yeah Man So Yeah So who's some of the producers That you like? Top three producers all the time That are live Mmm Top three to you Um This is just off the dome Mm-hmm Uh, I would say Draze, Zatoven, Metro And Draze number one Why? I don't know like I just like Draze Uh, production Like But Really like I didn't have no actual like Reason why Yeah, reason why No Timberland not in there Oh, that Timberland Timberland cool too What's about to say Yeah, Timberland cool too But he's not your top three He's not your top three though Timberland Right, he's not in your top three Uh You didn't name him You named Draze, Zatoven For real For real Beautiful D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d For real too No, but they're not in your top three If you gave me a list I'll name all type I'll say for real Timberland Uh, Draze, Metro, Zatoven Zatoven Metro, what does Metro do? I don't, what song is it? Yo, Metro run touch Beautiful morning Oh, got it Metro heart Got it You know that's all It's just the people that Won really like Took a whole liking to Even Kanye Like Kanye Bad Kanye probably the hardest one You just see it Out of all everybody For me Out of that All of them niggas Yeah, off the dome Then all of them Yeah, y'all don't hear that, do you? Off the dome I would probably say Kanye Harder than all of them Yeah, he there with it Like Kanye Go like and listen When it comes to like Inspiration and all that I listen to My favorite one is Jesus Walk Jesus Walks Woo-hoo Jesus It's a lot of Kanye Beats that I just be like Man, this dude's crazy Like Kanye He in the news right now But he a bad boy Yeah, he Are you allowed to redo People's beats? Huh? Are you allowed to redo Other people's beats? What you mean? Like you have a beat That you just love Like one of your favorites And you like Man, this beat was made Like 10, 20 years ago You're like Oh, I want to take that beat And make it new Make it more modern To an artist A recent artist So I'm going to change up this But you still Like you sample it You sample that old beat And make it into a new I hear a lot of people Making their own It's like they take like The beat that they did With artists back in the day And they kind of rebrand it In a way Exactly So have you ever done that? I've done that before Like hear a beat That I have in mind And be like, man It'll be cool to bring That kind of feel back Right Yeah Man, hey man How can people get a hold To you if they trying To link up with you On a beat? Uh You're going to Contact me at Instagram YUNG Underscore T.A.G.O Man, did we miss anything? Uh Twitter At YUNG Underscore T.A.G.O Man, hey man Thank you for coming On the show, man Uh, you one of the guys Man that had been on Boss Talk 101 You been watching the show You been on the show This is our spotlight Guys for this week, man Make sure you guys Check him out Y'all, he Rockin' with Rob Wave He's not nobody To play with He rockin' with He done rock with NBA Youngboy Uh, did I miss anybody? Uh Fredo Bang Fredo Bang Stop playin' He can keep goin' Don't make him keep goin' He'll keep goin' That nigga young But that nigga hungry You know what I'm sayin'? Thank you It's a lot It's a lot Who else? J.D. Young It's a lot J.D. Young, yeah Yeah, he don't play No games Everybody can get a beat Stop playin' man I love these young folks Man, the young folks Where it's at, man Y'all better try Well, thank you so much For comin' on the show It's been another great segment I appreciate it Another great segment A boss talk 101 What a boss is talkin' And we out