 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk in the town Got me the sisters, I'm hooking them down What's going on y'all, it's Loret Kay, we here at Sokka the Town And who's in the town today? Kay Flash, you know the vibes Period So to get us started, we wanna get a little bit familiar So we gonna play a game of rapid fire questions, okay? Okay So I'm gonna say the question and you answer as fast as you can Let's do it Alright, what's your favorite cartoon of Old Tom? Um, Ed Edinetti What's your biggest pet peeve? Uh, stink breath What's the best hip hop beat of Old Tom? Um, Travis Scott's, uh, Ed Drake's, that was that song? Sigmo? Yeah, Sigmo, that's your song What's your sign? Taurus Alright, alright, alright What's your favorite curse word? Um, my nigga I mean, my niggas count it Okay, okay What's a one-hit, well who's a one-hit wonder who should have went further? Um Hmm What's that, what's that one girl name? Oh, shit What's she saying? Damn I conceded Remy Ma is not a one-hit wonder No, no, no, I don't think it's conceded Damn, what's the, damn, what's that shit? Nah, it's, um, the milkshake song Kalise? Yeah Kalise is not a one-hit wonder either, but I'm gonna give that to you She has, yeah, that's the only song I know of She has bossy, cause I'm bossy That was her? Oh, shit That didn't know her Period Jennifer, what's your last meal? Um, pizza A word you had trouble spelling as a child Restaurant, Wednesday, beautiful Oh, um Porcupine Gorgeous Gorgeous, okay What's the best album artwork of all time? Um, the album artwork I did for City of God Okay, maybe I should specify, not about you Okay, alright Um, the Kid Cudi's album The Man on the Moon Okay And the next one, the best artwork you've done Best artwork I've done Either City of Gods, Hold on, Sleepy for President Okay, he gave us three Or last one Four Proud of me now by Shevgy Ooh, okay And the last one, Give us an unpopular opinion Um, an unpopular opinion is that You supposed to keep your, damn, I don't know You don't got no unpopular, like TV shows, music, just living life Anything, just any unpopular opinion Unpopular opinion, um, that Curse of the Cowley Dog was the scariest show I don't think that show was scary, I thought that show was hilarious Okay, so you think it's funny, it's not scary I think it's very hilarious Okay, period So let's start from the very beginning, where are you from? I'm from East Orange, New Jersey I did not get that from you So how long, did you ever move to New York? Yeah, I used to live out of New York Back in my college days, around like 2017 to 2019 But I have a lot of family out in Brooklyn All over the boroughs and stuff like that So I was kind of raised out here So I was born in Jersey, but I was raised out in New York Because I was here like every single weekend, summer Of my whole life, so that's why I kind of jacked I'm from both Got it So what impact do you feel like where you came from? What impact do you feel like it has on your work? Everything you do Yeah, I feel like the culture of just New York And the scenery, the vibes, everything that goes on out here It translates through my music I mean, not my music, excuse me The artwork and even my music too Because it's just like a different vibe out here Jersey is very, very quiet So out here in the city, it's a lot more lively It's a lot more expressive It's a lot more color So I take those elements and I incorporate it Into everything that I do So I feel like that aspect Kind of made me the artist that I am right now Y'all see, he tripped up Because he is a man of many, many hats Tell him how many hats you got Because I can't even keep count So I do cover art, I do animation I do producing, I do rapping I do editing, videography, photography I do, goddamn, anything creative under the sun If it's creative, I do it Period So I really want to dive into the music part first So you said that you watched a lot of other producers To like really get a feel for the craft And develop your signature sound So who are you watching And what did you like about them? So I was watching Flip the Narrow for one That was one of my first influences Because that's actually my boy I know him like in person And you know, just being in the studio with him a few times Just seeing him, you know, really work Even in his home studio It just kind of inspired me You know, we had a real hard to heart talk On just like how this thing works How to do it the proper way Beat selection, what you say The cadence of your flow So he really taught me the ins and outs of it And he was one of my main influences For my music And then, you know, just being in the studio With other artists like Sleepy Hollow, Chef G Little TJ and names like that It kind of just gave me an insight On what it is to be a real rapper In this industry So those also kind of like played a real role In my career Okay, so I definitely wanted to talk about them Because I heard that Chef G Bought you the computer And I know like You've been with Corey And you always mentioned Flip Like every interview that I saw of you You're very, you're like You're always bigging somebody up And I feel like you very much go against The whole New York stereotype of like New Yorkers don't stick together And that's why we don't go as far So what is your opinion on that? Do you feel like that's still true Or do you feel like New York is uniting? I feel like it is still a little bit diverse And separated I feel like a lot of people do need to come together more It's always like Oh, I'm the king of New York I'm the king of New York I'm the king of New York It's like why we can't be the kings of New York Why we can't be like Ruling this empire together Because I feel like, you know If you put that pedestal on one person It's gonna like Dim the light on somebody else Who might be having the same buzz or bigger Than someone else So I feel like, you know We shouldn't be putting each other down We should be trying to uplift each other Because if you look at the Atlanta scene Or the Memphis scene Everybody's kind of like Helping each other in the, you know On the ladder type shit But when it comes to New York It's like crabs in the barrel type shit Like one person go up And then they try to pull that person down With some beef or this song Or some shit like that I feel like it's unfair Because everybody has their own Separate talent I feel like everybody could kind of bounce off each other With that energy But everybody just want the spotlight for themselves And I get it But it's just like It's not necessary Okay, so I want to offer some pushback That I just thought about You said this So I feel like Given that New York started hip hop I think rap was always A very, very competitive thing So like even when you go back Jay-Z always felt like he was the best Biggie always felt like he was the best Nas always felt like he was the best Even though they were coexisting Around like similar times Well not so much Biggie But you know what I'm saying So do you feel like Like I think that's just New York So do you think that there's a healthy way To do it? Because I do feel like You should think you're the best at this shit But like you said Where it gets in Is tearing people down part Type shit And I feel like yeah Like you said New York is like The epitome of rap Like it started here So it's like I understand But at the same time Like I feel like rappers Nowadays They just kind of get too caught up With the street life And mix that with everything Just because this rapper might be From a different hood Or a different set Or whatever the case may be They don't feel like They should rock with this person Or whatever whatever And I get it But it's just like Once you in that Rap scene And once you in that lane All that street shit Kind of should be put to the side It's professional Keep it professional Like you don't gotta Mess with my crew With my people And I get it But in the music lane If I know you can make a smash hit For the towns Let's do it But let's just keep it that You get your percentages You handle business The way it's supposed to be handled And just keep it that way Like nobody gets screwed over On any side It's always peace I feel like that's the way to go about it But pride and street shit Just kind of get a little too mixed in it So it is what it is But you know what I'm saying I just feel like If they put that little thought to it Maybe we could get some hits From some people that You never thought would collab ever But it just depends So speaking of collabs Let's say you just made The best beat of your career Right You're playing DJ Khaled right now So pick three artists to fit Like you are building a smash Who you putting on your song I'm putting Damn, I'm putting I know so many people That I could put on this But if I had to choose You trying to make this Like a smash hit You trying to take it out of here I'm putting Keeping it chef for a fact I'm putting T.J I could also switch it up And put like a 5E A K-Flock I put my son Corey St. Rose in there Shout out Corey St. Rose For me because he got some heat I also if I want to go In the like R&B Love kind of direction I put my son Flip Flip DeNarrow J.I That's my boy too And I put I put I put Stunning Gambino too Because he definitely fit the vibe of like a Flip The three of them would go crazy I'm not gonna lie Stunning Gambino, Flip and J.I would go crazy Ooh, you might have to make that happen May have to make it happen I already know what you're saying Got some things in the words But you never know I can't speak too much on that though Exclusive Now here's my show Where's the women Where's the women Where's the women Unfortunately I haven't had the chance To work with any of the Female artists I would love to So if y'all see this Tap in, let's get something going But unfortunately I haven't had the Pleasure of working with one of these Upcoming Female Artists But I'm definitely open to it So if they want to work We could work You know what I'm saying Do you have any in particular Like, oh I've been hearing her music And she's fire I've been hearing a lot about Kenzo B I feel like her flow is crazy I've been hearing a lot about Well Ice Spice already out here So she way past that She way past Going I hear about What's her name Maya Maya the Dawn or something Maya the Dawn Yeah that's something that makes healthy She's definitely fire Yeah she's tough And yeah There's a couple more But I'm kinda drawn to blame But those are the main ones That I'm kinda like You know just hearing about All the time Seeing even y'all posts So you know what I'm saying I just gravitate towards that Period Period So what are your goals As an artist And or producer I really just want to get Either a gold or platinum plaque From producing the art Because I'm one of the first people To get a platinum and gold plaque For my artwork alone Period I would want to do it Say it louder for the people in the back You feel me First black entrepreneur artist Illustrated to do this Multi-platinum cover artist thing Period You already know the vibes That's that on that It is So I'm just trying to You know produce a hit That I also produced the beat And did the cover art for Like that's my main goal Like to do two for one You know what I'm saying Would you get two plaques Or that's just one plaque Probably just one One Okay we're not greedy So I heard you say That cover art matters As much as the producers How so Because it's a requirement At the end of the day Like you cannot put out a song You can't upload the song Whatever distro you have You can't put it out Without the cover art And that's just the same Now as y'all can say Like you can't make the song Without the beat Right So it has the same level Of importance of the producer Because I feel like When you have a good cover art And something that Has tied to the song itself It adds a level of value A level of attractability to it So that makes people Want to gravitate towards the song more Because when you see anybody About to drop a song They drop that cover Or they drop the little animation They don't drop the beat Or the song They drop the animation Or the cover art And that's where people Like me come in So I'm saying So I need people And these artists To put some respect on us Designers And really give us our credit Because we don't They don't tag us They don't credit us In the bios Or nothing like that In the blogs None of that And everybody's like Yo, who did this In the comments Who did that Who did this And everybody's just like We don't know Nobody knows Nobody knows And some people That I know Go crazy for the cover art And not even just myself Like other people Take weeks to do cover art Hand paint them Some people I know Like actually paint The physical thing And edit it from that Like they like Make it a physical hard copy You could just like Give to the artist type of shit So it was like When you doing things like that Yeah, so like When you doing things like that You gotta get recognized You gotta have that Have that, you know, recognition Because at the end of the day You putting time and hard work into that So that's one of my main goals As an artist myself In that lane Is to shed light On these people And allow them to Kind of use my platform Or use my voice To kind of speak up for themselves So Because a lot of us artists You know, they don't speak up Because they feel like They don't have the right to Or they don't have the voice The voice is not loud enough Yeah, voice is not loud enough Type of shit So I feel like my voice is very loud So I mean use my voice And let them know So that's That's tourist shit right there Yeah, you did So there's tourist energy So especially in like Today's time Because when I first heard you say That the artwork Was as important as producing I was like But once I heard you explain it I'm like that is so true Because social media is just So important in artist dropping And like you said That is the first thing you see So one cover I wanted to ask you about Was how did you feel about The certified lover boy cover Because I feel like that one Kind of threw us for a loop Especially after we saw The other one with the The heart in the head We was like that was fire And then he gave us emojis And we was all like Right And I feel like with that It's like a conceptual thing Like it's not more for the art It's more for the concept The reason behind it Because you know who Drake is Right Very much the person Probably got mad women pregnant And they made them Outside You know what I'm saying Outside Yeah, very, very So like it's more for that aesthetic Of it's more for like The meaning behind it Rather than the artwork itself And that's what I feel like A lot of people don't really realize That it's not just art More times when you see art Like that it has a meaning behind it So it's up to you as a viewer To kind of understand that Meaning based off the music Right So I feel like him doing that And shout out to my boys For me actually Because he did the animation For that artwork Really Shout out for me That's my guy But yeah Like he's one of the few artists That really helped And captured that reasoning That meaning for it When it was like rubbing the belly And shit like that It had all meanings Which is like subliminal For you to understand So I feel like It was a good concept It was very kind of like Not to say like rushed But it was like I know what he was trying to do I feel like it was different ways He could have conceptualized that Okay But for what he did though Yeah I get it You know what I mean Like the artwork has an impact on If an album becomes a classic Absolutely Because once you have time This music You have to have time This artwork to go with it Absolutely At the end of the day Because when you remember a song That's going to keep playing 30 years from now Right You don't want to have No blank white Or black cover art Oh one is wack You know what I'm saying This is wack This is wack in general Like you want to have something That can be like Yo I remember when he dropped This hype for this Everything that he's saying In these tracks And in this music So I feel like They go hand in hand Absolutely Like there's no question about it I agree So for the people that I don't know I want you to list some of the artworks That you've done thus far Because I need you all to know What he's saying is credited Okay This is a credible source So let's list again Let's Alright so My first ever major cover art Was for Lil TJ's brothers Then after that I did Hold On I did Goat I did Resume I did Not In The Mood I did In My Head I did Sheet Chef G and Sleepy Hollow Sleepy for President I did One and Only I did The Black House Also by Sleepy I did Proud of Me Now I did Tiptoe That was one of my favorites Yeah I did Shake It Cardi B K-Flock all of them That one was too tough Yeah, that was crazy That was actually the first time One of my cover arts was on a billboard In Times Square How did that feel? That was And it happened two days before my birthday It was my birthday 420 Okay You feel me? Wow Billboard and then 420 I'm jacking it That shit was a crazy year last year And then not only that But they had posters Literally all over the city All over the Bronx With just my artwork I was like nah I just did this last night On my iPad Shit is everywhere across the city That shit was like wow That's really me right there So Yeah I did So many more I did Company by J.I. I did The list really just goes on Oh Flip the Narrow I did Jump Off I did Flip the Narrow Shout out to my boy Flip Shout out to Flip Damn this is so many So many classics So many hits I did City of Gods By Five-Year Foreign That was one of my biggest ones Of last year And I think it's interesting Because I think they're all different Like I saw you say in an interview That like sometimes you can see Your artwork and you're like Oh so and so did that But you would never know That Flash did it Because they're all different And I totally Once you started listing them I totally understood what you meant Like everything is Like City of Gods Is a whole Complete different bar From Shake It Exactly So it's the diversity for me Thank you And I appreciate that I feel like a lot of artists nowadays Have a particular style And it's not to knock that Because you know it's dope That's how you get people to recognize Who you are Like and it's super dope But at the same time Like I just felt like me I didn't ever want anybody to know It was just only me I had this one style Because I'm not a one trick pony I don't just do cartoons I don't just do that tune shit Like I do mad different styles I could paint you a real portrait If I felt like it like You know what I'm saying I'm just that versatile So I want that to translate To my artwork And a lot of people Kind of notice that now Like yo I know Flash did that That's just his shading style That's just the way he draws it Oh wow that's nice So as people started recognizing I was like oh crap Like that's pretty fire You know what I'm saying So shout out to fans Period So what is your creative process When you do artwork Especially being that They're all so different Um honestly I just kind of go Based on what the Either the ANR Or the managers Or the label They just give me Like they really just Don't give me a lot of time Either too Like most of these cover Like City of Gods I did that in two hours Believe it or not Like I literally Got a call from That's tough But yeah so The senior vice president Of ANR Is at Columbia Records Lou Shout out Lou You know what I mean He hit me up He's like yo bro I got this big song For 5E I can't really tell you Who's on it But like I got A teddy bear emoji A piano keys emoji And a snowflake emoji Do something I just stumped For like 30 minutes I'm not going long And then I made like Two versions They was kind of Rockin' with it But then he was like Let's try something else Then he sent me a picture Of TDOT Because I guess They wanted to make it Like a tribute piece Recipes TDOT by the way From there I just kind of like Well the pose He was in with like The dance moves He was doing the woo-woo And I was like Yo this kind of Reminds me Like a Statue of Liberty Because he was standing Like on a speaker And I was like Yo I could kind of And then I just made it You know Into something Incorporating these Elements of the emojis And then It became the cover So I feel like They don't really Give me a lot It's just really up to My creative direction To make these things Come to life And I'm not going to lie I pulled a lot Of crazy cover-ups Out the dome Just thinking Creative You know what I'm saying Like I don't even know Or I can't really Like explain How it came to be It just In the moment Like you know You got something Three hours How long Gotta bust that paper out You gotta Just kinda Just start doing shit Like your mind Just start going And I'm a very Like another reason Why people call me flash Because I'm a very Quick thinker A fast thinker So like When I When I get it I'm just going I could make like Probably five drives In like The first 30 minutes And it's like That's insane Like drawing Is so tedious So that's crazy Right And you know That's my nature to me now But I bet you If I was like New to it I'd be struggling O.D. But luckily Through hard work Practice and just Repetitiveness You know what I'm saying Consistency I just was able to Like kinda Make it second nature And allow myself To like really Do these things At a high level In a quick Amount of time So I feel like That's also What plays a part I love that Because I can't Draw a stick figure I tell you that much Everybody say that to me So have you ever done Artwork for a song That you didn't like? Um It would more so be For like the Other clients that I got Like Excuse me Like the clients that Are not really In the limelight So to say Like just more Like sometimes I just do it Because I Want to believe in them But I don't really Hear the music Most of the time Believe it or not I don't hear the music Until it comes out Really? And they're like So if you're not hearing the song Like Are they telling you like Okay this is the Concept or Yeah so sometimes Either they come with the Concept They tell me the song title Or they just Kind of like Do a mixture of both Like it's called The dark room And either They just be like Yo go off that Title Or they be like Yo I want to be sitting In a chair In a dark room And just shadows And now From that description I gotta bring it to life You know what I'm saying So Excuse me Use the minimal amount of Information they give you And kind of just Make something with it And then Every time They expect it to be something Fire Or expect it to be something That they want And I can honestly say For the most part I say probably like 99% of the time I get it on the head Like hit the hammer on the head Like one time I don't even have to do All hits No misses You dig So it's very like Very much a very small margin For error Like it'd be like Yo move this up Like one bit Or like Make the text a different Tiny stuff Like tiny stuff But for the most part Yeah like it's always a hit Oh I know that's right So your talents Also go into cartoons He does cartoons So I want to play Another game with you We are going to do Cartoon trivia Okay so we're going to see How much you really tapped Into the cartoons Let's get it Alright first question Name the power puff girls Bubbles Blossom And buttercup What was the name Of the rug rat spin-off All grown up How many days From a vacation are they On a finnish suburb There's a hundred and forty Summer vacation When school comes along Just to end that That's how I was feeling During quarantine Honestly yeah Never ending Who got their own spin-off From family guy Cleveland Brown Okay Alright those are the easy Questions So let's amp it up A little bit Alright Co-name kids next door Follow how many kids Five How old were they She said how old were they Their ages How old were they They all the same age I think they was all Like either ten or eleven Maybe What's your final answer I wanna say eleven Ten There's ten I knew it was ten What year did SpongeBob come out I think it was Nineteen ninety nine Alright period What is the longest running American cartoon The Simpsons Damn Why everybody know that I asked my friend that And she got that over it I had to Google that Y'all knew that You said when you were an animator You gotta know these things Alright What number experiment is Stitch from Lilo and Stitch Ooh And it's crazy cause My dad know that shit Ah I might get this wrong though But it might I think he was like twelve Twelve eighty something or twelve Some something like that What's the final answer Let's log in I know you're not whispering Over there Oh I don't know Actually that one I actually do not know You cannot put that on a test Alright so I say it Seven twenty Seven twenty No it gave six twenty six Spell Looney Tunes L-O-O-N-E-Y-T-U-N-E-S Okay Alright I don't know who dropped The ball over there And didn't put T-O-O-N-S But that was terrible Yeah Number ten What does Helga from Hey Arnold Hyde In her bedroom closet Like a whole mural and diary For Arnold cause She's in love with that man Period What school do the kids from South Park attend? You know I actually wasn't a real South Park watcher But I know the town What town is that? No no no What school did they What school? Yeah I don't know that one I ain't gonna lie Let's go I don't want South Park Wild guess I don't know South Park Hyde South Park Elementary Oh don't I say Alright see Look at that And the last one On the proud family Our Roka grants Penny some wishes Name one of the wishes Run that question one more time From the proud family Our Roka, that's the weather guy Oh yeah He grants him Penny some wishes What He said our Roka My fault I'm wrong So name one of the wishes That our Roka grants him Penny They might see the proud family In so long That's incredible They don't have a whole Poppin' ass spin off And everything How you didn't see it Well I seen parts of this Spent up about I really just remember The proud family moved With the peanuts That shit was fire I started to actually Bought the peanuts too You should have asked me About that one Damn One of the wishes To find a boyfriend I don't know No He granted her One of them She wished for her parents To be going Oh that episode Oh shit But then another one She wished for B.B. and C.C. To be older Older yeah And then they got older And then she Took her on Word she was hating Because she wasn't The star kid no more Exactly I didn't remember that Okay I think you got like 10 out of 12 Right 9 out of 12 I think you did pretty good Period Alright you know your cartoons So cartoons Told to me about the flies Oh that's smart Tell us what the flies is about So the flies is a Funny little show That I started Around 2019 Funny story about that Before I actually show you Tell you what The actual show is about So me and my cousin Spads Shout out to my boy Spads We was smoking on the porch And a little fly just came out And just bounced off my face On some weird shit And we was just making jokes He was like yo that shit Just did a whole kickflip Off your face And then we was I was like yo that'd be A funny ass animation He was like nah you should do that So after we finished smoking And shit I went upstairs And I made the first episode A little pilot episode And it went a little viral And I got like 40,000 views In the first week So I was like oh damn People really want this So I tried to turn it Into an actual Like series Like a show So now I made it A show about These two flies Named Mac and Darius And Mac is like A deadbeat dad Kind of fly He has 50 kids With his wifey fly Asia And he just Don't want to take care of Them kids He's really just Like very irresponsible But he learns Through the adventures That they go through To be more caring For his wife And his kids And they go through A lot of Funny wacky adventures They get lost By getting drunk And he finds out That he's having these 50 kids And it's just A journey of them Coming back Dealing with humans Dealing with other bugs That's trying to kill them In the food chain And stuff like that So it's a very Very funny Well-developed show That I'm working on right now I have season one Out now on my YouTube And on my website www.kidflash.com And season two Is currently in the works Actually, Koeh Is one of the voice actors She plays Moskina I definitely did read that She's definitely One of the Antagonists of the show She's I don't want to spoil too much But basically They get into a little love affair Because You know what I'm saying She sucked his blood Mmm, that's tea You know what I'm saying So it's kind of like Cheating in the bug world You know what I'm saying So it's just like, yeah And now He's trying to keep that From his mistress Keep the mistress hidden And all that So it's just like A whole love triangle That I'm gonna Showcase in the second season So One thing I love Is how digestible it is I feel like I was literally watching them At work Like we're really tuned in And like it was like Before I knew it It was over And I was like This was very short Sweet to the point And I heard on the interview You said that the reason That they're so short Is because you are a one man band I am People he is giving Kiki Palmer It is written, produced Voice by He drew it Like he's doing the music So What is that process Like woke us through Making an entire cartoon As a one man band So Basically it starts off With the episode's story I need to know what is happening From start To middle To end And once I flesh that out I create a script Once the script is solid I send it out to the voice actors For the most part It's mostly me and Darius Or my other cousin Dante Who's playing Darius We are the main characters So It's mostly interactions between us So we Handle most of the voice acting And after the voice acting Is done I can now pinpoint What the characters are gonna say So now that I know What they're gonna say I storyboard it out Which means You basically like Scene by scene Show what's gonna happen How it goes from that Start to end And then from there Once I know how it's gonna go Like I map it out From the storyboard I draw the scenes out I animate the scenes And then I I animate I do what they call Vocal syncing So that means You sync the lips The lip syncing To the voices So now Whatever we say I have to make them talk that And express that And stuff like that So that's part of the whole Animation process And then after that It's just editing And then once the editing Is done It's out So do you like Drawing people more Or do you like drawing Objects slash animals more It's actually kind of A tie between both Because I actually Prefer drawing like Like animals And cartoon things A little bit more Because it's a lot quicker And easier for me to draw Because when you're doing Like realism And like humans You kind of got to like Attribute to their faces And their characteristics Or their like physical appearance Because if you don't Like me Me and my girl Was actually talking about this too Like if you do certain things Like you make the eyes A little too low Or a little too small Or the nose a little too big Or the lips a little You know off It'll throw the whole face off And it won't look like that person So it's a very tedious process When you're working on A human face Versus like a cartoon fly That just got big circles For eyes And like a circle body So I would say I prefer doing like cartoons And like animals Stuff like that more Because you can exaggerate Those things Whereas with a human You can't do that Now do you prefer to do cartoons Or like musical artwork? Cartoons Honestly I'm not going to lie This is exclusive I've never said this anywhere I never wanted to do co-art Never As good as I am at it And as recognizable as my artwork Is in the co-art scene And all the accolades I've got I never wanted to do that It just kind of fell into your lap It just fell into my lap Because I had a My boy Tyon Shout out to my brother Tyon That's my brother for life He's the one who even got me In this lane to call myself A multi-platinum cover artist If it wasn't for him Introducing me to Davies and his team Because they had a song That's a heavy name to draw Yeah they had a song with DJ Exo And at the time This guy named DJ Wavy I think he goes by So Wavy right now And yeah they had a song called Vacation That was my first cover That I ever did It was the fall of 2017 I did that cover art And it literally made Hybees Magazine the same day I did it And then from there Just Matt Inquiry started Coming in and shit like that So If it wasn't for him Putting me on to that scene In this lifestyle I wouldn't even be me right now It sounds like it was in the cards To me That's fake It definitely was And I did that in class I was in college at Pratt Institute at the time And he called me in the middle of class I was in art history And I was just like I ain't doing shit in here right now Might as well just knock it out Took a couple hours Did it And it was just My first real big placement And then from there The names have just been getting bigger And better And just the work has just evolved And it's just like wow So I would say like I never really wanted to do it But because it became such a Consistent thing That's why I maintained it And why I kept doing it But I always wanted to be an animator I used to go to I used to go to college For animation But unfortunately I didn't finish college Because the cover art business Took off for me while I was in college So I just left it alone But animation was my passion from Rip I used to wake up early mornings And get my little bowl of tricks Watch some early morning cartoons You feel me And just be like Yo I'm gonna do this I need to be doing this This is gonna be me Watching myself on TV And ever since then That's just been my passion My drive And I wake up every day Drawing cartoon characters New characters that Know what it's ever seen My own characters And just bringing them to life And that's just what I prefer Now speaking of college So you did say you went And you left I feel like there's been An ongoing conversation About how long college Is going to be necessary Now in your specific field I feel like it's really interesting Because your field has a lot To do with technology And technology develops so quickly It's like If you had learned something in 2017 They might not even be using That technology to do What you're doing in 2023 So how important do you find college At this very moment? At this very moment For me or just in general? Both So for me specifically I actually would want to go back to college I actually would want to pursue My degree again Because it's never not Like a bad thing to have A degree because at the end of the day It's like a safety net cushion for you Regardless of what field you in And I feel like with me Having that certified degree And learning a little bit extra Than I might know right now Because I'm kind of going off just like Partial college and YouTube So I feel like a full-fledged college degree Would give me the leverage that I would need To get in those doors So more on the business side On the business side Okay But right now Because I'm already kind of established In this realm It's not necessary But I would just do it Not only for my own personal gain But just to get extra knowledge To pursue it in a different light And get an extra angle on it But I feel like in general though College is still important I feel like there's definitely A lot of different outlets to do it So it's not necessary to pay Thousands of dollars to go to certain colleges Because you can go to like online colleges Do it for a cheaper price But still get the same level of education So I would never not get an education Always be teachable Always remain humble to the point Where you say, no I know this No, you don't know everything Nobody knows everything So I feel like college and schooling in general Is very, very important And people should still pursue that Just to elevate their mindset And elevate their brain You know what I'm saying Get themselves a different light On certain things I definitely agree I think that even in my job now I work in corporate And the work that I'm doing Is not necessarily hard But I always tell like I also like my younger cousins Just get the paper Because the paper just affords you To do so much that you just Like you said the rooms that you get in Is a little different So if you want to do it Definitely do it Now another field you are going into Man of many, many hats Tattooing, what the hell is this When did we decide that we wanted to tattoo Like what's going on with that Tattooing was actually a big thing A lot of people have been telling me for years Ever since my cover art thing Started popping off A lot of people were like Yo bro, the moment you do tattoos Let me know, I'm getting it And I'm like You know it's kind of like Just something I was kind of like Hit or miss with Because I was like I don't want to fucking nobody skin up I don't want to give nobody no You know what I'm saying It's very delicate work Exactly But after months And honestly years of research And everything I finally took the leap My girl is actually The real credit I have to give For pushing me over the edge To get that started Shout out to Zuri for me She's the real reason why I really wanted to start doing this tattoo thing Because she just sees me everyday drawing And just creating and stuff like that And she's like Yo babe, you got to It's like inevitable You have to do that You would make mad money doing that Definitely I was like I do it And you know what's funny I put that pole up like yesterday And I got a lot of hairs A lot of people was like Yo bro do it Even sleepy hollow Shout out to my boy sleepy He just tapped in like today Before we got here It's like yo bro I wish you got going on But I fuck with you So for me It's in the works It's definitely gonna happen this summer And I feel like That's quick Yeah Cause it's June You already know man Kid Flash in the building I gotta move quick way Flash, they don't call him Flash for no reason You did Okay So what else is coming up From Kid Flash Just season two of The Flies That's number one Priority right now Tattooing That's another adventure That I'm doing I'm also producing I got a couple hits In the tuck right now I can't speak on Hits, not songs Hits You feel me? We don't make songs We make hits of it So I got a couple hits With a couple big big names Right now I don't even wanna name drop Just yet Okay But you know A lot of that is in the work In the producing realm As far as my own music I'm just gonna release A four fund EP Just cause You know I don't take music Like O.D. serious I do take it serious In the sense of like I want it to sound quality I want it to be done right But it's just something I do Is a hobby You're not trying to be Jay-Z Yeah I'm not trying to be A rapper Like my main focus Is an animation And artwork But I just do music Cause I know I can do it And I know I'm nice at it So might as well But I got an EP Dropping soon No date yet But we just working on Just to make sure The music is quality And then yeah Just other dope artwork Getting more plags Getting more You know artwork done And just Living life As a girlfriend And just having fun Period Sounds like a great life to me We'd love to see it Well thank you for coming I appreciate you for having me K-Flash Laura K Talk to the town Yeah I'm sorry