 It's a unique hustle nigga, big shit, big shit, big shit, big shit, name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E-C-E-O, and I'm here with the lovely official, Mr. Mako. What's going on? None of my dad. What's going on? Hey man, I'm just chilling, man. Hey man, we all over here in Los Angeles, man. It's going down, man. Hey man, we got my boy in here, and foreign bosses in the building. What's going on, man? Man, everything good, man. I can't complain. Wow, man. Hey man, just, hey, this thing going down, man, of Boss Talk 101. Just let us know a little bit about yourself, your background a little bit, how you got into music and who you are, you know? Okay, I'm foreign boss. I'm from South Central, Los Angeles. I've been out here all my life, born and raised, you know. I got into music just loving it. I woke up one day, and I was just freestyling with my homeboy in the house, and he like, man, bro, you're really corrupt. He's like, man, let's go buy the studio equipment, so we went to the guitar center, and I just bought all that shit, and sat up in the living room, and there we go. And how old were you at that time? I was about 21. So you started late? Yup. Wow. So as a younger kid, were you at home ever trying to rap or do anything like that? I was. I was in high school rapping freestyle on my homeboys every day. But I fell in love with the money first. So I was getting to the bag first, and I knew all the rappers in LA, you know, because I was in the club popping bottles with them. But I wasn't rapping, and then I seen everybody rap. I'm like, man, I can do it. Then I always love music, you know, so we got to it. Oh, okay, okay. I fell in love with it. Wow, so South Central, man, how to survive in South Central? I keep thinking about that every time. All right. You know what I'm saying? So who impacted you the most coming into the music? Was it Ice Q? Was it Ice T? Was it Snoop Dogg? Was it Nate Doll? Who was it? All of them. Already. Everybody you named. I listened to, can't forget, E-40. E-40? E from the bank. Yeah, you know, I saw Cali, but that's West Coast. What about Too Short? Stop playing. What? Too Short? Stop playing. You can't even get in where you fit in, fool. You was a markup at the high school. You know what I'm talking about? That was the old school right there, man. Right. Cocktails. Yeah, yeah. You did it. Yeah. My pops really was into this music. DJ Quick, too. Aw, man. DJ Quick with Beats. I've been trying to get a hold to that nigga. My partner's been trying. I want that nigga on my show. I've been trying to figure it out. Yeah. I like it. Yeah, he hard. My homeboy, um, my homeboy pops, um, is a player ham. My homeboy's the young giant. Shout out to the young giants. They grew up with me on my block. They rap, too, though. They dope. Aw, man. That's dope, man. So coming up in South Central, man, I know, and I asked this question to everybody, man, because of what happened with Nip, man, uh, um, you, um, how did that change the tempo and when it comes to the music and when it comes to how people are moving in L.A. when it happened? Well, Nip Def did change a lot of things. You could, you could feel like the cloud over the city. You could feel it when he died. It was a shock. I was in shock. I'm like, well, somebody shot Nip. It was just crazy, you know. Wow. It felt like he was on the move to do something great. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. So, so how much, how much, um, because you guys had some, some artists that, that, that a lot of gang violence is one on up in here, man, and, and, and cause I thought it had slowed down. But when I seen that, it was a lot of people were looting to the fact that he was in the gang violence and all this stuff. Um, uh, is it still going down like that in this day and time gang violence, the way it was back then? It is. Okay. So is it done in a different way? Is it, are people moving differently when it comes down to it? Is it by the color or block? Is it, cause I'm a, I'm a Texas nigga, man. Okay. It's deeper than just blocks and colors. That's what a lot of people get confused about LA. It's generational. Wow. You know, your, your dad can be from over here and then you, then your brother, your sister, your mama, you know, everybody can be from the gang and you just be born in it. And it's like, you know, mama, you come from two gang members. It's like, you know, of course it, it'll be somebody that go to college and all that, but the other three may just be fully into it. But then you got one brother like, I ain't doing that. You know, it just be like that out here. But the, the violence is, it's real in LA. You can't get confused with the palm trees and the nice stuff. Cause you know, you can hit a block and it just, it go down. But as long as you stay in your lane and don't do too much, stay out of people business, I feel like it'll be all right. Wow. Man, Crenshaw. Well, I mean, back in the day, you heard movies about Crenshaw, man. So I mean, even on that boys in the hood movie, you probably, I don't know if you've seen it or not, but they standing on the block, you know what I mean? The cars come through, boom, boom, boom, boom. You niggas were known for, for hydraulics and stuff like that. Is that something or things still or they don't mess with it no more like that. They still do it. You're going to come out, you can go outside on Sunday, Sunday. You know, Western Crenshaw, the East side, the street races, if you're outside, you know, you'll see the old schools on Sunday for sure. Wow. They go down like that. They go down. They going to have, you know, it's, it's, um, it's that generation though, like, like probably like my older brother age, like not a lot of young dudes got low lows. But if they do, they just bossed up. They got bread. But like it's really, um, the older gender, I would say like 40. Yeah, I've seen them. Older. My wife pointed them out to them. We first got here. She's like, look at that. They're like a line. I'm just coming down. I said, look at them boys getting to it. The car clubs going to always go up with the cars because my pops in a car club, he in a black classic car club, but they, they got real old schools. 1956 Ford pickup trucks. Wow. Chevy Bel-Air, Chevelle's, Camaro. So what do these young kids be doing? Oh, we ride, you know, we ride fat, you know, they like Florence, some of them in the old schools. I'm in the old schools. Yeah. But you were your name for it. I just wanted to say something. I was playing, man. Where did that name come from? Oh, you know, my sister gave me this cause I was just wearing fly shit, you know, Gucci and Gucci and all that. Yeah. So my brother, I mean, my sister was like, oh bro, you Florence. So I just took it, took it around with him. You know, we, we got a foreign whip outside too. So, you know, it's regular. It's regular, but it's foreign nigga. Yeah. Stop playing. Stop playing. Coming up out here, you know, most people look at you guys from, from, from like Dallas and Texas. A lot of them look at you like, Hey man, you know, are you, you know, you know, do you have to be in a game when you out here? Or do you, or is it a way to move to where you don't have to be? And do they jump you in the game? Do you even know about the game stuff going on in LA? Yeah, you don't, you don't have to be a game banker if you don't want to. You can. You can. Doesn't it depend on where you're from? Like what part of the city? Cause if you're born in a certain era where that's prevalent, isn't that just something that you have to do? You don't have to do. You can be the dude that just speak to him every day. Show respect. Don't do too much. Like how, how are you doing? There's plenty of people that grow up. They don't force you? It can be, uh, I want to say if you hanging every day and you around them, like say for instance, you just doing the high and buy thing. Like, oh, what's up? But if you every day, you drinking, you smoking with them, you hanging and it's going, yeah, they're going, they're going to test you. Like, oh man, you want to be from the hood? Like you want to get put on? And it's up to you to say yes or no. But sometimes they just do people bad, you know, and whoop on you and put you on. But it's kind of like he was asking for it. You was hanging too much. You need to. About the foreign boss, how did you come up and how did you respond to everything that was in your neighborhood? Uh, I grew up in, I grew up, you know, my family, I come from like gang culture. You know, my family is gang members. So it's kind of like I wasn't forced into nothing. It was a choice. I kind of like, you know, I feel like I, I broke the cycle with a lot of things. You know, I went to school. I went to Cal State Northridge, graduated. You know, I was in the streets. I ain't, you know, I, I did well in Davos, but you know, I always had my pops. My pops was always a strong influence in my life. And he from the project. So it kind of was like, I was already tough. And my cousins is already, I grew up around real thugs. So it's kind of like, I know who soft and who ain't. I could see through the bullshit. You said real thugs. So you have a lot of fake thugs. I hear. Yeah. Of course. You know, when the heat going to come on, they going to tell you ain't even bought that life, man. Just go to school or get a job. Just trying to represent all the signs and stuff. And that's it. And then when you get in that interrogation room, you tell them where everybody. It ain't for you. Yeah. So it ain't for everybody. When you. So what about, give me, give me something on penthouse, man. What, what, what was up with that gig? What was that song? Oh, penthouse. You know, some like, like player stuff, you know, just, just telling them I'm at the top floor. I'm top tier, you know, five star hotel, you know, living a life that I already live. You know, a lot of people be rapping about it and really don't got the cars or got what they say, you know, what I'll be rapping about. I already done it and touched it and obtained it. So. So your rap, your rap is more about a lifestyle. Yes. About the lifestyle that I'm living. Okay. Is it also about the honeys as well? The honeys? I love women. I love women, of course. Okay. So because I'm just trying to see who do you cater the most to when you rap your songs? It depends. It depends what mood I mean. I cater to the streets. I cater to women. So, you know, I try to be diverse in my music. You know, I don't want to be boxed in one category. And the type of messages that you normally give, like all kind of messages you normally like to give in your music. Well, it depends on what mood I mean. It's like. So if I'm like, I like the club. So if I'm in my club mode, I'm going to turn you up. But if I'm in my politic mode where I want to spit some knowledge and tell you, say for instance, something about Willie Lynch, I can go there too. So you're versatile because some people love to stick to club jumpers because that's what brings them the most views. Right. So I was just trying to see what do you normally like to do? Yeah. I like the party. I like to get it going. I like to make sure, you know, you turn it up and fly. Okay. That's what I'd be on. Wow. So I'm looking at your album. Dope Star. Yeah, Dope Star. What inspired this song? Because I'm fresh as fuck in the dope car. You know, basically, you know me hustling and shot on my boy OFB Young. He was a part of, he a part of the college swag district. Teach me how to Dougie. I'm trying to get this dude on my show. Oh, Young? Yeah, that's one of my main things. I've been trying to call everybody. I'm like, get this dude on my show. I need to talk to him. Oh, that's an easy call. I can call my boy. That ain't nothing. He probably, he on his way back from Dubai. Shout out Young. Aw, man. That boy kicking it. Yeah. So maybe next time when I come up. Oh, yeah. It can go down. It can go down. That ain't nothing but a phone call. All right. So how they felt like he took the song from there out of here. And I want to hear it. You know, just hear it spill on the side of the story. Yeah. It's an old story now, but I'd love to hear it. Oh, yeah. I got you. Yeah. Shout out OFB Young. That's my boy. Yeah. I got you. I'll get you that. Yeah, man. So you and him, you and him pretty much put that together at Dope Store. Yeah. Dope. What about Dirty Dance? Dirty Dance, that's for the strip club. Oh, yeah. Go on. Yeah. Shout out. DG's inspired that. What? Come on, man. You in the D? Yeah, I done been in the D. I'm really outside. Yeah. DG's inspired that. Shout out DG's. Oh, man. Boy, be all in DG's, man. This boy be traveling. Yeah. I'm really outside. Shout out DG's, man. Yeah. So I want to ask you about one more. That it was one about not go to work. Take her home. Featuring, it was a noise. Oh, shout out. Shout out my boy, Nutt. My boy, noise. He produced. He produced Sing Right. He do it all. Yeah. He did the beat. That's just taking her home, you know? She looking so bad, I'm going to take her home. Wow. Yeah, man. I like the way you. And I love the fact that you got a body of work. Like a lot of guys don't have no deep catalog or they don't have a whole project like that. You know, it's crazy, but you know, it's really happening like that. You got niggas that make a few songs and think they own or just make consistent songs and think they own and try to push, you know, the visuals more than anything. Right. You know, but you really doing the whole project and doing it the way it's supposed to be done. Yeah. I got the new project coming dropping soon. I am for my boss to. When is that coming out? September. Wow. I'm going to drop it. So you're going to send us the preview. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going to drop it soon, too. When? You're going to come on the show in Dallas? Yeah, of course. Already. Anybody coming to Boss Talk 101 and going to come up in the store and see how it really goes down. Top three all the small time. Dead or alive. Any genre. Number one. Oh, any genre. Wow. I'll say. Snoop. Okay. That's my nigga right there. Now I feel like I'm in LA. Number two. Snoop number one. Pac. Pac. Number three. E40. Snoop. Pac and E40. Nigga, that's what I'm talking about. This is a real representative. In LA, dawg. You know what I'm saying? My boy just put it down on that top three artists of all times, man. So what's going on with, like, when you first started getting into the music, when you first started, was there anybody that you wanted you long to work with? Like somebody you wanted to collab with on a feature? Big. Like when I say big, like who would it be best if I could put you with somebody for it? A lot. I had to make one choice. Yeah. Yeah. Man. Snoop. Snoop. That's what I'm talking about. It's not like Snoop Dogg, man. He the king of the coast. Come on, man. And everybody knew it, man. Everybody knew it, man. Yeah. Like, and he doesn't help so much, man. Yeah. And people don't realize how heavy he is, man, because stuff that he do bring people together, man. Right. Even though he's smoking and all that, having fun, when people think of Snoop, he bridge gaps, man. Yeah. You know, he was a big influence on that thing with Big E and Park, and people don't really give him his credit. Yeah. You know, he did that, man. I mean, and I seen it. You know what I'm saying? He was humble and he was trying to find a way to bridge the gaps, too. He had been through a lot, too. You know, so I just like throw in his bounce back. His resilience is something of a whole other level, man. Right. That boy got a bounce back out this world. You know what I'm saying? Like, he ain't letting nothing affect him. He could have stopped rapping a long time ago, man. And he kept doing it. I think he'd do it for the culture. He do. He loved for it. He got the money. Yeah. Yeah. He got what I said. He got to be doing it for the culture. Yeah. He do it for the culture. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So when you first started thinking about, okay, you know, I'm a traveling dude. Are you a dressy dude when you go to the club? Or you know, the designer thing might have just been a phase. You know, because you're a clubber. Yeah, I get fresh. You know, it's regular. Like, you're going to go, you're going to shop in L.A. when you want to get fresh. In the fashion district. No, you know, I'm probably going to go. You know, I'm probably going to What are you going over? What mall? I got Versace on right now. I'm probably going to I'm probably going to hit the Versace Gucci, something like that. It depends what I'm going to do. Which one? What Versace and Gucci? I'm not from out here. I get to it. Okay. You can hit the Beverly Center. You can hit Rodeo. Rodeo. I've been out there. That thing's nice. Either one. Rodeo. Rodeo. I'm going to have it all in the Beverly Center if they want to get a hold of you, man. Oh, okay. If they want to reach out and get a hold of Foreign Boss. Okay. My Instagram is I am underscore foreign boss. Twitter, foreign boss. Facebook, foreign boss. Snapchat, I am foreign boss. You know, my email is foreign boss. Yahoo.com. That go into you. You ain't playing no game. That boy working with a body. Make it easy. Yeah. If you want to find me, you know, a monk on Instagram. My manager. Oh, yeah. Monk. Yeah. He monk. You had Monk the king on Instagram. He'll get you in contact with me. So who have you worked out here with? Like, I mean, where's Blueface at, man? Blueface? My cousin with him right now somewhere. I think I was I was invited out with my cousin from over there where he from. Yeah. He with him right now somewhere. So is he one of the, he's one of the hottest ones in the city right now. He hot. Hot, hot. Hot, hot. He coming. And he, how long he been doing music? He been doing it for, I know who number to get now. I'm getting this nigga number. When I come back, nigga, all I gotta do is call that nigga. This man's the HBO. Y'all done sent me on HBO. Y'all done sent me on Instacur on HBO? No. He was on Instacur? Yeah. Shout out to Easter Ray. That's my home girl. Man. See, yeah. Yeah. He talking to talk. Y'all playing. Y'all done seen me. Yeah. Y'all ready? That's what I'm talking about. So you ain't playing no game. I ain't playing no games. That's all. That's how you, and I love it, man. Cause you come in with a demeanor like, like you was here for the last interview. You seen the energy. It just shifts. I'm a different type dude every time it's called know how the energy you feed to me. Right. You know what I'm saying? I'm being real. It's crazy. I love doing this though. You know what I'm saying? I love, I love to hear my brothers man that they getting to it. They making things happen. And a lot of people, young dudes need to see that. Like we out here getting at something, doing something that's going to help generations to come. Right. And that's what it's about. It's about, it's about the next generation. It ain't about me or you. It's about feeding the youth. How do you give back? How? I showed, I showed these dudes how to be a daddy. That's what I give back. You see me on the Instagram, taking my daughter to school, picking her up, you know, ABC one, two, three, whatever it need. And you know, I do nonprofits or you know, give back, feed the community, I don't feed the community with one of my friends and they know I'm a prophet. That's the way it goes. That's the way it goes. That's good. Wow. You got anything else for my guy? No sir. Say man, check it man. We appreciate you for coming on the show man. We love you bro. And like I said, anytime I'm in town, I'm about it. Like I said, I'm locking in which I got your number. Yeah. So I'm for the, I'm for the, every time I come, cause I'm going to try to come back in February and we going to knock it out man. I do actresses and entrepreneurs too. But I, you know, I just be wanting to tap in to the right people that when they say something behind these mics, it can change somebody's life. Yeah. I got the, my boy got a clothing line or my boy, Phil, Khaled Phillips. Yeah. Black clothing line. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. So I'll be draped in that so I'm one of the sponsors. So I need to, I need to get that. I need to talk with him. Yeah. Cause the reason I say that is because I own clothing store two in Texas. Right. You can rock out. Yeah. It's dope. And I know you, I'm looking at you man. You fly as God, flies can be. Yeah man. It's a lifestyle. It's not on me. It's in me. Yeah. I was raised like this. My wife got me like this. Already man. Well man, thank you for so much for coming on the show man. I appreciate y'all for having me. Man, it's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. And we out.