 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk in the town Got me an assistant so I'm hooking them down Talking in town, I have a very special guest I'm gonna go ahead and let him introduce himself Howdy Benz, you heard? How did it hurt? Okay, howdy So we do this thing here where we Rap it questions first So I'm gonna just like shoot the questions at you Just shoot the response back, okay? Yeah Alright Celebrity crush Ice spice What rapper would you not let date your daughter? I ain't gonna be biased, she could like Feel me? Date who she wanna date I ain't trippin' What you mean? Like she could date who she wanna date Alright I'm gonna raise her to like feel me She gonna know what to date already Okay Say you trust her Yeah, I'm gonna trust her whatever she feel me Okay Whatever she wanna do Respectfully, last thing you spend money on We Worst song ever I don't think it's a worst song for me People like what they like I don't know Okay I listen to good music so I don't really Feel me? I don't know A little baby leap Okay And so What's your favorite artist? Well who's your favorite artist outside of hip-hop? Hmm What's the lady in there who you listening to? Anna Baker Anna Baker, yeah Anita Baker Anita Baker, yeah Yeah Oh my God She go crazy, she got them bangers I ain't gonna lie Anna Baker is crazy My bad, Anita I apologize Forgive me, I apologize, Anita Miss Anita to you Miss Anita I apologize Right, okay Alright, last song you listen to Anita Baker What's it called? Rap Rap Shell Love Oh yeah, that's a classic Yeah, that's a bang I ain't gonna lie That's a classic for sure Yeah, I'm feeling that Alright I'm glad they used them Getting to the classics A conspiracy theory you think is real Illuminati Count Mm-hmm Yeah, I think I don't know I don't know if it's real but Feel me, I don't know It probably is, it's probably not But that's one of them that I see a lot That I feel me That's the only one that I really know about You interested in? Yeah, I ain't sure about it I don't know Okay, you just peak your interest Yeah Alright A song you know every word to Shorty Shorty Do You I know every word to that song I focus shorty shorty shit Okay Favorite app on your phone? My notes Okay, why? Because that's what I feel me That's what the magic happened? Yeah Okay, I like that answer Best thing about Newark? Everything Take us there, paint the picture Good shit, bad shit, everything Feel me? Alright, I love it You heard it Even though I want to get away from it It's bad but feel me Can't take it for granted Because I be traveling going to other places It'd be good to be away But I'd be missing home You heard it so Definitely always miss home I move to Atlanta But I definitely miss home For a fact Alright Last song Oh no, we already did that Hardest bar Of yours Of mine? Yeah Or you can give us two Of yours and then Whoever else Hardest bar of mine is I don't know I got a lot What's my favorite one? Throw me one Throw me one He said He said He said She probably playing B Like it's a prayer Don't gotta play and see it It's better Feel me? That's from Hearthstone Go type it to that That's a banger And my favorite And my hardest bar Outside of myself Is some shit Called by Lil Baby He said Could've been rich Could've been rich A long time ago I blame it on the dice And I really feel like that You heard it I'm a gambler motherfucker So I lost a lot of money In that shit Okay Okay, you think you could Yeah I'll scrape that nigga He be doing a lot to the Other people He come to the number He's like Feel me? Telling you He's gonna get scraped Even though his money long He's gonna get scraped Okay You taking it home For a fact Alright So let's get into the interview Questions When you introduce yourself You said How do you dance Heart of the Hood Right? Why do you call you that? Number I feel like The heart of the hood Is just like In my aspect Or my look I could really change it Feel me like Feel me? I could change it For my brothers You feel me? I'm the one for us You heard it When they come to the Heart of the Hood I feel like I could do that For all of us Change the situation Feel me? I don't Feel me? Feel like I'm better Than nobody None We all brothers Equal Feel me? I feel like I could just Change the situation How? With the music Okay I'm just saying We locked in So how did your musical journey start? I wasn't really into music I never thought I could make a song in there I wasn't into music like that Until I started out In like my 10th grade Or 11th grade year in arts I started taking it serious I started I started catching A light railing Shit to my mask I was my son Jane Just playing with my voice I've been through I could sing with her But I never thought I was just going to be able To make my own song So brother got me in the studio Heard And the song I dropped the song that I made with him It was getting Good feedback and shit So I just Locked in from there Nick was telling me Keep going I was just doing it for fun But Feel me? And you said Um In 10th or 11th grade At what school? What high school? Arts High School Okay Arts High School And what was your major, dear? I went there for acting Okay Do you see yourself acting In the future Or what's that? I do some movies And shit like that I'm into that type of shit A little bit A little bit of movies Okay All right So acting Acting coming soon Only movies You don't want to do no TV shows No No, no, no, no None of that Just movies Yeah, just movies Why? I just want to Feel me? I just want to go crazy I just like movies I'll see myself in the film I'm a big train Yeah Okay Can you help me with it? All right So what was something Your musical influences Growing up Or any type of influences Growing up When I was growing up I wasn't really I liked music I listened to Lil Wayne People like that You heard Because my mother My mother was into music I listened to a lot of other people But when they come to like Influences I didn't really have no influences You heard Because I wasn't really into music But I was listening to people I was into sports But feel me? So what sport you was into? Football and basketball Football and basketball Mm-hmm Okay So Headstone is out now Mm-hmm You are actually like two songs Out right now going crazy Yeah Too much in headstone Walk us through the process Paint the picture With headstone It just I was in a stool one day I was with my son Jane He was playing the beat He just He ain't even fully make it He was just playing He was like, Listen to this I put the headphones in I'm listening to it Somebody else walked up Wanted to listen to it I'm like, no, you heard I need this So after that I heard I got on it Just went crazy on it Feel me? I was in a stool making it And people was like saying It was stuck in the head So that's when I knew it was a good song And too much I been made that a while ago You heard I just now dropped it That's the song making Pushing of The two singles that's out But what about the videos Because the videos are going crazy too Oh yeah I think Probably Headstone I like visual better than too much But that's just personal Not for a fact But With Headstone It was just something in my hood And the trenches you heard Me and the bros Just told my bros to pop out Feel me? Regularity all know the song It's a good song It's relating to us You heard With too much I shot that When I was in LA At the BET Awards I shot that you heard I was by myself Me and Jane You heard my man Same person I've been talking My man When I was out there We just shot a video We got a peer space You heard me We was at the awards Chilling Which is basically You're just robbing So how was Do you feel like the energy Of being in LA Kind of contributed to your Artistic process out there Any Yeah a lot When I'm in LA Or I'm somewhere else I feel like it could be Different It's different music Different feelings Living emotions You heard Because that's how I make music You heard so When I'm in LA It'd be a different vibe From when I'm home You heard so So you said When you make music You go based off how you feel So is it like a freestyle type of thing Is it like Rod the beat type of thing Or like a writer What's the vibes Yeah All three It's really like Sometimes I write But most of the time I'll punch in But I hit a beat I'll let it play A couple times I'll hum Then I'll get a hook Real quick you heard I'll put the lyrics to it Then I'll just punch in From there Like every line But sometimes I'll just write I have something ready already But if I'm not writing Or got something ready It's mostly punching Off the top Okay All right And then You was talking about Like the feedback you received From your first song Or whatever How How was it Like you know Was it like people coming up To you It's something like Oh yeah like the song Was it like Instagram Was it like your family How was that It was mainly Instagram And in school Cause I told you I dropped it when I was in school So I'm in school They'll play it People was fucking with it I didn't really like it Like that you heard But when other people was liking I'm like all right Maybe I should feel me finished So it mainly was from in school And on Instagram Cause that's the main Feel me The main way I should Promote myself Okay That's hard Getting a lot of reaction From school Especially at the tough school Like art is a tough crowd It's a tough crowd It's all artists there So everybody think Everybody think Doing the same thing Trying to offend me Like if you're standing out Or people messing with you Keep going For sure For sure For sure Where does your motivation come from My motivation comes from struggling That's the main That's filming That's what I'm trying to change So Yeah Just come from struggling Going through hardships Just make me want to go harder I like that Going through hardships Just make me want to go harder I like that That's a good quote And what Can we look forward to For the rest of 2023 Everything That you would expect from an artist Times two You heard everything Music Content Pictures Everything Everything Okay So we know that you got a label Yeah Let's talk about it Yeah Varsity entertainment That's the label My son's so fettie That's what I signed to That's my men's we locked in How is that relationship Strong Like brothers Yeah Okay, y'all locked in Locked in Okay And how do you How do y'all work cohesively Side by side We just filming We just come to agreement On certain stuff We just filming He tell me ways I can do better I tell him ways to help What he's trying to do You heard what we got going on He tell me ways that I can elevate Let me listen to him Take his advice So we can go Filming, go up Okay All right, so We do a game show here And it's called Finish the Sentence All right, so Finish the Sentence My friends will say that I am That guy Okay This chapter of my life is called The Process Okay The most underrated song on my playlist is Shorty Shorty Close to Me To Banger Okay If you want to impress me You got to be real That's it Okay I know it's cliche, but that's the fact My favorite song I wrote is Don't want to tell you My biggest turn off is A liar I can't do business with you if You told You told Yes, you're a rat Okay Okay Thank you so much, Hotty We're talking to Talking to Sound today To a fat I'm just Jay, I'm signing off And let the people know what they can find you at Hotty bands, you can find me everywhere Instagram, Twitter, everywhere And the trenches, everywhere And what music are you pushing right now? What they need to go stream right now? Headstone and Too Much That's two new videos and songs I just dropped Y'all not going to be disappointed Bangers And make sure they comment Right? Yeah, comment, like, all I heard, comment If you came from this, comment and say I just came from Talking to Sound, I fuck with this No, you need like an emoji or something Tell them the comment emoji, like the Flying money or something I need like a, the number emoji Everybody drop the number emoji in black hearts What number emoji? The number, like it's like a A box, one, two, three, four Oh, pound? Oh, no The number emoji Oh, I didn't see that One, two, three, four, it's like a Emoji with one Oh, I guess I have to update my phone, I don't know I'm not tapped in I've been up there, that's one of the first emojis Oh, I'm not tapped in, excuse me You're good All right, y'all, thank you again, just Jakes I know we're Talking to Sound