 What they gonna do with me now What's up y'all it's ya girl Brianna Imani and you're tuned in to another talk of the town interview and today Who do I got on the couch with me face mom know that we got face and I'm so excited to have you here So Let's get right into it for those who don't know let us know where you from On the Bronx, New York, Red Park Towers RPT they know So what is it about our because I know everybody that's from there seems to be very excited to make it known that they from RPT So what is it about RPT that's like that makes everybody so proud to be there before love like You all brothers like it's not like you know, just we don't accept Everybody that y'all see what else we all grew up. We all lived it. It's not nobody else from a different block Do you think cuz I know that it's in a lot of songs you think that there's niggas out here like screaming RPT They don't know what it mean. Yeah. Yeah, so for people who don't know what it means. What does RPT mean and I know just like RPT is like it's a brotherhood I mean plenty different things like rip off towers 474 building seven letters. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so when you say four seven four seven Mm-hmm. Yeah, but then the rip off towers is four buildings, right? RPT is in respect Don't respect it, you know what happened it's simple I'm just saying we come with respect though You're we don't you know People make it be we not that mm-hmm come with respect. You don't go look this Well, I think it's dope that job y'all seem to be like a family and y'all all really seem to be working So I think that's really cool. So let's get straight into the music. What made you start Making music Long time how long Fuck on my fat kids in 2014 Okay, so like almost ten years Right, so, you know, like I come home and get steam Come on just as long as I've been home in the last like eight years really six months come home right back So, okay, so we gonna get into that so before you before you got locked up and you started making music What kind of music was it that you were making? Same music you make now Okay, cuz I was gonna ask you like with being locked up and coming out Did you feel like you had to adjust to what was trending? I thought I did Mm-hmm. I don't know. I thought I did but then when I really thought about it was like I'm not gonna compete with my own My young niggas got it. I'm not gonna compete with them. Mm-hmm. I see it as once they open doors It's the open doors for everybody. So whatever I'm doing. I just got to be ready and stay consistent, right? I say I see this shit as basketball Uh-huh, and you were talking about how you used to play basketball So I'm curious to know like what was the path like cuz you were playing basketball You started making music and then I dropped out like I dropped out 12th grade Couldn't go to school no more, you know, so I had to switch my school and shit. So Like We all just went to the studio first week We actually the first song we all made was a drill song though. I ain't gonna lie Okay, it really was a drill song, but it was just wasn't no name at that time But we would just diss a niggas saying shit. Oh, we Didn't have no name for Chicago came out with them and then just bring back up here niggas got it in choke So you saying do you New York niggas had drill before I'm not gonna say that but we've been making it they probably made it lit Whatever they was doing it with a butt niggas been making really Okay in New York. I know my niggas. Well, I can't speak for so who who your niggas who was who was making this music They not here right now, but um, you got like fatty He got if he was on the few songs with us We got on Lighty pockets That's not here right now And I think it's it's interesting that you started off doing drill and then now you on like more of like a melodic pain So where did that? Why did you stop making drill music? I ain't gonna lie. They told me so I make it. Who's they man. They just kept it real me like like I Can't be out here saying anything I'm looked at I'm really like They really looking at me so I gotta be careful what I'm saying on my mouth It's public. I try to give a good example So people see they they don't see what people just saying about me. I said, they don't know me I get I get that all the time. They don't know me. I look me Okay, so how influential do you think music is on to the people that listen to it? Because you're saying like based on the stuff that you were rapping about and the stuff that you were saying That's why you were encouraged to start making different type of music So like how impactful do you really think that music is? You know, it's really impactful because like if I'm in the studio, right? The shit I'm talking about I just told I'm talking about the shit I go through and amongst my Pairs and everything that's going on. I'm in the studio and they Fill in and they get the chills. I don't even got to say enough. I know when they jack in the zone I don't say nothing. They're not jacking something. They everybody just be sitting there doing other shit But if it's something that's like niggas a bike and relate even the people that's Don't that's not in the can and they relate to the music. They always have your own son I felt that bro. I feel that shit keep going that motivate me to okay So do you put music out based on what you think works for you? Or do you put it out based on what you think other people want to hear? I'm gonna base to me. Okay. Okay, so Curious because we just kind of talked on this and you were saying once again how like, you know being in and out of jail and stuff like that Is there anything that you wish that you could tell your 12th grade self? That you think could possibly change where you are right now like in your career. I Always say that like I wish I could rewind time, but no I don't I don't like I Say to myself, but I don't like the people that I play ball with mm-hmm. Like I'll be feeling like Down when I'm like, I don't reach out to them yourself. Like you're they be really reaching out to me niggas in the NBA Like really reach it out to me. Yo, so bro I'm embarrassed. I'm gonna keep on it like because it's like I know I should have been I took Made a wrong move Well, when you say you wish you could rewind time I said no just because I'm a firm believer of like, you know, we shouldn't reflect on things that we could or shouldn't Right, but I asked you just because there are a lot of young niggas that are coming up right now That may be looking to you know people who are older in age for guidance or advice or anything So just if there's anything that you think that they should hear just in case they're going down the wrong path that you wish that you Could have heard, you know when you were their age and Don't give up just cuz it's not working right now like Trust me, bro. It's like that the end of the tunnel man. Mm-hmm. You don't want to go take that path. I took So with that going down the wrong path and stuff, you know that in this New York shit drill shit There's just so much beef both in public and the music some of it is for show some of it is for real What are your thoughts on like the dissing and the beef within the music scene? I'm like, I Don't pay that shit on mine. Like I don't like for me. It's like You pay mine. That's when it gives them more of a punch to go do it and do it more like Ops this and I don't care about that My mother don't care about that shit. Don't care about that shit, but nobody don't get a touch of none of that There's not don't care about that So it's about safety. That's it. It's about safety when the old bulls down to it. It's about safety everybody go home back to they thing That's That's happens every night. Mm-hmm be successful If everybody's safe, okay, do you feel like the beef shit though gets in a way of money? Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, like what are your thoughts on that? What do you because I know the fans want to see D thing k-flop Absolutely, I see that shit down. Mm-hmm. It's never gonna happen never So you don't think there's anything that could be done to kind of like bridge that gap Even when it comes to like You know because they are too really influential people in the city right now They are literally like the talk of the town. No pun intended. So like you don't think that there's any way That they could kind of see eye-to-eye make amends Even if just for the music I don't know like I I would say like I don't even think It even worked like if there was a make a song like if somebody was a center verse and center person They will be there. I don't even think that'll work But why I don't know. I just know I wasn't like I came home to all this So I really don't know the end of now or why this started why this happened So when I came home to this I just came back to all this So, you know, I just adopted and played my part. Okay We don't got to get too much into that. But so if it was you right and you had let's say beef with somebody and who's your favorite artist right now? See that. All right. Who's your favorite mainstream artist right now? Very cute. No offense. Dirk. So if Dirk was putting out a track and he said Face I want you on this track and I want insert ops name here on the track. I'm doing it He gonna have to deal with that. I don't give a fuck about none of that shit I'm gonna put whatever I got to the side since it's a life-changing situation, right? And so that's how I'm gonna look at it. Mm-hmm. I can't speak for a while. I know what I'm gonna do Mm-hmm. So would you date a girl from one of your ops box? I'm in a relationship I Are gonna pivot back to the music So you have a song change you and basically, you know in your chorus You like don't let the game change you which I think is very important because a lot of these niggas definitely do Get caught up in a lifestyle and they become a brand new person. Oh, yeah No, what she said what what I'm gonna keep it a hundred. Uh-huh. She 100 with this shit Mm-hmm. I did was kept on my foot on the gas. I gotta keep Keep going. Mm-hmm. I want gotta get her attention. Whatever the weather is going on not gonna be a big norm Because I'm gonna keep going though. Yeah, that's that's that's the attitude So we gonna get back to the question which changed you you said don't let the game change you, right? So I'm curious as to what are like three do's and three don'ts for once you get into the game That you should do so one of your don'ts is don't let the game change you for example What will be two other don'ts and three do's? Switch on your man Don't switch on your man's and that Stay down. I mean the money the money is gonna change it like no matter what boy You just gotta just continue to be 100 through every situation and just like get back to the hull of where you came from That's important. Mm-hmm. That's really important. Okay. I don't think you gave me three, but three For the sake of time I'm gonna let you rock, but it is what it is So you also do you huh? I say give me three do's and two more don'ts. All right, two more don'ts. All right and You say don't switch up. Oh, don't be no when you when we get in that industry don't be no whole-ass nigga like don't be like Jumping from head to head. Like you fucking like if that nigga got beef with that nigga Don't get in between that like niggas be picking sides and I don't know what's really going on Like don't do that. So don't that's the easy way out. Okay, that's like don't do that and don't like me like Don't be no suck-ass nigga. Like I'm gonna be on suck-ass things for these holes Oh That ass they could be suckers for these holes, but what does that mean? What they be dirty mackin? I'm not even dirty nagging like niggas be like like you supposed to be my man like Niggas don't kiss and tell boy. I'm just saying like Niggas the whole time nigga be might be want to hit the same shit Try to get some box go back to her. Yo, I think it's a that's dirty mackin. That's exactly what that is Don't do that Oh Don't do that. So you also just dropped. Um, what was it war pains the visual for war pains? And I think very personal, you know, you had the footage when he was coming home You know, it looked like it was taken off the iPhone. So it was really raw really like so what was like the inspiration behind that? Oh, man, both the song and the visuals Visual I just felt like like I just had to get them like That visual of what's really going on and not like where anybody think was going on that cuz I feel like Good music is overwhelmed by the drill shit right now. So it's like Bro, like nobody else want to listen to other music Right. So I saw I try to give him that pain to make him come back and keep looking like click Oh now let me go back to that Some of the people were saying I felt I felt I felt that Motivated me to keep giving them that vision and what's my life and what's going on So you just said something real interesting that good music is kind of overlooked by the drill shit So what kind what do you think it's like good music the music? Like But you feel like you're overlooked because of the job because of all the job music Not even me It's of all this is that's out there and I'll be looking like and I'm no hate it Like I'll be looking like oh damn how the snickering on yet. Like shit is overwhelming bro This drill shit just took over the world. Yeah, that's like nobody don't want to hear nothing But that right so do you think though that eventually the drill wave is gonna die down? No, do you think we ought to come on? I don't see you laughing now But y'all is right here right now Shit buddy, I know what's saying once he come home is I know what's up. Oh, I know what's up. Oh, we know what's up Oh The world no, bro, I'm in Miami, bro So the gun walk down the sheet RPT for said for said I'm all the way across the street I got glasses out of control. I'm thinking I'm not even like somebody that they really be knowing but I'm thinking my mind is like oh damn. I'm all the way another state and it's like I'm hearing this shit is like automatic. I go in defense mode I have to think like nah, it could be for they fancy me. So She's really real, but I know when do you think it out? I know so So what so what do you think is kind of like the compromise? Where do you think like niggas who aren't making drill music? What do you think they should do if it's being overlooked? How do you put your music out there to get recognized by the leader team like you got to have a team? Have to have a team that's important team is everything and you just got to just like Even with me like sometimes like yo Shit get over with drill the drill shit overwhelm because I got to a point where I was like I don't know what what music to make like I'll do this I'll do that. I'm just like fucking. I'm just do it. I know I'm best Got just stick to that shit Believe in yourself gotta believe in yourself gotta have confidence from so you're talking about the importance of a team What's your team looking like like what would you say are like the most important people to have on your team? leader a leader Leaders like Like I said goes back to basketball. Mm-hmm. I could tell a bike where they need to be So who's the leader on your team? We all eat us Okay, so who is only seem like do you have a manager? Do you have a manager in your son? Are you sorry not yet? No, not yet. I was I was I was I was on the text on your right and that shit didn't work out. Why? No, it just didn't work out like I felt like like I wasn't the place for me So what are things that you look for when you're signed into a label that you you know, just like Just keep it a hundred and just like don't fuck me over in a long run like everything that that's in that contract I'm gonna read it was gonna go through the lawyers and everything anyway, so if I don't like it But I'm just saying like just give me something I can Elevation I'm cool with taking this is whatever label here this shit cuz I know that we are watching I'm cool with taking the opportunity. You don't got to give me no money. You're I'm cool opportunity Not it let me refer you don't got to be a label it could meet male song for opportunity Yeah, but you don't gotta you can have that just I feel like I'm just saying I'm not saying don't give me no money I'm not saying that I'm saying is if it don't gotta be a label It could be a other artist or something they they interested in my music and they could like y'all I fuck with you This and that did it out. You come fuck with me. Mm-hmm. Okay, so you're saying okay So you're saying you're willing to collab and stuff not just like when it comes to signing yours. Yeah, that's what I'm saying I'm not saying I'm gonna take money cuz you don't want nobody be like well in your talk of the town interview on Me nothing That ass okay, they ain't talking about no bag. I'm talking about like like right now in my right career right now I'm still coming up. Mm-hmm, but I got all the artists around me. That's already Scott Rockett. So all I gotta do is just Keep cooking up. Keep cooking up. Keep cooking up So do you have any like labels in mind like any ideal situations that you would be open to get it into? Wherever wherever my team go awesome. I'm going really yeah So you wouldn't like Okay, so if your team I tried something else you're that was a taxon. I try to be different try to didn't work So now you're just going for what you think have to go back home Okay Okay, that's fair. So I'm curious to know who are your top five artists outside of RPD outside like it's me Give me mainstream and then we'll get into underground Dirt baby. Oh, so you don't even be listening to me Okay, so let the the last three be Coming That's easy Okay, all right. So what is your end goal here like you're making music to get to what point If there is one I mean To be successful, but people got a different reason why they making music or why they do it right People some people doing it for the music. I do it because I love this Like it's a difference. Mm-hmm money and everything comes with it. But I do it because I have a passion Yeah, I'm not just doing it because I know I should go make me 100,000, but if it did I'm gonna go do it I'll just be a plus, right? Yeah, you feel me, but I'm just saying I do it because I got a passion for this So do you have like an ideal situation of like when you know for sure like you made it in this music shit I'm out the hood like once you get out the hood is like Everything life is just be more easy. I mean you ain't got to look over your shoulders You ain't got to worry about nothing a whole different environment And when you so when you make it would you move out the hood would you move all your family out the hood? Would you move your friends? Like who would you would you take anybody with you? I'm gonna take my mother for I'm gonna situate my mother And then from there I'm not Far as my peers is everything like you gotta come over business. I'm not just gonna get them anything No hand out come over the business Okay, and so what do you have planned for this year? We already almost a quarter of the way through What else I want to do some arm a few features I'm looking I'm still deciding who I'm gonna work with Well, over now. I'm just keep dropping And just keep grinding is anybody that you would like to work with that Maybe you just want to put out there I'm gonna speak this is this is dirt Only hardest I want to work with really Need that feature anybody from New York I'm not really even Okay Okay, so to close it out. Is there any advice that you would like to give to upcoming artists? Who are just trying to make it trying to do anything just uh If you watch it and you paying attention what's going on when you get your chance Do not fumble the bag. Well, that's it Fuck all this paid pressure Fuck all that shit like Stay out the way make music. You got to go back in the house get a girlfriend You ain't got to be no gangster like I should not cool I said keep running to all the artists and stay down. We don't change up. That's it All right, and do you have anything else that you want to say? I want to get a shout out to y'all shout out to the sound chloe and what's your name bring I appreciate y'all Well, thank you for stopping by Fucking social media and everything face mob facie underscore mob Follow me And tap in the wolf pains out now and shout out mix Shout out rpt. Shout out vr. Shout out, you know, free the gods