 I bet it's on you Here's shit else I say remember this even your dreams. They don't believe in your hopes They might laugh in your face. They might think you a joke. You just know you a king queen. Just know you to go In your dreams, they don't believe in your hopes. They might laugh in your face They might think you a joke. You just know you a king queen. Just know you Bitch niggas whole niggas rich niggas broke niggas Cuz this is y'all yeah, you've been through hell. Let me get a hell. Yeah Today we're gonna be cracking up the nappy Nando shout out to nappy boy so this one is gonna be a mocktail and Nando's STL's favorite juice is cranberry juice. So it's gonna be a little bit cranberry forward All right, so make sure you have your glasses ready, but go ahead get your mixing tin place them in front of you and The first ingredient is going to be a few ounces of that cranberry juice Next we're gonna add in some pineapple juice So I did want to add a tropical flair To this cocktail to this mocktail. So that's why we're using some of that pineapple juice and some of our other fresh juices Our next ingredient is going to be our orange juice And to bring in some of that citrus and cut the sweet we'll add in some lime juice Now we are going to be using some agave That is more of a neutral sweetener instead of a traditional simple syrup Now once you have all of those ingredients go ahead and add some ice to your mixing tin And while i'm here i'm going to add some ice to my cocktail glass Once you have your ice and all of your ingredients in your mixing tin Pop the top one and give it a great shake You should have some really rich foam inside of your mixing tin Grab your glass with your fresh ice in your strainer And strain your mixture over your ice Be sure to leave a little bit of room at the top of your glass because now We're going to add in our ginger beer. Top your mocktail with your ginger beer Beautiful And we are going to garnish this one With an orange and a cherry And there you have it the nappy nando Cheers and enjoy This next record i'm going to do is called weekdays Now my children shout out to fernando tilton the third aka trace Shout out to my daughter zora tilton aka boobie Daddy love you They go like this When she called like come running instead of being my strength most times i feel like she my weak Let me get out my show box. Ain't none of this shit show fall I need a cane like oh dog me little support when i'm leaning I'm gonna run up a chick then buy a crib on the west end So you can say the best thing when they ask you where you from I'm a dirty smile on crack jokes all the way home. Then I'll tuck my kids in like I don't want you to see a nigga like this Baby don't I work straight through thursday friday. We're gonna kick it I've been down since sunday follow up. He be calling me superman. Sorry to let you know son Your daddy came got a hose in it nigga. I'm not fly as you think I am I'm not god like you think i am boobie dear. I gave her a block. She built a crib. She even put steps in it Baby, i'm not fly as you think i am. I'm not god like you think i am fly as you think i am I guess so weak i could barely stand get depressed and barely be My daughter just the brightest kid I gave a block. She built a crib. She even put steps in it on monday Hit me back on tuesday promise i'ma get it still fucked up on wednesday I ain't got no ins bay. I work straight through thursday friday. We're gonna kick it trace this My little through the band. He be calling me superman. Sorry to let you know son. Your daddy came got a hose in it I'm not fly as you think I am Welcome back to another episode of 80 vibe where we bring you the vibe that is unmatched I am uh chico bean here with my partner carlos miller. How you doing today, mr. Miller? That voice does not match what you wear We here man. We got the one and only man very very super talented nando stl in the building with us And before we get started man, we come bearing gifts here at the 85 south show So i want to give you that right there so you can have that You know you can check it out see what we got you take it out show them and give you nothing cheap. Oh, yeah No, that's crazy. Yeah, that's why I would have wore that today See Oh, yeah, nah. Yeah, you see that you see how that stuff for you right there. We got to keep you in the game, bro Yeah, no, that's called Appreciate you man. All the way problem, bro. Yeah, that's crazy cold, bro. You just lay down a cold dope performance Yeah, that was amazing dog. I feel crazy how you uh, yeah, I was gonna put it back in the bag Oh for sure. I ain't want to get back to you That's just stl right there Of yours, I ain't gonna take it back. Thank you, brother Now i'm saying you just had a dope performance man. Tell us about Yeah, I did three records of my upcoming album in May Um called yoda year of the eight So I did the actual song yoda Um the real song is featuring my label mate young cash. Oh, yeah, of course the legendary t-pain. He crazy Young cash and t-pain and then I did this song called weekdays about my children Um kind of about being a black dad and figuring it out along the way And the last song I did was called loud Okay, so what made you pick those three because I'm sure you got a catalog You know, so what made you want those three to be the three that people saw from dando? Yeah, well, I'm shining that boy. I'm signing t-pain. So I wanted to always represent with that first We just dropped that record. Um january 27th this year. So follow up with that Loud we just shot the video for that yesterday That video actually comes out march 14th. The song come out march 10th So I want to keep it recent and then weekdays is just a song on the on the album that I feel like it's different From every other artist, you know, I mean from a different perspective. How did you start your musical journey? Yeah, so I play drums. I play piano. I've been a musician. Uh, I only been rapping about during the half four years Though you started in the church. Yeah work So you can get busy on them drums then you yeah all the way Yeah, we weren't gonna do nothing else. My granny's gonna wake me up like to bring her as the church in march Oh, that's what's up, man. What's it been like working with some artists as big as t-pain? Crazy, you know what I'm saying? He's super talented musically, too. Yeah Yeah, I feel like all of it is surreal man. Even sitting next to y'all is like something you wouldn't You didn't think was gonna happen at least not this fast. You know what I'm saying? When you say this fast What do you mean? Like how did you know how did your process go? Yeah, so I decided I wanted to rap as a hobby um I worked as a financial advisor For wells fargo and it was just boring as fuck to be honest. I felt like I would go to meetings I was surrounded by all the white people no disrespect, but they're not watching We ain't had nothing really in common, you know what I'm saying? So when they would ask like what you got planned for the weekend all the answers would be the same grab a beer My granddaughter's coming up and we gonna Yeah, we probably go out there and uh probably go to cabin and Put some hot dogs or something on the grill, you know, they like there's meatless hot dogs They look like meat smell like meat, but it ain't me I'm coming I'm going over his house. That's what I'm gonna do right I mean, so I didn't want to go of his house right so I went to the studio. Yeah, and then uh It was just supposed to be a hobby, you know what I mean something me to do for myself I feel like I was dedicating so much time to Paying bills and working a nine to five and then being a dad I need to make sure that I put a hat on for me to wear just for me Yeah, something to have fun with man. You say you got your degree in mathematics man. Speak on that Yeah, I feel like more black kids need to hear us speak about things like that positivity and let them know that it's possible too Yeah, I went to Fairville State University in North Carolina Salute the Fairville State I went to Winston so whoever went to Fairville you made a good choice just not the right one Yeah, I think I'm gonna be but um, I went there and uh I actually majored in music first I was playing but I didn't really like agree with the music program Plus it was like some bias in there. You know what I'm saying hit him with fly of the bumblebee On me, but I mean it went necessarily to the the music as far as like Um the selections, you know what I'm saying? All right, this is true. So essentially I had a band teacher in elementary school. I got kicked out of band like two three times Yeah, so I got kicked out of band elementary school for fighting Then I went to high school. I got kicked out in the band in the band How look how look if somebody in your section or you're like across the band. No, it was somebody in my section We played these little xylophone things But he wouldn't stop like playing on mine. So I kept like scooting his hand over And they like hit me with the little mallet and I just turned up He's gonna see this and this the shit out you in the studio. He's still somebody doing that same shit He actually turned out really well Word. Yeah, I ain't gonna say his name, but It's a lot to you exactly How did you make your way to Fayetteville State from st. Louis? So, yeah, essentially, that's what happened. Uh, my mom Yeah That's what happened My mom married someone in the military my stepdad Eric and you just call him Eric Yeah, I'm that one. I was raised on my daddy and my grandma right so I didn't meet them till I was about to go to college That's really where like started that I was just kind of fucking around getting in trouble in st Louis So my granny reached out to it was like, hey, you know, I mean you need to speak to him And she told me I can go to school for free using the gib up. I come out there So that's what I did. It was really me falling into it I actually was supposed to go to the community college But when I got out there, uh, we was I got lost the day I couldn't find the community college. I got lost and ended up at the university I went there to ask for help bumping to people in the band and they was like, bro, just come here, bro And so I went up there somebody walked me up to the administration office Showed me how to fill out the application and I went there Damn that sound easy No, right You really made a real life. So you sitting on your couch. You're not doing nothing Won't you get up and drive down the fifth real estate and get in the band? Yeah That's why I see why they said go to the hbc. You can just walk up there Shit, I'm trying to go now. Yeah, it was crazy Now mathematics does does that help you having to understand the numbers? Does that help you on the business side of the music industry because that's usually Something that you know Hinders a lot of artists is not knowing the business side of it and not knowing the numbers and how to work with them Do you feel like you got an advantage because of that? Yeah All the way. Oh, that's what I was trying to tell you I moved from st. Louis. I stressed the teacher out in elementary school so bad that she quit You know what I'm saying from dealing with all the bad kids in our school system So she quit and apparently she started teaching college moved north carolina And when I walked in the band room my whole of goals fresh out of st. Louis Guess who the band teacher was no man. That's crazy. Yeah, I'm god That's crazy. She probably like fuck this job. Here come this nigga Yeah, she looked like she's seen the ghost. Oh, that's crazy. But I didn't even notice that she was checking Yes, she couldn't believe it But um, so I ended up playing in the band for a little bit And then that's when I decided that the program really went for me partially because of that I feel like I wasn't really getting the first shake. You know what I mean? So then I moved over to math Loki because I was trying to do something slick in English. I had a paper that I turned in in freshman year And uh, it was about the death penalty and I got a 95 on it Went to my sophomore year English class and they had the same topic. They wanted us to write a paper about I turned the same motherfucker paper in I got a 75 and that's what I'm just like You know, I know I'm tripping but you tripping because somebody else gave me a 95 on it So I wanted to make sure I picked something that wasn't opinionated You know what I mean? Something you can just write down. Either this writer was wrong So I chose numbers Numbers don't lie. Yeah So with you that's what I'm saying like what you having to understand in the numbers Like how was that helped you in regards to the business side of being over on the in the music industry and getting that that pressure that you get now Yeah, um, I'm not sure if it's been necessarily helpful at this part. You know what I'm saying I don't reason I say that is because I'm so new That I don't think I fucked up to know enough to know where I'll be fucking up it So I could say it's helping me out and then three years later I'll be the fucked up for real. Yeah, but like I thought you said it helped Read the contract. Oh, yeah, we read who's really we me and everybody else out out the whole team from st Louis. We read it. We understand it, but I don't know of knowing how to count Could you imagine the names of st. Louis reading the contract? No dirty Right there That's hella funny Yeah, man, like, you know coming from st Louis, man It's a lot of you know rich history in the music in st Louis So like I saw that you said Nellie's a big influence on your career. Like have you had a chance to meet him? I ain't met him in person. So we first time we talked over the phone And uh, he dropped the verse so we did a record together, but I ain't met him in person yet That's dope. It's coming up. That's dope. So did you like you said to happen fast? So You know when you first went in the studio from that time to you getting signed how long of a process was that? uh Wait, what you mean? I like from you said you went to the studio when you was working at Wells Fargo Yeah, how long from that point to when you got signed three and a half years Oh, man. Yeah, that is quick. Yeah, like three and a half years Hey, man, so I'm telling this under now, but it don't take everybody Same amount of time. You're right. Yeah Got something lined up for you man. Keep pushing them. We appreciate you coming through here I appreciate blessing this stage man putting on for st. Louis. What's your social media and all that? Uh, N. A. N. D. O. S. T. L. I don't write everything. All right, if you had If you had somebody watching this right now, never heard your music What's one song you were referring to first 10 in windows Why I feel like that's the one where I show my lyrical ability I was talking about things that I feel like people who relate to me will relate to my music would appreciate, you know what I'm saying and Yeah, I was just snapping. That's one of my favorite records to listen to and it's all right now Now you have a very unique story It's this, you know, it's different just from sitting here listening to you now and you usually hear rappers You know, I mean you got a college degree. You know, I'm saying you music you play instruments Like how much of that do you include in your message in your music? Do you do you talk about that? Or do you yeah, I'll love it. You know what I mean? I only talk about shit that's happening around me So y'all probably gonna get mentioned in the record Put me on there for real all the way. So yeah everything I just try to be my authentic self as much as I can Oh, well, that's love man. That's love man for sure So I gotta ask you this about t pain t pain is one of the most Unique human beings you'll ever run into man. So, you know, I didn't you know We all didn't work with pain and just know how humble of a duty is but how talented he is So what would you say has been the thing about pain that has impressed you the most since you've been working with him? He crazy Literally, yeah pain crazy as hell, but he can focus on so many different things at one time I don't know if he necessarily can focus. I seen him do a lot of different shit Yeah, and I think that's what I mean by crazy Like he the type of person that once he believe in something he believe in he don't give a damn with nobody I'm saying you know what I mean like pain talked to me like I'm famous already You feel me? He talked to me like everything we doing his favorite words. It's gotta be big You know what I'm saying everything you do is gotta be big And so some of the shit he be saying I don't be relating to yet, but he believe in me so much that once we get off the phone It makes me feel like I don't believe in myself enough. You know what I'm saying Yeah, it costs the same amount of energy to do some little shit as it do to do some big shit So you might as well just do the big shit out the gate That's true. It'd be hard to think like that though when you ain't never did no big shit Don't never think of no little shit Nigga you ain't never, nigga you walked in the Fedville state and got into college. That's huge Niggas don't know how that don't happen Like you know, you ain't have to do no fast fuzz or nothing You just walked in there like yeah, I'm starting to mod. It was like yeah, good. You seem cool So all of that like that's an energy thing man. So you just gotta Let me with a degree in mathematics. We are people already gonna think you lying anyway That's real shit People don't even use the word mathematics no more. Yeah, it's very nondescript I'll tell you how crazy that is when I went to Winston-Salem state They made us take a placement test to see what they put you they put me in the past fail math class Will you only get a p or f? I got a f I didn't know you had special ed math I had special ed math in college and failed it As soon as the lady felt sorry for me. She was just like, you know what? I know you intelligent But this just ain't your thing. I'm gonna give you a c-minus and just so you can get out I was like bet, you know, what is the c-minus is that a p? She was like, yeah, that's a p I I picked communications because it didn't have no math in it. That was your major then That's what I majored in. So that's what I'm saying like just you being a black man that love numbers That's just not something that we see a lot So you got a different type of energy already slim. You are going to win. Thank you, brother All the way like we said, bro We appreciate you stopping through here and continue to be dope man. Shout out to the whole Nappy boy family before we wrap it up. I just want to ask you, bro You're like your new artist to the game What are some of your goals and what do you want to take from this game? What do you want to get? I just want to be fulfilled man. I think at this point All of my goals are aligned with being happy, you know what I'm saying? This is the first time in my life. I ever got to do something. I love for a living So I just want to keep doing that and make sure that I leave just as authentic as I came in this water Hey, man, that's it right there. Do it for the love, but that's the right way, bro Don't get distracted by the other shit and remember that feeling And remember that feeling no me. Yeah And I appreciate all the wins too, man Because you know, that's really something that's hard to come by not necessarily the wins but the appreciation form Understanding that each win is exactly that, you know, I mean and you don't put it in your mind And it could have went a hundred different ways But the win is what you got to focus on man, and you sitting here and being in this position, man You don't want a couple times over slim So don't never let any time that something don't go your way or it might not seem the way you wanted to be Don't let that make you feel like you ain't winning like a motherfucker, man Definitely winning slim. Thank you, brother all the way. Thank you. Thank you, man Nando STL, man Y'all make sure y'all check them out y'all make sure y'all when the project come out may may what you know the date They keep moving they keep moving it. Yeah, but it's in May for sure. It's in May for sure Uh, I don't want to do that. It's coming out this summer Yeah, I like that all the way they might change it to a three more times It'll be out this summer. I'll make sure y'all go get that man. You got Nando STL One of st. Louis finest in this man's math Matician We out of here 85 This next record is called loud And it goes like this I swear I serve I swear I serve I swear Like going on a cop Check in with me Then do your job lay on the bed and give me Thank you 85 everything so I can keep representing you at n a n d o s t