 Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one. Yeah, we gonna talk. We gonna have fun. We'll be on fire. We'll be live lit It's a unique husband big check check check it's a unique house. It's your boy. He's CEO and I'm here with a lovely amazing outstanding motivational Pinnacle wife Mr.. Make what's going on man? We're going in over there. I want y'all to stop what you doing right now go like subscribe follow some all social media platforms I mean our Instagram Facebook snapchat tick tock you name it if you can type boss talk podcast anywhere Just Google us. Let's go ahead and you see all the different platforms pop up But if you want to see our visuals, you definitely have to go to our YouTube channel and there we would so Appreciate you gonna go ahead and sign up for our membership because that's where you get exclusive Content that you can't find anywhere else. Thank you for your support and we love you. All right. Hey man. It's time I can promise you This will be one for the books this guy right here is From close to Tennessee Portland, Tennessee close to 10 to Nashville. Oh, yeah, yeah close to Nashville About young buck young buck from Nashville. Yeah They call it cashville. Yeah Markotic is in the building y'all stop playing stand up. This guy right here a man. I ain't gonna lie to you Love rap love music, right? What made you is Is it is a country rap? You know people put a different name on it really but yeah, you could call it country rap But I like to think I make you know like all kinds of music So I make rap music and then I might have a song that's that's a rock song or a country rap song So I kind of make like you on one CD you'll have different genres of music, but it's still all like cadence rap You know what I mean? Wow. Now we up here in Chicago Downtown Chicago you you never would have thought That you to call the old boy out of Texas and old boy out of Portland and put us in Chicago cash via Portland, Tennessee and we in Chicago. We done made it to the big city With the big buildings we we're here stand up. You know Texas got a lot of big buildings. I'm not where I'm from You just met me in the city if you to make me where I'm from. I don't even know if you the state I did take you down there. I was about to say Anyway, tell me what was it like growing up in a country for you It wasn't always a country field, you know what I mean But yeah, I grew up in like as a smaller town I grew up in a trailer. So that's how you know the music in the brand for mobile home rich became a thing And that's how people started liking it and you know, the fan base built behind that saying because a lot of people around there You know grew up that way. So there's a lot like there's trailer parks trailers just surrounded all over I think the city then I grew up in They have a lot of trailer homes. Yeah, there's like 10 trailer parks Let me stop you right there Most of the time When there's a lot of trailers, yeah, there's some meff around. Oh Yeah, I'm talking about missing teeth All kinds of stuff going on swollen faces It's horribly addictive drug in these neighborhoods. But why does that? Have to go with trailer parks. It's the Leparvest areas, right? Yeah I mean the way I look at it is, you know, it's a trailer trailer park But at the end of the day, it's like it's a poverty area like it's a lower-class that's right So it's really like any lower-class community really has that problem right now with like fitting all and it's not to It's crazy you say that because I just put out a song. It's like a story song about that. Wow It's about a you know, like meth killing the community and so like it's like a positive message and it's a story It's like a you know, a real event story of stuff that happens that like leads from that Anybody who actually passed away from stuff like that? Yeah, I've known a lot of people there's a You know, there's a lot of people seeing a lot of people that that's happened have fan have had a family do it You know family pass away from stuff like that So it's it's everywhere right now. Not just where I'm at but like But have you seen people beat it though? I always like to go both Spectrum of the yeah, yeah, like people because people talk about the addiction and how hard it is to beat it They have you seen people actually overcome beat it and clean for years now. Yeah, I've seen a few people do that Um, I wish I've seen more people do it. But yeah, I've seen a few people do it. It is possible. Yeah, people do it I mean, there's a lot of people you see that, you know Especially like for me people that I was younger that like went down that path You'll see something like now some of them aren't alive no more and some of them are like, you know Living good now and like did better and finally got it right man. So are you erased with your mom and dad? Yeah, I was at one like split home. But yeah, okay So so both of that you spend time with both and do you dad lived in a trailer park as well? Oh, it was a trailer. It wasn't in a park In the trailer yeah, so your dad lived in a trailer your mom didn't trailer now We kind of moved around like my mom she moved around kind of different places But uh from where to where tell me something just like around like around in the same city Yeah, same area of the city like it's kind of on the line like Franklin, Kentucky Portland, Tennessee like around that area but Yes, it was kind of close to that but So your mom your dad split households and You were with your siblings No, I didn't have no similar your only child only kid Yeah, really but you had to be with your mom mainly because most most kids always go with mom and not with dad I was back and forth really. It's like a back and back and forth thing So so you never said well, I just want to live with my dad or I want to live with my mom No, I just kind of was back and forth. Okay different amounts of time You know what I mean, so and I always feel like they do okay. You said you're older now Can you look back and feel like living in? Separate households with your parents. Do you feel like that affected your life and you're bringing any much? I? Don't really think it No, I don't really think that because I had a difference right me where I'm from and like you know I don't think it really really would have made a much of a difference You know what I mean like it would okay? It would have personally my life based on like people there's people in my life that wouldn't have been that wasn't the case but uh Because people always feel like you have more structure when you have both parents in the same household You have a certain type of upbringing compared to when you don't Yeah, I guess it depends on your upbringing and like you know your parents and stuff based on structure and stuff like that So yeah, I mean I could see that to a point. I guess it depends on you know your environment So so when did you think or feel like you wanted to branch off into the music? Yeah, so I started doing music when I was like Like I wanted to do it at like eight years old like from the moment. I was a kid. That's what I said I wanted to do and uh I Was just young and I had like my first CDs, you know listening to different rappers like I listened to like Eminem and a Lot of different rappers. I listened to like three six mafia with DJ Paul a little white people like that project Pat there's a big project Pat fan and Yeah, like and I grew up to get to work with them and stuff too. So, you know that But at eight years old when you were looking after these people you never thought that was even possible never thought I'd meet none of them But you know, I just kept doing it and I spent about you know It didn't work at first, but you know like ten years into it I finally found a way to make it happen I found a brand and but found a way to make it a living, you know, I mean That's crazy. Yeah, I spent ten years not really making it nowhere I wouldn't really doing the right things and then give up Yeah, cuz I know so many people even if you I've had somebody recently on the show And even when you make it and you become viral and you did good You know, everybody have the ups and downs in their career Yeah, where you do so good and all of a sudden it takes so long for you to get another hit and that can be depressing It mentally is hard on you. Yeah, I feel like when you first Get everybody's eyes on you you want to try to do you want to try to stay relevant and find a way to do it, you know So yeah, that's a thing I just always wanted to find a way to be able to you know do it as a living and do it Like do what I wanted to do as a you know make it a living. You know what I mean? That's what oh, so but how did you um, I Know you said you did it for ten years during that ten years Before you actually got your big break How did you not get discouraged and to say you know what screwed is I don't see this going anywhere So I really think So did like like you like you said the country rap thing that wasn't a word It was really spoken when I first started it wasn't really a thing yet Now that genre is really big and the whole like mud park rap thing is became to be a big thing and became a lot more popular So ten years ago it wasn't around like well, let me stop you. Let me stop you. It's a it's a it's a guy out there He's a country rap to yeah. Oh, I don't know their words. His name is told down. He's been on my show Yeah, and he's a white guy and he had a son said dirty salves would it's about for him in a big hawk That was the first time I really heard something like that. Now. How many years ago was that that was a long time ago You wasn't even around and then it was another one the Duke That was kind of country feel dah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, it was like John Wayne, right? So this was early signs of there was a chance that Country rap could be a thing. Yeah, I mean, there's definitely some oh geez and that was it though No, you're right. It is very slim to know and so for you to come into that transition It would be a difficult and a thing where we weren't used to hearing it that way So man, thank you for even getting in there and doing like what made you feel and I might have missed something But what made you feel like man, I gotta I gotta do this Man, it's just something since I was such a young age. I just wanted to do and it's a You know, I see a lot of artists come and go in it and it's something like for me. It's something that I just I Couldn't not do it if I wanted to like I wake up every day and every single day like all day I'm focused on it like I wake up and I mean they're talking to somebody I'm recording. I'm Trying to write this something I'm talking to a producer. I'm talking to a show promoter, you know Just another artist anything like that. And it's like it's an everyday thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, and it's like an everyday grind and something that I just I really I just I had a song start to take off and do good and Before that I was working construction in Nashville. Okay, and I was doing fire sprinklers and I wasn't doing music a lot at that time like I had been in the past But like at that point I wasn't After it like I am now or nothing and I wasn't doing it all the time and you know, I decided to give it one more Go, you know, like one more go to try it one more time and I did a song that started to do good and You know, I came up with the mobile home rich brand and that started to take off So it just finally worked out for me, you know, and what I was saying about the difference in between then and now You know back then when I first started rapping, I was just you know doing like hip-hop shows Yeah, and the other stuff wasn't really around like that yet and I which I still do rap shows, you know, of course, but If that environment wasn't there and then I always had like the trailer rap thing going on but when I started coming out with that mobile home rich brand it just I Guess the fans kind of gave me that label of country rap and it's still, you know, it's still rap Like I said, I do different Genres of it, but that's really something like the people a label the people put on me Wow, but Family members was that ever critical critical moments or criticizing people saying that you acting black or anything like that Yeah, I've dealt with that. I was younger for sure and like Yeah, yeah, I've definitely went through that Yeah, I went through a point where people told me to go, you know, give up and get a different job you know go to college for something else like I'd went to school for a little bit for audio engineering too and I didn't finish. I almost did but I got out and I was recording. Yeah audio engineering and You know, there's a time where people told me to go do something else It wasn't gonna work or people called me like a wanna be rapper or something, you know, like it was only one Oh, yeah, there's a time for that. But like now it's just like they can't say no more I really ran it so I'm like Oh, they see you like, you know, yeah, they know they'll probably watch this interview Watch it and they'll be like I said that Damn, like you you got to understand Mark. I guess it's not everybody that makes it and you and I both know that it's Low percentage, you know, I mean people wanna rap there are so many different people trying to be an artist and You know for you to feel like you've you've done what you set out to do It's a big accomplishment when it comes down to it like man I've really really stayed true consistent and stayed the course, you know what I'm saying? And I think that's something that's that's commendable within itself man So so thank you for keeping consistency there. Thank you for loving the culture You know what I'm saying and I think that's that's a huge huge accomplishment man So kudos to you for figuring it out, you know Are you really country what I mean you you got this country accent you you know, you I mean I know about golf Brooks and I know about What who had Brad Paisley was named any of them old boys? Tim McGraw, you know country boys, you know, and I know about You know a lot of country boys. I grew up with but how country are you? Marconic like I'm I'm like country rap country, but at the same time I mean, have you ever killed the animal to eat at night? Yeah Whatever you're killed I've been deer hunting rabbit hunting squirrel hunting. What color are you up one out at night to shoot a rabbit? Not not at night time. I have not I have something. I'm talking to Them they got red eyes my god red eyes That's what they did they sit there and if you shine a light on the eyes at night. They stand still Yeah, and then they scream real loud too like a human See that they used to run around my trailer all the time growing up So they just was all over the place you're talking about the deer. No, the rabbit rabbit is everywhere You know deer or something else too. They got green eyes See people don't know this is real country stuff man And you have to watch them cuz they'll walk right in front of damn car at night. Oh, yeah Yeah, that ain't good. But yeah hitting them. But yeah I've went on a bonus but a bonus buck hunt and lower hill. Okay, what they call Monkey Ridge and like I've done some hunting. Yeah, but as far as like being the most like country, you know, I just I Don't know. I'm just me. I'm from a place where You know, I've been in the city. I've been in the country I Listen to rap music, you know, I like different genres of music, but uh rappers like a mix man I guess that's how it I guess I'm a mix of different different cultures different places Who's your favorite artists rap artists top three artists of all time dead or alive top three artists of all time Who would that be? Can a group count as one artist or has he got to be a yes? Yes, I put 36 mafia is my favorite Yeah, that's that that's it three six. I put that I probably say Number two narrows down. I have to think about this. How did it feel when you met three six mafia? I haven't met them all at once, but like I've worked with different Paul No, I haven't I haven't worked with DJ Paul. I've worked with the project Pat little white crunchy black I've done a show with Le Chat Um Those are those the ones that's hard that I've done stuff with I'd like to work with all of them You know, but uh those that's what I grew up listening to man So and a lot of people do you know you be surprised like out there at the mud part What you hear people running around? That's what they're not running around playing like stuff. He was talking about Brad Paisley No, they're they're running around Jason Alding Yeah, they're not listening to I mean there might be some but they're running around playing like Stuff like three six like rap music playing, you know, the current country rappers like jelly's huge right now Jelly rope you've hear jelly roll everywhere you go right now. That's big, you know, so he's everywhere You hear people like Justin time up church like You know, but they listen to regular rap, too They might hear a little baby playing in the in the mud part So you didn't get my next to my last to one at the top three your artists of all time man, I have to I'd say Eminem was one that I remember, of course, I feel like that's a that's somebody that every white boy is gonna Mention no Not really and I'm a hater and then let me just stop you right there because I'm gonna mention machine gun Kelly I actually met him. Yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna mention machine gun now Is he on an MNM level probably not but I met him. So what's up? Yeah Yeah, I like I like yellow wolf stuff to a lot Everybody compares me to who the sound they compare my sound to yellow wolf. That's my boy I mean, I didn't see to they always say the wolf They compare you to your wolf the sound Yeah, it's that high-pitched southern like it's the high pitchness in my voice in the songs is what I think it is Well, if you give me one of your verses that you you didn't get my you did you give my third when you didn't get my third one yet? Not right out it could be anybody Hell it could be Johnny Cash. Yeah for all I care. Yeah, it's so hard to say Of all time and current that are alive. Oh, that's such a tough one man. I named the top two Yeah, one more six Yeah, I suffer. That's a tough question man. There's a lot give me one. Give me one. Give me one. Oh A lot of people go with Tupac and all them Now he do he don't know nobody. Oh, yeah, I listen to him, of course, but I'll be in that somebody that somebody everybody would say, you know, it's right That's right. You got to give that. All right. So, you know, I listen. I listen to a lot of haystack growing up, too Okay, place for me. I'll listen a lot of that. That's all You said Eminem and you know, I always give him an ill hell on this show. Let me just say this I think and I want to break down my ill in the imperception today for you guys who know y'all if y'all know the show Y'all know I be on Eminem pretty bad because I feel like this culture thing, you know, it's run thick You know, I'm saying meaning, you know, you know, we brought rap into the game brothers You know I'm saying so just to hand it off and say he's the best of all time. I have issues with that Let's be real. It's hard to say anybody But I'm gonna say the reason I'm so hard on Eminem Yeah, it's because really, you know, when he first made that first album and he was rocking out with Dre and all of them Mm-hmm. It was something I could relate to a little bit cause of the way the culture He was in a mixing with snoob. He was in a mixing with Jay Z. He was in a mixing with these people, bro He was he was collabing more than what he do today. Yeah Now he don't do that no more. Let's that that's my problem right there. I just figured it out Right here with you here. Yeah, is that he started off different than what he yields today. He changed on me That bastard was good Seeing work was a lot more He changed on me, but he's he's done a lot of songs a lot early on He was he was all he was definitely collabing more with the culture with my people But at the end he kind of just kind of you know But he was killing them verses. Maybe they got tired of rapping with him He being a white guy, they didn't want to just see him just whoop him on the no They didn't want to do it because if you get on the rap with this boy, listen to me You got to bring your a game. Yeah, because he's gonna try to take you out. You know what I'm saying So but I don't know why I went there, but at the end of the day, man um You okay, you gotta you gotta feel me on this man like being you said three six mafia man Juicy Janium boy listen, I'm gonna tell you something else. You might not agree with it You might not even heard the song you ever heard sipping on some scissors. Yeah Wait a minute, but let me let me just let me just finish Um, just to be honest with you and be clear I want you to understand me as I tell you this and I'm very serious about it And I very much believe what I'm about to say Pimp see a all them niggas up on that whole song just to let you know I'm a very big pimpsie fan resting piece of pimps R.I.P. The Pimp If anybody watching this They know already that I'm gonna finish say that my people know this already whoever you got on the track with And since you said that was your best group go back and listen to it Watch what he do on that thing. Oh, yeah. No, I could say It's a legend for sure I'm not you you listen to pimp see yeah, they show a lot of respect to him too. Everybody's listening. They love They love but I'm a type of person too that I've tried to listen to all music like I think I've Listened to some of everybody that like there might be an artist that I haven't discovered or something But like it's like history to me. You know what I mean? You're a student of the game Yeah, it's like history to go back and listen to the old albums. Yeah, you know what I mean? So I think you'd say something about or something about our damn pop poison on that thing I'm listening to it. I can hear I got that that boy he a that boy a that boy gonna he gonna rock it every time You hear me? Yeah, somebody's a promethazine was on that too. I can I'm hearing them. It's coming to my head right now Always like twister too. Oh you in Chicago. You got to say that just because of the you know Always was a fan of the double time rap thing Yeah a lot like the double time rap the fast rap when I first started I did fast rap a lot I kind of I don't do it as much now like I'll Not constant anyways, but you know, I feel like a lot when a lot of people first start rapping And I just want to rap as fast as I can or something. You know what I mean? There's a lot of people do that. It's like you trying to figure out how Where where you can go with the art? Yeah, right how far can I push it how you might even rap slow just to see if you could do it It's it's an art, right? Yep, for sure And I really I like to say you guys man are extraordinary. I never was a rapper though You know, I freestyle for the hell of it, but I never was like a dude. I am a talker. Okay I'm not a rapper. I am a guy who gets in the front of the camera Or at at your at your house. We go outside as a tree out there and I just set up right there and talk to you Yeah Yeah, that's why you got the park It worked out it worked out, right? Yeah, so so man. No, you you know, um You over there by you got Memphis down there too. Yeah Memphis has some heavy hitters down there man. Like they got a big music scene and yeah There's been so many people to come out of you know At Memphis is self-explanatory. There's been so many big artists to come out of there You know what I mean? So that's where 36 was from so who are you who you would you like to work with? That you haven't got a chance that I haven't got the chance to work with Oh man That's a hard tough question to say but like I Probably, you know somebody like DJ Paul or Juicy J or um You know, of course like some of the big names that I've named um Some of like the og's in the game I've worked with a whole lot of the people that uh, I feel like I've had like a Checklist since I've came in and tried to work with everybody that I was a big fan of so Wow, you know, it's just Where would you like to perform at? That you haven't performed perform Man, really I'd like to try to get on like some of the bigger festivals. I've performed a lot of places and uh You know, I've done the little shows the big shows. I've thrown concerts um Yeah, I'd like to get on on some of the big festivals too. Yeah, there's a bunch of different ones of them but just Stuff like that and man. I just enjoy doing it. So I like traveling and doing the shows and uh I've been doing the Actually, I'm uh, well here's a now time for me to announce it. But let's go. There's uh, everybody needs to be at the redneck rave That's what it's called. It's the redneck rave 2024 in may it's in blue holler, kentucky. They got a trust gone wild They got trust gone wild coming out there to be a part of it Which is the first time that it's ever happened. It's supposed to be one time only, you know trust gone wild is a real big event too um it's thrown by just in time And uh, you know, it's uh, it's a big mud park and it's a it's a show that I've been doing And uh, I've done like quite a few times now and it's helped me a lot in my career too You know doing that show and uh Which I know, you know, larry had talked to you about Yeah, yeah, this show man. We got we got to we got to talk about larry hoover jr Yep, there's even you know, there's even a video of it where uh, I took larry hoover jr Out on stage at the redneck rave. He came out to it. We got him to go mud and stuff like that. Really? Yeah How'd he like it? Oh, he loves it. He loves it out there. He loves it and we had him on this big. Uh, what's it called? it's like a giant monster truck like Stadium I forget what they call the things but it's like just a bucket that people ride on it's got rails around it Yeah, big truck tires on and it goes up and down Had him run one of those all over the mud park through the woods and stuff. So Man, it's fun. So let's talk about this from how did you how did you even link with larry hoover jr? man, uh So that's the first time I met him. Oh, it came down. It came down for one of y'all events One of the events and my manager. How did he hear about it? He just seen y'all on line Yeah, he had had an artist that he brought to the event and Uh, my manager at that time Is the one who had him come out there and come to the redneck rave. So wow, that's just how I met him That's huge man. Like like that's huge man. And you know, just uh, just to link with the right people man It's so important in today's times, you know When you're dealing with the right people and you're moving with the right, you know energy, man Ain't no telling where this thing can go. Yeah, you know what I mean? So man, um, how can people get a hold of you man if they're trying to reach out? uh, man, just like I got an email which is book more cotic at gmail.com and i'm on facebook instagram If you type more cotic in anywhere, you know what I mean? It'll show up. So It's just any platform man. So i'm on all those and they i'm pretty sure they can message just about all okay, and um, just this is the last question for we get out of here like if you was Not there to speak for yourself And somebody was doing a documentary on you and what you represented What would you want them to say? What I would want them to say. Yeah, what would you some key elements about you more cotic that you would want to hear? I would just want them to You know say which is what is true is that you know, somebody who's always doing good business Uh That I try to outwork everybody It's hard to match the amount of work that I do and that's something that everybody says She know and uh That and i'm a family guy. You know what I mean and just that I never gave up at it. You know what I mean and I kept doing it, but uh Yeah, one thing before we go. I do want to tell him too The album that I just put out. I got it to chart number four on itunes. Come on now It's uh, it's called hungover on mud and whiskey. It's a 25 song album 25 yeah, man. It's got I got a project pat I got coat forward on it um There's a long list of man. There's so many different people that's on that album, but uh Yeah, I got a chart number four number four project pat man Let's talk about him because I didn't try to get this sucker on my show man Yeah, yeah, but he came to dallas one time and I didn't get to meet he could is he in chicago today? I don't you don't think so. Okay. Let's talk about it around miffish Let's talk about him for a minute like how did you get to link with this guy because I'm trying to get a hold of it man, I've uh I've just been working so long and that's so many different people actually somebody that it did security form at the time Introduced me to him and they just called and put me on the phone with him one day So and it went from there and then I did a song with him and met him and uh So that's that's how it happened. Wow. Well, how was he like when you guys were doing the song and what's the name of the song again? Uh, the song the song is called keppie g the song So it's a little it's a little different. It's uh, basically I took like a 36 mafia style beat Yeah, and I added guitars to it and I added Like electric guitars and solos and everything the beats made by sanno um Y'all'd have to go listen to you'd have to give me your verse. What did your verse do on there? What did you say? Hold on So what is the verse man on that song that you and projects pat you guys a hell of a song I don't know if that's you for real. Let me give me the verse. Ah, all right. I got you. It goes uh Got some young ones in the trailer park still selling drugs On some little white down me now. She What up thug I said rap don't work out trap out my trailer. Don't give a fuck. Yeah song cracker See you. I fucked you up in the club. Yeah mobile honk rich, bitch Throw it up, huh? Ain't nobody really want to fuck with us turn anything to think I can't fuck Man Man, you had that old going all hell down boy. That was it Man, like like you wrote you wrote do you write or you punch in or what do you do? Uh, I write sometimes and punch in record a lot A lot of it. I don't write and I just say like two bars or just freestyle punch in Man, thank you so much, man. Yeah, you don't even know what a blessing you being to me, man I enjoy the music. I enjoy meeting new people and I enjoy the culture the way you shocking it with your move with this Country rap man. It's going down. You know what I'm saying? Thank you so much for coming on the show man Hey, man. Love you, brother Hey, man. Yep. I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all for having me It's been another great segment of boss talk 101 where the boss is talk and we out