 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. Fuckin' the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down. I'm reachin' the smiles and the frowns. Gang hop out, then we clarin' the truck. I gotta play. Don't get it fucked up. We don't need you, but nigga, we wanted you. Love her condition. Got a show for my dissin'. The only way shit gonna humble you. What's up, y'all? It's your girl Breanna Imani, and you're tuned in to another Talk of the Town interview. And who we gonna buildin' today? It's Harlem Baby, Fuggy Baby. Shit me, Kimmy. I know what the fuck goin' on, man. GGU, we outside. Harlem. What is that? The huh. That's my shit. That's my shit. Where did that come from? If you know, you know. If you don't get it, then I don't know what to tell you, but... All right, you ain't gotta do me like that. All right, well, yes, we got Fuggy Baby, Mr. Most Created for 2021. Congratulations on that. I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all. Thank y'all. How does that feel? I mean, it feel good, but we got mad work to do. But it feel good. I'm thankful. I'm blessed. Without my videographer, my team, a lot of this shit wouldn't be possible. No, I'm blessed, but it's time to... Up it. Yeah, it's time to up it. You feel me? Okay, so walk me through your creative process. Of course, I'm talking about your creativity. So what does that look like? How do you get into all the stuff that you're doing visually, musically? Like I said, a lot of things I think about, but I also come to my team. But we all just come together and put our heads together and think of the best possible shit to where we can distinct ourselves from everyone else, you know what I'm saying? And we have fun with this shit at the end of the day. We want to do shit differently. We want to catch people's eye. And that's what it is. It's like everybody coming together with their own ideas and just creating one. You know what I'm saying? Like a lot of times I write the treatment, but there's other assets or other resources that people bring to the table that make the whole project amazing. Okay, so what does your team look like? I'm right there. For the people who can't see it. You who are watching at home. What does your team look like? My team is all stuff. You feel what I'm saying? Everybody is a fucking juggernaut themselves. You feel me? Like I can name a job. I got Cajun Waters, the engineer of Groot Guards Unite. I got Cool Money, Kwan as the artist. Tim Everett right there. He's an R&B groove right there. The R&B brumming, you feel what I'm saying? Yeah, I got Bullion. Top three. Not even top three. Top one videographers in the town. You feel what I'm saying? Brisby at all times. Blood up, y'all. Yeah, the team is just amazing. You feel what I'm saying? Like everybody know they roll. Everybody know they part. Nobody stepping on each other toes. Everybody's a thing, own leader. You feel what I'm saying? So that's really what my team is. Groot Guards Unite, the label, you know? Talk your shit. So how important do you think it is to have a solidified team? Because you know- Very important. It is. A lot of people like they'll like bounce between videographers or producers or whatever. So you think like it works in your favor using the same people? Yeah, everything. My goal is to have everything in the house. We don't got to go nowhere else. Everything. We got the graphic designers. We got the videographers. We got the engineers, the producers, the artists, everything. So it's like- For me, we save money like that. And it's more lit and it's more of a prize when this shit really hit and because we did it ourselves. You know what I'm saying? Like a team is real. Especially if y'all know y'all roll, a team is very essential into your success. So does that go into like GGU? Like the group? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So all that's a part of that. Hell yeah. Did you have the vision already or did it just happen? Like you was working with the same people and it was like- Oh, I had the vision and I was working with the same people. So it just made the event easier. Like what I'm saying? I just brought niggas into the vibe. You know, Kool was one of the main founders of the group. God said we just upped it from there. Like you know what I'm saying? So yeah, both sides. Okay, okay. So let's bring it back a little. So you from Harlem. Yes, sir. How is that like growing up in Harlem? I'm a Brooklyn girl. So of course. What's life of Harlem like? Maybe shit, jiggy shit, home of the hustlers. You feel what I'm saying? It's like you just got to learn how to adapt. It was fun too. Like, you know, Harlem is like 50 blocks. So it was really was lit every avenue, every street. What I'm saying? Like it was just lit, you know, growing up to dip set. Shit. I don't, I really can't say that. Like I'm a Harlem nigga. Just home of the hustlers. Like did we get shit done? Okay. So who were you listening to growing up? Dipset. Um, 50. Um, 4 else. Buster, Missy. Um, J. For me, shit like that. Okay. So at what point did you decide to start making music? Um, my niggas for real. They would start at year. Oh, okay. That's what I always say. Without my niggas, I wouldn't even be here right now. They started this rapping shit. And they always knew I had the potential. I used to just do it on some calm hobby shit. After a while, they was like, nah, you need to really do this for real. So my first single was Bleaches, which went crazy. And then after that, I'm like, maybe I should do this for real. And then my fan base is real heavy with me. So it was like, I got to do this for them. I like it myself, but I really do it for the people. For me. Okay. So being that you didn't take music serious, so you didn't even think that you were going to be an artist. What was the plan? Like, cause I know you graduated with what? Like your criminal, was it criminal justice? Yeah. You graduated with your criminal justice degree. So like, what was the vision? I don't know. Like, I can't even tell you that. I was just going day by day after like, when I graduated, I was going day by day, get some bread, have a job and shit. But I knew I wanted more for myself at the end of the day. I didn't know if I was going to music. Like my passion was fashion, but I didn't know where to start. So I was like, I was just winging it until like, and music happened to really drop on my lap. Like I was surrounded by people who were doing music. I love music myself. So it was only right to do that. And I'm nice at what I do, what I'm saying. So it just makes sense. Was music pre or post graduation? Post. Post. Oh, so it was perfect timing. Yeah, it was perfect timing. So what was the reaction from like the people around you when you started making music? I can't even tell you that. I still can't explain it cause it's still, it's a lot because I didn't think from my first single, I would blow up like that or at least get the type of fan base that I got now. So it was just, it's unbelievable. Like I said, I'm blessed. I'm grateful. And like I do it for them. So it's still to this day, unbelievable. I got this type of core fan base from pushing people believing me in my game. And we ain't going to stop until we go in that jet. And we still going to keep going. So who would you say is your fan base? What are you making music for? Whoever listened to me like, I don't know. Like my music is for the people like to build confidence towards like you wake up every day, you go to the gym, you want to listen to my music, it's a vibe setter. You know what I'm saying? Whatever you want to do during your day, you throw me on, you get hype. And a call, you get hype. You're going to get money. You're going to do this. You're going to do that. Throw fur gone. I bet you get hype. Like I'm just a vibe setter. I want to have, I want to make people feel fun and feel confident about themselves. And I talk my shit. I talk realistic shit that people go through, especially New Yorkers. I mean, you got the energy. Like even sitting here talking to you, like you know, you talking your talk. Like is there anything outside of music that you would see yourself doing? Like, yeah. I'm going to let you answer that. Like I said, like once I reached that certain platform in music, I want to branch off to fashion. Okay. Nothing like personality wise, because before we started recording, you know, we was talking about like podcasts would be, like you really have like that personality. So there's nothing that you would want to do like. I mean, I'm part of the please for me. Shout out please. She got her own podcast, her own show coming out with Chelsea Nia. Y'all got to meet her as well. That's another part of the person, that is incredible on my team. She's a superstar within herself as well. But yeah, like I'm just on the music tip. I'm also, you know, trying to up my friends too. Tim Everett, one of the most talented niggas I ever met. Just up his shit. Cajun Ward is cool. So that's what it is. Okay. So back to the music. So I saw, and I think it was like a major stage, like the quick little snippet that you did with them. You said your, the studio is your happy place. It is, it is. So what is it about the studio? Like set the vibe for us. Like when you go in the studio, what does that look like? We go in the studio, you feel me? Before I make any music, I throw on music just to get the vibe. We roll our little buns, we smoke a little, roll our little buns, drink a little Henning and feel me. Get the vibe right. Everybody vibing. And then we just throw on beats. Or my man Cajun cook up beats. Just literally just vibe. Listen to it when we may write down some shit. And eventually we just go in the booth and start recording. Okay. So how do you choose what songs you want to drop versus what songs you kind of want to keep in the tub? It's all about a feeling. Like I know as soon as I start recording and then when it's recorded and I listen to it, that's when I know I'm dropping that song. Now is it like you listen to it and it's like, I know this shit going to be a hit or you listen to it like now I'm fucking with it? No, I know. Like that's why I don't really release a lot of music. And if I do, it's just really a large project. But I'm very particular to where it's like, I know when I'm like, I know I'm going to drop it. I know I'm going to use that. I know this is going to be a hit. I do got to get in the habit of just recording and being comfortable is like, I fuck with it, but I'm a type of person where if I got to record I know it got to be a hit. I'm weird with my shit, but that's just how I am. So if you had to describe yourself using one of your songs, what would it be? That's a good question. A lot of shit, all of them shit. But one. Freak. That's the song you got with Billy, right? That's the song with Billy, right? Yeah, it was beneficial too, because beneficial straight facts. Speaking of freak, you made that song with Billy. Yeah. The visuals was dope. So how was it working with, like, do you like working with female artists? I love them. But they running shit right now. Shout out to all the artists, but the females got it right. Shout out to y'all. But yeah, like I love working with female artists. Shout out Connie, Billy, B, Lola, London, K, Ola. Like, they wilding like young Devon. They wilding. I love it. If I had the choice, I want to work with Ola. Nice. I want to be Thanos to that shit. I want to collect Ola, Infinity Stones. So I'm saying. Crying. So, I mean, what you thought about the site if that came out with Ola? Literally, what was your name? I was talking to Gabe. I'm like, yo, you did something that a lot of people trying to promise but that they can't make it happen. That was beautiful. Like, that shit was fire. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Gabe, too, on the radar. All right. So as you're going up, what's something that you've learned about the industry so far that you wish that maybe you would have had a heads up on beforehand? Anything? What's something in the industry that I wish I hadn't? Like a heads up on. Like, something that you wish you would have known sooner? Shit. I don't know. Well, shit. Then that's good. If you don't know, then that's good. Yeah, I mean, I'm worried about what he and my team got going on right now. I ain't thinking about it. We are the industry. How about that? So everything is going as planned? Yeah. In my knowledge, for real. We're doing what we got to do. We're doing it independently, too. Okay. So there haven't been any hiccups so far? I mean, it's always going to be hiccups. That's just part of this music life. Before me, it's just getting back up and just up in it. You know what I'm saying? But it's going to be days when you wake up, you feel discouraged or it's going to be a hiccup. But that's just normal shit. You just got to rise above from that. So yeah, that's right. Okay. All right. So how would you classify the music that you make? I know that you're kind of versatile, I would say. You make a lot of different types. But what would you say, like, if you had to classify it, how would you? It's a Harlem nigga. I don't know. I don't know how I can specify myself because I could do whatever. I don't know. I could do the vocal shit, I could rap. It's whatever you feel like the audience want to hear at that moment. I got songs for everybody. Okay. So forget the audience. What do you like doing the best? Whatever type of vibe I'm on. It doesn't matter. Okay. For real, that's a real answer. Whatever vibe and mood I am feeling at that moment is what I'm doing. Okay. So we already talked about who you were listening to growing up. Do you have any inspirations? Overall, outside of music as well too. Let's talk about music first and then you can give me your inspiration. My inspiration with music is, I would say, Rick Ross, what I'm saying, Tiana Taylor, Harlem goddess, Lil Durk, you feel me? People like that. Oh, Ronnie Faye, creator Kiff. Yeah, I could say that off the head right now. Okay. Well, I just actually went outside of music too because I said the fashion. That's my people though. I'm sorry. That's my people. That's my inspiration for right now. Okay. So that's all of them? You got somebody else? For right now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Going off of that, who are your top five artists right now? Top five artists right now? Oh yeah, that's easy. I got Kendrick Lamar, number one. I got The Weeknd and number two. I got Lil Durk at number three. I got Schoolboy at number four. This is right now. I ain't going to talk about that a lot. At number five, I would say, I need Lil Baby or Gunna. That's my niggas right there. I'll say Gunna. Okay. I don't know. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear no New York artists on your list. Am I bugging? Nah, you didn't. You listening to anybody right now? Yes, I am. Who you listening to? Who on your playlist? I ain't going to lie. Shout out. I'm glad you said that too. I listened to Tim Heavier since he dropped Casco Band. I listened to my man Tim. Who on listening to New York right now? I listened to Ray Mootla. Leak Bucks. Okay. They know world. Deli. Okay, so outside of the ladies that you already mentioned, is there anybody that you would like to collaborate with? Like I said, I want to work with Cash. I want to work with Fligo from Game Tivity. I want to work with... It's a couple of people I want to work with. Lola Brooke. You said outside of the girls. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's it. Okay. Well, I see that you would be with Capella a lot. Oh, shit. Cap. Let me talk about that. How did y'all meet? Like just being uptown. You feel what I'm saying? He been doing music. He heard about me, I heard about him. And then we eventually just started just like cookouts, different events in the summer. We just linking. You know what I'm saying? It's the fuck music right now. We just linking. And we ended up becoming cool. And then we, obviously we got common interest and also with music too. So it was like the relationship was there. And not only just Cap, everybody around his circle, I had a connection with. So it just made shit easier. And it's like, that's another thing I want to work with. And I feel like it's definitely top in the city right now. But I don't understand how I just forgot that. But yeah, Capela is definitely talented. His album is going to be O.D. Are you on it? Can't speak about that right now. But his album O.D. It's not a no. I said it wasn't a no. I don't know. So boys, his album is going to be O.D. like Gallagher's the tip of the iceberg, but he got so much vibes coming through. He's going to shake the town for real. Shout out to Cap, shout out to the whole ETF. Okay. So do you feel like you have the support of Harlem? Hell yeah. I'm home baby for a reason. Okay. All right, well that's good. I mean, I just wanted to ask, because I noticed that you like, what is it, the Juneteenth? Yes, yes, yes. I throw it with Deli and Ori as well. Were you doing that before you started making music too? Like how long has that been going on? It's about to be the three-year anniversary for Juneteenth. We did it for two years already, so. And what made you want to do that? Like just for the culture? I've always been heavy into throwing parties and doing shit for the people. Like even the high school, I used to throw mad parties, house parties and shit like that. It just made sense. Like, and it coincides with music too. Like, you know, just doing shit for the community, having people pop out and having fun without any drama or nothing. That shit happened. Like we literally have different hoods, different sats, pulling up. We bother. Do people like tap into your stuff more like after every cookout? Like do you feel like it gives you a tour? I feel like yeah, dude, yeah. That's just inevitable. It's gonna happen because more people, you know, track will just cook out. They're gonna find out who's throwing it, who is that. You make music or let me tap in. Yeah, of course. Like a little shit like that also make people engage into what you really do. Okay. So like, do you feel like stuff like that, like being outside, word of mouth is, do you feel like that's a marketing tool? Do you feel like, what do you use as your marketing tool? We're gonna start there. Let me say that. What I use is my marketing tool. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't say, I don't want to say throwing parties and marketing tool because I do that genuinely. But marketing tools is just being me. Just doing what I do and just posting it. Or, you know, letting people know my life and what I do. I don't necessarily be like, oh, I'm just showing people what I do. And if you want to gravitate and you want to be a part of that and you want to, then that's when a real organic thing is coming to me. That's what I'm saying. It's not, yeah. So you don't do nothing like to push your stuff out there or nothing? No, but I need to. I need to start doing more blogs, putting more digital marketing on that shit. Right now it's just literally organic. Oh, that's good. Yeah, but it's to a point to where I'm at a point where I do need to start doing digital marketing and real promotion marketing for me to up my shit. Right. It has to happen. So that's what we work with, me and my team working on right now. We have everything. We just now, once we put that digital marketing, we are there. So for an upcoming artist, what are three things that you think are the most important keys to success? Definitely a team. Number two, being true to yourself and being consistent and persistent with your work. A lot of people have those two, but they're not consistent or don't have the proper work ethics to be successful. You've got to be consistent, keep dropped. You've got to be persistent knowing that, keep pushing out to the audience. Know yourself because a lot of people rap about what they don't live or they're rapping about somebody else's shit. They just cap it. And your team, they all got to know their position. They all got to know their role and y'all got to just prosper on that avenue. What I'm saying? So you said a lot of people, they rap what they, they know what they rap about basically is what I got from that. So would you say like there's a part of you in all the music that you write? Of course. Yeah. I don't never write no cap. Like, ain't no cap in my rap. Like, it's always going to be a ball too. Like, you know, you're just saying just out of wittiness or just, you know, just talking. But 98% of what I say is real. What I'm saying like, I mean, or I might even, sometimes too, you might even talk about your man's but for the most part, I talk, I talk about my shit. So we at the beginning of 2022. What can we expect coming up for the, for the rest of the year? More creative shit, more dope shit, more videos, more singles, you know, more GGU shit. Okay. I got a lot of things coming in store. You said more videos and we didn't really talk about this, but you just dropped some fire visuals. Shout out bully, shout out Tim, shout out gang, MF out right now, motherfucker. You are. Yes. So let's talk about that real quick. Like where did that vision come from? You know, just trying to tap in and just relate to what people go through daily, you know what I'm saying? Like it was a message to where it's like, you know, no matter how much love and loyalty you pour into a person, like it may not be reciprocated. And sometimes like you get the short end of the stick for that. And I know a lot of people in the towns, not even in the towns in the whole world go through that. So I just wanted to kind of like go into that lane and speak to people like it'd be like that. And it is, it's still going to be here. We're still going to get it done. And, you know, we wanted to correlate that with the visuals. So we wanted to just execute on that aspect. So whose idea was it? Like, Oh, it's definitely mine, but it would have never came into play without also bully as well, too. Right. But I definitely wrote the treatment. And that's usually how it goes for most of the videos. Yeah, definitely. Like I really sit down at 4 o'clock in the morning writing my shit. You know what I'm saying? And then I send it out, I send it to my directors. And they put their little sense in and then right there is a movie. So how long does it usually take you to like come up with the come up with the idea and then record and then have the finished product? Like how long does the whole process take? It depends. Like there's really no time stamp on it. Like I said, it's all about a vibe. It's all about a feeling. So sometimes it could take literally an hour. But it's all about a feel and that moment. OK. All right. So you say you know you up in there you get more creative and everything. So I know we talked about collabs that you want to do, but do you have some like that's already working that you could share with us? I'm gonna tell y'all what's going on. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Some collabs I'm working on right now. Me and my engineer Cajun Waters we doing a little EP going on right now. Me and Billy B working on song right now. That's just that. Yeah, and the groove gods is a label. We also working on our own compilations shit as well. We have a groove god camp in two weeks where all the creators, writers, producers, and different people come in and just work for three days in the Poconos. And we've all really made music and magic. So yeah, those type of projects we've been working on. So that's exclusive to like the groove gods or is that like something that other people could tell us? No, other people's tapping in. So that's why we making it a camp. And we also inviting outside people to come in like we feel it's fit or it feels talented or you know, just we want to work with other people as mad dope other artists out here. Are y'all still accepting reservation? Can you, can people still? What you want to do? Uh-uh, what you want to do? Like if let's say somebody was watching this and they was like, oh, that sounds good. I want to go to the Poconos. Yeah, we going to do this annually. But this one is a dub. It's already booked. Everybody in their place right now. Damn. Sorry guys. All right. So is there anything like that you would just advise upcoming artists as they're going up like? Yeah, like I said to be real to yourself. What I'm saying? You got to really be tapped into with you. If you love music, really be tapped into it. Don't move on other people's time. It don't do it. Cause you see your means doing it, love this shit and really do it. What I'm saying? And that, but I do want to come off this real quick. Shout out to all our artists. Shout out to all our artists. Drill music is doing its thing is on its peak right now. I love what it's doing. It's putting New York on the map, but it's bloggers talk of the town. It's like what New York sound like. It's more music to drill. You feel what I'm saying? Y'all need to tap into more of these artists out here. You feel what I'm saying? Like, and y'all, like I said, shout out to all of them. I'm jacking it. You feel what I'm saying? Y'all doing an amazing job, but y'all missing a lot of creative and a lot of artists out here that's getting overlooked because y'all only focus on one aspect of this music shit in New York. There's so many lanes and so many creatives and so many artists out here that they not getting noticed because blogs that tend to go with trend right now. Y'all can make shit trending, just got to focus on other shit. So I'm just saying, y'all got to tap into what's going on in New York. You know what I'm saying? So if you had to, because that was a very strong statement, but of course, you know, I can't validate how you feel and I respect you for coming up here. Nah, I fuck with y'all. So I just want to be open to where it's like, there's so many niggas out here, so many dope artists that's not getting the proper recognition that they should be getting. Like, cool. Girl cold, you feel what I'm saying? Like, there's a lot of people out here. And girl cold, yeah. Nah, girl cold is cool. I'm just saying, there's a lot of people out here. Like, that's y'all missing. I feel like, I just feel like I need to tap in a little bit more. That's all I'm saying. Y'all doing an amazing job covering what I need to be covering, but y'all also missing a couple of shit. And that's why I'm here to tell y'all because I feel like nobody gonna tell y'all and I fuck with y'all. I fuck with talk of the town. I fuck with, you feel me? I fuck with all these blog sites. I'm glad I'm up here. And I just wanted to give y'all my insight. Drops mic. Respectfully. So is there anything else that you would like for the people to know before we get off this? Anything that we haven't covered yet? Anything you want them to look out for? I just want to thank y'all. I want to thank y'all for getting me up here. This platform is amazing, like I said. I want to thank y'all for even putting me as a nominee and actually winning this award for most creative artists of the year. Like I said, I'm blessed, but it's more work to do. I want to rack up on these. I want like ten of these. And I feel I am, but like I said, I appreciate y'all y'all doing y'all damn thing. Y'all been tapping in since I started doing music. You already know the vibe. And y'all doing y'all thing. We just gonna up it. Oh shit. Oh yeah, hold on. First day merch out now. Don't fuck around. I got my own hoodies. We do our own things out here. I'm not gonna... That's cute or whatever. Nah, we'll be here. Shout out, shout out to y'all. All right, so shout out your Instagram, TikTok, whatever it is that you got. Harlem Baby, my Instagram is FergieDotBaby. You can find me on all digital platforms. All you done by me too is out now. Expect more work to be done. More videos, more singles, more GGU, more all that, more Harlem, you feel what I'm saying? Y'all saw. All right y'all, thanks for tapping in.