 Boss talk one-on-one. Yeah, we gon' talk, we gon' have fun. We be on fire, we be live-lit. It's a unique hustle, big shit. Big shit, big shit. It's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit. Big shit, big shit, big shit. Name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E-C-E-O. And I'm one of the most, by the way, and we creating content every damn day. Hey, man, what's going down, man? We got a special guest in here, man. From Memphis, man. Memphis in the building, man. Now I know one trigger trait. What's going on, baby? Big trigger in this business, man. What's going on, y'all? How you doing, y'all? Man is going down, man. Hey, man, it's just good to have you on the Boss Talk One-On-One platform. It's a beautiful thing, man. Man, it's a blessing to be here. Man, so just, we like to just kind of talk about you a little bit, you know, with everything that you connected to, man. I know with being from Memphis, the elephant in the room is Dolph. You know what I mean? The young Dolph passing. Just, did you ever, did you know him or had you ever ran into him, anything like that? No, I never got a chance to meet him, but I always been a fan of him since he came out, you know what I'm saying? He played a big influence in a lot of my music, you know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah? Yeah, you know, Dolph came out around the time when I was in like ninth or tenth grade, you know what I'm saying? So coming up, you know what I'm saying? I've always been listening to Dolph. I'll wake up to his artist that come out, you know what I'm saying? I literally watched Dolph make his whole, his whole, whatever you want to call it, his whole foundation from day one, just from being a fan of him, you know what I'm saying? And being a fan of his music. So seeing everything that he do, shit, I mean, honestly, I've always been a fan, you know what I'm saying? Big shout out to Pepper Out, you know what I'm saying? Long live Dolph. And what did you learn from Dolph as you watched him, as you were younger? Man, from watching him, you know what I'm saying? He just showed me how to, you know, basically how to move a team, you know what I'm saying? Generational wealth, you know what I'm saying? Things that, you know, taking care of your folks when you ain't gonna be here, you know what I'm saying? I basically, he showed so much to the game. He showed so much to outside of the game, you know what I'm saying? As far as the rap game, you know what I'm saying? He showed so much as far as, you know, showing love to your city, you know what I'm saying? He put artists in the game, he did so much. So it's like, when it come to me, he just taught me what I wanna do in the rap game, what I wanna do for my team, you know what I'm saying? So you feel like if you get to that level, you gonna come back to your hood just by singing it? Yeah, I mean, I'll come back, but I know that it's just that, you know, based off of what he done been through, I just know to be careful on what I'm doing, you know what I'm saying? You know, basically that's just the lesson I learned out of it, you know, be careful around what you're doing, you know? Because we all really know how my city is, we already know how Memphis go, you know? Not saying that it's all bad, but we all know it will come with success. Everybody don't wanna see you had success. Even folks in your own city who you've had somebody that grew up with you all your life that don't wanna see you successful. That's what I hate the most, hate comes from. Exactly. I said it earlier today, I was like, the most hate comes from people that you ask your friends with. Like you can't be, you can't, hate can't come from nobody else that don't even know. Straight up. So it's like everybody, it's mostly comes from your inner circle. And it hurts, and it really kind of, and it hurts because you know what I'm saying? A person that don't even know you, never met you a day in their life, but they'll open up to you just because they know, just because they wanna know, they see that realness in you. Versus when you got a dude from your city or a lot of folks from your city that know you and they see what you've been through, but they still wanna see you down there with them. Let me ask you this, man, because being that you connected with Raven, right? You know, and all the stuff, like I say, I always go back into it. That internet is a beast. You can't beat them in it either. But what's the, I mean, how has that affected you mentally as far as with everything that's being said about you and the people that you hang on to? Positive, from a positive side, it made me think, you know what I'm saying? They watching me, you know what I'm saying? You know, from the negative side, yeah. I mean, you know, it fucked me up a little bit, you know, to hear the rumors and all that, but maybe with me because I've been through, you know, my life don't persist with social media. My life doesn't persist with people saying on the internet, you just talking, you from over the, you ain't from over here. So a lot of stuff, y'all running y'all mouth about this going on over here, you just speculating from another city, you know what I'm saying? Like, and the people that got common sense and that know what's going on, they even understand the same way. Hey, I can't come in your city talking about how this person died and who was on this blog and who was there. I wasn't there, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, you got a lot of crazy people on social media, you know what I'm saying? And you know what I mean to be honest with you, they didn't make me cry about nothing. They didn't make me get in my fittest about no rooms, you know what I'm saying? Like, I know that this come with it. Yeah. I'm supposed to feed off of it though. Yeah. Like, that's what most of y'all, most of y'all usually come from just haters because they going to see what you doing at all times. So they watching every single second. And that's all they made me do. Just step out more, go harder more for myself, go harder for my team, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I never expected none of this to happen. But at the same time, once I'm in it, now that I'm in it, I'm in it. Yeah. Yeah. So how's the music scene become Memphis guy? I mean, when you look at all the stuff that the Pusheist is in, man, y'all these guys have some bad niggas down there. Man, you know, and like I said, CMG, I mean, have you ever worked with any of those artists? No. Have you ever met any of those artists? Been on pitches with any of those artists? No. Do you want to be on pitch with them all? You don't want to? Would you work with them? I would work, yes. I would work with a lot. You know what I'm saying? When it comes to that whole beef between the situation with all them, see the thing is, and that's another reason I hate the rumors that come out about me because it was kind of stereotypical. Oh, so I'm from Memphis. That means automatically I want to be signed to CMG or sign a paper wrap. That don't even make sense. How y'all know I want to be independent? How y'all know I want my own team to come up off of ourself? And if I ever do, what's the sign, a label or a team, y'all better make them show that y'all make sure I can be able to do for me and mine? Yeah. I mean, not saying that I wouldn't sign to nobody, but y'all got to have y'all paper wrap. And when it comes to, you know what I'm saying? Like you said, you know what I deal with any of them artists that do features with them? Hell yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because I mean she is business. You know what I'm saying? Because I mean just like that side got shit going on, that other side do too. I do music with them. You know what I'm saying? I don't have no side that I chose with none of this because I don't got nothing to do with this. They business. You know what I'm saying? I've been a fan of all artists from Memphis. I love, I love, I love the new scene. Cause there's a lot of telling in my scene. Who? And a lot of us getting slept on. Yeah. Who the hottest far as outside of yourself? I know you hot, but who do you kind of see this moving and making waves in the Memphis area? Man, it's a lot of them. You know what I'm saying? You got Poo Shiesty. You got- Well he gone. Yeah, I mean he gone, but you know what I'm saying? I'm just speaking from what I've seen in the past couple of years. You know what I'm saying? You got Big Boogie coming out. You got Lil Migo with his part of CMG. You got, you know what I'm saying? Casino Jizzle. You know what I'm saying? You got Big 30. You know what I'm saying? You got even on paper outside, Glock. You got, you know what I'm saying? Moochie Great. You know what I'm saying? You got people from different sides of everything that's moving in Memphis. So you know, I can't really say who's the hottest, but I can just say who popping right now, who getting it in. And it's beautiful. You know what I'm saying? I love to see what my, because a lot of them folks down understand, you know, being in Memphis, it ain't easy come up at all. It ain't, you know what I'm saying? In my city, truth be told, we don't have a lot of opportunities that other motherfuckers got. Open mites and all that extra shit to get back in it. We just now getting it. We ain't had always had that. So to see them, so to see them make something out of nothing, you know what I'm saying? It's a beautiful thing, you know? Did they get in the, we getting the recognition as a whole or a city? I love it. Yeah, you know. I'm gonna show you the one, the one and the most scariest thing I saw when I went to Memphis is, I saw two niggas hanging out the window with AR-15 and a polly just watched them. Right by. Hey. It's a lot. He's the one that watched them, right? What street was you on, nigga? You was in, you was in Tunica. You wasn't over there in Memphis, he was deep in there. No, I wasn't. He only, I was, bro. And the obviosus was black. Hey, everybody's black, you know? Hey, you got some white ones out there too, man. Yeah, some white ones. What I'm just saying is like, you know, often to ask you just, hey, I'm gonna go to Memphis and see this shit. Like, you know, often to see this shit nowhere else, like that. And that shit's talking to the hell out of me, like, damn, this shit, real life, and I gotta go. Cause I know how I am. I got an attitude, proud of it. But I see shit like that, and I know they can't control it. I don't need to be though. Yeah. In Truth Be Told, Truth Be Told, you know, even though, you know, the light is on Memphis right now, you know, let's keep it real. And we speak on all 50 states and it come to all blocks and all sections and all projects. It's all the same rules, just a different accent. Hey, we understand it, but I'm saying, I'm from the streets, so I know. I say the police will watch these people ride by. You can see it nowhere else. You're not seeing nowhere else, so you can stop it. I'm saying, it's somewhere outside there. You're not gonna see it nowhere else. I'm from Louisiana. Yo. So I, you're not seeing it. Oh, y'all, why? You're not seeing it. That's what I mean, you're not seeing it, though. I saw that shit, I'm like, nah, this is just another level, but it's just another level. Hey, yeah, you love that. Yeah, I'm sorry. So when you, when you, so what got you into music, man? I wanna get on the music a little bit here. Man, I've been, I've been a little, I'd have had to tell it for music since, you know, since I was a little one, you know what I'm saying? My mom and my, my mama was so heavy on R&B, you know what I'm saying? My pops was a heavy hip hop thing, you know what I'm saying? My cousins, you know, I got a cousin that same, you know what I'm saying? I got an uncle that, you know what I'm saying? He out there doing this thing, you know what I'm saying? I had a, his daddy used to do styles for cool in the gang back in the day. So my family been around music all my life. I guess this is just with me, it became a little bit too much of a serious thing I wanted to do. I always wanted to do music all my life, you know what I'm saying? I done been writing since I was with 10 and 11, 12, you know what I'm saying? So it's just that, that's just the influence took on me. Yeah. And it made me go further than what I thought I'd go. You know what I'm saying? How long have you been rapping? I say that, honestly, I've been rapping for years, but at the same time, my recognition is just now coming. You know what I'm saying? So when did you start taking the serious though? Man, I started taking the serious. I want to say somewhere when I got to, when I went out there to Atlanta to kind of, you know what I'm saying? Networking, you know what I'm saying? Get to meet some certain people. That's when I really started realizing, okay, I went to Atlanta with nothing. You know what I'm saying? I ain't have a dime in my pocket, but I made some out of it. You know what I'm saying? And when I got to network and meet certain people, I never thought I'd meet. That made me like, yeah, I can keep this shit going. And then when I started to put my music around them folks and they folks with it, I'm like, yeah, I can do this. I can really, really do this. Ratchet McClassy, what inspired that? Looking at, okay, I can't, I don't want to speak for all women when I say this, but... Most. Just to say it, most. When I look at women, you know, all of them have on the song, I said bougie, wretched, freaky, but classy. Those all are certain things that I feel like every woman has, but as far as they personality wise, but at the same time, no one of them stick out more than the other ones. You hear what I'm saying? I feel like every woman have a classy side. I feel like every woman got a wretched side. I feel like every woman can be bougie. And I feel like every woman can be freaky if you treat them right, or do them right, whatever the case may be. So, you know, they say that those things don't mix and don't blend, but not from what I've been seeing in this world with the women I've been seeing in this generation. I don't see any females who can go to the club, turn up, do whatever they do, but can turn around and put their work suit on and then go and take their work and lay business. So, you know what I'm saying? I admire it. Most females, most dudes, I ain't gonna say most dudes, but some dudes, they want a classy chick. Some dudes want a ratchet chick. I like them both. I like it blended in. I like the female that can stand in the streets and it can be, you know, all right. Do you freestyle, or do you ride, or do you punch? I love to ride. Let me ask you something, man. Where do you see yourself in the next year or so? I'm saying year because, you know, with everything now wrapped around with what you guys are facing and with what you guys have dealt with, there is a lot of eyes on you and how can you, you can leverage this. I ain't gonna say how can you, you can leverage it. What are you planning to do to make sure you capitalize on what's going on? Well, for one, you turn a negative into a positive. And then, you know what I'm saying? When it comes to, you know, making them focus on me, shit, you seeing what you got right now. I'm an artist. I make music. This is what I do. I be on social media. Y'all want to see 901 Trick or Tray? You getting him right in your face. Tune in the fucking in. And that's all I can do is make sure, now for an attorney's negative to a positive, we gonna keep on pushing the music. I got my team, they pushing music. So to answer your question, as far as where you think I'd be a year from now, Boston, like I said, I was gonna be when I first prophesized this shit years ago, sitting in a goddamn raggedy ass car with my brother. Wow. So. I like that. I like the way that you. Hold on. How much content have you put out since that? To be honest with you, one or two songs. See, that's where you messed up it. You supposed to, you already know that. I understand how you feel about it. But that process when it came towards you, you should have pushed it out right in there. Cause I was already looking at you. So you kept them looking at you. Yeah. They, I think it was the, it was the controversy versus a lot of personal. But it don't matter. Once all that's said and done, you still gonna be moving. So it don't matter. It's like soon as soon as all that died out, you still gonna be pushing, pushing, pushing. They gonna be singing to the whole thing. So they're not gonna stop looking at you then. Right. Well, you, you, you. Hold on. And then you can change the narrative of that. Right. The situation that you was in. That's what I said. I'm gonna, you know what I'm saying? You know, choose, this is what I said, changing the negative into a positive. You know what I'm saying? That's why I'm trying to, that's why even right now with all this shit out there, I'm doing an interview with y'all. I'm getting, I'm talking, you know what I'm saying? I'm, even my songs, you know, they were at your class and they threw it back. I'm pushing it. Throw it back. That's what I was about to ask you about. I just dropped a song called Come Outside. You know what I'm saying? In response to the bloggers. You know what I'm saying? So I'm really, I'm, I'm moving the best way I can. You know what I'm saying? You know, it's just a lot, but at the same time, I'm going, I'm gonna stop. Throw it back. What made you, I know what it throw it back mean. We know what it mean. You know what it throw it back mean. You was at the club there when you thought about that one. Man, I was sitting back, man. It was an inside joke that turned it to a hit. That's how it do. That's how it do. I'm gonna tell you what it was, man. Me and my brother, baby Joe, shout out, baby Joe. You know what I'm saying? We had this thing where we say, we're gonna knock a female bunnet off if we hit her. You know what I'm saying? Like, we talk about, we're gonna knock a female bunnet off so one day I was sitting in the crib just listening to this beat and it just gravitated to be so hard. I just was playing on the beat and I just threw it back, threw it back, threw it back. And I just threw that little, one little joke in there and everybody went stupid off of it and boom, throw it back. Wow. Now, let me ask you something. Top three artists of all time did or alive? Top three. Top three? Did or live? Pop. Okay. Stalito. Stalito, okay? Number three. Number three. The three get them every time. I'm gonna put wine in there. You're gonna put wine in there? I'll put wine in there. Wow, that's dope, man. But you say pop, Stalito? Stalito. Stalito and Lil Wayne. And it's only because you only got three. That's all you can get. This is top three artists. This is what we do over here. Most do. So, man, hey, one thing I wanna say, man, is make sure you keep putting God first. If you ain't, you need to start. Man, I forgot, trust me, real talk, if I wasn't putting God first, me and you wouldn't be sitting here talking. Really? Real talk is dope. And I say that because of the fact that a lot of folks got to understand, you know, outside of the rooms in the BS, there's they putting on these blogs. And I don't want you to trade and get no, I ain't getting no easy come up. And I don't want you to trade and get no, everything is all work. This shit ain't no, I ain't making no easy got damn cloud off this shit. You know what I'm saying? I ain't making no easy money off this. I gotta get out here and move just like every other artist. You know what I'm saying? Most definitely. And now that y'all got y'all out, I don't mean y'all seeing what I'm doing. Man, man, a nine on one trigger trade, man, we appreciate it. Like, where did a nine on one come from? Now, I'm gonna break it down for you. Nine on one, this Memphis, this my city, it's where I'm from. Trigger trade, I could rap, I speed, just like a chopper, I speed. So they trigger trade, trade, that's my name. That's my team, that's the nickname, that's the name, when you go back to Memphis. You know what I'm saying? So nine on one trigger trade. Man, y'all heard it, there y'all have it. Check it, man. Hey, man, thank you. We love you. Man, I appreciate y'all. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101.