 Check it, check it, check it, this is Unique Hustle, it's your boy E-C-E-O and I'm here with the official, lovely, Ms. Jamaica. Hey, man, so today, man, it's special, real special, man. I'm having a good time, man. It's been a good day. But it's getting better every, every minute, man. So the guy that I've been talking about the most on my show, he's here, man. And I had to make sure my camera was right. This dude know a little more than most of the other ones. You know what I'm saying? So check it out, man. Have pie in this here, man. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great, man. Man, I can tell you, man, I've been sitting here waiting on this. I had Pusher, man. I had Little Runny. And who else did we have? Oh, the peace, because he'd be hanging out with y'all a little bit. I said, man, I got to get half pie. And I even asked Little Runny, I said, man, what's up with half pie? And he'd say, that's my little dude, man. But you plug it in him. So I don't even know what that was all about. That's a big problem. He was like, that's my dude. I was like, yeah, man, I got to get that dude on the show. It's going to happen. We're going to get all the top off in there. That's what he said, but y'all need more microphones. A lot more. I told that nigga, we can buy more microphones, nigga. You don't know. You talking to us. So how's everything going, man? Going great. So how did you end up being from Fort Worth and then coming in really, really permeating all of the streets, man, and not just in Dallas because you done did things outside of Dallas. How did you get into this whole thing, man? Well, I started off in Fort Worth, but I kind of, my business kind of grew into Dallas because I was hanging with Lorene and Papa Run and people like them from Dallas when I first started. So that's how I kind of grabbed the whole city at once type shit. The thing that I looked at was I'm like, man, this dude not only, because when you dealing with these artists, man, these artists really start to get grounded when they dealing with you. And that's been the most exciting thing to watch. I want to tell you thank you. Like, ain't that something I do? Got to say thank you because I enjoyed the whole movement. And I'm real nosy and I'm in the music a lot. And I'm, oh, I won't even be looking at some of this stuff. You know what I'm talking about? But I said, dang, man, I say, man, this dude really rocking the city, man. Because we need that. A lot of times, you know, without you, you know, people from the outside are going to get that money. I'm being real. People on the outside are going to get that look. And did you just talented from the jump with these cameras? No. You was trash. I was trash. I still feel like I'm trash today compared to some of the people. But it's some competition out here. Oh, yeah, for sure. Because he's always looking to improve. So he's always looking at the ones who are way better and be like, look at his and like criticizing yourself. See, not no more. Now I'm fine with where I'm at now with my videography. I just, if somebody better than me, I hire them to shoot. That makes sense. I'm going to say, like, the art and all that stuff around the house. Yeah. If somebody better than me, I'm like, I have pain. I'm hiring them. I ain't got time to be trying to compete no more. When Lil' Runny was, he told me y'all did the deal dedicating it to the guy who pretty much started Top Off. What was his name? JT? JT, yo. JT the big, not the big affair. Just JT. JT, Mr. Guarantee Correct. That's him. The one that was dancing on that video I seen. Yeah. So, so you knew him. You was in this whole family when it first took off. Well, no, I was actually Top Off started in 2008. Yeah. I didn't get in Top Off until 2011. Really? And I actually never got a chance to like meet JT like in person. We was always on the phone. On the phone. But like a month, not even, it wasn't even a whole month after he put me in Top Off, he passed away. Wow. Yeah. That's deep. I never even got to meet him. That make you have to push harder too because you know what it meant. Exactly. Yeah. So it kind of left something on your back to say, kind of like what Sir Charles say BB King kind of, you know, when he passed away. Yeah. He had a solid foundation already going on. Yeah. Yeah. The culture, man, for the culture, man. That's what people been telling me, man. I did the podcast really for the store, but my partner D-Map in Atlanta say, man, thank you, man. You're doing this for the culture. No, nigga, I'm doing this for the store. I did this to try to make sure people start knowing about the store and where we at, but it turned into something bigger than what I even was even thinking about. Yeah. That's crazy, man. Be like that. Right? That's true. People, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Now it turned to a lot more than a few people. It's a good setup. I had a guy come from North Carolina. Thank you. Fluent. Fluent. I was like, dang. Then another dude come from Oakland, California. Then another one, where did he come from? It was one mode that came from out of town. Mississippi. Yeah. I'm like, dang. They like, I just liked the way it looked. We want to be on there. I'm like, damn, I guess we doing all right. And so we knew, but we got the right people on here. Yeah. I know. And we picking why it's, I ain't going to say no name. You know, I'm a little messy, though. Nigga come at me wrong. I got to get him, but I'm going to let him make it. Nigga try to pay. Like I want you to pay me to be on your stuff. I said, nigga, I didn't even want you. Another nigga called me and told me the nigga said this. I'm like, nigga, I don't even do it. We really not about none of that beef, none of that. We straight just, it's love. Yeah. So it's a whole different. You can't even come on here and really be beefing. This is straight love for the city. It's family. And we grown. You know what I'm saying? We want to see things coming together, not torn apart, bro. And that's what I, that's what I always represented. So it's easy for me to be me and sitting over here, you know. But at any rate, man, I always be asking questions about you, but I'm going to let my wife start cause, cause she got a list over there. And I know she do. And then she going to be like, I didn't get to say my question. Let's get to it. The name half pint. Did you have that name before top off? Yeah. I was born with that name. Yeah. When I was born. Cause I was small. I came out of small baby. I was a small child. All the way up until. How many pounds was it? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. You was five pounds, four ounces. Nigga, you were two pounds. I have no idea. I just know I was small all the way up until like 11th grade, probably 12th grade or something like that. I outgrew my name, but. You still kept it. I'm still, yeah. I'm still a half pint. Now when I Google a half pint, do you know there's a half pint in Jamaica? Oh, here we go. I should have knew it. The song we took, every thing we done, they got to try to every race we ran. My wife. Don't start with this now. Where did rap start? Oh, here we go. I'm not going to do it. Man, we're not going to embarrass ourselves in front of half pint like this. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, y'all did a little thing, but it wasn't rap. It was something like that. That's true though, but. Thank you. When I first started searching up my name, typing in half pint. It came in Jamaica. Oh, guess what? She's going to let you know that. Definitely. You don't have to worry about that point, sir. Definitely came up. She's definitely going to tell you about it. They don't play about this stuff. They feel like it's straight small, but they really, really serious about they look country or whatever. Yeah, I grew up around some Jamaicans too. You like the food is good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nice. It's popping. They ain't looking for no drama, even until you want it. They'll bring it to you. They'll bring it to you for sure. And the beats and the music is awesome. Here we go. That's amazing. I agree. Some of it is okay, but some of it is a little tough on me. I went to a strip club over there. I ain't going to lie to you. It's totally different than over here. You just got to see this half pint. I could imagine. Oh, man. But it's a record strip club. Oh, it's nice though. It got to be going on there. But it's the old boy. You wouldn't even know. I can't even explain it. I was over there. She had me with showing paws, body guards. I felt like I was somebody. To the nigga told me kill 26 people. I said, I need to be going to the music. Go ahead, babe. As a child, what did you want to be when you got older? I most definitely thought I was going to the NBA. You could hoop? This nigga. My son. My son. This nigga. Boy, you made me think. I had flashbacks when you said that. We all had hoop dreams, man. All these niggas think they going to the NFL, the NBA. I said, nigga, you need to get a job. Yeah, that dream. That dream was dead by middle school. I couldn't pass the classes. Oh, by middle school. Yeah, I couldn't pass my classes. No pass. No play rule. Fuck that all up for me. Yeah. So after that, what did you want to do? Or you just didn't think about it? I started. Well, after that, I didn't know what I wanted to do. But I started doing videography in ninth grade. So it didn't take me too long. Once I started doing videography, I knew that is what I was going to be doing. Awesome. Awesome. Do you remember the first video that you did? Yep. Nope. I'm just kidding. Go ahead. Yeah, the first video I did was with Mike Fresh. He's still with us today on Top Off. Awesome. So he got on Top Off after you or before you? Well, he just got, he been with us since day one, but he really just became officially Top Off last year. We had other dealings going on. We had other deals with other labels and stuff like that. I think, you know, the thing you got to realize is, man, you y'all building an arsenal over there. You know, I like I told the running wasn't no way y'all suppose came up together like y'all did and then made the foundation like y'all did. That's the only by God, just to be honest with you. Is it going on? Yeah. Yeah. Like all that stuff to link the way it did, you know. And I mean, we've had questions about Erica Banks on here. We had questions about, I wasn't really worried about Erica. I've been talking about yelling you. That's what I've been talking about. I'm trying to figure out this nigga started out boy. I tell you it was, it was half paint everything. I said, boy, we headed somewhere. I ain't gonna lie. But then all of a sudden when it, when it got to where it was going to break, this nigga broke loose and I'm trying to figure out how, why y'all ain't worked together ever again, ever in life. I ain't even seen you on the picture together, man. What the hell is going on? Talk to me. That came about really, it was really started with his label saying. Y'all can't take pictures together? No. Yeah. Yeah. Nigga, that's what I'm talking about. I still talk to Y'all all the time. Okay. Well, give me the goods. We just don't shoot together or nothing because it started with his label saying basically like my video is not up to par. Like the quality that they want. But I'm like, y'all signed him off my video. So how the fuck are they not up to par? But I said this to the running. I said again, I stand behind what I say. I feel like Y'all, if he, where his stuff start doing, it should have been a movement where y'all work so much together. Y'all should have collapsed. Some kind of way to make that happen. Yeah. It's supposed to happen. It was supposed to happen. I mean, I'm stumped down. So whoever, my cats with me been with me for years. I take them everywhere with me. I don't care who comes. You, you signed paperwork nigga. You got to rock with him too. It don't matter because of the way it was. I just don't think it's, I think you do a lot of stuff for people. And I don't think you get the just credit. I definitely don't. I'm being real. You absolutely don't. And I don't like it because I'm real hardcore, you know. Me either. I mean, I'm being like, like you help people even when it comes down to even Erica, she ain't been going long. So I ain't going to be too hard on cause cause at the end of the day, something still could evolve into something else. I don't want to, but I am saying that the work you put in with these artists and then they just, you know, all of a sudden they just gone. I don't get that. Me either. Is it something you're doing to them? This is what I thought about at my house. Wait a minute. This nigga must be really, you know, how a woman be being battered or something. And then, you know, she finally get out the damn house. I said, was he hard on him or something when it was working together? But a little running like that's my dog. He don't, you know, he good people. So I count him like, okay, little running say good, he must be all right. Did he folks just, what's going on? Anybody that been with me and left me, they're going to tell you I'm a good nigga. I think I heard the Asian doll or somebody say they would always work with you or somebody out here say something like that. I don't know. The Asian doll. I think it was her. Before she was a rapper too. Yeah. I'll always do whatever, you know, he need me to do. Oh, no, that was, uh, it was something I chanted. And that's it. That wasn't chanted. I started working. You remember that? I heard it. I was like, oh, that's good. At least she said it. I'm listening because I don't want to be the wrong type of, I don't want to be behind this mic saying something that ain't really real. You know what I'm saying? So what's up with the cameras? I mean, because I did first start feeling like, okay, okay, why not buy the camera? Because you got money. And I know you got money. I've been watching everything. Okay, so why don't you do you not like? Oh, no, I could buy the camera myself. Oh, you could rent the camera, whatever. So why, why didn't you take that route to be? Because I'm not going to go buy a camera because a nigga need me to have the camera when you're getting the money. I'm not getting the money. That's right. So you should buy the camera. Make it make sense to me. Give it to me. Just fine with what I got. I'm not going to go. Matter of fact, I did buy a camera. Okay. That was higher price. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And industry standard. Exactly. And didn't get no money back for it. And still didn't get the look. Didn't get the look. So I get it. I get it. But I already kind of figured that. But I just wanted it on my platform to be said because I know you didn't talk about it somewhere before. But I just don't like, I like it to be 100 man. And like, like you do good work. So I mean, at the end of the day, I don't know. I mean, is what's the standard? If I want to put some on Netflix, you have you checked in all this? What's the standard? Like a red cam and basically it's just like a quality standard. It really, it really is not no standard some more to the game. It's really not no standard. You know I'm asking because I don't know. Yeah. You got stuff on Netflix shot with goddamn with with these cameras. Really? Yes. You can put anything on there. It used to be TV got to be a certain quality. It ain't they ain't going. It's whatever. I know Sir Charles told me that he said that a lot of B roll is stuff that they shoot with whatever. No, he can mix it in and they don't even ever have an issue. He said you couldn't do it with a Canon. You can do it with these. He said you could do it with the with the with the with the with with the Lumix saying but and and and that magic that pocket like magic. Yeah, you got those two and it was like you can do it with those but certain one of they trip on. I don't have them all but they don't really be tripping like that. You know, if you if you got if you if you format your video right is that's all that matters at the end. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Go ahead. I know you got it. It's coming out. Hold on. No, in the videos. Music videos. Do you have any aspirations in moving into movies? Films. Films. Documentaries. Yeah. Maybe you can do it. We already know you got talent. I could do it. But like I said, I'm really kind of moving out of the video lane. What are you going to do? I'm on my CO. I'm with you. I'm with you. What's my name? ETO. I'm with you. I'm really on that. What's your two year goal? My two year goal? Let's start short. I could really do business with you because I don't think you're going to screw me over. I didn't already check you out. Nigga, you done told it off on yourself. I rock with you. What we doing? What we doing? I got a budget. Nigga, I got money. What's up? We can get it in. What's up? Give us a little bit of it. I'm really just trying to pop my artists off. Okay. How many artists? All of them. All of them. All of them on top of them. You're trying to get all 20 and top of them. All 35 of them. All 82 of them. Nigga, you got a lot of them. All you take is one. Once I get everybody on, it's going to be a... Everybody's going to bust through the door. Okay. I got a question now since you said that. So I want to be your artist. Now, I'm 22, 21. I want to be on top off. I'm working hard. I got visuals. Yeah. I don't have a lot of follow-ups because I'm new. Matter of fact, I'm 17. But my mama said I can rap. You know what I'm talking about? So how do I get... How do I impress a half thing? Man. I really don't pay attention to clout or none of that. Every artist I've ever gotten, well, except LaTuzi. Every artist besides LaTuzi that I've ever got didn't have a big following coming into the situation. I care about talent. Every artist I got is talented. What did you see in Yella that made you shoot him so dang much, man? His film... I mean, Yella, that was... What did you see? That ain't had nothing to do with no rap. That was my partner from... That's what I thought. He was just together every day. That's what I thought. He had nothing to do with no rap. When I met him, I didn't even know he was a rapper at first. Really? Yeah. When he started showing me his music... Shout out, Popper Run. We were just together the other day. That's a good dude. I like that guy. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, he ain't had nothing to do with no rap at first. So you just was on the strip, but you knew it was talent. Oh, yeah. And did you ever at early on feel like, dang, man, this thing ain't gonna go? I mean, yeah, yeah. Anybody I deal with on that level, I feel like everybody around me, like from Yella, Lil' Runny, I was with Go Yello way before he was... Yeah, Go Yello. Yeah. Way before he was... He locked up right now. Yeah. Free Yello, man. Free Yello. What is his name? Say it again. I can't say that. You mess me up. Yello. Yeah. And my boy said Yello. Free Yello, man. All these people was my friends and brothers before music. For all these stuff. Music. Yeah. It just so happened that these niggas became them niggas. I knew they was gonna beat them niggas, but they was my partners before that. Yeah. Yeah. But you did a lot of videos for your niggas. I'm one of my captains. I put doing business with friends. That's what I put. Because that's what it was. That's what I put on there on Lil' Runnyville. We were talking about the red dots of doing business with friends because this was a friend thing. And it finally, you know, it's hidden, hidden to me that it was a friendship. And that's cool. But somewhere it turned business, bro. It turned business. You got paperwork. You got to do it. Yeah. You got to. I know you don't be wanting to. You and Gucci the same way. Gucci didn't want to do paperwork at first, but you got to do paperwork at some point. At some point, yeah. At some point. I don't like to bring my artists in on paperwork because I don't like to, because I'm not, I don't bring my artists in making no promises to them. I'm telling them I'm gonna help them out. I'm learning now. I'm learning now. I'm not making, I'm not telling them. Okay. What you telling? I'm just telling them I'm gonna help you out. I want to help you. Okay. But what if they blow before you, why are you helping them? Then we, Once we start going in them label meetings and before you sign with this label, then we'll sign a contract to secure our relationship. But I'm not trying to. Yeah. But what about Ericka Banks? I'm gonna say that. Yeah. Like you talking about you just sound real good. That's what I'm saying though. If it's not in a heart to bring me with them. I don't want to be with them anyway. But you just helped a lot of people man that you didn't get your credit for. I don't care. And you don't have no time to let me know. I don't care, I'm gonna be caring because at the end of the day I just don't feel like, I feel like that's not the way it goes. I'm getting mine and when I get mine for real. Yeah. I'm gonna get mine that's gonna be with loyal people. If they leave me. Yeah. That is what it is. I don't care. I think that's when he got locked up because he had to give him over to P. No, no, no. That was who just said he had to give him over to Migos too, but it was Young Thug too. Young Thug too. But it was all of them that they talked about he should over to P like that. So he didn't have some kind of ties if it wasn't but an agreement. He had ties pretty much if anybody came out of that. Of course. Of course. But I'm just saying those were the ones that they talked about when he got locked up that he was working with when he got locked up. I think about him when I think about you and how you doing things to be honest with you. Yeah. Which is a good I'm going to get mine. Yeah. I believe so. I'm going to get it with a lot of people. But you know that's what happened with Dre. If you really think about it, Dre went through the same kind of thing while he was getting money but nothing like he was going to get like he got now. Who's talking about Dr. Dre? Yes, sir. With who? I'm talking about when he first started out he wasn't getting and then he still got here. So I agree with what you're saying. You're still going to get yours. God got something for you. You can't nobody. Hey man, he more than the world against you. Go ahead still. No, but going back to the question as if someone wanted to be a part of Top Off. What do you look for in a artist? Because I know that whenever you discovered Sanny you were looking at her. You were looking at her and from what I heard you approached her. But what song she gave you didn't like that one at first. So when she dropped the next song I think it was called She got a note? She got a note. Yes. Then that's when you reached out to her and said hey I want you to be a part of Top Off. So what was it that she did on that song? I'm just using her as a reference for anybody who's listening who like okay I want to know what he's looking for. Well honestly I knew I wanted to sign Sanny off of she did she did one little Instagram video I'm talking about it was like ten seconds and she probably said like two three bars on that hoe and I was like she got it. I knew she had it off that one little Instagram video. Then I hit her told her send me some music I was like okay that's cool it got the auto tune a little heavy on it but that mother for cool I laid out and then she dropped the feeling involved video I was like okay she got it for real so that's when I hit her again and was like I want to work with you she was with it but I've been knowing Sanny way before music also because both of y'all are from Fort Worth yeah her brother her brother actually like my best friend in high school so they got ties they got ties yeah everybody on there so you've been watching her for a long time yeah I've been knowing her it makes sense so do you have other artists that you are watching at this moment oh it's a bunch of them oh yeah I'm always watching I'm watching everybody he got this thing he do on the Instagram I seen the nigga on there I can't everybody on there trying to get their music on the what's going on reviews I'm going to talk to you about that too nigga I need to try to figure mine out I want to be able to do some reviews they ain't going to be worth a damn so I hear them and I watch you a little bit I mean you really brutally honest what you need to be you know what I mean but constructive crimson is always good yeah but these young niggas ain't ready for a lot of truth or hurt you first before it make you bad oh yeah people be mad at me for sure but I don't give a damn about nobody being mad at me I ain't just me I ain't tripping did you ever pass on somebody and they came back nigga y'all did it you said I was trash and it got better somebody that trash that was trash and got better and they made it and you could have helped them but you didn't mess with them no no be careful because you want that thing pretty strong they coming through now I always see the potential I always see the potential even if it's even if it's trash at the moment I can see potential in it through that yeah if it's just completely trash though completely trash who do you who do you think is not in your group cause y'all don't like sitting by the top I was a bunch of but how many people are in top I think it's about 22 about 20 of us I was close I mean it's like 10 artists too but it's like will it you don't know it's too many it's a whole family of us it's a whole bunch of people some of them and he don't even realize then little brothers it's a whole bunch of it's like a real I saw a group picture I think it was on your Facebook it's the cover yeah where it was like a whole that's the whole that's the whole family that's JT mama his angel sister cause that's that's the whole family I noticed that was at like a it was a graveyard or something like that that's a JT JT yeah we do that twice a year sometimes more than that but we gonna go see JT twice a year for shows that's hot man and it gives the other people that switch your inspiration and know that y'all not just doing something that's loyal you know what I'm saying I like that I like that see now I didn't know that part you know y'all was out there like that I know Z you looked it up they had it on Wikipedia no they had it on his face so so the when you came when you when you was starting out it wasn't nothing but maybe some CDs I don't think you old enough for the cassette era oh no now when I was now when I was CD it was CDs and then it transferred over to to streaming and all that how was that transformation for you man you seemed pretty sharp on it at the time when that was when that was transforming that's like around the time I was first starting and we had a manager at the time named Pook Irvin South he had the knowledge on all that stuff already going on so it was it was it was brought to us pretty easily yeah yeah yeah he knew what was going on with the streaming and everything how to get your music on iTunes and Spotify and all that are you working with those artists of yours all 2017 though about YouTube are you working with them what you mean as far as showing them if you do this this is what you got to be in order to do this are you are y'all working on every stream to make sure that these guys are set up properly oh yeah they know what's going on you know what I'm saying even if they cause you know some people rugged and ragged I know I know everybody got their business right but that's the serious part of it right yeah for sure are you okay okay you got any more questions are you just holding this man up man gotta be in this take care of so do you have any kids oh yeah I got a daughter I'm in a kid no you just an eight daughter the boy look young I got one just one buddy I'll start with one one two three four yeah nigga the number grow up like top off nigga I got one how many you want where you from where you from stop six where you at over there Eastwood Eastwood okay okay I hear a lot of stuff about Fort Worth just like they talk about Fort Worth man I'm gonna be honest with you just like they talk about Oakcliff or yeah yeah it's like these areas are like the bad air no they ain't bad I took you to the rodeo over there remember you made me go rock them damn horses so that's only bad if you make it bad certain parts of Fort Worth I'd be hearing about that you know there's be a lot of killings and there's a lot of stuff I think anywhere can be they don't play yeah come on now I know but there's certain parts of Kingston yeah yeah so that's anywhere that's anywhere go to Delaware and get whacked but Fort Worth do be on the news a lot so how is it like living over there so I don't live there you move yeah please oh okay growing up over there I'll I'll stay my parents got had me in the suburb it didn't look like he had a little money stuff no questions on the plot but my parents did all right no niggas y'all y'all weren't hurting I could tell we weren't hurting you could tell the niggas just hurting you're the one that come in that's what I was saying so that's a good thing don't be ashamed of that I believe in everything my parents did that thing did you go to school or well not college not college you didn't have to see the boy talented the boy like he like like LeBron or something he just went straight to LeBron college that was never in my family so when you went to your parents and told them that you wanted to venture off into videography as much as you started young mm-hmm what did they say about it were they with you or were they I mean at first I first when I wasn't really like making no money from it my mama was always get a job get a job of course yeah get a job but it's always the mom I'm like this kind of got slow I actually went and got a job I went and got a job at chimps I worked there I know I seen you I knew it I knew I seen that nigga at chimps and he was not trying to get nobody no deal or nothing he's got a job like this and I got my first paycheck there how much was it don't lie to me dawg like 150 well you were and that's how much I needed like my time I was like I got working two weeks for 150 yeah I got to get out I gave a nigga 58 cent raise one time I'm serious I gave a nigga he called he said that all you giving I said yeah that's all they let me give 3% the nigga said I got to go man never went back never went back never do it again so what's the next level you so you gonna pop one of these what how long does that take you don't know how long that's going to take you never know how long it might take so you what the video is yeah that's you I'm ahead of the curve I'm I'm staying some money some type of way but one of these art is gonna get about her you need to take pride in getting a video from you bro now I'm serious man like all the niggas they be like yeah I'm getting one from Halfpaint oh yeah I did mine with Halfpaint yeah I call it I call it designer videos that's like that's like going to buy some Gucci clothes or something you can go buy some Nike or you can go buy some Gucci That's real. What you think? Design a video. I think so. I mean, I brag about getting a video from these types of people. So do you ever work with any of the other videographers like the Jeff Adairas and all them guys? I started under Jeff Adairas. Oh yeah? I started working with Jeff Adairas. When I was young, just now starting off, Jeff Adairas brought me in. I was like an intern for Jeff Adairas. That's where I started at. You learned a lot? Yeah. I mean, I learned the basics. That's hot. For sure. So do you need like my Ronin S.C.? Do you need a Ronin S.? Do you need a big, one of them big ones look like a damn car coming at you? Oh no, I got everything. Is that, that's how you come at them? I got everything. I mean, it looked real serious when they had him on these videos though. So you got, I'm going to let you go. You know, I'll be going in. I'm sorry. I'm freestyle. No, you're going in. I didn't come from here, buddy. Yeah, we're having a real conversation. Yeah. That's how it's supposed to be. No, no, go ahead. Okay. Well, I can, I can just go in, you know. So Ronin, you did, you did a lot of his videos, some of them you didn't. So little Ronin is, I think that he should have been and blew up a long time ago. I think he do be getting that money though. I know he do. Nigga look like a little money when he came. Now the nigga look like he just already just, I'm like, damn, little Ronin got a little money. Cause I know a lot of celebrities. You know what I'm saying? And you can tell the ones who get in the little money. He ain't hurting. I had to get to that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And everybody around everybody say, you know, he right. He's a well rounded artist and for him to come on my platform for you to come on my platform for top off to keep being so professional. That's why I keep pulling y'all on here. Y'all don't realize it, but each one of y'all y'all ain't in the no mess. He said that to me. I'm pulling every one of them. That's what I want to deal with people who, when they do pop, I get to go with them cause these niggas is real good people. That's what I'm looking at. Exactly. And the niggas in the mess, don't come. I don't care. I just want the people who trying to bring the city together to, I'm not into all that stuff, man. Oh, yeah. I love the way you guys are doing it, man. Y'all really killing the game when it comes down to unity. That's what this city needs, bro. Do y'all only deal with people just from Oakville for y'all got people out of Louisiana? Cause y'all look like y'all rolling hard in Oakville. No, you talking about, you talking about as far as our artists? Yeah. I know, we from everywhere. I'm from Louisiana. I'm in Oakville. Mike Fresh from Louisiana. Yeah. Yeah. I seen that. The one I started with, he's from Louisiana. And my boy from Waco, G.T. G.O. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my boy. I just interviewed him the other day. I told you, I'm pulling y'all. J.B. from Arkansas. I'm gonna snuck against C.U.N.I. I'm gonna get J.B. I'm gonna get all of them. Because that's the way it go. Now, I don't tell running. I ain't buying no more mics. Y'all coming one at a damn time. These mics are almost 500 a piece. Yeah, you're not getting no more mics. Yeah. But that's what it's all about. I think that's what's gonna heal the city, people who are trying to unify, not tear the city apart. You know what I mean? Even all the guys that did it, they paved the way. They can come through. You know what I'm saying? People who really, really care about this city and who really, really put that work in. Like Dunn Chief, that was her earlier. I'm trying to pick the right ones, bro. And Ronnie told me, he said, be very picky. I said, that boy gave me some good advice. Just be very picky. If you do that, you're gonna be all right. I said, appreciate it, Ronnie. Then I tell him that. Yeah, that's what it's all about, man. Where do you get your inspiration from for your directorial? I get my inspiration from the music, from whatever song it is that I'm directing. I really don't. I can't say it was one person or director that inspired me to be a director or nothing like that because I never really cared like that. That's the crazy part, like maybe cameraman that's like being a cameraman is like a passion. It was never really like my passion. I just did it because it fell into my lap and it was something to do, it was a good way to get into the music business. So I just did it. I never really cared like that. Where do you get your ideas from for the videos, though? No, some of them do, some of the music and the artists, right? Yeah, for the most part, I really don't come up with ideas for my videos. I let the artist do. If I got ideas for your video. Because the artist normally come to you and tell you what they want. Exactly. And then you just put it together. Exactly. If I got an idea for your video, you're going to know because I'm going to tell you this is what we need to do. If I don't got no idea, I'm not sitting there wasting my time trying to come up with an idea either. Okay, that's what I was wondering because I know that a lot of artists that we've been having on here, they say that they put everything together. They tell you how they want it. You still want to put your stamp of, you know, of you into the video. Yeah, when we get there, now, when we get there, whatever you present me with, I'm going to make the best out of it for sure. But as far as coming up with it, I do too much. I do too many videos and I'll be giving everybody the same ideas. So yeah, that's true. You work with a lot of people. So I mean, a lot of these artists that you work with, some of them, you know that they ain't going to make it. You know they ain't going to make it. Don't try to lie to me. I know you know they ain't going to make it. You see the proof? Of course. You're like, damn, I'm going to do the video. You got to let them try, though. This nigga is not going to make it. You can't. But I put this Ronin on this nigga and this big whatever, but he got to pay you. I'm going to do it. Because I don't have people try to come on this damn platform and they ain't got nothing to talk about. I just want to come on there. I say, for what? I had a nigga to call me out of these texts like, man, E, I see you got a podcast. I say, yeah, he said, I want to come on there. I said, for what? You ever had him? Like, what are we going to talk about? I don't think we're going to figure nothing out. I said, you're going to freeze him. I had a nigga that thought he was a rapper froze up. He's going to ask a nigga one question. And that's it. We done, nigga. Get up. Up a show. No. Do you turn people down? I wouldn't call it turn them down. I just don't respond to sometimes. Reject the hell out of them silently. That's what he do. It's never been a time where somebody paid me a deposit or sent me a song and I'd be like, oh, yeah. After your money paid, we're going to do it. We're going to do it. You could be dissing me in the song. And we're going to shoot it. See that? That's what I'm talking about. I got to be with a nigga like him. He like me. Yeah, you trying to do some being with these niggas. Regardless, that's what it take, really, if you really stumped down person that's trying to make things happen for the city. OK. I'd like to ask you, what is your top three artists of all time? Oh, yeah, that's one of our good questions. Of all time? Of all time. Any genre? Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne. Of course. He from the South. All right with you, baby. Let's go. Drake. Drake. He from Canada, but the nigga started in Houston. All time. Oh, that's your number one? You went backwards. No, no, no, I went from one to Wayne Drake. Everybody else don't matter how you're like, damn. I don't know who to get. And this any genre, do you listen to Chardale or anything like that? You know? Oh, I listen to music. I listen to music. So you think it's country music. Number three. Who you think? I pick half pants. Number three. I don't know this tub. Twisted black. I tell you what, it ain't. I'm just messing with you. I fuck with black tub. I love it. I used to love his music, man. I know black don't have any way to leave it out. Is he coming home, Ella? He's coming home. Wayne, nigga. Soon, nigga. You from you. You from over there, nigga. I've been talking to black all the time on the phone. Yeah, but I did that when I was like, you just trying to get him to come into the seat. You don't talk about nigga, I'm coming home. He coming. You think so? Within the next year and a half, two years, black going to be home. OK, OK. So that means he been going to see the parole board. He's been denied once. He may get L-5-1 or L-5-2. We don't know yet. You don't talk about black going to be home. Y'all heard that first from Half Pint. Half Pint said it. Y'all hit the nigga up. He the one told me that. Black coming home. Black is coming to the house, baby. And so. Number three. Number three. Yeah, we got to get to number three. I just told his name out there. I don't know. That is tough. Come on, bro. Give it up. That is tough. From Texas, nigga. Act right, nigga. OK, so you don't want me to do that? I can tell you for sure it's not no Texas artist that's on top three. I can't deal with this. Man, this is sad, bro. There's not no PIMC. Watch out, bro. Don't you never cuss out his PIMC. Don't do that. I love PIMC. I love PIMC. It's not even the music. But it's not his top three? When it comes to PIMC. No, he over all that. Just so you know. Yeah, it's not PIMC. Yeah, well, that's because PIMC, really, he's too young to know. I'm old enough to know. He don't know. He don't know. I know a little bit of the music, but I like PIMC as a character. I like PIMC as the person. Well, look, let's just get out. Let's get out of PIMC for this. I like him as a rapper too, but let's not do this. I love the person. I missed his whole damn interview up behind PIMC. No, I love PIMC. OK, thank you. That's all I want to say, man. Rest RP, man. Get your rest, baby. You know what I'm saying? Yes, sir. But I don't know. That's 30. You've got to give us a third one, man, because this is one of my things that I categorized too. Right. So give us your third one. Fuck it. The third one, Lil' Runny, my ass. I knew you were going to say that. I knew it, man. You go down right. That's your nigga, man. That's the best choice. I was waiting. I was like, I know you're going to say Lil' Runny. Lil' Runny, fuck it. Yeah, and rightfully so. He did work. He's road for people. The dude is talented. He continues to be relevant throughout different phases, giving him his props, giving them his roses while here. And he's about to come back on the show because I got something I'm doing with him. So yeah, I want to bless his game. That's my guy right there. I like him. I'm telling you. So what else you got for? Nothing else? All right, man. You know what? Do you want to tell people how they can get a hold of you? That's for the people that everybody know you. But tell them how they can get a hold of you. I'm kind of over that. No, no, no. Tell them how they can get a hold of you. We don't know. I don't even know. I try to get you. Matter of fact, you wouldn't follow me back. I said, damn it. I said, hey, no, no, no. Look, for the past month or two, my Instagram be tripping sometimes. It will not let me follow you back. You know what, bro? Let me see your phone, nigga. Let me see your phone, nigga. It's dead now. We want them to follow. Bostock podcast 101. And we need to follow E.C.E.O. He's behind the score, C.E.O. I'm sick of it, man. Nigga got a bunch of followers. I'm sick of these niggas like funny with me, man. Nigga, right now in your face, I'm going to follow you back for a show. Because I'm sick of it. I don't follow you. I ain't going to lie to you. I said, I ain't for the following nigga. He think he all that. You know, nigga, the attitude about that. Spill it with the girl. There you go. Following. Now, let me show you. There it is. There ain't that many of us. OK, cool. As long as he followed it, then we ain't got but 200 followers. He's 238. How many followers have we got on there? 300, I was the third. We just, we just, we three months in the game, we try and get this thing off the ground and have pain follow. So all you any going to shout us out. Y'all don't follow nobody, y'all damn sale. Y'all just because it's us, man. Y'all follow nobody but y'all. On our personal page, we do. I followed you on my personal page. That's the one I was talking about. I wasn't trying to get you on there. Don't try to play me because I. What, boss talk 101? Now E.C.E.O. C.E.O. Underscore. I'm the C.E.O. of, uh, you can go. There's three people that it follows. And you cannot follow me when you're out there. I know how you do it, bro. And you follow your back that way. I don't follow nobody. You don't? Not at all. We locked in. That's what I'm saying, man. And guess what? If you need me, I'm going to pull up. And then when I pull up, it ain't broke. So you should be having a nigga like, I'm going to pull up. My cousin say that when we go out, he's like, man, everybody else be big and when we go out. Man, man, you, we can go out together. We had to pay for everybody way to get in, to drinks, everything. That's cool, cuz. You should have rich friends. Yeah. But you know what the crazy thing is, like before I started researching you, because I didn't, I'm not really into rap music. Rap music. She not. I love R&B. I'm an R&B girl. So do I. But whenever I started looking at your Instagrams and stuff like that, you are so hilarious to me. Oh yeah. Yeah, he be cutting up. For some reason I thought you were fat, dawg. I did. A lot of people be thinking that. I'm like, this nigga fat. I am fat, really. I'm not. No, you're not fat. No, you're not. I'm bigger than what I am. That's half pain film. That's that fat dude over there. No cool. But you can dance. You can't dance. You have a brother look like you. Yeah, my little brother's CP. Yeah, I'm like that. Is that him? They look alike. Yeah, they look alike. I seen a nigga rap or something. I seen him. He do films, too. He do films. That's what he do. Yeah, yeah. You got another brother, too, that I'm supposed to be trying to get on for. How many brothers you got? You got another brother. Who, D-Hawk? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I heard about him, too. How many brothers you got? Like real brothers, I got five. Any sisters? Nope. Wow. Yeah. Five brothers. Dad, it was a real step over there. Five brothers. Yeah, that's what's up, man. No, I got CP under me and I got another brother named Torrance under me. So what I want to do is we got to bring up and see on them. Yeah. Hey, man, thank you so much for coming on the show, man. Boss talk 101. Yes, sir. Half pain.