 I go by the name of Cannabis in the realm of hip-hop. I say that just one of those MCs that, you know, me try to give you hip-hop in its rawest form. I take it back to the golden era and try to bring it to where it's going. You know, soldier in hip-hop. The first recorded contract that I've gotten was with Universal MCA Group Home and Group Home Productions. It was a production there that we had acquired through the management of Lost Boys and working with them. So, from that, like, you know, working with Cheeks and them, you know, we used to do the management thing for them, you know, they put Renee out and it was up there, Island Records. You know, then they put the love piece of Napping in the south and I was on that beach from the East Track. You know, you did that Rama reason thing with Rise-Kaz, Rock and Rock. I was a skeleton. The rest was history. I mean, the first record that I recorded was with this DJ called Frankie Cutlass, you know what I'm saying? You know, Frankie Cutlass, you know, let me get on that track. I put like 32 balls on that track. That was probably the first record I did at D&D with Frankie Cutlass and the Tony Touch was not too long after that. I say that as far as like being impressionable enough to say, you know, I'm fucked with the music and I want to do this. Probably, I would have probably been in the 80s. Rad, Kane, Rob, you know, run DMC. I wanted to be able to have as much influence as them, you know, when Rock Kim did Fava Bolida and you've seen the video, I wanted to say one day well, y'all want to have influence like that. Well, as with anything, I feel like, you know, drills are very important. You know what I'm saying? You got to do, you know, preliminary training, program is a training that you have to do in order to, you know, somehow find your niche or master, whatever it is that you're aiming at. When it comes to music, if you're a producer, you make beats, then you have to learn how to produce. You can't just have a drum machine and then call yourself a producer. You have to be able to take an artist like myself that just come in and don't give a fuck about hooks or nothing. You got to be able to take an artist like me as a producer. You got to be able to take an artist like me and say, all right, well, spit your shit, bitch. And I spit the rum and then, you know, leave the studio. Then I come back. The whole record is done. That's a producer to me. And as far as the MC, you know, naturally you would have to went through all the chambers. All of the prerequisite training, you would have to went through those things. You got to be around in the industry. You know what I mean? You would have to be around artists that either came out or doing the damn thing, you know, on the underground level. And you got to go through the training. You know what I'm saying? You got to go through the drills. And that, you know, the determination and the commitment that you show in your drills is going to manifest later on. And, you know, if it's a career that you're aiming for, then that will manifest as a career starting from the drills. For the people that have been following the kid for, you know, 12 years, beats from the East started with like 50 bars. You know, 2000, that was in 1996. 96, you know, 50 bars. Then the first album came out. You know what I'm saying? Then the second album came out. 2000 BC, there was 100 bars on there. Roughly 10 years later, about nine years later, I did a thousand bars. You know, now I'm working on 10,000 bars. I work at the, you know, I tell MCs, I tell them sometimes when they ask how I do this best or, you know, we want to come up with what we do or I just see them, I see they so looking at me, asking me what's next. I say catalog. I think catalog is important because you might not blow on your first album. You know, you might not gain the recognition that you're looking for in your first record. But if you make a catalog and you have six, seven, eight albums, then you might blow on that fifth or sixth album so then everybody got to go check. You know what I'm saying? The albums that came out prior. So I think catalog is very important because no one really is in complete control of when they got the most exposure and when they be able to touch the most people. But once you have a catalog, you don't have to think about that no more. So the work ethic is all about the catalog and the farce catalog I think. Last time I checked it was like 3,500 songs that's out, that's released. You know what I'm saying? That I've had out. So 3,500 songs that are more songs than pop. You know, I love pop. You know what I'm saying? I don't even know MC that's out, that's done more music that's been out. So the work ethic is, the work ethic is mountain lion style. People evolve in every day. Technology is evolving, stepping up. It's constantly revisions and new versions of what was out yesterday. So yeah, I give you a definitely thumbs up to that. Positive. I definitely had to grow with the times. You know what I mean? And I'm thankful for the people that come out to the shows. They're not just fans, they're fans. It's like family because, you know, they ride with me for so long. So naturally, you know, I would look at that. Like that's something that, there's no, there's no marketing plan or anything like that that could give you that. That's something that comes from the heart. So, you know, I give them 100 every time. I don't matter if you're in Idaho or you're in a village in China or you're in a third world country somewhere barefoot. You know, it doesn't matter where you're at because of the standard of technology that's available now, you know? So I would just once again reiterate, you know, it might sound rhetorical, but that's where it's at. I'll reiterate catalog, you know, just make your catalog and continue to record regardless of what you're facing and, you know, emotion manifest thoughts, manifest actions, manifest words, manifest reality. You know, those are some of the, you know, that's like a, some of the, that's like my motto, one of the things that I use to, you know, keep me committed and keep, you know, keep them with the ambition that I had, you know, a decade ago. Catalog is very important.