 I don't know what the fuck that happened. Man, get serious. Man, let's go to work. It's time, man. It's time. I'm just soaking old gas. It's time, man. The black market is open, man. The black market is open. You know what I mean? She go. What the bell means? Big money. Oh, yeah. Come on. Come on, man. The one they ringing the bell when the money come in right there. Yes, sir. Boom, boom. We take pointers from the greats. All the way. Now, you don't get to be in the black market a lot, but it's jumping over here. All the way. We don't bring them. They don't bring them. They don't bring them. The coldest through the black market, bro. All the way. You know, we was here when we kicked it off and this kid's still going. Entrepreneurs, architects, people that write books. Artists. Artists, people who specialize in, you know, great culinary. We have florist. Oh, man. You know what I mean? We find black people that do everything. Everything. And this guest that we got with us today, he just as great as the rest of them. But what'd he do? He's a rapper. Okay. He's a filmmaker. Okay. He's an engineer. Okay. He does everything that black people do. Yeah. He's doing all that. He's what you call a universal. He might be Jamaican with all that. Right. He's so any good at it too. So good that they call him tone the goat. Did you know that? I know it now. Did you know that? Tone, welcome to the black market slash trap slash 85 self show slash, you know, a meeting of the mind. Yeah. How you been? Man, I'm blessed to be here, man. I hear you got a lot of good things going on in the city. Yeah. He wrote the movie water boys. Yeah. What's up? It's also the in-house engineer over there. Oh, word. It also has a film and a record out over there. I told you it's a goat. All the way. So what got you in the, what was first? The music was first. Man, I bet I got my first song on the radio in high school. So what was it? We're about to bring it back. It's called, it's called a jerk. It's not the one from Cali. It was before that, but it was a dance song. It was doing a snapper. Okay. In Atlanta. You know, that was how that popped all off. You know, I had five scholarships offers at the time. Three in baseball and two in art. And I turned it all down to do music. And I told myself when I made that commitment, because I knew my parents weren't going to be satisfied or happy. They actually kicked me out after that. But I told myself I was going to keep pushing. It was a hard work, because I knew what I was turning down to do it. Yeah. But that's what I wanted to do and been doing it there since. Are you from Atlanta? Yeah. Born and raised. Okay. Yeah. DC, one of my good partners, man. We came up together. That's what's up. He been crazy. Yeah. Yeah. That's what's up, G. Well, congratulations on everything, bro. You don't regret the baseball. Shit. You made plenty of strass since then. Nah. That was my pops dream. He put me in that early baseball born and shit, man. When you get three scholarships, man. That ain't you. It was good. I tell people all the time, I don't see no baseball player living like the rappers that I look up to. That's the right one. They living way better. That's because you don't get to see them. That's what y'all think. Shit. I bet y'all post up a debate and they pull up the reel. I look at the baseball contracts, you'll get like 300 Ems for like 10 years. You know what I'm saying? You break it down per year. They ain't not getting paid with these quarterbacks getting or definitely not the ball players. Man. It's guaranteed money though. I got you. That's the difference in baseball. We don't try to make you go back and try it again. I don't know what drugs this young man has been on. I don't know. And it was born, man. I like females and the females I never like going to the baseball games. Yeah, nigga. Not for free. You get 300 million. That bitch ain't missing no game. It's a bitch. All 182 games. Not salute. Salute. Nigga, you getting money like that, your girl be in the stands correcting people. No, that's the shortstop. Uh-huh. Yeah, my man, he had play center field and he alternates. She didn't know the whole game. You getting 300 Ems. So you say you got your, what grade was you in when your song got on the radio? 11th, going at 12th. Woo. And it was crazy. And you had a whole year being on the radio in high school? Yeah, yep, yep, yep. Oh, man. Yeah, it was, I was on the Billboard charts and everything, man. The song peaked in number four, but it was being pushed to like the pop market. When I first came out, I had no cussing in my raps. I didn't have dreads. I was clean cut, you know. Why are you starting cussing? Nah, we just fucking with your dog. I got a potty mouth. I just wasn't cussing in the raps, you know. Yeah, but the marketing scheme they had for it was pushing it towards their market. So it was on the Billboard charts and stuff and like the teachers knew about it and the students knew about it. But a lot of people in the city from out hood didn't know about it because it was being played on like rhythmic stations and stuff like that. So it was like, it was bittersweet. It was like I was populous hell in a market that I wasn't from. So it was like, I was populous. But then when I come back, they like, shit, Tony, when you gonna drop a song, I'm like, you ain't hear what I just dropped. It's out. They like, nah. See, that's why you don't come back. Just stay it over there. I appreciate it. So from the music, how did you go into everything else that you do now? I always been self-taught on everything. When I first started doing the music, I had no engineer or producers or any of that. So I learned how to do all of that and got good at it. And just started doing everything I needed from that. When I needed a music video, I went and bought a camera and figured that out. And, you know, when I needed to edit it, I figured that out. And, you know, all of those things just built into, I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know I was creating my version of myself. Now then I was just doing it because I needed to do it. I didn't necessarily. And then people started seeing it. And they like, man, I need that done, too. And I need that done. Well, shit, clearly you're a brilliant man, bro. If you could teach yourself how to do all this shit, you wanted them once. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. How did you get in with Boosi? I was engineering a record for a young schooler at the time. And he had a song he was featuring Boosi on. And this was during the time when, like, Internet was playing with Boosi's name a lot. He was still locked up. And it was like, like, every now and then, they'd be like, Boosi getting out. Then he don't get out. So, like, we had got a customer, like, thinking it's a prank every time they saying Boosi going to get out. So when he said he got a song, he going to put Boosi on, I was thinking it was a dude from the east side. But Boosi came in the studio that day. And when he came in, I forget I had text with my girl. I was like, man, Poc, Poc ain't dead. She was like, what? I told you. She thought I was talking about the real Poc. And I'm like, nah, Boosi. And they thought, you know, she pulled up. And we recorded the song when I did it. Boosi was just like, man, you the coldest engineer I ever met. You coming with me. And, um, shit. We here seven years later. You know, we've been working since. That's hard. That's hard. What make a cold engineer? You know how to make that shit sound good. I mean, but it's a lot of niggas that say that they cold. But what, from an engineer's perspective, do you think make a cold engineer? What aspects do you think you got to be cold that to be a motherfucker that a nigga look for and doing music? Your ears. I feel like your ears is the most important thing. Because everybody can learn how to work the equipment the same way. And a lot of these people, they go to schools and they talk to do it. And I've noticed a lot of them do it the same as that way. And I'm self-talked again with stuff. So I know techniques that they don't know. But at the end of the day, it's all about the finished product. And that goes back to what you're hearing when you're engineering. Some people don't hear as well as others. I've even noticed in real life I'll be hearing certain things that other people just don't hear. Because my ears work super well. So you got to have that. I don't know if you can train hearing, I don't know. But that ear is what's most important with being an engineer. How did that movie come about? I wrote it in jail. When did you go to jail? It was on some petty stuff. I was coming from the casino and I called myself pulling over on the side of the road to take a nap. And I didn't know you can't park on the side of the road. I had an open container in the car. How long was you in jail to write a movie for an open container? So they had to extradite me. I got strung around for some petty stuff. That's a movie. I ended up being there for like two and a half weeks. I just utilized my time. I wrote movies and music. That was one of the ones I wrote. When I got out of Pitch to the Boost he wanted to do it. I wrote and directed it. So did you self-taught directing as well? Yeah. How did you teach yourself that? Did you ever fuck up? Shoot, that's a good question. I just did it. I've never even... I'm just now learning a lot of director's name in the film industry because it's actually a new industry. I never caught myself a director before the people started doing it. I was just doing it. I realized I was the director and I do my study in and stuff now. I do a lot of YouTube study in it. Picking that shit up. I feel like nowadays there's no reason that the youth shouldn't be able to find out how to do something if they got the passion to do it because everything is so accessible now. It's a how-to for everything. What's Nick? Movies and music. I want to put you in the movie. No, I'm trying to put me in the movie now because you already had all my partners and put them in the first and all. I don't want to be in part of that. I was on the road. I don't want to be in the movie until you write the one about getting pulled over and going to jail for two weeks, Nick. I want to be in that... The movie called Two Weeks. Two Weeks Knows. Two Weeks Knows. That's the one I want to be in, Nick. The one to catch you. Make sure you stay in there the whole two weeks, let me go ahead and let them out on his own record. It's no fucking way. Take the glasses off. Two Weeks Knows. Two Weeks Knows it. Great. Right. And it's the craziest two weeks in the jail history, Nick. The rad being playing right before you came. before you came. It's on the news and everything, bruh. This nigga got to be in a that's the movie. I'm telling you, put me in that movie, bruh. The motherfucking national guard got to come down. All his paperwork get burnt up in the rat. He wasn't being out six days ago. He wasn't, he wasn't supposed to be back here with y'all. Right. Supposed to be in the drunk tank all the way. All the way. It's the that's the movie right there. That took a perfect set from some dental work left to get seen on slew. Had this much liquor. Fuck up. Had an open container. That's exactly what happened. That's how the movie went. You leave and if you pull over next thing you know it's me knocking on your window. Pull a goddamn window down. He's so fucked up off the perfect dough from the dental work. What are you doing? I said roll a goddamn window down, nigga. Get in the back. They take him to jail with no handcuffs. Get in the car. They can sleep in the back slot but you wake up and come to, they give you the jail. It's a nigga making a beat on your bed. It's another nigga making a shank on the floor. This guy damn long. Stop bitching moves. He been in and had this shit out of two weeks. Haha. Dave is playing your part. Hold on now man. We got Desi Banks in that moment. Nigga don't get no credit for it. Hell no. We got it on camera. We can sue the shit out your ass. We wrote that motherfucker. We was there. We got to do something. Can't sue Boosie. Come on man. No, not fuck to a Boosie. Come on man. We ain't gonna sue for no money. We gonna make this nigga engineer album. We ain't gonna sue this nigga for service. Boosie over two fishes? You got to engineer both of our albums man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. R&B album. And you got to find that 285 self-moving. Straight up. All the way bad because salute to you brother and man. Keep working. What I can find you had to reach out and check out some of your music, some of your work. Yeah, all across the board, tone the goat, T-O-N-E-T-H-E, T-O-N-E-T-H-E-G-O-A-T. Used to be young tone. What's your real name? Anthony? Not tone. Tone is your T-O-N-E? Well, I changed it from Antonio. Oh, I knew it was Anthony. Yeah, it was Anthony in Spanish. That's his name too. That's why you know. Man, I'm thinking about changing it back though because I named my son Junior after me. How the fuck? Tone Junior. No, no. Antonio Junior. Yeah. You should have named him Tone Junior. Oh, well it ain't like you stuck with it. That's just what you prefer. Yeah. He ain't changed shit. What do people work at? Now, you just been telling people that, yeah, I changed it. No, you didn't. You been lying. I wonder who that is. All the women who know Tone, that nigga named Antonio. Yeah, I know who that is. I'm just kidding. I'm thinking he went to jail and they were gonna have a tone. They were like, Antonio! What is that? Antonio, nigga. No, sit your way down. You're ain't gonna hold a nigga. Fuck! Look, man, we know this is your first time stopping through the Black Market, but don't let it be the last. No, definitely. Yeah, keep coming with that shit, man. It's a loot to you with what you're doing, man. Like, before you go, I gotta ask, what's your favorite Bootsy song you engineered? I want to say, uh, Rest A Piece of Trouble. I want to say, Ain't My Fault, just because you know. That shit hard. Yeah, that's hard. You could say that. I don't know, man. Like, favorite song that I had fun while engineering it or a song that blew up? No, though, your favorite. Because people might not know that one, and they need to go listen to it. Well, it's called, uh, I Cry to Keep From Smiling. That the name of it? Yeah, I Cry to Keep From Smiling. I Cry to Keep From Smiling. Bootsy, I Cry to Keep From Smiling. Okay. That song right there. You work on the Blues album, too? I did the Blues album. I fuck with that. Do you love your family, nigga? That my shit. Yeah, I got the Pokey Bear, man. That was one of my, like, bucket list memories right there, because, uh, my family from Mississippi on Columbus. Come on, that? Yeah, he hit me, so. Mississippi niggas everywhere. I tell you this. I did Jimmy that all the time. We do. Yeah, right there, I was recording Pokey Bear, man, but, um, Smile to Keep From Crying, that's one of the ones. Get you through a rainy day. Well, there it is right there, man. It's on the go, man. It's on the go. 85 South, Black Market. We out of here. We got the ones who we've noticed.