 What they gon' do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town Getting the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down Episode of Talk of the Town, today we got a special guest, D-Rose Hard getting you here Type shit Type shit I'm bustin' So um, tell us a little bit what it's like in Jersey Uh, the part where I'm from, it's like no regular hood shit like you feel me Like trenches like you feel me All type regular shit that we've been through Not crazy Regular shit So like, what's y'all like, cause I know like When I was talkin' to people from Memphis, they said they start drivin' at a young age Are y'all drivin' young in Jersey? Yeah, we drivin' young, like uh We know a lot of young kids drivin' right now, probably like 13, 12 12? It's regular where we from, like the draw, you gotta know how to draw where we from Right So, are you drivin'? Yeah, I'm not a draw But you're not a good driver? Nah, I hold out, I'm not a draw You could get away, but whatever Okay, you could do a little somethin' Okay, so tell us the backstory of your name, D-Rose Uh, I got one Uh, like, free fabboy, fabboy and uh, fees I don't know what the other person was, but they get like playing ball, just playing basketball I was real good You know, it was like, it was like you ballin' like D-Rose It was somethin' like that, it was somethin' like that And I was like, yeah, I'm just wrong with that, like I need D-Rose Cause I know how to dunk A lot of people, well, certain people know I know how to dunk But not everybody know how to dunk I don't want a lot of people know I know how to dunk, you feel what I'm sayin'? Well, you just told the whole world, so now you know Yeah, now you know So, um, so, do you feel like, if you wasn't good at music, you would've been doing basketball? Yeah, I mean, tell my homies like, if I was a six-five, we'd be in the league Like, we was gettin' some money regardless, we was gonna get some money So, um, when did you see music as your thing? Uh, probably like, 2020, when COVID hit, 2020? Yeah, like 2020, 2020 Yeah, like 2020, whatever COVID was, I knew music was for me, like I started rapping I mean, for me, the homies was fuckin' with that shit Okay, what song was everybody fuckin' with? What song feel like got you up there, up there? Probably Gola Rockstar, like Brothers is some shit Okay, and how did you know, like, was everybody playin' it? Everybody was talkin' about it, like, how you know? Uh, everybody was playin' it, like, a car, job pass, playin' that shit, like That shit was like, yeah, that's that right there Okay, so like, so do you feel like, in Jersey, like, it was real supportive? Or you feel like, niggas will be listenin', but not really sayin' much? Or they be showin' us on a net? Yeah, Jersey, they be supportin', like, baby supportin', like, it depended on me For me, they be supportin' me, though But for me, it's regular shit Are you the youngest one? I'm not the youngest I look like the youngest of the line Are you 18? No, I'm 19 Okay, so yeah You just look small Alright, so when did, um, so was your family supportive of music when it was comin' up? Uh, let me see Serious members, serious family members But now, but like, today, yeah, everybody supportive, like, today, hell yeah But back then, not everybody, but yeah It wasn't negative, though Wasn't our negative support, it was all good stuff Okay, so when, so going to the studio, what was through your first studio session? I don't even remember, I'm tryin' to think Mmm, damn, I don't even remember The first time you ever went to a studio and laid down on some shit? I'm tryin' to think It's been that long ago? Was it during COVID or before COVID? I think it was probably before COVID Before COVID, it's cool if you don't remember I don't really remember But the first song you put out was, do you remember that one? First song I put out, I think it was called, uh, it was a, it was a phone Nah, look, see, I don't even think, could the first song, yeah, the first song I ever put out, it was in the studios on the phone It was my best friend, my son, Feezy You know, uh, we, uh, was rapping on the phone and shit And then we just dropped that show on SoundCloud and shit So it took about, so Feezy, y'all was on the phone with each other? Yeah, we, but we was on, it was something called like Band Lab or some shit Yeah, yeah, yeah, we was rapping on that shit Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh Is Feezy, was he locked up at this time? Or he was out? Nah, Feezy's out, wait, Feezy's not, Feezy ain't even been in jail Oh, this was just another friend, Fat Boy's locked up Yeah, Fat Boy's locked up, yeah Got it Yeah, so that went, so now in Jersey, I got like blog pages just like us So So like, do you feel like, do you like the blog pages or do you think it's too much? Uh, I don't, I don't feel much, I fuck with it, like As long as they ain't doing nothing, no negative way for me, I'm chilling No problem with it So like, so, and you know, New York has all kinds of beef out here Is it the same in Jersey? Uh, nah, it's no beef, just probably politics, but it ain't no beef It ain't like how it is out here? Nah, not really No, y'all don't really be dissing each other? Uh, I mean Cause we be talking and shit a little bit We be talking and shit, it's probably beef for me, but not everybody beef like, you know Yeah, so do you ever hear a diss track about you though? Uh, nah, I'm behind them since So you never heard what about you? Uh-uh Okay Okay, so that's good, I guess So in Jersey, you know the dance culture is really big out there, but you don't really be dancing Nah I used to though, we all used to though, like, if you from Jersey, everybody going, hey, they gonna bounce you for me Everybody going for me, yeah, that's, yeah So like, you know, Batman was going to come up in Jersey, and he was like, I don't want to say bothered But like when Philly started doing hip shit, it was like a whole thing Does it bother you that the Philly do the hip shit, and that's the Jersey shit, or like what? Mmm, nah, not really for me, I mean it's a dance move, you feel it? Everybody just wanna dance for me Yeah, everybody gonna dance, type of shit So have you ever worked with any Philly artists? Or did they tap it with you? Philly artists, nah, I ain't never worked with no Philly artists yet I worked with New York before though Mm-hmm Yeah, I worked with a couple of people though And I've seen when you watch your page again, because why are you losing your page? I don't know, but I don't know, they hating on me, they be taking all my pages So, but you're back on a new page, but are you ever seen Lil T.J. promoting your new page? Yeah, that's bro, that's big bro, yeah A song coming, maybe? Nah, we gonna see a song, we gonna see That's my song, that's my song So possibly, possibly So one thing I can say though, a lot of the, you know, Jersey doing anything But you seem the most hard working, like you drop a lot of music Yeah, we usually try to stay consistent, you feel me? Like if my manager just be pushing me, like you feel me, gotta stay consistent Put out that hard shape for me, type shit Yeah, so in 2022 you dropped four projects Yeah So you given like real young boy vibes, you just keep dropping It's about to be more It's about to be more Yeah, come on, say this year, you just We just getting on shit, you feel me, we just trying to get everything back on order first But it's gonna be backlight though, so I be wanting to put the music up So you know how somebody be like, now I wanna wait till this song hit this number You just wanna keep giving fans music That's why I keep giving them the music Out of all your tapes that you did drop though, what's your favorite tape? Probably no competition, that's my favorite one But my, I fucking no competition, but the face of the earth, that's my shit too So I fuck with both Okay, so you like all your tapes? Yeah Them there Alright, but like, and also samples seem to be your thing too Yeah, I be trying to fuck with the samples, I be fucking with the samples So do you, like you know that, don't samples be hard to clear? Yeah, for sure So it's like, do you have any producer you locking in with, or? Uh, I'm locking, shout out Sue, Darry, Q-Dobz, Kota, uh, Lazyia I fuck with a lot of producers, uh, Ily, Swaile, they be holding me down with B.C. Yeah, samples, I be fucking with the samples, I love samples Being not like you're so dropping music so much, do you have a certain expectation of a song you drop? Or do you feel like you got so much music it don't matter? No, I don't be choking by that certain expectation, I don't be expecting that I just be dropping, putting that shit out for me How do you know when the song is dropable versus we gotta put this in a tuck, or? How do you know? Uh, cause I'ma be able to be feeling like, yeah I'ma just know, cause I be feeling hard, so I be feeling that shit, I be feeling the music So you just gotta feel the vibes? Yeah, I just gotta feel the vibes So like, when you making a song, is it up to you, or do you play it for your friends to kind of see what they think? Yeah, we all be in the studio, and if they fucking with it, I be like, yeah Yeah And like, do you feel like you're gonna work on more songs for your females? Yeah, hell yeah, for sure Do you feel like you got a female fan base, or a guy fan base? I got a boof Both Yeah Yeah, I definitely was into what you were, and then you and Rory did your all back to back with it So Rory, he was shooting my shit, yeah, that's right So when did y'all meet, how did y'all lock in? Uh, he was doing a video giveaway, and he was like, at who, at who y'all want me to shoot for free I got the most ads, and he shot my shit, and he shot my shit So I think I was locked in ever since Word Okay, so growing up in Essex, right? Mm-hmm So who was, was there any other artists out there? Uh, like rappers when I was going up Yeah Yeah, it was, it was a lot Like who, like, should They still do music? Yeah, this Some of them, like, washed up though I'm about to say it because I don't know that But it's one, it's one I fuck with though, I fuck with it, I fuck with it Like when we was growing up, we'd listen to Big Moose and shit, but Yeah Everybody else washed up now Yeah, now I definitely heard of Big Moose, Dato, those was like the ones, the two Jersey ones I heard Yeah Word But you also got collab with LBL Yeah, that's bro, yeah He came home, and y'all linked up So how was that? The heat, the heat, you been into him? He been into with you? Like what? Word, like we knew LBL music, but we didn't really hear it like we was at But bro was showing love, like I think he hit me in the DM And I was like, oh yeah, hell yeah, he said like I fuck with boy too Like he ever saw a dude, I fuck LBL, yeah Who else would be like reaching out to you other artists? Not really a lot, I'll be chilling for you I don't really begin with DMs no more right now First of all, your page was mad hard to find before Yeah Yeah, it was like empty something Yeah, empty, yeah Yeah, I would have never known that, I'm typing in D-Rose Yeah, yeah When I was first looking for Jersey artists that I used to see videos on YouTube, but it was hard to find your Instagram So now it's like, now it's what, what did you change it to? It's underscore S-Block, D-Rose underscore S-Block Okay, you definitely be representing S-Block Yeah So being from S-Block, what is it that all y'all have? What do you want that to be known for? Because you're really pushing that right now Alright, I don't know Sure, I don't know When we like, we just try to put that good music out Now I'm trying, because all like, while I come from a lot of us make good music I'm just trying to push the music for me Okay So you're just trying to push the hood, right? Yeah Okay, dude, the cops be fucking with police I said the cops be fucking police The cops be fucking with artist OD out here Is it the same in Jersey? Cops be on dick? Nah, cops don't really, cops be on dick That's a way for me, but cops don't really be on our dick They don't really, they be on our, they be on dick, but they don't be on our dick Like they not walking up, patting us and shit like that But yeah, but talking to the music video If we could shoot the music video They fuckin' be on some dick-ass shit one day Like yeah, I can't shoot right here probably one day But they don't be on shit Okay, that's good, that's good, that's good So traveling, do you feel like you want to start traveling? You be traveling? I mean, I've been to a couple of states here and there But traveling, yeah, I fuckin' start traveling Start traveling, okay, cool And dude, you be like watching your numbers Because in New York I feel like drill artists be like I got hit a million, I got hit a million Yeah, I be watching my numbers, hell yeah, I be watching my numbers Does it discourage you if a song doesn't hit a certain number? Nah, that's why I be thinking like If that shit don't hit a number, I'm like why, but, I'm like This wasn't the one? Yeah What do you feel like makes a good song to you? Mmm Probably the flow, like my flow, how I'm flowing that shit In the beat I be crazy Everything really play a part So are you, you not the only one that rapped for me a block But are you the littlest one, I guess? Uh, I mean yeah, everybody else work here Everybody else work here Everybody else work here Cause you do songs with them, so like Yeah, I do songs with you We hear about them So like, how do y'all all, I guess, push each other to keep going Like what motivates you right now? Shit, we just be telling each other like you feel me Like y'all know what's up, like we trying to get out of here You feel me? They know Who's someone you feel like that gave you good advice In your music career so far? Uh, probably my manager My manager and my son, she's probably them too Okay Alright, so that's good So is there any, what are we expecting this year? This year, y'all expecting some shit, you feel me? I bet y'all, y'all gonna get that music I'm just gonna get out of music Another project? Yeah, another project coming soon Another project coming soon So you, yeah, you giving us projects this year Yeah So, um, I must, we're gonna play a woman I'm gonna just ask you some questions Just say the first thing that comes to mind What's your most used emoji? Um, right heart Okay Um, at what age do you want to retire? 30 30? Bro, that's dumb young What? Fuck this shit You want to retire at 30, bro? Sure It could be, alright, are you gonna be at some Jay-Z shit Where you pop out with a verse here and there? Or you just know music Yeah, probably a verse here and there But I don't want to rap no more, that shit Uh, this shit really, uh So what do you want to do? Do you want to act? I want to, yeah, I want to make some movies Like, pocket some shit Or like, or like, shit, I don't know Probably be a businessman or something Be a shark Be a shark, yeah I feel like you, but are you just tired of doing music Because you do it so much? It would be the, like, I don't freestyle So it's like the right, I don't feel like writing like And I don't want to freestyle So it's for me, I don't know I just don't feel like writing I mean, writing is just reassuring It's a good song, you know Yeah Because niggas be freestyling saying bullshit Yeah, that's what I want to freestyle What's your favorite app on your phone? Probably IG What's your hardest bar? What do you feel like it is? I'm trying to think of anything I should, I should, I don't know I be saying a lot of hard shit Alright, I'm gonna help you out What's, you got a good flick What's a bar you gonna use as a caption? It don't gotta be my song, right? No, make it your song I'm gonna be, I'm gonna say We putting switches on back of the wop My son Alright, and if it was somebody else's song It would be what? It would be, uh I just use, damn, I just wrote down my note, damn It's a Rallo lyric though I forgot it You fuck with Rallo? Yeah, it's your heart Alright, alright, alright What song do you listen to for motivation? Rubble's Kick It by Young Boy Damn, me too What's the last thing you spend money on? Some Zah What's your toxic trait? I'm delusional In a good way or a bad way? Like, you don't see it? I see it, you see me But I don't know, I'm delusional Okay, whatever that means Okay, what's a trend that you wish didn't exist? Shake and hips Bath and the ring Okay, one sentence for your ex Suck my dick What's your biggest flex? I'm young and I'm rich And what's the conspiracy theory you think is real? Skip Fun I don't know I don't know Okay, and best part of your hometown Jersey bitches I was gonna be mixed in, but I'm not gonna be mixed in Nah, but we're gonna tell people where to find you How can they tune in? Found me on the ground I'm music, Spotify The camera's right there Oh, that's enough I'm music, Spotify If you make all that shit You always unscore this blog on the ground For me