 What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. I'm getting the sisters, I'm hooking them down. What's up y'all, it's your girl Brianna Imani and you're tuned in to another twerk of the town interview and who do we have in the building today? Settie Hendricks, what's happening? Settie Hendricks, Settie Pendergrass, Settie Van Gogh at this point, the painter. You know the point, okay. Listen, always, and we had quite the introduction. Honestly, we don't even gotta tell people what we went through to get here, but I feel like the ice has been broken. We had quite the afternoon, but we gonna break the ice a little bit more for our viewers and we're gonna do a quick round of rapid fire questions. All right, ready? Let's get into it, yeah. All right, Hometown. Jacksonville, Florida. Nickname. Lissette. Zodiacson. Aquarius. Favorite cereal. Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Most overrated song right now. Out by me or just period? Period. I would have to say I don't need, honestly I don't know, cause I don't really be in tune like that. You don't know a most overrated song? All right, a song that everybody loves that you don't. A song that everybody loves that I don't. I don't know, cause I don't be in tune with they shit like that. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Favorite thing about New York? Oh man, the authenticity? Authenticity? Authenticity, thank you. Period. Authenticity of it. Okay, favorite brand. My favorite brand? Mm-hmm. My favorite brand have to probably be Needle. Needle and Capital. Okay, Needle and Capital. How do you like your steak? How do I like what? Your steak. Do you eat steak? Oh yeah, well done. Well done, so you be shaking the table? Yeah, not all the way, but I'm starting to tap into the scene a little bit of blood, but I grew up in the South. I ain't with all that. Yeah, you know what? I really want my people to be freed from the shackles of well done steak. Cause I feel like we always like, I feel like there's this stigma behind like having your steak a little pink. No, that's the right way to do it. Medium well. Try it. Medium well, I am, medium well. Okay, biggest turnoff. My biggest turnoff? Mm-hmm. Talking too much. Is that a turnoff in women or a turnoff in general? Period. Okay, a rapper you would get along with. A rapper you feel you would get along with that you haven't met yet? Andre 3000. He seems like a cool dude. Okay, your type in three words. Intelligent, talented and cooperative. Okay. Favorite liquor? That's Amigo, Reposado, if I am gonna drink. Okay, you would like that. Cool. All right, and rate your day on a scale from one step. Today, how has it been so far? I give it a 10 because I woke up. I'm above the dirt. I love that. Okay, and we gonna keep it there. So, thank you for coming. So good to have you. We have some things to get into. Let's get into it. Well, not most importantly, but most recently, you just dropped your song, Hand Hearts, period. See, I don't know when we progress from going from this to this. Yeah, I don't know. Which one do you like more? Clearly you like this, because this was your go-to. I mean, I like this one because throwing up the other one looked more like G.D. Like you throwing up some other shit. Like I can't sign somebody said that yesterday. I think it was Gus that said that yesterday. Yeah, he's like, he's throwing that up. But if you just go like this, you keeping the neutral. You go like this, you know what it is. I like this. But you go and throw in all of this. I don't know. It's just something about it. That's cute though for the women, for the women. So let's talk about that. Hand Hearts, you dropped it on a Thursday, which I thought was very interesting because usually people drop their songs on Fridays. But it stood out. It was something to bump to. And honestly, I feel like the conversations have really kept on going about what the song of the summer is gonna be. And it's definitely was a summer vibe, a summer vibe. So let's get into it though. What, did you have an inspiration for that song? Man, to be honest, Hand Hearts came just on something like, I was in the studio. I'm in Paris. I recorded that song in January, man, top of the year. I just turned 27. I felt good. I was out there, I'm in Paris for the first time. I'm spending my birthday out here. I'm walking around seeing new stuff. I've never seen before. It's Bastion Week. I was around so much stuff that I loved. Right. You know what I'm saying? So Hand Hearts, of course. So I just went with that. I went with that out there and just put it out. It sounded real good for this time we're in right now. Yeah. I just felt like, hey, release it, it's time. I think so. And I think it's also interesting because, correct me if I'm wrong, but this was like, you've been dropping snippets on a gram and you've been putting like, I don't know if these are track numbers. I don't know what this is, but it's like, one was Patswa. And then two was Hand Hearts, I think. Right? Yeah. Listen, just talk it out, we gotta talk about it. So Patswa though, I don't think you dropped, right? So why did you choose to drop Hand Hearts before Patswa and Patswa was number one? Yeah, I chose to do that to throw them off. Because, and to be honest, if we just being transparent, Patswa was supposed to come out first. The video treatment wasn't brought back in time. A lot of the business behind it wasn't prepared the right way. Okay. And shout out to everybody who had any thoughts into that to help Patswa come to life, but we had to go Hand Hearts because Hand Hearts was already done. It's flowing more fluently. The universe was everything that was coming from Hand Hearts was right here. So hey man, we're gonna let this be the one. And is it what it needed to do, honestly? It definitely did. What's been the reception so far? It's been out 24 hours, man. QCP posted it, Chico being posted it. It's on seven playlists is already, you know, just working the record. It's working, it's doing exactly what I wanted to do. It's doing what it's supposed to do. And I like that you dropped it with the visual. I love like a simultaneous drop. Shout out Vivo too. Shout out Vivo. That like one thing about Setty, he gonna keep the baddies in the video. Honestly, he gonna keep the baddies in the video. How involved are you with the treatments and your visuals? I'm all the way involved. This one, the last one we just did, I was all the way deep involved. Certain parts people took over more than others, so I get credit to that. But mostly all my videos I'm kinda hands in. Okay. And something that I just wanted to touch base with you on real quick was, in Hand Hearts, you said, scrolling through the gram, and I hope I don't see one of my niggas. Scrolling through the comments, man. I pray I don't see one of my niggas. But my whole thing is, and if you do, like it's not like, just because, and this is why I wanted to talk about it, because just because the niggas in our comments don't mean we fucking with them. That means that like, clearly he sees something that you know, looks undeniable. So if one of your men is just so happy to slide in a comment, as long as there's no response, I feel like that should be okay. No, you ain't gonna lie. When you putting that sentence, that's before like, I'm already in you. I think when I was sitting in that element of the song, cause I prayed for it, it wanted it bad. Every night and every day I was looking so sad. I had to go see her with somebody else, you know what I'm saying? So it's kinda like I'm mesmerizing over this woman, and I'm going through comments, and I'm like, ah, I ain't on a mesmerizing. They mesmerizing too. My niggas got women's memorizing with it too. But that don't mean that they could get her. So just setting the record straight, Hand Hearts to all my bad bitches out there, with the niggas in his homies in your comments, cause you're just that bad of a bitch. But it don't make her accessible. So let's really get into it though, from the beginning, I know you're from Jacksonville, Florida. Let's talk a little bit about that. What was, like, I love asking this question just to get a sense of where you are, where you were musically growing up. What is like your first music memory when you think about like growing up? What's the first thing that comes to mind? Musically. Musically, first thing that comes to mind is, I'll never forget performing. I was at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. Church. It was right across the street from Reebok. It's a gospel song, God will do, and he said he will do. I was like, I was like, I want to say 12, 11. And I- Singing no weapons. I love that for you. This is the first memory I can recall going up on that stage, grabbing that mic. I didn't go to choir practice like that. And when I did, we just learned about the word. And I grabbed that mic, and I just remember singing a note. Church going crazy. That's one of the most first interactions I can have with music that I can remember. And then next it was just moments where my mama would be playing Monika, or moments where we down bad. My mama would cut on music. Luther, R. Kelly, and L. DeBarge. Like a lot of old school music. I grew up with a lot of neo-soul old school music. Okay. Okay, and now that makes a lot of sense even when it comes into transitioning into the sound that you have now because it's not R&B but R&G. Cause you keep it gangsta. I like this review. Listen, very- The show for show. You keep it gangsta, but you're still in touch with those melodic soul roots. So that, you explained that makes a lot of sense. And I know also you didn't start off even thinking you were gonna get into the music industry. Which I think is interesting hearing that you were singing in church. So wait, hold on. After that first time you sung, know what then? It was over. Did you keep? It was done. Yeah. Not the mic drop. You never keep, you never circle back to it? Never, I'm not saying I won't, but that was like I said, I didn't grow up. Won't it be in the spotlight singing. It just, that's something that guy had just showed me that was my path. People thought I was gonna be a lawyer. People thought I was gonna, I was gonna something. Like people thought I don't know what it was. He gonna be something. So at the end of the day it's just I never double back to it. I never double back to it. You had your one let him use you. It was God. That was it. Okay. One let him use you, that was it. Okay, so I know that what got you into it was the passing of your friend, which I'm sorry for your loss. But you were responding to like some kind of like beef in the streets and people was talking. I know what they was talking about. Talk to us a little bit about that first time that you dropped the song and what all went into that? Oh well I was, yeah the reason I got into music was really made me want to do it. I wanted to get my voice out. You feel me? Little politics in the streets where it happened and stuff. And I felt like it went, you know, it went fair because when you had nobody speaking up for us on our side. So got into the music and it crazy because the first song that I got into it, what in the, it went that. Truth came about, that was probably the truth was my third or fourth song where I finally decided like you know what I'm coming at you niggas is y'all this what really happened. This was really going on. And then I was like, man I'll never do that again cause I don't want to end up incriminating myself behind no music. Thus later on people started getting locked up behind their records, you know what I'm saying? So, but my first song was Remember Me. It was a Bicentella exchange. I remixed that. You did it like a cover. I flipped it and it kind of went off in the city and I just stuck with that. I was like, you know what? I'm gonna attack the women, still keep this gangsta shit going but I'm gonna attack the women because I know at the end of the day the dude's gonna rock with whatever the women rock with. And you know women, all women love that one that can be in tune with that side and still know how to cater to them. Absolutely. So I felt like I'm gonna be that. It's something for everybody, honestly. And I thought it was interesting that you said that when you were performing with OMBPZ you said that it was like 75% of the audience were women. Yeah, fact. Do you still feel like that's the case when it comes to like your audience? Now, I would say this, you go to my show now it's more women. It's always gonna be more women than men. I feel like, I think that that kind of just goes for OMB artists in general. I know you're not technically art. But I think that that's like, cause, and I think it's really at the root of it is a lot of toxic masculinity, unfortunately. I feel like niggas don't wanna be in a crowd singing a heart out to songs, which for the record, there's nothing wrong with that if that's what you wanna do. I know some, man, real deal. Head tap is for show. We might be on the stage or a real deal to be like, nah, but I'm going in the crowd. Like iced up and all, I'm going in the crowd. They'd be right there singing my shit, word for word. As they should. As they should. So it ain't nothing, it's for everybody. So what kind of reason do you listen to like on your off time? Uncle Red, what type of, man, I'm listening to old school. Old school is our old school rap, OMB. Everything. I cut on some, when I'm in New York I'm listening to Big L. Okay. I'm listening to Wu-Tang. I'm listening to all camera, I'm listening to like all this old stuff. But then I also like, I'll cut on some L. DeBarge, Al Green, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, you know, it's the Hannah Rawls, Orita Franklin, like Jill Scott, Eric Abadou, Warren Hill, like that's, everybody I'm naming is really, really, really, really what I listen to every day. I love that. To calm down and keep my sanity to even create and come up with stuff for the new school. Cause a lot of them don't know, like, bro, you'll find yourself in some of this music. You're really like in the home, you hurt when they fire, like, it's different. Let's talk about it. So, I mean, you're, even the way that you talk about music, like the old school music that you listen to, and the new school music that you're making now, the fusion of it also comes about in your name, Jimmy Hendrix, A Future Hendrix. So what was it about the two that made you want to incorporate those into your stage name? Jimmy had this aesthetic about him that just had me just like, cause at first I only grew up watching just the aesthetic of Jimmy, you know what I'm saying? Seeing these trippy pictures of him everywhere, murals, painting, then when I dug in and started watching documentaries and seeing he traveled everywhere, where he came from, the household and how it is. I'm like, he grew up in a struggling home. He grew up having to make a way out of no way, just like I did, you know what I'm saying? Then with Future, it's a new school. That's self-explanatory. It's somebody who came in and did it their way, and he was attached to some old school cats, the Dungeon family. So it just made me draw in, I related to both of them so much. Then the Hendrix was just, I love to be trippin'. I love to get geeked up, I love to get high. Jimmy Hendrix represented that. Future represented that at a point in time. And do. Okay, and now let's talk about it real quick also because I know you were clean, sober for a period. Do you wanna get into that? Yeah, get it. So what led you to be being clean? Man, I just woke up one day and I was like, I'm done. I got like, man, I went to the doctor one day and I did a checkup and he showed me like a hot, like it's a colored heat picture. They can show you all your lungs and all that and show you some these lungs and these lungs. And my eyes was just like pitch black, damn, there are no pink. Damn. And it scared me. But I couldn't tell because I'm like, man, I work out now. You're feeling good. I feel good. He's like, yeah, you feel good on the house but the inside, this is, you can't hide from this. And that scared me, man. It made me get on the page immediately and just like all my lean stuff was just, this ease up, take a break. If you, I ain't tell you to go cold turkey because you know, if you were real simple, you can't just go cold turkey. You'll hurt yourself even worse and quicker. So you got to slowly get off of it and increments, do everything. It's a pattern just to get back right. So I had to, it scared me, man. I had to get back right, get my health together. I'm trying to live and be here for a very long time. Yes, and we definitely want you to be in love that you were able to take control of your health and do that. So what was that like being clean, being sober and being in an industry where it's so heavily saturated with drugs, drinks, all of that kind of stuff. What was that like? At first it was a heart rotation but then I'm a man. I ain't gonna let that never run me. So I just, I had to get over it. Like this is what it is. I'm sorry, I'm a man. This is what I had to get over. I had to let it be like, bro, it ain't cool. And keeping it in my head to know that, bro, you did it. You've been doing it before it was cool. You done seen the ups and the downs of it. Like, at one point in time, I stayed on the jaws because of the fact, yeah, it really, really serious to help me cope, but it was like, I liked the attention that it gave me. I liked that when people felt like I was damn near fucking up and like, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? And I really wanted to help, but it was a sense of comfort that y'all care. You feel me? Yeah, wow. That would damn near kept me up sipping and popping off and all that. But then when I realized, like, man, I got a mama, a sister, a niece, a nephew, a brother, I have followers and fluens. I don't even be posting girls twerking. Oh my shit. And my DME, fuck, crazy. I'm sure. So it's like, if I ain't gonna push this, I ain't trying to push this. I don't get me wrong. I ain't perfect. You know what I'm saying? Well, I may realize it is what it is. Don't judge me. I'm human. You feel me? But I take account and I'm taking account and that's what really helped me stand on business when it comes to like, all right, bro, I gotta let it go. I love that. And I think a lot of your story is like struggling to success. Exactly. And I think this is also one account of that because I think that, especially in this generation, it's so normalized these days that I don't really think that people take into account how serious it is. Like you're really sipping for medicine, like you're coding, like you're walking to the gym. Like leisurely, casually. I'm talking about real deal popping off to your death. I lost too many homies and I lost a lot of people. I didn't lose my life to this shit. So to a lot of other things, and it's not just drug abuse, it's plenty of other things that's getting us up out of here. But we're talking specifically on drug abuse. And I think for the people that are watching or even for the people that are involved in that kind of stuff, it also kind of hits more when you hear it from somebody who actually was there. That was in it. Like in it was. The idea of nothing, you can't tell me that. Because you know, a lot of people, they hear things like this and they're like, oh, you know, you just think you're better than me, you know. But hearing it from somebody that actually was doing it, it's like, you know, get yourself together. You used to tell people like, but you don't understand. That felt good telling people that. Like you don't get it. You don't get it. Cause it's an excuse. Exactly. And then one thing we can't do as a people period, like we cut off a lot of excuses, man. We'll get a lot further. A lot further period. With yourself. I completely agree. So where are you now in your sober journey? How's it looking? Sober journey looking good. I ain't gonna lie. I don't dip back into touching the tobacco. Okay. I'm gonna smoke with tobacco again. I mean, it's legal. My palate's 60 days. You'll see a little backwood, man. So. Fine tool, paper. I'm trying to keep it clean with the paper, but I'm gonna go back clean. No more tobacco straight. And I personally don't even feel like it's anything wrong with divinity. As you, I feel like at this point, you're at a point where you know your limit. I know. I know. I'm not even really concerned for that for you, but I'm able to identify. You know, the moon's apple. So of course I wanna know, how was that first time that you hit that blunt? Because one thing about it, the longer you take away from smoking, drinking, whatever, you know, of course the shorter your tolerance is. So how was that first time? How was that first time? How was my first time smoking or my first time coming back? Oh, I won both. My first time smoking weed, I can't even really remember it, but I do remember feeling real, like just, I think I was, I don't remember, I was high, I was just fucked up. Okay, how old were you when you first started smoking? I started smoking in seventh grade? In the sixth grade, you're going to seventh grade. My first blunt was with two girls at a bus stop on the south side in Justina, headed to Gilbert. I was going to Gilbert at the time. I had just moved from out of east to the south side. So yeah, I was a kid though. Seventh grade. Sixth grade, so yeah. Wow, so how much of your lifestyle do you feel like is attributed to like your surroundings and the way that you grew up? Every part of it, every part of it. Like me growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, even on every side of the city, like it helped mold me, you know what I'm saying? It prepared me for when I wanted to jump out that nest and go to the rest of the world. I feel like you make it in Duval, you can make it anywhere. And I know everybody feel like that about their hood, about their city, about wherever they from. Listen. Jacksonville? Florida. Yeah, period. Florida is crazy. No, I'm sorry, but it's like, Florida is one of those places. It's crazy, y'all are cooking rats on the side of the road. Who the hell is cooking rats on the side of the road? Y'all seen that get posted? Don't do that. Steady, please be fucking for real. You're going to based on one little, first of all, Florida is one of those places that you hear something crazy in the news. You like, where they from? People don't do that by New York City. Oh, okay. People don't do that by New York City. Come on now, y'all just crazy shit up here. I have New York City bias, I guess, but I'm going to say no. I'm Florida bias. I know we crazy. I know we crazy. So wait, hold up, because I got a little distracted, but no, tell me about the last time that you got hot. Oh, the last time? I want to hit a T. Last time I got hot, man, I was geek. I mean the first time you got hot after you was sober. Oh, first time I got hot after I was sober. It was, it felt good, man, but I felt like a little wimp. Yeah. Noodle leg, I'm noodle leg, I'm hot. I'm talking way too much. I'm hot as hell, talking way too much. Noodle leg, I'm sleepy. I'm coughing like a wack weed. Niggas ask me like, damn, bro, you good? Lil' Lones? I'm like. Lil' Lones is crazy. It's fine, man, I've been sober, I've been sober, but I'm better now. Okay, all right. Nah, I'm real. Okay, so I mean, I feel like that's no. So now let's talk about your label situation. Let's break it down. So who are you signed to? I am now signed to, I've been signed to Florida Boy Records. I'm independent, I'm back independent. You're back independent? Okay. You were recently signed to DJ Dramas. Generation now? Yeah. I'm in the records, yeah. Okay, so let's talk about Florida Boys first. How did you get in the loop with Florida Boys? And when was that? Florida Boy, I got in the loop. Florida Boy, excuse me. 2017, I started rapping in the 2016 roundup, 2017. It's my uncle. And he been on the label, he been going crazy. He had, it was a grind, I don't know if you remember the songs, Back in the Degida, I'm So High? Yeah, that was all Florida Boy. Okay. You know what I'm saying? That was off that. He done had a lot of rappers signed to the label. You feel me? I'll let y'all get into that. But I've always been attached to Florida Boy. I just didn't start doing music till 2016, 2017, even though he had pretty boys. He had a lot of other cats. And we worked our ass off, got to a situation with Atlantic, through Generation Now. Mm-hmm. Did as much as we could, worked hard. Everybody did what they were supposed to do to a degree. And we just, you know what I'm saying? Obe exceeded the contracts, wanted to spread our wings and go other places, and that's just where we at now. Okay, so now that you are out of that contract, in reflection when you think about it, do you feel like you were happy that you were a part of that? Yes, I'm always be respectful and grateful for the opportunity that Generation Now gave me. I will always, I will never look down on that. I will never discredit that. But you know, everybody has to eventually either level up or, you know what I'm saying? Do certain things to take your career in a space where you want your career. Right. So do you feel like you are going to stay this independent route for a little while? What are your thoughts moving forward? I have no idea what the future holds for me. Okay. I barely knew what the future held for me when I decided to make that decision to leave. I didn't get dropped, I left. Okay. So it's even more of a pressure. More of a pressure like, this is something you decide to do. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? Okay. I mean, one thing I did want to ask, so I didn't know this, but one thing that I wanted to ask you was, I know that you posted, you know, you was in a school, DJ Mustard, Uzi, who I also know is a part of Generation Now. So can we expect anything to come from that? Of course, man. I got three songs with Uzi all on Mustard Beats that was done last year. I keep in contact with Uzi. That's what brother of mine, it's nothing for me. I'm gonna get in there and make music. That's nothing. Okay. But I have a lot, a lot more features with a lot of artists. I got songs that arrived for nine. I got songs with Rod. I got songs with all type of people. I just, it's all about how I'm finna put them out and how I'm finna get them released the correct way, cause everybody's used to working with labels and you know, that type of shit. So it's all about using these relationships to the best of your ability and everybody coming through. You definitely give me like, well-connected, well-respected. I feel like you have so many pictures with people. You have songs with people. Real dear relationship. Listen, I'm getting there. I'm just listing it off. I'm saying you got the pictures, you got the songs, you got the relationships. It's clear, like I said, that you're very well-respected. Something that I thought that was very big. You did a song with T-Pain, which was a pop. I think that y'all sounds together go so well. Talk to me about that because clearly T-Pain is like the, yes, he is the goal. He's the autotune God. Like, hello. So what was that experience? Because I'm sure you were listening to T-Pain. What was that like working with somebody that you had like been listening to? That shit felt amazing. I finally got to link with him. Shout out to Don Cannon. I had to link with him. And we kind of clicked off the rip as soon as he came into the studio. Because at first he came in like, okay, let's hear it. But then when he heard it, he felt like my boy ended up dropping a tear. It was really, really excited and real dear locked in. And from that moment forward, I gained a brother. You know what I'm saying? Like real deal, he's showing me different stuff to do with my autotune and pointers on the music. I just performed at his festival in Wisconsin. You know what I'm saying? Real deal. And I'm closing it out with him in Atlanta. Just real deal locked in with him. And we got the tape on the way. Sadie Pendergrass. I can't wait for that. That's gonna be something. That's gonna be, listen, because I already know the ladies are loving the music. The fellas are loving the music. But hearing y'all two together on the whole tape, I'm ready for that. I feel like that's gonna really, I can't wait. So wait, what can we expect that? I can't get y'all to date. I'm working on so many other projects right now with so many big producers and people, but that right there is a main thing. If I can get y'all that before the end of this year, we are perfect, we in the door, but no later than the top of the year. That'll be my birthday gift. Okay. For y'all. I'll get y'all some of my birthday. Birthday, your birthday is in January. That's aimed for January 20th for Sadie Pendergrass. Aquarius. Okay. See that T-Pain, I'm putting that pressure, my boy. Hello, you heard it here first. So something else I think that is so cool about you and your auto-tune usage is, I think it was, oh my God, please correct me from emotional. Emotional part two? No, emotional, cause you had emotional and then you had emotional part two. But emotional was very auto-tune heavy. Like a motherfucker. Very auto-tune heavy. The difference between emotional and emotional part two is very like drastic. And I think you even said something in emotional part two, like a drop the auto-tune something. Come back on my auto-tune. Yeah, that's fact. So what was that that kind of like led you to changing your sound? Was it like people telling you, was it you hearing it on your own? That was one of the things that Cannon, Cannon had to point it out. Cannon and Leslie, Leslie mixed all my tapes from Roots 2 to Well said. And he told me, it was like, bro, you do not need all this auto-tune. You don't need it. And then my engineers shout out, Ace, he's even told me like, bro, you don't need it. And then my fans started telling me, like, bro, you do not need all this auto-tune. You got it. Yeah. It just, I was so used to hearing it. Then when I dialed back, I'm like, oh, I really don't need it. When you perform, do like, do you have auto-tune in your mic? I just started doing, I done done that three times the most. Three times on auto-tune mic. How do you like that? I love it. It go crazy, but I'm starting to realize I don't need it. And then I started taking single lessons. You feel me? Shout out SOB. You feel me? You singing lessons and doing different. That's another reason when I stopped eased up on smoking and all that other stuff, because you know my vocals. Okay, so how receptive are you to feedback? How receptive would you say that you are to feedback? Could you start the criticism? Yeah. I love it. Okay. I need it, because all you're doing is, and I know how to differentiate all the bull, like all the like, all right nigga, you just talking on the side of your neck, or you been really just wanting to say that. You really ain't that nigga. But the ones where you are honestly speaking genuinely from the heart. I know how to like, dialect and make that like, okay, I'ma take that, because all you're doing is telling me what I can do to make it better. Right. So what were some of like the top things, or like the most impactful things that you heard through your career that you think has helped you build up to the sounds that you have now? The most impactful thing to help build my sound. I would have to say, I don't think I really been told nothing about nobody. Okay, well that's good. Tell me to impact my sound besides cut back on the auto tune. I kinda impact my sound the way I do it. Like I studied this, you know what I'm saying? The only thing I can think of right now is, attack the women more. Like I said, I remember Kenny used to tell me all the time, like attack the women. Attack the women. Don't attack them. Don't hurt them. But go at them. Like that's what it is, and that's what it's showing you bro, go at them bro. Okay, so do you write your songs before you get in the studio? Are you just flowing while you're there? Nope, nope, nope. I don't wrote for people, a lot of people, but I don't write my music. I freestyle. You freestyle. I do not punch in the freestyle. Okay, so walk me through a studio session. So the studio is booked. I bet. It's the day of, walk me through the day. What is it looking like? Boom, we walk in the studio. My videographer is trailing me, walking through. Every time? Every time, every now and then. I got an iPhone or something. Okay. And then when I walk in, I got pineapples to the right or to the left depending on how the studio is organized or structured. I got an incense lit on top of the speaker. We gonna move that because once the music started trembling, you don't want it to fall and it catches on fire. And then I got the incense. I got the incense, the pineapples, the cameraman. And I sit down for like 30 minutes. The first hour of Vibetal, I'm on release. You know, kick and shit, how we do, how we do it. Then I get in the booth. But I need three beats already ready. Because when I'm ready to jump up and get in, like the booth, I'm ready like right then. Do you have a go-to producer? Do I have a go-to producer? Of course, Swagbone the beat. He's also signed to Florida Boy. I've been working with Nick. I've been working with Chi Chi. I've been working with Keyman, Trappin' in London, Benji White. I've been working with so many producers. It's so hard to name all of them. From here to here to here. I've been working with all of them. And I continue to work with all of them. I feel like it's just so interesting to me just the way that the industry works, honestly. Because I feel like for you to be so involved with people on both sides, whether it's the internal side of producers and making it happen or the artists, I feel like I can't believe that so many more people aren't talking about you, honestly. And it's cute. And I hate to say it because a lot of people, they may be OK with it. It's like, it's all right, but the world to find out, which they will. But I just think when you see someone with so much talent who's also connected, knows what they're doing, has a good head on their shoulders, it's like, what is? What is it? That's going to take a while. Do you feel that way? Of course. I was literally saying, so I'm glad you said this. And I was starting to realize, somebody just told me it's Ferrari, DJ plug, all they just had DJ day. And they all said, bro, it's all about God's timing, bro. The timing. Like, there's nothing you can do about it. Like, you keep doing you. You keep dropping this kid's system, you keep being the good person you are. And just look in the mirror every day and work on you. Because maybe it's you, why it didn't click yet. Or it's not even though you're doing wrong. You just keep working on you, keep going. And when the world catcher on the click, it's going to click, but don't get me wrong. I have my moments a lot. They just don't show it to where I be wanting to choke the shit out of people. Because it's like, bro, I know y'all hear me. And I know y'all see me. And I ain't got no smud on my name. I ain't do no suck of shit. I'm thorough. I'm out the way. Everything that come with it is right there. It's just the only thing I can do is wait on God and wait on this time. It may not come when you want it, but it's always on time. I say that. It's show for show mandatory, mandatory. So what do you do to keep yourself in positive spirits? To keep yourself in a positive mindset and continue to be uplifted? I would say I pray. I stay real rooted to my God. I'm in tune with everything I got going on. I'm just real super, super locked in, and I'm super focused. And I'm rooted with my God. I make sure I stay close to that word. I got a real strong prayer mama. I come from a real praying foundation. I just got to stay real tuned in with that, and that keep me leveled and keep me recharged. Now to my uncles, everybody's real religious around me. So I feel like that's what keep me rooted and keep going through this music and uplifted. That's great. I thought about, but I had a praying grandmother. No, I definitely had a praying grandmother. Yeah, listen. It's so, so, so important to keep you spiritually centered. So if you had to describe yourself, Settie Hendricks, the individual versus Settie Hendricks, the artist, what are the biggest differences between the two? The artist, because I have to be Settie Hendricks, the artist is real. Hey, hey, hey, it's me. What's up? How y'all doing? The person? I'm shy than the motherfucker. And he picks locks. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah. But look though, I'm shy. I don't like, around complete opposite of what I got into. I don't like attention like that. I don't like to be shy. I ain't the outspirited, everybody he's so, man, the real me. Man, look, I ain't trying to do all that. You like going out? No. No? I like going out to country. I like going like to nature woods and duck off and like. Oh, really? I'm a nature boy. I get Airbnb so quick in the top of Georgia or the bottom Tennessee or somewhere, Seattle, somewhere like in log cabins and trees and waterfalls. You can put you in a log cabin. OK. So when was that? No, because even before you say you performed at the Festival of Wisconsin, I was thinking about the same. So he said somewhere in Wisconsin. He performed that shit. Where in Wisconsin. He didn't have to say nothing. I'm weak. OK, so I mean, outside of Hand Hearts, you also have been dropping a couple songs. But I noticed that your songs, some of your songs haven't been dropping from your page. There's it's been like a video. Is it a videographer that's been dropping and what that damn you on point, you need more people like her for real. But yeah, man, that magic, that magic. We don't got it to the point now. Well, the most important people on my team outside of the digital marketing, outside of the PRs nearby to bro, the in-house is your producer and your videographer. Because they are the people who help the sound engineer and all that. And they help the videographers. They get to see this in the eye that they need to see it in. Right. So that's why lately I've just been dropping music through him going up on his channel, just funneling a lot of things to him, even my own YouTube live. I just been attacking YouTube period lately. Mm hmm. The the reels, the lives, the pictures, the aesthetic, everything. And get your name out there and get to that YouTube that magic. He's been going crazy, man. And shout out my boy, Chidi, my boy Chidi. He created a content. OK, so one of the songs that dropped from that page was last, I fucked with it. It was a bop. And I have another game that I want to play with you. Let's start the game. Let's get it. So this is going to be a game of last. So I'm going to go down a list and ask you what the last things were or your last experience. Are you going to tell me what it was? OK. All right. The last thing you ate. Macaroni. Last person you texted. Pre. Pre. Oh, shout out to you. Pre. Name twin. Last time you felt accomplished. Dropping hand hearts. OK, last thing that broke your heart. As in it broke my heart. Losing scar. I'm sorry. Yes. Rest in peace. Scar. Last thing someone told you that changed your perspective on something. It's God's timing. His delay is not a denial. Hmm. I like that. Last time your heart raced. Watching him or his premier dropping. Got the job. OK, last song you listen to. Hand hearts. Wait, are you so serious to I swear? I'm not even pushing. So when you get in a car, do you play your own music? To a degree. They laugh. I heard a little chuckle. So that means you do. I do. I do. What's your go to song of yours that you play? Hand hearts. No. First of all, OK, when when it was unreleased, you was still playing it. Because I was going to say it literally just came out. So let's not do that. But you said, OK, OK, OK. So what was the other song you was going to say? Man, I just did this other song produced by produced by Woody. I mean, New York pause. Jesus Christ. All right. The way I've seen these look, I am sorry, my bad. We are adult. OK, cool. I'm with it. I'm with it. I'm with South. I ain't need what I do. But. All right. So it was produced by Woody. Produced by Woody. And that's the go to song of yours that you play. Yeah, I've been playing that. It's like a slow R&B all the way. Unreleased. Yes, they're very unreleased. Super, super new. You and these unreleased. OK, last time you felt genuinely excited. And I was about to release my single hand. Hand hearts. Yeah. I should have made this the last game excluding hand hearts because hand heart, you know, but we promote a hand heart. Yeah, minimum. Hand hearts. So as you should, you know, keep that keep the name in circulation. Last trip you took. The last trip I took. New York. OK, last trip out of the U.S. that you took. The R. Oh, no, Paris. Oh, OK, period. OK, and I don't have this written down, but the last. The last funny moment that you had, like something that really had you weak the last time you was really like. And what my uncle Red did. Oh, I'm great. Uncle Red must be a crazy one. Because the fact you didn't even have the memory ready, but you knew that he was at the center of it. It's really just him because he'd be so serious. He'd be dead serious. And that's what makes it so funny, bro. Like he's from New York, you from Harlem. So like accent. Shout out uncle Red. And he could be cussing, man. Somebody to text him something. The fuck is up with this guy? What's the what's the shit like that? So it's. Oh, my God. To be funny. His shenanigans and sayings is hilarious. OK, and the last time you went on a date. Hmm, hmm. The last time you went on a date. The last time I went on a date. I don't remember that. You don't remember? I don't recall. OK, I don't know if this is like a because we on camera, you don't know that man. I got you don't be going on a date. No, I didn't. You didn't ask me that you ever you say you don't remember the last time I remember that. I don't mean I don't go on them, but I do go on them. OK, so what was the most fire date that you've been on? Damn, the most the most fire day I've been on, man. I ain't I ain't I can't forget this one. I got she flew me first class. She flew you to Houston. And when I get there, it's the Maybach Sprinter. She got the Maybach Sprinter. Then we pull up. Yada, yada, I go crazy, all that. She got food for them, some shoes she made for a nigga, all type of shit. And then when I come outside downstairs, she like forget your haircut. We got the nails done, but we in the Maybach. Now we in the Maybach top it all off. I'm saying the lingerie night was crazy. All that was a day. And that was a whole day as a date. That was like a whole day of shit. She said come correct or don't come at all. Once you say she flew you first class. I said, who? I ain't heard from that bitch since. Why? Not her whining and donning. Well, I said then, like we don't, you feel not because it was supposed to go into a relationship after that and it didn't. It didn't. So, hold on, because you got whining and donning. So is that like something like, like the ladies be like. I mean, I've been, yeah, I've been, I take you on a date because they don't get a reply. So they'll be on some like, I take you on a date. I ain't one of them, I ain't one of them. And I'm like, he ain't even that. I'm super busy. Like I'm just, or I'm in a relationship at the time. I don't talk. So it's not even that I don't want to or that I wouldn't take you on a date. You feel me at the time? I just can't. I just can't. I'm occupied right now. So you said they saying that. So they were slaughtering you DMs. Facts. You were slaughtering you DMs? Facts. What's the craziest DM you ever got? Or the craziest one you could remember? The one I could remember. I just opened my DM and it was just, just pussy. She squirt, she squirt now. She squirt and go on crazy all type of shit. Just feeling me. And it wasn't even in Venizmo. Venizmo wouldn't eat not at the time. So she just was letting it all out. She ain't can't lose on. It's a pretty ass pro-wrap, real nice, pretty. You wouldn't even expect that. That's why I opened it. Because I'm not, I'm thinking it's just another pretty girl. Shout my music out. I'm a comment. Keep it moving. I opened it. And when I opened it, video and it's just. She had it all out there. And what was your response? Whoa. Not whoa. But does that work for you? Because I feel like there's a line between shooting a shot and a DM and then just coming off like you're too accessible. So is that a thing for you? Like how do you discern who gets a response and who don't? Automatically, that's accessible very much. And then it'd be something that really hit me with a joke, like a bounce a ball in my DM or dot, dot, dot, or say some crazy shit that I opened and it'll be like, I just wanted your attention, but not that you're here type shit. Right. I know how to balance them. So do you go after ladies in the industry or is it like regular nine to five on the table? Like what is your, because you gave me your type earlier and wrapped the fire. You gave me my type? Yeah, I asked you to describe your type in three words. And you gave me three words. But they were really applicable for anybody that's intelligent and creative. So what are the things that you look for before you even get to know that they're intelligent, creative, or anything like that? I let them talk. I let them talk. I use certain words and just to see what they have, what they vocabulary at first off. Just to see how they hold a conversation with only so much. Because that's how you know, like, damn, I could really rock with you. Because we ain't got that much to even talk about it. We over here talking for hours and just hitting it off like we don't know each other. That helped me know, like, oh, damn, your intelligence is pretty decent. I mean, intelligence as in like, you need a 3.5 GPA or 4.0 to fuck with a nigga. Can you hold a good conversation? Are you an airhead? Are you born? Do you just look good? Shit like that. Yeah, I was talking to Albi Al. I don't know if you know who Albi Al is. He's an artist from Jersey. And we were talking about that. And he was saying how a lot of the Instagram models and the pretty face, they're very dense. Well, let me not put a hold on him. That was really, that was, that was, that was a conversation that we were mutually having. I won't put it all on him. But looks aren't everything. Although I feel like when people say that looks don't matter, they're lying. Because looks are what draws you to a person in the first place. So how do you balance between like, your relationships and your career? I'll be, I'll be, I don't want to say, I'll be bullshitting, I'll be playing man, but I kind of let it be what it's gonna be. I'll let it be knowing what it is up front. And I give you the choice to continue to rock with me or not. So you'll never be able to go around to your friends and be like, oh, he be lying for pussy. Or he'll, he gonna talk, he gonna talk this game and then nah, no, no, I let you know I'm gonna put my career before you in every way, shape, and form until I'm able to suffice for me and you. Okay. And so unless you finna add to this and rock with this, I'm sorry, I know it may sound real crazy, but it's just what it is. It's a part of the lifestyle. You know what I'm saying? Until I'm able to do what I gotta do for us. So what about when it comes to like your, your friendships, like your platonic friendships, how, what does that balance look like? Do you spend a lot of time with your friends? Are your friends on the road with you? How's that? Kinda sorta, it'd be kinda sorta. I be damned on business all the time. If I'm not on business, I'm gone, I'm ducked out somewhere with something or just, you know what I'm saying, recharging. Well, I tend to keep most of my friends around, yeah. Okay. Have you like noticed any differences with the people that you've been around? People feeling entitled now that you know you out there. How, what is that like? I mean, witnessing that firsthand. Go from, I'm not the person you call to like, I'm the one you gonna call for everything now. Yeah. Yeah, it's just, it comes with the, it comes with the game, it comes with the territory. Do you like feed into it? Is it like a regular you ask me? In the beginning I did. Okay. Bad, bad. I was so willing to go broke. Just to prove to my fucker, like I really care, hopefully thinking like, Lordy, this what you gonna do for me if it ever came down to me. So I had to realize like, my hell nah, boy, like fuck you. I love you, but fuck you. You know what I'm saying? And if you love me, then we gonna be Gucci. We gonna be straight. We gonna know what it is, cause I'm always be a honey. It is what it is. Like being real ain't gonna be the problem. Right. Just to get that energy back. Right. Reciprocation. I pour into you, pour into me. So, I mean, it seems like you've learned a lot of things through your experiences and just through the years of course it comes with age also. What's like the biggest lesson that you've learned about this industry so far? Man, never let your left hand know what you're right doing. And I don't take none of this shit personal, man. I don't take none of this shit personal. Like it's love on my end. And I can take what come with it on my end, but it's business, bro. It's cool. I know why you did that. I get why you did that. You a fuck nigga for that, but it's cool. We in business, we gonna rock like that. I get why you did that, shawty. I get why you did that little girl. That was some little girl, little mind of that shit, but I understand and I ain't gonna hold that against you. I'm just gonna treat you accordingly. You're so like level headed, sensible, calm, like yeah. Balance, that's the perfect word to use. If you can find a balance in everything, man, you're good. Don't get clicked though, this motherfucker get. But as long as you can snatch back which it goes back to balance. I feel like you're good. You'll be good through this life. Okay. So let's like bring it back to the music a little bit because you do have a project obviously that we kind of alluded to a little earlier. So let the people know what the title of your upcoming project is. It's called I Love Y'all to EP, I Love Y'all on the Way. And you penned a low note to your supporters which was really nice to get in everybody in gear and ready for the drop. What is the, what vibes can we expect from this project? What features maybe can we expect on this project? Talk to us about it. All right, I got one feature on this project, Landstrip Chip. And then it's six tracks and you're gonna, I would say this tape is, this is some real deal, bonafide, smooth, up tempo. Like it give me a smooth, if I can describe it in three words, smooth, electrifying and calm. Smooth, electrifying and calm. In that order too. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So you're gonna be able to vibe. It's vibe-y. I was gonna turn it up. You're gonna get it right and then it's gonna bring you right back down. Okay. So you only have one feature on the project. What made that feature so important to you? Well, shout out, Landstrip Chip. I would like to call him a brother in this, in this industry we are in. And just real life, he understands that he knows. Me and Bro got a different type of relationship when it comes to this shit. So I had to put him on this tape because he put me on his last tape too. You know what I'm saying? And we been in the, me and Chip got a whole tape done. But it just comes, it's so much stuff. You have so much unreleased music. Man, I got a whole tape and you really have so much. Me and Chip, me and Highway 2009, Jetson. So what's the hold up? Like... Y'all heard it? Fuck is the hold up. What's the hold up? What's going on? I'm confused and we're waiting. Drop them bitches. Let me have you try and drop all that shit. But one thing I will say that I'm happy that you don't do is post snippets, knowing that you don't know when it's gonna come out. Cause I'll be feeling like, dang. But artists just string us along. And it's like, it'll be the most fire sounding songs. And it's like, okay, I'm just ready to hear the whole thing. Cause once y'all here, bro, y'all gonna try and go on. Patois. Patois. It's the second track. It's coming out. I promise, we finish shooting video too. In LA, shout out my boy Blue. He shot, can't go. Okay. He shot the video, can't go, man. Shout out Blue. For sure. Okay. So what else can we be expecting? First of all, you came real like calm today, but you'll be putting that shit on. Okay. Oh, still not. All right. Let's just go on. Let me not, I didn't say, but I don't know if they can see your shoes. Okay. Time out. Nah. Okay. So you see it. Look, eight, seven hundred on some comfy shit. And if you don't know, said he really do be putting that shit on. The outfit of the day is on TikTok. I love those. You got to get back into doing those. Cause like you've done a, like you, you kind of, it looks like you got back into it. I gave the password to Blake. He need to tighten up. I really liked those. What is like an outfit essential for you? Who? Like some shit I just know, like I can wear these every day. I'm going to do this type of. All right. Look, I wear my ricks with a lot of shit. That's like my everyday go to my ricks. Okay. Um, some nice baggy jeans. My boy seven four, the sleazy seven four gear. I've been rocking a lot of that. So I give me some seven fours, some seven four cargos or some, some baggy jeans that's kind of fitted. Throw some ricks on, white tee, throw some chrome. My glass, I'm a big fan of glasses. I collect glasses. Like I'm that nigga that has spent probably 10,000 on glasses. I don't know why I just have to think for glasses. Okay. All right. So the baggy jeans. Okay. That's exactly what I was about to ask you. Okay. So you accessorize. I like that. All right. So like what else can we expect? You know, we are mid year at this point. So this is like the halfway checkpoint. So far doing great. What can we expect for the rest of this year? Are you tapping into anything else? First of all, when are we going to see these paintings? Mr. Setty Van Gogh. Oh yeah, say no more. I'm doing that more like round fall. It's not intimate round that time. It's more intimate. So I'm gonna be doing more paintings and meet and greets and all of us painters to come all us link up. Yes. We all share our paintings and we just vibe out and talk, put some new people to the world. Yeah. I could even see you doing like a singing paint, a singing sip paint type of thing. Once I heard you say that you paint and obviously you sing, I was like, wow, that would be mad fire. Like you're painting, you know, low one, two, one of my people would love to see that. And people would love to participate. It was something that I did. I forgot the name of it, man. But it was a dude, spoken word. It was in Atlanta next to Escobar. And he was painting and people would just walk up, spoken word and just say whatever they wanna do on the mic. But he's just in a cut, just painting though. Not what you say that. All you gotta do is add a mic to what he was doing. Yeah. You in the dough. That's fire. That's hard. And if you do that, personally, I feel like- I'd try to be singing in like, yeah. I feel like I'm entitled to entry. You heard it here first. So if I see, I better not find out about it first by looking at your social media because I will be highly upset. All right. All right. So what else? Are you tapping into any like acting, any fashion stuff? What you got coming on? Cause I know you talked about you working on something. We just, we just, we getting some movie roles and scripts together. We getting some placements together for me. I was supposed to be out there with my boy, Reese LeFleur for the fashion week with forever to do with Louis, but I had to go to BET weekend. But I'm definitely making it to the one and fall. Okay. So yeah, we gon, we gon, you definitely gon see me in some up and coming movie roles. You definitely gon see me on the fashion show. Like all that. Like I'm just in everybody's face. Do you still feel the same? Cause I heard you say that if you were to be in a movie or you were to play a role, you wanted to be as close to yourself as possible. You still feel that way? I do. I do still feel that way. Okay. You know. If you have to pick a person that's in a current like TV show or movie that's close to who you are as a person, who would you pick? Woody McLean. Okay. Yeah. The dude in power cane. Hmm. Okay. All right. Cool. So we're definitely looking forward to it. Looking forward to the project. Hand heart, excuse me. I will like, I like to do it. Out now on all platforms. Thank you so much for coming, Seddy. I appreciate you having me, man. I love this interview. I enjoyed everything. Yes, I did too. And like I said, my best friend's name is Sedger. So I just feel like it's just something. Shout out to you. The Seddies. And he's Haitian. Are you Haitian? I'm Haitian and Bahamian, yeah. Here we go. That's crazy. Shout out to you, Sedger. I love you. Hand hearts for you too. Is there anything else before we wrap it up though that you want to talk about? You want to tell the people that are watching? Nah man, I want to give a shout to my city, Jacksonville, Florida. I want to give a shout to my mom. You feel me? The whole gang, sister, my brother, everybody. You feel me? Florida boy, you know what the deal is. You feel me? How y'all say it up here? That's how y'all say it? You know the vibes. Type shit. You know the vibes. Free slime for show. Free slime. All right y'all, well thank you so much for coming. Let the people know where to find you if they don't already. Y'all need to find me on anything and everything. Oh, everything. Type in S-E-D-D-Y Hendricks, man. Free the guys. All right, thank you so much for coming. We'll see y'all next time.