 All right. Hey, guys. We're in a new segment, Toka the Town. Today, we have a special guest, Trappley and Pat from Florida. So how are you liking New York right now? Man, I like the vibe. It's kind of fast. A lot of traffic. A lot of traffic. Yeah. Is it worse than Florida? Yeah, a whole lot of walking too. Yeah, it's worse than Florida. I know it's hard. It's no parking lot, yeah. Florida, y'all be having space. Yeah, we got space. So tell us how you got into music. Well, I was already into music. I used to freestyle all the time. I wasn't in too deep, though. I was pretty shallow, but I always used to hit the studio. But when I left college, a little setback at the college, I wasn't able to return to the campus. I really took it serious. It became my first priority ever since then. I've just been going at it, trying to elevate every time. OK, so when did you was done with basketball? I wanted to seriously go here. And I was the best footballer. Football. Yeah, I played football. No, you're right. I was really briefed in. So when did you was done with football and wanted to go have you on the music? As soon as I left, the first semester of college, my freshman semester after that, it was time to take music more serious. I couldn't return. So it was my first priority. That's what I wanted to do. And I just substituted school for rapping. OK. So you remember your first song, you mean? Yeah, I do. What was it called? It was called, it was like, what it was called, different breed. You remember it? It was called different breed, yeah. So like, you said you remember it? Yeah, I remember it. So how do you feel like you grew as an artist from your first song as to now? Like, where do you feel like you improved? I used to rap with no hooks. I never had hooks on the songs. I used to just flow through bars, just the whole thing, like 60 bars. But now I'm able to like lay out hooks, choruses, and everything I got to do is like, it's more established. It's more, it's more flowing. Everything flows more better than me just flowing straight through a beat. So your structure definitely improved? Yeah, my structure improved. So you feel like you learned that over time or? Yeah, I learned that as I like, as I go to the studio, I look at the studio as like practice, like where you go to like get better at certain places where you like, you stumble. Do you have a favorite place you like recording? Yeah, but I don't want to say favorite, but I actually do. Yeah, the first place I ever started recording that, that's where I usually go the most. So you have a set engineer, producer? Yeah, it's an engineer. DC, I use multiple engineers, but DC, he was the first one that recorded me. 808 Nate, J-O, DJ No Limit, Hall of Fame. Yeah, so we'll keep right up. So you buzzing now. So when you see like your type beats on YouTube, you ever check those out? Yeah, I'd be freestyling to them all the time. I must say you feel like those definitely capture your sound. Yeah, I do, some of them do. Do you have like a favorite producer? Yeah, Pepper Jack, Joe. He makes most of my beats. I'm still open to other producers though, but yeah, he makes majority of my beats. Okay, all right. So when did the success start picking up for you? It was like, when did, it was like, oh, I can't just walk to any store in the world. Like when did this start happening? Big business this year, big business took off, big business did a lot, like to the point, like I can't even go places. I already get messages in my Instagram, like I see you man, keep it going though. Right, so like, was there an interaction that you remember that was like, oh shit, I gotta be on point? Yeah, one time I pulled up to a gas station and it was nowhere near. Somebody just walked up to me, like out of nowhere, my homeboy like, damn, you knew him? And I'm like, nah man, but he knew me and he was like, damn, you see what I be talking about? It was funny, yeah. Taking everything's game, people don't know you for real. It was definitely at that time. So what do you feel like attracted everybody to big business? Cause people would say it's your eyes, but I really think it's a good song. So what do you think it was? Could be the beat, the scenery, the thumbnail to the thumbnail played a role. My manager, she always was talking about thumbnail. I never knew anything about a thumbnail. Yeah, I really never know about that type of stuff, but the thumbnail, all of that, everything played a role. So when did you start doing a thing with your eyes? Was that purposefully like, you gonna do that on your videos or was it like? So everybody has stuff that they do recreationally before they go have a good time. I don't really, I don't really gotta get too deep into it, but before the music videos, everybody hangs out, enjoys it so. So this is having fun? Yeah, hanging out, yeah, enjoying it so. Okay, okay, okay. So how did you get into Alfredo? Like, how did you guys meet? Well I met him before at a video shoot and I took a little picture from him. It's still on my Instagram, it's probably the last picture. But yeah, I met him there. We ain't say too much, exchange a few words. But recently, last year in November, somebody from the scene reached out to me. We connected, you know, we met up at the office, came to a conclusion, you know, who was able to like make ends meet and ever since then. We been aiming for the stars, for real, damn best. It's crazy. So a lot of artists are like against, I guess, starting to other artists and things like that. What would you say is the plus to being with big artists, you know? What is the plus though? Not only you wanna get in depth though. I'm saying everybody got their own route. I don't feel like there's a flaw in doing anything. Everybody got a different situation. So at the end of the day, it's whatever you gotta do in order to make ends meet. So that's how I'm gonna get it. So definitely one step going up the line. Yes, a step is going on. Okay, okay, okay. So what inspired Do the Door project? Oh, I mean, I mean, okay, the people around me always said I gotta make a statement. So we came to the conclusion that we could call the mixtape Do the Door. Like we here, we're showing them why we should be Do the Door and stuff like that. And there was a lot of doubt and stuff. So we was able to like pick a lot of, pick songs that were on the same type of like scale, format, same vibe and Do the Door came out good for real. So you have like a certain, so it definitely captured a certain sound, the whole project. What would you say is your favorite song on the project? Hustler. Hustler? And what about that song is like, make for your favorite? I like that song. That is when I made that song. It's me, like when I listen to that song, it takes me somewhere that only I know what's going on. So it's like. I feel like that whole vibe on there was like. Yeah, that thing was there. So what's wrong on the set? We feel like needs more recognition or a song that you feel like it's slept on on the project. Or you can't tell just yet. Oh, no heart. You feel like they sleeping on that song? Yeah, no heart can't slept on, but it's okay. It probably needs a visual, you know, sometimes, but they sleeping on that song forever. I think the students don't know how it kind of looks. Okay, okay. So tell us how some of your features came about. You got to cut em' Reese. You have a lot of features. But yeah, cut em' Reese by you. I wanted to do the song with him. I felt like he could lay out a verse that could really be good on the song. So who was able to connect and get that done? Trunks, he's kind of from the same area. So reached out to him. I like his vibe. You know, he's like kind of like emo, emo type music, dark music. So you're into tapping into blue sounds and different people and things like that? I like challenges. So I like putting myself in uncomfortable positions or adapting to somebody else's music just to see if I could do that. Who was able to do that without a problem? So what's something on your bucket list when it comes to music? Bucket list when you say bucket list life. Like what's one thing you wanna accomplish? Like once it's done, you're like, yeah, I did that. Gotta hit that billboard. But not just one time multiple. Like the first one, the first one, billboard. Then what's one more? Billboard. People say to go plaque, people say. Oh, with a million streams, platinum, diamond. Olat, Olat stuff. Yeah, stuff with serious royalties. Olat stuff. Like big businesses running though. Yeah, I need to get going. Yeah, it's just not getting started though. Okay, so what's next 2021? Well, I got another project on the way, but I'm touring next month, so I'll be touring like June, July, everywhere, all over the U.S. right now. All over the U.S.? Yeah, all over the U.S. Okay, so tell the people where to find you and how they could get in tune with you. A lot of people want to get sent to B.C. too. But we ain't gonna go. Okay, you can find me on every social media platform at Tracklandpad, T-R-A-P, L-A-N-D-Pad, everywhere. Oh, and if you want to send me beats, I got the email beats for Tracklandpad at gmail.com, B-E-A-T-S, for Tracklandpad at gmail.com. I'm taking every beat, drill beats and everything. I know the New York light drill. I'm trying to see. Yeah, how do you feel about the drill scene? I feel what drill music, yeah. Who you listen to? Who you been to? I actually listen to Five U a lot for real, though. Oh, yeah? Yeah, my homeboy got me listening to Chef G, Cappello, a type of people, Sleepy Hollow. Yeah, a whole lot of people, y'all know. Okay, okay. Lucky Shrula, everybody. Are you tap into the music scene? Oh, yeah. People are going to come to New York some more? Yeah, I like it. Okay. We outside. We outside.