 We on boss talk one-on-one. Yeah, we gonna talk. We gonna have fun. We be on fire. We'll be lately Yeah, it's a unique hustle big shit big shit big shit. It's a unique hustle nigga big shit big shit Big shit big shit. Name another podcast like this check it check it check it. It's a unique house It's your boy you see yo, and I'm here with the lovely amazing terrific. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, the wonderful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, Jamaica. What's going on? You know Jamaican the house though. Hey, man, we down there what we had right now in the ATL Man, this boy 80 boys. It was love every time we come down there man. I think I'm gonna give me a place down there Man, I can't you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I need to give me a place to be in Hey, my well, but you ain't scaring me. Yeah, I'll come down in hang out with my boy, man I'm Mario Carti on is in the building man going on. What's up, man? For sure. I'm thinking I'm gonna give me a pass. You know, I need to check in with you. Nick got a check-in system Man, I just love I love the I love the way the people embrace us here make me feel like I'm somebody man You know what I'm saying? Oh, I am. Okay. All right Oh, here we go captain, you know, I'm your husband, but the way you saying it is a little sarcasm Man, don't play me on the mic like that man. So man, what's up with you, man? I've been seeing you man. You dropped a you dropped some music for show for show. Yeah brand new album, man What you know, I All the song that you got on there, man, how many videos did you do on that project? I'm doing all of them That's what I like that. I like that. I like that's the way you pose to do it, man I saw people don't do that. They're gonna pick out like the You know, we do what we want to do is it's a digital world, right? Yeah, like like I don't see it independent So let's let's go back and let's talk about the younger you man Let's get into just like what's out of town you came up on in ATL And just just give us a little spiel on just the whole whole gammon of who my boy is a Mario Coddy on this I'm from clean County south side Flint River is that yeah, they were on fun clean From clean County, where'd you go to elementary school at? Yeah, the street. Oh, yeah The boys wouldn't and the boy playing football over there Flag football they throw in the milk cart number. How they playing it ball over there when you look at it Really, you know elementary ain't playing middle school. I went to money's meal middle. Yeah I was crazy. Do you did you like it? Oh, yeah, I like it until you know So so what uh, what's the difference in growing up over there versus a say Decatur McDonald, what's the difference in growing up on your side of town or Bowen Holmes? It really It like the pins on the air you isn't there really the same in a lot of different air like born home Well, for you could you would compare born homes to what I'm from. Okay. Okay. What's up? Okay, who did any outside of yourself any other reputable Artists come from out of your area. I mean from the county on from but not exactly my area Oh, they are from the same area. Yeah, we are from the same area. Okay. Okay. Um, and did you see them growing up or? Used to see them in the hood. Yeah, so especially the rear you would see him. Yeah See y'all were friends back then. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So is he older than you or younger than you older? He older than you for sure. The what how many years did y'all go to school together? No, no, no We just from the same just same area. He's seeing you. You seen him. That's dope, man You know, uh, it's like a circle down here, huh? So it ain't it's like a big circle like you know, you run into the same people over and over again, huh? No, but you can't even hide it and none of cuz somebody don't know you didn't know me. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so so let's talk about the album a little bit I want to get into the back story Man, it's your thing man. I'm just a I'm just here I want to know how you were raised you were raised with your mom and your dad your siblings Yeah, not in the same house, but both were there for them. Oh, they were for you So you still had that influence in your life for sure. Okay. Tell me something that your father Instilled in you from a young age that you think you carried with you all the way up to You got to take care of your family. No matter what it's the only way you're gonna be blessed And your mom She just a hustling She taught me how to hustle never give up. You gotta have something Okay, that's good. That's good that I came from the lady and not the Daddy cuz normally something like that normally comes from the dad. Oh, no, no mom was like the dad That's cool, I like that so I'm siblings I got three brothers and two sisters. Are you the oldest youngest middle? Next to the youngest next to the youngest. Okay. So you had a couple in front of you So did you look up to them where they are any of the rest of them in in the music industry? No, just you So where did it come from? Oh No, it just I guess I just love music all my life and your mom and dad did they love music? Yeah, my dad so your dad used to always play that music going down the she's telling me a little story Like he used to be winning the talent shows and stuff like really. Okay. So, okay So, who did you look up to as a kid growing up? Probably my brothers really So how old were you when you first decided that you wanted to do music and why? Because I'm sure that wasn't your first love, right? They don't kids when they grow up. I want to be a fireman. I want to be now They were my first love like really this was I ain't Asks for like toys and stuff all I ever wanted was a karaoke machine. Oh really? Yeah, like I always got karaoke machines Every Christmas the newest one to come out. I get mm-hmm. That's cool. Sure. And how old were you? Probably about 10 or 11 10 or 11. So when did you start taking a serious? How old were you? Probably about 15 16 and what made you take it here? Somebody came to you as a man that that song went hard You should really do it or you just decided to do it. No, I actually One of my mutual friends was making beats and so Why he was making beats and still was meeting more people in the game and that just motivated me to want to do it Hmm. I already knew I could do it But I never wanted to take it serious because you know, we didn't think nobody was really gonna listen And then once we start getting people to listen and recognize who we are then I was like, oh, yeah, I gotta do this They they looked at me like a rapper now So how do you feel the first time you recorded something you actually hear it played back because it's different when you Actually doing your recording or when you hear all the music behind and everything and it sounds, you know Well, how how did you feel explain that feeling? I Real I was just being humble. So I've been recording on the karaoke machine You know, you get the tapes and you put the tissue in the bottom You can record on it. So I've been doing that like for years before I even went to the studio So I already kind of knew how to record, right? So when I did my first one in the studio, it just was like I'm not on a tape no more I'm recording on the computer But isn't it different when it's professional and they put all the everything all the effects behind it compared to when you are Are you was that good where you were still doing something from home? Yeah, really cuz we young so it didn't it wasn't gonna sound good I go when I recorded in the studio or recorded on this. I actually used to thank the tape sound They're better than going to the studio because we didn't know what we was doing. Right. All right. What's the first song you did? Professionally, uh, it was a song called shot it hold me down. Hmm. So how do they do? Um, it actually did good. I was in school. It was a girl song like all the girls loved it I used to perform it for the school like the school party Everybody used to come see the performance that they love the song So yeah, it was pretty good and you wrote it because a girl that you knew No That would have been a nice way to look at you Because when a female know on an artist or whatever especially if they was talking to you or you know Cool with you or whatever and you make a song about a female the first thing I'm gonna say is that by me Yeah, I was just about to say that about me. I got a couple of girls think I wrote this song about you Hey So Let me ask you something on the on the song When you when you wrote Say gunline. Mm-hmm. What was the process of that? I see the video just dropped. Yeah Actually, I've reached out majority of my music so And I actually don't listen to beats before I go to the studio really so when I get in the studio I listen to the beat and highway make me feel what kind of vibe I listen to the beat and for so long until I start hearing words from Then that's when I make the record. Wow. Yeah, that's dope. And so When you when you first dropped this album, what did you expect to accomplish in dropping this album? Really to take off. Mm-hmm. How do you like the way it's moving so far? Oh, yeah, it's moving great Great better than hell. What what's the difference in this one and in previous ones? I did it all professionally this time. Okay, last time it was ragged. It was rugged like yeah last time it was Me and a team we didn't know Mastering. Oh, okay. This time I did the full process through What what what was the difference in this time and last time for us to do the process to full processes Versus doing it the way that you would normally do it other than the budget. Yeah Well, even the budget I want to explain I want to I want the people to know what it takes in the differences So what was it? That I had the light on like I was had gas start getting a lot of momentum from don't play with him record So now I feel like okay now these people is watching me Now I got to come professionally every time can't let them down Okay, how much does it cost? How's the financial compared to when you didn't get it mastered compared to everything that you did right now a lot more crazy Like double triple more Yeah Way more Way more, but it's worth it, right? Yes work. Yeah, cuz now when they listen to the music He sound different. He's Yeah, we're really they just didn't know it's like half of them sons that they heard was old I just got them mastered the correct way. So they sound great. Totally But okay, so a lot of time when when you finish with a project Are you still concentrating on just promoting a project and doing everything for that project? Or are you an artist where you're like, okay on to the next one I'm ready to start doing something else. No, you got to promote Hmm. Yeah, you got a for how long though, but everybody's different. So how long do you promote for? like Hard hard promo at least give it a good six months Three to six months and then if it can't when you see the three when you start seeing the momentum of it If you see it going up you go going down then, you know to keep going You got to try something else if you see is rising as you're going you stick with it But if you see it be creasing, that's when you know, you got to drop another project. Okay. Wow So what's the name of the project? Is it timeless? Yeah, time. That's what I thought timeless. Um, so What what why timeless? Cuz I I've been working forever. You know, I never you know, oh, I gotta do it this or not It's time. It's right here. We're gonna go this is my dream. Yeah, I'm making time this music How many songs on 13 13 How many collabs how many features for four features? Who did you feature on the oracle? See white to China It's boom-coon who may smell like air fruity with okay Rick Ross and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I Got my other show time T-Mobile, okay And then that's dope man. So Did you feel like it was important to make sure that you didn't do too many features when you did it or Were you careful about that or you just did it how I came? Really, I just right now. I just been keeping it on the south side like Don't artists that I did myself for the oracle everybody from the south side. Mm-hmm So I just been keeping around this Doing it for the south side for right now Yeah, that's dope man. I like it. Um, I think it's good to start off right in your neighborhood The reason why because once you build that up, then you can go and you know, people you start getting your leverage on it Who who um? Far as what city would you like to hit in and try to get get it in the other places? Is there any specific marketing play area that you'd like to try to hit? I'm trying to get all No, sir, I'm trying to go everywhere. Well, welcome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right And where's the songs that you have on your album? Do you have one that cover each category like you have your dance song? You have your vibe song you have here for show way up balance life You just don't have well balance. Tell me the categories that you want. I got pain. I Got I got pain. I got dance. I got vibe. I Got love. Yeah, I mean Like I know category that I didn't like if you listen to you love rap music if you want to hear some pain I got you if you want something happy. I got you like listen to the album That's why I named the time because I got every category Hmm. That's what that's what's up. That'll work You know the thing we have to keep in mind is we in that hey We got to make this thing pop man like nothing like never before but the thing you got to keep in mind man It's that that talent man is something else man. It's on a whole another level man. I hear um, you know The strip club scene I got to ask you about that you a young bull So what's what's going on in strip club scene? Like is it is it uh, is it we what's the new spot down here? Yeah Oh That's popping. Is that that's the newest one Now they got that they don't reopen up. Um, I think qc. I don't open up a script club. Really? They reopen up Really? Is it is it dope inside of how you've been in it? Oh, yeah crazy. You know, it is crazy Man, that that that's what i'm talking about man. We we we gotta hey listen man. We we gotta support our local uh celebrities, you know So, um, when you think about uh music you think about what happened here just here recently with a young doll for um, what um What did you think about that when you first heard the young doll fate that had been uh A kill All right. Dang just feel the bad for his kids. You know when you're dying kids don't got I'm lost the dad A lot of people depending on dog ways regularly when all that but with young being in a penny So I know a lot of people hurt from that. Yeah, so you you soon as soon as you heard about you like man That's got that that that that hurts For sure, especially for them kids, you know, I mean they posted out on video Yeah, they keep showing it with his kids and all that way Because you know when you in these streets you in these streets They don't show that point like before he they didn't show that at first If you really go back and think about it, you didn't see those pictures popping out like that Or they was there and nobody paid attention to no attention But now those become the most important pictures and that became that was the most touching picture when you seen him Even when mode three Was killed his pictures came out with his three kids Those pictures touched they hit different for for sure because now you realize this is a human being here This is somebody who had a family. He's like me. He had kids. Uh, and you know, that's that's crazy, man You know It's a cloud like I say it's it's it's very much a cloud over the rappers man You hear about all the different rappers just getting killed out here Do does it make you think differently about this about the crafter or what does it make you feel? No, because you got like king bun all these different people that done past don't you got to think about like That was because you're a rapper You know, I mean that that could have happened if you wasn't no rapper like you in the streets They just somebody who had light on them that was in the street. They got called slip imagine how many people that Don't nobody know they get killed Every day every day somebody gets you understand So they're making a big deal out of it because they got a they got a light on them Or they famous or celebrity or something like that. They're making it different But they couldn't have been those celebrity in the street thugging You know what come with thugging dead angel some people make it out. You know, I mean get lucky and make it out I think they I mean and when you look at it, man I hate to see I hate to see the the young boys getting you know, took out like that, you know Like I said a rapper because you write there's a illuminating light on them. So It's hard to get around that man. It's hard to get around. You know, it's just tough. Um You know, did you even listen to doff music or yeah, you rocked out with the paper out Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was it was heavy. He was heavy in the streets. He was independent Um There's a lot of I heard everything that he was gonna buy empire. I hear all kind of stuff, bro You know at the end of the day want somebody passing what people start just, you know, saying whatever man Whatever they can say to keep the story popping. I guess I don't know man, but I just know we some of this stuff You you don't see coming. You know what I mean? Um, what uh, What's the next step for us for this project that you got out timeless? Videos really so how many videos done so far? I seen the one it's two of them the one that uh, you did two weeks ago that you dropped Yeah, my voice. Yeah, how was how was my voice? Well, what was the process with that one? Really Like I said, I just freestyle. So like you see the video I caught a nice gutter looking sprat in it for the video Shot it, you know who shot the video. I'm dead fly dead fly. Yeah How long they they shot videos for you before? The um the one that just came out as well the first one. Okay Yeah, so so you you like working with those guys. No, yeah, he dope. Like he worked with stunner for very good like On polo g he worked with a lot of people And and and so who who's the uh Who is that guy out here that you see in a videos everywhere and everybody trying to get there Like we gotta have pain films in Dallas or we got different people that we use. Who is that guy? Is it him or is there a couple of them or It's a couple of them. It's a lot of it's a lot of them down here. It's a lot of work. Oh, yeah, it's a lot of them Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, do you um, what's your what what's your thing man for do you have any kids? Yeah My little girl little girl. Yeah, how's that? How's that going man? You know, you got to get into that family thing Oh, I already was family or it's you know, my family family like you go to mom on my house All the kids they're everybody cousins and everything and she cooking today, right? Yeah for sure She cooking today like you go to mom on my house. You ain't gonna see no You might see a cousin. It might be a cousin where they're gonna call her Uh, auntie, but it might be her cuz Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah Do you see where any of your kids might be following your footsteps in the music industry? Yeah, my little girl she loved the camera like She loved the camera. She want to be on the camera all day. She just want to play with the camera She get her tablet and she make her little tick tocks and she only she just turned three yesterday Hey, happy birthday. What's her name? Amari Amari. That's okay. That's a beautiful name. Appreciate it man. So, um I I think I think when you think about the atlanta scene man the competition man The oversized saturated there's so many artists man. How do you get around that to be seen? How do you get how do you get that voice out there to be seen in this in the city like that? Consistency, I agree with that. I can see that. Yeah, you would have to be very consistent and professional With your platform with the with the with the music that you decided to put out you have to you have to bring it So so yeah, you have to So in your in your city like like what what's the uh most uh crazy thing to happen where somebody came to you about your music The craziest like good or bad good good Oh, the don't play with him record that I had future casino Till all them folks listening to my record really how do they make you feel? Oh feel great. I just feel like Okay, how'd you know they were listening to it? I was getting phone calls, you know I mean like oh you future love this record Keep pushing it. Look I'm gonna call you. I might get a FaceTime casino might wrap the whole song to me Like wow, I'll be like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's dope. Well, you know, you hear that you know You did something in show. Yeah, mm-hmm when you look at A way to to prop up the brand outside of just the music what what else is there? Like clothes merch anything you got. Oh, yeah clothes money calling gear I had got the don't play with him gear. Okay, all that like I gave y'all a shirt last time. Yeah, no No, no, I didn't get it. I'll bring it like that man. And then you ain't got no shirt I gave y'all a shirt last time and then No, you didn't give us no shirt. I think we got some I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I'm sure we got shirts in the car We got shirts in the car. I gave you a shirt last time. We Thank you Man, you know what, man, we love to take the shirts back and we're we got to wear these shirts on the show I see you guys, uh, the shout shirts. I still got uh, HB shirts we got so we're gonna do a whole Yes, appreciation week and the support everybody's merch and that's what I'm different. That's right And it's coming soon to for top of the year more than likely So, yeah, you better give us the shirt as you're gonna get left out now. We got shirts in the car So, um, man, uh Do you think that um With everything that's going on in the music industry man, what's the what what's the best way to approach A deal do you think you pose a sign of deal now stay independent? What's the what's what do you think? I think it depends on your situation Okay, if it's gonna better you to sign the deal sign the deal if you are already hot and you don't need to be better Stay independent. Okay. Okay. So that's how I look at it like If a deal come my way and I know and I know it's gonna help me get really get to the top I might take that But if it's just something that okay, your hopes and dreams I ain't gonna take that. You're gonna take it. I get it, man So if you could go back and advise a younger you Of um, what to expect with the future that's ahead. How would you do so? You got to mind your business to just work Sooner you get in somebody else's business. There's one that's gonna go down for you Because they problem become yours So you just got to work just got to stay to yourself and work That takes a lot of energy when all the people's problem become the earth and time you for show It drove me a hot NBA young boy just Bam just anytime you put something out really marketed or not. It just go crazy They grinded for that though at first it wasn't like that. No, I wasn't like that at first How long did it take to get to that point? But you see how you working like Two three years they had a bag though. You see when I was in they had a bag and they had a team that Felt like okay. He great And they went all for you see how they went with him. Yeah. Yeah crazy. Yeah So he had home now. He own house arrest. He can't he can't really go nowhere. But he's out, huh? They let you know that bag You see that he coming home for that, huh? He can't hold it. He can't hold it. He can't hold it. So you know They get back But you top the artist of all time did a lot any genre Any Gotta know number one jz jz number one ti tip number two Michael Jax Michael Jackson number three Mike you made it niggi. You didn't you barely made it. Yeah, you didn't do Billie Jean enough niggi You zippers on your jacket wouldn't zipped all the way up me You know until I shout out to Michael Jackson man and the guys that you name and tip though tip tip don't get a lot of cameos on On the on the yeah, yeah, like and they bought wrapped hard too. So you're right. He supposed to be anything But you know, we had to get one tip bring the atl what you expect Hey, no, but yeah, man the barking rap. He got something going. Hey, he's gonna play with it Yeah, what he ain't made crazy money with the music. Oh, yeah. Yeah I In Atlanta can say they did with ti did explain that a little bit like for a long time like Ain't nobody made more money than tilt out the music from especially not from Georgia Nobody you like if you think about it just like musically not other investment Musically just think about it ain't too many people start making more money than tip out the music still to this day Man and the crazy part about deals Um, you recognize that you can look at all the people That's a lot of the coming from you and you being down here that says a whole lot for sure Because at the end of the day, you done seen everybody come through And then you're like dang but tip making that money and you could tell you got that bag And the whole damn family hustling and all that stuff, you know what I'm talking about filming on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So man, hey man, um, how can people get a hold to you? You follow me on all the social media at i m a r i c a r t i o n e i'm 100 cutting on all the Social media platform. Okay. Cool. Man. Hey, man. We love you big brother Is anything else you want to try to talk about before we get off here anything you want to shout out anybody want to Say, what's up? What's up with it too? I just want to tell everybody who's trying to run out with these swag Who who is the real mr. Put that shit on every day? I see all these people coming out with trying to say mr. Put that shit on y'all Know where y'all get that influence from so start running out with it brain that shit back Here I mean On the real mr. Put that shit on every day Here I mean Yo, come on baby. I'm tired of that. I'm tired of that. Get running out with this song now. I need my like Oh, really the show Nigga the bitch is talking to me. You doing something right too. Man. Thank you so much for coming on the show, man It's been another great segment of boss talk 101