 The next day, not even 12 hours later, video out almost had a million views. Woo! So I called Suv, like, hey man, tell young boy, hey, let's do it again. He was like, all right. So he was like, young boy said, call him. So young boy called me with the little face, hey, say. You know what I'm saying? He like, hey, he like, hey, say, like, everything you seen and heard me, everything you seen and heard, gangsta. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. Let me ask you, I wanna, I wanna, that's a dope story, but let me ask you about NBA Young Boy, because that's the one that I don't know how you guys relationship is, the way he be looking at the camera when you see him, the way he look, the way the n***a look versus the way the n***a rap, versus who the n***a is, it's a whole bunch of things going on with that for me. Now I listen, I remember we was going to Chicago, and I listened to his whole, you know, the whole way I listened to number NBA, I probably heard a bunch of your beats to be honest with you. I was just listening to Young Boy, and I was like, dang, let's do dope. But then when I see him, I'm like, damn, could I talk to this n***a? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you can. No, you know what I'm saying? So how did you guys, even me, you know, how did y'all even like, you know, hook up? Man, shout out to DJ Swift. So I was in college. Okay. In class, get a phone call from him, right? He ain't dope. You in class? I was like, yo, I'm in class. What's up? He was like, still by the side. So I'm like, all right, cool. So I still by the side. He's like, bruh, this guy named NBA Young Boy, he hard. I'm like, bruh, I don't know who this is, bruh, you know, he from Bad Roots, he hard, bruh. He really like what you doing. So I'm like, all right, big. At the time I go on this page, he had 3,000 followers. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, all right, cool. You know what I'm saying? By the time me and him had the same amount of followers. Oh yeah. All right. You know what I'm saying? So I go look at his music, I'm like, sound like some like vintage, like Louisiana Boots, wherever. I'm like, you know what I'm saying? I can do that. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, all right, I'm finna make the beat. So I go right back in class, right? Put my headphones on, it's all year. So I get stopped. Uh, Mr. Lockhart, they actually they call me Miami in school, Miami, even professors too, Miami. I'm like, huh? Uh, what are you doing? Oh, uh. Assignment. Yeah. I'm writing notes. It was like, no, because we can hear the music in the headphones. You know what I'm saying? He was like, you're not going to be nothing in life by clicking on this laptop. I was like, dang, you know what I'm saying? Like, that was the most embarrassing thing. Like, you ain't going to be nothing in life clicking on that laptop, thinking that the music going to take you somewhere. Mind you, I'm a history major, so I ain't in no music class. I'm like, I know you don't understand what I'm doing. So I'm like, all right, get out of class, email to beat the DJ Swift the next day, not even 12 hours later, video out on my almost at a million views. Woo. So I called Swift like, hey, man, tell young boy, hey, let's do it again. He was like, all right. So he was like, young boy said, call him. So young boy called me with the little face, hey, say, you know what I'm saying? He like, hey, he like, hey, say, like everything you seen in hard year, everything you seen in your heart, gangsta. I'm like, yo, he was like, hey, keep sending that fire, you hear me? Let's go up. So I'm like, I bet, you know what I'm saying? So I'm sending the records or whatnot. I get a phone call from young boy. He was like, they say, gangsta, where you at? I'm like, man, I'm in Tennessee. He was like, I need you to come to come to LA. So I get ready to go to LA. I bring the whole team I got with me. Whole team coming to LA. And one thing led to another. A.I. young boy comes out and we did almost 80% of that album. Wow. And that was like the beginning because I didn't I never met him. We were always talking on the phone. Doug, what you think about this? This hard you rock with this? Blah, blah, blah, blah, for sure. And we built that relationship and that camaraderie with each other. And then everything was just like it was just up. You know what I'm saying? And then one night, Ain't Too Long came out, that album. So we going through. It was midnight. We in Atlanta. Me, Mike, Laura, the whole team. So we in the hotel. We got one big suite. We was still broke. We was kind of getting a little bit of money, you know what I'm saying? We was like, man, we got a little suite, you know what I'm saying? But all eight of us, we going to sleep in this room. Some people hit the floor. Some people get in the bed. We got a little sofa bed. We going to thug it out like that. So 12 o'clock come around, young boy drop the album. Number one, OK, that's us. Everybody sleep but me. I'm up. Of course. Number two, OK, that's us. Three, that's us. Four, that's us. Five, that's us. Six, that's us. Seven, that's us. Hold on, let me just. Maybe I'm chipping. Maybe I'm half sleep. All eight songs was us. I was like, yo. That's a blessing. You know what I'm saying? That was like the turning point of like double A. And this is the sound having like that whole household name because people knew from the Kodak. But our relationship, like, or the music kind of stopped. And it wasn't because of Kodak. It was because of Jail's stuff, wasn't it? No, the label. The label, really? The label was like, they tripped out? They was like, yo, yo, Kodak, man. You know, double A's hard. But you know, it's other producers that can turn you up. And Kodak was like, nah, I'm gonna rock with who I'm rocking with. You know what I'm saying? And then he did, got one record and it went viral on Instagram and I guess, you know what I'm saying? The label was like, nah, let's go in a different direction. Which is cool. You know what I'm saying? This is all love. You know what I'm saying? But we just kind of just locked in somewhere else, you know what I'm saying? At the time, but everything has its expiration. Evolution. In and out. How long did it take between Kodak and NBA? Like to meet? To find, yeah, for the beat, going here and then him contacting you, how many? Like the different, the relationship. Oh, the relationships. They was like, was he back to back? Cause Kodak was in jail at the time. So like, it just happened like, I don't. Cause I know you were in college at both times. Yeah, so it never stopped. You know what I'm saying? Like it was like Kodak was happening and then that happened at the same time. But then things kind of got a little funny. You know what I'm saying? But it's all, it's favor, man. I know that's what I was about to say. That's a blessing. It just came like that. You know what I'm saying? And then you dope. Like your work ethic again, I always go back to work ethic because your work ethic is what's gonna make everything happen. And you keep working. Look how fast you just jump right on it. That ain't normal, nigga. That's a gift. What?