 And I was homeless. So I used to, and I was homeless, then I was broke. And so I didn't want to be in Dallas wearing the same clothes. So I'd get up and I'd hit a different city every day. Wow. With the same outfit on. Wow. And the girls didn't know I had it on for four days. And when I hit the different city, I had to go spend the night over, I had to find the girl, go to the club and find the girl, spend the night with their house. Wow. And then the more I went out in different cities, I started hearing Dallas music. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Whole bunch of partners before I started this, that was in the city doing all kinds of stuff. And every time I would bring your name up, they just talk about how hard you go. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And it messed my head up. I think the one that got me the most was when Mr. Hiddeck came on here. And Mr. Hiddeck went down through that for rain. He was like, man, you know, the boogie movement wouldn't have been what it was without rain. And I was like, damn, he had something to do with that. He's like, man, he had everything to do with that. And it was like, what? He was like, he was promoting, man. He booked us. He was the only nigga that booked us out of town and did all this stuff. It was all counter talk going on. Listen, man, rain is something else. He give me some crazy calls. But I'm gonna tell you all the craziest things rain. And rain had at least 30% to probably even more. I'm just being modest, super modest with the growth of the whole Dallas boogie era. I don't think it would have been as big of a boogie era without rainwater. Why? Rainwater was the only individual that would get on the road and go to all the colleges and get us booked. You cannot go and ask any local artist that had a boogie song on top, and I can name them, the paper chasers, what was the name? T-Wheels and his brother, B-Hamp, the party boys, even the, it was anybody that, the GS, anybody that was local. On the reason I wouldn't put the GS boys in there because there was already, there already had a deal. You know what I'm saying? And B-Hamp, those two already had a deal. But anybody else, you wasn't getting booked unless Ryan was calling you. Because Ryan was the one out there hustling, trying to make his 10% or 5%. But back then, we didn't know that bookers, like people that book shows, get that type of money. We thought we were supposed to get all the money. That's the only reason the world started calling Rain Junkie. I was homeless. So just tell me a little bit about it. Was he the one who told that story about him jumping in his car and driving to book everybody? Yeah, that's what I did. People didn't know I was living in my car. And I was 19, 20, 21, 22. When I graduated from high school, my close homeboy had a son called Gutter Bitch. Okay, I remember the summer. And I had went to college and I stayed for three months, four months. And I came back to Dallas. And I was homeless. So I used to, and I was homeless, then I was broke. And so I didn't want to be in Dallas wearing the same clothes. So I'd get up and I'd hit a different city every day with the same outfit on. And the girls didn't know I had it on for four days. And when I hit the different city, I had to go spend the night over, I had to find the girl, go to the club and find the girl, spend the night with their house. Wow. And then when the more I went out in different cities, I'd still hear in Dallas music. So I'd talk going to the club on the same. I know them. Like you can book them for me? Hell yeah. How much they want? They might be going for $3,000. And I called them saying, I got a thousand dollars for y'all. You know what I'm saying? Make your money. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They might be going for $3,000. I might book them for $1,500. Half of it, I keep $500 and get them a thousand. Okay. But I was, I never knew, I never realized at the time I was cutting their managers out. And they was getting all their money because at the time, all Dallas rappers on them show money, they weren't touching nothing. It's the niggas who put that money behind them that were touching this shit. Wow. Crazy. Now all the artists calling me. You got a show for us, got a show for us. I made all the artists back then leave their managers. So is that where the hate came from, the managers? Yeah, yeah, because they started calling me janky. And then they put that in their, they put that in their artists' head and they ran water with a janky because I keep $500 to myself. I keep $500 to myself and get them a thousand. But back then it was a groups. So they had to split their thousand. Okay. You know what I'm saying? So it seemed really hard for them. Yeah, so it might be four of them and they got 250, 250, 250, 250. But you get five. I get five. The Hawaii trip? Yeah, let's talk about that. I was going to ask you about that. Like you was something. I'm gonna talk about that Hawaii thing because for you to book some. Overseas. Listen, some dancing, boogie movement, artists that were popping in Dallas, how did you make that happen? I made those connections over there. I mean, Hittahoe was sitting there while I'm working Houston and the next college found and tried to book Hittahoe. And he said, all right, you got to have the rain water book me. So I got on the phone with the army dude and I realized type of budget he got on type of money he got. And I said, you need to book this order, this order, this order. I booked by some artists. And six artists and they pay for flights. They pay for everything. And we went out there about 35 deep. Wow. How much was the payout? $80,000. How much did you keep? I paid the artists out $50,000 and I kept 30. Damn good deal. And I gave them more than they expected. I gave them more than they was making because I hit the licks so high. So I gave them more than they was even getting. And at the end of the day, the Stanky leg, they didn't show up. They didn't show up? So you booked them but it didn't show up? They didn't show up. Did you pay them? They took my deposit and didn't show up. So you didn't get it back? Who was you dealing with during that time? Old boy Prince? I was dealing with some dude that was managing them at the time because they business was out fucked up. Wasn't black? Uh-uh, I don't know, I can't remember. Some Arkansas nigga or something nigga that came from nowhere because they business was out fucked up. So I gave them all the money and then we get down there. How much you give them? I gave them like, I did it early. So I gave them like 4,000. I booked them for 8,500 and six flights. And they didn't even show up? In three hotel rooms. Damn. And so when I get out there, they picked me up from the airport and me and hit that floor out there the day before everybody got there, picked me up from the airport in. Ali was talking on the radio. We got the whole Dallas, Texas in here. Do the Stanky leg, do the Stanky leg. And then show up. Hit them with the flake and they're like, damn. Was that the only group that didn't show up? That's the only group. Tralee and Prince Rick. They didn't show up? I booked them too. And then they ended up going to Shreveport with baby. What the hell? But you would think that going overseas, that would have been way more exposure. Like, why not go to that venue? It was because I was doing it. They had them giving their name? Uh-huh. Lil Will, me and Lil Will got into it. Really? That time, yeah. Cause we went all the way out there and I got his money and we stayed the extra day. And Lil Will and Young Black, they went to the Gucci store and Louis Vuitton store when they first got there. They weren't used to it? Then they was mad at me because it was mad at me because they couldn't give it to them because they had to stay the extra day. And so, yeah, I never forget that. I never forget them days. But, okay, so I can see them calling you janky because especially when they had to split the money and it's less than what you made, right? But for the people who didn't have a group, did you book people who didn't have a group? Young Black didn't have a group. The Roe didn't have a group. Lil Will didn't have a group. So they wouldn't call you janky because they would have had more money coming to them. But the thing was I was still making more money than all of them because I used to purr people up. They don't understand. I used to do that in every city. Colleen for the military. I had a military account where I used to book all the military shows. Pow Wow, I did J-Dog, I did Texas Relay. Anything came out of Texas. I was booking all the shows. B-King, yeah, B-King. I've been on B-King about damn near 1340. I remember the first time I ever heard of B-King. B-King was sitting outside of Houston with the same shirt on. Straight up, straight up. Man, he's the same nigga. I've been knowing him for a long time. Like DJ Choles, you know, I've been knowing him for a long time. It got to a point where Houston rappers appreciated me more than Dallas rappers because all the Dallas rappers was older than me or the same age. That's crazy. And so they didn't take me serious. They didn't appreciate me.