 What they gon' do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. Fuckin' the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down. Wait, let me dump my bag. You niggas is coppin' and pastin' that sack. Go get some money, go get you a bag. New bitch from Philly might buy her a bag. What's up y'all? It's your girl Breonna Imani, and you are tuned into another Talk of the Town interview. And today, who do we got in the building? We got them in here. You heard from me. Shout out Talk of the Town. You heard from me. Jersey. We got a lot of stuff to get into. So let's just dive right into it. So you just said Jersey. Where's Jersey from? I'm from North. Okay, and what was it like going up in North? It was cool. It was like fun. It was like everybody else where it is everybody else from. It was fun with you, y'all. Okay. So how would you compare like the way that you grew up to like how life is now? You still in North? Yeah, I'm still in North. Okay. It was different. Lifestyles were different before. It was down you heard, but now we just don't know what we want to do. And how you moving? Like what is so different about it? Like that you could like what? Is it the money? Is it the cloud? It's everything. Just the lifestyle. Like lifestyle is different. You heard. Okay. Things we do. Because that's 19. I don't know what we're doing. I don't know how. Okay. Okay. So when you were growing up, like who, who were you listening to? I listened to a lot of like future. I'm a big fan of Tupac and shit. Like other than that, I wasn't really like, I didn't really fuck with a lot of niggas. I used to like a lot of old school years. I started fucking with future and shit. He was really like the first nigga that I really like. And this generation I started fucking with. Okay. So you didn't say you were listening to like any Jersey club or anything. So when did that come into the picture? When did you start? Everybody. If you from Jersey, you, you have no choice but to listen to Jersey. But you didn't say that. I don't count that. Cause like, I'm not like when I'm in my crib, I'm not about to like, yo, let me listen to Jersey club. It's just when you go to a party or something. That's what they play. It's the music, but I'm not, when I was young, I wasn't like, oh, let me just go listen to Jersey club. Okay. Okay. So what got you into rapping over the Jersey beat? Just cause like nobody really was like, nobody did it before. Okay. Like people tried it and like, it was a few people in Jersey doing it. I ain't really know about like, so my name unicorn. I think he was like the first ever person to do it. Jersey and shit. Like I ain't even, I had no clue about him until like after I started doing it and shit. So I was just trying shit for him. Okay. So I know that I saw an interview that you did. You said your dad was DJ, you have brothers that are rappers as well. Do you think that influenced you into getting into the rap lane or? Nah, yeah, definitely. Cause like the same way like I record, like cause I used to record anything in my crib with the homies. I'm like the same way I record, like the same way my brother and me used to record. Like my brother used to have everybody at the house. Everybody in the hood used to come to my house to record. And I used to be young just watching them and shit like that. So I used to like lifestyle. So it like kind of came naturally. Yeah. For real, honestly. Okay. So what would you say is so different about your sound in comparison to like you said you weren't the first one to rap over the Jersey Club beat, but what do you think made your sound so different that everybody started fucking with it? Um, cause like I'm really hard one. Like it's not. I'm really hard, but like aside from that, like I'm young and like this, this like, I don't like to call it drill music, but like it's just the way I rap is just different. Like I rap for new age. Like I feel like I rap ahead of my time. Like with the Jersey Club shit. I don't really see nobody else. That's my age. Like really rapping like that. You heard like niggas be singing, they doing a little melody and shit. I'm really talking on these shits. So what would you, what do you think is the different? Is it like what you're talking about? Is it the way that your flow is? Like what is it? What's the difference? Cause you feel me like, you just got to listen to it and find out to her. I mean, we tapped in. If you tapped in and like, you know you heard like anything I say is authentic. Like I never really, I'm capping my reps, but then you heard anything I say is shit that I go through on the day to day. You heard, I just put on a song. Okay. So, you know, you slid into the talk of the town comments recently under a post that we made just regarding Philly music and how it sounds similar to the Jersey music and how the dancing is the same too. Now I want to get your thoughts on that because do you think that it sounds the same for one? That's gonna be the first one. I mean, of course it's on the same, it's on the same, they're rapping on Jersey Club beat. So of course it's like the exact same. There's no difference between them. There's no difference. It's just that you start doing it. Uh-huh. And I don't think, do you dance? No, I don't. But everybody in Jersey know what it's coming up. Right, you tapped in. No, I just wanted to make sure before I said that. So you don't dance, but what are your thoughts on the dancing? Now do you think the dancing is similar? Do you think it's... No, everything is literally like copy and paste. Really? So are you, are you a believer of like imitation being the best form of flattery? How does that make you feel because you say a lot on behalf of Jersey. You represent Jersey. And in this case, you're representing Jersey. So what are your thoughts on that? How do y'all feel about... I mean like... What they doing? You can see like, I didn't really say too much. All I said on the post was, oh man, Jersey started for me. Uh-huh. Doing what they do is just like, I don't know, like they see the same thing I'm seeing. They just like, da, da, da, da, da, we've been trying to do this for, I don't know how long, 22 years. And then some niggas from another state just come doing the same shit we do. And it's just like, now they saying they made it. Nah, you can't do that. You gotta pay homage, bro. But it's like, I ain't no hitter, you heard. I fuck with it. I fuck with the movement. But it's just like, for me, this odd shit, like this Jersey club music. Got a big stamp on it, you heard. And do you feel like TikTok has something to do with this, maybe with the confusion? Nah, yeah, definitely. Cause like TikTok, that's the whole world you heard. Like over here, like we understand, cause we living it, like the whole world, this is the first time seeing it. So whatever they, the first impression is everything. So whatever they seeing, that's what they're going to run with. Right? Cause I think, I think that's really like what has a lot to do with it. Cause I think that everybody who's in kind of like the tri-state area knows what's up with the Jersey club music and all of that. Cause even I've listened to Jersey club music and I'm not even from Jersey. But I think that when it started getting lit on TikTok, and it was like the feeling niggas that was doing it, I think maybe that's why people started carrying it. But it's like Jersey club music like been popping on TikTok. Like when our job, Heartbroken, is when Jersey club music like fully, completely took over TikTok. Every slide you go up is Jersey club, Jersey club, Jersey club. And it's like, you feel me? Like they just start doing the same shit I was doing. You heard? They made you feel me? But it's like, and today I give them credit, you heard? Cause as a, whatever, really like a city, came together. They did. That should be. I mean, it's still, still us, you heard? It's still Jersey. Okay. So on behalf of Jersey, can you put us on to like some Jersey artists that maybe should be on our radars, people we should be listening to? Cause I know, you know, we've had a lot of Philly niggas up here. So who are you listening to from Jersey? Jersey, we got, we got the mafia. They in the back, you heard? You can't sing. We don't want some G-Rail, G-Goddy, you heard? But like, I want artists, you heard? I just got another new artist today, Fo Gualla, you heard? Okay. My other artist like that right now is named, Dusav, you heard too? Okay, okay. Other than that, who else in Jersey really going too crazy on? Shout out to us, you heard? All right. So, we're going to pivot away from now. We're going to talk about you. So we were just talking about TikTok and you've been going up on TikTok, millions and millions and millions. How has that been coming up on TikTok? That shit, that shit, that shit was a crazy feeling. Like, TikTok was my first ever platform that would go up, you heard? So that shit was crazy. I wasn't expecting that shit. I thought it was going to be like anything else. So what was your reaction when you got like your first million views? Did you notice when it happened? On TikTok. When I got my first million views on TikTok, I was like, I was like, damn, you good. I don't know the first thing I thought was like, damn, this shit really could work. That's the first thing I said, that shit just unlocked a new chapter for me. So was it like, surprised? Was it a damn to shit could work as in like, you wasn't expecting it to or was it like, just reassurance that it really could? Nah, just more like reassurance because like, it's like, I kind of manifested this shit. Like I always knew some day that shit was going to come and just, I just didn't know it was going to come that fast and off some stupid shit that I was just trying. Yeah. Like, you feel me? So, but I feel like, it was a blessing though. And you came up like, in an interesting way because I feel like you put your music on TikTok but you also had like, kind of like skits too at the same time. Yeah, like, we call it gelling in Jersey. Like I used to be gelling her, like all my fans, like, if you know, like before I was rapping, all I used to do was just hike on people. Okay, hold on, I'm sorry, I'm not trying to stop you. You just used two words that I've been familiar with. All right, I can't really explain, like, I can't really explain like the words you heard. Hiking is like, when you like, y'all call it cutting-ass, right? Okay. Okay, so I like, in New York, they used to like me because I used to be hiking on all the rappers. I used to go on their lives and just start rushing them. Okay. So that's how I really got known. I got known for like, fucking with New York artists. Like, I think my first little skit, the one up is one, um, I had just some shit to the nigga, um, he from Brooklyn, uh, Freshie. I had like a little skit to his shit and the whole New York was like, yo, this nigga, this nigga, I just took that shit and just kept doing that. That's how I really started off. So being that you didn't start off doing music, what was the reaction from people when they saw that you were kind of moving from doing the comedy stuff and the skits to actually making music? I was always fake, like making music in the back. I always was working. Like, as I was doing the little skits and shit, like, the little skits was really only to get my, like, face card out there. Okay. I really stopped doing the skits, like, once I had like 10K followers, I'm like, what do I want to do? Okay. That was a nice little marketing. That's really what it really was. It was just like a little playing you heard and then like, I just kept going with it in a smart way. You heard. Okay. So now, taking it to Instagram, how did you feel when you got your first, your first blue chat? Well, your only blue chat on Instagram. Blue check. That shit right there. That shit is crazy. You could hit anybody. I'm telling you like, yo, when you get your blue check, you could get any bitch you want. You can hit anybody. Like, I promise you, bro, they get in the background looking at you like, I'm crazy. They get in the background looking at me like, I'm crazy. I'm telling you, bro, the blue check, yo, you feel like that nigga will get the blue check, but you heard. No, mommy, you heard. I got a bitch. I'm just talking, but I'm just saying like, I was back in there. Okay. We're going to get into that in a little bit. We're going to get into the program. Now let's get to YouTube because your music was going up on YouTube and then something happened there. Yeah, they took my YouTube bitch. Why did that happen? I don't even know your ear. I just, I had dropped my last video. It was called Shaked. It was like some strippers in it and shit. So they was like some nudity, but that was like one strike. You're supposed to get three. And they had told me I had like two other strikes and I had music in the background. So they started putting like copyright. Yeah. But it was private that you heard. It was like, nah, I don't matter. Three strikes. I'm like, I fuck that. Okay. Did that discovered you at all? Or was you just like, because like that shit really don't matter. Like if you got it, you got it. I mean, like I knew if I make another account just I could get that right back. Okay. Yeah. It seems like you're still going up. Do you feel like you have the support of Jersey? I mean, I see all people here. So clearly you got support, but do you feel like Jersey got your back? 100%. They be, they be talking for me. Like I don't even be having to say nothing like shit that I'd be thinking they just be going ahead and saying I really fuck with my state to the fullest. Like, and I'm talking about from the top to the bottom. That's so. So where do you think that's where you get the most support? Or do you feel like I get, I get a lot of support in Jersey. I ain't really, I've been traveling. I ain't really traveled on some like shows. Kind of. So like for now, yeah, I feel like Jersey give me the most support. Okay. And so how has it been? Like, because you grew up in Jersey, you still living in Jersey. How, how is it like walking down the street to people be recognizing you and speaking? I'm not walking down no streets. That's crazy. That's one. Excuse me. No, like, it's cool though. Like in Jersey, like Jersey, a real big state. It's just like, I just be, you gotta watch how you move around North or Texas County. That, like Jersey, it's like, it's cool. Like everywhere else, like, okay, have you watched your body though? Have you had any like crazy type of interactions with anybody out in public? Yeah. Yeah, like what? I don't know. Like people, seeing me start screaming and fainting and shit. That's just crazy. Like, does that make you feel good? Does it make you feel weird? How does that make you feel? I don't know. I fuck with it though, because it's like, you're doing it because of me, but it's like, it's like, damn, out here, like, in public, in front of everybody. But nah, I love all that you heard. Okay. So I saw that you had, you collab with Asian door. I mean, just get jumped. Yeah. Yeah. How was that? How was that to her? We had, um, I had recorded that in my boy, Bancro Goddard studio in Cali. And he, I said, he was going to get a female artist on it. And I was like, hi, whoever, he was like Asian. I was like, fuck it. She threw a verse on that and it was hard. We locked in ever since. Okay. And when you make and collab with people, do you have suggestions for who you want to collab with? Do you lean to like the opinions of your team? Nah, I pretty much I always open, I'm always open to like, um, new ideas and shit. Like, if my team feel like my sound is sound good with somebody else's sound, it sound right to how I feel. Okay. So who are like three people that you would like to collab with? Future. Okay. Um, you got to get one in with Drake. I got to get one in with Tori. Hmm. Okay. Sure. I'm trying to picture Drake on a Jersey. I know. I'm picturing it. Not doesn't sound bad in my mind. Okay. So where do you where do you get your beats from? Like, do you come up? This young man right here. Okay. This young man right here and give him a shout out because they can't see who this young man is. So why he can't pop out in the camera to show face? Nah. I mean, come on real quick, real quick. This will make all the greatness you are all a beat. This will make all my beats you heard. MC Burke, he make all my beats pretty much all of them snapping. Okay. So, so, okay, you kind of answered what I'm about to ask you, but when it comes to the samples, do you already have an idea of what kind of samples does it already come to you that way? I don't know. That's crazy. Like, I don't know. Like he just be picking some shit and like sometimes like, I'm not having hard ideas and I'll be having hard ideas. So, sorry, I'm not trying to cut you off. Whose idea was it to do heartbroken? Because first of all, I was listening to that song in middle school, not when it was sampled though, but the original, and I found out- I don't know. The mold said it was his idea. Said I was G mold. I was his idea. That's dope. That's really dope. So what are some other songs that you would like to sample or you would like to use? You got any in mind? I got a sample. I got a sample at one song. I don't know if they ever want to clear it. That Hips Don't Law song. Oh, Shakira? Shakira? Shakira. Okay. It's just slum bullshit. Yeah. Take my shit down. Those who shit. So how do you feel about that? Would you still put a song out that simple if it's not clear? Do you hold it? I do that shit. Bro, like 80% or like 70% of my songs that was out was not clear. I'm making no money out just dropping them. Just dropping them. Just dropping them. You use it with like remaking or clear it though. Heartbroken was I think it was one of them that I got clear. Okay. That's dope. So we're talking about the beats. Now let's get into the lyrics. Out of lyrics based on real life. Are you Are you really dependent? Yeah. Depending what you say? Yeah. All right, so we're going to dive right in to it. I don't condone it. No criminal activity. I say that anything that I say anything criminal Y'all females know on close friends. You say y'all females know what y'all be doing on close friends trying to add me. What? What? Now everything that we talk about right now is gonna be a legend cause I'm not trying to get you caught up. But like, what are your thoughts on the, first of all, was that big? Is that real life? Females be adding you on close friends trying to shoot a shot? What? All the time you were like, that should be real life. I just be opening up my brand. And I just be on, like, while new people call me friends and I just know you be gone from trying to be seen type shit. That's why I made the song. I made the song cause I opened up my phone and I was just on like all these little, close friends and they just tell me like, I know what y'all be doing on close friends. Okay, so does it work? No, no, no, no. I got a girl you heard. Okay, did it work? Excuse me. Did it work? When you opened, it was nobody and that through you and the close friends, you was like, oh. A few, not all of them. They be trying to work it sometime. Okay, so they be, okay. Allegedly or in the past, do they be trying to shoot a shot at you? Like the girls trying to shoot a shot at you? All the time. Yeah? All the time. And does that work? Did that work? It depends like, it depends on how you. Okay. What am I carrying myself? Okay, so next thing very interested in hearing because you cuffed, but you was Mr. Don't Cuff That. For a long, you made it very known that you was Mr. Don't Cuff That. Yeah, nah, that was like, you heard, I just, you found me wanting some new shit you heard. Trying shit, when we said I'm trying shit, I'm trying shit. So since you shot her out, you making it known, what was it about this one that made it different from the bitches in your close friends, the ones that was shooting a shot? What was it that you was looking for that made you turn from Mr. Don't Cuff That to now you cuffing? I don't know you heard, I just got out of the, I don't know. Okay. I don't know what music I'm really into, I'm into shit. Okay. Okay, so which ones do you prefer when it comes to like recording music or performing? Which one do you like more? Recording music or performing, definitely performing. What is it about performing that makes you like so much? It's just like the connection and all these people, they there for you. Mm-hmm. It's like, when you on that stage today, it's like there's no other feeling that needs to be different. So you like feed off energy? I like that shit. Like I like performing this shit. Like before I used to rap, I used to be boxing and shit. I used to like, I just liked being in front of people. Feeding off energy? Yeah. Okay. So what's been like the best performance that you've had so far? The best performance I had is between my first ever show that I had with Coyla Ray and my very last show I just had in Boston. It was Boston right here, Boston. Okay. What made those, what was it? The energy? She was rocking her, just the energy. Actually that was me and EK show. Me and EK turned that shit right up. When you first performed, like when you think back to like your first performance, did people in the audience know your song? Oh, yeah, they did. This was like right after the hardbook and pop dog. I was never doing no performances like before. Okay. So you waited until like you got it. Yeah, now I don't even like that feeling of her like rapping and you just looking at me. K-Flock? No. Coyla Ray was my first show. K-Flock, she was after it. Okay, okay, okay. So. Actually she was rocking too. Yeah. We was in the building, we was in the building that one, that one was lit. So do you have, okay, first, if you envision like a dream lineup where you was like the headliner you had, we're not gonna consider them openers cause they could be like mainstream artists. Who would you put in a show with Band-Man if you was in charge of the lineup? By how many, how many people? You could choose five. Me? Mm-hmm. Third, little baby. Since you. I'd have put an auto with them, they love that. Okay, okay. I was just about to say that like just give me, give me somebody upcoming. So I'm gonna have to put B.B.G. everything. That's my five right there. That's your five. And it got to be in Jersey, but didn't you send them? Okay, that's a valid venue. Okay, cool. So do you have any collabs on the way that we can be looking out for? I just made an E.K. by the drop after, I think we're dropping like two, three more weeks. I got a song with Cookie Coa coming. Oh, right. Singer from Philly Laid Bank. Oh, okay, cool, cool. So have you received any like co-signs so far from people that? Yeah, like when I first started, my first ever co-sign was Coi La Rae. Okay, that's dope. Betty Watt, Jim Jones, Oloji. And you did a show with Oloji, right? Yeah, we had a show at American Dream. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. How was that? She was crazy. I was wondering how to. That she was crazy. I ain't gonna lie. Okay, that's dope. Okay, so interested to hear like, what's the fun fact? Sleeping. About don't be sleeping, we almost done. What's the fun fact about you that people don't know? Oh, I'm broke. So don't ask me for no money. I am broke. I don't have any money. So all like family that ain't been around, all these stuff that you hearing that I got this, I did not. I am broke, so don't ask me for no money. So has that been happening? Like how did you going up, people asking you favors that got the hands out? What? I done got uncles that talk about it from North Carolina. I never met you on my wife and I give you a dumb. No. Now does it stay like that, no matter like how up you go or is that just like? Listen, niggas was not with me when niggas was down, you heard. So if you wasn't there, before you not going to be there, no matter who you is, family, I believe black, I don't care about that shit. Okay, so it's like you picked your side, you stay on it if you wasn't there before. It's not about picking side, it's just like you was never on my side. So. Okay, I'm ready, I hope y'all watching and listening. So what advice would you give to an upcoming artist? Shit, just be yourself. Don't try to be like nobody. Don't try to sound like nobody, just do you. Niggas don't like you for who you is and they hate for you. Okay, and what can we expect next from you? Shit, probably about like four more singles and I'm jumping right into an EP or a tape. And now I'm about to, actually after this interview, I'm about to go start recording my album and shit. Oh, late. Okay, so any, I know you say you about to jump into it, but any idea on when we could be expecting that? I don't wanna say too much. Okay, but we'll be on the lookout. We're gonna be on the lookout, we're gonna soon. Okay, okay, so is there anything else that you would like to talk about, cover before we wrap this up? Nah, you heard, I think that's about anything you heard. Gee bam, man, you heard. Thank you for having me, talking to the town, shut out call me. Thank you for coming, shout out your social medias and all of that. Everywhere at Bam Man River, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, soul sing. All right, yo.