 Erica Banks goes to a Houston program and turns into one of the biggest TikTok songs. And boy for boy, female rapping lyrically, she's one of the best. Erica Banks goes to a Houston program and turns into one of the biggest TikTok songs and boy for boy, female rapping lyrically, she's one of the best. Bro, I picked her. I texted her. I got the text, nigga. I'm talking before all of the, because I seen it. I'm finna tell you what's so crazy. And I tripped out all for it. Nigga Kalk out of my phone. Hey, man, I'm thinking about signing her, bro. But if you say I should not want, I said, man, she's the best female artist out of Dallas. Signed. She gone. Before that, even before she went to, uh, to, to, to have pain, I, I, my son showed her to me and I was like, man, that girl can rap, nigga. I knew it, bro. When she was stripping and rapping, I was like, bro, you cold. Because you got to think about it. It was like, it's like three or four, like strippers that turn rappers that got Sensei Mali. Yeah. When she was dancing, she was like, I'm a rap. Like I was literally like, we went out of town. We went out of town to go make some money and I, and I'm listening to the music and the call. I'm like, man, you tripping. You need to focus on this. Yeah. Like you got it. Shout out to Sensei Mali, man. I was about to say, what did somebody say about, um, rapping and stripping that it's just not a good look? It's not a good look. I can't say who said that. That's why I said somebody said that. Yeah. But at the end of the day, I think the hustle is real. I respect the hustle. I don't give a damn what you gotta do. You gotta make it. So you agree that it's not a good look? I ain't saying it's not a good look. I don't, ain't nothing not a good look. Because if it worked, it worked. I can't, I can't dictate what works for you. You know what I'm saying? I think the hustle is real. Yeah. But so I tell my, I tell my kids all the time, I'll be like, man, you can't go look at your partner and what your partner got going on and expect it to, to work for you because she, she, his parents might not fuss at him for, for acting up or doing something. So he ain't got to deal with these consequences, but you'll do. Yeah. So you got to always, you got to put that in every day lifestyle. Like, hey, I don't know what might work for you because I don't know your financials. You might got to strip your life. That's what I was talking about. And that's exactly what I said. I said that the fact that you got to, because rapping takes money. You got to finance somewhere or the other. Rap take real. I just told you to keep up that, that whole hit that image. I was literally balling broke all the time. Oh, you used to come in here and spend that money. Man, come on. I was balling broke. Cause I used to hear it from her. She's saying, he came up to that a day. He got, man, it was cool. It was cool. Yeah. Crown holder, Mazzana. I see the picture and my mama used to turn a mud hole through me. Like, boy, you just keep buying clothes and you got to buy shoes. And I was going over to the DK with miss Lisa, you know, back then, I was under the old law. You know, you couldn't get the new Jays unless you bought the outfit. Yeah. You weren't no raffles. It was like, if you ain't buying the whole unit, because we selling the clothes too now, you can't just get these shoes. So you got to get the shorts, the shirt, the jacket, and we're going to get your shoes. You know what I'm saying? I came under that law. So Pearl Jordan's 150. The jacket was like 80. The shorts was like 50. The crown holder was hidden, wasn't it? I'm in a crown hold. That crown holder. I know them niggas who were doing that. Man, we were crown holding concerts. Jesus come in crown holder. Black label or 8732. Come on, man. You know what I'm saying? Come on. I was going broke. I had all them accounts here at this store. That's crazy. I was going broke. And people don't be understanding like, you know what I'm saying? But you got to, you got to, like, hey, man. It's the image. It's the image. You got to have your image up here. So I cannot wear. I don't even got to get fly. If I don't want to get flying, people going to be like, man, they will fly for 12 years strong. He can always be fly. Yeah, they get. That's the way it is. So to be successful in the music industry, it can't just be all time. Image has to go with it. Yeah. Depending on the crowd that you're shooting for. Like I'm like, I used to hate when Mo3 used to work. It used to kill my guts. It's to grind my girls. I was like, bro, come on, bro. We got to go tomorrow real quick. I'm like, I don't care about that fool. They can hurt his flow. I'm like, what? What? I just couldn't. I didn't understand it. But the catch is it's all about the confidence in the individual. Some people need clothes. I'm like, for a long time, I needed clothes to make me feel like walking in the room. Now, it's to the point where I can, I can be chilling. I can wear a white tee because I didn't know how to upgrade it. I'm into jewelry. I'm into all these other little things that, that, that, that's like, that come for safe for clothes. But in the meantime, shit, I thought of my own clothes. I'm going to be honest with you. And I know that we're going to get into that, but you know, I can relate because that's how they store got here. Because it was a time when I was hustling. I wouldn't wear the same thing twice. Come on, man. I came on. I'm a different type dude. You don't even wear your white tee. I ain't wearing nothing. Like I give it to my brother. I give it to my cousin. Man, I hate that. You don't, you don't much with white teezers, man. I'm a world. You go out and buy a new white tee every single time. You know what was so crazy? My mom used to be like, because at this time I had my own apartment, but at that, I had my own apartment, but it was with no washing machine in there. And so I was like, man, I used to drive all the way back home to wash machine free. My mama has. So my mama would be like, I don't know why you wash these clothes. Because you ain't gonna wear them again. Yeah, I'm gonna wear them again. I'm like, that's something we do. I was like, uh, but I might, I might. Hey, you not. And I'm not. And she was like, because you keep coming here with bags. I knew. She was like, like, this is ridiculous. I'm talking about, we really, I literally, this is how bad clothes was for me. In high school, I didn't talk to my mom from September of my senior to like two months in when I was in college, because I wound up getting a job. My mom, my only thing my mama did not want me to do growing up was get a job. She wanted me to focus on school. That's it. Nothing else. School. But shit, I made straight A's. So I was like, this shit is school easy. I don't, I made straight A's where I ate in my class. So I was like, I don't, I need a job.