 Why did you choose to use your name instead of a stage name? I didn't. The city did. That's dope. I like it. I kept it. It's the same thing with the blue hair. I didn't pick the blue hair. That's one thing I was going to say. The city picked it. The fans loved it. I kept it. Because at the end of the day, you know you're doing this for your family and your fans. Your fans are going to make you. So I'm not going to do nothing to make them mad. I like it. So everybody starts saying keep the blue hair. Keep the blue hair. How long have you been wearing it? Babe, how long have you had the blue hair? Two years. Can I find a picture up there that you don't have? Everything has to have blue in it. If you don't have blue in it, my photographer ain't taking the pictures. Wow. Let me ask you this. Lil' Kiki. I talked to him the other day. About two months ago. I said the other day. I told him to bring that legend brand up in here because he got his shirt. Mr. Lee was on the show and Mr. Lee called. I'm calling right now and I see you telling him he got a store here in Dallas. This ain't just a podcast man. If I spend money with him if you come do the show. And we talked after that a couple of times. We just ain't linked it up. I can tell you about his business though. But you guys have some banging songs together. You like working with him evidently. Kiki calls me every time he do an album. That's what I thought. I'm like this. I say alright. If he doesn't text me, he'll call Harvey Love. He'll say, Harvey I need it on a track. Or can y'all come up with something? Harvey called me. Kiki get ready to do an album. You already know what day you want to come. Wow. I guess I'm on my way now. Ain't doing nothing. How many songs y'all got together? How many songs y'all got together? Legend Talk 1, 2 and 3. And I'm supposed to be getting ready to go to the studio. Another one for him. See y'all got five songs together. We might have one more than that. If I go and lay a song at Harvey's and he like it, he takes it. Okay. So I know it and I have one with Solo as well. I came from the bottom and I just won't stop. You like the hook? The hook queen. Yeah, you be doing all the hooks. Yeah, so if he likes it, he takes it and he'll call me and just say, hey, I need your IPI number because I'm going to put the song out. I had looked, I seen Chrissy Wall. Is that Christa Wall? Chris Ward. No, Wall, like Wall. We heard a voice on a song. Is that Christa, the Christa that I know? We started with you till he did some research and we found out it was her. I'm bad with names but I'm... I'm thinking it's how my wife... That's what I'm thinking. What song was it that you... Slab Holiday? Yeah, that's her. That's what we almost thought it was you. But at the end of the day, me and my wife... Shout out to Chrissy. Yeah, we met them and I thought she was just a mom. You know, I'm like... I'm telling you, I'm gone, bro. She's in this class, right? Yeah. She used to do zumba. Boy, she used to have me in there out of... I remember when that was going on. Yeah, I stopped going. I was like, I'm a diet. You shut it down. You shut it down. She starts sweating out the wig and the edges. I'm not coming back. Shout out to Chrissy, man. But she did have me looking tight. She had me looking tight. Yeah, but I didn't know she did that because I'm looking at your stuff and I ran into that. I'm like... I'm thinking... I'm looking at all Lil' Kiki stuff, you know? I'm like, man, wait a minute. You never know what you're going to get. That nigga can rap. That nigga a rapping fool. But I told Al D on here because him and him and Al D friend and Al D 300. And I was like, I was like, y'all... Al D said you're the best rapper in the world. I said, man, Lil' Kiki, I'll put you against Lil' Kiki. Yeah, Kiki. I want to see that go down. Man. Come to think of it. No, we got more songs than that. Y'all got more? Yeah, we got another one called Grammys in the H. So, y'all, you... Oh, it's not a release yet. It ain't a release yet. Yeah, yeah, stop playing. We working on releasing it. You can come on. Release a song. A song jam. They holding on to stuff. Man. How do you think... Who would you like to work with? You work with Slim already? I don't work with Slim. I just headline a concert. I seen them together on the fly together, but I was like, can't you work with him before? That was fun. He on my list. It's coming soon. I hope he ready. Well, you got the blue hair. He talked to my daddy. I'm trying to tell you. It's got to be written in there. Someone... It's coming. He just don't know what you're... So, who would you like... Who would you aspire to work with? Like, who would you like to work with? I'm about to shock you. Patti LaBelle. That's my nigga right there. She cooked them pies. I don't know if she cooking them more. I'm going to get one today. I'm going to get one today, actually. I eat them sweet potato pies. Hey, get her peach cobbler. Not yet. That'll go hard. Get that peach cobbler and put some vanilla bean ice cream on top. It'll go hard. Whoa, man. All he got is that sweet potato. Yeah, I'll be eating that. I'm probably going to get one of them. I'm not playing. I've been getting a little many ones, but see my daughter then found out about it. She climbing the pantry now, and she going to get my pies and be sitting in the room eating my pies. But that just means she got good taste. So, what make you... I love Patti LaBelle. I definitely agree that that would be the hit. I mean, what would you sing? How would you do it? Let's get her to sing right quick. What would you sing? Sing a little bit of Patti. Y'all, that's your dog. I must have rehearsed my lines a thousand times until I had them memorized. But when I get up the nerve to tell you the words, they never seem to come right. And oh, if only you, how much I do, I do love you. Set it down. Good. That is my song. She going to make me cry. She going to make me cry. Man, you blessed, girl. You don't even have a song on here. Let me tell you. Oh, my God. Your voice. I'm in love with your voice. Man, you the dopest. Because not many people actually sound like themselves when you hear them in person. But you don't need no music behind you. Bro, did you hear that? You know nothing. You don't make me blush. Bro, did you hear that? I'm telling you, I was hanging on to every word. Man. And it was, to me, it was flawless. It was flawless. Exactly, it was flawless. If I don't know a song with Patty, I'm going to be upset with myself. It's going to happen, too. It's going to happen. I'm going to meet her. I'm going to meet her. I can't wait to bring out this clip. Boy, that's going to go hard. Boy, you sure did me justice on Boss Talk 101. Stop playing. Patty, if you listening, I want to pie in a song. So let me ask you this. Top three artists of all time did or alive? Any genre. Top three. Michael Jackson. Everybody say Mike. Howdy. We had a guy on here that said Chris Brown is better than Michael Jackson. How dare he. And LD 300. Michael Jackson paid away. Everyone for him. Who is Chris? Exactly. I love everybody when they say Michael Jackson. I'll have to say that part. Man, I... Because he gave a hell of an interview. Like, I got to do a song. I love Michael Hardman. Prince. Number two. Wow. Number three. I grew up on Prince. We just had a guy here who, Stone Mecca the other day who met Prince. He gave some stories about Prince. Stone Mecca go home. I used to sing a door to the top of my lungs. Right there. And the shower to my Annie will cut the song gone. Or she tell me shut up. It depends on her. But until the end of time. Can you hit those notes like he can? No. Ain't no way. Yeah. Give me some. Yeah. I'm going to put in a word again. Yeah. Because he can hit them notes. I want to see if she can do it. Yeah. Man. Man. Man. Wow. He's a between us. Man it used to be. That's what them dar Ortiz. I should've expected her. Cause you said she used to do Opera. Yeah. So, yeah. So how was that opera? How was that? Opera hard. Which is the girl on here named, Jones Monroe? She knows her being opera vocal coach. Opera was. Hard. What made it so hard? The breathing techniques. Cause they hold that note for a long time. For a long time I had a hard time in the vocal booth with like breathing. I had to cut my notes really short or you know when somebody's trying to hold a note they be like, you know, I had a hard time with that. And my dad was looking for vocal coaches, looking for vocal, shout out to Shannon, okay. Shannon was the dopest opera coach ever and she kind of got me into the French part too because she would make me do songs in French. I was like, I'm going to try to learn French. Right. Can she kind of say something like that too? Yeah, because when you're doing opera it's always in almost every other language other than English. Except for English, Italian. Right. And she would just make me hold a note and walk away and it would be like if I'm going to stop. Do it again and I'm going to restart the timer. How long can you hold a note for? I can hold a note now if I really just stand up and do it for about three minutes. Wow. Three minutes. That is long. That's a long time. Like there's one song where I'm just carrying a note until like the end of the song. Consistently. Consistently. And then I kind of went up a little bit higher too. So I can hit super high notes. I can hit super low notes. Can you break a glass? If I can. I want to try. I'm a rock. Carry can do that. Let me ask you something for you. We go too far. Hold on. Number three. That's what I was about to ask. I was going back to that. Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston. It's just a tie between Whitney and Shaw. No tie. We don't want to hear it. We don't want to hear it. Whitney is it. That is it. Whitney. Oh, okay. Whitney is the reason I learned the Star Spangled Banner. What's your favorite song? By Whitney. Oh, I want to dance with somebody. That's it. That's it. Dance. That one. You in it there. And I'm saving on my love. I love that one. I actually auditioned that on American Idol. Oh, really? I love that song. How did that go for you? Remember they said that she was. Megan Idol's. No, that's not. That's American Idol. Okay, yeah, yeah. It's horrible. How didn't you get? You should have gotten. It's horrible. Who did you talk to? So I went. Sarah McCall. No, actually. Okay. Simon said that I didn't even need a choir behind me. He said I could do it on my own. They all gave me the best compliments ever. I was underage. Oh. My birthday didn't meet the. They didn't go back. Why? So actually I did. I went back the two years later. I went back two years later. Okay. When they were switching out the cast members. And I didn't have the short shorts up my butt in the long blonde hair. Yeah. So. So good. So it is a lot of politics. I let them have it too. I said I drove all the way to Dallas in the stadium. Then sank my heart out. And y'all don't want me because I got on some jeans, some heels and a shirt. Nothing to lower my standards for y'all. I didn't know that they do that though. Oh yeah. Isn't she crazy? Because you see all sorts of people going there. You see people in the jeans, the heels and the shirt. And they make it. Not that year? Not that year. Wow. They told me. They say yeah, but you know if you kind of switch, if you switch up your attire, you might have something. So I wanted to know more. What do I need to switch up? Maybe some shorter shorts or something. I'm not that kind of girl I would raise like that. I don't feel like I need to take my clothes off to make it anyway. Yeah. So. Already. But don't make sure I don't forget to ask you everything I needed to ask about all the stuff. You said you never worked with Slim. You ever worked with Pow Wow? Yes. Mike Jones been on the show. Oh. She did work with Pow Wow. What happened with Pow because I ain't seen him. Pow Wow, man. I heard, hey man, you need to come on this show, bruh. Stop playing. So we did a slap song. Because you know he's a slap guy. Yeah. What about two years ago? We did it. I like the way you grip with grain and swing in the rain. Come on. I had to show you this song. You go on and find it. You got to show. I'd rather be with you because I love the way you grip with grain. But you didn't know what it was. Didn't know her. Let's go. Yeah. Man, I feel good about it. Every time you sing you come back on the show every day. Now you're going to have us listen to all these songs because we didn't know with you. Yeah. And a lot of people probably hear these songs and don't know it's you. So I've recently gotten the name of the princes of hooks. You're killing it. You don't? So if you're the princess, who the queen? I don't know. No. She'll be the queen. She ain't the only one to be the queen at Renetta. So who else have you done work with other than those men that you mentioned? Because you have a lot of men. Have you never done work with a female? I have done work with females. I just did a song with a lady named Harmony LaRue. Shout out to her. Shout out to Harmony LaRue. She's a good rapper. She's a poet. Cliche. I've done things with Cliche. I've gotten a chance to work with S.U.C. Anjali. Her rap is dope. Queen Cass. She's actually on my single. And yeah, that's about it as far as the women. What about... I want to ask you about your song, My World, Ronnet. Is this a new project that... Because I've seen a few of them just trickling out the other month. Are you trying to stage it in a different way than normally done? What's up with it? It's been about 8 to 10 years since I put out an album. Okay. Lost myself in music, trying to figure out exactly what genre I wanted to actually go in. And it was just like, ooh, I just can't find it. I can't find it, right? And then boom, one day it just came back and I was like, screw it. I'm gonna write anything I want to write. And My World, how that song came about, is My Dad. Okay. My Dad produced the track with Blue Note. He recorded it. And My Dad was like, I need some feel-good music. I got just, I'm craving feel-good music. I was like, craving music, like a piece of something. And My Daddy was like, I want something groovy. He played the track. I was like, oh, this is nice. I can do this. Okay. I can give you some old schoolness. And we just went in, I can ship champagne, relax. Just something smooth for, you know, the grown and sexy. Because that's what I felt when I listened to it. I did feel that. Something just, that you can just put on when your crew's controlling and just be like, I hate cool. So I ain't got to it or something. So. And then with Run It, I was like, Daddy, look out in Gaby, you feel good music? I want to do some booty-popping music now, you know. Just kind of cater to them. Talk about money, jewelry, stuff that I like to buy. I like to dig in my husband's pockets. We came up with Run It. And that was my first single. My world was just a single. I gave it to my dad. Okay. You just do that. And we did a video to it. Boom, that's yours. And this was yours. So now I'm working with Putt Empire. Shout out to Big Putt. And we got an album coming out. We just finally got a name for the album. Which is? Trinity. Cool. Nice. Why did you choose that name? So three seems to be my number. My daughter's about to turn three. It's my third anniversary. I'm embarking on my third year at my anniversary. I have three siblings. Some of them are on my side. My birthday's May 3rd. My dad and some of my family are from Third Ward. Wow. So three is just there. My daughter turned three. This girl crazy. Three. So I was like, you know, I was going to call it third. And they was like, no. So Dougie D. Trinity. Trinity. Mm-hmm. So I'm going to give you credit because I'm running with that name. Shout out to Dougie D. Wow. When is it coming out? We are trying to get it in like the fall or winter. Because it's a lot of mood music on there. Don't worry, I'm going to send y'all. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a lot of mood music. Just to make you dim your lights and just cut the fireplace on and just sit back and relax. So I want to be responsible for a couple of pregnancies. Because when he said mood music, I'm like, is it a bedroom music? Or is it just a... Your mother is. Like I got one on there called Crazy and it's I can barely breathe but I need you next to me. Your different type of addiction, your affections, what I need. So you know, I like that. You know, it's just some groove. It's got a nice groove to it and the album balances itself out because I'm actually rapping on the album too. Wow. So it's just something. You never know what you're going to get with the album. You're not going to skip. I heard an interview where it said Cliché helped you rap. Yes. Cliché helped me. Actually, she taught me how to rap. Right. I didn't want to be a rapper. I wanted to just sing. But I haven't heard anything but you rapping. I'm always hearing singing. Stop playing. How long did she teach you? She go hard. She go hard. Yeah, because how long did you learn? They're making me come out now. So I don't have a choice. I like it. I'm glad. Let me ask. Is she a good rapper? Is she? We're going to wait and see. I'm just going to say it. Y'all can say what you want to say. He pushes me forward. I don't really care too. Wow. She's made people leave the studio and rewrite the verse. I have. Already. I have. That's good. My dad's just wanted him now that he knows I rap. Going to a murder. Like, dang. You better just go. Just go do it. Like people, people. You know, like. Man, I can't wait to sing. See, you quit to sing. So can I hear it? No, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to do it like this. Unless I put a beat behind it. I'm going to show you something like opera. No, not now. I got some surprises for y'all. I'm going to give y'all something. You can't come without gifts. No, but I'm just saying. I just don't. I got a big one for you. I just, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I'm a P.M.C. fan. Bam. You see that? I got two songs. Shout out to you people who keep coming on here. Don't bring nothing. I got you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I raised a right. It's going to be real for a minute. It starts at the home. And you know what I mean? And Ronnie raised her right. You know, there's a lot of girls out here. Dad didn't raise, I raised Shamarian. What's the other one name? We raised Shamarian. What's that other one name? I raised Shamarian. I raised Shamarian. We? Yeah, I get it. Shout out to Ronnie, man. We doing our thing. Shout out to the dads who put it down. Who they ignore that we doing what we supposed to do. Oh, yeah. This is for him. Well, he is an amazing father. Love my daughters, man. He built my baby three cars. Already. He cars my baby. He got four, three or four. We didn't gave half a boy. She got about four. So he builds cars. Oh. And he didn't build my baby four. My baby, when she got older, she got a range. She's less four. She got a super charge. Wow. She got a Mercedes, what? Oh, you talking about the real cars. Oh, the real cars. You already built her a real car for her? She got real cars. So when she know they heard, soon she'll tell people. Well, mommy's car, sweetie. That's not mommy's. That's mommy's. Oh, oh, yeah. That's my car. That's my car. By the time she get old enough, that'd be an old car. She know how to crinkle. That's gonna cause money. Yeah. She know how to crinkle. They already classic. They making money. Oh, okay. That's dope, man. They her cars. Shout out to my daughter who I built her of. Seventy Shabelle SS. Yeah, I'm not for let these niggas come on my show. Thank you, man. Yeah, let's level up. Let's level up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super sporty. The color of her hair. The color of her hair. Girl, you better cruise that car. The white rally stripes. Let's get excited. Yes. Flaps for the car. Yo, we make car people. We go racing. Well, I just sit in the car and just pray we don't hit nothing. But yeah, he go racing. That's dope. So do you. So like I said, Houston is a whole different area from Dallas. They different down there. I want to ask you like far as the young Houston. The Kirk O Bangs. Shout out to Kirk O. The sauce walkers and all these other people that you. All y'all in a little group here. And then you got the old heads, which is ESG and all those other guys. I thought I thought like right here. In the middle. Now a nigga called you started at four. You know, I call a nigga a lot here. You started at four. But like I'm right here. You ain't right there. And I just be running back and forth. No, no, no, no. You over here. You with DJ Chosnium. I'm going to be real with you. You over in a group. Shout out to Kirk O. I'm just telling you where you at. You over here. Oh, you have a song together? Yeah. I got a song together. And then Mr. Runny is Mr. Runny. Yeah. He over here with Bun B and all live. So how do you, you know, you've done a great job bridging those gaps. You are the bridge. Yeah. I'm being real. That bridge hard. I know it's hard because I talked to dinner as Chosnium about that. I say, you know, he was like, yeah, but we do our thing and they do theirs. Yeah. The bridge was not there. When I was talking to Chosnium. We're different. You know what I mean? But you are the bridge. Because a lot of the young artists always say that the older ones don't ever try to reach now and to help them. Nah, nah, nah, nah. They, they, they reach out. Boy, they reach out a lot. To you. To you. Because they know you since you were on the floor. No, no, no. You're not talking about like young artists coming up. I ain't saying it's a bad thing. Listen, all I'm saying is to you. That's to you. You have a relationship with them. But these other guys don't. They don't know. They gotta, they gotta make it. Like, what they scared of? Nah. You, you, you taking from them. So you might as well go ahead and go talk to them. But it's some of it. The old heads too, because they feel like all of them young n***a crazy. You know, they don't want to do that in the middle. It is. Them young n***a crazy. I don't know what them young n***a is. And then here I am. I smack dad in the middle and, you know, some of them be like, well, you can go and get him in. And I'm just like, but why you can't do it? Like what's wrong with you calling him and saying, he ain't. Gonna bite. Let me tell you something. I mean, he got a bunch of teeth in his mouth, but he ain't gonna bite you. But you dope, man. Like to do what you're, you, you are part of that legacy to where you could make things happen with both, both ends of the. And I have like, I had an opportunity to bring some of the new heads to, um, to my dad. My dad threw a big show. Okay. It was just beautiful to see everybody. Don't write you that bridge. That's what I'm telling you. I'm sitting there thinking about it. I'm, I'm seeing it. I know when I'm, I'm, I'm anointed. Yeah. Yeah. You are the one that can make the difference in bringing the people together. And that's a good thing. I'm cool with it. That's an embrace. That's an embrace. I like it. Sometimes they bump heads now. I know that. But I know God got you in the middle of it for a reason. You are the bridge. Shout out to run it again. But you know what I mean? Yeah. I know. But that, that now. Daddy, I'm for the call. Yeah. But cause he's the older head. Yeah. He ain't, he on this side. He on this side. I get it. Cause I'm older. I ain't with all that. I know it. I know that. That's what he posed to do. But that's, that's a part of it. I'm like. I think he'll double back in here. Try and be like, I need you to write me some of that new stuff. And give me somebody new to sing on the hook. I like it. So when he did the song with those boys. So I was like, hey, you know, I like that man. I was like, okay. I see you. And shout out to Kiki because Kiki is another one that's really, really, really, really trying. You're trying to bridge it. The bridge as well. He been doing work with a lot of the new kids. Good. Because some of the older ones can't do that. They're not willing to. Pokey is another one. Pokey is another one. We didn't talk about the Pokey. Sensei. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I heard about it. Yeah. I've been watching. I heard about it. Yeah. You, you got one little piece on that thing. But you ate it a lot. Yeah. One whole time. Sensei. I loved it too. That word. Hey, you hit that. So, and I know you say you're a big Pokey's fan. I'm a big Pokey fan. I was nervous in that studio. Why? You don't. I don't even know. And the sad part about it is my dad, him was label mates. So I didn't been around him. I didn't seen him. I grew up around him. But you just, you started with him. But I never did a song. And my favorite song with him is keep my name out your mouth. Nobody me. I'm Sensei. I'm one of them. Now I'm off the chain. Like that was my go-to song. Man, June 27th song or anything. Just, nigga just go hard. Yeah. For no reason. You just in there just. Man, I love myself. You know how you making my day to day. No. I'm a free agent right now. You're independent. But. But. There's some stuff in the works. I bet it is. I bet it is. I'm not going to talk about it. No. You're going to see. But I like the fact that. No. We ain't worried about it. Is it going to happen this year or next year? We don't know yet. I'm letting the management teams handle it. Okay. But shout out to my PUD family. That's dope. I just, I love the fact that you just woke me up with that bridge. You know, you the bridge. And I love it. And I'm going to be watching too. To see how you work. Because that's your gift now to help bring the people together. Yeah. That's a big responsibility. Let me tell you. Sometimes I get more gray hairs than I should. But I just dye them and keep going. Yeah. Whatever. What do you think about? My hair. Oh ho. It's the point where I get gray eyebrows and eyelashes now. Let's talk about it. Megan Estallion, which is the biggest rap, first rap woman out of Texas. You hear me? Out of Texas. Y'all don't feel that. She's the first one out of Texas. Now you are the, you did the hook. So she can't take that away from you. But the rap part she came, I blew up and all this other good stuff. How do you feel about her? I feel like Megan kicked the door down. Because now there are so many females coming out of Houston. What's the other one name? Dominating. Ericka Banks. Ericka Banks. Don't even try to play us, call 1501 girl. Watch yourself. Texas. We're talking about Houston. We're thinking about Houston. Yeah, but Texas, you right. Man, you got Libra Jolie. Ericka Banks, dope too. I heard about her. Man, Libra Jolie is coming out. I heard it. Libra Jolie is coming out. Libra Jolie is rooting for her. Libra Jolie is rooting for her. What was that ALD that told us about her? What about Manila? Manila. Manila. Manila is in the group with me. Because she rap and sing. Like she sing. She can sing too? She can sing. Like she. Shout out to Manila who wouldn't bring on my show and took on off the porch. Nigga, I talked to you on the phone. What happened? She sang. Yeah, I'm one of them dudes. Yeah. No auto tune. She sang. I'm going to learn this. Respect what's going on. I'm upset really. I'm going to leave it. I'm going to leave it. She in that special box over there. How did she come up about me? Who was that? Rap and sing. T-S-F. Okay, so she already been. She's T-S-F. T-S-F business. Shout out T-S-F. Cool. That's dope man. So, y'all, really back when you started, you know, Houston had this thing a lot. They could have took the world over. Could have took the world. The reason I say that is because when Pimp came out and did knocking doors down and all that. It was issues out here. But screw, he the king of the south. Anything else said, you need to just, don't it? Just like Pimp said. I'm down with, yeah, I'm down with all that. But he said, whatever you say, you go on my thing, you'll see that too. Whatever he said, what Pimp said, I go with to be honest with you. So when I look at that and I look at how the ball was in our court, I'd be mad at Houston sometime. Oh yeah. And I'd be mad at them because they had this thing. We were selling, during the CD era, they started trying to be like everybody else. We were selling screw and regular CDs. We had this thing on lock. You were double divin'. They didn't even respect it. They wanted to be like everybody else. People were coming down and doing it. Exactly, but they wanted to be commercialized like everybody else. That's what they was trying to do. I'm telling you. They shouldn't have. But I'm telling you what it seemed to me, like they was trying to be like them niggas in New York, them niggas up in California instead of being who they were. They was even better and more special than them with the way they was doing it. They should have did it. Take it from an old head. Yeah, they should have did it. I'm saying what? I was mad about that. I'm like, man, we can double, because I'm about the money. You know that's what I do. I'm the money guy. I like to get to it. And I've seen that. I feel like some of the artists. You remember, right? Yeah. I feel like some of the artists in Houston have ego issues. I know that. And I, most people that I do podcasts with would be like, nah, nah. No, it's true. I grew up with them. So I got to see the egos. I got to see them. Yeah. And when you trying to make it and you trying to become something big, bigger than what you already are, you got to humble yourself. Because if you don't, God got a funny way of taking everything from you. Wow. That's so true. And I just feel like he took Houston and was like, y'all ain't ready. So let me show y'all all the other states that all. And then he did. And they had all of our culture. And I'm just like, how'd that make y'all feel? That's real. How did y'all feel about that? That's so real. And it's still to the day. They still don't get it. That's so real. Y'all still sitting here fighting each other. Oh, I'm this. I'm that. I'm not helping this person. If you help this person get to the millions, this person bring your name up, then you automatically gonna probably get some millions because the next person gonna want to know what you did to help them. That's right. But they can't do that. Well, a lot of time what they do, they jump out. They're scared that it's sorry, baby, but it's scared that that person who helped them won't mention that name. It's cut through. Yeah. But when I look at the way Pimp C done it and he came and he tried to bring that unity. He did. I'm being real. I seen it when he came home. He's seen through a lot of people who wasn't from Texas. Mm-hmm. Trying to do things to downplay Texas. Mm-hmm. He's seen that. And he spoke on it. And he never did, even if it was something on the east coast or west coast, he didn't play about it. So that's why I'm such a big Pimp C fan as well. There's many reasons. But not only that, he brought the opportunities down there. Correct. He did the song with Jay-Z. Yeah. He had Jay-Z down. He didn't want to. He did. But he did it. But he did it. But he did it. But he did it. He had Jay-Z down here. Yeah. Yeah. You brought him from down here. Mm-hmm. I think they're riding dirty. It brought him down here. That whole album brought it. Outcast. Any nigga that's heard riding dirty. Outcast was actually the remix. It did it with Three Six Mafia. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. But all of these people, like he put himself in a position to bring them to Houston. You're right. Like... I mean, and that's why I show him so much respect and love. And then he didn't just rep Houston. He rep Texas. Yeah. And, you know, he was from Port Arthur. Him and Bun. Shout out to Bun, but Bun was just... Bun just cool, you know? He laid back. Yeah, Bun laid back. He laid back. Pimp is really... He was the one that was just like in your face type, nigga, you gon' feel me. And that's what... That shock value is what I loved. And I think we missing that right now. We missing it. Because that would give us our essence back. That would make people respect. See, it all builds up on respect. And whether it's in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, where Elvis at, you gotta have somebody to where everybody can look and say, and J... Shout out to J Prince. Shout out to J Prince. I love J Prince. Shout out to J Prince. Don't get it twisted. J Prince, man. Hey, man. He done did everything he can do. He brought... Did he brought Drake? No, he ushered the music into Texas. No, the South period. So I'm not looking at him. I'm talking about having somebody to stand in the gap and be that pinnacle for our movement. I'm gonna tell you who I think it is right now. Who gets it, who understands what the wrong... B-King. People don't get... Yeah. They get B-King, the credit that I think... You like B-King a lot. I do like B-King because B-King talked real. Yeah. You know, he don't... He don't sugarcoat nothing. He going hard right now. You know, I used to sell my CDs out of my trunk. You know, I used to talk to you boys and you boys never helped me and y'all never believed in me and this and that. He right. He puts it out there. People just see the twerking and the booty popping, but B-King speaks some real truths. Yeah. And he putting on for his CD and I love B-King. Shout out to B-King. That's dope. Because he stayed humble. You can go to the mall and see B-King and he ain't gonna act like no celebrity. He... Oh no, you can't take it up. He gonna act his same goofy... He gonna kick it with you. ...self. He never switched up. And that's dope. I love it. You the same way. I can't afford to switch up. I don't mean bless too much. There you go. So... But you gotta have these people, man. You gotta have... When you think about L.A., you think about... You think about Dr. Dre. You think about Snoop Dogg. They got pinnacles in those cities, man. And I think here, you said it earlier, the egos stop a lot from happening. Jealousy is a dangerous thing. Ooh! Speak on it. That's the devil. Yeah, yeah. Cain killed Able. Cain killed Able for no reason. Speak on it. So what I'm telling you is this is what's stopping the movement. That's the vision. Correct. And so we have to find a way to... to get past it. Yes. And we can. Healing is real. Boy, it's real. But you're gonna take some work. It's gonna take some work. But not just... Like I said, Houston, I think another big thing is... Houston's so Houston. It's a Texas thing. It is. And I'm telling you, that's stopping it. I love Houston. No, no. I love Houston. What you talking about? I don't want my city. My city already rocked with me. I'm trying to get the world now. Exactly. But the thing is, when people thank you from Houston, they put you on an island. Mm-hmm. Did you hear what I just said? It's not just Texas. You put yourself on an island when you do that. No, I'ma say this, though. I'ma say this. I tell people, because I've had, you know, bigger... I've had the liberty of talking to bigger artists. And I tell them I'm from Houston, and they don't believe me. Why? I just... I was born there. My birth certificate say, Houston's like, I'm from there. I live there. You can't. There's no way. Because of your... the way you diversified. So I have to prove to myself, like, no, I'm South Side. I should body rock. I do all... Like, what do I got to tell you? Like, I got to throw it up. Like, what is it? Like, I'm Houston. And you guys are dope, though. But you even... with the swangers and everything that y'all pushed out into the pop trunk. Yeah, nigga, y'all did it. All that come from Houston. That rims? What's that rim? That's some swangers. Yeah, yeah. Y'all... And that didn't got longer. Man, no. It got shorter now because... It got shorter than the box? Let me tell you why. The law didn't... The pop only... They had capper. And when I tell you, the laws came through there and cleaned up. They didn't want them riding them rims. They told all the cars. Them boys was mad. Wow. Galveston don't play them games. Houston's starting not to either. HBD started. So they don't want them out to stick poking out like that? Wow. HBD started not too far. They... I mean, they was out there with their rules. I say, oh, I'm glad we didn't go them boys for real. They're going to be over at home. Hey, Pa, why are you serious about them cars, man? Yeah. That nigga's serious about them slaves. That nigga big serious. But he had horns on the hood or something. This nigga is real Texas, man. Yeah. I love the movement over there, man. And I can't wait to see us. Like I said, we... And... Pimp's here again. He said it was going... It was going to fade away. He was saying that. Yeah. He knew it. He was like, y'all... That divided the way they're doing it was going to cause us to, you know, lose it, really. But we didn't really lose it, I wouldn't say yet, because the internet is something where it combines everything. Let me tell you, Tiktok is a powerful thing. Oh, I love Tiktok. I love it. Tiktok, go hard. Shout out to my 20,000 and some followers. Shout out to Tiktok for making your girl viral. You hear what I'm saying? You're viral. Well, I hit 2.5 million views. Come on. I didn't get in there. I don't know what I did. What did you do? I wasn't even talking. I ain't do nothing. What did you do? What did you do? I just... That's the point. I don't know. I had to show you all the video. I didn't want to shake it out. I did it, put the phone down, and then the next morning I woke up and I was like, Oh. Oh. Wow. I said, I got to call somebody. So I called my daddy. I said, Daddy, I'm at 95,000 right now. He was 95,000. I was Tiktok. What's Tiktok? I said, I'm calling my husband. Get ready to call my husband. I'm at 1.3. I said, I'm at 1.3. What do you talk about? I said, There's no way. Wow. I got to check that out. How long ago did this happen? How long ago was this? It's still climbing. It's still climbing today. For real? Yeah. I don't know what I did. Damn. But the bad thing about that, you can't replicate if you don't know what you did. I thought so. Did something else stupid and then went viral. For real? So you need to stay on that Tiktok. You hot on Tiktok right now. Hot on Tiktok? Yeah, you got to keep working. You got to work it, baby. You got to work it. You got to work it. You got to work it. You got to make it viral. The dog got more followers than I do. Dang, that's dope, man. That's dope. That's dope. The viral. The viral. Yeah. Yeah. She's viral. Renéla, viral is hell. So on your, Instagram you have something beauty, candy, Boutique candy. What's that? I have issues trying to find the right accessories. I am a big fashionista. I like fashion. I like blingy stuff. I just love it. And when I go to stores, the stores, they don't never seem to have what I want. Okay. Cause I say, you know what, screw it, I'm gonna make my own boutique and I'm gonna sell my own accessories and I'm gonna model my own stuff. So I can't, I ain't gotta worry about depending on nobody else to try to find my style. Wow. And then plus he don't really like buying my stuff cause I like the Louis the Gucci. Hey, hey, get that money over here. Get that money out, yeah, Birkin bags, yeah. Somebody over here, everybody. Everybody at you gotta get rid of another one cause we ain't got no room. So. I've been started taking his side at closing now. Well, man, we love you. That's when we start winding down, you see. We love you. Oh, I love you. And listen, man. Your dad, Ronnie. I'm bringing him. Yeah, we getting in. And when you can come with Elvis, you wanna come? You gotta say, yeah, I'm coming. Yeah, I'm coming. Like I said, I'll shout out to Erica Banks who's here the other night. We started to do it with, I'm looking forward to doing it down there. Right. With her and calling him. Shout out to Erica Banks and call. Yeah. Shout out to y'all. What you think about our platform? Man, I got a couple of our interviews. Let me tell you about Erica Banks, man. I'm super proud of her because she just got her plaque the other day. Is she? And that is a big accomplishment. People don't understand the man hours that go into that. I just recently got my plaque for Bar Babywood a year ago. Wow. And look how long ago that was. And look how long it was. And plaque, explain plaque. That's your units sold. Back in my day, I guess I can say. Back in my day. We didn't have this. We didn't have streams. It was physical, sound waves. So to just now get that plaque. Wow. Man, I was mean something. Wow. And then I'm looking at Pokey. He just went platinum in his city, 7 million streams. Wow. The man I was her critical. And I tell a lot of artists, make sure you know your business. Your business is everything. Don't just get out here and put a song out and then think that you gonna get some money. No, be in my ass cat, Grammy Academy. Look into those things. People are always saying, oh, I want a Grammy. I want a Grammy. What are you doing to get a Grammy? Have you looked and registered with the Grammy Academy? Cause it's free. You ain't gotta pay. You register, you submit your songs and you gotta get a letter of recommendation. Wow. Once you get that letter of recommendation, it's just you and God pushing your music to get nominated to get a Grammy. Wow. Do that. Mm-hmm. You ain't gotta go to Los Angeles to get a Grammy. They got Texas chapter. Wow. People in Texas are getting Grammys. Paul Wall hosted them. Know your business. If you don't know your business, this not the industry for you. A lot of people haven't mentioned anything about that. No, that's dope. I'm checking it out. No, get, your business is everything. Mailbox money is everything. Don't be taking money up front. Somebody call you and be like, oh, I wanna someone do a song, how much you charge, blah, blah, blah. If you get your money up front, make sure it's not a work for hire because you ain't gonna get no points, no publishing. Wow. You just gonna get that five grand and that's it. And they gonna collect all your royalties at the end and you gonna be sitting in an apartment while they somewhere in Bella sipping on short and A. So, yeah, you still get royalties from Barbabe and all that stuff. But I had to get my royalties straightened out because, you know, I was young. Yeah. So, we just got into the process of getting everything correct, getting my numbers and my percentages correct. Wow. Because it's something, the labels don't take care of that. That's the artist's responsibility. Can you go back and get all of that from back then? I think they go back like 10 years. But however, you can still get your plaques. Your plaques are not an ASCAP. You have to go through a different company to get your plaques. But if you didn't went platinum, triple platinum and all it could get your plaques because they just sitting there. Wow. You can either drive up to Cali and get them or have a mail to you, I think is like $60, $70 to have them shipped to you. Do that. I get so tired of seeing an artist my age just something to be a rapper and then just go put the music out. Wow. Expect to get paid. Not even just your age, you have older ones who do the same thing. You got older ones that don't know the business. Don't know the business. Right. Go learn your business. Do me a favor. Make sure, not just your daughter, but anybody that, you and your husband, y'all both dope. Make sure you, if somebody young, y'all interested in helping since you put all that work in. Make sure you grab them. Yeah, I do. You see, I'm talking about sign them and everything, I'm not playing with you. I ain't got time to be hating on a person. No, I'm talking about, no, I'm not talking about giving them nothing, I'm talking about giving them opportunity. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? We always do that. If we see something special in you. No, I'm talking about signin' them. Yeah, if we see, we don't have a label. No, no, y'all better get it. We workin' on it. That's what I'm telling you. Cause God don't give you this knowledge and stuff for you not to use it. Yeah. So you could help somebody, but then being a good Stuart, you have to do it in organized fashion. So when you do help, that everything lines up. I thought about doin' a class cause there's so many people that don't know. I thought about organizing a class, come in. We talked about that without the class. And just, I haven't heard of anybody doin' that because- Yeah, bring me your $50 and I'll register you right in there. You cash out to me and I'm gonna show you. All right, you cash that cause ASCAP is only $50. And once you register, you get to go to the ASCAP Awards and everything. You should do that cause I don't hear anybody doin' it. And you know when you think about people who do hair and all of that, they be doin' classes for all of that all the time I make it. Music classes ain't no different. There's so many people out here trying to do music and- But actually teach the business side of it. Teach the business cause nobody knows about that. And then by the time people do figure out, oh well I ain't never got paid for this song and this song and went four times platinum. You can't go back all those years and collect that money. So your money gone. Wow. 10 years is what you can get. And I know that because I never got paid for Bar Baby. Wow. But it's because I didn't know- You didn't know. I didn't know the business. But you would think that your dad would have known. No. The same thing with my dad. Back in the day, boys wouldn't go in and register for anything. They would just put the music out, go on to the shows. We show money. Show money and CD. So you like the music industry where it's at now compared to what it was then because one thing we always talk about is how tangible it was back then when you go and you know you give out your CD and you get the money. You don't have to worry about certain things. The hustles are different. That's about it. The hustles are different. Is a million streams of $4,000? Basically. You see what I'm saying? That changes the game. Like this is- You only get like- That ain't a lot. For instance, on Apple Music, people think you get $3.99. You get like a cent. That's right. So a lot of people that's out here doing music not making no money like that. What avenue do you make your most money? Combining them all. Don't just go put your music on Apple. Spotify, Amazon. People don't know you can put your music on Barnes & Noble. Go hit up every digital platform. Don't just do one. People be like, no, I'm gonna put it on Apple Music and be rich. Huh. You ain't gonna be rich. You ain't gonna be rich. I hope you ain't depending on that to pay the late bill if you get a dart. And I've been educated on that since I've been doing this show. Thank you so much for coming on this show. We love you. And we definitely- Dropping all that- Dropping all the talent. God has blessed you just a bubble of talent over there. And I thank God for you, man. And we love you. And if you ever in town, you always stopping through, right? Oh, yeah. And if you're doing something down wherever, we pulling up. Or if you know anybody coming into town. Yeah. Y'all gonna go buy Boss Talk, nigga. Oh, I'm about to start. I'm about to start bringing y'all some people. Man, anything you need, we here for you, man. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you so much for having me. Say, man, it's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. Bye now.