 What they gon' do with me now, I'm still a twerk of the town Don't need assistance, I'm hoakin' them down I'm reachin' the smiles and the frowns, gang hop out, then we clarin' up My name is Young Chao, my name is Chao Alcatraz Mr. Oye Oye, the big wig, the head guard One and only Mr. Oye Oye himself I'm from the Bronx, New York You know man, we out here south by southwest I'm rockin' with my god Ray Rep, my brother Two dudes on the same mission, more or less with this music shit Comin' goals, we came out here to rock And we ran into y'all, so Love is love, you're ready You know who to do all that, it's the intro Okay, well you can cut it out, I'ma just go Y'all put it in the back front of the mic We gon' pick that up, cause it's real real small Yeah, you can cut it right? Yeah, cut it Maybe we'll have to go in by the side Yeah, don't fuckin' play with me here I know I'll put you All that problem with the rumplin' The mic to hear it Yo, please So boy, what I'm doin', I'm just sayin' my name I'm just sayin' your name and we never talkin' about it Let me know when Okay, then Hey yo, what up man, I go by Ray Rep And we here with Talk of the Town I'm from Y.O., Yankins, New York I'm from the Bronx, the South Bronx Okay, man, how did you get started into music? I mean, music really just always is a part of my life From, you know, growing up So, I mean, my sister, my mom Like my grandfather, musician I've just been around all type of music my whole life Growing up in the South Bronx I just really was culturally fused with a lot of different Jamaicans, Africans, Dominicans, Haitians A lot of people, so rock All that, I listened to all that And I fell in love with hip hop Cause we born from that era So it was just naturally that You start rhyming, you in the hood And you start doing cyphers, you start rhyming I would say 15, stepped into my first cypher So that was that I was started into music, man I grew up, I'm from Slobon Out there in Y.O. And DMX, Mary J. Blythe, Sporty D's R.I.P. to Oso, Didak And just watching, mainly My boy Didak, you know, my O.G. How he was on the music And the love and the respect And how everything he had behind it I just wanted that, you know what I'm saying He inspired me, you know what I'm saying Music from a young age Just watching my big dogs Okay, who else inspired you with music? Kiss, you know, D-Block Like Sam Yankes Kiss D-Block Styles, Chic Looch 50 You know, New York I'm a New York nigga, so everything That came from New York Inspired me and I just wanted To be growing up, you know what I'm saying Now, reference to artists that inspired me Or, I mean My sister was a big influence on me Because she made me go cop My first tape, a Ray Kwan tape She sent me the towel records on Fordham To go cop a record with my cousin She was like, go get these two tapes A ghostface tape and a Ray Kwan tape And from that, I started like Looking at the cassettes, like the Had the lyrics in them, like Sa'abi And I just, I would put it in the Tape deck and rock out in the room Because I lived in a crazy hood So when I was a real little kid, I couldn't go outside For me, so I fell in love with Hip-Hop, you know, like once I got outside Then it was like, oh shit, now it's like Translating, but, you know, my sister Would be the first big influence on me Like for Hip-Hop Okay, so, I don't know if you know About Hip-Hop transfer this year That's a fact I mean, look, I was born on Cedric Avenue, where Hip-Hop started So, I mean, you know, it's just Really, my DNA is my life Hip-Hop is my life It's a term that says He is Hip-Hop, or she is Hip-Hop Or that is Hip-Hop I feel like I am Hip-Hop Born and raised in the Bronx Cedric Avenue, you know, 80s baby Came up in the 90s, loving all the great rappers Biggie, Pac, Jay, Nas, everybody Like when you come into that He said 50, everything When you just in that, it's just like If you're in the right place, the right time It's going to organically happen So that's what happened for me, you feel me You know, you know, tipping off For my boy Cheo said, Hip-Hop is me Man, it's my life And my life Don't really know no matter, man If it ain't the kids and, you know The shit that's supposed to matter But music is like That's the only place I feel comfortable Man, when I'm inside that booth Or whatever, I'm listening to a beat And I'm writing it down, it's like And on top of that Like, growing up, man Hip-Hop is just, it's just Where we from, man, you know From the hood, struggling Single parent home, and it's like It was an outlet, you know what I'm saying For a lot of people that I know It was a way for people to get out Put a couple dollars on the table And change mommy's life You know what I'm saying So what do you do on Hip-Hop now? Because people say before it was more real I feel like, you know Hip-Hop has this era, you know Everybody got a chance, you know what I'm saying My man, one of my OG from home From why your name is Hus And he said you're a real rip, you know Every dog's, you know One day the sun's gonna shine on the dog's ass And right now the young culture's winning You know what I'm saying Everybody got their time Yeah, every, you know A dog, you know Right now the young boys is winning The music, the, you know A lot of shit that I can't really type in That ain't my style of music I'm a story teller, you feel what I'm saying But I feel like the music Again everybody has this era So right now it's the fast The little shit that's Winning for the kids, but the real music About to come back around, you know what I'm saying The music that I stand for is about to come back around Well that music always cycles back Right, that's the fact We know that real ball's coming You know, Alana, shout out to Alana She was telling me, you know, that's You right there, that's your lane And that lane came back, we said Oh, was I not supposed to say that We could cut this, right? Okay, my bad I mean I'm just trying to, you know Anyways, so look, um You know, like he said, the drill Shit, all that new shit That's cool, look, hip hop got errors and phases Even the dopest artists adapted to that J adapted to that If you really nice That's how I feel about myself And that's how I feel about any MC or artist That's a real hip hop artist You could be a trend, you could be cool Because you had little high school niggas hit your shit And you got a billion views, that's popping I love them, but You know, that's only going Last as long as that trend lasts Unless you evolve And you really, you know what I'm saying So I think music state is dope I think there's dope artists in this generation There's a lot of trash, but hey There was probably mad trash rappers And it was dope rappers, right? So I think it's relevant And I think today's generation is dope You got some new shining stars that are fire You know, and then you got some Mediocre cats that's really taking space up That's about to get moved out the way And then, you know, everything else But hip hop is in a great place right now Okay, and what do you think makes you stand out As an artist? I mean, you know The moment I open my mouth and just Engage with anybody, pause, right Because that was, you could cut that And the moment I talk to anybody And really engage with them They're gonna get my authenticity I think authenticity is the most important thing Every, you think about the golden era of hip hop All the artists was authentic Red and meff didn't look like each other Biggie didn't look like pop DMX didn't look like J Nas didn't look like pun You feel me, it was all different And they all had it, so I think that's really Separates me from a lot of other artists Plus, I could flow on any beat, I could do anything Like I'm literally the Silver Surfer 3-point or I could do anything So that's what really separates me So just stick around, pay attention, watch the videos You go and see What separates me is the pain I put that gritty back, man You know, right now there's a lot of jump up Jump around, shoot a shoot a I'm speaking that shit that That X you should speak, you know what I'm saying I ain't gonna say X, I grew up idolizing X You know what I'm saying, from an artist standpoint But I'm bringing that shit where It's cool to tell your mom's getting high Ain't no food in the refrigerator You know what I'm saying, like me My mom's got eight kids, you know what I'm saying I'm the big bro, I got six sisters And I had to be the big dog whether I wanted to be it or not You know what I'm saying So I'm talking about that in my music You know what I'm saying, I'm talking that shit After you listen to my shit, I should make you go in and wash your dishes Or cook some bacon because You know what I'm saying You're trying to restore that order in the crib, you heard I love it I love it My kids, my family, my sisters The struggle, you know what I'm saying When I go back home to Waio All my people's is in the projects You know what I'm saying, all my people's My nieces, my nephews More so my nephews going down the same path That I was going down You know what I'm saying, in trouble and all that So I figured I'm the big wig right now I'm trying to open up doors Where I could try to save lives You know what I'm saying, a lot of my homeboys Look up to me, you know what I'm saying A lot of my niggas in my hood look up to me So I figured if I could put the bag on the table And I could try to change the niggas' lives And put them in a position I feel like that's what I'm here for I would have to say What motivates me is The fear of Not accomplishing your real Talents and goals And knowing what you know you can do That's what motivates me I've been through some crazy, the past three years There's some crazy shit, movie shit And that should just make me evolve as a person And say yo fuck everything We just gonna go with it How it land, how it land, but we just gonna go And you know in the past I had a lot of Oh it's not ready, the perfectionism You know you turn into a perfectionist Like oh it's not ready, it's not how I wanted to be This record ain't done yet, I gotta do this I gotta get guitar on this, I gotta Fuck up and you like Okay it's time to go, so that's what motivates me That, just that failure of not Living up to what I really should be For me If someone Never heard your music I listen to oh yeah oh yeah We got 150k right now in two weeks Go listen to that, we got substance You gonna get the whole vibe off that one record You know what I mean And when you see me in the street, would you yell and rip Oh yeah oh yeah You already know, yeah Okay I just dropped a video with my boy Cheo We shot in Waio a few months back Called Flex, you know what I'm saying That's on YouTube as well It ain't got a hundred million views and all that But we climbing And Yeah you go check that Flex out And the bitches used to call me ugly Now they calling me handsome You heard Okay so what's next come in 2023 man I got a single What's the name of the single dice Now we got mad singles but the one I'm really focused on This Dice Paso joint It's called run it up man I flew back home to New York I got with the, you know with my god Dice Paso Shout out to Dice Paso Shout out to Boss Brad Dice a real good nigga and uh We got a nice single man that's called Burn New York Cup I think I'm not even saying I think I'm uh We gonna burn New York Cup I'm speaking that shit into existence And um that's my new Like I said I got a few of them but run it up Is the next one that we pushing forward With my god Dice Paso Yo like I said Oh yeah yeah it's right now on YouTube It's gonna be shortly on Spotify And Apple Music I'm about to tell you my love We got another record we about to drop You know what I'm saying Fellow Boss Brad dude Dice man You know what I'm saying from Boss Brad Shout out to the whole Boss Brad The BX I'm just gonna be dropping projects Like videos and just Individual little projects Just short quick I know the attention span is you know So we just gonna get to it Every month you gonna see something from me just know that At least a video a single every month Probably more than that to be real true more than that So that's what I can tell you I'm not trying to It's a great 2023 plan but That's what we gonna be in your face Just believe that just believe that The plan is to link up with great people Like you which we did in Best Buy And it was amazing cause Shit is amazing when you go for your life When you do what you gotta do and you roll the dice Like I said in that song You just run into dope people Cause God willed it already So we put that shit as this We said we didn't have a real plan But we came here like we gonna make it We gonna execute it that's it See what I'm saying Can you repeat that question one more time What's the plan The plan is to rub elbows And you know network And you know cause I feel like in life Life is all about relationships Money gets you wherever you need to go To an extent but relationships And you know that's what I'm on right now Like I was telling my boyfriend I was telling my boyfriend before we got out here Like you know we going out there bro Keep clear of fate and you know someone Fuckers gonna take us on a summit But if we could If we could just go out the south by southwest And just give one or two fans Or build two or three relationships We did our job and that's pretty much what we out here doing We out here trying to you know what I'm saying So how can people file you How can people tune in to a job I'm on porn hub And no Okay Yo I'm on Instagram Under ray rip Which is r-a-y-r-i-p-p Underscore h-g-e And that's really my My only handle you know I fuck with the Instagram real hard you know what I'm saying Oh you too ray rip You know yeah I'm on youtube Under ray rip as well r-a-y-r-i-p-p Instagram YouTube and That's pretty much it you know what I'm saying All streaming services Correct yeah All streaming services my fault And porn hub Ayo You can catch me on everything Chail Alcatraz That's C-H-E-O A-L-C-A-T-R-A-Z Like the prison, Chail Alcatraz TikTok, Instagram, YouTube That's that every other whatever you got Is there that's it Oh yeah yeah that's the slogan That's the mantra of you Mexican Puerto Rican Peruvian Dominican Whatever you is wherever you at That's that's the call yeah yeah Go run that shit up we had 150k Shout out to talk of the town Shout out to Chloe, shout out to Can I shout you out? Shout out to Alana, hip hop since 1987 Like I said 80s baby that's real shit Shout out to Philly, New York, Texas A-Ware, we out you already know what it is