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Xposure Podcast
More than a Podcast, it's a Movement! Xposure is the latest platform to shed light on all things “South Florida” and beyond. What started as an outlet for local musical talent, has grown into a universal stage for musicians, producers, marketing executives, small businesses and entrepreneurs from various industries. Each episode provides its listeners with a behind the scenes glimpse into the lives of average people making exceptional contributions to their communities, or significant advancements within their trade. Watch as guests, field experts and artists expose the reality of their experiences; While revealing the contributions to their successes, failures and current life status.
Xposure Podcast
Episode 22: Rhythms and Realities: Vandam Bodyslam's Musical Journey and the Power of Community
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Hosted by: The Global Zoe & Drego Mill
Join us for an engaging episode with our fascinating guest, Vandam Bodyslam, as we explore the intersection of street credibility and exposure in the music industry. With his latest project, "Love from a Cancer," Vandam shares how his rich R&B-influenced upbringing has shaped his evolving musical style. From storytelling and street themes to female-centric records, we delve into the inspiration behind his album artwork and discuss how Bobby Brown's story resonates with his own. Along the way, we uncover the personal transformations that have marked his journey, including a symbolic decision to cut his hair and step away from social media drama.
We dive into the importance of family and personal growth, emphasizing the power of collaboration and unity in the music scene. Van Damme enlightens us on the challenges and solutions for supporting local artists in Palm Beach, urging a shift from internal disputes to a collective effort. The conversation touches on generational differences in fan preferences and how social media now offers unprecedented opportunities for artists to connect with audiences. Learn how artists like Van Damme navigate these dynamics, fostering a supportive community while pursuing genuine happiness through artistic passion.
Explore the evolving world of gaming and its potential as a career path, a topic close to Vandam heart as he shares this passion with his children. We discuss the dynamics of online gaming, team communication, and the balance between personal expression and professional obligations on social media. This episode wraps up with insights into Vandam's ventures in music and gaming, offering listeners a chance to follow his journey across various platforms. Authenticity and meaningful engagement take center stage as Vandam continues to inspire and connect with fans around the world.
⏰ Chapter Markers ⏰
0:00 - Love From a Cancer
12:11 - Evolution of Vandam's Career
22:26 - Artistic Support and Social Media Trends
32:42 - Supporting Palm Beach Artists and Unity
38:15 - Mindset and Personal Growth
50:37 - Sports, Gaming, and Future Plans
55:18 - Generational Gap in Gaming Culture
1:02:01 - Online Gaming and Team Communication
1:13:21 - Balancing Social Media and Personal Life
1:19:49 - Artist Support and Cooking Passion
1:30:00 - Online Branding for Vandam
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"Love From a Cancer
Speaker 1What's going on? Y'all tune in to another episode of Exposure. I be your boy, the Global Zo, and I'm with the gang, Draco Mill, and we got our boy live in the building. That damn body slam. So what it do. So what it do. How, so what?
Speaker 2it do, so what it do.
Speaker 1Slam man. What's going on, man? How you feeling? It's all about exposure. You need the exposure.
Speaker 2You got to touch the streets. You need that street credibility.
Speaker 3You need that promotion and that's what exposure provides for the peace.
Speaker 1I'm a comedian that makes him sign. I hear MIA Grinding. Like I always do, watch the exposure.
Speaker 2Getting hit in the head with that exposure. You know what it is? Them down dollars. Raylo Braylo, number one DJs, number one promoters for show from Palm Beach. It's exposed, it's wide open. Now Y'all check it out. You know what I'm saying. Keep it locked all over Florida and you are watching Exposure man. I'm cooling man, just living man Continuing to make this great music man. And you know what I'm saying. Put on for the city. Really can't call it. I'm like my minutes low.
Speaker 1Yes, sir, and you know what's funny, man? It was about a good year ago. We kicked off our first session on exposure, man, you know yourself, and One Hot came on and blessed us. We had a great interview. We talked about the movement, the city, uh, what we should be doing, a lot of historical moments in there, and now we back a year later checking in legendary and I think everything I said I was gonna do in the interview I did yes, uh, yes, uh.
Speaker 1I know for your birthday you usually drop a project. Now, this, uh, this year you gave us love from a cancer. I'm a cancer. Shout out to all the cancers out there. Yes, sir, so let's talk about what motivated love from a cancer really it's like this.
Speaker 2This, that's the type of music that I grew up listening to. My dad was when my stepdad was a dj, so like, and my mom, all we listened to was like r&b. You know, I'm saying I used to ride around with my mom and all she listened to was r? B. So as a young and I ain't even gonna lie I used to watch r b and like how they got the ladies. That's how I wanted before I was rapping. It's like they got the ladies. You feel me. And then the music is like it's timeless. You can play something right now and it's still gonna relate to what's going on. You feel me, like it's gonna bring you back to a time. And that's what I'm trying to do for this generation give them that same type of vibe.
Speaker 1So that's what really motivated motivated me to give them that so, like, for me it was kind of different because it was like you know, it's a lot of love records, right, it's a lot of. It's great for for both the male and female and I think you know, coming from listening to your, more of the storytelling and more of the, the hustling music or street music and the music that you're used to doing. That's why I love the approach, because it got the.
Speaker 2I got to hear a different side of you and you sliding on the lady records too, you know so if you really go back, like if you really go back to my career, I always had female records. It's just like I would do a project and I have like one or two of them, but they still was like hitting, like I had that one man you know what I'm saying a couple of them before, like every female song I had I hit, but I feel like I wasn't giving them like enough of it. You know what I'm saying. So it's like I went into my little statistics and I was trying to see, like what I was doing and what I wasn't doing, what, what I was lacking and what I was good at. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2So I can try to, you know, and it's like my street music was here, my life music was here, and then it's like I got one or two female records. You know what I'm saying. So I'm going to dedicate this one to them. You know what I'm saying. And it's like you know how it is when you're a cancer. That's real emotions. They're my real emotions.
Speaker 2So it's like I'm really being me on it. You know what I'm saying and that's just what's coming out. I'm really giving my real, real emotions. It's my most personal project, to be honest.
Speaker 1Oh there you go Balance.
Speaker 2Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, yes, sir, for sure for sure Now. Another thing I love is the artwork bro Talk to me about the cover what? Inspired, like it brought me back to the 80s you know what I mean or even maybe 70s. Like what inspired that. You know the suit and you putting the artwork, the cover, to look the way it did.
Speaker 2I've been doing artwork. I don't really say it that much, but I've been doing my own artwork for a little minute. I've been doing other people's shit too. You feel me, I do other people's shit too, but I gotta feel it or they gotta really want me to do it and I'm like I got an idea for it. But I really look back into, like all the r&b artists and I was like damn, whose story really relates to me? Or like made me feel like damn, that's me like. And the Bobby Brown it was like you know what I'm saying. I can relate to that story like the bad boy. You feel me, like everything that he went through, the struggles, ups and downs. So when I went to the picture, the picture just worked like I had a hot top fade back in middle school.
Speaker 2So it was like, damn, like this really what I grew up on, bro. So like, yeah, I grew up on bro. So like, yeah, I grew up on the pop, the Biggie and the Bone, Thugs-N-Harmony and the rap shit. But I grew up listening to R&B too. You know what I'm saying. So I just tapped into that side you know what I'm saying and like, when I went and looked at the pictures, I was like, damn, this is going to look perfect. I threw my face. It just stuck. It just stuck. Like I gotta say, this is my phone contact, so when I call you, that's the picture that's gonna pick up. So people be like yo what the fuck they like.
Speaker 2I seen this hard ass old school picture. You look like Bobby Brown, like. So you know what I'm saying. It just take you back to that same time. It's like that's what I'm trying to do for this era. Like I feel like they don't really got that like that. You know what I'm trying to do for this era. Like I feel like they don't really got that. Like that, you know what I'm saying. Like that timeless music where it's real emotions and feelings and shit. Everybody just flossing and stunting and drilling. And you know what I'm saying. It's like I'm trying to give them that and show them that I'm. Yeah, I can do that too, but I also can do this, you know what I'm saying, that dope vinyl.
Speaker 3Look man, it really, it really. Uh, pulled me in, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2I'm like, okay, let me see what he got here you know, I went with the whole old school like a tape or vinyl. You know what I'm saying. I made like eight or seven different creations of it. So I had the content ready. I've been had it ready, so I had this in the. I just knew what I was going to do with it.
Speaker 1Another thing I noticed with the album and I want to talk about some. I got two records I want to talk about, but I also noticed you had no features. On a project like this. You did the hooks. You feel me. You rapped all the verses. Was that on purpose or that just happened to happen to you?
Speaker 2Yeah, that was on purpose, because every time I do a song and I get somebody on it, people be like, why you ain't just do the hook, like why you ain't keep yourself on there? Like nah, I'd be like, damn, I want to get this song to a person. They'd be like, nah, you do that bitch. Like nah, you keep that. You know what I'm saying. Sounds very familiar sir, yeah man, man so trust me I know, you know man, you gotta, you just gotta know you the one.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's still staying in my lane because, like I said, I've been had the female records. I just didn't give them enough of it. I feel so with this one I just tap more into it. You know what I'm saying. And I was like I'm gonna leave everybody else out of this, I'm gonna do it myself. So I ain't got nobody telling me, oh, don't do this. Yeah, don't put that on there, you shouldn't use this auto-tune. I actually mixed it down myself too, like ain't nobody touch this project. I mixed and mastered this whole project. I recorded it everything. Nobody touch this one. That's why I said it's one of my most personal projects.
Speaker 2Nobody did the artwork nothing, Nothing. Hey, you didn't do bad at all, bro.
Speaker 1No, that's got to hit you. I hit up Oscar.
Speaker 2I got tips. I was hitting up Oscar here and there when I was mixing and mastering songs and I was watching videos and I did it myself bro.
Speaker 1Oh man.
Speaker 2That's what's up.
Speaker 1I ain't tapping to that. We're doing vocals.
Speaker 2And I've been doing this since I was 16. I've been doing this. I've been anybody that knows me, you know. I've been doing this recording myself and doing my own artwork. I've been doing this hit the button running the studio, drop my own project. I've been doing this like that's what's up man, so I just tapped it back back into what I've been doing that's what's up.
Speaker 1Thanks a lot. And think about that how much money you get to save if you're recording yourself, you're mixing, you're mastering, you're doing the artwork, you done, did a whole rollout, which is the industry standard. You're doing it on your own.
Speaker 2I really did the research. Don't get me wrong. I wasn't just out here just doing it. I really was watching videos, writing down shit. I really was doing the research and, trust me, like I got a whole notepad full of shit how to mix and master, so like I ain't the best, but I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1So shout out to that hey you.
Speaker 3I always say hey you, you gotta start somewhere, you gotta gotta start, man, to get it in your own boss. I love that I love that.
Speaker 1I love to be your own boss. I love that movement. I know you've been repping that for a hot minute man. Um, inspiring people to tell you go out there and get it right, be your own boss all aspects. That's what's up. Uh records. Any records stood out to you. I like to go ahead.
Speaker 2I like about you a lot yeah, that's, that's number one yeah, that's one of the highlight records too, like that's one of the ones standing out right now, okay, okay, I just looked at it like let me see which one's popping, because I don't like to keep looking back at it. But I look at it and that's one of the songs is like top three oh, that's what's up no, that's what's up so I feel like there's a lot of truth in that record.
Speaker 1I think that's why we all, you slid it and if you're just listening to you on that record, let me know like this, coming from a, this coming from the heart, this coming from a place you know, I'm saying an experience, and I think that's why we all can relate to that record okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 2That's what's up now, and I ain't do no writing on this. This was all going in punching in, just recording. I got my own setup, so it wasn't no writing. It's just me going in real emotions, bruh, that's what's up.
Speaker 1That's what's up, and like ugh, the Soulja Slim reference you know a little bit I slid to that one too. So there's some influence there from Soulja Slim and the Juvenile record Always.
Speaker 2There's some influence there from Soulja Slim and the Juvenile record Always, always. I feel like I'm one of the I ain't going to say the first.
Speaker 1First but one of the first to bring that flow to the city. Yeah for sure. No dope record man. Dope record, dope project. Listen y'all. If y'all haven't listened to this album, you know, after this interview or after this this episode, please go on any streaming platform that you listen to and go check out. Stand Down, body Slam, check out Love From A Cancer. It's a dope project. Definitely go check that thing out.
Speaker 2R2 on the way soon I ain't gonna say when. Okay okay, stand in line between Love and Hate From A Cancer. Okay, I like between love and hate from a cancer. Okay, I was going to do hate from a cancer, but I'm like that's too. I can't make that the title. I can't do the hate. It's got to be thin line between love and hate from a cancer.
Speaker 3All right, I like it.
Speaker 2All right, yes, sir, you can probably already see how I'm going to flip the cover. You probably already know. You probably already got it done, don't you? I ain't gonna tell you I'm gonna have people hit me. Hey, bro, you can do my cover. I'm telling you it happened. Yeah, I just got to be inspired, bro, like I gotta be inspired, so I know how I'd be wanting to look once. I got a vision, I just start going yo you did a?
Speaker 3um, I think it was a freestyle on the gram. You posted on the gram and everywhere. I think you had the background all blue and everything, but you was freestyling. I think it was a guitar in the background I can't remember what it was or a piano man that shit was so hard. I downloaded it, I tried to get your vocals and put it on a beat and I tried to send it to you secretly and I couldn't get it done the way I really wanted to get it done.
Speaker 2So I never came.
Speaker 3I wanted to surprise you, though I wanted to surprise you, though let me work on it. I already started this was a long time, even before the album, I think. You dropped that video, so I wanted to surprise you with it.
Speaker 2So yeah, let me work, let me work, let me work yeah, that's when I was first building up, like I'm gonna get back to doing more of those videos, like more to, uh, live videos and stuff. I'm gonna get back to that. I just had got on that at the beginning and I was like let me work on this album and put it out now. Okay, yeah, yeah, no, that's what's up, that's what's up.
Speaker 1Good deal, good deal, man. So what? What? Where's Van Damme? Now? You know, I'm saying a year. We, you know, we see where you was at. We knew the things you was working on. We talk about being celibate, you know, I mean we had great conversations.
Speaker 1You know I'm saying it was a lot of information okay just mentally, like, and physically because I know you've been in the gym too I want to like tell us, uh, what you got going on what, what is your thought process and what has changed from last time when we actually spoke outside of this album?
Speaker 2I'm still focused. I ain't selling it, but I'm still focused. I'm not dealing with nobody. You know what I'm saying. I'm locked in on myself right now, like to be honest, that's the stage that I'm in in my life. You know what I'm saying Doing what I got to do for my kids, whatever come with that. You know what I'm saying my family locked in on myself. Really, that's what it is right now, like this, the season to lock in. Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, like I'm one of the OGs, big homies, now you, yeah.
Speaker 1So that don't offend you. If someone come up to you and call you an OG, you don't find that offensive.
Speaker 2Nah, I got a 19-year-old daughter. You know what I'm saying. That's in college. You know what I'm saying. I put her in an apartment, got her a new car. You know what?
Speaker 1I'm saying Hold up, man, shout out to that man. Yeah, you said 19 in college, man, shout out to you.
Speaker 2She about to be a flight attendant, so you know. Oh, that's what's up. Like niggas going to be in the nursing home, I'm going to be on jets. I'm going to be on jets, bro, I'm old boy.
Speaker 1Yes sir.
Speaker 2Yeah, really that's what I'm locked in on Still doing the music, but I'm really letting it flow Like I ain't forcing nothing, no, like I ain't in competition with nobody and I ain't trying to force no hits. I'm doing what I love to do. I'm back doing what I love to do. I feel like everything that happened got me doing what I love to do again and doing it for the love, not for nothing else.
Speaker 3Really so.
Speaker 2I'm happy.
Speaker 3I got to ask, man, the last time we had you on, you had your hair. You cut the hair. Explain that. You know what I'm saying. What made you, you know, get rid of the hair, man?
Speaker 2It was time for change, man, like it was time for change, that's the best way I could put it, and I feel like that was the most drastic change that I could make.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2I feel like I was at a standstill, not in my music, but in life, you know what I'm saying. So it was like I want to let everything go, let go of my past, put everything in the past and begin a new chapter. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Respect, no, no, that's good man, that's good. We with it, we with it.
Speaker 2And I got tired of looking like everybody.
Speaker 3I got some niggas going crazy with the dreads Niggas getting dreads put in their head Like nigga, I yeah.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. I got them though.
Speaker 3I still got them, but they oh, oh man.
Speaker 2But no, yeah, I'm done with the dreads. No, that's what's up.
Speaker 1I'm done with the dreads.
Speaker 2I like my braids and uh, yes, my pots had a fro. So really that's what I was going for. Really, I was never supposed to cut it to a low, low, uh cut, I was supposed to just cut it to a fro my okay, I always rock the fro, so that's what I was going for, but my dreads was locked so much they was like nah, you got to cut it low first. So I cut that bitch low, and now I'm going back to the froze.
Speaker 1Okay. Okay, no, that's what it is Well, fam, this is a hot topic, man, you know we can, all. You know it's trending now. It was in the city. I don't know what happened over the weekend, but you know, just cooling, chilling.
Speaker 2You know, minding my business, minding my business, people calling me, people hitting me up and I'm going to say this Okay, go ahead, go ahead. I'm not a Facebook person. Anybody that know me know this. I'm on Instagram, I'm on Twitter, here and there, but I'm not on Facebook. Anybody know me. You want to talk some shit about Van Damme? Say it on Facebook, because he's never going to see it. I don't go on Facebook. It's nothing but people that I've been knowing forever, for years, talking about their problems and this, and that that I don't go on Facebook, so I don't keep up with it. Honestly, somebody hit me up about it. You know what I'm saying. Okay, like, how I feel about it is, if you let somebody's opinion get you that mad, then you got a problem. Oh, we got a serious problem. Like, okay, I get it, but that's that person list you know what I'm saying that that's his list.
Speaker 2That's how you feel. Yeah, music is opinion based. Yeah, somebody might say soldier boy trash. But soldier boy got fans, soldier boy get money.
Speaker 2I'm just using them as an example, right, right, yeah what I'm saying. So at the end of the day, people is gonna be what they listen. You know, I don't get into that because I know what I do in the booth and I've been in the studio with people. People have been in the studio with me, yeah, you know. Yeah, oh, that's where I'm at with it. You know, I feel like it is what it is. Man, you know what I'm saying. That's his, that's how he feels. Yeah, he's not somebody else's list and like people going crazy about it, it's crazy.
Speaker 1So I guess that's where it kind of came up at is like I saw the list created and I said oh cool, this is a top 25. So for me I'm like, okay, maybe it was a conversation that happened and maybe they wanted to put it out. I don't know the science behind it, but I think there was some positive out of it. You know, of course, the rappers who weren't listed could be in their feelings, and we can understand, you're not.
Speaker 2It's only 25. We got way more. We got way, but like, let's be for real, Like you know the people that paid away is like you know what I'm saying. At the end of the day, what are we judging this on? Everybody's going to judge success differently, so at the end of the day, it is what it is.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying. You just can't, I don't get into that no more. Back when I was 17, 18, oh yeah, bitch what. I ain't number one, like yeah, but the me, nah, I that don't matter, like to me that means nothing outside of the city, that list me nothing, anybody go to death jam and show them that list like yeah so, at the end of the day, that list not feeding your family is not stopping money from coming out.
Speaker 2Do what you do. Get in the booth. If you that mad, get in the booth. The people who on there like I feel like everybody put in their work, like yeah you can't discredit what people did so no, no, absolutely not that's one thing on.
Speaker 2You know my work. Speak for itself, so I don't gotta speak. Anybody that know me, I took hey van damme, somebody said you something itself, so I don't got to speak. Anybody that know me, I tell hey Van Dam, somebody said something about you on fake. Don't say nothing back. Don't say nothing, even if I know I'm going to act like I ain't seen it.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Because it don't affect me. No, absolutely. You can't deny what I did, you know. I put in the work. It's the reason why my name reign. It ain't just come out of thin air. You can't make this up so you can say what you want to say, you can feel how you want to feel, but the work is there. I ain't got to speak. I ain't got to go on and fight back what? They saying I ain't got to do that, get in the booth with me, my nigga.
Speaker 2Put whoever you want in the booth with me, my nigga. Put your money up, my nigga. It work. The work is proven, so I don't get into that.
Speaker 3On that side, exactly what you just said put your money up or let's get in the booth. We would love to just see that competitively. You know what I'm saying? I would love to see the competitive side of all that. You know what I'm saying. You know how it is. Everybody gonna be able to take it like that. You know what I'm saying. So, um, competitively, I would love to see it, that's what I want to say, but I don't think everybody can take it like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2It is what it is. I mean, put your money where your mouth is, cause everybody can talk the talk. Everybody can talk it. Everybody can type it.
Speaker 1The work is there Put in the work At the same time, if you are on the list or if you feel some kind of way, this would be the time to actually try to drop something and try to get some motion, if you're not on the pitch what that mean. You get what I'm saying, what does?
Speaker 2that mean. I don't get how the uproar about it.
Speaker 3Hey man, I'm mad. I did this nigga, I did that nigga.
Speaker 2I got the biggest song they put.
Speaker 3God in it. They don't mean you the best, they don't mean you better than the biggest song.
Speaker 2They put God in my mouth. They don't mean you're the best. They don't mean you're better than the next person. That doesn't mean, bro, it's all crazy, it's irrelevant shit bro. But I don't feel like it's wrong because that's their personal list. That's how they feel. You know, everybody got their top five. Everybody got their top, whatever. That's how they feel. You know.
Speaker 2Everybody got their top five, everybody got their top, whatever that's how they feel you're not going to tell me who I feel my top five is, or whatever that's just how it is bro it's opinions, but that's how the shit is and I feel like for.
Speaker 1Palm Beach. But unfortunately the bad when it comes to drama or the bad, it spreads way faster than the positive, like you know what I mean, because we still got people dropping projects that don't get shared and listened to as much, or you know, accomplishing certain things. They ain't talking about that, they ain't applauding you. You know what I mean. But when it's some drama, you get locked up and they got a mugshot. That's when they hit everybody's timeline in a heartbeat. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2People gonna choose who they choose. Man, you can't get. When it's my time, it's my time. When it's not my time, I'm not mad, because it's this person to, it's that person to People gonna choose who they gonna choose. My brother, yeah, you know what I'm saying. So it's like you can't be mad at the next person because they say, oh, this person's better than you and you mad at them. No, I'm with you. That makes sense, but to go back you can't control the fans, bro.
Speaker 2You can't control the fans. It's like Drake and fucking Kendrick coming down trying to argue with the fans. Like no, I'm better than no. No, I did this more. You don't see them boys doing that you can't argue with how the fans go pick who they fuck with. That's how your homeboy go pick who he fuck with. That's just what it is.
Speaker 3It's almost taking us back from that conversation we had a year ago. Man, you know what I'm saying. That's tough man, but look, I have to say it again we got all this talent. If we had really been able to work together, bro, we should have been done and gone out of here. That was just one list.
Speaker 2That's what I'm trying to say. We got way more than this. If we were really positive on this oh, I don't want to turn it into a negative. It's just one person list. It's only one person the whole city is at just one person list it's only one person the whole city, people in the world. I'm not saying it's not accurate. I'm not saying I don't like it how did that? Man is creating this.
Speaker 1That's controversy like that's real how he feel.
Speaker 2Did it make me wake up and say you know what? I'm gonna type on facebook? Everything I did to make no, no, no, no. I'm not on that bitch, I ain't feel no type of way, I don't care because I'm on there. That's how he feels yeah yeah, that's somebody else feelings about how they feel about the music scene bro about it, bro?
Speaker 1no, 100, we'll see. It was good, though I think it was good, it feel like it's starting to simmer down now and I guess we'll see what comes of it.
Speaker 2Man, you know what I'm saying at the end of the day, I hope some music come from and everybody just get in the booth. Just get in the booth, get to work. That's what I had to do, that's why, my name there. I feel like I had to get in the booth. I had to get in the streets. Wasn't no social media like that back then?
Speaker 1And now we got it in arms reach now, so you got to get it.
Speaker 3It's no excuse.
Speaker 2Keep it real. I feel like I think I know that it's a youngin' list. You get what I'm saying. So it's like some of these young has been. I meet some youngins and they don't know who I am.
Speaker 2You get right I don't feel no type of way. They from a younger generation, but if they hear the song, oh okay, okay, you know, that's the younger generation, like, that's just how it is, bro. I I learned the same thing when I was growing up. Looking up the trip, like trip told me you know what I'm saying. I gotta do some songs with you because you got the younger generation. Now it's the same way with me. That's just how it go, bro. These, some of these kids didn't listen to van damme or triple j. That's why I'm not saying nothing wrong. But that's just how it is, bro. That's the reality of it. Yeah, that's the reality of it. They, they ain't grow up in that generation. So some of them go say shit like who is this person? Who is Van Damme? Why you say they from another generation. That's just how it is, bro. You can't feel no type of way about it. At least I don't. No, that's true.
Speaker 2Get in the booth and make some new shit for them, right?
Speaker 1No, that's true. And now at least, with social media. I feel like the journey is being documented somewhat now because, to your point, back in the day we didn't have that. So if you wasn't in the clubs, if you wasn't in the streets, you ain't know who certain folks was. But now we got the internet so you can Google or you can go on YouTube and put some things.
Speaker 2Man, if we had social media like we did back then, we was gone.
Speaker 1Like gone yeah, that movement like that, bro, like come on man. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2No, yes, sir. That's why I say like we got social media right now. It's no excuse, bro. There's no reason why you should be mad when you can go on Instagram right now to your followers or whatever, and do your one too, I see people doing it every day. I get on there and do it. People might feel like I am who I am, but I still get my ass on there and do it. So get on there, do your one too. Don't be mad at the world. No, that's true.
Speaker 2Some people feel like Drake the best. Some people feel like kendra the best. I'm sure neither one of them. Niggas losing sleep from it.
Speaker 3No, no, how you feel, nope it put way more money in their pocket.
Speaker 2So it's just yeah it is bro, so I feel like you know it's a good thing and it's. But I feel, like you said, palm Beach is going to make it negative. That's just how it is.
Speaker 1Yeah, that told me we got to keep going. That's it, we just got to keep working. And, yeah, let the fans gravitate, let the fans speak. I had the city woke. That was the wokest. I seen the city. I seen Rohan make something about the awards. Why?
Speaker 2we can't get behind artists like this. Why we can't get behind artists like this.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. We do this to ourselves all the time.
Speaker 2Why we can't get behind artists like this Everybody running the streams. You know what I mean Everybody quit talking about these other artists from everywhere else, they doing this, doing that, they doing that. What you think It'll keep happening.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2We got to keep watching.
Speaker 1We got to keep working. No, it was good. It was good Because then you know, they did the top 25 songs.
Speaker 2I ain't see anybody that really, really know me. I ain't talking about you in the school, I'm talking about my family, my mom, mom talk shit about me all you want on facebook, and if I do somebody call me, don't say nothing. I ain't see it, that's how I live my life. I don't play that. I don't let what people pull you. I'm on your mind on facebook. Facebook, it says what's on your mind. You started off talking about me. I'm on your mind. I don't got to respond.
Speaker 3I won already Fuck it I have to go back and say something that's what's good, that's what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 2That's how you got to live life. If you can't do that, you ain't ready to be a celebrity. People going gonna talk about you all day. People gonna come at you all day. Look at some of these celebrities' comments all day. It don't matter if you're a good celebrity or not. People on your comments talking shit all day. They're not. That's just what it is.
Speaker 1And you can't respond to every single one of them either.
Speaker 2I don't even read it. I was like, for what I'm like Lil Wayne he, I don't even read it. For what I'm like Lil Wayne he. Don't listen to other artists. Go read some head and shit. For what I'm on this person's mind.
Speaker 1I won already oh yeah, that's a different way to look at it. Yeah, I already won.
Speaker 2If you woke up and went to typing and talking about me, I'm on your mind. Yeah, agreed on your mind. Yeah, agreed, I already won. There's nothing I need to say back. Yeah, I already won.
Speaker 1No, that's what it is. That's what it is. Shout out to the city man, We'll see. We'll see what we do about it.
Speaker 2We got young artists man. I like the young artists man. We got young artists man. I like the young artists man. We got young artists that's doing their thing. I ain't gonna lie, I like the way the city moving. We just need to step it up with the support. That's what I feel like and move as a whole.
Speaker 1Young artists, like when you mentioned, who are some young artists that come across your mind, I don't even want to do it.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1I don't even want to do it. No, I don't even want to do it. Let's go start something. He didn't say my name, why? He say?
Speaker 2his name. I did more videos. I got the biggest song out of all of them oh lord, nope, I'm all I'm gonna say is I like the young artists?
Speaker 1I like the new artists that's coming the young artists.
Speaker 2Okay, I ain't saying I like the old artists that we but I like the young artists that's coming up, the new artists that's doing their thing. That's really working.
Speaker 1Okay, that's really working. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2They might not be the best, but the artists, that's really working their moves Okay. I like the young artists that's doing their thing. Saying shout out to all the young artists doing their thing.
Speaker 1I like the way they're doing their thing, but we need, we need more support. We need to support these artists. So how does a young artist like, just, are they coming across your social media? Or you, just you bumping into people? How does a young artist I watch, I watch I'm a student of this.
Speaker 2I love music all right I'm gonna be the next bad damn, like, oh, I'm watching, like I'm watching for sure, for sure, that's my be your own boss. I'm trying to teach the next Van Damme how to be your own boss. So you ain't got to go through what I went through. I'm trying to teach you how to move, how to get straight to the end, your end zone. You feel me?
Speaker 1That's what I'm on.
Speaker 2So eventually, that's what I'm trying to tap into helping the artists that want to be helped. Okay, I want to work that want to be helped, that want to listen. You know what I'm saying. I don't know everything, but I know I know a lot enough.
Speaker 1Yeah you done, been you done, seen you done, been.
Speaker 2You know what I mean and you going and you're still learning so for sure I like the young artists that we got in the city for sure everybody keep working that's tuned in a fan of exposure or working man.
Speaker 1Just continue working. That's what we want to see. Continue working. We can have more guests on the platform too, sharing them experiences and them journeys, and to help that younger generation coming up I feel like that's the responsibility and to help that younger generation coming up, because we don't have a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 2I feel like that's the responsibility, that's the responsibility of this shit, like if you don't do that, what you doing it for.
Speaker 1Right, agreed, but couldn't we just be some crabs and be like well, fuck it. We ain't get all that. That ain't how it's supposed to be.
Supporting Palm Beach Artists and Unity
Speaker 2That's why we here right now. That's why we here right now. That's why we here right now. I'm going to let everyone else fail. That's why we here right now. That's why we here right now, and we got to change that, bro. We got to stop blaming everybody. It's the reason why every other fucking place popping and we not. We got to take a look in the mirror. We can't keep always because, nah, nigga, it's the reason. What the fuck we gonna do about it, though? We gonna just keep letting talented artists just fucking go by, fucking. Nah, bro. Nah, we gotta do something about that. We gotta do what we wanted our big homies to do, what we wanted the DJs to do, what we wanted the promoters to do.
Speaker 2Nah, we gotta change it. We gotta. If these other hick towns can do it that's right around the corner and we can support them and help them do it, then why the fuck we can't help our artists do?
Speaker 1it. That's fact. Why no, that's facts.
Speaker 2We gotta have no ego man everybody else come through this bitch and get money, while we can't help our artists facts, no facts, bro, facts, I agree every artist know about palm beach? It ain't the artists that don't. So what's the excuse, bro? Like what's the excuse.
Speaker 3It ain't got to be me.
Speaker 2It ain't got to be one of us. We got these young artists. Like what we going to do.
Speaker 1Right, right and a few people got close, but it seems like you just going to argue on.
Speaker 2Facebook all day about a list. That's what we really going to do All day by the list. That's what we really gonna do. That's what we really gonna do All day by the list. Your cousin wasn't on that, bitch your homeboy. Why he was on that, why he wasn't. That's what's important, y'all. Really, we seeing these fucking artists blow up and change their city. That's what y'all. What's really important is what matters.
Speaker 1So so do you feel like the artist that's really going? You got to be able to make it outside of palm beach to make it in palm beach.
Speaker 2no, bro, no no, no, but it's a possibility. That is a route. I'm not saying that it ain't a route, but it is a route. But it don't got to be necessary. If you look at these other artists, if you talk to any dj, anybody from the industry, they gonna tell you what your hometown looking like, all right. What is your support of your city looking like? If you do a video right now? How many people coming out?
Speaker 2They wanna know this, they wanna know this. You gotta have support. Yes, you do. Yes, you do, you do.
Speaker 1Yeah, you do you gotta have that support.
Speaker 2You do Do a video and have your whole city out there. I bet them labels start calling.
Speaker 3Of course I'm like I think they're calling how these things got his whole city behind them yeah how you thank these other artists out of these hit towns.
Speaker 2You know, from nowhere blow they city rock with them first. That's, that's just how it go, bro yeah, no, that's what that's these type of artists for the type of music that we do. That's how you can't talk about you, a street artist, and this type of artist and that that, but you don't got your hometown like no, that's facts, that's facts I want to go back to your crib I want to read you something from smooth.
Speaker 1He said uh, one thing about my era we never hated on each other, never had egos and never had a list, because what mattered the most was putting Palm beach on the map. Every interview, every magazine article. It was never about Suave smooth. Oh, it's about Palm beach, the bigger picture, Hashtag five, six, eight era. I feel it.
Speaker 3That's deep, I feel it.
Speaker 2That's deep, I feel it. I can't say because I wasn't in that whole era. I was around towards the ending of it. So, I seen what Suave was doing. I wanted to get signed to Suave before.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Yes, sir, oh, okay.
Speaker 2Okay, back in the days, me and kuke be freestyling the west, where every damn nigga. What's up with hq nigga. Tell us why they saw me, nigga oh, that's what's up?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, she could have been real crazy, yeah yeah, she could have been real crazy, for sure yeah, because I know he was doing that thing, headquarter records. You knew there was I grew up listening to trip.
Speaker 2Don't get me wrong, but nigga suave and headquarter records nigga fat nigga, yeah, nigga, jet ball. Nigga like yeah yeah, nigga goats. Yeah, we had real spitters, downtown so like yeah you see, that's the history that I feel.
Speaker 1Uh, like you know, that's the history I don't want the city to miss out on. You know, because, like when triple j talked about, once upon a time, palm beach, we used to break dance. You'd be like palm beach was break dancing, like yeah, we used to break dance, and it's kind of like that you got.
Speaker 2Like it's different generations, bro, right, right, it's like you can't take away from. That's what it is. That that's what we known as, bro, the whole Florida. I don't give a fuck what you say. Booty-shaking music, that's what the outside Miami, down south, oh, y'all make me booty-shaking music yeah. This is what it is. This is what they going to say yeah, this is what it is, this is what it is gang, Come.
Speaker 3This is what it is gang, Come on man. We got the beaches, the palm trees, the sun. Come on, Come on man, Come on man. You know what I'm saying. So it is what it is, it work. It is what it is, man.
Speaker 1Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2Another thing I want to talk to you about, bro, is I see you've been putting work in that gym.
Mindset and Personal Growth
Speaker 2Yeah, for sure, for sure. I've been doing a little thing. I ain't gonna lie, I'll be in there. I'm not gonna lie, I'll be in and out. That not, I was only heavy, heavy. You know, I ain't trying to get too swole, it's just a mental thing for me, like, really, like I said, I was working towards, still working towards myself, bro, like nice, really just locking in on myself and really just treat myself how I want other people how I want to treat everybody else.
Speaker 3And while you was doing it, you was creating content too. Man, that shit's what I love.
Speaker 2Yeah, bro, like I'm really being myself bro, like I'm a funny nigga bro, I'm a like you know. Like all the man, all the real niggas I done been around, hey, funny niggas too. You probably just didn't get to to meet him personally, but I'm inhuman, bro, you think I'm?
Speaker 1just Van Damme all day.
Speaker 2I got kids. You think I'm Van Damme. To them, it's my baby. You think I'm numb. So what it do? Nah, we love the game, playing regular life, chilling with my dog. I love music, but I love doing other things in life too, that's what's up Got? Five kids boy Like you got to get it, you got to get it.
Speaker 1No, the working out is good, man. It's good for the mental and we starting to see more of a series of rappers getting on their health tip. We see all that with Gucci. We see it with Moneybagg Yo.
Speaker 2You know what I mean, and it's. We just seen david banner just locked in. You know what I'm saying? He's doing this thing now too. So no, it's really good man. I enjoy your mind, bro, like really just being able to go, like you would think you can go.
Speaker 2And yeah, you do something like run around and chase the doll oh shit like oh what if you had to fight for your life, would you be able to do it? Like then you don't know what could happen. I ain't talking about fighting a nigga. Anything happen Accident, you might need to pull yourself from out. Do you got the strength to do it? Do you got the mind strength? Maybe you got the body strength, but do you got the mind strength to keep going? That's what.
Speaker 3I'm fighting for.
Speaker 1That gym.
Speaker 2get you ready for everything you know, what I'm saying. That gym get you ready for it. That gym get me for everything.
Speaker 3Whatever I'm going through, I said that's what I'm fighting. That's what I'm fighting right now. Van Dam, yeah, the mind part of it. Boy you starting and I'm like ooh.
Speaker 2That's what it is, bro.
Speaker 3I ain't about looking good.
Speaker 2It ain't like I slow down, honestly, because I ain't trying to get skinny, I'm trying to gain weight. So me, I need to eat more. So I just need to eat more and chill less on the gym. I go, but I try to chill less and more on the gym and do more calisthenics Type shit, Push-ups, sit-ups in and out of the gym, type shit. But I don't really hit it too much. I'm trying to gain some weight. There it is. I ain't trying to lose too much. I than that motherfucker too much.
Speaker 2No, that's what's up you get cut, but it ain't gaining the muscle.
Speaker 1Keep it coming, bro Stay up in there, man? No, stay up in there. We probably got to figure it out one day and link up in there and do a thing, For sure you know.
Speaker 2I've been telling you. I've been telling you Back then, like when I was telling you I was ready.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was ready, we got to make it happen, run it back again, then I'll be, ready again.
Speaker 2I hear you We'll make it happen. Well, yeah, I was on it heavy bro, every day, every day, just getting my mental ready. I had the album coming, I was going through stuff. Like I said, I was trying to just treat myself how I want to treat other people. I feel like my whole life I've been treating everybody how I should be treating myself and I never gave myself to do that. So I feel like this time that I've been spending to myself is like God just want me to. Just that love you've been trying to get at everybody.
Speaker 2Get to yourself right now Just take some time to get that to yourself because nobody else could give it to you. So you got to get it to yourself and then maybe somebody will get it to you. Nah, I understand. Like I know what I'm looking for. Like this, be it Nope. Like, uh-uh, she ain't finna play with me, nah, nope.
Speaker 1That's real, bro. It takes a. You know it takes a. You got to have a lot of, you know, courage a it's easy to be around the wrong audience.
Speaker 2I do better when I'm by myself. I do better when I'm by myself. I can't hurt myself, I can't cross myself, I can't harm myself.
Speaker 3I can't be a lawyer to myself anybody else can, though, and they do what's dope is what's dope is when you put that energy out there and let's just say you posted whatever like that, people they might not feel it, but they see the energy, and who doesn't want to be a part of it? If they don't want to be a part of it? They're like, damn, I gotta do this so I can get on this energy too, because they see the, they see the vibes. You know I'm saying it's positive vibes, I'll be on.
Speaker 2I ain't gonna lie. Some days I have negative like. Some days I do go through stuff. I'm a human, I go through stuff and I'm not gonna lie. Like, if I be about to post that I read, like I proofread three, four times and I'd be like, no, I'm not even putting that in the engine, I'm not even putting that out, that let it go. It is what it is. Don't post that. You feel me. Don't even bring the energy into it. Like let it go. Like I've been, that's I'm. I'm a number eight.
Speaker 2So I've been controlling my life. That's what I know. I know I can control my life path. Whatever energy I want, whatever I want to bring into this world, I'm gonna bring it in. So if I'm focused on something mad, I'm be mad, so I don't. I I'm careful with who I'm around and the things that I let into my, my, my space. Now I used to have a lot of people around when they thought I was gonna get on their way out, but now I'm just, I'm locked in with myself now in my home fly my homie sean you know, but yeah, I got a couple homies that I rock with, but I'll be myself now.
Speaker 2I still rock with the homies, but, yeah, on a day-to-day basis. I don't be with too many people. No more like gotcha. I try to keep too much energy out.
Speaker 1Oh, man, shoot hey. And we see you moving and you're looking good, you're doing good, so man, just keep it going. Yeah, keep it going. I want to talk about this jersey a little bit, because I know you was a New England Diehard fan.
Speaker 2I ain't got the Brady New England right now.
Speaker 1I just want to. I want to be giving the history. I could have brought out the throwback.
Speaker 2But I was like you know, mr Arrowman. Nah, mr Arrowman, I wanted to give them the history I could have brought out the throwback, but I was like you know, this the era I'm in. Nah, oh, okay, so all right, so you don't know. So let me we aging. I'm doing what I want to do again, so wait Before we get to this.
Speaker 1It's me, baby. No, when did you convert over to Tampa? That's what I'm trying to. When Tom Brady came, I never converted over to Tampa.
Speaker 2Oh, tampa converted to Tom Brady. That's what converted Tampa converted to Tom Brady. You turned that into Tom Tampa Bay. All y'all niggas be talking shit about Tom Brady. Who's Tom Brady? Yeah?
Speaker 1yeah, don't shoot you, and all that stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, y'all niggas. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh oh. Y'all wishing Tom Brady come back. Nah, don't you. Hey, listen, all we need is a court man. You can't take what that man did, bro.
Speaker 1Oh, nothing, listen, I only. I only disliked Brady because he was good Like. I ain't gonna lie to you. I only tried to give him a challenge, but I know I respect him. Why is the?
Speaker 2world like that it's like the. Warriors. Why do the world love to see them niggas lose? I love to see them niggas win. I love to see niggas win. Why do niggas like this?
Speaker 1This is coming from a cowboy, though this is just coming from a the world be happy the world be If LeBron would have lost the Olympics.
Speaker 2Yeah, they acting like they was happy they won. They would have been talking shit. Them niggas would have been happy the world love. They love to see niggas lose.
Speaker 1Listen, I ain't knocking no. I want to say like I appreciate and I know his greatness, especially when he's down. I'm the same way with LeBron I was just saying, like all of my homeboys were Patriot fans, though, at the same time, so I began to feel this like this, like dislike for him, because it was like I was always battling all the homeboys and talk about Brady, brady, brady, brady, brady, brady.
Speaker 2And I know not to bet on him. You know what I'm saying. My whole family Dolphins, my whole family Dolphins, all my homies, dolphins, all my homies. You never been to Boston. Why, the hell? You like John Burton, I like greatness bro, why y'all like? Michael Jordan. Why we?
Speaker 1like.
Speaker 2Kobe.
Speaker 1Yeah, why the?
Speaker 2world is hurt when we lost Kobe Because of the man. Greatness, bro, this was true. This is what I got inspired by. This is, yeah, inspired by okay, going through the when people want to see you down going, just still going curry. This man was doubted since he came in the league the littlest person on the court, yeah people still try to take from this man. He prove again and again, and again and again and they still doubt this man, still will try to discredit him. Why?
Speaker 3No, that man, he a different monster boy. He proving it in golf too, bro. One shot in the hole, bro, why? Yeah, you right.
Speaker 2You right.
Speaker 1Maybe it come up to that point.
Speaker 2I did the same thing. I ain't going to say the same thing because I always respect LeBron. I never hated LeBron. I was a Curry fan, so I didn't want him to win against fucking Curry, of course. But people will try to use it as hate. It don't mean you hate them, that's not the person I like.
Speaker 2I'm not taking away from his greatness, I just didn't like it. I wasn't a fan of LeBron, I was a fan of Kobe, so I felt like he was coming in and taking Kobe position. It's just like people who like Jordan, they go always say Jordan over Kobe. That's just how it is. That's their generation.
Speaker 1That's just how it is, bro. No, that's what's up. And they got a chip. I mean, you know, Brady did his thing still.
Speaker 2Right, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You know, I feel like the Daw Well yeah. Yeah, that's crazy, just belly check. Yeah, I'm going to show you, boy, I'm going to leave in one year. Go to this next team that haven't won in years, haven't won in years.
Speaker 1It's a simple system, boy.
Speaker 2I got to show you. That's the season I'm in. I'm showing you.
Speaker 3I'm showing you.
Speaker 2I thought I showed you again and again, and again. I'm going to show you again and again, and again.
Speaker 1Yes sir, I'm really him. Yes sir, I'm really him, yes sir, yes sir, my dog say Tampa converted to.
Speaker 2Brady, that's real.
Speaker 1No, I know you a fan, I know you a diehard. Win a chip right now.
Speaker 2Tampa win a chip right now. Tampa win a chip right now. Nah, shut up. Oh yeah, them boys did Work. Is there, bro? Yeah, brady, work is there. This man will show you his rings. We say Michael Jordan the GOAT right. Yeah, brady got the rings right.
Speaker 1Yeah, he got the rings, that's for sure. The rings, that's for sure. He elite, he elite. Do you see, uh, some similarities in patrick mahomes, or is it too early?
Speaker 2different generation, bro, and I try this. What I was trying to tell people about lebron. I don't mean to go back to lebron, but but it's always going to be another guy. That's what you have to realize.
Speaker 2It don't matter if it's rapping, it don't matter if it's making watches it don't matter if it's making chains, fucking, golfing, swimming, it's never going to be this one person, forever, brother. You got to get that in your mind. Everybody's going to face it. Face, father time. Face that down slope. You're going to face it, brother, you're a human. Yeah, they start figuring out how to really make fucking people robots. You're going to face father time, brother, it's going to be somebody else. Time, that's just what it is. You always gonna see somebody. Oh, this record will never be broken. It's always gonna be somebody that's gonna break that record. Bro, records are meant to be broken. They're numbers.
Speaker 2Yeah, life is numbers right everything is numbers, so records will always be broken. There's always going to be somebody come that do something different. It's always going to be that, especially in entertainment. Bro, sports is entertainment. No matter how you may look at it, it's entertainment. They're making money off of it by entertaining the people absolutely want to make sure they have another person to fill in where brady was.
Speaker 2They've already been molding them before we even knew who patrick mahomes was. They knew this is our next guy. We're gonna have him. Lamar, go ahead, ahead. It's gonna be this whole story lamar kind of losing right now because he you gotta they making it with my boy. Gotta win one right now. That's one with. Right now I'm with my boy lam. Got to win one right now. That's one with. Right now I'm with my boy, lamar, you feel me. That's one right now Lamar.
Speaker 1I'm rocking with Lamar man, you're rocking with Lamar. Home team, home team.
Speaker 2I just feel like you got to get off the Ravens man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1Why you say that. It's just what it is, brother, because the kind of offense they have, or why would you say that I just feel like that. You feel like that, okay.
Speaker 2You got to switch stuff up Like who am I? I'm not saying I know what's best for Lamar.
Speaker 1Jackson.
Speaker 2I'm not saying Lamar Jackson, I don't know what's best for his family and his career. I'm saying from my perspective as a sports fan. That's how I've always been Like with the dolphins they just need to fire everybody. That's how I feel y'all been losing so long by the coaches, the cheerleaders. Fucking mascot, get new everything. You get all these good players and they go somewhere to win, but they can't fucking win here. Everybody nigga. Destroy the stadium, destroy the new one that you made, made another one, everybody years that them boys is cursed.
Speaker 2I've been saying the dolphins today, nigga, I will say everybody that's connected to the dolphins right now. They cursed, they cut, they've been cursed for the longest time I finally ran into somebody that agreed with me.
Speaker 3Thank you, bro.
Speaker 2Thank you, this is historic.
Speaker 1Them Dolphins fans going to come for y'all. Boy, them Dolphins fans going to come for y'all.
Speaker 2Them boys cursed. They know how I talk. I love everybody, but come on man. I'm a Brady fan. I'm a Florida boy too, but I can't root for people that's not winning bro. I'm a fan of greatness. I'm not going to be sitting here every day with a sad face. Every fucking Sunday I'm looking sad. No, nigga, I was talking that shit. Every Sunday, Super Bowl to the end. They don't give a fuck. We down 30 points. But Brady will come back. I know he can do it and that's the thing about him too.
Speaker 1We knew he could do it.
Speaker 3It was kind of like, oh, just wait till the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1You would be like just wait till the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3Ain't nobody leaving the seats, they staying to the end, and he makes it happen. That's what the man was so great, he was a monster man.
Speaker 2That's one thing I can say about him and LeBron bro Like the last thing you want to do is make them mad. I hate, when we're playing LeBron and niggas make them mad, I'm like bitch, stop making him mad, keep him happy, don't let him get mad. Bitch, lebron take over, no, okay, taking it to the hoop every single time. And I can relate because I'm the same way when I'm playing games, brother, I'm the same way. I hate to lose. I hate losing in anything. I'm competitive.
Speaker 3I don't like losing. I take my.
Speaker 2L, but I don't fucking like them. I would rather the W. I'm the same way when Brady come to that sideline and fucking throw that L at me. I'm the same way. When I lose a game, my son's the same way. They do the same way when Brady comes to that sideline and fucking throw that L, man, I'm the same way when I lose a game, my son's the same way. They do the same shit. My son do the same thing. I tell him hey, nigga, you ain't going to win every game. Stop getting mad. That's how it is.
Speaker 1As we transition into gaming. I do want to touch base a little bit because I know, I, I've heard, you know, and I kind of seen clips of you, of you doing your thing. But I think recently you must have put a link in one of your stories and I, I, you know, I I went ahead and clicked on that thing and I was watching. Well, I mean, I don't know the name of the games, don't, don't, let me say nothing, crazy drago. But I know you was in there and you was doing your thing. It was like like Florida man gaming 5-6-1.
Speaker 2Yeah, I started it up a little minute. My tip is to give that to my kids. Like my kids heavy gamers All my kids got PlayStation 5. They all play Fortnite and they all play the game I want PlayStation 5. So everybody play, we all gamers. So I'm just starting it up now. I know that's what we're going into. So by the time they come of age you know what I'm saying when they're able to be responsible and hold it down.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying? Give it to them. So I'm just starting it up now myself.
Speaker 1Look at that, that's different man. You're already thinking future, future, because my son, he's been bugging me on YouTube.
Speaker 2I try to tell people this is a reality, for cut on his phone and they get paid. That's the reality to them. There wasn't no reality for us. Mom, finna, get paid off of MySpace what Nigga you don't take your ass to fuck. Go to the damn mall and fill out this application and I'm gonna beat your ass. There wasn't no reality for us Getting paid off of posting? Nigga, Like what the fuck? They don't know how good they got it bro.
Speaker 1Well, some parents don't understand that. Why?
Speaker 2not Bring it to me. Doordash Bing Pizza coming On the way. Nigga, you want to go to your friend's house? Doordash, fuck Uber. Nigga Boop, I'm out of here, man, fuck that, I'm gone. Yeah, right, it's a different generation, new world they don't understand that.
Speaker 1Some parents just feel like, no, you're just wasting your time. Uh, go find something productive to do. You're wasting your time on that game or the internet. They don't really understand that some kids can actually make a career or a living became a race car.
Speaker 2The race car driving won the race, the race, the big race by driving. You've seen the movie or that shit. That shit, a real story.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I didn't watch the movie, but I know the film you're talking about though.
Speaker 2Yeah, bro, and that's even more of a reality. So it's hard to say that right now and it's like why would you want to take that away from somebody? That's a part of their life, their imagination, their happy place. Why would you want to take that away from somebody? I hate when people try to say that.
Speaker 3Oh, why?
Speaker 2you play games. That's why you do what you do. It's my happy place motherfucker, I get on the game. I do them in the whole world.
Speaker 2Why would you not want the person to be happy? That's what we did as kids. We played football, fucking vibing outside playing. I used to whoop my uncles. My uncles used to talk shit to me. All right, bet, wait till we get on the game I got you bet. I'm the young one. You don't know nothing about this game, you old school. Come on, let's go. You play tetris, this playstation come on, yeah, yeah you didn't know.
Speaker 2Yeah, same thing when I play with my kids, bro, my little son, sj, bro, I get get on Fortnite with that nigga Brady man. They destroy me. I be getting mad, I can't say it, but I be, I can't beat him. I can't beat him. It's the new generation bro, hey you see this kid right here. I know how to do this right here, Nah, man, I'm getting back awards on. Man, I'm getting back to Warzone. Man, I ain't cheating, I'm getting back on the ground game Come over here.
Speaker 1Warzone is a shooting game. It's Call of Duty.
Speaker 2Call of Duty is a shooting game yeah bro Fortnite got all that building and jumping and all that kind of crazy man my son be putting a whooping on me.
Speaker 3So Fortnite, call of Duty, and then you got there's others out there, so it's a battle royale. Battle royale is it may be 100 players that drops into the arena, like Fortnite has I can't remember if it's 100, maybe 60 players. Apex, the same thing. So they come in by a ship or whatever like that and they drop in.
Speaker 3Okay, so the motive is land, loot and survive. So you, you land, you got to find a gun, so you're looting. And then now, whoever come in your area and where you have to go, because the circle is shrinking, you got to survive. So whoever's the last team standing or the last man standing? That's what became the new era of kind of gaming too, because they're they're also free to get. So the way these guys make money is the cosmetics on the on the video game. So like a skin or a dog was on is on war zone people bought his skin.
Speaker 3Yeah, people buy like fortnight, like they got all these marvels, you know. So that's how they make the money, even though they pay for the copyright. But they're making 10 times more than I get it.
Speaker 1I get it. It's similar to Roblox because I feel like my son could blow $30 every day if he wanted to man.
Speaker 2Prison time. You'd be crazy about the.
Speaker 3Roblox.
Speaker 2He'd be 300 in Roblox.
Speaker 3He got off of it 300 in Roblo.
Speaker 2Be crazy about the roadblocks.
Speaker 3Man 300 and roadblocks yeah, yeah, 300, 300, 300 all right no, because he'll blow it.
Speaker 1No, like he'll blow 50 yeah just give me the money if I did such and such play about that type of stuff.
Speaker 3Bro, let me explain. My son been playing it for so long that, uh, he never had asked me for money when you, when it's when your son, we went to your son's birthday party and, uh, my son's like, oh, no, dad, he's like that. It's like saying they're taking the short route. So, so my son grinded for years. He's like, no, I don't need that, I don't need that. It's like people in the game know that They'll know if you grind for it or you pay for it.
Speaker 3So, yeah, people, there you go. People respect the grind more because you've been playing it for years and you played to get what Like that's how I was on the war zone.
Speaker 2I ain't buying battle pass for a while, like I ain't know nothing about that, I'm like I'm just I'm grinding everything, just getting. I'm like why the fuck?
Speaker 3I'm just so when I mean it's grinding, so my, I mean there you go, they, they play, they they play more hours, more time, and it's pay to play everything now there you go. So not when you say pay to play, I mean you gotta pay this pay to get this and pay to get that weapon, but you can play the game without paying to get those items.
Speaker 2So yeah, so they get you no place.
Speaker 3So, like us, we work maybe 12-hour days and we ain't got time. We're like, damn, I want to keep up with everybody else. So that's how they get you. Oh hey, just pay $20 to get this and they go pay it.
Speaker 2They go pay it.
Speaker 3I don't see people that go crazy on that if somebody bought it versus grind for it because grinding you can't get it instantly yeah, you got to work for it if it just came out today you know they pay for it.
Speaker 2To get it, this nigga got a skin I don't even see on the skin person oh, okay, after that, time expires now you're playing other times, get it. This nigga got a skin.
Speaker 3I don't even see on the skin person. Oh, okay, okay, after that time expires. Now you're playing other times You'll be like damn, I never seen that. They got it a long time ago. They got it. So it's not part of the game anymore. It's in the game but you can't purchase it anymore. Okay, so, yeah, so that's the part of it. But, lil man, because you know he around here and there he be like dad, can I get some Roblox? You know he want to keep up because it's hard to keep up you got to grind.
Speaker 2They crazy about that Roblox money man.
Speaker 3Dang kid. That's crazy. The Roblox, though, is dope, because these kids create their own game within the game, so they got it.
Speaker 2But they said it's something crazy on there too, though, that be going on I don't know if we can talk about that. But they're saying it's dangerous to be having your kids on there yeah.
Speaker 1I've heard I don't know too much.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I've heard. I ain't either, but I seen it somewhere. I didn't really go too much into it, but I done seen some stuff where people saying it ain't really a good game.
Speaker 1So seen some stuff where people saying it ain't really a good, a good game, yeah, um, so it should be monitored.
Online Gaming and Team Communication
Speaker 2Pretty much it should be monitored, yeah, like they do. Warzone, bro, that shit green man, why they don't run into that? They run into grown people. You can't talk on warzone, bro, but y'all letting all this stuff going on on the roadblocks.
Speaker 3They're letting the kids come over to it, so it's a competitive thing. So roblox was safe for kids because it's. It's a place where they can go create a game within the game and it gets popular. Now you almost want to say your kid got popular because they made this game and now he gets big on his social media, his youtube, whatever like that. But warzone a lot of kids went over to warzone and they, like kids, are competitive, so now they're playing with grown men, man competitive they were for you.
Speaker 2Right, you older and smarter, you win the talking trash battle. They hurt you probably. Tell them you go do their moms or something. You know what I'm saying. Now they report you.
Speaker 3Now you block for 30 days, so now we can't talk reckless. We can't talk reckless no more because you Now you blocked for 30 days, so now we can't talk reckless. We can't talk reckless no more because the kids.
Speaker 2You get blocked for 30 days, brother, and you can't hear. I think you can hear people, but you can't talk.
Speaker 3One or the other.
Speaker 2I don't think you can even hear people, bro. Once you're blocked, I don't even think you can hear people.
Speaker 1Do they need facts, though, to block somebody?
Speaker 2No, I, I'm not even much of a talker, bro. I talk here and there, but my homies, really be talking a lot.
Speaker 3I ain't going to lie.
Speaker 2My homies school, that nigga. They go in For me. Bro, I see I get blocked. I be like how did I get blocked? What did I say? I don't even talk like that, bro, like I barely talk. How I got blocked you know I'm getting blocked.
Speaker 3Dude. Do you know it's serious because they got a squad. It was like, hey, man, help me, block this person. So if you get a a load of reports by one person like they group up, like hey, help me report this person, they group up and they all report. That's some crap and they really do that we get into an argument during the game a dude will really get off that game and go report.
Speaker 2You, bro, like real talk, like they will really do that. They'll talk trash, like say yeah, bro, where you at, well, I'm gonna meet you and da-da-da-da-da-da, and then they'll say you know, you just report what the fuck. Yeah. So a lot of the kids talking crazy, I just right a lot of the things that they're grown.
Speaker 3You know the folks will say they've grown, some of them teenagers. They say crazy, reckless stuff. And now I didn't know. They know the kids are playing it, so they're trying to keep it, you know, clean a little bit, but we're playing. We're playing a game with grown men that's shooting people. So I don't, I don't, I kind of don't understand it. So so Microsoft cracked down because they bought the company out. So that's the thing too. But they want more people to play. You can play the game without having a mic. Yeah, you can't really hear no more. It's harder because the information don't get by. Some people don't listen to the character. If you ain't got a mic, I'm not playing with you. There you go. Some people do that too. So let's just say yo, girl.
Speaker 2If you ain't got a mic, I'm not playing with you, bruv.
Speaker 3If there's somebody, If you ain't got a mic.
Speaker 1I'm not playing with you, I know, I know.
Speaker 2It's the lot, y'all niggas. I know it's three questions. Do you got a mic? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1Go ahead, do you?
Speaker 2got a mic, yeah. Do you got good internet, nigga? Uh-huh. Do you got anything to do for the next 30 minutes? Because niggas will jump in that bitch and then be gone. What's up, you start dying. Oh, I got to go to the store, bro. Why the you started in the game then, bro, you knew you had to go to the store. Man, now we down one person and we getting killed because your ass want to leave the game, bro. He talking about the squad.
Speaker 3He talking about people he knows.
Speaker 2Yeah, bro, that's why I don't play with randoms, bro, I try to stay with my squad. I try to get my squad in it, bro you remember what we call randoms.
Speaker 3You remember what we call random? We had the people who just. Who you don't know?
Speaker 2You don't know, so we talked about when we have V on here.
Speaker 3Yeah, so a random. Again. You start the game. You had three of us me, you and Van Damme but our fourth player is a random. We don't know him. You got a mic.
Speaker 2Yeah, so now they'll ask those questions like Van Damme. You know what I'm saying kicking them out the party bye. You got five seconds, you got a mic, and if you do, got a mic and you ain't talking, I'm kidding, you know you know, getting that good, you got a mic, and then you gotta do it in 30 minutes I love it I love it, bro, I love it 30 minutes, bro you need, so people don't realize this war zone.
Speaker 2I feel like war zone is like it's about the team. It's not really about who people try to make. It about the kills, it don't matter how many kills you've got. It's about sticking with your team, bro, and you need the numbers.
Speaker 2So, if somebody run down on you and let's just say it's two of them, but it's four of y'all, who do you think will win? Yeah, you get what I'm saying. So, like it's a numbers game, it's a numbers game, so the minute somebody jump out of the game, you're dead. You're dead. There's no winning it. You got people who got four people on their team. You're going to run down on them with just us three and they got four people. They're going to beat us.
Speaker 3You see how Van Damme talking about his squad, my squad, hagman Ash, and we might have one more that we know Like real life boys, these guys broke heads like it ain't nothing, so I don't play with them. They're too busy arguing.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, we have that. They're arguing.
Speaker 3Here's another part. They're arguing but guess what? There's always a lover boy in the group. He's on the phone and we're supposed to be communicating.
Speaker 1You talking about the other one, h-man, don't say eight.
Speaker 3H-Man the lover boy, h-man the lover boy, h-man the lover boy.
Speaker 2No man, y'all there's always one.
Speaker 3Let me tell you, there's always one that's a caker, that's caking on the phone, and you jump on the game, y'all boys, y'all jumping, y'all playing, and we all group up. All right, bet, you got the guy that know they ain't supposed to be playing. They got the kids screaming and yelling in the background. You got the area squad Bruh, bruh, bruh. And then you got the other one. He may stay on the game, he there, like he there, but he may get up, walk away, go get his Uber. He may go get his Uber. See Yo Vanell laughing. He got, oh, you at bro.
Speaker 2That's why we have breaks.
Speaker 3We have breaks Before you start this lobby we having a roll-up break.
Speaker 2Everybody roll up, do what you gotta do, we having a break, do whatever. If you gotta walk it out, do what you gotta do. That's the type of stuff we do. We all stay by each other, my homies. We all stay with we all right by each other. Hey roll up, hey roll up. Hey take a break Right here. Hey next lobby, come on. Hey don't start it, don't start it. We communicate with each other, bro. That's what it is.
Speaker 3I ain't going to lie bro, you gotta have communication. It's even with life like it gets you exactly, with life situations too.
Speaker 2But when I say these boys bump heads global. Yeah, we go, you go, have that though throats online on the team bro at work, you gonna have that, it don't matter. We're just with multiple, but multiple men and around doing stuff and playing games. Whether it's watching football, boxing, whatever it is, we can be chilling. It's going to be some arguments, it's going to be masculinity, that's what it is.
Speaker 3The cool thing is they set it up for teamwork. Right, they set it up for teamwork. You could be the weak link. You could be the weak link as long as you hear the communications and we're telling you where they're at. You can't be too far from the pack because if somebody come in, one guy can take out the whole team. Once you got communication we set up well, we can take them out. That one weak guy. He could have more kills than all of us and it's normally that he doesn't. But some guys are worried about when he say kills, as in, he's the elite, the dominant, but we're not winning the game.
Speaker 2Bro, I had five kills. I had 10 kills. Bro, I had 12,. Bro, you only had one. What did?
Speaker 3you do, you lost nigga. What the fuck does it matter?
Speaker 2We go out there, you score 50 points, nigga, in this game and we lose. What the fuck does that matter? You happy about the 50 points, nigga? We took the L. That's the type of nigga I am. I want the big win. I don't give a fuck about the L, nigga. If you got zero kills, you got zero kills and I had the 10 kills, we did it, we won. That's it, we won, we did it.
Speaker 3It don't matter, you walk away together. It's telling what everybody did.
Speaker 2I can have zero kills. Yeah, nigga, we fucking did it. We did it. Nigga, bitch, I'm going to celebrate like I had 10 kills. I still played a part in it, nigga, it don't matter how many kills I had, nigga, I was out there in the field with you. Nigga, I got that W with you.
Speaker 3A win is a win. A win is a win. Right, a win is a win. There you go, that's what that means.
Speaker 3So, with the streaming thing again, uh, what van am just said, we want to win. It don't matter like, if you have a squad, if you are elite, you can get 15 kills. It don't mean that we lose, because if we got people watching us and you're known for winning back to back to like, like anything, you're winning back, like all right, I'm gonna go watch him because he's good at winning. Now I can learn something from him. It's not learn something. I can learn something from his squad. If not learn something from him, I can learn something from his squad. And so that's how you get your viewers. That's what we hate. To lose. It bothers you because you want to win and you're trying to get them back. You know what I'm saying. You can win. People are donating, left or right. People are giving you the currency that Twitch got. They're giving it to you. So now, when you post, now you get hits on your social medias. Now you get views on your YouTube shorts. You get like, no matter where you go, you grant you made this following base.
Speaker 2Yeah, I just started getting it like going in on my Twitch. Bro, I ain't going to lie Like I bet you know how you help me set shit up. So you know, I just be building, bro, and I really be doing the research. I go watch people games and what they doing. I go watch their streams. I see my character, what I'm going to roll with, how I'm going to create my little background. I'm not just on that stream and I got a whole little. You see my setup.
Speaker 3I did that.
Speaker 2Nobody ain't do it. I really did the research how you make a foot, what's the size of the screen, what size of the camera show. Okay, I can put my little Florida man in the background and have me showing on this. I really go do research on these things, bro, and create it myself. Bro, and that's the thing that I'm trying to teach everybody Be your own boss, not just in music, but in all aspects of life, bro.
Speaker 2If you put your mind to it, you can do it. If you can thank it, you can do it. If can do it like, if you're thinking about it, why pay somebody else to do it? When you got the vision, and nine times out of ten, your vision is gonna be better than the person you paying, you gonna like it. But you just know. I just know how I supposed to look, I know how I supposed to sound, I know how I want my shit to be. So who better than me? Then I want to see myself win. I want to be the best version of myself. So why not do it myself? And I feel like that's what god forced me to do right now, like not even forcing, just guiding me to do. I ain't even gonna say forcing, because I'm walking into it. Yeah, I've been doing it before. I just got away from it, but I feel like he just rerouted me back into it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1So hey, bless you, man. That's what's up. But y'all boys just I done learned some stuff, boy, about this gaming world.
Balancing Social Media and Personal Life
Speaker 2Yeah bro, it's real boy. I try to stream every day. Nah, I'm not gonna lie, I'll be, like once I get out of work, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2If I can put in eight hours at somebody else's stream, I can get out of work and also put it to my stream, even if it's an hour and I'm just on there talking. Let me go on there. That's probably my first time really posting it on Instagram. I be streaming a lot. I done been streaming every day now for probably like a month now, but I just don't post it on my Instagram.
Speaker 1I ain't really been posting on Instagram.
Speaker 2I made a post on Instagram and I be trying to keep. I be trying to keep the music only on.
Speaker 1Van Damme Body Slam.
Speaker 2I feel like I get too personal into that people don't be caring about my future facts to Van Damme.
Speaker 3But what I learned, what I learned? I used to have two pages. I tried to keep it separate too. I learned that, um, um, I felt like I wasn't being true to myself.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying um see I let somebody else run run van down for a second though, like, basically post on there, nice and I'm I don't got the password for a while, like I was just doing me on my personal for a while. You know what I'm saying. Like, whatever I want to post, I was posting on my personal and they was. You know what I'm saying. Like, whatever I want to post, I was posting on my personal and they was running my, my page. Like, bro, you got to get back to posting music. Bro, you got to post music. Like this is what people want to see. They want to see content. They want to see you rap it. Well, fuck, you post it in my fucking right, right right bitch, I'm going through real life.
Speaker 2Shit too, motherfucker. I want to post that too. They don't care about that, bro. Your fans don't care about that, bro right.
Speaker 3so what I? What I did, bro, I I I put on my personal page I I was like you know what it being one person to control two pages, especially if you're very active and I know y'all do the music, I do the music too but I was like damn, I gotta separate. I was like dog why I got to incorporate and try to put it into one. If you're going to rock, I said on my personal page, if you're going to rock with me, look, I'm going to be here and this is going to be the only page Y'all going to really truly see who I really am, because I was holding back and I said that because I mainly did that because I know women.
Speaker 2I love how you be posting man Like. I love how you be posting more and more.
Speaker 3I appreciate that man, but mainly because it was, you know I was fronting. It's like the women, and when the women see a man play a game, if you don't like it, you don't like it. It filters the crowd. For me, you know what I'm saying, it filters it. If you don't like it, go the other way. But I'm gonna show you truly who I am. So I do my music and I do my game and this is what y'all gonna get here, and then y'all gonna get my life when I'm out partying with my boys and and stuff, like, yeah, I gonna get that all there. I'm gonna show you who I really am. So but I, I do know when you're, when you're an, um, an artist, uh, people, people tend, you know, to make a personal page in the in, uh, uh, you know their music page because they feel like the, the algorithm, they don't mesh too well like, so I'm having that problem. We, when we spoke about that, yeah, like for me.
Speaker 2I wouldn't even say it's like. The algorithm is more like I said. I was trying to get more into myself, like you know. No, I understand and like I feel like social media one of them, things that had me tapped out, so like I'm not. I'm not really too, you know.
Speaker 3So like I said, I got kids, now you, know from my perspective, like I got kids of age.
Speaker 2Now they ain't they. They got instagrams. You know I'm saying so. I ain't on that bit smoking a blunt every second, like I really gotta watch what I'm posting so to get get prepared for all of that. You know, I'm saying I made my own page and really locked it to myself and I still post personal stuff. Like you see, if you go on my Instagram, I'm back on there, I'm back posting it myself. So it's just, I took a little time to get into myself more and just focus on me.
Speaker 3Oh, I take breaks. I'm sure you do too, global. But yeah, you got to take them breaks, man it. But yeah, you got to take them breaks, man. It's exhausting at times, man, but you know, some people can understand that and they won't understand it because they want the likes. Even though I know I don't get the likes, I know I got everybody watching. So even if I don't see it like I don't really pay attention to it, somebody might have to come and tell me and be like yo, you never come. I'm like my bad man, I haven't really. You know, go back like that.
Speaker 2I I don't know how people be on instagram social media period all day, like I have here and there. Like when I go on break 30 minutes I look at my shit after that I'm doing what I'm doing, like I don't have time to be on social media all day, no more. I remember I used to post so much and like I'd be looking back like how the fuck did I have time to post? What was I doing? Even when I went back on the block? How the fuck was I on the block fucking 24 hours, like I really was out there all day go nowhere on the weekend especially.
Speaker 3I don't know about you boys, but on the weekend my phone's down, my watch would tell me I get a call. I put my phone down, it'd be in the charge all weekend and that's how I know. I got no notification. I don't even.
Speaker 2I don't even got them on, bro, I don't know I don't got notifications on on my phone like, besides calling, calling and texting. That's it like calling, facetime and texting, but no Instagram, no Twitter, no Facebook. Like you can call me on Instagram all you want, I'm never gonna see it. I'll show you my Instagram messages so much. Facebook is so backed up because I'm just not a social media person as far as being on there every day.
Speaker 3I go and post.
Speaker 2I might post something. You can go on my Facebook. I might post something one time and then I don't be on there. I don't go on there and scroll, because what's on there is what's on everybody's mind. When I'm reading that, I'm going, I'm going through the same thing. I'm bringing in the energy I'm bringing it into the world. They might post something that they mad about it. Now I'm mad about it like damn, yeah, wait, yeah. I just I feel like instagram is like just the picture, really, like you know what I'm saying. You just send people pictures, like you know. So it ain't different. It's I mean, it's different from seeing what's on somebody's mind and how they feeling like every other second talking about this person, talking about that person, like what's going on in the city. I'm out of the loop on that as far as like on facebook, like I don't, I don't know nothing that'd be going on and I feel like it's good, like for me, my mental people tell me so I'll be like what when, when that happen? Like what the fuck?
Speaker 1And.
Speaker 2I be feeling good like damn bro. I'm out of the loop with that shit Like yeah, I remember I was the loop Like nah bitch.
Speaker 1No like.
Artist Support and Cooking Passion
Speaker 2That ain't what it is Like. I'm from a different era, not even from a different era, but I saw a different era. People that I was around was always older than me. They weren't niggas who was on facebook talking about what's on their mind every day. So to me, that's not a cool thing for a nigga to be facebooking every day talking about what's going on, what's on his mind, and that ain't something that we do. What's going on, who they got beef with, who don't like, who you know? When you see that person, you tell them that's, that's the people that I grew up around. We don't do that type of stuff.
Speaker 2So I I just I don't um, I'm not a facebook person, no more I get on twitter a little bit. Yeah, I just look at my tweets tweet and get off. But facebook I agree. Nah well, you want to know everything. You want to find out what's going on?
Speaker 1take your your ass on.
Speaker 2Facebook. You're going to find out before anybody else knows, it's on Facebook. That's where the drama at man, Anybody that know me, know this, don't call me about that shit. I don't care. You better not say nothing you better not say nothing back. Yo, nope, I'm on their mind, bet I won't.
Speaker 1Oh man, that's what's up. That's what's up, man. Hey, man, it's been a pleasure having you all here. Man, we're going to make this a permanent man. We're going to have to bring a guest in and have their daddy third. I'm with it.
Speaker 2I told you, I'm with it, I'm with it, I'm glad. I'm with it all the way, bro.
Speaker 1It's a great conversation, man I love it.
Speaker 2We got to keep this going. When y'all first brought me on, I was like, yeah, bro, this is what we need for the city. When y'all first saw me, I was doing it. Yeah, we need this bro, we need this for the city.
Speaker 1Hey, listen and I appreciate you because you did hit me. You know what I'm saying. You're like hey, you know exposure. You Like, yeah, we was handling some things behind the scenes and me and Draco was talking and it was just like the timing was perfect. Because then I saw you and your setup. I'm like, oh boy, I think we'll be able to do something. Man Draco was like, yeah, van Damme already done, told me I'm like, all right, then I see we can lock in.
Speaker 2Y'all really got something special. Bro's really a platform. Double salute, bro, for real. Like this, the type of stuff that we need in the city, that we didn't have. Like thank you if you dropping a project where you going like, where you gonna go to promote and talk like yeah we need these type of platforms and you know, it's just, I love what y'all doing, bro.
Speaker 1We need more of it, hey appreciate you, brother, and we're gonna we're gonna find a way to integrate us all and keep it going and as we do bring in guests, you know I'm saying we'll be able to have a a whole conversation and keep exposure going, man yeah, man, all artists tap in any way tap in support exposure.
Speaker 2Man. Like we gotta just like I'm saying support these artists. We gotta support the podcast, the blogs, the djs. I ain't knocking nobody, everybody, bro. We got to support each other. It's that easy, bro. I'm not saying nobody better than nobody and nobody. We all need to support each other, bro. That's the only way it's going to go.
Speaker 2That's how everybody else go, bro. It's that simple. Don't matter who first on the list. Second, let's make everybody on the fucking. Let's make everybody that rap go. That's all we gotta you know what. I'm saying let's be on the BET list, let's be on the XL list, and then let's fucking argue, let's get us up, let's get up, let's argue later. Don't even argue later, because we done.
Speaker 1We done, made it right, hell yeah.
Speaker 2You tired of being a nobody Hell. Yeah, you tired of being a nobody Hell. Yeah, I'm tired of that shit.
Speaker 3I wanted to plug in this real quick, yo. So I was chilling with Van Nam one time and I didn't know Van Nam was a foodie. Van Nam like to eat food, bro. What's your favorite dish, bro? I wanted to ask.
Speaker 2I ain't gonna lie, For right now it'd be the stewed turkey. I ain't gonna lie shit, For right now it'd be the stewed turkey. I ain't gonna lie, Stewed turkey white rice Stewed turkey white rice From what culture?
Speaker 3No matter what culture.
Speaker 2Oh you know, Zoe, that's it All right.
Speaker 3Let's go.
Speaker 2let's go Turkey fried rice, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, man.
Speaker 2I ain't gonna lie Right now. I it's just a stew turkey.
Speaker 3I ain't gonna lie. Right now I've been doing a stew turkey, I wasn't on a fried turkey, but I'm on a stew turkey right now Okay okay, the stew turkey got me chopping up bell peppers and onions not my food.
Speaker 2Like what? That is getting spicy now, Like I'm like this is my flavor now, nigga, I'm that nigga in the kitchen, bro. Bro, I'm passionate about everything I do, bro, Everything.
Speaker 1I do.
Speaker 2I do it with passion my nigga I be like I should post this shit. This shit looks so good bro, like I really be doing this shit. My old boy was a chef bro, so like I'm really him bro. But, that stewed turkey got me putting bell peppers onions in my food.
Speaker 3It got me acting real different you be seeing them clips on the on the gram and you be saying, yeah, yo, yo yo my favorite thing to eat, bro, like it's white rice, bro.
Speaker 2I love white rice with everything, and I put saison on everything. I ain't gonna lie and it's being like I say I put saison, now everything. Now, for the last maybe two years I've been putting saison on everything. I just love the season, I don't know. Ah, you can put how much you want. Ah, turn it on. Ooh, it look good ah.
Speaker 1You feel me.
Speaker 2Oh damn, I'm like put your face on on the goddamn stew turkey. Why ain't you doing that? I know you cooking. I'm gonna do that this weekend, boy.
Speaker 3I know you cooking. I know you say you cooking, but you got a favorite spot in New York. My meal prep, your meal prep. Okay, you got a favorite spot you like to go to.
Speaker 2Damn Like what. What For the stew?
Speaker 3time. Yeah, if you want to pick up some food, like where do you go?
Speaker 2You got a spot that you like to go to I got. Let's see.
Speaker 3What's your favorite spot? Name that one.
Speaker 2That's hard bro, yeah give me your time, okay, rotation. I go okay, okay for a while, and then I switch off that. Then I go to like I'm not gonna lie for the maybe like the last three years, bro, I haven't really ate fast food like I really been on my cooking shit okay, I eat fast food, maybe one day on the weekend or if I'm like tired, like damn, I don't feel like cooking.
Speaker 2But I meal prep bro. So, like on, like sunday, I try to do it on sunday, I cook my meals. I cook everything. Instead of cooking one thing, I cook the whole. I bought the whole thing of rice cooking whole thing of chicken. Whatever I buy, I cook it right then and I meal prep and I just eat that for the week and then on the weekend I might splurge a little bit. That's when I get to stew turkey. Ladies. Y'all hear that, yeah, I cook clean. All that you ain't got to do none of that. I cook clean, I do all that. Whip it. Hear me, I've been really big on not eating fast food like McDonald's, wendy's, fucking KFC. I don't know what that tastes like.
Speaker 1I haven't ate that in a while and I'm not saying it's bad I just haven't just be game uh eight piece uh chicken now at kfc is twenty dollars. So it is this what?
Speaker 2I do, oh duh. Let's just say I'm at work, right, and I'm like damn, I want chipotle, chipotle ten dollars. I can go to walmart get some chicken for five dollars, some rice for one dollar, get some beans. I got chipotle for the whole week.
Speaker 2If I'm not lazy if I just take my ass in the kitchen. That's what I'm on, that's something like. It's like why would I go buy this one meal for ten dollars that don't come with a drink? I buy, buy a drink. That bitch going to be like $14. I'm going to be hungry again. Yeah, buy the whole chicken, buy the rice and beans and cook that bitch. It take like 20 minutes, 30 minutes and I'm going to be like I'm going to be like for the whole week.
Speaker 2Yeah, see how I want, get the proportions that I want. You want, get the proportions that I want. You feel me. So that's what I've been on type shit, whatever I want, I figure out how to make it Like even coffee for McDonald's. Bro, I was buying coffee for McDonald's every morning. Every morning I said you know what, get on YouTube, man, how do you make McDonald's coffee? What are the ingredients? I was about everything that I'm doing with coffee in my house. Before I go leave for work, bitch, I'm drinking McDonald's coffee for $3.99.
Speaker 1That's what I do now.
Speaker 2I just try to figure out ways to just be my own boss. Bro, do this shit myself. Why I'm finna go pay this much just to be cheap, when I'm gonna want some more, I can have fucking Dunkin' Donuts for the whole week. Why I'm going to fucking go buy this one, two donuts that I can go to a fucking store and buy a whole bunch of donuts. You feel me? I have it for the full week. That's just what I do.
Speaker 1No, that's smart bro, that's smart man.
Speaker 2But my favorite place is Chipotle. Like, if I'm going to eat fast food, it's going to be Chipotle, it's going to be steak and shake.
Speaker 1Oh damn, I ain't been in a minute. It's going to be Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 2I went on a polo tropical run for a while. I eat polo tropical a lot, and then I might go to Albert's and I might go to Tropical Island sometime.
Speaker 1Oh, oh, oh, you already named the spots then.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm between both. People try to tell me don't go to one, but I go to both. Nigga, what you talking about? Nigga, I go to both my niggas. Shout out to Tribal Goose. Shout out to Alvarez. I go to both.
Speaker 1There you go.
Speaker 2Ain't nothing wrong with that you did very well, my nigga. It depends on what side of town you in. Yeah, brother, yeah, those are my spots. Like for me to eat fast food. Other than that, like McDonald's fucking Burger King, I might eat Burger King I haven't had it in a long time but McDonald's, wendy's, kfc, I'm going to make that shit myself. I'm going to go buy some hamburger meat and make sure my burger is a burger and it's cooked. Well done, my nigga.
Online Branding for Van Damme
Speaker 1There it is. No, there it is. There it is. And so, for the people who haven't logged in yet or tuned in, slam, how can the people follow you, man, and either watch the gaming or music, everything is van damn body slam.
Speaker 2As far as like social media, that's Twitter, instagram, apple Music, spotify, youtube, tidal. Whatever you listen to music on, search Van Damme Body Slam. Whatever you TikTok Van Damme Body Slam, all you got to do is search Twitter, whatever social media app Van Damme Body Slam. For the gaming, it's Florida man Gaming with two Gs. Florida man Gaming with two Gs 5-6-1. Okay, there it is, and that's on everything Twitter, youtube, twitch, tiktok. Everything is the same. Florida man Gaming two G's 5-6-1.
Speaker 1Oh, that what it is, bro. So, man, y'all heard it from Van Dale himself I be your boy, the Global Zo, and I'm with Draco Mell and y'all tuned in to another episode of Exposure and we out Ha.
Speaker 3It's more than just a podcast. It's Exposure, it's Exposure.
