All 414 All Podcast Episode 33 W/ Alesha

Episode 33 the talented and beautiful Alesha stops by the set with a fiery Live performance! We get into her start in the city, her accomplishments and obstacles she's faced being a Latina artist! We also speak about dreamers being the new upper class and being prepared to take advantage of any opportunities on the spot!!

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SPEAKER_02 0:51

If I woke up tomorrow and chose myself instead of you. If I woke up tomorrow, would I know what to do to share the view? If I woke up tomorrow, would I have to teach you how to love me right? If I woke up tomorrow, would I stay this long? No, when you won't have a fight. I for the right to stay in my life. Where I don't have to teach you wrong from right. It's to be soft when I'm not alive. Do not feel the need to be listening out of your insecurities. Where I move like I know my words, action speak louder than words. It's crafting your flows, it's hurting me more. But if I wake up tomorrow, would you be the man that God purposely made the war bearing angel? Fighting the wars that come to destroy him. My night shining almotioning on if I woke up tomorrow and chose myself instead of you. If I woke up tomorrow, would I know what to do to shadow you? If I woke up tomorrow, would I have to teach you how to love me right? If I woke up tomorrow, would I stay this long knowing you won't have a spite? I gave you all of me. Who knew it is deep? Disloyalty word, my feelings be hurt. I need what I give your reason to live. All this will be nothing but a beautiful dream. When I wake up tomorrow, I'll know what to do to share to you. When I wake up tomorrow, I won't be there to teach you how to love me right. When I wake up tomorrow, I'll remember the time you were the master action. When you move with intention when I wake up tomorrow, let's go.

SPEAKER_11 4:05

Let's go. I've been serenaded. Let's go.

SPEAKER_09 4:14

I love it.

SPEAKER_06 4:16

I love it.

SPEAKER_09 4:19

So I didn't want to say it before because you know you was nervous or whatever, but that's probably the longest song we've had.

SPEAKER_08 4:24

Yeah. For real.

SPEAKER_09 4:25

We've done the longest record at the beginning of the show so far. So make some noise for that.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Well, it's the first time I'm singing something live, complete like that. So a little shaky, but hey.

SPEAKER_09 4:36

I know when you said it the first time, or when you did it the first the run through, I'm like, I'm not gonna say nothing. But like low-key, this is the longest anybody's ever performed. So salute to that. Salute to that. Oh yeah, phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 4:46

Well, thank you.

SPEAKER_11 4:48

All right, Mike Check, you're now tapped into the R414 R podcast, where hometown artistry isn't just a statement, it's a standard. Before we dive into today's episode, take a brief moment to hit that subscribe button and notification bell so you can stay updated on future episodes as we continue to bring you the truest talent our hometown has to offer. I am your host, the 414 Tycoon, more commonly known as Illy. And joining me as co-host is my lyrical brethren, the verbal executionist, Street Team Hectic. These episodes are brought to you out of the Third Ward Studios. And behind the lens, we got SG Films. Joining us for episode 33 is our first female artist. She's a bilingual singer/slash songwriter, proud Bodhiqua, and just an overall testament of what opportunities can come from stepping through your doorways of your passions. Give it up for Alicia.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

Hi. Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_11 5:48

We're happy to have you. I'm super excited to have you. I've been waiting for this episode.

SPEAKER_03 5:54

I'm excited.

SPEAKER_09 5:55

Hell yeah. Yep. Vocalism. She said she just went live. You said it's the first time you ever did a completely.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

Yeah, a complete, yeah. Yeah, that's singing little bits and pieces. Oh, thank you guys.

SPEAKER_11 6:05

That's what's up. Yeah. Um, so starting off, um, shout out to Spearhead Conversations, because that's how I actually uh ran across you as an artist. Um I was completely unknown to me that there was someone of your skill and talent living in the hometown. So shout out to Spearhead. Um Xavier doing amazing things and just uniting the city. Um give us a little bit on that, how uh he found you and how that episode was for you.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

Honestly, I don't even remember how he ended up finding me, but I know he hit me up quick and we met up quick. And and since then we've been connected ever since. Xavier, he's my dog, okay. Um he's doing beautiful things in the city, and hey, I can't wait to see what more he comes up with because that brain, that brain be working. But I'm excited, I'm I'm glad we got connected, and um it was a beautiful interview. It was a really beautiful interview.

SPEAKER_09 7:00

Yeah, and he's like really good at that. So Xavier, to me, when I met him, he told me about the podcast first time I ever met him. Then like three months later, we was doing it. And he was the first one I seen because I had already had the podcast and I was doing my thing. But when he came through, he had it like um almost like when a rapper comes to the studio and he already has his, you know, I'm ready. I got I got songs, I got hooks, I got ideas, I got beats I already picked out. I've been rapping on this shit for months. I'm ready to record this shit, you know what I'm saying? Like he came to my house to the podcast like that. He had the paper, he's like, Yeah, look at these are the questions, and you know, so then seeing that, then now Illy does that now. So it's like, you know, it's the naturally he was the first person that I seen that made it like the podcast thing was uh uh uh skill set. Like he's like, Oh, I I'm really this is really what I do, you know what I'm saying? And so shout out to Xavier because that shit now Illy does it really good too, and like he be having his whole shit outlined and and I'm like, man, that's a that's a skill set to have for real.

SPEAKER_11 8:00

Yeah, and it just it helps the flow of the podcast, it helps like the you know, because you don't get stuck anywhere if you you know if you are stuck, you just move on to the next thing you got on a bullet point or you know, and also it just makes it feel like it's professional, you know. When you're on a podcast, and if it's uh no shade to any of the freeform podcasts, but when you are on those types of podcasts, you really have to be good at like conversation and talking, or else there can be like super dry spots, or you're asking the same shit different ways, yeah, and it just kind of makes it a little awkward.

SPEAKER_09 8:35

So we started like that a little bit. At one time he was like, So uh you gotta eat this give off. Hey, but you know what?

SPEAKER_03 8:40

We gotta start somewhere. Yeah, I know I did an interview at M A T C and I was the guy's first interview, and you know, same thing, like it's okay. Let's let's let's do this again. Let's let's have a normal conversation because I could talk, you guys.

SPEAKER_09 8:54

I mean, a lot of a lot of those freeform ones do have they don't have it like how italie has it questioning specific, but they'll have somebody behind the camera like, all right, this is the next talk about this shit. You know what I'm saying? Like bulletin board behind the game. Yeah, no, I I went to a podcast, like that's why I said that. You know, uh shout out to why should I give a damn? But uh Sparkus does it like that. His wife is off screen and we'll we'll be sitting there talking. It's like a free form though, like we they just talk topics, current events, and his wife is behind there, she'll clean it off and write the next question like and while you're talking about the subject, like let's just say fucking I'm Beyonce and Jay Z. Yeah, and she'll be like, Do you think Jay-Z? Like, or she'll like a question while you're talking, right? You know, and you nobody sees it but the people in the show.

SPEAKER_03 9:37

So you can't put me to write nothing. That's a good prank, you know? Put something that ain't the right thing, you know.

SPEAKER_09 9:43

Uh what's it called? Uh Anchor Man, he reads whatever on the topic.

unknown 9:47

Exactly. Like, what the fuck put that in there?

SPEAKER_09 9:50

That shit funny as hell.

SPEAKER_11 9:52

Um, so another thing that I wanted to kind of go over, I'm glad you brought that other um podcast that you did up because I was gonna kind of try to mention that. But are those the like first two or only two um interviews that you've done, or have you done more? I I think I've seen one one other one. It was like a all-spanish interview.

SPEAKER_03 10:15

I don't even remember. Um, I think those are the most recent ones. I mean, spearhead and then the M E T C one was my last one. I think I did want to add QVP, you know, and that was just me behind a mic answering like questions that everyone has all the time. So um, and here I am with you guys now.

SPEAKER_11 10:32

Um so another uh kind of thing that I kind of wanted to talk about with you is um what are your experiences as a Latin artist in Milwaukee? Because I don't know too many like Latin singers is really out here fashion music.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

I love it. First I thought I wasn't being recognized at all. Um until you realize that you are. I did well I actually did Telemundo. Telemundo was an interview.

SPEAKER_11 10:55

Um referring to and that one was really good.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

Um I think I realized how many people did know that I was a Latin artist in Milwaukee versus like, oh, I'm just a singer and this is just a hobby. That was the first time I was actually recognized by something like big, and I was like, okay, I guess we're doing this. I and it felt really good, and it was something that I prepped for that and I was supposed to sing on there too. It was so backed up that I got like I got lucky, okay. I got lucky. Um, but it was really good. It was a really good experience uh just to be recognized, recognized as a Latina artist, a Puerto Rican artist at that.

SPEAKER_11 11:30

Let's go. Yeah, you definitely give like um like if not famous, like just right out of that like the voice sounds like it's right there.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

And I love that that keeps me pushing and that gives me more of like the confidence that I that I need, that I need because sometimes I forget who I am and I am her, you know. I am her.

SPEAKER_09 11:54

Big facts, y'all heard it. Shout out to the shout out to the Bauquas, right?

SPEAKER_03 11:59

Yeah, like a happy.

SPEAKER_09 12:01

You know, especially because uh I I love it when you go to your uh to your page, it says your name, and then it says Wisconsin has the pinpoint, the fucking Puerto Rican flag.

SPEAKER_06 12:11

You know, and that's you know it.

SPEAKER_09 12:14

So, you know, and I love that because you know, I remember there was a time when I moved here, because I moved when I moved to Wisconsin, I wasn't in Milwaukee. Yeah, so when I moved up north Wisconsin, they didn't even know what Puerto Ricans were. They were like, Oh, you're Mexican. I'm like, well, you know, that's cool, but I'm not, I'm Puerto Rican. So that's so dope to see that represented, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 12:33

Absolutely, and we gotta work hard to put ourselves out how far we've come now, you know.

SPEAKER_11 12:38

Hell yeah. Yeah, that's big facts. Like I said, I don't really um I search, I do my best to search for new talent or like talent that I haven't heard of yet. And it's very rare that I run in across other Latin artists, whether it be rappers, singers. Um, so I'm always like super shocked when I find them. And like Heg says, like, if you are able to make music in Spanish, you're almost a sure dope, you know. Like not not too many of them I find are trash.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

And what I love about that is I'm very much word of mouth. You know, I put myself out there very um specifically. So I love that it is a word of mouth. You heard of me by someone else, and that usually is how it goes. And I love that because that's the point of me, you know. Um if that's a question at all, uh somewhere in there. I my my what I would want to do, right, is not become famous. I want to be able to, I treat it as like a hobby, you know, it's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I want to um like be a hundred percent, you know. I want to be able to express myself the way I want to express myself. And like I said, word of mouth. If you hear me, you hear me, and I'm here, and but it's not something that like I'm trying to be on the red carpet somewhere, you know. I want to keep it here on word of mouth for the longest. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_09 14:04

You read carpet ready as fuck. No, you're ready for the red carpet for sure.

SPEAKER_11 14:10

I definitely think um that stage of artistry is starting to be um I guess passed over, you know, like the whole like super famous Michael Jackson, like people fading at your shows and shit, like that shit is kind of dead now, you know, like everything going on.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

I don't want I call that idolizing, and you see all the things that are going on now. A lot of people idolize the wrong people.

SPEAKER_09 14:36

Oh, that's exactly what it is.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

And now they're they're retracting.

SPEAKER_09 14:40

Yeah, there's a there's a show on uh on Hulu right now, it's called Love Story, and it's about uh John F. Kennedy's son and how he buried this chick who she was like working for Calvin Klein or some shit. But that's neither here nor there. But the whole shit, bro, he he can't leave his house without this was in the 90s, and he just couldn't do nothing, and then when he got with her, it ruined her whole life just because he was so famous. Yeah, like she couldn't do shit anytime she tried to make business deals, they would come outside and there's fucking a thousand motherfuckers with cameras, like take a picture, tell me one thing. Like, right, can you imagine that? You imagine can you guys just be Michael Jackson, bro?

SPEAKER_03 15:15

And I couldn't live like that.

SPEAKER_09 15:16

You can never go shopping anywhere, like he when he was so famous, you couldn't go anywhere in the corners of the world where they're like, that's fucking Michael Jackson. I always think of like The Rock and shit, because he kind of yeah, he can't hide.

SPEAKER_11 15:30

I'd be pissed if I couldn't go to the gym. I'm and he hide, he's a big ass. Well, he fucking he takes a gym with him everywhere he goes. Like he has a fucking gym flown out or built wherever he's that's crazy. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

That's where the money portion comes in. You know, if you want to live undercover, you got the money to cover it. Right.

SPEAKER_11 15:51

Yeah, yeah. You know, I wouldn't be opposed to like having a gym just like pop up wherever I'm at, you know, specifically for me.

SPEAKER_09 15:58

But I get it, but sometimes you want to be able to do public shit. That's part of that's part of just being a regular person, you know. So you want to I want to be able to just walk outside and walk my dog or anything without motherfuckers you look up to dig in the tree and take a picture of you walking your dog and shit. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_11 16:15

Have you guys seen the um videos of J. Cole driving around in his Honda? And then like wherever he stops, like it's like a crazy mad crowd, and he's trying to like calm them down.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

But you see the respect that they give him, like that's something that you gotta give yourself. He is known for being humble and being still putting in the work. Right. So a lot of people that he comes across treat him like what he is, like what he puts himself as, which is dope. I think it's super dope. I want to drive around in my Honda too, and no one knows me.

SPEAKER_11 16:44

Okay, for everyone who doesn't know, she got a Rise Honda.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

I got a 1988. She said, I want to ride around 45,000 miles, okay.

SPEAKER_11 16:52

Okay, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

Gold, you know, we don't I didn't know because she even said that I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_11 16:58

Yeah, if if there was any car that like symbolizes Bodigua, it's that little Honda. You know it's a motherfucker. No boys with no base.

SPEAKER_03 17:07

And you're going, oh, it got bass. I was gonna bring it. It got bass.

SPEAKER_11 17:11

That's crazy. We would have heard it up here because we be hearing all the motherfuckers driving in the front. Like, she's fucking here, bro. Yeah, she's here, bro.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

Too bad it was raining.

SPEAKER_11 17:23

All right, so um, as you know, like I told you earlier, this is uh women's history month. So that's one reason why I also found it very dope that we got to have you on the show this month. Um do you do anything special for like women's history month?

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Do you like you know flip through the you know historic events and try to find little niche things or you know, do you celebrate or I really don't, but um I did purposely put this song out that I just sang because it was Woman's History Month. It was supposed to be for last month because it was like a love song, but the song is like woman empowerment. I I am all for women getting the fuck up from situations that they don't need to be in, okay, and moving on, whatever that is, shitty friendships, shitty relationships that can be with friends, family, uh, your relationship, your job, whatever it is. I am all for you as a woman empowering yourself and putting yourself in situations that make you feel better and make you feel good about yourself. And so, you know, I love that I was able to put that record out during Woman's History Month because hey, I'm trying to empower these women to I don't tolerate a lot of a lot of bullshit at all. I don't tolerate, you know, and you can read that off me really quickly. I don't tolerate a lot, and I try to instill that in other people as well, in other women. You know, you don't have to be anywhere where you're not treated properly, where you're not loved properly, where you're not when you don't where you don't feel like you belong. Um, so yeah, that that's where the song comes in. So it's a beautiful time to have put it out.

SPEAKER_11 18:57

Right. No, I definitely agree, and you can definitely tell from the music as well. Like if you're listening to the words, well yeah, the lyrics take the same. It'll take shit, you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:08

Yeah, nah, you can.

SPEAKER_11 19:08

You can't song, like there's somebody else waiting in line.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

Hey, and it's always there's always a better job, a better friendship, a better man, a better everything. There's always somebody better to give you what you deserve at the end of the day. Hey, and for men as well, not just for women, you know, there's a lot of men who are stuck in situations in life where they don't even have to be in. Like, all you gotta do is get out of that situation and move on to the next, and you'll see how God's gonna start opening doors for you.

SPEAKER_09 19:33

Facts. Shout out to the what is it, International Women's Day?

SPEAKER_11 19:36

Uh well, International Women's Day was March 8th, but the month of March is um inner well, Women's History Month.

SPEAKER_09 19:44

Women's History Month.

SPEAKER_11 19:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 19:45

Well, shout out to the Women's History Month, man. I I love all y'all. Shout out to all the women, fam.

SPEAKER_11 19:51

Facts. Um also one thing that I kind of wanted to drop in your ear is um have you heard of the TBH open mic?

SPEAKER_03 19:59

I have not.

SPEAKER_11 20:00

No? Okay, so that's an open mic that's for uh singer songwriters and poets.

SPEAKER_03 20:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 20:06

So I think you should uh go perform one.

SPEAKER_03 20:09

Show me the details.

SPEAKER_11 20:11

Um I can't remember the girl's full name, but it's uh on Instagram, I believe she's Aya in the Sky. Um and she hosts an open mic uh on the 15th of every month. I think they just started it in February, so this is their second one. Um, and that's at uh Kenai, which is the same place where uh Mad Static hosts his open mic. Um, and he does that on the third Thursday of every month. But yeah, as as far as like we went to the last uh open mic that Mad Static hosts, like I said, they're both at the same places, and some of the singers there were phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

So yeah, I love that. I love that. And it's only once a month.

SPEAKER_09 20:54

Yes, once a month, uh which is better because I'm the every week thing gets played out so fast.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

That's right.

SPEAKER_11 21:01

But like, so they're doing this like they both have it at the same bar, they each host one every month, so it's like two every month, basically. One's more singer-songwriter, and then the other one is like rappers, just anybody can't do it.

SPEAKER_03 21:16

I gotta slide out, I gotta do it. Yeah, it was up.

SPEAKER_11 21:18

When we went, it was packed, like you could barely walk through that more.

SPEAKER_09 21:21

It's not a super big venue, so it packs up easy. But the thing the thing about this, this uh the setup of this is that it's so intimate, and the open mics that they're having are set up to be like, hey, we're here to listen. We're not here to hey, we're not here. I mean, you could do that, you can turn up and all that. But for the most part, they're fucking like as close as me and you are, and they're like, what you about to say? You know what I'm saying? Like, don't look at me. That was all that.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

Don't look this way.

SPEAKER_09 21:46

If I woke up to real though, they literally are.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

I'm gonna bring blindfolds, everybody. Put them on.

SPEAKER_09 21:51

It literally is though this close. So they're they're just right there and then they're listening, and they're not just um, you know, like they're not right in front of you talking to each other and shit. Like they're participating and shit. Yeah, they're paying attention. So you know, so that that's that's a good thing about it because you know they actually respect the mic and they're paying attention to what you gotta say.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

Yeah, I love that because that's what they're there for, right?

SPEAKER_09 22:11

Exactly. What they what they should be there for.

SPEAKER_11 22:13

Yeah, I'ma definitely send you the information for that because I would love to see you perform live and so it's it's the same same venue, different day, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:20

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 22:21

So there I can't I can't find it when I when I'm so that TBH one is today. Okay, yeah. So it's like so after this, we're gonna drive over there. So I'm dressed for the party. Let's blow it up. Let's go. You could have said it's right up the street.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

What time is it? What time is it? Does it start?

SPEAKER_11 22:37

I think it's from four to seven. Okay. And we end this. We end that four.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

I love that. Hey, where are we going? Can I?

SPEAKER_11 22:47

But yeah, you know, so that's one thing I wanted to talk about. Um next, uh, we're gonna move into another song of yours just so we can kind of you know let the audience hear the vocals more and just let them soak up your vibe.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

Okay, all right, let's do it.

SPEAKER_09 23:02

All right, this is uh Alicia Fire the Rain. Let's go.

SPEAKER_11 23:20

This video was fire, by the way. A lace umbrella is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

And it was all him. Like, he was so good with the business portion, he said, do this, this, this, and this.

SPEAKER_09 26:06

Fire.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

Fire. I didn't know Philly shot that he I loved working with Philly. Like, I love the professional aspect of things. Like, he sent me the layout, he sent me what I should wear, what his ideas were. I just got everything and made sure that I showed up. I know I remember we showed up, and it was he thought I was gonna have a team. I thought he was gonna have a team, and it was just the both of us. And he was like, wait a second, you work alone? Yeah, I do this all by myself. And he's like, So do I.

SPEAKER_09 26:34

That's what's up though. Who recorded that?

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Uh so QVP, Kevin Silva.

SPEAKER_09 26:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

Amazing. He is that what he's the only one who I recorded with, actually. So all my songs are produced by him. That's um oh, produced and engineered, makes a mastered, everything.

SPEAKER_09 26:50

Is it I think that's who Junito was telling us about? He records a lot of Origua artists and shit.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

Yes, he records, I think, a lot of people.

SPEAKER_09 26:58

That's what because that shit sounded great.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

He's amazing. It's hard when you're trying to look for someone else just to kind of know, don't go nowhere. It's like cheating on your nail artists, like you don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_11 27:07

So I mean, there are a lot of great engineers. It's just, you know, it's it's all about who you know, you know. So because you know, I've recorded, I probably recorded with like three or four really dope engineers. Um, and then like an array of not dope engineers. No, I agree, I agree, and it's just you know, trying to collaborate with people, you know, and I'm like, uh, this is really not like what I like as far as quality-wise, so I'm gonna have to like stay away from this. But um thank you for the opportunity.

SPEAKER_09 27:43

So many untope engineers.

SPEAKER_03 27:44

And so many of them get butthurt. Trust me. Yeah, yeah. They get salty if you don't.

SPEAKER_09 27:48

I'm like, bro.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

But Kevin said amazing. I met Kevin in 2018. I know I have some some little baby ass record sitting somewhere that they're never they're never gonna come to light that I did with him. And you know, we started from the bottom, you know, and he now he is he's out here now, and and he does a beautiful job. His producing, he makes a masters, he does my cover photos sometimes. He he will do it all.

SPEAKER_09 28:11

That's yeah. So before we jump into the questions, I want to make sure I check those out. Uh you wrote that song, you write all your songs?

SPEAKER_03 28:18

I I write all of my songs.

SPEAKER_09 28:20

That's amazing. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

I write all of my music, y'all.

SPEAKER_09 28:23

Yeah, that's amazing. I'll fuck with that.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

Thank you. Does that matter? That bad.

SPEAKER_09 28:26

Like, so so for me, I'm one of those people like uh if you was to put I'm I'll be saying some crazy shit. I know I'd be saying some crazy shit. Nobody fucking killed me, bro. But like uh, how people try to put like uh damn, I'm not even gonna say, I'm gonna say some totally different shit.

SPEAKER_11 28:41

Say it.

SPEAKER_09 28:41

I'm gonna say say it. Like when people put like Beyonce and then Taylor Swift, to me, Beyonce could be as fine as she wants, she can sing as good as she wants. Nigga, Taylor Swift write 90% of her shit. It does to me that that puts it like the talent through the roof, bro. Absolutely. Because not only getting exactly exactly so. I I I feel that way a lot about artists and how they uh move amongst everybody else. You know what I'm saying? Like if we were doing a scale and I was like, this person doesn't write, Alicia writes, y'all might sing similarly on the same scale, but I'll be like, Well, she writes her own shit, so that kind of takes you out the running, you know.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

Hey, you gotta give the credit where it's due. You know what I mean? I bust my ass, and honestly, as crazy as it sounds, I write these songs just within like two or three hours. They're they're done. I find a beat, and I write them, and then you know, I put them, I tuck them away, and when it's ready to come out with them, I go ahead and lay them out. It's simple, it really is that simple for me.

SPEAKER_11 29:42

You know, by sample, real quick.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Yeah, I feel it, you know.

SPEAKER_11 29:47

That's what's up. Yeah, no, you definitely could tell that you know, if I didn't know that you already wrote your own music, you know, I would think like the same person is always writing music because your music is very consistent across the timeline of your records, you know. So, um, but it's I mean, it's even better knowing for sure 100% you stating it, like, yeah, I write my own.

SPEAKER_03 30:13

It's me, guys. It's me. I do it.

SPEAKER_09 30:16

That shit matters.

SPEAKER_11 30:18

Um, so let's move into this interview portion. Um, in your words, give us a summary of who Alicia is.

SPEAKER_03 30:25

Do you want to know Alicia the artist or just in general?

SPEAKER_09 30:28

Just you, who are you?

SPEAKER_03 30:29

Because you know, Alicia's a lot of things. I I'm trying to juggle, I try to juggle me and my 10 personalities sometimes. I'm Alicia the mom. I'm Alicia the artist, I'm Alicia the phlebotomist. You know what a phlebotomist is, right? I draw blood at the hospital. So I'm Alicia the phlebotomist. Um, you know, I'm I'm Alicia, the woman of God, okay? The woman of faith, uh, of strong faith. I'm I I'm a lot of things. I try to accomplish everything that makes my soul on fire, puts it on fire. So anything that I want to be is who Alicia is.

SPEAKER_11 31:02

Yeah, I fuck with that answer. I always, it's funny that you're like, uh, you know what phlebotomy is, right? Because uh when I first learned the difference between phlebotomist and lobotomist.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

Wait, what's a lobotomist?

SPEAKER_11 31:18

Is it a lobotomist like a yeah, like somebody who fucking your brain cut your brain out?

SPEAKER_09 31:23

No, see, but bro, when she said that, she looked at me and it's like, you know what that is? I was like, you asked me, I don't know about it. You guys know when you guys do the nod?

SPEAKER_03 31:32

I get it a lot when people smile and keep them out and don't know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_09 31:36

But no, I knew what that was. But when you asked me, the way you asked me, I was like, maybe I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Yes, no, no, and I love what I do. I love what I do.

SPEAKER_09 31:45

But that's a draw of blood.

SPEAKER_03 31:46

No, I fucking cut people's brains off and be like, oh shit.

SPEAKER_09 31:50

Nah, yeah, that's that's what's up, though.

SPEAKER_11 31:52

That's one thing I love about writing though, is like the amount of vocabulary you get to learn through writing and like reading and writing words, and you know, because yeah, you're like, that's what that shit is. But um, yeah, I definitely fuck with that answer. Um as an artist, who is very emotionally aware? Uh, what are things that help you tap into and express those emotions without dwelling or staying trapped in the loop of any negative emotions?

SPEAKER_03 32:23

So I think anything that goes through your body, anger, sadness, anxiety, um, my outlet is music. And so, I mean, it could be music and could be a lot of other things, like fitness or anything that gets it out of my system. Um, I'm also a person who I have friends who go through things and the outlet for them is also my music, you know. I might write them a song, and um but finding an outlet for your emotions, finding an outlet for whatever it is that you're feeling. Yeah, you guys might all have a hobby that you, you know, what is your outlet? Right. What is your your your actual outlet for these things? Is it writing music? Is yours writing music? I would say mine.

SPEAKER_11 33:02

Mine is mostly like writing music, gym, um, and then work. Like, I I'm somebody who loves work, you know. Like, there's a lot of people who don't really like to go to work or they complain a lot about going to work, but like I realized real early to change my mind state about work so that I can be happier while I'm there because I'm just an overall happy person. So it's like, you know, people always send me stuff like I don't want to go to work on Mondays or little reels and shit. I'm like, you're stupid.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

Like serious blessings of blessings, counts of blessings.

SPEAKER_11 33:36

Yeah, so you know, like I learned to make work my best friend, you know, and it was through a book that I had read that taught me that. So, but yeah, I would say work, music, gym.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

Yeah, no, being emotionally aware and finding the outlet to those emotions really does help get it out of your system, whatever way that you gotta get it healthy though, not no toxic shit. Yeah, whatever healthy way you can get it out of your system. And music, and music is like a really good outlet for me. Like, I I you heard it, I put it all out there, and once it's out there, I drop it, it's done. It's it is what it is after that. Right.

SPEAKER_09 34:11

No, yeah, I feel you. I usually performing the music is more than the creating the music for me. Like when I perform and I do like a really good performance or something, I'm like, oh yeah, I fucking it it it fills up everything that I drain from making the music. Yeah, it's like the completion. Yeah, you know, yeah, you know what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm god because making the music is fun too. You know, but you know, it's been so long since I've ever just sat in a setting where I'm just in the studio. I'm just chilling and I'm like, oh, let's just make whatever comes. You know, it's usually like I'm paying for it, you got three hours, go, go, go, you gotta hurry up, you gotta do, you know, if you don't do the right shit, you can't come back. And if you do, you gotta pay for it. You know what I'm saying? So that that that in itself sometimes be stressing. But making it still helps though. But when I perform, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 34:58

Yeah, because you're seeing the fruits of it after after all that work, you just better not be seeing the fruits of it.

SPEAKER_09 35:02

Well, you know, because when you perform, like how you just perform your song, people will hear it a certain way when they're hearing it recorded. And then when you perform it, people are gonna take it a whole nother way. So when you perform it and people intake it, you're like, oh, so it is what I thought it was when I recorded it. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_11 35:18

So like and I ask that question because you know, your um your music is very emotionally uh gripping. So and you can tell that you know you're very in touch with your emotions as you're listening to the music or as you're writing the music. And I see a lot of times in people that they don't know how to have an outlet for their emotions, and that's where they get like caught in a loop, and then they start fucking going back negatively in life, you know. So I thought it would be a perfect question for somebody who is very emotionally aware and and intelligent to to be able to kind of speak of how people can overcome that.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

You know, and that's fine. And that outlet my misery does not love company, so I like to get out of get it out of my system as quick as possible and as where I don't affect other people, you know. If I can inspire you with what I just went through, I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_11 36:14

Yeah, I love that. Um so as a fairly new artist, uh, you've covered a lot of genres in a relatively short amount of time. Which is your favorite and or which came the easiest to you?

SPEAKER_03 36:30

Can I say all of them? All of them come pretty easy. She said she looked like a lot of things. I grew up with a Puerto Rican mom, you know, but my mom this side and this side one, whichever style. My mom was born in the 70s and she listened to everything. Sadsa, uh RB, the old RB. She listened to some old funk stuff. She listened to everything, house music, everything. And that was such a she influenced me without even knowing that she influenced me because I will listen to anything as long as it sounds good, and what I'm what I'm what I'm hearing is is worth hearing, I will listen to anything, anything, anything. That's right.

SPEAKER_11 37:07

Yeah, that's how my mom was very much. So, like a party girl, she was like listening to everything under the sun. And then my dad, he was a party, well, not my real dad, my stepdad, he was a party guy, and that's how they kind of up clicked, and you know, so we was just listening to everything from Puerto Rican music, Mexican music, uh freestyle, house, rap, like and I love it.

SPEAKER_03 37:28

They exposed you to diversity, they exposed you without even you knowing what benefits you were gonna get out of it. It's it's it's a beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_09 37:36

I surprisingly didn't do that. That's right. Every time I'm sitting here thinking, I never growing up, it was just silent sign, like old Puerto Rican shit. And then we went to church my whole half of my first you know 10-11 years, and we just heard whatever was on the radio if we was listening to that, you know what I'm saying? And Disney channel and shit, shit like that. And then I heard like bong thugs with from my brother, and she knows saying, yeah, like the my the my introduction to rap was crazy, bro, because it was like SIBO and Brother Lynch hung and shit. Like the motherfuckers is like, who the fuck is that? No, they was some crazy killer ass gangster rap family.

SPEAKER_03 38:09

Like, you done skipped all, you just went straight to the bigger. Yeah, we went from church.

SPEAKER_09 38:12

I went from church from church to be with my big brother, and it was like, I was like, Dad, thank you, Lord. I got the mind, you know. No, but yeah, I remember my mom that you know, she used to talk shit. Don't listen to like, don't be like your brother, you know. So your brother's a fucking don't be like that. So I was like, all right, cool. So I fell into the boy bands and shit when I was like eight, nine, you know, in sync in them niggas, you know what I'm saying? You know, hey, it is what it is, it is what it's Disney channel, no.

SPEAKER_11 38:37

I think I had older sisters, so like my older sisters were like in love with the boy band crazy like that. So, like, you know, I I knew the boy bands weren't because they were always playing them. Oh, that's that's facts, though.

SPEAKER_03 38:50

And then you have kids expose them to different kinds of music.

SPEAKER_09 38:53

So my kids love RB. That's what I love. Like, that's like for me, that's some of the safest shit, even though sometimes that playlist gets a little you know, not the 90s. Make sure you separate them. Oh you know, you know, so there were some songs, bro. Just last night, literally, it's crazy you said that. Just last night, we was listening to my daughters was dancing and shit, and Christina Aguilera, Genie in the Bottle, came on. But shit, start right. I'm like, okay, I was like, hey, this used to be the shit back in the day. You know what I'm saying? Bro, she got the same shit. Yeah, if you want to be with me, there's a price to pay. I said, hey, yo, oh my god, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 39:32

And you guys at this age, have you not listened to a bunch of the old stuff that your parents took up and you listened to? And even the Sansa and stuff, the Sansa stuff was crazy. Like, wait a second, what you're saying. Why are we listening to this? Like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_09 39:44

And it sounds like a party song because they would dance and like drink and but then you listen to the lyrics and you're like, bro, he's talking about yeah, like getting cheated on real. And he's like heartbroken and shit.

SPEAKER_06 39:55

We over here, like, eh, like that's just crazy, bro.

SPEAKER_11 39:58

One of my favorite things is like scrolling Instagram and then the reels that they put up where they're um translating the lyrics for like it's like, dog, that's what they were saying.

SPEAKER_03 40:11

What they were exposing us to? That's why we're like this.

SPEAKER_09 40:14

No, you know, the Macarena is a fucked up ass song. Yeah, wait, what is it? What is it? The Macarena? The Macarena's talking about how many men she like she fucked with a bunch of a bunch of people while her her guy was away in the army. Yeah, but you know that. If you look it up, and it's a story of him like dancing and everything, right? Everybody was the whole world. We was all in the 90s, like, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 40:38

It's about her just taking off on like breaking bad, dear John letter ass shit.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

You that's crazy. I know not to pull that off of my kids then.

SPEAKER_09 40:46

Okay, we ain't know. We just like that out. That's where they get you. We love the music.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

It's so hypnotizing, you know. That's where they get you.

SPEAKER_09 40:54

A good beat to make anybody just not think about shit. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_11 40:57

That's funny. Um, what do you think is the biggest challenge for independent singers in the current music scene? It could be like national or here in the hometown or you know.

SPEAKER_03 41:11

I'm gonna say here in the hometown just because I haven't done anything like national. But um, I think people believe in in your dream as much as you you do. Um, and I'm gonna be very blunt and open because that's that's what I do. I'm very blunt and open. Um for me, we live in a world where people cannot separate personal and business. And I have been doing music probably for two years and a half, and the amount of people that I was going to work with who couldn't separate personal, and I'm gonna speak about lust. Okay, the amount you see me as the woman that I am, and a lot of people prefer to mix their personal instead of business, no, not even knowing how great the business portion could have been. Right. But there was a lot of things that I agreed to do that God said, uh uh, sit down, that's not for you, you know. And within 24 hours, the person would kill it like right away, you know, and I don't dwell on things. Things that are for me come to me, and the things that are not for me, I'm gonna take a seat. I'ma take a seat. Um, it is very difficult when people are not emotionally regulated and cannot separate their personal and the business.

SPEAKER_09 42:24

That's why I stay away from that shit.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

Yeah, and that's why I like it.

SPEAKER_09 42:27

I've never been, you know, because unless I see the play and I'm like, all right, there could be a play here to be made that I can approach her to like really this is for real what we can do. You know what I'm saying? If not, I'm just like, hey, how you doing? All right, that's cool. If no, I already know that that's shit like that happens so much, you know what I mean? So I gotta deal with it every fucking day.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

So I'm like every single day. People will create a facade in order to have access to you. And then the minute that they have access to you, the business. I'm sorry, the business is out. The business is completely out. And I'm not entertaining that. I'm not entertaining that whatsoever. At the end of the day, I'm a business woman, okay? And I love to see, I would love to see the way that things would go business business wise, you know. Especially because you reach me because of my music. A lot of people have gotten to me because of my music. So let's keep it there. Let's keep it and and let's see where this goes. You know, you never know where that where that goes. Don't kill something that can really be beautiful just because of your personal, because you are emotionally um you're not you're not able to control that. You're not able to control yourself.

SPEAKER_11 43:31

Yeah, like control and like when I hear that, I think of like um people not knowing how to compartmentalize, you know, the two things, you know, where it's like and that happens a lot of times, not only with just like um I guess like men and women or women the men, but also like other guys, like if they feel like they can't be the like the top dog, then it's like it puts a wrench in the game. They throw a whole wrench in like where you guys could have been because they're not in control of the whole situation or they're not the fucking star player, you know, and it's like I feel like a lot goes on in the city um as far as like people not making the opportunities that they could because they want to be the fucking main attraction. You know, so it's like a lot of things die before they ever get somewhere great because somebody couldn't put their pride at the side or somebody couldn't like you know take the side passenger seat for a little while and and it's not just lust.

SPEAKER_03 44:29

It's very much again personal stuff. Yeah I have um maybe had old friends or I have been in situations where I have met up with someone to do business and maybe an old friend or whatever it is. You know people hold resentment for things that you have no control over that got to their ear and before you know it business was dropped. I'm not working with her and I'm like dang you really just messed up this good business because your shitty home homeboy decided to say some he said she said absolutely and then a lot the city carries that a lot a lot a lot um sometimes I'm wondering like how come this fell through how come this didn't work out and then come to realize later on that oh yeah because they're friends with so and so because their connection is so and so it makes sense you weren't for me anyways yeah it does happen a lot too and y'all and it yeah they're sleeping on me at the end of the day they're sleeping on me at the end of the day don't hit me up don't hit me up don't hit her up don't hit her up I'm a big I'm a big blocker okay chances are you can't even see my page yeah but I definitely many times I remember one of the first music videos that I ever made um you know I did a song I met this um videographer and we ended up um you know we were doing shows together we were like in close proximity we kind of worked with a lot of the same people and um you know she she liked me you know and I'm like alright cool you know I'm just cool you know and we ended up um doing the video and then like afterwards we kind of messed around and then like we stopped messing around but as soon as we stopped messing around there went the video.

SPEAKER_11 46:12

I was like it was we were not even really together.

SPEAKER_03 46:16

That's why you always get the product before you let him go but you see the purpose in that your purpose in that was that you had to learn that hard way in order to not cross those lines again you know and if you do cross them lines you gotta know how to play that game because no that that that taught me early like it was my like I said it was my first video. Oh in my mind I'm like just get what you're supposed to get first yeah and I was young at it too so I was like you know yeah you drop the ball I definitely dropped it was a fire video too it was super fire but you know she can't even watch it now look at that she deleted that motherfucker but shit happens you live and you learn um where do you see yourself in say two years I don't even think about the future I don't I stopped doing that so many years ago because today I might say something and tomorrow is all new ball game okay another another opportunity might present itself tomorrow and it changes my entire you know I live day by day and like I said I do I do what I want to do. I do what I want to do when I want to do it and uh make sure I do it right when I do it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 47:23

Let's go. I fuck with that. That's the first time we've had that type of hand usually everybody kind of has like a a goal you know set or like a well you know to to be honest I feel what she's saying because no I definitely do.

SPEAKER_09 47:35

But what I'm saying is like if you was like to me let's just say I was just a guest on a random and they asked me that I would try to answer it just to kind of sound like yeah I got plans nigga you know what I'm saying I ain't no plan list having asked nigga you're gonna look back at the video and be like what the oh I want to be this and this and then the time has come and I'm like I ain't even take that route fam you know saying but for real but yeah I feel like people answer that because you know it may give you also you do want to speak shit into existence sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 48:03

Absolutely you know but shit I wish I could be like that I'm I'm worried about the future all the time you can be like that you absolutely can be worrying about the future too much.

SPEAKER_09 48:12

Yeah it's tough. I'm like bored by Iran and shit nigga I don't like get hung on the future like I'm very um loose reins with it but I also like I have like the plan yeah like a five year plan or you know because if then if I feel like if I don't have no vision then I'll just be like you know I could end up being very lazy or you know just not giving my so I just I feel like maybe the the future shit when you say it just kind of be it's not vague isn't the word I'm looking for but just more of a broad this is the area of life I want to be in as opposed to I'm gonna do this.

SPEAKER_03 48:49

You know if you needed an answer I see myself look still as an artist but living in an island by myself with nobody a farm maybe some animals you know real real away from no neighbors no you know I something like that but we got her y'all she's taking it day by day.

SPEAKER_11 49:08

Further than that no I'm living day by day I'm gonna get my goats and my pigs and my you know we get a pig today a goat tomorrow yep exactly no I fuck with that like I said I fuck with the answer though because like you're the first person is kind of like you know there are you know there's a different array of everybody kind of lives differently and it's nice to see um you know how people kind of approach things and you know think about certain things as far as like where they see themselves or just how they approach their days and for somebody to like be you know I just I take it very in the moment and you know I look for the opportunities while because a lot of people miss opportunities because they're so hung up on things that they think you know are the things that are supposed to happen because that's what they got set in their head that they just kind of fucking completely that's dope.

SPEAKER_09 50:00

That's the opposite I want to do this and the plan is this and then this might be outside of this plan. Yeah I'm gonna be like fuck that because it doesn't accord you know that's a good ad I like that that's dope.

SPEAKER_03 50:11

And I like to think everyone's like end goal is to be at peace with themselves. Yeah you know I feel like everyone's angle is the same but everyone's journey is different. So wherever God leads me you know wherever God leads me I've he's been maneuvering my life for years now and he hasn't let me down yet. Okay. So again moving with faith at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_11 50:33

All right and then um one last question is uh how can the all four one for all podcast audience find your content?

SPEAKER_03 50:40

So I got Instagram Alicia loves you on Instagram Alicia loves you on TikTok Alicia the artist on YouTube and then Alicia Marie on Facebook. We got Spotify it's just under Alicia um Apple Music so any music platform is just under Alicia. Sometimes it's a little difficult to find but you put one of the titles of the songs on there and I pop right up yeah I had that problem this morning but no that's good. But Alicia spell A L E S H A just so everybody knows I mean it'll be on there too so I just want to Yeah it's a very unique spelling of it you know I don't think I know and I used to hate it I used to hate it until I finally mom I was like mom how'd you figure out this name I don't know I didn't know what your name was gonna be I popped the book open and the first name on there was Alicia and I thought it was cute. But you know what it came with I thought it was cute because so many people always thought it was A L I C I A. Yeah that's my sister's name but it's Alicia you know I love that it's different it was meant to be different.

SPEAKER_11 51:34

Well it's different because she Puerto Rican and she was like Alicia Alicia like what that's funny.

SPEAKER_09 51:43

That's funny because my sister's Alicia like spell how you said and people always try to call her Alicia she's like I'm not Alicia I'm Alicia she used to say all her whole life she used to do that I'm like that's crazy man.

SPEAKER_11 51:53

She probably stopped doing it after a while to this day to this day her grown ass excuse me excuse me it's it's Alicia Alicia every time my sister she a gangster bro I love people who do that bro like they'll like pause you mid sentence yeah like hey before we move on from this it's Alicia need you to get by name that's it I gotta bury my actual name is Michael so it's like everybody knows Michael. Everybody knows Michael for sure they don't say the last name right though no never La Fuentes right La Fuente like I get it I get every with my last name bro I get it all with the last name and then I also get to like La Fuentes was a prominent Mexican restaurant on the Southside. So like when I was younger everybody used to be like you know the people at the restaurant is your favorite like homet and I'm like I don't even know any of the and you know when you Hispanic and you got the same last name oh everybody related at that point you know I knew some Vargases in Connecticut how many Vargases there are in the fucking Latin fucking language bro they said what in the Intest looking that's crazy what the hellas that's right the the most that I hear is like you know what's crazy though is my Vargas is from Peru.

SPEAKER_09 53:12

So my dad and then you know my dad's Peruvian so that's where and then everybody always thinks I'm from somewhere else for my last name I'm like no that's from Peru and my mom's is Castro which is more Cuban damn yeah but she that's she from Puerto Rico so it's like it's crazy bro the misunderstanding is always there.

SPEAKER_11 53:30

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SPEAKER_03 54:19

Oh well we got uh Randy Randala who does my photography sounds good we've got QBP Kevin Silva who produces my music um hey anybody who I work with but those those are the main two who get my my work done so shout out to you guys for that Xavier for getting me on here and putting me on Spearhead.

SPEAKER_11 54:40

Big thanks I appreciate all of you guys yeah you know from how she was talking about how she wrote and all that shit I thought she was like I thank me I thank me too okay I won't be here too first and foremost shout out to you that would have been funny though yeah exactly first and foremost shout out to me we'll use it on the next interview shout out to me if I woke up tomorrow and chose myself instead of you if I woke up tomorrow would I know what to do to shadow you if I woke up tomorrow would I have to teach you how to love but I'm very like big on teamwork makes it dream work you know so like I always try to salute my team because you know it's very hard to do things on your own especially in this um you know creative field that we're in because there's so much that goes into it you know from a lot of work you know writing uh recording mixing mastering graphics you know people don't really don't realize what it takes to be an artist of our caliber so it's like when you have the team and then you know like we spoke on earlier about like things not falling through because people didn't um you know they didn't know how to separate stuff a lot of times things don't fall through because people don't like to give proper acknowledgement and you know I've seen that not personally but I've seen it with other people you know like they just like to take all the glory and just like bro you did not do that by yourself.

SPEAKER_09 56:20

Like why why are you ashamed to like put your team out there you know so um that's one thing that we try to take pride in here that's why like you know when I do the front uh the intro script you know we make sure to shout out SG Letho Heck you know just anybody who's a part of this because you know there's a lot that goes into being an artist and you know everybody deserves their shine absolutely it leaves my uh rehab with the business oh no I love that because I'll be I I'm fucking jaded I'll be I'll be I'll be stuck I he has to be like no bro don't don't even trip bro I'll be like no you know he gotta let me know because you know because that I believe in that too but I've been in that situation so much where it went not like that you know I mean yeah and it's like damn but shout out to Illy for putting me on the right path.

SPEAKER_11 57:08

He's just a little uh I would say like he's more cutthroat about the business you know so it's like once you fuck him over it's just like me too I'll just do it bro there's always somebody else who's willing to do your job even better.

SPEAKER_03 57:22

Yeah yeah yeah I ain't dwelling on nothing.

SPEAKER_09 57:24

It's just so many down payments I've put you know what I mean like so much down payments but no refunds or or full payments and I just don't get the 100% at the end I'm just like yeah but fucking with Illy this this whole setup having people like you come on everybody that shit has been wonderful. Uh I've been able to just focus on my role in the whole shit.

SPEAKER_10 57:45

So shout out to that and I love that and I hope you you continue to grow from that yeah hell yeah all right um let's move into this next section of the episode which is uh the MKE music review let's go by the way we already cued up my song I'm changing my song now that I know that wow uh her video was shot by Philly I want to play mine that was shot by Philly as well you know just to you know keep things cohesive yes you know give give the boy Philly some uh some love he deserves it he be working hard and and I love doing business with people who are there for business like I felt the same way when we did my music video like he came so ready and that's the type of guy I am like I'm like I'm ready you know like I do this and he did the same thing so I was like I've I really fucked with that and he took he definitely showed me a different way to approach the music videos as well he will sit there and pet talk you he sure will spit some game like hey you gotta be consistent in order to get this done I've never had the chance I've always wanted to but one day one day we're gonna do it this year he's amazing if I gotta help you we gonna do it I've been definitely been trying to get in the uh in the video from dog because I be having ideas yeah I know he'll be like oh shit yeah he'd be like hey bro you need a million dollars for that my ideas be crazy but I'm like bro what if we you know what I'm saying like what if we had me jumping off the building you know like on Eminem video he's gonna make it happen right he will make it happen I'm telling you I'm like you for real yes I told this nigga what I thought from my video and then this nigga sent me a script back and I'm like nigga how are we gonna do this I guess I gotta put extra money out of this is what I was thinking and then when we got there he was like no we could just do this and this and and then you know when the video was wrapped I was like I cannot believe it looks like how it looks with not having a fuck yeah you know what I'm saying like that's where things come naturally it was wild well shit without further ado fam this is Illy featuring Cory Piper make a way shot by Philly Flyboy let's get it shout out to Corey Piper one of my favorite Corey Piper versus too fucking away you make a way to get the way you make a way to fucking make a way to go to the burst in the bursty jump to the birth back to back I think I'm just putting it work that's Illy Illy who why is he using our studio? He's up and coming he's not up and coming here this studio is for exclusive that's a hundred and fifty thousand dollar microphone that's a ribbon microphone sorry bossy make away no destination this shit just the funniest shit about this video right was the part where I I jumped on um the four wheeler and I peeled off homie who's chasing me it it there was like a shitload of mud there.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:08

And you shot it at him he he came back that nigga was like fucking mud everywhere bro like he's basically black sauce crazy I love that yeah so like what he was able to do with the you know small budget that we had like it was crazy you know so real quick I never really noticed right I've watched that video probably like 12 times bro you stole the mic yeah okay I never I never noticed that a thousand dollar microphone that's crazy my slow ass the whole every time I watched it I was like oh he just got into it with dog and then I just noticed he was unscrewing it yeah it was a heist for the microphone because he said it's 150 000 okay I get it yep all right hey I'm honest at least I'm honest bro and I can admit hey I I missed him but I caught it though yep so you know that's what I sent them when I you know when I wrote the song he was like what's the concept of the video and I was like basically I'm thinking like gone in 60 seconds heist you know like we still am like you know and then he was like all right uh you got a studio we use I was like yeah at that time I was apprenticing um for an engineer like to be an engineer at a studio so I was like yeah you know we could use this studio they said it was cool and then you know it kind of just all fell into place from there you know and then shout out Eli for saying shout out Eli playing the uh head honcho boss you know he's his acting skills definitely on par Eli is a good video it was a good video thank you yeah that was not all right man this next one Alicia brought this one to our attention and I feel like we're about to be amazed because it was playing earlier when I was it was just playing in the background but I when I started paying attention I thought she was going crazy so this is Jonah Danae hopefully I said your name right I apologize if I didn't I think Janae Danae okay so it's Janae Danae okay I I hope so but then uh this is called last woman standing shot by Stearns it says let's go welcome to the all former for all alumni she's a poet she she's a poet but she be she be going in now lighting on the video immediately looks amazing beautifully lit scene let me find out that's actually her play to be card I grew up with a cold shoulder from my own father had to call him so that I promise I'ma make it out and I'ma take a spot and I'ma be the loudest like a father missing out on all the moments I'm the coldest I'm the one who won and I'm the one who talking fuck the moment fuck who throwing fake promoters for they fake imposing fuck who rode a form I'm approaching all opponents like a fucking method at the door like social working

SPEAKER_12 1:06:00

Comparing to a goat who really working for it. I could pour some life into them. I'm like support to all these souls. I keep them young. I open doors. So mostly boys they touchin' on can't touch a goat that's coming up at every door, like baby boys being born. I'm the one they fear might be coming. I'm the one bitches been overlooking. I'm the one they see and coming for. I'm the one they really hating on. I'm the one bitches upset about. And they in the house watching on a clout. And they wanna be me. The woman they dream, the woman they fiend, the woman they tease. I ain't grow up like other hoes who had easy. Callin' me, don't bother me. I'm on a mission. Any minute they get you, that's where I'm giving. I maintenance like I'm main it and I'm patient. Catonize the Carolina car lebrian hiding out in a high flying. That's a far from death. That's Kobe Bryan. Oh, show they beyond, bitches. Ice spikes hardly carry knowledge, but they pock and watch, wonder how I do it, bitch. I'm getting for it. Yeah, you had your turn. Had your foot indoors that they handed to you, but I hustle mines and I earn a fortune catching bodies. Now I'll call it Jeffrey Donna. You answer me when I talk to you. Say my AP, really get into it. I'm just being me till they tune into it. I'ma play a movie, start a revolution. Fuck if you ain't moving, I was crossing home. But I'm walking bitches on their law enforcement. I've been disappointed, cause they hear my noise. No, I'm working for her, bitch twerking for it. Not a purpose for it. I've been looking for it. See his levels too and I'm the highest floor. See, I'm lyrical, and they'll call it boring. Let's I'm popping pussy. But that's really kinda got it dumbing down for bitches crying to read. Cause they crashin' dummies, and I gotta be bitches motivation.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:15

Fucking bars, bro.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:17

Bars and make it happen. So they up and wait to a legendary story of how the fuck she made it.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:29

Bro, the creativity is through the fucking charts.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:32

I've never met her, but I actually heard of her through Spearhead as well. And when I I added her on Facebook, she's a poet, like she's real, just like she's real as fuck on her pocket. That was fucking hair.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:44

If she wrote that to that beat, that's insane. I think because to go so hard on something so soft, yeah. That's wild.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:53

I like I'll be that shit be blowing my mind when people think.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:55

Women's history month.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:57

I feel like I write to the like, you know, and like because I'm one of those syllable, yeah. So like I almost not that I need it, but it's like I at least imagine that. And on that I couldn't even catch it, right? But she she did her shit though. It wasn't that shit was great, bro.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:13

Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. Like, if she wrote that to that beat, because I I've done I've done tracks where I like I've wrote something, like the freestyle that I spit on here was actually written to a different beat than I produced, you know. And I was like, oh well, this beat is you know, is I like it a little better over this beat. So that's yeah, it just has had a little more character to it or whatever. And it kind of slowed it down a little bit to like help um people catch the bars because the beat that I made for it, it was a lot faster that the tempo was up more, easily missed the bars. Um, but if she wrote that to that beat, that's wild.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:43

Yeah, she told me I gotta check her page out.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:45

That was fire. That was fire. Welcome to the alumni. You've officially been played on here. Now I'm gonna, you know, when me and Illy hear shit like that, we're like, all right, now we gotta go check her out. Like, yeah, where are you from, bro? Where are you doing that shit? Well, obviously she's from here, but but shout out to uh Janae Danae, and I hope I'm saying it right. I hope right me too.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:03

I think it is if we're saying it wrong, we're about to learn. Yes, we're definitely about to be checking out.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:08

No bullshit, no bullshit. But shout out to that hometown pick. All right, mine is Mo City. I fuck with dogs so tough. Ever since I heard that pinky record, yeah, from him in Paper Stacks, bro. I fuck with Mo City, and then it's funny because that record is kind of not out of their wheelhouse, but it's a different, you know, vibe almost. Yeah. To when you listen to him rap, you're like, oh shit. So this is the the one I just seen him on Instagram, he was going crazy. It's called Sunny Day by Mo City and Zambino, Zambino, Zambino. Now we got uh pronunciation issues. Yeah, but Mo City, let's get it, fam.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:51

Sunny Day.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:59

Sunny day, I let my top back be down low. I'm feeling like a king. My monster is put on my blow. I do not condone, I gave a right back to the tweet. I don't need those, I'm closing for the building that's kind of brought to the tweet. Baby with D L D Right. So my head is for the kids. Like I'm stuck in the coolity, get it for it. Like my daddy, I'm gonna get the modest. I'm gonna case in the face to take it up with the bonus. And the other we had to be quite in the modus. Take a green cut in modest. Any day for the core.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:23

Any day, filling like a clean one is fanny babies, sticking it, sticking for spending, spinning money, money. Like I'm gonna win a game, money, honey, come on, money, standing on when I get it off and black and free, step in the building, ghost and black ghost and green like a club, money wrong. They dig in them ballin' them litter mum, smellin' money and fillin' mum. Bitch of the bitch, don't live. I'm in this in none of my situations, mate. I'm a fake, but I'ma still make a game like mine belong on the lakers. I'm a bitch taken, I mean the wrist taken. I'ma double breed with a mother makeup. I'm the best rappin' in the realist nigga feelin' like a king. I'ma kill a nigga straight on the beat with a million niggas like I'm wild and get it, nigga by the tapin' with the filling niggas. I'ma see this nigga, but a little different can't stop till we get them bigger figures and I make all my niggas rich niggas. They don't get it, nigga.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:23

So, definitely going in the lady, I'm gonna deed this to moist. I run with some kings who pushing the pace, you think I'm talking to bonus. I know my girl love me, but paranoid is out here making low rider music.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:34

Yeah, I know my girl love me, but paranoid got me questioning motives. I love that. That shit was that shit was fly, bro. Uh the first person was uh the Zambino Zambino dude. Uh whoever. I I I don't know your name, sorry, bro. But uh Mo City was the second one, so that's who I was uh uh intention or originally trying to focus on. Uh focus on, yeah. Man, I can my last words he's dope. Yeah, yeah, but shout out to them. And then it they bring that that feeling, they do that a lot. And I remember when I found out about them, they did the uh rooftop freestyle. It was him and paper stacks, and they there it was a song like this, though it wasn't like the pinky record. And I just love that we have that in the city, bro, so like it's here, you know what I mean? Like it's something we can offer to the whole world, right? You know, and then they fuck with like Larry Boole tough and shit like that. So shout out to them, bro.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:25

Yeah, I fuck with it. Um I gotta say it because I thought about it as the um record was playing, but uh, you know, the homie She Farah dropped his uh It's Love Though album um probably a couple weeks ago. Have you listened to the album?

SPEAKER_09 1:13:43

Yeah, I listened to it. I ran through it.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:45

Yeah, there's a lot of samples on there, you know. Yeah, the beats is crazy on that. You know, so shout out to him, you know, putting work out. You know, don't don't take it like we uh ain't shouting out and we ain't looking to for the work, you know what I'm saying? So uh, but yeah, uh when I was listening to the track, I'm like, yeah, this definitely uh it reminds me of just what what he brought to his album. So yeah, shout out Shifar and it's love though album. Next, we're gonna move on to the topic portion. Uh first topic we got will dream chasers be the new upper class?

SPEAKER_09 1:14:24

This one right here, right? Yep. All right, let me get it together because you know Instagram always played me, you see? Every time. All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:33

This is what I'm trying to tell y'all. We are in a dreamer's economy right now. It is better off for you to chase your dreams. The traditional routes have become too traditional. The numbers are there, and there are too much of them. Too many of us now have degrees. Too many of us are now going to grad school, and too little of us have experience doing dream chasing is just a matter of doing. It's often a doing that is non-traditional because we refer to these things as dreams. But dreams become a reality every day for the ambitious. And when you are ambitious, you can make your dreams a reality. And that ambition is necessary in where we are at now because what has traditionally led to prosperity no longer is that. You have to do untraditional things to get the traditional prosperity. And what that means is first of all, you have to get used to chasing things. You have to get used to being consistent, you have to get used to just doing it because it's what you want to do until you get paid to do it. You have to chase the dream. And the thing that people say is usually chase your dreams. And that is the value of dreams. Traditionally, you were one-trapped. You go to school, you go to grad program, or you go to school and you go straight to work and you have a career. That is your life. But when you have dreams, dreams plural, you can carry out multiple different plots at multiple different times of your life. And that's what you need to do at the current state of where we are right now. It is no longer work for one company, go home, retire, and have a good life. No, you are going to have to be a dreamer because we are now in a dream-based economy. People want influential people, people want people with belongings to represent them. People want people that are not one-track-minded, people want people with multiple different skills that they developed on their own regard, not because a teacher was telling them to, not because an assignment deadline was telling them to, but because it was their own genuine passion. And when you enter a space with passion, not because you want to fulfill somebody else's purpose, you will have more success in it and you will be more audacious in the chances you take with it and the opportunities you reach for while in it. And because you have multiple dreams, there is never a moment to where you reach the apex of something like people do when they climb the corporate ladder and there's nothing else there to do. When you have dreams, once you achieve one thing, you can go off and go to the next. For example, right now I'm a content creator, but I'm also in law school. I have two dreams running simultaneously, and I have many more I have yet to achieve because I understand that just doing one thing is no longer enough. Yes, it's impressive, but it's hard to impress people these days because all of us are impressive. Many people have exactly what you have.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:20

Yeah. I've been waiting to use this real. And I was like, yeah, okay, we're gonna use this with her, you know, because like I said prior in the episode, you know, like you're a very passionate person when you hear your music, you know? So it's like, what are your thoughts on this topic?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:39

I had a question because I think there were a lot of beautiful, valid points. But when it says is the new upper class, like what does that actually mean? Because a lot of people will still fulfill all their dreams and forget about upper class. They still want to stay humble where they're at. Like, what is that?

SPEAKER_09 1:17:55

Well, go ahead, guys. So to me, to me, I call bullshit on the new upper class statement. I think that the upper class has always been people that just do shit. It's always been the people that don't fucking go to school. That all the people, the most rich people in the world right now, the 1% of the 1%, probably none of them have ever fucking went to get a degree in anything. They just fucking did it. They were like, we're gonna do this, we're gonna move this this way, this is what I want to do, I'm doing it.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:22

Or played the system.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:23

Or they played the system, but either way, they didn't go the traditional. I think the traditional route, that's some bullshit. That's that's what that's why I'm saying I'm calling bullshit on the new upper class statement.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:33

When when she uses upper class, I think she's referring to like you know, because you got your poor, and then you used to have a middle class, and then you used to have an upper class, and then you have your elites with our which are like the top 1%. Those are not upper class, those are like elites. Now it's just elites, upper class, which are like you're famous, and then right now there's barely any middle class. There's just like not extremely poor, you know.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:07

Yeah, you can pay your bills, but you're not you know, like you're not extremely poor, you got a car, yeah, you know. Yeah, you're just paying bills, bro.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:13

Yeah, you can tell you.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:14

And then there's homeless, you know, and then like we just skipped poor and went straight to homeless, you know.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:19

Like, but but my my point remains with what he said though. Yeah, if you're famous, that's that's people who just do what they fucking want, you know. That they're chasing the dream of doing what they want to do. So that's why that new upper class shit to me is like, I know it wasn't.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:36

Yes. So I was thinking money, like you know, money and dreams. Like a lot of people's dreams don't even make money back, they just make them happy, like they don't feel them as a person, but don't give them financially what they what they're looking for, what they need.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:48

You know, so what but what I took from this was um, you know, I I don't know if you're too into conspiracy theories. I don't mean heccar. Um but a conspiracy theory that you know is kind of playing out in real time is like within the next 20 to 30 years, you know, we're gonna start seeing a lot of unemployment, you know, and people not knowing how to fill that time, you know. But a lot of the artists who are out here, you know, making a way for themselves and they know multiple different um revenue streams or like ways to like you know turn something into nothing, they're gonna be the people who are not struggling through that time without work, you know. And one of the things that I had um thought about was within the next like 30 years or something, they predict is like universal income, which is like when people, you know, when AI like fully takes over, like they already got like fucking um semi-trucks that drive themselves, and you know, like they got like robot waiters and shit like that, you know. So when all that starts to take over, there's gonna be a lot of people without jobs, you know, which when there's a lot of people without jobs, everybody can't be poor, you know. So like there has to be a universal income, you know, and they've already started like pricing that out and shit like that. So, you know, when that comes in, the people who are receiving the universal income, they're gonna be like lower class, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:21

Which they're just living on universal income because they didn't really learn how to do anything else, you know, because they were conditioned to do something else, the same thing that everyone else is doing, right?

SPEAKER_11 1:21:30

You know, and if everybody's like you said, conditioned to do the same things, now that they're gonna have to waste like 10 to 15 years to learn something new in that time, which the people who have who have already been trying to learn things are gonna skyrocket past them, you know. So they're gonna be what she's referring to as the new upper class because like that's when artistry, um, whether it be like singers, songwriters, um, you know, people who paint, all these kind of things are gonna become more valuable. You know, like I strolled across a reel where it was talking about um, you know, although AI is able to write songs, and although AI is able to perform songs, I guess, or like they're able to make full songs using AI, that's only gonna make singers more valuable because now you're paying to watch an actual person because they're an actual person and not an AI.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:29

But you see how it still like separates. You do have the AI coming up and doing what it does, but it does separate the people who are putting in the work and the the AI.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:38

But honestly, if you see a lot of the new generation, they're already catching on to that, and people are becoming influencers, becoming because I was wondering, she said that not only was she a lawyer, but she was also an influencer. Right. At what point do people wake up and say that they want to be an influencer as a dream? Yeah, I mean, not too many until they see the numbers. It's not until you see the numbers and until you the money starts coming into your pocket that you're like, oh yeah, this is a dream. But in reality, like I feel like influencing at some point people doing influencing like was called lazy back in the day. Was called lazy, you know, and now that it people see that it's starting to pay off, people are catching on, and now people are using it to their advantage. But it definitely separates AI and putting in the work still, like you just said, the it'll separate the singer-songwriter or the artist or versus the AI. Like there's no credibility there.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:31

Yeah, you know what I want, bro? I want to fucking, I'm gonna I'm gonna put a reality reality check. Because I fuck with everything y'all saying. But in what you were saying, if everybody's on universal income, you're not making money because nobody can pay for your shit to buy it. So really you almost have in more more danger because you're trying to do something that's not valuable to people in a physical sense, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_11 1:23:57

Like, well, universal income, they gotta it has to be priced to because then you get revolt. You know, if you don't price it to where people can, you know, pay all their bills and stuff like that, and then also have enough to kind of live comfortably and to where they can like especially now, we're we're more like um we buy things that don't matter more than ever. Okay, that's what I'm saying. If if people aren't able to kind of continue that, then you know it's not gonna be long before you know we're bossed at the tea party up at this bitch, you know.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:31

So no, we we've been past that point. That's what I'm trying to say is that we've been past the point COVID happened, nothing, nobody did shit, bro. Nobody did nothing about this shit.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:39

Well, think about COVID though. When they when COVID happened, they started sending out money immediately.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:45

Fake money, that's what I'm saying, though. When when that facade runs out, which is gonna run out sooner than later, when that money that they falsely printed up, which they've been falsely printing up since fucking 1960, yeah, when that shit runs up, bro, when the jig is up, when the rest of the world, which is already on there, that's why we fucking going to war with everybody. Yeah, all we all we have is our strength now. All we have is hey, we could fucking kill all of y'all in one go. And even now, motherfuckers is like, yeah, just do it then. You know what I'm saying? So when that facade runs out, bro, it ain't no we could just print money like, man, COVID showed us, bro, they could do what they want and nobody's gonna do shit about it. Everybody shut the fuck up. There was a couple white militias and shit in Michigan, they had their guns and shit, but they ain't do shit. They they fucking nothing happened, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:31

And it's all part of the agenda, yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This is where upper class versus lower class starts to come in. That's where my questions were coming in. Cause I'm like, this we are like an experiment for the upper class, and this is an agenda. So yeah, after COVID hit, that was already the elite. The elite, you know, that's the upper class, though. That's the same. There's like Kevin Hartner.

SPEAKER_11 1:25:51

You know, or like just famous person upper class where they got millions or multi-millions, but then there's like fucking Steve Jobs upper class, you know, or fucking, you know, Tesla upper class, you know, these motherfuckers, Elon Musk, like these niggas got billions, or there's even people that got trillions, you know, like and we're still part of their agenda. Yeah, we're still part of their agenda.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:12

And then and none of them niggas listen to rap. Right. Or RB. And then they don't give a fuck about so.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:17

Well, my point is like the the upper class famous people, they're even part of the agenda. You know what I'm saying? Oh, for sure, yeah. Yeah, because you gotta have some of them.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:25

Well, because you gotta give a few people a little something so everybody shut the fuck up. Otherwise, if you just treat everybody, they're like, wait a minute, which is my point in the whole thing. This what she says sounds good in a world where the money and the system we're on right now continues, but our shit is crash course right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:44

Realistically, yep.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:45

Realistically, in the real world, bro, the American way of life and everything that they say is our way of life, that shit is fucking crashing to the ground right now, man. Like we we we're living it because we we have to. You know, we have to, we got these cameras, we got everybody's dress nice, everybody took a shower today, everybody ate, we got food over there. Because you know why we we do that is because they put it out there for us to buy, because they want the money that they can make from it, which is fake money, which is fucking crazy. We're the experiment, but I do get the point of this. So ideally, let's just say now I'm switching from reality to the ideal. Ideally, fuck yeah, chase the dream, do what you want. Because if you don't do it, you're just gonna be standing on the sideline watching somebody else do it while you work for somebody else. That did it. So whoever you're working for did it. Yeah, whatever, whoever, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Hey, I want to fucking own a factory, and then now you in the factory and shit, and you're doing the job for the person who was like, I'm just gonna do it. And then they turn around and tell you, hey, you need a uh four year college degree and three years experience. I know you're 19, but I know you're 19, but you need three years' experience, a four year college degree to work for me in a factory where you don't need shit but your hands. Like, what the fuck are you talking about, bro? Like, yeah, you need an engineering. Degree. I want you to be able to fix the machine you're working on.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:03

What the fuck? Instead of experiencing it to learn it. I don't know if you guys seen that video like that goes around, but it talks about like spiritually, ideas are never yours. Ideas float around and they and they they're waiting for somebody to pick up the ideas and put it to work. Your ideas really are not yours, your dreams are yours, right? But your ideas that you come up with, that's why I said today you could want something and tomorrow another idea might pop in and you got another one. You know, you gotta take it and you gotta go with it.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:28

Exactly. That's what Leto says all the time. He'll say it all the time. Like anything you think of has already been thought of before.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:34

It's waiting for somebody to snatch it up and do it.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:36

And really do it.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:38

And not even only that, is like the universe, like, because there's people out here who have great ideas and they're not motivated enough. Or yeah, they'll never accomplish them. And the universe is gonna find a way to bring that idea to fruition if it's gotta take it to somebody else, or that's how we got the news, bro.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:54

Yeah, yeah, someone's got the mind to exit.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:56

There was some fucking, what's his name? Steve Wojowski or whatever. He was in there fucking I forgot his name. I don't know his name. Steve himself like Jowski. Something like that. No, no, it's the other nigga, not Steve. The other dude. His name's Steve, too, I think. The one who did the fucking computers or whatever. Yeah, it's that's their mind. But anyway, but he was the nigga in the garage that built the computer, the the motherboard and shit. Steve Jobs was just like, I can make this look really sleek and serve it to the world. Oh, you know what? We should put a clear colored back on the computer, and people are fucking, and people are like, I warn it, give it to me$1,500. Yeah. To this day, nigga, I love the the look of Mac shit. Like just the way it looks, I love it, bro. They got a Microsoft computer right now that looks just like a MacBook because of the way it looks, you know.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:46

Side note, do you guys remember being in school with the fucking big ass Apple computers? They were all different colors and shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:54

Hey, those are the best.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:56

That was the coolest shit. Couldn't do nothing on that motherfucker.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:59

Right.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:01

The Macintosh, yeah. It wasn't even Apple. It was Apple Macintosh.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:05

Oh my gosh. That's wild.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:08

All right, so still chase your dreams, though, until the shit collapse, nigga. That's the whole point. Just wait, wait for it to collapse to snap, is what I was saying.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:14

We'll know when we know. Then you got then you gotta fight in the revolution. All right, so let's move on to this next topic. Um, this one is some opportunities can't wait for you to prepare for them. You just gotta take the leap. That's cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:31

So there's a guy named Benny Medina. Benny Medina is actually the real live fresh prince of Bel Air. Benny had gone from Wallace to Beverly Hills. He pitched me to show. I was like, yeah, yeah, okay, that's cool. And he invited me to Quincy's house. It was Quincy's birthday after the Soul Train Music Awards. I was in Tim, I was just going to meet Quincy. So we got the show. Quincy. It's like there's very few things more powerful than just go. You know, it's like you have the dream, the opportunity's there. Just go. Sorry to go.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:33

Big facts. We'll let you speak on that first.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:36

Well, I thought that was amazing because it's true. Uh some opportunities can't wait, like for you to prepare for them. Um, for example, the Telemundo thing came up. Quick. Can we have you in next week? Yes. Yes, whether I was prepared for it or not. You cannot sleep on certain things, but I also say that it's also an energy an energy thing as well. You will feel when it's for you, and you will also feel when it is not for you. So it is very important that you use your discernment and are able to tell the difference on that. He knew he was in an opportunity and he said, you know what? I gotta do it. I gotta do it. Now I haven't been in too many opportunities, right, where they're just on spot. Um, but I I absolutely have felt when it was certain things were for me.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:24

I don't think I ever uh necessarily felt that way, but I have felt not too. I was like, nah, this doesn't feel right. I gotta get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:32

I went to an open mic, and the whole as soon as I went into the room, like the energy was off. Like I felt prepared and I felt like I was ready. I dressed for the par, I everything, but it just wasn't hitting the way that it was supposed to. There was so much pressure behind my back, like I just knew it wasn't, you know, you have to be able to use that discernment. You know, your discernment is what's right and what's and what's wrong. And I just I was I just knew it wasn't for me. And absolutely that thing like collapsed. Like two months later, that the the whole business went to shit afterwards. It's not even a thing no more. It wasn't even a thing. You have to be able to tell when that feels good, right?

SPEAKER_09 1:34:12

When you're like, I fucking knew.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:13

Hell yeah. I knew it was so much pressure, like I kept being tapped in the shoulder. Like, I just it was just too much. I even left like mid, you know, because I'm I don't stay in places I don't feel comfortable at. So, you know, but that is a very valuable lesson. Like he said, it's it's a beautiful thing, and you'll know, you'll know when it's for you and when it's not.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:30

I I think when it's on the spot, when shit happens naturally, and you you know, you were just there, he was like, he said, everybody that needs to say yes to this show is right here. Cash credit in this room. Like at that point, you like, oh well, I gotta fucking yeah, you I gotta fucking say so. I gotta do what I gotta do because it's right now, and then I didn't plan is what I'm saying. Right, I didn't come here with the intention to do what you're telling me to do. Sometimes you gotta like look into that real quick, like, all right, fuck it, I just gotta do it. But like I like I said, usually when I plan for shit, that's when the shit be the most off anyway. Like, oh, I want to plan to do this, and it's gonna be like this, and it's gonna do this, and I just can't wait for it to fucking happen, and then you get to the situation, you're like, Oh, this ain't going anything like I wanted it to. That's usually because it's not right, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_11 1:35:17

Yeah, big facts.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:18

Also, Will Smith got the fucking shit died out of his beard, bro. I had to say that I'm watching, I'm like, ain't no way, and nigga, I'm I'm fucking 37 and my shit. I got grades and it's got me fucked up.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:35

But like just thinking of, you know, if he did not take that opportunity, we would not have had one of the fresh prints of belly shows of our childhood, like, you know, that is ever fucking grace the networks. That's one of the most dominant shows that is like I learned so much growing up from that show. Um and you know, I've been in that same pos Yeah, I've been in that same position, you know. Like, that's how this came to be, you know. Like I just I felt like I had the idea and I just kind of sat on it for a while, and then like once I saw the all the pieces that were in place, I was like, nigga, I gotta jump on this shit now. Cause if I don't jump on it now, it's gonna fucking something's gonna come up and then it's gonna keep getting pushed back and then it's never gonna happen. You know, so like I just jumped on it, and ever since we started, this podcast has just been up from there, you know. And you know, even today is a testament to that, you know. Like we walked in today, you know, saw some um occurrences that we didn't expect, you know, and we're just like, well, shit, all the people that we need to make this happen for is here now, and we don't know when's the next opportunity. So we're just gonna fucking try to get through it and you know make it happen, you know. So um that's gonna conclude this podcast. Thank you so much for you know just being open to being on the podcast and bringing your energy and um just your talent to the city and everything that you stand for is you know it's phenomenal and it doesn't go unnoticed. And you know, I'm grateful to like know you as an artist. Um, I've already shared your music with a couple of people at the gym and they're in love with it as well. So um keep doing what you're doing. You're doing a phenomenal job. And if there's ever a way that we can help and you know, have you back on the podcast and just you know um offer you know people that we might know to you, you know, don't be don't be afraid to hit us up.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:33

Okay, and thank you for having me. And we're working on that feature still. Don't forget, okay? Don't forget. Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. You guys are dope as fuck, and hey, have me back whenever you guys want.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:45

Nice. Any last words?

SPEAKER_09 1:37:49

No, I'll go try to say so. I'll wait for the end then.

unknown 1:37:53

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:54

So that concludes this episode of the all 414 podcast brought to you by Illy, Street Team Hectic, Third War Studios, SG Films, and our guest for episode 33, Alicia. If you haven't already, we encourage you to take a moment to subscribe to our channel, like this video, and leave us a comment about the topic that interests you the most. Thank you for watching and come back for the next episode of the All Four One Four All Podcast.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:29

Don't dye your beard.