Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Corpus Christi Originals here. Which one am I looking at Miah. This one here.
Right or left? Which one?
Corpus Christi Originals, y'all. Here at back at it again episode. I don't know which episode it is, but we got one of the OGs here. Yeah, one of the veterans.
Mista Play Boy. What's going on, man?
[00:00:16] Speaker B: What's going on, brother?
[00:00:17] Speaker A: Dude, nice to finally meet you, man.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Yes, sir.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's an honor, man.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: My pleasure.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I started my brand, and then that's when I found out about you, to be honest.
And I looking around, I was like, is there anybody else in town doing it? You've been doing it since 13.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: 2013.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: 2013.
You way, it's like. Like everything.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: The clothing I've been doing since 23.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Right on. Yeah, I'm always late to the game, bro.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: My life so good, man. I'll be late to my own funeral.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: So. Yeah, so that's how I came out. Came out, found out about you. And then I recently heard about the you on the right and high podcast and which. You guys go check it out if you haven't checked it out.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: Yeah, man.
So you've been doing a lot of stuff in the city, man, just from listening to that try to.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet. I've buried a lot of people, you know, so it's. I look at it as where I'm from, I mean, my life could have gone a lot of different ways, you know, I'm saying, soldiers, I wake up every day blessed, man. I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that my kids are good, you know, my family's good. A lot of my closest friends are good, and, you know, every day I wake up, I just, you know, thank the man above that I'm still here, man.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Because, again, where I'm from, life could have gone a lot of different ways. There's a lot of people that never really got to see a lot, you know? I mean, so, yeah.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: How's it going, Francesca? Thank you for joining, mama. Yeah. So when you say that, you mean, like, people that you grew up with in on the west side of town, right?
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Not just growing up, but I mean, I'm just talking about people that I've met along the way that, you know, are considered my best friends. You know what I mean? I buried my best friend when I was 23 years old. He was 27. You know, I recently buried another good friend of mine last year, you know, and these are people that you know, you hang out with every day, you do business with every day, and you just never know that you're gonna do that, you know? So it's, it's kind of, it's, it's kind of put me on a.
How can I say? It's, it's, it's kind of just kept me on a straight arrow, man, you know, to not try to get caught up in the bullshit and everything like that. So. So I can cuss on here, right?
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Okay. Cuz I got, I got a mouth.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Like, I don't cuss. And people hear me not cussing. They're like, that's just how I talk about.
Yeah, no, shoot, man.
That makes me like, how so how does that. I know you said it helps you to, like, rise, fly straight, but how does, when stuff like that happens in your life, how does it affect your decision making from then on?
[00:03:05] Speaker B: I'm saying at this point, I mean, it's gonna sound crazy, but I'm to the point, man, where I'm already kind of, like, immune to it.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: Yeah, it's, it kind of started when I buried my best friend, Mark Casanova. Um, because, again, I wasn't equipped to, you know, I had never buried a best friend, you know what I mean? And, and it's. And I think it's a little bit different of when you, like, you know, bury a grandparent or something like that, or an uncle or, you know, something, you know, it, to me, it was a little bit different because this is a person, you know, like I said, when I, in the midst of, like, in my music career, you know, we had certain goals, and we're certain we were doing certain things, whatever. And then, you know, he went into the hospital, and he was in there for, like, one week, man. And then I remember just saying, like, hey, I'll be right back, or whatever, and then from 1 hour to the next, just things changed, and he passed away from the moment that I left the hospital. So.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: So he. You had a relationship with him, and like you were saying, like your aunt or your uncle, you really don't have that much.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: No, I do. No, no, no. Don't get me wrong. Like, I have, like, I'm just saying that it's, it was a little bit different for me because it, it kind of showed me that, you know, life is short, and, you know, we, as people, take it for granted at certain points, you know what I'm saying? And it just kind of, it, it kind of opened my eyes, but then it also made me kind of pull myself away from everybody, you know, even my kids at a certain point. Like, it made me feel like I. I couldn't get close to anything because I felt like if I get close to it, I'm gonna lose it anyway. Oh, yeah. I still kind of think like that, to be honest, on certain things. Like, that's why my attitude is just kind of like, yeah, whatever.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: But it's also the Sagittarius of me, but, yeah, but I do think about stuff like that. My attitude is like that with a lot of different stuff. I don't. I try not to stress shit. I don't. I don't. You know, I don't try to, like, dwell over shit. You know, I've took my losses like everybody else, but at the same time, like, I don't. In my day to day, I don't have time to sit and bitch and complain about it, you know? If I do, it's for about 5 seconds, and then I just got to keep moving, you know?
[00:05:27] Speaker A: The mind of a hustler.
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much. That's all I know, to be honest. I mean.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: And hustling comes in a hundred different ways. That's what people don't understand about it. But, I mean, that's all I know, bro. I don't. I mean, I stopped working at nine to five when I was, like, 22 years old.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: What do you mean, 100 different ways?
[00:05:43] Speaker B: I mean, everybody's selling something when you think about it. You know what I mean? You go to church every Sunday. Somebody's on the. On that platform selling you, you know, a pill of hope, you know what I mean? There's people selling banana bread in Walmart, you know, know, us with clothing and, you know, music, car insurance, you know, it's just everybody selling something, bro. You know what I mean? So it's like, that's why I always try to tell people, and even, you know, people younger than me that don't really have an outlook on shit is just like, man, if you can find something that you're good at, find a niche in it, and. And if it's profitable, I mean, just stick with it, you know? But I think what it is is that a lot of people have the mentality that just because you put money on the table, that you're automatically going to become a millionaire overnight. And. And that that's just not the perception that you got to look at, you know?
[00:06:37] Speaker A: So people don't see the trial and error either?
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Oh, no. Not even people want quick money. That's what it is. You know? And I've just always been around people that have always just been 100% with me, have never, like, sold me a wolf ticket, you know, whether it be a family member, like. Like I said, one of my close friends. Like, I think that's why, too. I I stay humble, and I stay with the attitude that I have, because if I was sitting on this platform right now and I'm acting like somebody that I'm not, and I'm. And I'm like, oh. Trying to make myself look like this, and I. Trust me, man, when I walk out this room, I'll get a phone call and be like, bro, why the fuck you up?
[00:07:18] Speaker A: You know? So.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: And I don't doubt those are the people that I grew up around. You know what I mean? So it was just.
That's just how I am.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: And if you do that, it's. It's flimsy. Like, you feel that it's flimsy.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Well, there's only.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: There's a fall over.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: There's two sides to a fence, you know? I mean, you can be on the one that's real, and you could be on the one that. Bullshit, if you think about it, you know? That's the way I look at it. You know? I mean, it's. You gonna. So all that. Fake it till you make it, man.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: It's cool.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: It was cool in the past, but I think we're in it. We're in a world now to where it's like, who really fucking cares at this point? You know what I'm saying? Like, if I'm not a pocket watcher, I don't count other people's money. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of people that do that shit, and I think what it is is they. You fall down a rabbit hole. And that's what social media is, as well. You know? Right now, there's people putting their whole business on Facebook, but if you commented a comment, they'll turn around and be like, stay the fuck out of my business. And it's like, you just put your business on Facebook.
You know what I mean? So it's kind of, like, fucking stupid, but, you know, come a long way from there, huh?
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Yeah, we're kind of, like the same age, man. Oh, my God.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I just turned 38, ma'am. Still looking 21.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Yeah, bro. Yeah. I'll be 42 in November, man.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: So that's what happens when, you know, you don't do drugs and you don't drink every day, all day, and pop pills on shit. You know, you get the clean face.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: I know motherfuckers my age and they look 60, bro. I'm just like, damn, boy, stay up the lean and pills, man.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Them cigarettes will do people dirt, man. I've seen.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: I've seen some people that I, you know.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: I'm not gonna go too in depth with it, but I've seen some people that I know on the. On the. On the jail app, and I'm like, God damn, y'all look old as shit. Y'all are only 30. Like, stay off the drugs, man. Like, God crazy. Like, whatever they're taking, I don't want it. You know what I mean?
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Well, yeah, yeah.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: I really dig your, like, your work ethic. Just listening to that podcast and just meeting you now. Yeah. And seeing all the stuff that you're doing, man, and that you have been doing. Like, damn, where does that come from? And then I know you mentioned your mom and your dad in the podcast, which, I don't know, did you learn it from them or.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: Or, um, my.
I would say the work ethic.
I got a lot from my pops, cuz my dad, from not just having a regular job. My dad is one of those people that can fix anything, can do anything, you know? And he's really, really good at it.
And even when he worked his. His regular job with the school district, like, on the weekends, if somebody was like, hey, can you do this for me? Do that? I'm like, oh, yeah, whatever. If you wanted to, right? And, you know, my dad stays busy. Like, my dad's retired now, and it's hard. It's hardly that. You'll see him sitting down.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: You know what I mean? My mom is the same way now they're both retired and. But they're just always constantly moving.
I think.
I think the way my dad looks at it is like, if he just sits down and does nothing, it's just. Life's just gonna just pass you by quicker than what it would be if you're actually doing stuff, you know what I mean? But I get a lot of my hustling from him, just from seeing him do multiple different things and just, you know. You know, never really sitting down. And that's why I don't, you know, one, I like expensive stuff to my kids. Like expensive stuff. And it's just all. I know, man, I just. And in the world that I'm in, I mean, again, I don't work in a regular nine to five, you know, I don't wake up at 730 in the morning, be at work at eight, and then I get off at eight, five. You know, there's some days, bro, I don't even go to sleep till six in the morning.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: From the moment that I wake up, you know, I mean, so it's a lot of shit, you know, so.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: So you like that lifestyle do when he chose it, you're like, yeah, this is what I want.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: I mean, I, you know what's so crazy? It's, you know, because a lot of people have asked me that before, but I could never sit back and bitch and complain about something that I chose to do.
I mean, that's like being, you know, if I signed up to be a truck driver and then I'm complaining like, oh, shit, I'm never home. It's like, well, shit, you signed up for it. You know what I mean? So I can never sit. I. All I've ever wanted to do was rap. That's all I've ever wanted to do. Yeah, I played sports in junior high. I only did it because, you know, all my other friends were doing it. My pops, you know, enjoyed watching me do it or whatever, and, you know, but once that shit was over and I got into high school, I didn't care about anything else, bro. I wasn't trying to be a part of no groups. I wasn't trying to be the basketball team, football team on that shit. All I wanted to do was rap and do music. So, yeah, that's all I ever wanted to do.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: And you said one of your influence was, was your brother who was in actually a metal band.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, my older brother, which is, well.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Totally different side of the musical spectrum, I guess you could say. Mm hmm. So. And then you wrote poetry. You started writing poetry at one point.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I used to write poetry in school, and that's when I kind of learned that I was able to put words together. I'm pretty good, but I got a lot of my influence from my older brother, my, my older brother and my second older brother. So it's, it's four of us all together. I'm the baby out of my brothers. Um, so my, my older brother, my second older brother, um, they did heavy metal music. My third brother didn't do no music. He was more into, like, in the business side of things with stuff that he chose to do. So he was really good of doing with all that. So my two older brothers, but my, my brother Julian was always into, like, hip hop. So a lot of the first, like, rap albums and stuff that I actually listened to was from him. You know, things like that. But I grew up on everything from Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Sepattuda to, you know, Selena lived right down the street from me, so listening to spanish music to just regular pop. So, I mean, I'm. I listened to it all, man.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Yeah, right on. Thanks a lot, Garza, for the. For the. For the stuff that. There's a chat right there. Appreciate you, Garza.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Shout out to them.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: He said, keep up the good work.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: I appreciate it, boss man.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah, that's awesome.
So, thinking about. Yeah. So you grew up in Molina. Mm hmm. And then I heard you on the hot 97. You were rapping on there. First thing you said, it was like.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Motown, West Point, multi west haven't.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And I even know I'm not from the west side. I grew up central, east, southeast, whatever.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: What we consider the good part of town.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the nice part of town.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: At least for the.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: That's what we would always put in Hispanic. That's what we always like. Oh, you live on the side. You're on the good part of town, bro. Yeah, yeah. I mean, ain't no way around it. You was on the good side of part of town.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Yeah. So when he said that, I was like, West Haven. That has to be something over there on the. So I even looked it up on the map, bro. Right. West Haven park.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Well, that. What it is, is that Molina is. Is. It's. It's.
That part is kind of considered west haven on one side, and then it's Molina on the rest. It's kind of weird. I mean, it's all. When you say Molina, people would know, like, okay, that whole section, but it's just broken down. Like, that whole little section is called West Haven because of the park and that section of. Yeah, yeah, but it's all Molina in general. Like, we're all family.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Right on. And then you were saying that that even your parents parents are from.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, my whole family's from there.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There ain't no.
So what it was, was growing up, my brothers, my parents, when they were coming up, because, again, I'm the youngest out of my brothers. My brothers are the ones that didn't move into the Molina Molina neighborhood until I was actually gonna be born. So what it was was that. But my grandparents and the rest of my family live there. Just my parents didn't live. They lived in an apartment, I believe.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: Coming up or whatever. And because my dad used to work in an apartment complex before he got into CCISD. So and I think if I'm not mistaken hopefully I'm not telling this wrong. I think the house that my parents bought they used to walk by it coming home from school.
And then they bought it.
[00:16:01] Speaker A: Bought that one.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Growing I mean, when they, you know, got old enough, whatever. But my grandparents had been there, I think before there was even pavement on the street from what I was told. You know what I mean? So and I mean and I remember my grandpa saying too.
I don't even think the golf course was back or something. I'm not too sure. I mean, it's very long ago when when, you know, I would hear these things. But yeah, but that's all I know, man. That's I mean, I ain't never lived on the south.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: You know, east, north or nothing else. So yeah.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Definitely got its own culture, man.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: Oh, most definitely. I mean, dude, at a certain point you didn't come into Molina unless you knew somebody you lived there or you were buying.
It wasn't a fl a fun place to just walk into. We didn't know anybody. So yeah.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: And you so you're mentioning that so there's blacks on that side of town too. And you was kind of hanging with both of them?
[00:16:57] Speaker B: Well, our whole neighborhood is dominant. Hispanics and blacks. Yeah, so but we're all family, man. I mean I mean, we all come up together. We all came up together. We're all still coming up together.
You know, it's just one of those neighborhoods. And it's the same for everywhere. I don't make it I mean, I don't want to make it seem like it's just in Molina. But, you know, it's one of those neighborhoods that like, you could go down the street. And sometimes you don't even have to knock on the door. You know? It's just like hey, man, I'm here. You know. It's just it's just that type of thing. It's you know. But it's it's in our neighborhood too. We all look out for each other. You know. Um, if things come up missing, you know. You better take that shit back before, you know.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: So so there's that level of respect?
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Oh, most definitely. To a certain extent. I mean, we still have, you know, knuckleheads and stuff that, you know, do random dumb shit and things like that. Like anybody else.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: But yeah, of course, you gotta take the good with the bad, I think.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Always.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So so that so crooked Christie. Does that have to do with, like, I guess, what does it come from, like, in your. On yours, like, your side of the story?
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Well, I mean, Cricket Christie was just a term that was just used in the streets, you know, it was just something that people would say, and it was just used, you know, to describe whatever you felt. It was crooked, you know, the city council, the this and that, you know, whatever it is, you know, and it's when this idea popped up, you know, I was just like, man, let's just call it crooked Christie, you know what I mean? And I went through the proper chains to make sure, you know, it was usable. And I did, but I mean, it. There was a lot of bullshit behind it.
Like, I was telling you off air, like, you know, it took a whole year to show people that it wasn't anywhere related to gangs. It wasn't, you know, anything to deal with any type of, you know, prison type of stuff, street type of stuff. It was just something that I knew that the city, you know, needed, you know, because I was. I would go to different places, or when I go perform at different places, you know, you see cool things, you know, like, you go to Houston, they got ace town shirts, and, you know, even the Astros create that stuff. Now you go to San Antonio, you got, you know, tone, the tone up shirts or two, one out, like. And corps, to me, Corbus never really had that, you know? So I wanted to create something where it was just, like, kind of edgy, street wear type stuff, and just where it could be where it's like, oh, man, that's fucking cool. Wanna, you know, where's wear something like that?
[00:19:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:41] Speaker B: So that's what. That's one of the reasons why I wanted to do it, you know?
[00:19:45] Speaker A: So, like. So you said it took. It took a year about.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:48] Speaker A: So.
And this was 2013. Like, how do you establish yourself within a year? Like, d was you talking to people? Like, how did it change?
[00:19:58] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying?
[00:19:59] Speaker B: Okay. I'll give you the short, long story.
I was.
I was in California on some. Some music business stuff, but one of my brothers, he actually lives in Oakland, California.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Oh, cool.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: And we were actually. We crossed the bridge to San Francisco. And if you never been there, like, Oakland and San Francisco is, like, here to Portland.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: You just crossed the bridge, and you're there. Right? So we're.
I don't know if it was in the mission district, but, um, my brother's parking his cord, and I get off to make sure he's just. Because over there, it's like, you know, it's smarter to probably walk around because there's not a lot of parking over there. You just got. It's kind of like being downtown, you just always got to park on the side of the street and stuff like that. So, you know, he's parking. I get off to make sure he can, you know, fit the space. And then right when I turn around, there's this.
There's this cool, like, store. It's called zero friends. And I see this dude, like he's spray painting or something, right? Because the doors kind of open. So I'm just kind of like, man, I want to check this store out, you know? And so we walk in there, and they had, like, all these t shirts, just, like, one t shirt of, like, different designs on the wall.
Excuse me. And that. All these little, like, paintings and stuff of, like, different characters, like Texas Chainsaw massacre, Freddy cougar and all stuff, but they look real cartoonish, and, like, the guy drew them as if they were, like, melting. Yeah, it was. It was crazy. Well, I found out that this dude is, like, a big name, I guess. I don't know, over there or everywhere, but I think his name is Alex party or something like that. And so he. He has this thing where he draws all these different, like, characters and shit like that way. Anyway, so I seen this cool shirt, and I was like, man, I want to buy that shirt, or whatever. And the only thing they had on the walls were, like, size small. So I was like, well, shit, you know? And the guy goes, no, no, no, man. We got more shirts in the bag. This is just so people don't steal our shit. And I was just like, damn, that's smart, you know, like, because if you try to steal some, there's only one side. You can't go.
So I was like, man, that's cool. So anyway, so I bought some stuff, whatever. And I actually got one of the little art pieces off the wall. I got a leather face one. And so we're walking out or whatever, and I tell. I turn to my brother, and I'm like, you see that shit, man? That's what I want to fucking do.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: That's what we got to do.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: And he's just like, you think so? And I'm like, fuck, yeah, right? So we go to the.
We, you know, finish our day shopping and whatever. So anyway, we go back to Oakland, and we go back to this crib, and we're sitting there drinking and shit. And then, you know, he kind of brings it up and he's like, man, what are you talking about? Earlier, you know, and I was like, man, we gotta fucking do something. And so right then and there, and I had already been out there, I think, for like a week.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: So I had to leave, like, the next day. Well, that whole night, man, we're just, like, kicking ideas and talking about it, whatever. And we actually started, like, throwing logos together. Cause my brother does kind of the same thing I do. It's just on a. It's in a whole different world. Like, he deals with more, like, real estate and branding of, like, other businesses rather than what I, you know, what I do with. That's cool. So we go back and forth a lot on stuff. And so we were sitting there on the couch, man, doing the logo and going like, oh, I think this. Nah, this. Oh, we need to move this. Going back and forth. So then I come back and it was really just like, probably just. I'm sorry, like drunk talk or whatever. I can't sit there. And.
And then we got back on the phone a couple days later, we're just talking about or whatever, and, you know, like, yeah, we should just try. And again, we're not thinking really nothing of it.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: Right, right.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: And then it gets into the ears of my other brother and he's just like, oh, man, you know, Jason said, you want to do this? Like, yeah, thinking about it. And he's like, well, man, you know, I'll match this. And this is. And then my older brother was like, well, we can do this, you know, so what people don't know is that when we started this whole thing and we started to advertise, we made the Facebook page and, you know, once we. Once we settled on the logo, which is this, right. Yeah, we started mocking up all the t shirts and the color things, whatever. And we made a Facebook page and we put all that information on there. I think, like, within 24 hours, we had already, like, 1500 likes. But mind you, we didn't have nothing. We didn't have nothing.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: We just had mockup pictures. We had ideas. So we did it as a teaser thing because we wanted to see if people were gonna like it or talk shit.
[00:24:53] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: So that was kind of like. Right. Cuz at that point, you don't even know who's behind it yet. Like all these cricket crazy.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: So I think a lot of people were.
I know a lot of them were like, was this. Is this for real? Is this for real? Whatever. And we got into that and then we were just like, shit, we really gotta start making these shirts now. So then we started looking for people that. To like to do t shirts and one night or whatever. But the thing that. The difference with us is that from the very beginning, my goal was to make sure that everything we made was a hundred percent quality.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: Meaning that the shirt, the hats, whatever you bought from us.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: Is the same thing that you would get out of dillards, zoomies or Macy's or JC Penney's. An academy. Like, I'm not into selling anybody. No bullshit. My, my thing is that if whatever I do, whatever I create, whatever I put my money into and whatever. And this is advice to anybody trying to get into any type of business. If you yourself would not buy that, how can you convince somebody else to buy that, right? Like, think about it. Like, it only. It, like, bullshit can only go so far, right? Like, if something sucks, it just sucks. There's no way you can convince a whole city or a world that like, oh, it's the best thing. Because obviously it's gonna give to a point where enough people are gonna be like, now this shit sucks. You know, and that's okay, but it's just a realization, but, right. We just got to a point where that was our goal and that is still our goal, you know, everything we do, I make sure that it's a hundred percent quality, you know?
[00:26:44] Speaker A: So this cup alone, bro, he gave me this cup. Guys, check it out.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
Tell Stanley to stay off my mother fucking grass, bro.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Look at this. Dude. This is legit. Jay Bustos, thank you for sharing the video. He said, he said, I need that hat. Where could we buy the merchant?
[00:27:02] Speaker B: Oh, man. Crooked Christie TX. Calm, baby. Yeah, yeah. And, and, you know, let me, let me.
It's gonna sound weird, cuz I must. I want to apologize to all those because I know a lot of people hate to order something local from a local website because they feel like, why can't I just get it from you.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Or go into a store?
[00:27:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So this is the thing. Let me explain this to everybody, all right? And I'm gonna make this very comical to everybody.
Shit is expensive out here, okay? Rental or brick and mortar is fucking expensive, okay? I don't know how a lot of these motherfuckers out here do it, but I know that. So, you know, I don't have investors, okay? I don't have somebody writing me a check. I don't have partners and certain things that deal with other. Certain stuff where I'm just, you know, money is pumping. It's not like that. So it's very hard to sustain certain things before I even get into it, to know, like, that's not worth it. Right. So the good thing about our brand is that we built the whole thing just from doing pop up shops. Our first pop up shop was actually day of the dead.
[00:28:17] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And who's ever, whoever, is a part of that, please let me know why you don't let us be a part of it anymore. You know what I mean? So, yeah, that was. That was our first thing.
I think we.
I think we sold out that day, too. Yeah. Yeah.
But, yeah, it's. You know, there was a time I was looking into making an actual store or renting the space out and stuff, but the price is just crazy, man. I'm not gonna spend. You know, and this. And I'm gonna tell you truth, I'm not gonna spend five, $6,000 a month.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: And don't get me wrong. It's not that I don't have confidence in my brand or nothing, is. I'm just smart. Like, I'm not. I'm not doing this shit as a, you know, pat me on the back that I opened up a store and on the shit, like, you know, I. To me, I think what I'm gonna do is just give people, because there is a lot of people, they want to buy it from me.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:29:14] Speaker B: Which is kind of, you know, like, do, like, directive. Like, they want to buy from me. They want to know that they bought it from.
I got my shit from Playboy, you know? So I think what I'm gonna do is just basically have a permanent. A permanent shop for the weekend in the Corpus Christi trade Center, where people can just come and get it physically if they wanted to. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and, you know. But other than that, you know, it's just, you know, you order it and get shipped out the next day.
[00:29:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So, yeah, definitely chacha on Facebook. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: But crooked Christie, TX calm, man. Whatever you can.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Crooked Christie text, TX calm yep.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:29:53] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: A lot of cool shit on there. Everything from hats. Yeah. Women's chains. I got a huge following to croc charms, socks. I don't know if they can see my socks, but, yeah, I got my socks on sandal.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Was it the sandals?
[00:30:07] Speaker B: We got the slide.
All our hats. Now we got two more dropping.
I think. I want to put them out next week. One of them is the colorway of the Astros. The other one's a colorway of the hooks. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. So I would love to do something with the hooks, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool, man.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I could see that deck, it seems.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: I think that'd be badass.
Yeah. Crooked Christie hooks for one night. Oh, brother. I know. This fucking city was shit.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: I like your hat, too. It's got the Texas flag on.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: So our first hats, if anybody's ever bought one from us, our very, very first versions we had.
We were going with. I don't know if you familiar with Zephyr. Okay, so Zephyr used to be like, what new era used to be? Now a certain point. So they were doing all our hats at the beginning, but then it just. It became kind of funny with certain stuff and then.
And I couldn't really do a lot that I wanted to do. So at one point I said, man, fuck this shit, man. I'm gonna go straight to the source and.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: And then now I just deal with nothing but real manufacturers.
So all our hats, I want everybody to know that when you buy a half from us, just know that you were buying the same quality as a new era. But, you know, not buying new areas and putting my logo on them. Like, all our hats are completely made from scratch.
[00:31:38] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: Like, if they follow us, they'll see, like, the. The production of it being put together, something like that. So, you know, it took a lot to get to that point. But I'm just. I'm super proud of what we have now.
It just makes me, you know, love it even more every time I do something new with it, so.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome, man. I'm happy for you. That's very awesome. Yeah.
So when I started mine, the barrier to entry was, like, cheap for me. And I make my stuff by myself. And it's not like, at all the quality yours is. So I was just like, I'm just gonna do it like this at first, you know, and see how it goes.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: And then just, you know, go from there, you know? I mean, like, you. I'm like that too, as far as money goes, I'm not. I do what I can. If I can't get a store, like, I know.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: I feel you on that. Yeah, well, I. So I used to read. I used to work retail.
That's how I've got.
That's why I know a lot of this stuff because, I mean, at 1516 years old, I mean, I was selling shit over the telephone. I used to work at some place down here.
People my age will know what side so used to be.
It used to be, like, a telemarketing place. I don't know if it's still there. Yeah, no, that was a pack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I decided, I tell gang for everybody that knows, but I used to work for them when I was, like, 16, man. Like, that's when, like, I guess, like, when the Internet came out. I remember we used to sell, like, yahoo. Internet and all that. And then I went from that, and then I worked at Mervyn's. I used to work in the shoe department at Mervyn's. And then I worked at this hip hop store called Blaze.
That's. They sold, like, baby fat yums, all different type stuff. And then I actually worked at Dillard's in the shoe department. And I, you know, and then I learned a lot of stuff from my mom because that's all my mom knew, too, was retail.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: But I was a real huge fan of, like, Tommy Hilfiger. I used to be, like, a walking fucking advertiser for them, pretty much.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: But.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: But no, it was just, you know, I liked those things, you know? And me being a real hip hop head, like, you know, when Jay Z, Mead, Rockerware and outcast had their clothing? And so I used to look at ourselves and I was like, man, that shit's so tight, you know? But. And I was a consumer of it, you know, and I bought it because it was. It was really. The quality was good, you know, the designs were nice. And so we're doing all this. It's kind of like, I'm doing a lot of the stuff that I know what a lot of big brands do, you know? It's just, if I wanted to, I mean, I could just get a hold of some of the buyers in.
In the mall, like zoomies and. And probably lids and stuff like that. And, you know, see how I can go about it, just having the brand in there? The only thing is, it all comes down to numbers. Like, how much are they gonna take away from me, from what I'm actually making and things like that? So again, somebody else would be like, oh, but it's in lids. And it's like, yeah, but how much money are you really profiting from that? You know what I mean? So it's like, do I take the short end of the stick just to say, like, I have my hand lids or do I do the smart thing and just go do over here and just pop up my shit up again? You know? So it's. It's. Trust me, man, if. If I really wanted to be that arrogant. I would have done a lot of different shit just to say, like, oh, I got my shit in this and that, you know. But, yeah, I try to move smart because at the end of the day, when you're, when you're dealing with money, yeah, it's, you know, it can run out pretty quick. You know what I mean? So you got to be smart of what you're doing and how you do it. And, you know, if I'm just here trying to do bragging rights, I'll go broke. Anybody that's doing that will go broke.
[00:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:25] Speaker B: You know, so it's almost like if.
[00:35:27] Speaker A: You start out with a little bit of money, then once you start getting money, you're like, damn, I need to be responsible with it.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. You know, and this is not because it's not about me. You know what I mean? It's not about, you know, mister Playboy, the rapper. I created this as its own thing. You know what I mean? There was a time where it, like, I wouldn't even, you know, show my face, you know what I mean? Like, I wouldn't, you know, because I didn't want people for somebody because, you know, some people can feel a certain way because you're doing more than what they feel they're, you know, they should be doing or whatever. And I didn't want people to, like, hate this because they feel some way towards me because this doesn't. This is not connected to my music. It's connected to me because. Yes. You know. You know, I put it together.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: You know?
Yeah, yeah. And, you know, but at the end of the day, like, this shouldn't be, you know, looked down upon because something. Somebody has some way feeling a certain way towards me, you know.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: I mean, do you get that a lot from people in the city or just in general?
[00:36:37] Speaker B: I mean, I've gotten it. Don't get me wrong. I get shade thrown on me all the time in all different ways. And I used to deal with it probably way more, you know, coming up. I mean, now, I mean, people know what my attitude is. I don't give a fuck what anybody else is saying, you know, how you feel about me, whatever. Like, you know what I mean? Because my thing, it's like, you know, what I. What I eat, man, don't make nobody shit. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, and that's the way I look at it. Like, if you're doing something over there and I'm doing something over here, as long as what you're doing over there doesn't affect the money in my pocket and the shit that I'm doing. I don't give a fuck.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: So how do you feel? Like, so I have a small brand as big as yours. How do you feel about me having one? And I guess kind of.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: I hate it.
[00:37:19] Speaker A: I want to bring this up because people watching, I want them to know, like, hey, there's two people here trying to make money. You know what I mean? That's how I see.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: No, I mean, I even said that. No, no, it's. You know, I don't. Because in. And I think I've told dusty this before, too. You know, there was a certain point that everybody thought I made the corpus hat. You know what I mean? And it got to a point where I just kind of was just like, look, we don't make that hat. That's not us, actually. And, you know. And again, I hate to say it, but crooked was here before, you know, a lot of people shit. You know, what I don't like and what I don't will never respect is when people try to make it seem like this never existed or this started after a lot of people shit. You know what I mean? So. But do I have a problem with people selling clothes? And also, I don't care. Like, I have my own thing and I do it my own way. And, you know, I just try to make sure again that what I sell to people. People are never gonna have a bad review on it. People are gonna see the quality. They're gonna see, you know, all the hard work that goes into that. You know what I mean? Just like this cup. You know what I mean? I actually did it as a joke because everybody was like, oh, Stanley this and Stanley that. You know what?
I'm gonna show people that. What you're raving about is it's just plastic and stainless steel, okay? And when you're going and trying to spend. You know, whatever, it's like, I'm gonna show you. Because some people will say, well, this is better than this cup. And it's like, bro, it's made out of the same shit. You know what I mean? Like, come on, now. So I made it as a joke. And then one day I was like, you know what? I'm gonna make a fucking cup. You know, but I'm gonna make it badass. You know? But it's. You know, it's.
You know, not to give you a cheap plug, but it's a 40 ounce. 40 ounce zipper. You know, it's they come in different colors. It actually has the branding on the top. You can twist the little thing, you know, so where you could just sip out of it if you want to. And it's.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: It is. It definitely made nice to you. I like this little thing on top. Mm hmm. Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:29] Speaker B: But you perceive a look, you know, all this. Look at all the detail in this cup.
[00:39:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: You know, look at the bottom. Some people won't even pay attention to the bottom. Yeah. Like, you know, this is what I'm saying, man. It's all about quality, you know?
[00:39:45] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: Yeah. See, it's not. Just.
See, somebody would be like, oh, he just put his logo on the front of a cup. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what I'm saying, man. Hell no. It's. It's. This is real deal Holyfield, right?
[00:40:01] Speaker A: Microwave.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Do not microwave. Yeah.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: He's even got the website on the bottom.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: Of course.
You want to know why? Let me tell you why. Only let me. Let me tell you why. You notice that, right? Let me tell you. Tell you why. Because if we were, we were just chilling somewhere, right? And I had this cup, right? Like. Like the homie in the chat, like, oh, where can we get yourself?
[00:40:20] Speaker A: Right?
[00:40:20] Speaker B: So I'm chilling like this, like, and you're just like, damn, man, where'd you get that cup? You're like, oh, like, right here.
That's a jewel for y'all people out there.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: Oh, dude, come on, man. I know you're full of them, bro. For real, though, before you came in, I was, like, asking you about the trademark and all that stuff.
[00:40:41] Speaker B: I was like, yeah, I mean, come on. Like, yeah, walking platform.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: I see that you were in front in the cereal aisle.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: Yeah, with my jacket on. You know, I go to HTO. You know, it's just. Hey, I mean, who that sure do that sure looks. Who's. You know, this is something that's coming out pretty soon. This is actually just embroidered to a prototype. You know what I mean? I call it. But, yeah, it has a 13 on the back. I don't know if somebody could see it from the back, but has a 13 on the back, and. But, yeah, man, there are certain things that I'll just make. I'll have the manufacturer create it for me, and then I just review it and see if, like, I don't really like it. You know, I get ideas.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: And I just try to execute them, and that's where I just kind of look at things. I'm like, I don't know if people like that you know, because again, it's not about me.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: How do you test it? How you go about testing them out? Like, testing your, your ideas. Do you, like, put a drop? Do you do a drop?
[00:41:37] Speaker B: No, no. Like, let's just say, like, let's just say this, right? So I've only worn one of these one time, I believe, when I performed at one show. So again, it's like, let's just say you have 100 people. Like, oh, my God, I want one of those. I need that. I need it in red or whatever. See, I take that information amongst. If I go to Waterburger and I'm standing in line, so it goes, hey, bro, where'd you get that shirt from? You know, like, the other day I was at, um, like street, this taco place. Um, I was at this taco place and I had my hat backwards. And when I got up, the dude was like, amen. Damn, I love your hat, bro. Like, where can I get it now? I don't think he even believed me because when I told him, I was like, oh, you can get it on my, on my store, you know, Chrissy TX. And he kind of looked at me like, what? Like, I'm like, yeah, bro, it's a real brand.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: So it.
[00:42:30] Speaker B: There's still a lot of people that, you know, probably have never heard about it.
[00:42:34] Speaker A: Yeah. So no, definitely, man. Dude, that's awesome. That's good stuff there. So crook. So you got the brand going and so you didn't. You designed yourself. I found that out, too. I didn't know, like, you're a designer for doing that. And you even got, dude, you got a gold record. Mm hmm. From a design on was a king. What's the guy's be king, be king. Mm hmm. And then he called you like, hey, I got this. Gwen gold. You're gonna get a plaque.
[00:42:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so shout out to my boy, be king.
Straight out at the houston.
Yeah, so that, so that thing came about.
Thing. BK called me about four in the morning and he was just like, hey, man, I'm about to get signed to Columbia Records.
He had just put a project up and he was telling me that they were gonna pull it down, but they were gonna run with this one song that's on there called then leave.
[00:43:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: And he goes, you know, I need you to do this artwork for me, for the song, whatever. And I said, alright, cool. And he goes, man, just go listen to that song. Just like, you know, do your thing on him. So I was like, all right. So I go and I'm just playing that song over and over and over in my headphones. And then I caught, I got the concept and I was like, alright, cool. I put the thing together, you know, very quickly, sent it back, he reviewed it, he goes, all right, man, this is what I'm gonna run with. And the song blew up on TikTok. Next thing I know, he was like, hey, man, that shit already went gold. And I'm like, all right, so hopefully I get a platinum one out of that one, too.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: It's got like 66 million on Spotify.
[00:44:04] Speaker B: Get their hair, get that bread and leave.
[00:44:07] Speaker A: I say, what?
[00:44:07] Speaker B: Peace out. Yeah, dude, that's dope.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:11] Speaker B: So that's why I always make that joke. Like, I gotta go, plaque. I ain't have to bust one rap. You know what I mean? Like, you know, hey, name another.
[00:44:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: Hell yeah, bro, name another, you know, but you know what's so crazy?
On the same wall I have, when I put out my first album when I was 20 and caught out the smoke, I made my rendition of a, like a, something like a thing like that.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:39] Speaker B: My CD got my poster in it, and I made it look like a plaque. And it's just so funny that now I actually have one with my name on it. Yeah.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: And you were saying, like, like, guys would never have this opportunity, you know what I mean? And then even, even being on hot 97. Mm hmm. That was, man, I heard that whole rap, Dan, you were friggin yeah, I.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: Got a lot of hate from that, too.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: Seriously, from just like, from people in this, like from.
[00:45:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, city.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: A lot of the other local rappers. Yep.
[00:45:09] Speaker A: I can't stand that, bro. I don't understand that.
[00:45:12] Speaker B: And then, like, they'll never admit it, but I seen in my own eyes.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Right. And then you were mentioning, too, that these guys even pay to be on a bill or whatever.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: Yeah, everybody pays. Everybody pays. Everybody pays. I don't. You know it. I'll tell you, everybody pays.
All these shows that happen, the, the 20 artists that you see open up, like, say, one of these rap shows that happen, there's 20 artists before the main person comes. All those people paid pay to play. Of course. That's what it is. That honestly, man, at this point, like, I don't fuck how anybody feels about it. It's just, it's what it is. There is no more whether you're good or not. It's just, you just, you just pay, you know, money talks. Of course. Think about. Think about it like this, man.
Anybody that knows me. I could wrap my ass off. There's not a lot of people that could fuck with me, right?
But do you think that really matters if somebody else comes next to me and says, you know what, man? Here's a. You get that?
[00:46:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: So it's not about talent anymore.
[00:46:19] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:46:19] Speaker B: It's about what you can just really do for the next person. There's gatekeepers. There's all that shit, bro. You know, you just. If you're not in it, you don't see it.
But I'm here to tell you that that's just real.
[00:46:33] Speaker A: When people.
[00:46:33] Speaker B: When people talk about the illuminati and all that different shit in the big. The big shit, yeah, that shit's real. This is real. I mean, you know, whether it's. It's. You want to call it the Illuminati or call it this or call it that. All that gatekeeping shit, all that bias shit, all that little circles of this and that. Like, if you ain't a part of this circle, do you trust me?
[00:46:54] Speaker A: So gay. I'm trying to figure out what gatekeeping and gatekeeper is.
[00:46:57] Speaker B: Is just like, if, you know, you. You got. You got something going on and you're trying to, you know, elevate yourself, right?
But you can never elevate yourself because those people, they don't let you in.
[00:47:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: Think about.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: They let who they want to.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: Of course.
Of course. Why do you. Why do you think when you see a lot of things in the city, you always kind of see the same people and the same little things and gatekeeping. I'm gonna fuck with anybody saying they can hate me for it at the end of this interview. I don't give a fuck. That's one thing about me. I don't care.
Skate keeping, you know, so, you know, it's one thing, like, you know, the game is to be sold, not told, but at the same time, it's just, you know, that's why a lot of things just don't move the way it does, because it's just gatekeeping, bro. It's a lot of kiss ads. It's a lot of, you know, pay. Pay your way. All this. I mean, I've done it, you know, I've paid to be on shows, you know, a lot of shows, you know, that I feel that I should have got paid for. I did it, you know, for free or, you know, I paid this or that. I mean, people. Look, people in this whole rap game, it's smoke and mirrors, okay? And when a lot of these dudes out here and even females, like, when they see what the game is really about, and he starts to kind of like, do you really want to be a part of this shit? You know what I mean? So it's. It's an ugly thing, man. It gets to a point where it's, you know, everybody can. And a lot of different. Something happens. People can talk about that whole, like, you know, corpus needs to come together and unity. And if we are like, bro, that's all that shit is a crock of shit.
It is. It's just. I don't care. Nobody could convince me that that, like. Yeah, everybody has their groups and everybody has little circles and everybody, you know, whatever, whatever. Yeah, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, all that, it's fake support. It's. I want to support him because I'm trying to find an opportunity right within that. You know what I mean? But so what?
[00:49:02] Speaker A: So you're saying all this stuff, which, man, so if somebody doesn't know you, why should they listen to what you're saying right now?
[00:49:08] Speaker B: Like, right now? Yeah, this not sugar coated.
It's really in front. It's really. I mean, it's really. It's really in front of people's eyes, and that's just. That's just me being like, straight up. It's really it. Dude, this is not just the music.
[00:49:24] Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah.
[00:49:25] Speaker B: So you can work at fucking Walmart and.
Okay, well, think about it. Yeah, right. Think about how that you got to get. You got to know somebody to get into something. What is that? You know what that's called?
[00:49:36] Speaker A: Or they don't like you to catch you.
[00:49:38] Speaker B: Okay, so what is that called?
Gatekeeping. Yeah, that's all it is, bro. And it happens in everything. You know, if somebody knows me. Oh, man, we're gonna let him in. Oh, you know, it just. It's just the way the world works. You just have to find your way of getting, you know, maneuvering into things, you know? But it happens in everything, man. It's just in my world of music and things like this and this whole, you know, circle of hip hop and rap and all this shit. And it's just the way it is. It's always been like that.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: Right? That sucks, too, man. Somebody said, no, no, diddy ll.
[00:50:17] Speaker B: I definitely don't want to be a part of the parties, dude.
[00:50:20] Speaker A: I think it's dirty.
[00:50:21] Speaker B: I don't want to be a part of none of those parties.
[00:50:22] Speaker A: That's crazy. Yeah, all kinds of stuff is surfacing.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: Hey, budget. But okay. But let. Okay. It's funny that somebody commented that and you saying that about stuff coming out because that stuff is barely coming out. But how long has it actually been happening?
[00:50:45] Speaker A: Right?
[00:50:46] Speaker B: Okay, so you think about stuff like that. It's. It's, you know, people will try to make. I mean, we can make jokes about this all day, right? But at the end of the day, it's like, you know, again, man, we've seen Diddy send a group of people for cheesecake on, you know, making the band, you know what I mean? To, you know, earn their way to do certain shit. So it's like. It just happens, man.
[00:51:11] Speaker A: Who would have thought did he was a hotel?
[00:51:17] Speaker B: No comment.
[00:51:18] Speaker A: Yeah, no comment. So you mentioning that it's been around probably for years. Probably mankind, you know. How do you think that.
[00:51:25] Speaker B: Look at. Look at Nickelodeon.
[00:51:29] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:51:30] Speaker B: Me and my.
[00:51:31] Speaker A: We're talking about that.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: You think they make Netflix specials? Yo, offered, like, just, you know, assumptions. No, bro. Like I was hearing.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: I don't know if you listen to Kenneth Owens, but she was mentioning that.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: I don't really deal with politics.
[00:51:44] Speaker A: Okay. She was mentioning that, like, the government had a fund for. For movies.
[00:51:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. But, you know, the kind of lead the way. The movie needs to be. Whatever.
[00:51:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:56] Speaker B: I mean, this is the way I look at the world.
We've all have been taught to see things a certain way, especially as hispanic people, right? You grow up and what is the first thing to believe in? God. And, you know, everything. And the world was made, and Adam and Eve and everything like that, right? We're all taught that. We're all taught to see certain things a certain way in any culture. But at the end of the day, bro, we're all just going off words, and we're all just going off, you know, we all have.
[00:52:32] Speaker A: We.
[00:52:33] Speaker B: We all believe in things a certain way, right? But at the end of the day, that's what it is. We're going off what we've actually never seen before. We've never actually heard it. We're just going off something that was written and what people found here and there and piecing it together, whatever. Like, you know, it's just like Cat Williams the other day, you know, he's talking about the pyramids, you know? Do you obviously think those are made by. Man, I don't think so. You know what I'm saying? I mean, think about it like, you know, that shit is made out of stone, you know, heavy. That is, you know? And to be in a world where there. There's no cranes and all this shit to come on, man. So it's, it's, you know, like, I believe in aliens. I do believe that there is a whole other thing out here. But, you know, it's because it's just very hard to believe that we're the only people living.
But again, it's, it's, you know, it's kind of like, if you want to hide things from people, you put it in a book.
[00:53:30] Speaker A: Oh, nobody's gonna read it.
[00:53:32] Speaker B: Nobody's gonna read it.
See, the lie is always more entertaining than the truth.
Think about that.
Think about that, right?
[00:53:44] Speaker A: It's more flashy.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: Of course.
It's, it's, nobody really talks about the truth. Everybody talks about the lie. If I said, oh, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, bubble, right? And people heard that, they'd be like, man, that dude's not a millionaire. And did it, all this shit. And it'll just rant on, ran on, right? And because it's, the lie is more entertaining than the truth. Nobody cares about the truth. Social media is based off lies, right? Like, most of it is just, you know, I don't really want to get, I'll get into it if you want to. But it's just, you know, it's, how does anything.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: It messes with society.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: Like social media.
[00:54:23] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:54:24] Speaker B: Oh, social media gave people dope. It gave certain people that never had a voice that they felt was being heard. A voice. Oh, you think about it. Oh, man, think about all that, right? You could put whatever on social media and, like, just people here, you know, whether people know me or not, they can comment whatever they want to comment, right?
[00:54:54] Speaker A: And they can comment a lie. And people be all, people can come.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: In a lot and come in the truth, I guess. Hey, whatever. Oh, whatever. You know, so it's, you know, social media is a very, I mean, it's hurt people. It's made people, you know, try to take their own life or probably have taken their own life. You know, it's, social media is a very, it's a, it's a, it's a fucked up playground, you know? And whether is, whether it is truth or lying, it's up there forever to a certain point, you know, so you just gotta, that's why me, man, I live a very private life. I don't really ever share my kids on social media, and I don't talk about them to a certain extent.
I don't glorify a lot of stuff that I just do in my regular day to day. You, if you follow me? All you're getting is fucking me, cracking a joke, me promoting, you know, the new ventures, the clothing, the music, and just sharing, you know, whatever I might share, but personal wise, things of relationships and just all different shit. You ain't never gonna get that shit from me.
[00:56:03] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:56:04] Speaker B: Crazy.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: It's almost like using it for business.
[00:56:07] Speaker B: Oh, it's just kind of like a storefront, the way. No, it's just. It's for me, I've always looked at it.
Social media is a. Is a. Is that crack in the door when your door is not fully closed, so if you look from a distance, you can still kind of see through it. To me, that's what social media.
[00:56:27] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: Like, somebody's waiting for somebody to break up. Oh, crazy, right? Like, you always see a woman talk about that, or you'll see a dude talk about that, right? Like, oh, I just broke up with my man or my girl. Like, oh, man, 40 dudes or women are in the inbox already, right? Because they're. They're just on the sidelines, right? Watch it. Right? So, yeah, they're just waiting for their date, for their day to play. Yeah, they're lucky. But everybody, man, is just. Some people just live a boring life and have nothing better else to do but to watch others. And that's what social media is. So certain points. So that's why I just, you know, I don't fall into the bullshit. I mean, I'll crack jokes with the best of them, but for me to really, like, put my personal life out there and stuff like that, now I don't do none of that shit.
[00:57:16] Speaker A: Probably a good thing, man. Yeah, for sure. Damn good. Thank you for coming on. We've been going for an hour, man. That's awesome, dude.
[00:57:22] Speaker B: Already cool.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: And I had all this stuff we ain't touch on a bunch of stuff going on.
[00:57:28] Speaker B: Stay tuned for ten parts in coming.
Oh, man, it's funny.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: Tony Carrillo said, social media is a big playground to me.
[00:57:38] Speaker B: It is. It's a shit. It's a shit show, bro. You know, but I mean, again, it's just something that you can use in a good way, in a bad way.
[00:57:45] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:57:47] Speaker B: But I don't, you know, I don't see what the purpose is of going on there and just, like, fighting with a whole bunch of people you're never gonna meet.
[00:57:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:56] Speaker B: Like, you get people that fight with other people that, like, bro, you don't even know this person. Like, you're wasting all this energy. Like, you know, just like, the other day I'm watching the Beetlejuice trailer and there's all these 100,000 people, like, fighting with each other.
It's crazy.
[00:58:19] Speaker A: What bothers me is, like, you don't know what's real. Like, cuz like you're saying, like, people could just lie. Of course, you don't even know what's real. So you're looking at this thing. You might be looking at it all day, all week.
[00:58:29] Speaker B: You know what I hate? I'll tell you what I fucking hate.
Can they see?
Ladies, stop using that bold glamour fucking filter on your pictures, okay?
Stop that shit. You're beautiful without it. Some.
[00:58:47] Speaker A: Crazy right now. What do you think about that, dude?
[00:58:49] Speaker B: Like what?
[00:58:50] Speaker A: AI? Because that's what, artificial intelligence?
[00:58:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it's, um.
For some business, it's good, for some, it's not. I say that to say this, it's because it's one thing to let a computer just create something, but when you get it organically from somebody that you know, that's what they're blessed with, you know, it's. You're taking away that. You're taking away something from them, you know? And I just, you know, again, a lot of that stuff. Yes. It helps to make things faster and move faster and stuff like that. And, you know, create things way quicker and help with this. Some of it is very useful. Some it's just kind of like, you know, it. To me, it kind of takes away the interaction of humans with each other.
[00:59:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:59:39] Speaker B: You know, so, like, actually having to learn how. I mean, I imagine if I'm here doing the interview with a robot.
[00:59:45] Speaker A: Mmm. Oh, yeah.
[00:59:46] Speaker B: How fun is that?
[00:59:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Crazy.
[00:59:48] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So now I'm here with one of the dudes from my robot.
Yeah. You see how I think about shit. Like, it's just. I look at it. I look at things realistically.
[01:00:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:00:02] Speaker B: You know?
[01:00:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Just listening to you, Tom, telling you, like, how do you, like, how do you get like that? It seems like you're like. How do you be like that? You know what I mean? Because some people are so interesting like that. You're like, dude, I never even would have thought of that. You know what I mean?
[01:00:17] Speaker B: Because. Because I. Scuse me.
I can't stand somebody trying to sell me a wolf ticket to a pipe dream.
[01:00:33] Speaker A: Wolf ticket? What is that?
[01:00:34] Speaker B: A wolf ticket? It's just like.
[01:00:35] Speaker A: Like something fake.
[01:00:37] Speaker B: Like. Yeah, yeah. It's something like making it bigger than what it is.
[01:00:40] Speaker A: Okay, okay.
[01:00:40] Speaker B: You know what a pipe dream. You know what a pipe dream is.
[01:00:43] Speaker A: It's like a flex something.
[01:00:44] Speaker B: That pipe dream is somebody trying to tell you something that is. Is so real, but it's like, if you look through that pipe, it's, like, all over there.
[01:00:52] Speaker A: It's.
[01:00:52] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Like, and that is how to keep.
[01:00:55] Speaker A: Some people selling you a wolf ticket.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: Bro, when I was. Okay, so when I was younger, there was so many people like, oh, man, you know, I can help you do this, but, you know, if you. If you sign with me or, you know, if you come fuck with me, I make you. And I used to be like, oh, yeah, yeah, because you're so hungry, right? And you want to do this and you want to do that, and you want to get up on the shit, right? But you're just kind of like, when you get to that point of what it is, and you're just like, this ain't what it is. That's a pipe dream. That's. That was. You got sort of WHOOP. Ticket. So now I'm just kind of like, mm. Like, if I don't see it for myself or I can't deal with it myself or, you know, things of that nature, I don't even fuck with it in general, you know? So it's like, you know, that's why I am the way I am, because I just. I could see through bullshit, man. You know, I'm. I try to stay ten steps ahead of the game always. Because if you don't, you'll hit that wall and you're stuck, you know, and you fall and you try to pick yourself. Nah, I try to stay ten steps ahead. So that way, you know, if I take a loss somewhere, I kind. I already set myself up to know what to do if I took a loss somewhere, you know? So I know.
[01:02:05] Speaker A: So I know one of the ways to learn that is through, like, you trying it yourself. And another way is, like, getting advice from other people. Do you find yourself doing that often?
[01:02:13] Speaker B: Of course, I do that now still. You know what I mean?
But the only way you could do that if you surround yourself with people that are actually doing something, you know, I would have never gotten this far in my music career or anything else that I do if I just hung out with a bunch of people that were claiming to do something.
[01:02:32] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:02:32] Speaker B: So when I started, I had already jumped in the pool with somebody that was really doing stuff, you know? And that's where I learned a lot of things, you know? Because the first person that I actually recorded with in his studio, he did country music.
[01:02:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:02:55] Speaker B: He didn't do rap. He didn't even like rap. You know, I was 14 years old. I recorded at this place. It was called Gillies on Kostoras.
Dennis Gilly was actually. Is related to Mickey Gilly, which own urban gillies in Houston off urban Cowboys. Yeah. And then they're related to, like, Jerry Lee Lewis. They all play the piano, but he's the first person to actually record me.
[01:03:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And then I learned how to do mixing and recording vocals and all stuff through him. And then just, you know, as my career progressed, you know, I've just learned other things, but.
[01:03:31] Speaker A: Wow. And so you learn from people that are already doing stuff.
[01:03:34] Speaker B: Yeah, but everything that I know, 99% of the stuff that I know, I'm self taught. I've never been to college for it. I never, you know, I didn't go to school for graphic design or music stuff or photography or none of that shit. I'm self taught.
[01:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah. So, so how some people, it's hard for them to get started in doing that. And it's almost like you have to learn how to fail in trying to figure it out.
[01:04:04] Speaker B: Of course. I mean, there's always a try and error. I mean, you're never gonna get it right on the first time.
It's once in a blue moon that you might hear a story where somebody came out the gate and it just. Yeah, you know, but other than that.
[01:04:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And you mentioned that you in the red and high podcast shout out with scoop dose rubbing elbows with the right people.
[01:04:27] Speaker B: Oh, of course, yeah.
[01:04:28] Speaker A: That means.
[01:04:29] Speaker B: Meaning, like, I mean, being in a room with people that are actually, again, like, doing something. You know, I got around. You know, I was doing show, like, my first show was opening up for 50 cent master P. I mean, when I was 17 years old. Even then, the guy that kind of helped me with certain stuff, he was.
It was. It was my homie G money that worked for 102.9 the bomb, you know what I mean?
After that, you know, my homie tuna that owned down south grills, he kind of looked out for me, too, with certain shows because that's what he was into, putting on shows. And he was one of the dudes that did all the grills and corpus. So, you know, being around him, you know, he would, you know, put me on this, put me on that. And then as I got older, doing other shows, you know, I got around like people like jingle bling, you know, I mean, there's so many different people, but, I mean, and now I do a lot of stuff for them.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: When did you. So when did you find out you needed to do that in order to.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: Continue to progress when you don't have any money to do certain things, you know what I mean? My parents never took, you know, my music thing as a serious thing where they were just like, oh, yeah, you know, me whole raps and here's a check. You know, it was nothing like that. You know, it was just, you know, my brother, you know, what did, he bought me like this little microphone recording set thing came like a microphone and a mixture and stuff. But that's, that's what I had at one point. And then I taught myself how to do graphic design because I knew, well, if I'm gonna sell music, I need to have a cover, right. But I didn't have money to go pay graphic design, even know where to even go, right. Like, I knew about this company called Pen and Pixel, which were one of the biggest, you know, designers in Houston. They did everybody from master P to cash money, all the stuff.
But I mean, I didn't have, back then, I think the lowest package, they have 1500 bucks, right. To me, that was like $15,000, you know. So I taught myself how to do graphic design and I did all my own shit until, you know, I got into my twenties. Word. You know, I got into like, visual stuff, so.
[01:06:45] Speaker A: So you started learning how to do that and then at some point you started doing it for other people.
[01:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:51] Speaker A: Not even like thinking.
[01:06:53] Speaker B: No, I know.
[01:06:53] Speaker A: Weren't even thinking like you were gonna be doing it.
[01:06:55] Speaker B: None. None of the stuff that I ever got into, besides music was ever to make money off anybody. I never got into it to. To look ten years from now, from then and be like, oh, I'm gonna make a business out of it. I never looked at it like, right. It just, it just happened, you know what I mean? And I've done a lot of stuff that people don't even realize that it actually came from corpus, from me. Yeah. I mean, I've done a lot of shit, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
[01:07:20] Speaker A: That's amazing to me. Like, you started doing that and then eventually, and I'm saying, I'm thinking to rubber nobles with the right people, because there could been other people doing what, graphic design or whatever, but just somehow you're in that place.
[01:07:32] Speaker B: There was only, I think, and me and the homie shy one, which he does like horror core rap, me and him at that point were the only ones that really did everything for ourselves as artists. So there wasn't a lot of people that were doing it, you know, the way we were doing it.
But, you know, I taught myself everything because, again, I didn't have money. You know, I know a lot of people who have come up off the strength of, you know, money being, you know, inherited to them or, you know, something then. I ain't never been blessed like that. You know what I mean? So I've just. I've just kind of winged it, you know?
[01:08:10] Speaker A: So that's grinding, bro.
[01:08:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:08:12] Speaker A: Definitely at its core.
[01:08:13] Speaker B: I mean, think about it like this, man. I ain't ever been on hot 95. I mean, how does he notify? But I made it to Hutton, you know?
And I don't say that as a dis. I'm just right. I say that because think about that. High 97 is one of the biggest radio stations in the world.
And I did it with, you know, I don't have a hit record. I've never had a manager. I've never been side to a record label.
[01:08:38] Speaker A: Right.
[01:08:38] Speaker B: You know, so. And again, I don't have financial backing. I made it all the way up there solely by myself, and I didn't pay for it. A lot of people thought I paid to get on that platform as bragging rights, and I never paid for that shit, you know? So that's one thing about it.
[01:08:55] Speaker A: So now. So that's back in the day. Now people think that they have to do that.
[01:09:01] Speaker B: No, when I made it. When I. When I got on high 97, that was back in 2019.
[01:09:05] Speaker A: No, like. Like getting a manager. I need to get a manager. Oh.
[01:09:08] Speaker B: I mean, if you get to a certain stature, of course you want to do a lot of. You would have to get certain things like that put in place, because, again, not everybody has everything, you know? You can't control everything, right. You know, unless you just have the smarts for that, you know? But me, I just. You know, I controlled. I still control everything myself, you know?
[01:09:30] Speaker A: So do you. Do you. Do you distribute your own music or. Oh, no kidding.
[01:09:36] Speaker B: No, I used to. But one thing about distrokid that a lot of people don't understand is that that whole pain, one fee with unlimited music and stuff like that, you don't read the fine line in that stuff. It tells you that if something should ever happen to you and that payment stopped coming in, that music is. No, it's just gonna be taken off.
[01:09:58] Speaker A: Okay. Okay.
[01:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So. And so they charge you an extra fee on top of each song to keep that song up there forever.
My distribution is under CD, baby, at the moment, so I always always. I always tell people, like, you know, things like two core CD, baby, and other things that, you know, you pay one fee to have it up there is way better than trying to like that. That's where you fall into the rabbit hole, where it sounds good, but if you don't pay attention, then they kind of get you in the end, you know? I mean.
[01:10:30] Speaker A: So have you always been like that to where you have to make sure to look at it twice instead of just.
[01:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I look at twice everything.
Don't you still. Look at you. Don't you still look at your order from McDonald's or something to make sure everything's in the bag? I mean, am I right?
[01:10:51] Speaker A: Let me double check.
[01:10:53] Speaker B: What's the first thing you do when you go to Jalisco's and to bring your plate? You kind of, like, make sure that everything's on there, right? Like, shit, baby. You don't give me that guacamole. Come on, bro. I know that picture at that guacamole on there, man.
[01:11:05] Speaker A: Come on.
[01:11:06] Speaker B: You know.
[01:11:06] Speaker A: So, what's your go to at Holly school, anyway?
[01:11:08] Speaker B: Oh, the Texas plate?
[01:11:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:11:10] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, bro. A little bit of everything, you know? But that's because I just don't have time to be looking at 500 item menu, you know, like the cheesecake factory, you know, people. You know, in the world of the stuff that I do, it's like when somebody goes into a restaurant, any type of fast food place, you only got a couple. You probably less than a minute to catch somebody's attention when it comes. When it deals with stuff like that. So. So you think about it. You put a hundred things on a menu, you're there, like. Yeah, in a psychopedia type thing, and by the time, you know, you're not even hungry.
[01:11:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:11:48] Speaker B: So that's why they throw those chips and salsa.
The mind game, bro. It's a conspiracy, you know, people love.
[01:11:59] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:12:00] Speaker B: That's so crazy. That's funny.
[01:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what's up, man.
[01:12:04] Speaker B: Appreciate you coming on.
[01:12:05] Speaker A: Well, you got. You got anything else coming up?
I know you mentioned projects. You got some projects coming on or something? Yeah, yeah.
[01:12:11] Speaker B: So me and my whole. Me and my homie, DJ Stump, we're gearing up to release some new music. About to drop a mixtape, and then I got a lot of original stuff coming back out, and then hopefully get, you know, back on the road of doing shows and doing stuff locally and things like that as well.
[01:12:30] Speaker A: DJ stump, shout out. I know.
[01:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's my brother, man.
[01:12:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:34] Speaker B: He was actually gonna be here with me. Yeah, yeah, he actually was. He had some things he had to take care of. I don't want to quote.
[01:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something that he could have missed.
[01:12:44] Speaker B: He knows what I'm talking about.
So, yeah, I didn't, you know, we weren't gonna take that chance, but, you know, I'm glad, you know, my brother's out doing. Doing this thing and. Yeah, you know, back to where he needed to be, so I seen y'all's picture. Is the best DJ in Corbin.
[01:13:00] Speaker A: Oh, my God, dude, I saw y'all's picture on your instagram, but it's like a. Maybe like a promo. I don't know what it was, but he's standing there.
[01:13:07] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[01:13:07] Speaker A: He don't. And just knowing y'all maybe catfishing. He don't look like a rapper, bro. He looks like I got my instrument.
[01:13:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm just DJ.
[01:13:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:13:19] Speaker B: But what. It's cool, you know, because, you know, when we met, we met doing a gig, and he was there for one thing and I was there for the other. And then, you know, he wanted me to help him do some stuff. And the first question he asked me was like, hey, man, how can I really, like, really do some shit? And I was like, man, you just got to do the opposite of what everybody else ain't doing, you know? And he took my advice and he ran with it. And, you know, he's been with me ever since. And he went to. He went to hot 97 with me. He went to New York with me. I took him with me.
[01:13:51] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:13:51] Speaker B: And he got to see what it is. So he's one person, man, that can tell you, like, the things I tell you or the things that I say I'm gonna do or am doing? He'll tell you that I'm not bullshitting about it, you know, cuz he's always. He's always with me, you know, at a certain point, he always. He always sees, you know, so, you know, so that's a good thing because it's always good to have certain people there to where if somebody ever tries to doubt what you're trying to do, you have some type of clarification that, like. No, man, you tell them, you know, something like.
[01:14:22] Speaker A: Like somebody watching over.
[01:14:23] Speaker B: But, I mean, he. But he'll tell you, too. He's the same person that when we were coming back from New York and he asked me, like, man, what do you think people, you know, are gonna say back home after seeing me on it? And I was just like, I get a lot of hate from it.
[01:14:38] Speaker A: Nobody will find out. Nobody even hear.
[01:14:40] Speaker B: And then sure enough, that's what I did. I got a lot of hate from it. Yeah, well, because it be. I know one of them was like, why'd they put him on there? They should have put such and such and such. And my thing was like, well, if you're that fucking good, you know, but, but this is, this is what people get twisted. And this is what somebody asked me one day. They're like, man, you don't get upset, like, when you see thing or when I did see things like that.
And this is what I tell people.
I'm not gonna sit up on the Internet and argue of why I deserve my winnings.
[01:15:22] Speaker A: Hmm.
[01:15:23] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not gonna never argue.
[01:15:25] Speaker A: That's basically complaining.
[01:15:27] Speaker B: Or like, no, it's just, it's, it's what am. Like, at that point in time, what was I supposed to do? Get on the Internet and comment to each person? Why I. Why I deserve to be in that chair? Why I deserve to do this? Why does it, like, why do I need to go to each fucking person? Like, when you look kind of stand, when you kind of sit back and you look at certain things from people's perspective, you kind of break it down in sections to where it's like, you guys over here don't ever promote, support, anything in general, then you guys over here don't fucking buy anything and shit. So, you know, it's like that, man.
[01:16:04] Speaker A: So a bunch of haters, never satisfied.
[01:16:08] Speaker B: I don't even know what to call him anymore. I don't recall him haters anymore.
[01:16:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, my God.
[01:16:12] Speaker B: Something. Just people that are just bored, I guess.
[01:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. When you're doing stuff, man, I just.
[01:16:19] Speaker B: Wanna let you know that my drink is still cold in this, dude.
[01:16:22] Speaker A: You got what? You got some water? I poured my water in here.
[01:16:25] Speaker B: I drink. I drink liquid death. Oh, yeah.
I can't stand those. No, I can't stand those. I'm a very huge, like, soda drinker. It's very bad. But I mean. But I can't do, like, those sparkling water flavors. I can't. I can't stand that shit. It's something about it, bro. Like, I don't know how people drink those white claws and all that shit. Oh, my God. Things taste like shit, bro. Like, it's just, it's like getting a soda that has no flavoring in it, and it's just like, yo, like, if people were there at the bar. Like, I'm just like. That should take, like, shit.
No, but I'll drink. I'll drink the shitload out of Dopa Chico. Yeah, stuff like that. But I love liquid death, man.
Shout out to liquid death.
[01:17:19] Speaker A: Yeah, shout out, right? Yeah. No shame. We needed a plug.
[01:17:23] Speaker B: I do need. I do. I need every flavor.
But I see, but just even that, man, you know, the one of the reasons what caught me was that whole packaging.
[01:17:32] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:17:33] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, I mean, like, the package, the actual cannons. Yeah. The canister. If you think about. If you're. If you're walking down the street one of those cans, it looks like you're walking around with a beer.
[01:17:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it does.
[01:17:44] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So it's kind of funny, you know, but, you know, filtered water. Filtered water. But I just like the way.
Excuse me. A lot of those, the other flavors, like the half and half, and they have the peach one and things like that.
[01:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah, right on. The sweet and sparkling waters from Hebrew amazing. Anthony Diaz.
[01:18:03] Speaker B: I can't do it.
[01:18:04] Speaker A: You can't do it?
[01:18:07] Speaker B: There was a. There was a time shout out to my homie, Johnny Smalls. He.
I think it was truly or something. He was like, try this, right?
[01:18:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:18:17] Speaker B: He's all. And I was. And I tasted. I was like, man, it tastes like shit. But then he put me on to this little trick. He's like, well, if you take those Kool Aid packets that you put in waters or, like, the little squirt, he's all. You just put a little bit in there and it's kind of like, stir it around, and then you don't really get that bitter taste out of it or whatever.
[01:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
[01:18:35] Speaker B: So, yeah, if I do, I have to do that, but I don't really drink that shit. I.
I'm not a huge drinker.
Like, I don't consume alcohol, like, all day, all night, or whatever. Now I'm into just really, like.
Like, I drink old fashions and stuff.
[01:18:51] Speaker A: Yeah, old fashioned, like. Like liquor or. Okay.
[01:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So when I do. If I do consume some type alcohol, but I really. I really don't. I don't really try to. You know, I have bottles and stuff like that, but some that have been gifted to me, but I don't really drink.
[01:19:06] Speaker A: Like, were you ever, like, a heavy drinker?
[01:19:09] Speaker B: Uh, I wouldn't say a heavy drinker, but, I mean, I would drink, like, heavily when I would do. Would go out and things like that. But now it's just because of all the stuff that I got going on. And, you know, um. You know what? Other things around me, I don't. I don't try to consume in that, man. I'm just. At this point in my life, it's as I don't ever want to be the cause of, um, you know, putting somebody else's life in danger or even myself, you know? Am I a victim of doing that? Drinking and driving to sir? Of course everybody is, right? But it's just certain things, man, I just don't. I don't ever want to be on the jail app for that, you know? So I don't really.
[01:19:50] Speaker A: It was like, FaceTime with, like. Is that what it is?
[01:19:52] Speaker B: The noises county jail out?
[01:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:19:54] Speaker B: Yeah. What do you mean?
[01:19:55] Speaker A: I don't know. What are you talking about?
[01:19:57] Speaker B: The noises county jail act.
Let me. Do you want me to give them a plug, too?
[01:20:03] Speaker A: Yeah, come on. We got a comment here, bruh.
[01:20:06] Speaker B: They say that NCSO. That's what it is.
[01:20:09] Speaker A: NCSO.
[01:20:10] Speaker B: NCSO. Every man, anybody watching, trust me. Y'all know. But you know what I mean? Let me tell you what I hate.
Don't go do something stupid. You get locked up, you end up on the app, and your fucking mug shot is you crying and shit. Because it's like, yo, you knew what the fuck you were doing. You know what I'm saying? Like, don't go out there crying like hell. No, man.
[01:20:39] Speaker A: Christie, bro, somebody say you did comedy at one time.
[01:20:46] Speaker B: Yes.
I've never done comedy. I'm just funny.
I say a lot of funny shit, but now I've never done. I've actually had somebody tell me to do it. Shout out to my boy, Lito Cortez. He died.
That's my homie, man.
Yeah, that's my homie, man.
[01:21:05] Speaker A: We were in a band together.
[01:21:07] Speaker B: He played drums. Yeah.
Candy man. And.
[01:21:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:21:14] Speaker B: His mom's sisters and all. Yeah, bro. Yeah, that's my. That's my dude right there.
[01:21:20] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome. So you know him from. How do you know him? Through. Is that.
[01:21:24] Speaker B: Or. Uh. Man, I can't even remember I met.
[01:21:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:21:29] Speaker B: Shit, it's been so. I mean. Yeah, but no, that's. That's my boy, bro. Like, we've actually talked about, like, doing, like, comedy shows and stuff like that. Like that and.
[01:21:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it was into that. I haven't seen him.
[01:21:42] Speaker B: Very talented, man. Very talented.
[01:21:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Funny dude.
[01:21:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
But, yeah, we've done. We. I've known him for a long time.
[01:21:51] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome.
[01:21:53] Speaker B: Small world.
[01:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
You got those projects coming up. You would. DJ Stump is there. So what's the future? What's up? What's going on with a crooked Christie? You got new.
[01:22:04] Speaker B: So we would crooked. We got a lot of new merch coming out.
I just say, I just always say hopefully, because you never know what's gonna happen for one area the other. But my goal now is, is to just try to introduce a lot of different stuff.
I wanted. I really want to focus on doing a lot of things for women.
We did at the BegiNning, we had, like, women's leggings and things like that. I'm in the process right now of dropping a crooked Christie makeup palette and other things that are related to makeup.
So I'm in the process of doing that.
I'm probably hopefully, before the year's out, I want to drop a limited edition skateboard for skateboarders and stuff like that. Yeah, but I only. I'm only gonna make a CertaIn amount, ANd then after that, you know, it's, you know, it's over with that one. Yeah, but I just. I just really want to tap into a lot of DifferEnT stuff. I know one of the. One of the plans is to start introducing a lot of stuff that's gym related for all the gym rats out there and that, like bottle shakers, gym bags, apparel for the gym, things like that.
I really, I just, I just. And what I. What. What I want to do coming up this year, too, is I not only with my alma mater west also, but I want to do some stuff with all the school districts and try to do something to where every hat or shirt or whatever that's sold related to the school, a percentage goes back to them. You know what I mean? But I really want to start with, you know, like I said, mom and Mater west also, and try to put something in place where, you know, hopefully, you know, like, a spirit store can be created, you know, to where everything is made by crooked Christie, but it's just all West Oso edition. And try to get, like, the kids to sell it within the school so that way they can learn about retail and other things like that. And whatever it, like I said, a percentage would go back into the school, so.
[01:24:13] Speaker A: Wow, that's like, that's dope, dude. So why did you decide to do that? Like, some people, they wouldn't even think about doing that because you.
[01:24:20] Speaker B: Because I feel. Well, I mean, well, one, because I still have kids that, you know, my kids are still in school, except for my son. My son's already in college, but he just started his thing in here. But the thing is, is because you're not taught a lot of things that are really important in school.
[01:24:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:24:40] Speaker B: You know, so I look at it like, you know, a lot of these kids, man, I feel like they're set up for failure as soon as they come out, especially the ones that don't go to college, you know? So I look at it like, out of us, you know, four brothers. My second oldest brother is the only one that went to college. You know, he got a full ride to Johnson and Wells University in Rhode island. So, you know, but that was his thing. That's what he wanted to do. But there's a lot of people, you know, that just like me, I didn't care for college. I didn't care about going there, whatever. You know, that once I was on high school, that was it. And I, you know, continued to do what I was doing. But there's just a lot of kids that I feel that, like, that's why you have a lot of the shit that's going on now. Because a lot of these kids, they don't have no hustle behind them, right? You know, that's why a lot. A lot of them are out here doing dumb shit, you know? I mean, because they're there. Their world is so small. The way they look at the world is just like there to a lot of people. It's just. There's nothing more than corpus. And when you have that mentality, you're like the crabs in the bucket mentality. That's what it is. That's what a lot of these kids are in. They're in that bucket. So it's. If you could teach, you know, the younger crowd at the same time of teaching other people. And again, I'm not the most successful person in the world. I've never, you know, I got bills and problems. Everybody else, my thing is just, you know, I was barely 30 years old when I, you know, figured everything about credit. I went through all my twenties and, you know, like, paying everything cash because I didn't have the knowledge of credit. You know, my mind wasn't on that shit. My mind was just making moves, trying to make money, pay this, pay that. All this is that. Whatever, like. But when it got to the reality of being 30 years old and you couldn't do certain things because you have no credit, you know? So a lot of these kids, they don't know about shit like that.
[01:26:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:26:36] Speaker B: So.
[01:26:37] Speaker A: Right on. So you believe in, like, heavy keeping up your credit score?
[01:26:41] Speaker B: Of course.
Yeah. Now, my credit is good.
[01:26:46] Speaker A: I'm on the.
[01:26:47] Speaker B: I'm on the other side of man. I think it.
What am I, like, 700? Maybe something right out.
[01:26:54] Speaker A: So you feel like. So having a credit score would help you to, I guess, give you more purchasing power or, like, how do you look at that?
[01:27:03] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I mean, it's. It's, you know, you got kind of. It's not hard for you to do certain things, you know? But again, it's.
There's a lot of things that, you know, that I've been trying to do that I wasn't able because, again, of everything in the past that I didn't do as that. Because, remember, in my lifestyle was just. You're just busting a move. Yeah, busting a move and hustling. Hustling. Like, you're not looking at like, yeah, oh, I need credit card is. You're just paying cash for everything, you know. You know, the way you consume it, it's just cash flow. So it's like a lot of the things you just, you know, I just never get. My mom was like, don't ever get a credit card because if you ever put that shit in debt, I ain't never gonna pay that for you. Right. So that's. They're like, I don't want to mess with that. You know what I mean? Growing up in my teens. But again, as I got older, you're around people that don't talk about things like that and all that stuff, so.
[01:27:54] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure, there's definitely no knowledge.
[01:27:56] Speaker B: So I got up, you know, I got up and all that late, but, you know, I know about it now, you know?
[01:28:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Like you're saying teaching the kids something, like teaching them that.
[01:28:03] Speaker B: Yeah, the shit that matters. You know, the shit that actually matters. You know, the things that were a young kid, you get out of high school or even start now if they're still in school, working a job and start building something, so by the time they're 23, 24 years old, they're able to buy something that really matters.
[01:28:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:28:23] Speaker B: You know, compared to just wasting money on an apartment that they're never gonna own. You know what I'm saying?
[01:28:28] Speaker A: This.
[01:28:29] Speaker B: That's what this whole thing is about, right? Living and, you know, being able to pass things on to people, to where it keeps going and keeps going. Wow. And I think, yeah, I mean. I mean, it's just, you know, everybody's working towards something, you know, even people that, you know, might live in an apartment, their goal is to, what? Buy a home? You know what I mean? So it's like, it's you know, like, if there's levels, you know, so you do all that stuff and. But there's just a lot of people that I feel that just don't have the common knowledge about non stuff. And I was one of those people.
[01:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
[01:29:04] Speaker B: That's why I say that, you know, I was in the same boat too, at one point, but now it's just, you know, I fix my shit and I try to keep it, you know, fixed. I try to keep my bills on time and I pay on time or ahead of time and, you know, how.
[01:29:18] Speaker A: Do you, so, so do you. How do you. Do you, like, think about retirement money or how do you. How do you look at that? Like, say, like you're at, like because your dad retired from the school, right?
[01:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah, but my, I mean, my dad's been working since. I mean, my parents have been married since they were 15 years old.
[01:29:35] Speaker A: Amazing. Yeah, that's amazing to me, man.
[01:29:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:29:37] Speaker A: Be. To be married for that long and just, like, that's uncommon nowadays.
[01:29:41] Speaker B: Oh, totally, totally uncommon, dude.
[01:29:44] Speaker A: And it's, for me, like, it seems like there's a lot of broken homes. I mean, I don't know what your situation is, but.
[01:29:50] Speaker B: Broken home.
[01:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah. You see what I'm saying?
[01:29:51] Speaker B: Like, I just have to be a man and say it, you know what I mean? And, but again, but again, too, man, it's.
I don't, I don't regret none of the choices that I've made. Maybe when I was younger, I look back at it like, oh, you know, I should have thought better, whatever, but I'll never regret my kids. I'll never regret how they all came about and stuff like that.
And, you know, as much as I might have differences with their mothers and stuff like that witness, I'm just glad that I've never had to deal with a lot of things that maybe, like, people around me have dealt with. Like, I'm glad that their parent. I mean, their parents, their mom, their moms have never been on drugs. They all have a good job. They all, you know, Fend, you know, for them as much as they can. We all have some type of a good relationship to a certain point, you know, I mean, but I can honestly say that they all have good moms and they all, you know, step up to the plate as, you know, as much as I can, as well. And so I can. I'll never have that attitude, you know, with them about, you know, just saying they're all, they ain't worth the fuck and all shit, whatever, because, you know, they can say the same thing about me as well, you know what I mean? You know, when you get into those differences as you get older. But I'm just glad that my kids have that. And I'm glad that I was at least blessed to have kids with. With people that I've never had to worry about. Oh, you know, my mom went to jail or this or that, and I'm. And I'm pretty sure they feel the same way, you know, I've never, you know, been in certain type of things where my kids had to hurt from that, you know what I mean? So. But was my idea of having kids like, oh, you know, they're just gonna be in, you know, separate homes? No, that was never my goal. I mean, my goal, to be honest, was to. I never pictured myself having kids, you know what I mean? I have one son, I have three daughters. I never grew up with sisters. It was very hard to accustom myself to having daughters, you know what I mean?
[01:32:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:32:05] Speaker B: So. But it's the coolest shit in the world, you know?
[01:32:08] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
Props you for.
[01:32:11] Speaker B: I mean, I took my. My baby, Emily, you know, I took it to Las Vegas. We went, you know, cuz I'm a huge Raiders fan. Yeah, Raider Nation. Yeah. But, yeah, you know. You know, you know, 1415 years old going to Las Vegas, you know, talk about that. So I've been blessed, you know, give my kids a lot of the things that they want. You know, we have our days and have our months and stuff like that. And there's a lot of things that as a dad, I don't agree with and everything, but at the end of the day, mean my kids know what I've done for them and what I'll continue to do for them.
[01:32:45] Speaker A: What's some of the things that you worry. You worry for them?
[01:32:48] Speaker B: My kids?
[01:32:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
Because as parents were just like, because it's a dinner.
[01:32:54] Speaker B: Because it's a different world. Like, you know, it's, you know, like me, I just turned 38 and I remember, you know, when the street lights turned on, you came inside. You know, that's. That's what I was raised up on. You know, we played football in the streets and stuff, to be honest with you. And it's. I didn't know the conversation was gonna go into this. But I do worry, man. I worry because, you know, my son's just started his college thing and, you know, my son's a good kid. He. He's not.
Even though he grew up in parts of the neighborhood or around, you know, with me and everything like that. Besides his mom, you know, he just wasn't around. The shit like that is like I was, you know, know, so he has a good head on the shoulders. He knows what he wants to do. There's plenty of people that give him, you know, good advice and he's around, you know, not only good family members and everything like that and friends as well, but I just always worry that, you know, he might fall into a situation that has nothing to do with them or be at the wrong place at the wrong time or. So I always try to just tell them, you know, when we do talk is like, you always got to watch your surroundings. You just got to see, you know, what things, you know, are really about and just always, never, just never fall into the bullshit, you know? So, I mean, cuz you got kids out here just killing, killing each other off nothing. Well, you know, off nothing. And it's sad, bro. It's really sad.
[01:34:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And it's like you still want them to be able to try stuff.
[01:34:28] Speaker B: Of course, you know, I want my kids to travel. I want my kids to travel. That's why I try, you know, in the past to try to take them as many different as I, you know, places I've been. But, you know, my son, he's been to California to go visit his uncle. You know, taking my daughter to Las Vegas and things like that. You know, it's, you know, my youngest daughter, she's eight years old, but she travels a lot with my parents and, you know, so it's just things like that I just want them to see, you know, if it's not the whole world, at least to see that there's. The world is way bigger than something, way bigger than Texas.
Way bigger than Texas. So.
[01:35:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I can see how that can be an eye opener, man. See something other than that.
[01:35:09] Speaker B: But I also.
[01:35:10] Speaker A: Ted.
[01:35:10] Speaker B: But also try to tell him to. It's like, you know, when we do have these talks, I don't, you know, it's weird to have, like, certain talks, even with my kids, when we, you know, when we do talk, when we do have these, because it's just. Again, man, I don't. I don't feel old. I'm not old.
[01:35:26] Speaker A: That's.
[01:35:26] Speaker B: I know that for a fact. But, you know, it. They live in a totally different world. You know, you got to remember, like you said, we're, like, close to age, right? So you got to think about it. We were here before the Internet, when the Internet started, and now we're here after the Internet, right. So they're here with all this stuff happening.
So it's kind of like, you know, that's. That's the thing that I kind of worry about is that my kids get caught up in a whole bunch of shit that, you know, that doesn't. That really shouldn't pertain to them. But, you know, I.
The one thing I know is that I can't control a lot of things that I can't control. Yeah, that's, you know, things are gonna happen, is gonna happen.
[01:36:11] Speaker A: It almost seems like, as a parent, we kind of want to gravitate toward that because we have kids, you know?
[01:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:36:16] Speaker A: We want to be, like, trying to control everything, but we know we can.
[01:36:20] Speaker B: Just like, my daughters, man, I don't ever want them to depend on a man. You know, I want them to know that you live in a world now that as long as you have your head on right, you know, you find a hustle. You know, you. You find multiple hustles. You know what I mean? Like, because what happens is that I feel that even if. Even if somebody, you know, doesn't have a hobby, it's good to find one, you know, even if it's, you know, where you can make some money out of it. Because now, think about it. When COVID hit, it scared a lot of people because a lot of people didn't know what the fuck to do, right? Because you've been at this one job doing this one thing, and now you just don't know what to do. But think about all the people that had multiple hustles. You know, make a t shirt doing this. Like, you know, like, people knew, like, oh, shit. Okay, well, my major income that's not coming in from that. I could do this over here.
[01:37:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:37:10] Speaker B: And, you know, I mean, people were just playing the guitar on live feeds, and people were cash shopping. Then think about that, right? Like, people found. And that's. That's just knowing that you have that hustle mentality, so. And. And if you have it, man, it's. It's. It's not something that you just pick up. It's something I feel that you're born with. Like, some people have it, some people don't.
[01:37:35] Speaker A: I don't know. I want to. I want to go as far as to say that. Like. Like, our culture, I guess. Mm hmm. Like, especially the older generation. Like, they work hard, bro.
[01:37:44] Speaker B: Oh, my ideas, they.
[01:37:46] Speaker A: They still work hard to this God day. And they're like, oh, I'm like, yeah. You know what I mean?
[01:37:50] Speaker B: I mean, it's. You'll never, you'll never. I mean, my. The stuff that I do, I mean, I'll never.
I'll never match up to what my parents have done. That's how I feel. You know what I mean? Because they came from a whole different era. They. They've worked to a certain point. There were certain things that they were able to do right off the rip, you know what I mean? And nowadays, a lot of this stuff don't exist, so.
[01:38:13] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a changing world, and you have to change with the time, of course.
[01:38:17] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[01:38:18] Speaker A: Figure it out.
[01:38:18] Speaker B: Yeah. And I'm in the game where the shit is evolving every day. You know what I mean? Think about it. You're going from Facebook, Twitter, snapchat, Instagram, tick tock. You know, if they ban the whole tick tock thing or America buys it, like, what's gonna come after that? I mean, right now, there's somebody sitting in their bedroom or in an office trying to create something that's way better than TikTok.
[01:38:41] Speaker A: Wow. Crazy. Do you find yourself, like, being a rot, wanting to be around younger, younger, the newer generation? Because that's the technology that they've been growing up in.
[01:38:53] Speaker B: No, I mean. I mean, I learn every day. So a lot of the stuff that's happening, I mean, I'm using it myself or I'm figuring it out myself, but I'm always willing to get with people that, you know, want to do something or they're, you know, you know, something that's going on, you know, I'm always ready to tap into something, but I just can't do things with people that. Where if I. If I see myself doing all of the work, yeah, there's no reason. There's no reason for me to even be around, you know, I mean, that's what happens most of the time.
[01:39:26] Speaker A: But do you some micromanaging, like.
[01:39:30] Speaker B: Like, I don't micromanage nobody. I just do, you know, I do it, you know. You know, the shit that I do like clothing, you know, the crooked. Chrissy wise, you know. Again, I do it with my brothers, so, you know, one of me, you know, me and my brother Jason, you know, we go at it sometimes and, you know, because we're two people.
[01:39:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:39:51] Speaker B: Doing, you know, we know we're on the same level of certain things that we're always just trying to be better ourselves and, you know. But, no, I don't. I don't. I don't micromanage nobody, man. I just, you know, I've never I've never really been in a position to have to macro manage anybody except myself, you know what I mean? So.
But other than that, like, you know, I'm always willing to work with people. That's what, that's one of my main goals is music wise, is I want to get with a lot of people that do music that are actually. I got something going on and I want to drop, like, five song projects with them. Probably shoot a video to each project and just put it out and just build like that, you know, besides of doing my own solo thing. But I want. There's. There's a lot of, you know, talented artists out here that are just never gonna get their shine or they don't have, you know, the money and things like that. Like, I, like, I did, you know, so a lot of those people, man, they're just never gonna shine. And I feel like they're just, you know, it's. It'll become wasted talent.
[01:40:52] Speaker A: Mmm.
[01:40:53] Speaker B: You know, so, like, sometimes you're around.
[01:40:56] Speaker A: Like, the wrong people that could keep them from progressing.
[01:41:02] Speaker B: Of course, if you're around four broke dudes, what do you think you're gonna become?
So, you know, I rather get with people that, you know, have built their platform or structure off of, you know, this and that that has made it go up, and that's what you want to build around, you know, you're never gonna get nowhere hanging with a bunch of motherfuckers that just.
[01:41:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:41:28] Speaker B: Ain't past level one, bro.
[01:41:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:41:30] Speaker B: You know, so when I look at certain things, I'm like, I don't work for me.
[01:41:35] Speaker A: And some people on level one, they think they're on level ten already.
[01:41:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Where it comes to reality when they. When they look at level over here and they're like, yeah, they ain't for me.
[01:41:44] Speaker A: Oh, reality check.
[01:41:47] Speaker B: Yeah, but, I mean, you can get there. I'm not here talking shit. I'm just saying, like, but get there the right way because trying to kiss ass and trying to, you know, skip the line and all this stuff, because I've always, I've always believed this is that you can go from.
You can go from one to 100, right? Like, you can. You can go around everybody, but what happens when you get to the hundred spot and you're not equipped to stay there because you've missed every little thing you're supposed to pick up along the way. Right?
Think about it.
[01:42:23] Speaker A: Like, wow. Crazy, man.
[01:42:24] Speaker B: Yeah. It's amazing.
[01:42:25] Speaker A: You need that. You need those. All those other steps to get to that.
[01:42:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Crazy legend. Of Zelda Legend.
Just saying, you know, Mario can't fly. Mario can't fly in there without that leaf. You know what I mean? Like, just, just saying, I'm just saying Raider can't shoot that bear with these.
[01:42:57] Speaker A: So me d still please the game today?
[01:42:59] Speaker B: Yeah, Xbox.
[01:43:02] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:43:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've had every, I mean, I got, what do I got at home?
I think I still somewhere, it wasn't mine. It was my brother's, but I know the Atari. I still have the original nes. Yeah, I have Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, the first Xbox, Xbox 360, latest Xbox. And. Yeah, I've never owned a PlayStation.
[01:43:34] Speaker A: Seriously?
[01:43:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I've never owned a place you didn't want to. Like once I got Xbox yet, but, yeah, I've never owned a PlayStation.
[01:43:43] Speaker A: I got guys come through here and they're always. There's always the debate. Console or pc.
[01:43:48] Speaker B: Yeah, but I barely, you know what's so crazy? So younger. I used to be a heavy gamer, but my games were like.
And I still play this as they. I'm a huge tomb Raider fan, so I play Tomb Raider a lot. I play the Hitman series a lot.
I barely got on.
Is it.
Is it modern warfare?
[01:44:09] Speaker A: I'm not too sure.
[01:44:11] Speaker B: People probably don't song about. Yeah, I really got on that. Like, that's the first version.
[01:44:15] Speaker A: Shooter or.
[01:44:16] Speaker B: Yeah, even though I hate those games.
[01:44:18] Speaker A: Really? Wow.
[01:44:18] Speaker B: Yes. It gives me a headache as all you see is the hand. Like, I never. I hate it. Fuck, I love. People are gonna fucking hate me for this. I'm sorry. I just couldn't get what? Fucking goldeneye.
Couldn't get that whole hand shit. That's all you see? I couldn't do it. I hate that. He started nauseous, dude.
[01:44:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:44:40] Speaker B: It's just because it's like, you go and you just see the hand like.
And I'm just like, yo, I can't. I can't. I can't fuck with those games, bro. I got to see the person.
[01:44:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:44:51] Speaker B: You know, walking around and I got to see that. I can't do the first.
[01:44:55] Speaker A: I can see that, like, you figuring.
[01:44:56] Speaker B: Stuff out, but, I mean, that's what that, you know, the modern warfare and all this stuff is, you know, shooting other people. But, you know, I just hate that gun, man.
[01:45:05] Speaker A: Like, you get online, like, you play with people online.
[01:45:07] Speaker B: When I get a chance to, yeah. I mean, I don't have a lot of time to play. When I do, it's like three in the morning. Two in the morning. You know, when I can't sleep. But other than that, I love video games, man.
[01:45:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So you started with the video games.
[01:45:23] Speaker B: The movies my brothers did, because, remember, they're older. They're way older than me, but. Yeah, they had an Atari, and then, you know, my past was cleaning out the attic a while back, and he pulled out a lot of stuff that we had to put up there, and I. We still got the.
Was it super pad?
[01:45:51] Speaker A: Old school. Nintendo 64, classic.
[01:45:54] Speaker B: Never had that, though.
[01:45:55] Speaker A: No. Okay. Okay.
[01:45:56] Speaker B: Never had a Nintendo 64.
[01:45:57] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[01:45:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:46:00] Speaker A: We're talking about games right now, bro.
[01:46:03] Speaker B: That shit, man. Just because, you know, it's. It's, you know, human like everybody else.
[01:46:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, no.
[01:46:11] Speaker B: I mean, people think I'm an asshole at one point because they. And I've had this told to me it's because they'll go to my instagram and they're like, all your pictures make you look like you're just.
You know. And I'm just like, it's just photo aesthetics, you know? But, um. But not. I mean, you know, I try to have a good time with everybody.
[01:46:30] Speaker A: Yeah, that's crazy, bro.
[01:46:31] Speaker B: I don't got no beef with nobody. And, you know. You know, if you're busy, too, and.
[01:46:36] Speaker A: You got it, you got a goal, you got a plan, like.
[01:46:38] Speaker B: Well, yeah, man. I mean, again, it's. But still, it's like, you know, it's.
I'm just. I'm like this, man. I like to. You know, if there's a good time, I'm all with it. And, you know, I'm not a problematic person, but, you know, if it has to get to that, you know, whatever, but it's at. You know, I just wake up. It's good, you know, good to go, you know, ready for the tackle the day. And, you know, some days I'm like, I don't want to tackle this shit, but got to get up and do it. And then, you know, my day never really stops, man, to be honest. It really doesn't. I mean, I go from one thing over here to go over here to go this, and. And in the midst of all that, of my workflow, I'm still having to deal with personal stuff, you know? So it's like. It's a whole bunch of shit and juggle everything. Yeah, man. And. And I'm just glad I'm not one of those people that I don't let it consume me or I become depressed and different stuff. I try to not think about things like that, and, you know, I try to keep myself meditated. To where it's like, you know, at this point, man, I look at it like. Like I told you earlier, I can't sit bitch and complain about certain things. Shit is gonna happen, is gonna happen. You gotta think. You gotta figure it out. And because you know what it's like, what are you gonna do? Yeah, right off, you know?
[01:48:00] Speaker A: So do you. Do you believe it? Oh, crooked Christie shirt he's wearing. Oh, yeah, she's asking about the crooked Christie shirt. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got a crooked Christie shirt. Chachi hit up the. His website. Crooked Christie text. Crooked Christie, TX calm. Mm hmm.
[01:48:19] Speaker B: You see, I was giving you false information.
[01:48:22] Speaker A: Keep it.
[01:48:22] Speaker B: He was gatekeeping. Come on, man, where I get it.
[01:48:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Crooked Christie, TX, calm.
[01:48:29] Speaker B: Crooked Christie, TX calm. Man, don't forget to follow us on Instagram and Facebook and all that. So. See that radio voice right there?
[01:48:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So your. So your tag is crooked Christy everywhere.
[01:48:41] Speaker B: Yeah, crooked Christie. No, there's just the URL. That's okay.
[01:48:45] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have. You couldn't get the URL.
[01:48:48] Speaker B: You know what's so crazy? Let me tell you a story. Um, so somebody came to us. We're dave the dead.
They came to us and they try to say that they owned a thing called Crooked Christie. Right. So I was like, all right, whatever, you know, again, already, I was already dealing with super shit like this, right?
So dude had a Facebook page, all this other shit or whatever. And what was it?
I don't know if he was trying to do clothing as well or something like that. And he was telling me that he owned this neon that. And it's like, well, how do you own something if I actually own it? If the trademark is already trademark, it's copyright. Is that like it? Like, how do you own something you don't own? Right, right. And.
Yeah, so I don't. I don't know if this person, like, owned the URL or some shit like that or whatever, but I remember talking to the dude on the phone and, you know, I remember the conversation was like, look, bro, like, whatever you're trying to do is not gonna work, right? And you know, you're not gonna win anything.
I'm telling him that. Yeah, I'm telling him that. Like, whatever. Whatever you're thinking you think you could do, it's not gonna happen, right? Like, I. You know, we own this shit, right? But I did tell him, I was like, look, man, you know, I think he said he did had bought. He bought the URL or some shit like that. And I was just like, well, okay, well, you know, I'll give you what it's worth. Oh, yeah, and how much is the URL's? Like $1112. I give you what it's worth. You know, and because this is at the very beginning of when all this stuff is starting and usually like, oh, well, this and that and all shit. And I was like, look, bro, like, I don't give a fuck if you have a URL, whatever. Like, I own the trademark.
This is who. She's mine. Like, you know, and he found out pretty quick that, like, no, serious.
[01:50:55] Speaker A: Is that website. Let me see. Let me look at cookie. Chrissy, calm. See if they still own it. Have you checked?
[01:51:01] Speaker B: We checked to see if, you know, crooked crazy Texas.
You know, I mean, there's nothing on their page. There's nothing. There's no. There's no that. Nobody still. Nobody had nothing related to what we had. So again, it's just somebody just tried doing something or whatever, and it just. I don't know. Yeah, so, yeah, no, nobody owned anything. Like, nobody owned this before we did. Like, we literally created all this.
[01:51:29] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah.
[01:51:31] Speaker B: So I didn't create the word. Yeah, I just create. We created the brand. So it's, you know, so you.
[01:51:38] Speaker A: So you're. You can't go. They don't. Haven't picked you to go to the day of the dead anymore. No.
[01:51:44] Speaker B: I mean, you don't get paid. You have to, like, register and on the stuff. But I mean, when you go, when you're doing it for like, three, four years straight, and all of a sudden you send in the same paperwork and you send in the same this, and then you get rejected. It's kind of like, what? You know, so I don't know. Somebody. I don't know how true it is, but somebody was telling me that, you know, it went back to where things that were being sold there, it had to actually be handmade. And I don't know. I don't know how true that is, but think it's just kind of fucking stupid. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Buy it? Go buy a t shirt machine and be there on the side of the street and be like, oh, here you go. Like, fucking retarded. But that's what I'm saying is stupid shit like that.
What am I supposed. You know, I'm supposed to have somebody's grandma embroidering the hat so I could be a part. Like, yeah, you know, but you'll let. You know. Miss so and so down here sell soaps and shit. And you don't know what they're putting into it, but I got a fucking. You know, it's. I hate that shit, man. God, sometimes I get so upset with corpus. I love corpus.
[01:52:45] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:52:46] Speaker B: But God damn, man. It's like, young motherfuckers need to get y'all shit together when it comes to some of this shit, you know? That's what people get pissed off around here, bro. I'm sorry. I'm gonna get irate on this mother. City council and whoever you motherfuckers are.
[01:53:02] Speaker A: All the way up to the top, bro.
[01:53:04] Speaker B: No, yeah, that's cool. You know, but then I think about, like, man, do I want to be out there in 100 degree heat.
I love y'all, but, God, I can't be iron hundred, you know, 100 degree heat trying to sell you a t shirt, maybe, like, just order it, you know, order it off the west side. I throw a free sticker in there.
[01:53:25] Speaker A: People don't.
[01:53:26] Speaker B: You know what's so crazy? People don't even know that, you know?
Oh, people don't even know that, you know? Sometimes I might throw a little extra in that package.
[01:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:53:37] Speaker B: You know, for love, you know?
[01:53:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool.
[01:53:41] Speaker B: You package it yourself or do everything there?
[01:53:45] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[01:53:46] Speaker B: There is no.
You order the t shirt off the website, and then it's like a whole third company that prints it and it sends it up. No, I'm mailing that shit. Yeah, I got to get my ass up in the morning to make sure all those orders.
[01:54:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:54:05] Speaker B: You know, to the mailbox and, you know, stuff like that.
[01:54:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:54:08] Speaker B: I've had people actually like, hey, can you just come drop it off to me? You know, stuff like that?
[01:54:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Drop ship is DJ Lil King.
[01:54:17] Speaker B: It's really not. It's really dropped drop shipping, too. It's funny he brought that up. A drop ship is sometimes really not a good thing to even get into fruit for stuff, man.
[01:54:26] Speaker A: Money that way, I think.
[01:54:27] Speaker B: Yeah, you do.
But, you know, it's. It's.
But that's what it is, man. I actually. We did, you know, take it. Now that I think about it, we did have. There was a point time that I did find a space, and I wanted to open up as a store, and I don't think they like the idea, the owner of the plaza or something. I don't think they like the idea of, like, having, like, a clothing, like, a street wear thing. This is. This is the thing that gets me.
Why shoot down an idea or business, whatever. You don't even know what the concept of the business is. But this is what. This is exactly what has happened with me with a lot of different stuff. And. And I'm here to tell you this. And I hope that, you know, you have an audience that the people that deal with the city, though, so. So they know this is that.
Again, I would have never made and peep this. I would have never made the front page of the business section if this was something negative.
[01:55:37] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:55:39] Speaker B: You think the caller times would have threw me on the front page of the business section if this was bad? If this was something that wasn't actually, you know, I understand crooked Christie people think it's bad and all that stuff, but come on, it's gotten to the point to where it's like, you know what's fucking cool, right? Like, you own your brand, right? And you're giving me props.
[01:56:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:56:05] Speaker B: Right. So think about that. We've built something to where again, how cool would it be?
Crooked Christie hooks Jersey night dude doing a partnership with them. And it's like, dude, the fur. The first person, one of the first people to buy something from us at the day of the day. This is when we were barely setting our tent up and stuff like that, right? It was like four or five in the afternoon or some shit like that. The first person to buy something from us was like a 60 year old white lady.
[01:56:37] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:56:37] Speaker B: Do you think she knew what the fuck crooked Chrissy was? Fuck no. Because she told me. I don't even know what this is, but it looks cool. And boom, bought the first shirt.
So think about that, dude. I've had police officers buy my shit.
You know, like there was one, I forgot his name, but I had a police officer come to one of our pop up. He wasn't. He wasn't on duty or nothing like that. But he told me that before even attempting to purchase our stuff, he had looked into it to make sure that it had nothing to do any type of gang shit or whatever. When he saw what we were doing, because we were doing all these pop ups, you know, inviting the community to come see other. He saw then like, okay, this ain't bad. And when he started to see our shirt designs and our hats designs and stuff like that shit, he came and fucking would come and shot with us a lot, you know. So it's nothing negative, man, at all. I want. I mean, I've made, you know, crooked Chrissy is for the youngest kid, boy or girl on the block to the oldest dude. You know? I mean, so it's just an all around brand.
[01:57:44] Speaker A: Yeah. CC hooks collab would be fire. You see that?
[01:57:48] Speaker B: So hooks get together.
[01:57:51] Speaker A: Get.
[01:57:52] Speaker B: Get who I need to talk to over.
You know, they ain't got paper shit. I'll pay for my own God.
[01:58:01] Speaker A: Like a local brand, man.
[01:58:03] Speaker B: Dude, that would be sweet, dude. I mean, just. I mean, crooked Christie Hooks Jersey night. Like, all those jerseys that they do, the ones I just give the people 100 fraud, you know, I'd be like, man, let's create this one badass jersey. You know, something? And the first hundred people to walk in there, however they do it, you know, it's like, you know. Yeah, yeah. You know, so that's big right there. Hopefully, we can make it happen.
[01:58:26] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[01:58:27] Speaker B: You know, so, man, but I would love to do with all of them. I would love to do it, you know, maybe with the islanders.
[01:58:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:58:34] Speaker B: What is the ice rays? I would love to. I would love to drop a crooked Christie ice race jersey, you know what I mean? Have it one for one night or something.
What else are we getting over beginning something else?
[01:58:46] Speaker A: I'm not sure, man.
[01:58:47] Speaker B: It's like a football thing or something that started. Yeah, whatever all that shit is. I want to do it all, man. But it's just because, see, I don't know who's in charge of certain things like that.
[01:58:59] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
[01:58:59] Speaker B: You know, and if I go to certain people that I think I know who may be, they might not give me that information because they don't want to see me shine out here. You know what I mean? So it's kind of like I just got a flood through the little pipeline myself and just go straight to the. Yeah, but I mean, if enough people, you know, tag us in the comments and say, hey, y'all need to do a collab with such and such, that's where you start to wake people up, man. And that's what I want people to know. Like, you know, that's how shit happens. The. The amount of people that want to see something happen need to go and they need a comment. Like, man, y'all need to do a collab with this or do a collab with that. You know what I mean? So that way it actually happens. Because a lot of times, things don't happen just solely off one person, you know, because I can go in there and sell. Sell myself and sell this and try to do all that. But it takes the community of the people that actually like to see shit like that happen. Speak up.
[01:59:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:59:54] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So it's, it's. It's easier said than done.
[01:59:59] Speaker A: Joe Brock, is your hooks. Plugs plug now.
[02:00:02] Speaker B: Okay. There you go. Let's get it. Let's get it cracking.
[02:00:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to that person that put you in the business section, whoever that wrote that article, dude.
[02:00:11] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that was a Julie. Yeah, Julie put us out there, and she. She saw what we were doing and she. Yeah, man. Came and did a whole interview and put me on there and. Yeah, yeah, that sits on my wall, too. I would have never thought that would happen. Wow.
[02:00:29] Speaker A: Seriously.
[02:00:30] Speaker B: So it's pretty cool, you know, it's.
[02:00:33] Speaker A: Like a trophy, man. Dude.
[02:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's just. I mean, again, man, it's just. It's. It's. It's just a cool thing to see done and be able be to a part of, because, again, I come from a place that my life could have went a hundred different ways, you know, I mean, I could have got trapped up in the system and done this and done that and. You know what I mean? And I'm just glad that I've gotten this far doing things, you know, with my brothers and, you know, other people that I do business with. With other. With other stuff. But I mean, to make things like the local paper and, you know, be on this and be on that and, I mean, even being on something like this, you know what I mean? Because you got to look at it like, whether people look at your podcast big or small, even, like, you know, kings riding high, whatever, it's still an honor for me because you're inviting, you know what I mean? I'm not here knocking on the door, like, hey, can I get on your thing? You know what I mean? So it's once, when somebody invites you on, you got to take that as an honor, you know what I mean? Because you don't. You mean you don't have to be there. Yeah, you know what I mean? Those, you know, anybody doesn't have to invite you or do that or whatever. And that's why I try to keep, you know, a good relationship with folks because, you know, just like me, if I know somebody does something and someone says, hey, man, does somebody know, you know, that does this or do that? Like, man, I go quickly tag them. You know what I mean? Because those people always done right by me, you know what I mean? They've been respectful to me. They always show me love. I'm gonna show love back. And it's the same thing, you know, like.
And she's always got to do things.
[02:02:10] Speaker A: Like that, you know, even.
[02:02:11] Speaker B: Even, you know, king, you know, he's hollered at me about doing like a riding high crooked Chrissy, you know, collabo and things like that. And I've had a lot of people ask me about different collabs and stuff like that. But it just always comes down to the business wise of it. Does it make sense? You know, are we gonna, you know, make, you know, some money out of it? And, you know, again, is it gonna make sense? You know? Cuz I rather, you know, do things that make sense. Cuz at the end of the day when you make it happen, it becomes way more beautiful because it's like, damn, that should actually work, you know, I mean, so that's why you always got to make sure what you do, you do it from, you know, the ground up.
[02:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a business. It's your livelihood. And then shout out to the Ryan Hive podcast, which I found out about you. I mean, you were on scoop dose red and high podcast.
[02:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[02:03:00] Speaker A: And then I was like, oh shit, I got to get him on. So after, when I saw that, I hollered at you.
[02:03:04] Speaker B: Yeah, like, come on, man.
[02:03:06] Speaker A: And then, like, I don't want people to think that there's any animosity toward us because like, I have a brand too. And there was like, I got a comment from somebody like when I first started, they're like, oh, crooked Christie's, like the original brand or whatever, man.
[02:03:19] Speaker B: You know, I don't.
I mean, I pay attention to what's going on because you got to. But, you know, I'm not gonna sit here and down somebody else for doing something, you know what I mean? Unless it's something like trying to like copy us or try to step on our toes or something. But, but again, you never do that in the fashion of doing something like that publicly. You know, they mean, like there was a time where, you know, somebody was selling crooked Christie shirts, but it was like designed with the, you know, Chanel logos and, you know, all that shit. And, you know, it was being sold in the trade center and, you know, I had to go and just talk to them and let them know like, hey, I own that. And, you know, you can't sell a t shirt that says crooked Christie on it because I don't want people to think I made that. It goes down the same path of when people thought, you know, me and, you know, Dusty's corpus had was made by me, you know what I'm saying? Because, you know, a lot of people don't know. And the confusion is there, but at the same time, you still have to, you know, let people know that, no, you don't do that. You don't do this, whatever. But I don't.
I don't take negative energy from that type of stuff. You know what I mean? Because, again, it's like everybody's in their own lane. You know what I mean? I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to crash into somebody else's lane. I'm in my own thing. You know, I'm in tunnel vision. Like, unless the thing just doesn't deal with, you know, messing with anything that's going on over here, financially, legally, whatever. I mean, more power to you.
[02:04:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[02:04:58] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So, you know, but I've had a lot of. Dude, trust me, I've had a lot of people hit me up about, how can I do this? How can I do that? You know, I'll give them some gems or whatever, and then it's like they're quickly back to throwing shade on me, you know what I mean? I helped a lot of people, bro. I've done a lot of things for a lot of people. And then I'm not talking money wise.
[02:05:20] Speaker A: I'm talking.
[02:05:20] Speaker B: Talking about throwing gems, helping them do this, write music, produce this, all the different shit. I'll never. I'll never get credit of love being shown back to a certain extent, you know what I mean? That's just the way it is, you know? And that's why it's just kind of like I don't even, you know, pay attention to what's going on as long as it doesn't affect over here, you know, more, like I said, more part of you and everybody else, you know.
[02:05:43] Speaker A: You find yourself, like, tempted. Do you find yourself tempted to want to be like. Like, no, they owe me money. You know what I mean?
[02:05:48] Speaker B: Like, oh, there's people that owe me money.
[02:05:50] Speaker A: They owe me this, or they only.
[02:05:52] Speaker B: There's people right now on social media there will cap all day. But I'm just like, man, you owe me money.
But.
But again, it's just, I don't. I don't. I mean, I'll say little slick shit here and there, whatever, but I deal with people one on one. I'm not gonna waste my time on social media talking shit or whatever. I mean that I've. Have I done it? Yes, I have. But, you know, there was one time I had to do it because somebody tried to say some slick, and I had to, you know, park it. But at the same time, it's like if I if I have an issue, if I have a real issue, a real, real issue, I'm gonna go talk to that person because I always feel conversation is what's gonna change everything. Yeah, see, because what happens a lot, it goes back to, you know, the lies, more entertainers. And the truth is that, you know, people are just gonna create their own little narrative about, you know, me and everybody else but you, you just kind of sometimes got a nip that shit, man. And that's why, like, if I ever hear something about me or whatever and it's not something crazy, whatever, you know, I'll just be like, you know, like, did you really say this about me or do you feel this way or whatever? But I. It's never been in any type of like, you know, disrespectful talker shit type of thing unless it had to go that route. But I mean, I've never really had to be in situations like that. So I believe a conversation will change everything. Especially when you're way older, you know, where we're 1718 years old, you know, fucking. They're probably gonna be no conversation. Someone's gonna try to shoot somebody just for the hell of it. But now, like, I don't have no real beef. I mean, I do have my issues with certain individuals that I'll take that to the grave. But other than that there is no legitimate beef. And people, you know, especially not in business, you know, fuck yeah.
[02:07:40] Speaker A: Business is business, man. This is a good conversation.
[02:07:43] Speaker B: I mean, the money that you make is your money. What I have, you know, I'm.
[02:07:46] Speaker A: That's what I say to. I'm like, well, I got one dusty sell stuff. There's Breland Price. He's got the corpus for everything made in Corpus Christi.
[02:07:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, he. Yeah, you know, he's one of my homies too, you know, I'm saying?
[02:07:59] Speaker A: And.
[02:08:00] Speaker B: And, you know, he's, he's.
He's hit me up. We've had conversations about, you know, he ask me certain things and I'll tell them this and that and, you know, everybody's just doing their thing, man. You know, it's people.
My thing is the people that support me, the people that support crooked, the people that support my music, I'm grateful for them because I don't have to, you know what I'm saying, that they don't have. I don't expect anybody to do anything, you know what I mean? My thing is just. This is what I do. This is what I chose to do. And I hope that every time somebody listens to one of my songs, they enjoy it or they like it or share it, or if they buy a cup or a shirt or a hat or crooked Chrissy, they feel proud to know that something was made for us, you know what I mean? Because this brand don't have no colors, you know what I mean? It's for everybody, you know? And, I mean, there's all. There's also something, too that I'm going to introduce.
I just don't really know what it is yet, but it's in the works for just the LGBTQ community, you know what I mean? So to show people, like, amen, like, whatever you may feel, whatever. Like, I'm cool with everybody, man, you know? I want everybody to shine. Right on, you know? But sometimes there are certain people that don't want you to shine, you know what I mean? But I say, fuck it. Yeah, I'm in the rough, man.
[02:09:23] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So go against the grain.
[02:09:25] Speaker B: Got to.
[02:09:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, man. Well, appreciate you coming out, man. 2 hours right here. I'm falling asleep already.
I'm an old man, bro.
[02:09:35] Speaker B: You must have worked.
[02:09:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, shoot, man. But, yeah. Thanks for coming on.
[02:09:39] Speaker B: You got any?
Oh, man.
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[02:10:05] Speaker A: Support it, you guys, for watching, stay tuned for the next few episodes. We got some other people coming on. Stay tuned. You can check out on Instagram everywhere else. Spotify, whatever. Appreciate you guys. Have a good one.
[02:10:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
