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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They get a little bit called me. That's right man
reporting live from Atlanta Jojah Ball Alert Show. You know
b T.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What's good y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
This man has turned to a rapper? Now, god, man,
how does it feel?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's shocking? Bro.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It caught me off guard for real, because you know,
I grew up thinking I'm be an NBA star, So
she just caught me out the blue.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But I'm here for it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Do you ever get that it'sh to like wanna wanna
still play ball?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I still do.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I like hooping, bro, Like I get a call tomorrow
and get to it. But I feel like this moment
my life now, like this the path I gotta take on.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Now, how did you know the song was starting to move?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Because I feel like, uh, you know, correct me if
I'm wrong, But I feel like this song kind of
like blew up like overnight.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah it did.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Actually, I mean I dropped it on the stream on
neon stream, went to sleep, and then by the time
I woke up, my shoes flooded.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
So you know, I'm trying to see who picked like
how to get picked up?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What was it about dropped the song? Bro? You said,
what how to get picked up?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Yeah? Like who who heard it to where it went?
So damn viral the way did it did?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
But we did that stream neon live stream. It was
a live stream and I played it in my whip
and then I guess they you know, they screamed record
or do whatever. They did it so they heard the
song and my next day everything was like.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Drop that ship. You played drop.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So it's like, damn, I had to start figuring out,
like I gotta put a team together. Now we gotta
ship and I'm about to start rapping. That's how it's
gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So who's the first person that you call?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Was like, bro, you gotta get on my team.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I said, I hed demo up first my brother and
then yeah probably. I just told him like we need
this ship gonna get serious quick, so like we need
some the right way to go about things.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know, he's trying to be out here just freestyle.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
How fast did that happen? Did that process happen?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Like they I got my people together, crazy people together.
We took then within a couple of days. That's crazy
take meetings.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I fucking wish.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's crazy taking meetings after that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So with the with the success of you know, your
new record, Like, do you do you feel the difference
from like the level of like with basketball, Like is
it like do you feel like a little bit different
now that you're switching over and you're doing music full time?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's they both on a professional level, So it's like
it's still I still know how to carry myself, be
around people, talk to folks and all that because I've
been doing it. But it is different, Like mentally, I'm
up a lot more, I'm traveling a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I feel like it touched like a bigger.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Crowd because you know, not everybody may not hoop or
like that shit, Like everybody don't like basketball, bro, but
it's music everywhere, bro, even overseas they might not even
know our language and still tune into some shit.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
What's the difference like in schedule, Like in your schedule,
like when you were playing ball, how is that schedule
different than rapping? Like you got up and then you
had to go to practice or you had to eat
right to do this, and then what's the difference now that.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
You were I still got a lot of like my
basketball traits. I still be up like at five and ship,
I don't need too much leap I'm always ready to go,
Like for shows, I say, like basketball helped me with that.
I don't go into shows like oh damn, like it's
hell of people right right, I know, keep be geeked up.
It feels like I got a game on some But it's.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
A little different though, because it's like now it's like,
you know, first people was coming to see everybody. People
came for you know you or this. Now it's like nah, nigga,
we come to see you.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It's more locked in for show, like I do notice that,
Like I like that though I could beat myself now
if you're here to see me, you know, team ball,
like you can't basketball.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's more since yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's censored as hell, like you can't say this, you
can't do that, you can't roll a certain way like
all that. I like with the music though, you could
like they gonna rock with you if you do your
your own.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Ship, like you feel free.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh yeah, I'll just be how I am now ship
and then if it gets filmed, it gets film.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now, when the record came out, everybody was hitting you
up to do the remix everybody. How did that make
you feel when you seen like dang, you got like
you know, Booty money bag yo, all these guys are
hitting you up to get on the remix.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, man, I don't know that was It was hard
to pick one, like, you know, I didn't want to
like oversaturate the song and nothing by picking Hello folks.
But I just leaned into little Wayne because that's what
I grew up on. Bro, Like, that's probably one of
my goats. I've been listening to Carter two, Carter thre'es
Fools and all that, and even the mixtapes like the
Dedication and shit on Spindrilla, so I'm like, you know what,
I gotta get that sound and shit, I'm like, yeah, well,
(04:35):
a lot of people money Back hit me, Wayne and
Eli Chopper and like a lot of rappers for I
ain't even get through all of them for real, many
fresh a lot of old school dudes.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Booty hit me, how'd you get this sound?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Because I know you you from Cali and the sound
is like totally different than you know what you hear
in California.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I say, my cousins and my family and shit, like
I got cousins in Baltimore that used to live with us,
like probably the roots of my voice of the sound
probably come from over there. I don't know, bro, but
like this how I grew up talking and I've been
hearing my whole life.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Why you talk like that? You're not from the South,
Like all right, I don't know, but that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Though, did you have did you have the beat first
or the song first?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The beat first? I always get the beats first.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Okay, some people be doing different. Okay, so when you
heard that? Okay, okay, I don't make no songs pre
made and where the wool? Like you do that?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So school?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Like what what was that?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I like that sound like a tune.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I like a lot of rappers just make music, bro,
Like you can't really you can't.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Like I like when you, oh you.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Just did what was that? That's what you be doing?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, I'll be swinging and ship.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
You know, I might hit a little jiggy walking dance
too hard.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So what the first rap look like? What's the first
rap chick looked like?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
To you? Man?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
That's shit nice? It come in fast, like just like
how hoops would for real. But for me, I know
that's not probably how I go for everybody. But we
did that ship like my team put it together like
that real professional contract.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Where does the where does the money come from? Like
I know, people be like like how do rappers really
get paid? Like how like what is it? Streams?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
The shows for sure, the shows mainly are gonna get
your cheese from shows performances. Then the rest of that ship,
like overseas is a lot of money too. I mean,
but I don't know the rest of that ship. Like
you get your money up front from the labels, I would.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Say, like whatever your label.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now do you think do you think some some NBA
stars are jealous? Because I feel like it's it's a
couple of NBA stars, you know, they.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Want to be artists, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And it seems to me like you the first NBA
started really transition over to you know, to doing music
facts successfully.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Might I don't know, I might have ruff like feathers
or something, but you know, like I don't never be
tripping on that ship either.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You mad, you can hate me, you love me, bro,
just don't touch me.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Do no weird shitting person And I'm cooling Like That's
how I move for.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It seems like the NBA. It sounds like the NBA
is supporting you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
More from from like a musical standpoint, because.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I did come from over there, like playing all them dudes,
so like they know, they probably know me, know my
brothers and ship, so it's like they probably feel like
they can relate real like, oh yeah, that's a old
nigga doing his rap shit like that, so they probably
tap in.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And I bet you everybody wish they had brothers like you,
because when I tell you your brothers, they go hard
for your music because you see them posting on the
instant story like everything.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Even when I shoot on my music, they tap me
that Zoe be writing to my songs, like he'll be
in the car playing my ship like it's out.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, but that's how you guys just grew up though,
like supporting each other all the way through.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's a lot of supporting love. I do genuinely think
that Zo rock though, like he rock with that ship.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
They saying you had better, They say you got better
songs coming out.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, personally I do.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I got a lot, like better songs than Tweaker. I
feel like, but that ship coming.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
What do you feel like is gonna be the follow up?
I know, I know you know. The tweak is like
it's still new, you know what I'm saying. But but like,
what are some songs that you like excited for like
a lot of people to hear.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I got some shit called Shook the Game. I ain't
going like, I ain't putting that shit out, y'all got
wait wait to the album for that. I got some
shit called shoot the Game, bro. I got like a
couple songs and shit called booted Up. That's O D
probably like I could see me doing that ship on
the stage, Like I got some music like that too.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I don't really see you just.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Ain't dropping everything right now.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I don't really see you like folding on the pressure
just because of how you were raised and what we
see how you was raised. But do you feel like
that you do have a lot of pressure on you
after Tweaker, you know, like your career after that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Hell no, I always like told us like this ship,
this ship LIKEE like real pressure is like you waking up,
you ain't got nowhere to live type shit, or you
know about no money at all? Like you know, that's
real life situations that niggas go through. So my apostles
like you know, whatever, life may seem heavy and you
get through it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
For real now, nothing nothing on nothing on social media
like bothers you at this point.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Hell no, bro, especially since me from like a kid bro,
I done heard it.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I done heard it all broad spectrum too.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
It's like, I know, I know what the net like,
You're gonna say what you want to say at the
end of the day.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But niggas ain't with me every day, so I can't.
I can't fall into that.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
You know, it was the craziest ship you done seen
or heard. Motherfuckers say, mmmm.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Shit, craziest shit that I don't like.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
The most shit I don't like is when the niggas
try to say I'm like a dead bee pops or something.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Because I be with my young niggas every day for real,
I've raised them up. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I feel like a lot of shit be misleading sometimes. Yeah,
you know other things too. You know, everybody say something,
but I don't get too worked up for I don't
be mad over than that.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I really don't go on my ship.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
That's respect.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I just do a performance and put my phone down
and hang out with the game.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
See what's happening, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So we got a segment on the show. It's called
you Got me fucked up. Literally, name something they got
you fucked up?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Right now? Uh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
A lot of the life coaching got me fucked up.
I'm a grown ass nigga at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Okay, okay, you feel me.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I'm twenty six, bro, Like I ain't trying to hear everybody.
I ain't trying to hear your views on ship. Damn
show think different. We go about life different, like I
just know this. So it's like, I really don't want
your advice on my ship, my situations.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You know, I'd rather just do my own ship. Yeah,
it got me real fucked up. How niggas think they
you know, they gonna tell you how to live and right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right? We okay, we got another segment. It's called
do you Like Me?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So, uh, you know you can talk about your crush
if you have a crush on somebody, and you can
look at that camera right there and tell them how
you feel.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Do you like me? They know who you are. It's love?
Oh way, man, it's love. It's love. I love y'all.
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What birthday?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Uh? We got this thing called the mental health check in. Uh,
you know, when you're having a bad day. What are
the things that you do when you have a bad day.
When I have a When I have a bad day,
I like to go for a walk.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I have a bad day, I just smoke one. Can
I say that, Yeah, of course this ball alert.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We can say whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The day is real bad and then you know it
build up some ammo to write some music. I might
put a song down some studio. No, I just write
in the kitchen wherever I'm at. You makes a song
in like an hour or two. I really tap in.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Okay, all right, Jello, we appreciate you, my guy. And
right here battle or show Jojo Alonzo.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Mm hm