Bally Baby Tells His Life Story (Full Interview)

at this point what genre of music do you consider yourself I probably consider myself like a a trap rapper I guess that's a genre but it's not shit rap and when it comes to rapping what is your opinion on adlibs in a song what do you mean like like what do you feel about adlibs you feel like they're necessary they're unnecessary yeah yeah over I feel like that's the most important thing like it just feels a cap sin you need them on focus why I'm gonna say you need them though because most of the time sometimes you have a good song but adlibs it's turning up a lot of people going over your adlibs like I feel like adlibs want to turn me up okay and that was gonna be the next question was do you have a signature adlib and adlib you're known for at this point yeah okay cool okay is that a baby to be trying I got a lot of more focus what's the main one though okay now when it comes to this adlib in particular were you the first recording artist to ever do this adlib okay yes probably like I do it but I know people like we as used to say it got down but they never really say like I said a lot of people say okay so yeah no I know kind of it I know to decide new man audition reinventing so shit now when you mentioned someone like whiz califa who I'm assuming you're referring to there was he an inspiration for this adlib by any chance or that's just a person you remember saying you thinking about the question yeah people didn't told me I didn't see comments on my page I always used to say that didn't you just say that we would but listen to weird sounds like a yellow and he has yet to comment on your signature adlib at this point now what about this when it comes to collaborating with other recording artists have you ever added your adlibs to another artist verse on the same song and not just like introducing yourself like you're about to be on track but like sprinkle throughout yeah that'd be smooth like especially if you go back or forth where's it gonna sound like it'd be smooth I'll say to put adlibs on his sheet here and then your sheets I did that for plenty of times now how does that work is that something you voluntarily do does the other artists ask you to do that and what about this a slight twist but something similar what are your thoughts on songs with another artist adlibs but no hook or verse from them on that song it's just their adlibs being used throughout the track yeah that's smooth that's creative that's smooth like the ESTT did that we are with baby love so should that smooth I do so shit like that especially if you got hard adlibs yeah and vice versa has there been any artist that you may want in particular to add their adlibs to a song but no hook or verse from them at all now she has a variety of questions here on the subject of adlibs is there anything else you want to mention about it before we move on to another subject within music here okay everybody now speaking of your discography your music catalog at this point when it comes to all of your songs thinking back what do you think spin your biggest song at this point and why do you consider that to be your biggest at this point let's sit down while VL crown my glasses but let's do shit God no I can do it I want to do take care my family everything so my biggest song you don't need them one song I got a couple of them but that the biggest one now as much press and media coverage that you've done so far are there any unknown facts or stories in regards to this song that's never been publicly mentioned before could be in regards to creating it recording it or releasing it no I did that song like 15 minutes probably and I recorded it on through the loose matter of fact and none of that said so there you go right there I did them all in a 15 minutes right before I had to do a feature with my buddy's that right I'm not a bitch out like 15 minutes on through the loose that's just a problem now let's sidestep with that for a second when it comes to completing a song you complete the entire song in 15 minutes is that typical for you or is that abnormal typical it'd be like anywhere it's like 10 30 on a good day on a bad day I might take it out bad day I might do two three hooks in college a day but is that be dependent on my process that they have to and you know when it comes to this song are there any other secrets any other T so on and so forth never I got my contacts I don't need my father now what about this got to ask you this because it is 2026 now was there any AI technology used in the creation of that song yeah me and cusverse say that again me and cusverse was yeah now it sounds like you know why it's so hard are you are you in there like made the hardest song possible now are you joking here are you trolling here yeah you know that's what I got to ask all the crap make it go and crazy that's what I got to ask all the questions but what is your opinion of that seriously AI in the music industry what do you make it out I'm going to shoot out of the blood so I'm using this shit's my side and how you got to do it run and shit through a computer and go get what the fuck the AI artist I'm from and got millions that's crazy now do you think artificial intelligence is a trend or permanent fixture moving forward in the music industry why don't you think so there are some that think this is permanent moving forward shit I don't know I don't think I don't think it's gonna last I don't know not shit I don't know that's a music shit it's what it is do you feel like you're competing against AI I don't know do you feel a pressure to adapt or do you use AI within your music and just curious here you being in the music industry has there been anyone that suggested hey maybe we should try AI or this AI tool on this song or this or that or maybe the opposite advise you against it hey don't touch AI never touch this sort of stuff now what about this did you know when you were creating recording or releasing this song that it would later on become to be one of your biggest which one helps with my fuck I ain't gonna say I knew it would be that but I know it's gonna be one of the ones so like when I was recording I mean it'd be like well talking it like then when I finished it I was like we had decided here but I didn't know it was gonna be one of these songs I know how to pick them but I don't know what they go to do and when it comes to picking them what's been your if there was a circle chart of a hundred percent right what's been your percentage on getting it right at least picking the ones that will do something because some people are bad even with picking other people's songs like I would I don't want to say their name but it's a lot of people out of town like but you need to take this here you know do these two weeks later they on the radio like what later they started to deal like I'd be knowing like are you are you and I know how to pick artists too like I pick artists I know who you want and I didn't mean to cut you off there I apologize but I guess what I'm asking here now is are you better at picking another artist's music than your own or you just as good with another artist's music at picking or predicting as as well as your own and asking because there are some that are not good at picking or predicting their music but for you on this song in particular what specifically led it to be become one of your biggest but just to cross the T's and dot the eyes here just in case was it a particular platform you release this song by any chance birthday. I wasn't even supposed to drop this on. I really just pushed on my boat. We got a drawday beach. I wanted to drop on my birthday. So we dropped it. It was between Hustlemore and Folkwood, a turpodac. So we ended up showing Hustlemore and Folkwood and then I did a trailer to the turpodac that same day. And while I got all the same outfit and it's trailer in the video. And speaking of birthdays, care to share your birthday just in case there's some misinformation online, the month in the day perhaps. August 26th. Where are you going? And care to share your age at this point. Oh. Now what about this as well? Was it a cosine from anyone in particular on this song that also helped propel it to get as far as it has today? Hmm. Oh, it was a cosine. Just thinking back. A lot of people was playing it but I just can't say it was a cosine. I just took it off the top. Like, oh no, I might be wrong. I don't think it was though. What about a particular marketing strategy with this one? Was there anything used in this that was different maybe from your other music that helped propel it to get as far as it has today? It allowed to kept original out of the noodles in the video. Just running and going and shit. I got to put it out. Check if it natural as possible. And pardon the brain fog here but was there a sample in the beat at all? That was a little bit of a fuck of a lie. Yes. No. No, so they tell all their different scripts. So that is a tell. And were you assigned to a distribution company or record label at the time? Want to draw this on? Yes. I had this. Do you credit them with the success to this song at all? Well, I don't know. I say, we both put it in the word. I don't know. I don't know. I put it in the word though. I don't know. And we'll talk about them a little bit later on in this conversation but you know, you mentioned there's a music video for this song as well. So clarification here. Do you think it was the music video that helped to get as far as it has today or just the audio itself? And pardon the brain fog here once again but was there a remix released for this? That's right. I didn't know if that was considered a remix or not. But that one part two though. Okay. It's 26. My remix Jeff fell out of David. So I just want a part two. You know, I did decide that with 1000 bands on the part two instead of remix. And as you a lot of questions about this song in particular, but is there anything else you want to mention about it yet to be mentioned as well? Before we move on to another topic here. And last question here that just came to mind, as big as this song has been for you, are there any flaws in it whenever you listen to it again? Maybe I might hear like some shit. I'll be with some shit. But there's some more. I'll be tripping. Because it's still I brought like Daniel. So there'll be some more. There'll be like two offage. There'll be like some perfection in shit. Maybe I could nudge it too well, but I can still hear it though. Anything you wish you could have went back and fixed or adjusted or when you hear that nudge or two or how to probably nudge it, but nobody. I don't really be caring to change shit. I thought I recorded it. It's just years what it is. I don't go back to the songs. I just keep going. Now I did want to ask you a little bit more about Santa Ana and you mentioned that you did sign a distro deal with them. Strictly distribution. Yeah, it's really distro. Curious here though. What's it really like being a part of that imprint? This song, they had it a business, so I ain't tripping. They gave me ideas. Well, yeah, shit. I didn't run with it or we figured out how we could make it better, and then we make it worse. That's shit. I can plan it. I like where I'm at. And when it comes to that imprint as well, who do you have the closest bond with on that imprint? It could be another recording artist, someone in front of the scenes like you, or maybe someone in executive role behind the scenes. There got to be my in our novel. For sure. Helen Jacob. All right, baby. It's about for all right. He over there. And did you have a bond with any of these people you just mentioned prior to signing that distro deal? I don't know afterwards. I mean, where I got to say man. And part in the brain fog here, but have you two had a chance to collaborate? Yeah, yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. We got to publicly available or in the vault. It's a leak out, but it's only a clip. It's a leak on TikTok or some shit. Might be on Instagram too though. One of his fan pages telling me, you know, so it's out of it. It's something that looks though until they're able to, they're more probably be out of chopstick clan. And speak about that deluxe. What's the refill about that refill? We got refill. Maybe try to grab you another cup and put it on for a go again. Now, you've already shared the release date, but do you want to share how many new songs, new features? Obviously, rack babies a feature there. Oh, in my songs. Yeah, in my songs. I went right, baby. I went fast, Mack. I went realy on. Oh, gee. Foss, baby. I didn't want to say that I did like five features in my songs. And is this the first time in your career that you've done a deluxe? Yeah, yeah. And what kind of stuff am I only cared about? I really gave a fuck. I thought this was like, you know, after the group shit, I was like, fuck it. I was in one for the other. I left it out. So I was like, fuck it. I dropped a tape. I stopped rapping two, three months later, called back a year later, dropping another tape. I was saying, dumbass shit. And then I probably called one record then before I said, fuck it again. I called one record to go. I see as much later, I said, fuck it again. One work. So now speaking of, you know, the stop and go throughout your career and having to bounce back and rebrand or resurrect yourself, saw it and so forth. How are you able to do that? How are we able to pick up yourself and keep going? Because there are some, they make that pause one time. They're out of the game for good. They never return or they try and they can't get back to how how, you know, popular or how high they once were. What got you won to keep continuing on? And two, how did you get a chance to be as popular as you once were if not more popular now? What's the secret? The bro like he is, people I keep around the shit. That's how I did it. Cause I ain't care. They would want, they care more than me. They would want to tell them to keep rapping and go to the studio. So shit, I stopped breaking the studio to the spot. I was having a guest pull up on me at the spot. I recorded like my first three songs at the spot and I started having a pull up to my house the other day. It was since the end. I started going to the studio ever since then. And you know, you mentioned, you know, your past history here. You were once part of a duo called Cool America. What is the status with this group or this duo? I know status. I know status in my well with it. But to the status top, top here thing I need to know for the day. So shit. And what happened there exactly? Why did that, uh, disband? So you want to keep it real? You want me to tell you the, the got down, the media train version. Wherever you want to take this. This is totally up to you here. Let me tell you what I said. I didn't want to work shit. People had other shit in my. So shit. I said fuck it. It's about three years off. So was this your call? Was this another person's call? Was this beyond your control? And, uh, okay, so the group is no more, but what's your relationship with stunt? Like at the point. Do what you were talking about. We ain't got no relationship. - Ain't no bad, but I know it's really got no relationship. - Ain't no relationship. (laughs) You funny boy, you a smart guy, you know it, ex. (laughs) - Well, just asking here, because you know, when it comes to Atlanta music and the different movements that have taken place over time in Atlanta, there are some groups that have disbanded and are resurrected and doing reunions, even if it's just for performance and performances. Maybe it's not even new music being recorded, but you know, that sort of thing. - I ain't got a lot of ideas. That's a lot of fuckers, I'm baby trying to know what I'm going on. - Have people ask, though, have listeners, has the audience asked, have promoters, have people wanted to pay to get you to back together? - They want to do four, four, four, they last year, but they want you on the table, so shit. And I ain't know if you were gonna do it, so I ain't really care to do it in a way, 'cause I want it really grappling. I just have to have that grappling, so I was like, "Hell, no, we gonna do it, I'ma do it more for it." I ain't trying to keep dragging it, I'm saying. - Now, let's zoom out for a second, okay. I want to get your take on this and your history first, just for some context. When you first started in the music industry, were you a solo artist at first and then became a duo and joined this group or were you a duo group first? And then- - Yeah, yeah, a solo. Yeah, but would you wrap it up at first? - Me, him, and I buddy, Khalifa. I don't know, let's solo shit at first, got down. Down one day he got down stumbling up on some shit, talking to me about down, I bought down. He locked in studio 30 days and that came in cool America and it was up since then, so shit. That shit went. - Now, because you've had these different perspectives, as a solo recording artist and then part of a duo, part of a group, for those in the audience, maybe there's someone watching this, that's a solo artist thinking about becoming a part of a group. Maybe it's a group that's thinking about going solo. Can you explain the difference from the different perspectives of being a solo recording artist versus being in a duo or a group? Are you able to compare and contrast? - Yeah, the difference is 100% creative control. See, you ain't got to worry about what the next one, what we're going to do. They think about this, got down. Y'all ain't got to figure out who the fuck going to do a hook, who the fuck going to do the first, first, loud. You know, deal with that if you just want to focus on what you got to do. So shit, you don't want to deal with that, don't get enough group. If you could deal with that and you need that, then do that. I know wrong with a group. There should be workin' sometimes, so shit. And it's less the work, shit. So he has better than one, but shit. I already do it myself, I ain't no less. - Anything else here on "Solo" versus a duo/group? - I got so many styles, I am the group P. No, no, no, no, no, no. - Very well. Well, just asking one more question in regards to Santa Ana before we move on to another subject here. Okay, hypothetically speaking, if you were stranded on an island with one person from Santa Ana, who would it be? - Man, man, we ain't tired, we gon' figure it out. (laughing) We gon' figure it out. I don't know what we're going on to, man. I don't know if we got that, we'll figure it out. I ain't gonna lie, but if we can use all the resources, I'm gon' get tired, but if we gotta think about it, it gon' be man, I don't. Now, speaking of Todd here as well, have you guys interacted pretty often? - Yeah, yeah, Todd caught my phone, president. - 'Cause I know there's some people that are part of the imprint, and they only get one interaction with them, and that's it. - Yeah, for sure, but yeah, yeah, yeah, Todd caught my phone. Check in, let me see how the show's been going, see how it's been working on our type of shit. So, that why I foe with Santa Ana could get you like family, so. - And that was gonna be the question, what's it like working with Todd, and things of that nature? - Yeah, it's small. You know, he'd done a lot. He dealt with trap artists before, so that why? It may sense we need to be where I met. He did Gucci, shit like that, so. - Well, moving forward here, very well said. I want to dive a little bit deeper now with some personal questions for you here. And getting to know your story a little bit. Now, for those in the audience, getting to know you here for the very first time, care to share where you were actually born. - Look, I'm out of Bell Maria's Chris. Well, Afghanistan. - And care to share where you were raised as well. - I learned all over the more fucking. - And care to share where you reside these days. - And just for some more details there. Care to share what age you were and the reason for the move from Montgomery to Atlanta. - Yeah, I had no choice. I was a baby. I felt a sense, I don't know, but I had no choice. - Something beyond your control there. - Yeah, let it do it, I did it. - Now, when it comes to Atlanta, wanna ask you this here. Circumstances could be different for everyone, but can you give the audience five tips for anyone moving to ATL? - Stay your ass with a fuck you at. I don't even got no more. Just stay with a fuck you at. We got enough traffic. It's worth it, it's worth it. - Well, that was simple right there. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - With the tips. Make it happen for right there, we overpopulate it, man. Okay, you don't need to learn to do what you got to do, man. It's because in the middle of the country, making this shit happen, we got to come here. - And you know, speaking of Montgomery, although that was, you know, young in your life when the move happened relatively speaking, do you ever get a chance to go back? Do you go back? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go back to our house. I just went for a while more for a show now, but I'd be down I don't think, number two hours. - Is it family still there and that sort of thing? - Okay, yeah. - What's it like going back though for a show? Instead of just, you know, family function or a family reason or a family visit? - Well, it's like our shows, love. - Didn't know if things were different now because, you know, you're rising popularity. - I don't know if I could be loaded. I don't know if I could be loaded. - Now for you, when it comes to Atlanta, moving forward with that topic there, what was that really like for you growing up in ATI? I know you mentioned it was various parts of Atlanta for you, but what was that really like all in all? - Oh, so, and maybe when I had a day, I learned a lot of shit out here, so shit. - Now of course, there are some notable people in Atlanta that have come from that area that have risen just like you have on that musical ladder and maybe outside of music as well. Did you have a front row seat to anybody in particular though, growing up in Atlanta? Did you go to school with anyone that ended up becoming well-known or popular or famous, or did you have a chance to see, you know, recording artists on a upcoming level from your perspective and see them blow up from your vantage point? - Well, I don't think I took hands on just seeing anything. I probably did, I just can't think. Probably like Migos and every demo. I watched them blow up. I don't know, there's a lot of you know for about here, so I don't know. - Well, let's see. - I watched Caberollo blow up though, from the scratch, from the bottom ground. So, I watched Mel do it too. That black, I watched him do it. So then when it comes to all of these names here, right? That you mentioned, what's your biggest takeaway? Watching them rise from nothing, so to speak, to something. - Consistency? Yeah, how you do it? - Does any of it surprise you when you see some of these artists, who they are now from seeing them at a different point in their career? - I told you, I'd be saying it, like I'd be knowing. I know when it's gonna go. I don't know how I'd be knowing, but I'd be knowing. - And also when it comes to Atlanta, just for some additional context, I know you mentioned that. It was various parts of ATL for you growing up, but was there a majority area of Atlanta that you consider yourself growing up in? Like, if there was a circle chart of 100%, was there a majority? - For sure, for sure. - Yeah, from all the way, for Far East, to get down to a hundred and a half decades. - So for you then, thinking about your past, right? Your upbringing. I imagine there was a top point that you experienced and possibly a bottom point throughout that journey in ATL. For you, let's start with the top. What was your top point for you during your upbringing growing up in Atlanta? What was your highest point or most positive moment growing up in that environment? for you. Growing up in a T.L. Highest point or most positive moment if there was one. She had grown up probably when it's all Tuesday, but I never get my future from the walk, though, but it's smooth on the trip. Zone six, eight. For those in the audience that aren't familiar with zone six, they are able to explain what that is. Yeah, hey, yeah, he used to be like son of a, they still do it, but he used to be on the ground with it. It used to be in the partner. He used to be got down cutting up, doing all type of shit. They used to have a little got down. Wouldn't name up that by the lever. Yeah, I'm a fucking before and I type shit out there. So it's a like that day. Now, you're speaking of Gucci main here and removing him for this next set of questions, but when it comes to music, why or how did you get involved with music? Because there are some kids that get into athletics. There's some kids that get into theater. There's some kids that get into actual arts. I wasn't laughing, but I played basketball two football, but I don't know. Newsy would tell me my grandma used to write music. Me and my cousins used to freestyle all the time around the house and share it. My grandma has my cousin house shit like that. My daddy used to manage her out group. So shit, I just around this shit. It made me want to do it. So. Excuse me. The name of that group. Yes. Yes. And when it comes to your cousins, grandmother here that you mentioned, are we talking father side or mother side here? No, my mother side. I don't really keep doing that. I'm growing up. One of my kids, I'm like that. A couple of them. I'm saying one of my couple of. You mentioned your. I didn't mean to cut you off. I'm sorry. You mentioned your grandmother wrote how far did she get with the writing side of things. She wrote for you guys, or she wrote for herself. Right. Like gospel song. She did a lot of times. She used to write a lot of times. She used to have notebook. She used to put it around. Lost a notebook one time. I heard a song on the radio. But yeah. Okay. So. I feel like that probably got down the scarier part. So shit. So when it comes to music, right? What ultimately leads this to become a career path for you rather than just a hobby or a passion project because, you know, for some, it just stays in that environment. When he's talking to you, I just said, that might be a career. You can't see that I know career. You can't pay no bill, but they know career. You've got to do what you want to do with this. That's a job. You got to treat it like that. Shit. How to think about it? And as far as, you know, the genre of rap music, do you recall how you were first introduced to that genre of music there? Oh, shit, I got down my pops, got down my cousin. Right over down right on my pops. Shit like that. So I always get me hearing it and shit. So I was on that. And additionally, was this the first genre of music you ever encountered in your life? Oh, that's what I'm proud of. I saw RMB shit. I'm on my mom used to listen to like, tank and shit like that. That type of shit, true, shit like that. Now you mentioned some of the RMB artists you recall, but what about on the rap side of things? Do you recall the artists or the songs that you remember very young that was being played around you? Yeah, I don't remember off the top, but it was rap though. I was shit dirty boys. I was JG85, got down low limit, got cash money, always a lot of shit. He was a lot of shit. And have you had the opportunity to meet any of these names that you were listening to once upon a time? Boose. Any music between you and Boose, you're just strictly meeting him. I didn't even back there. I just saw some people. I got someone wearing one of our type of shit. Still waiting to hit him off. Why hasn't that seen the light a day yet, no way. I don't think he even be on that, no, no, no. And it was some cool America shit, though. So they're probably why I see right there right there. Now, thinking on the music side of things, any other memories of those humble beginnings of music for you that you'd like to share with the audience, anything unique or significant memories of your come up there, obviously those in the audience that are familiar with you already. You know your history with cool America and things of that nature, but anything else that you'd like to share with the audience on your rise up. And I know you mentioned once upon a time that, you know, on your come up too, you remember freestyling with your cousins and things of that nature. Yeah, yeah, fucking right. Is that how music started for you? Were you a freestyler at first or were you a writer at first? No, right. I came. I still came freestyler. I used to sound stupid. I had a hard time freestyling about that. I always come by, hit them in the nose and shit like that. I get you stupid rap. So I freestyled with shit, but I write some shit on that pen on that pen. I'm back there moving forward. How do you write these days? Paper or phone? Yeah, shit on the top of the dome. I can sit down and write this on the same I like. I got the attention span. I already get in there punching and because I don't care about the emotion in the way or whatever you go through or whatever you feel in the time and shit like that. So I'm right there. They ain't going to come out the side because I probably ain't going to be feeling like that. And what about this when it comes to your come up and let me sidestep before I ask you about this come up once again when it comes to a freestyling versus writing things that nature, we talked about your biggest song, right? This song of yours that you consider your biggest at this point, was that also freestyled and punched in for you? Yeah, yeah. I had a daughter in a 15 minutes. And because your biggest song was freestyle and punched in that does that also continue to get you to freestyle and punch in at this point as well. This is all I know. So shit, ever since I learned how to do that, that would have been done. I feel like it had to count me from writing. So shit, that would have been done. The nigga taught me how to when I first started learning how to record myself, I was still right. But he would go like, man, just punch it in, make your bar shorter. So it makes the song sound better. So got down and he really down there told me how to write a hit for real. And I wouldn't even know anybody there. But nigga and I fears from got down in the end. That shit crazy. And what about this on your and what about this on your come up as well. Did you ever do a talent shows or open mics, so on and so forth? Just your your come up. Your couple come up. Well, I'm talking zooming out. Generally speaking, your overall come up. I know there were pauses and restart split. I did a lot of that. I don't open mics and shit like that. But now, like on this trip, hell, no, I wasn't there walking up. I don't know why I was out walking up. I want to do. I don't like be on the shit. I'm like headlining called host one. But it's far. Then I just don't feel like that shit work. It's called the network. But in everybody, I try to do the same thing you're doing. Yeah, it's a bunch of niggas chasing the same dream in that motherfucker. And I ain't nobody going to foot with nobody. Now back then, when you were doing open mics, was it just merely showcasing the talent or were they choosing winners as well? I don't even remember. I don't know how I was already in some of the shit back then. So I don't even know what they was doing that shit for. We was doing that shit for the goddamn network. The flow of the DJ is bigger ranking than all the folks like that. So that what we was doing it for, because it wasn't necessarily the talent in the showcase that shit. We already had to achieve. So I guess we were just on some network shit. What about practice? Did you ever look at it as practice like stage practice and crowd practice? It's for sure stage. Yeah, that's definitely that for sure. You definitely could do that. But they can spot you go out. Well, you can't do the crowd. So shit, I guess that is good for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. like that. Just asking because you know sometimes um well I didn't know did you ever win at a uh open mic before. Oh I didn't hear that I apologize. Okay and I didn't know that was talent related. Oh like let's showcase type shit to win the virtual Gucci man. But you never got the verse I understand what you mean by that. I put up a studio today got that lost the key to hit Ferrari on the left which I won it was at a time. I got lost the key got down uh they're old Gucci though with the stomach. Goals out at a dead Gucci. You know how you work out there. He thought I ain't doing that. I'm going to find my key. Yeah. Cardinal photo come make up another key. I'll type of shit. So I ain't never get that bitch. So asking you this then when it comes to a winning at an open mic. What's the key? What's the secret on winning an open mic. There may be someone in the audience about to do on themselves. Shouldn't it be you originality. I don't work the crowd and shit like that. I guess I didn't want to be just so long that would be my god down and put on it if I was judge. Now you also mentioned that you did do sports. You tried your hand at athletics once upon a time. I believe you said football. Basketball. Baseball. Yeah. I stopped playing baseball in football the night grade. Why? Baseball I just ain't care for it for real and then football I lost feeling well I damn lost feeling in my heart. He didn't make it so hard my bit went low. Yeah. I got down basketball. I was doing that shit all the way up to A U and shit like that but then I started rapping and shit. So I was like fuck it. So it was on that. So you did do AAU but as far as like organizational basketball in school. Yeah how far did you get with basketball? I didn't want to let me put on basketball and I better went to school. Leave that bit right out the lurch. I decide though going around. And when it comes to any of these sports, any regrets with that? Not going further with any of that. I'm not sure to hear it all man. I don't want to let me. I'm doing what I'll probably be doing. And speaking of heights just in case those in the audience are wondering, care to share how tall you are at this point. Only fast sell but I'm alright with a big head drink. All of it all by life. I ate no fast so shit like that. I might be like five so no fat eight. Shit like that. I ain't no time to let them for sure. So when it comes to playing these sports, it was just junior varsity I guess in the ninth grade. But what about like football and baseball? Did you at least do JV with ninth grade? I stopped at school for about eight grade. I still played. Let's see I was like I was really supposed to be like a great younger than I was. So when I got to life grade, I probably played part ball one more year. It took me. I ended up fucking my shoulder. And then I started. And when it comes to that injury where you, I guess you got stung and you got numb there. How was it? Just to learn. Just to learn someone right right here. It should still be fun though. It should still be hard to do today. And wondering why that injury is still lingering. Was it not taking care of at the time properly? I ain't what my slings are. I was supposed to wear it all type of shit. I didn't remember how I was shot. I was supposed to do that. And curious here, what positions did you play at each of these sports like baseball? Okay, that's football. What about baseball? What about basketball? That's why I played in the field. They tried to let me pitch one time. But I know I could keep that one fucking in the sky. No, I guess he don't. And I'm basketball. What position? Point that I showed up. Did you have a main jersey number with any of these sports? I wore a number 11, number 3, number 4. I think I might have did 23 one time. I think I did 23 one time. But lately it was either going to be 4 or 11. Any meanings behind these numbers back then? Never. I probably was doing it on such a long, proper shit. And I had a number 3, also AI shit. That really was what I thought I was with that sick ass crossover I got. Well, probably some of my favorite players don't shit. I was just trying to get over that. What about the number 4? I don't know where I had on football. I had on football and I played football off a tuck or two. I probably did focus that had number 4 and 4, but I'm sorry, I probably did. Were any of these sports a dream of yours back then to do? That's about it. What about music? Was that a dream of yours back then as well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once I started taking a series. When I was there, when I started taking a series, I really started to rap for real. I was going to actually go to the studio fucking around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And. Okay. I got to take my medicine real quick. Take your time. I'm up and down. I'm up. He's like, "I thought I shit hot." Okay. Now, we talked about the top point for you growing up, right? You mentioned zone six day. Then we kind of veered off and talked about athletics and music and how you got involved with either or and why one of them stopped. But what about the bottom point for you? Growing up in Atlanta. What was your lowest point or most negative moment growing up there in that environment if you have one? How many different schools do you think attended over the years? I went to three high schools. And when it comes to your education, how far did you end up getting with that as well? Shit, on paper, I got a high school diploma. But in reality, I dropped out and one of my folks did all my schoolwork on that day, so I got my high school diploma. But I could have did it just for myself though. Smarted hell, I just ain't give a fuck about it right there. And ultimately, when it comes to your education, that was it for you. After you get that diploma, you didn't further it. No trade school. I tried to go to SAE, got down, but I was in that bitch, they would answer me everything, because I was already dead, everything. I was already on the road, with cool America. I've already been on Billboard and all type of shit like that. And that bitch actually would be out in question, so I don't know what the hell I'm paying y'all for. And get the hell up out of here. So I got up out there. I went there being proud like a month. Too much tops. I got up out there. And then he regretted with that decision-making. Well, no, I'd rather learn to be in his hands on them. I would just do it in my hands on them. Because a lot of them folks in there, they jacked out down doing the same thing, they ain't in there doing it. They went to school for that shit, and they're not teaching out the books. Now for you, how are you able to survive that upbringing in Atlanta? Because there are some who don't make it. Yeah, it's a lot of them don't make it, but what was the secret? What was the key to surviving ATL for you? When it comes to moving the right way, is that strictly by hands-on experience that one gets? Is it someone telling you or instructing you how to move? How does one get that knowledge or the best way to get that knowledge or gain that knowledge? You're the best way to go through it, but shit, if a nigga didn't already went through it and trying to tell you what to do, you better listen to them. Yeah. I find out the hard way. For you, did you find out the easy way or the hard way? I found out the easy way. My daddy was in his shit, so I didn't know how to move. My daddy was a street nigga, so I ain't really got that. I had to do too much learning. I learned a lot of shit being hard-headed, but other than that, I really got a lot of gang. Are you still hard-headed today or have you grown from that perspective? I don't understand, yeah, yeah. I don't feel so, but I'm culturally heard of, like, I mean, really. I listen. And what got you to a transition, so to speak, from being hard-headed to coachable? 'Cause there are some that cannot break that. - So to learn the life, learn how to shit, go, don't know what you gotta do, don't know what you gotta do to get what you wanna, shit. Sometimes you gotta do shit, you don't wanna do to get what you wanna, so shit, you gotta be disciplined in this shit. - Now there are some people who say things like, don't know if I'll make it to see the age of 18, or 21, or 25, so on and so forth. Did you ever have any of these thoughts yourself growing up in ATL? Was there an age? - Yeah, yeah, but I was tripping. He just felt like that sometimes, just seeing that he's gonna die and shit like that. But yeah, now you get a lot of moves, like when you know how to move, you gotta worry about that shit, all right. - Was there a numeric figure you didn't think you might quite see at some point? - Yeah, I think I know like 25, I thought, like 25. - And also when you mentioned death here, like young people dying in things that nature, was this just like news you would receive of people passing away, or have you ever seen someone pass away in front of you? - No, I ain't seen a lot of pass away in front of me all the time, but I was saying people get shot in front of me for show, but I don't think I just seen a lot of jerky. - Lose their life, take their last breath, that sort of thing. - Yeah, I had a lot of things I got there. - Now be that as it may. Knowing what you know now, hypothetically speaking here, what would you have said to your younger self, back then, if anything? - Sure, dude, how you doing? Dude, how you doing? So we got through it. I was still going to keep on, I said. Now I ask you a variety of questions here in regards to your upbringing. Is there anything else you want to mention about that? Before we move on to another set of questions here. - I'll put it like that. - Now when it comes to my other set of questions, I do want to ask you this. I wanted to see if you can break some of these elements down as well. Starting with the face tattoos. - There's a mirror beside you if you need it, but how many face tattoos on this table right here? - To your left there. Yes. - Are you able to break any of them down? Did you share the meanings behind any of them for those in the house? - The whole trip cost came and I'd be the dove by the trip. I said, some of them said Jesus got in the Holy Spirit. I believe in that too, but that, but the first one, that's why I got that. But this, so broken heart, I got definite. It used to be a real heart, I turned into a broken heart. Then I got the All Cross. God will rise right there. God, that's a miss, I'll do the miss. I got a branch with this shit coming down into my little girl name. Kee on the rose. I got the rose right there, that's a little name. Oh, got my grandma's name, both my grandma's right there. They both name it, and I go here, crack night, little way. I go too, too, too, too, for Nick. I go a little hocks, Vito, currency, more fucker than a miss on this, the, the, the, the shit. I'm, I get a couple more that one day. - Now when it comes to these tattoos, one thing that was a popular topic for you is religion. What is your perspective on religion at this point? You mentioned God here. You mentioned a few other things. Do you follow religion at this point? Just God, so on and so forth? - I believe in God, I don't really follow God down on, I ain't in church here Sunday. Who that would you ask, come on, I'll show you in church here Sunday. But I pray to the ifah, but I overly believe in God, so shit, that's dead. - And when it comes to that, is that how you were raised to followers? Is that something you chose on your own or? - Well, which one? - Yes. And I see that I'm out, me and my buddy. We got down, we just got down, we're interested in just learning on it and shit it down. We just wanted to get it going up my own, both of them in church, I got down, my uncle the pastor down my grandma was in a church, everybody I know down there, my family was in church every Sunday, for I know. - And what religion were they practicing? Was it just Christian? - Yeah, yeah. - I know, I know under Christianity, that umbrella there. Sometimes it can get even more specific. Did they get any specific under that religion? Like a particular denomination or branch under Christianity? - Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, no. Oh, no. I know my mama used to start about, I don't know, what the hell are they? I know what they be doing. I mean, I wouldn't want to sit there, no, no, no, no, no. I go extra, I don't know. And what's been there, thought that you do, you know, follow this other name that you mentioned here, I don't want to mispronounce it. Say, yeah, that name. - Oh, is that what I asked that question again? - The fact that you follow that at this point, right? What's been the reaction from those in your family that still practice Christianity, you're still follow Christianity, the fact that you have that perspective at this point. Okay, just asking because sometimes because sometimes different viewpoints on religion and things can cause rifts between family members. I don't want to talk religion, I don't want to talk about that type of shit, I want to figure out how to get some money. - Just curious there. Now, when it comes to these face tattoos, just breaking that down a little bit further, do you recall which one was the first one out of the 13? Your first face tattoo. - My mind is bad. I want to say it was the cross tattoo. It was put in a cross, oh yeah, it used to be a cross before. It was a white cross and it was put in dead in that line of hearts. I don't know which one I got first, but I did one off first. - Do you remember what? - I've never got a better first time though. I mean, at the same time, remember. - And I know your memory isn't all there, but do you recall what age or what grade perhaps you got these done at? - 16, 17, so shit like that. - I'm curious here at that age, where you grew up in or are you the youngest back then with a facial tattoo at that time? - Probably the one off, okay, there was one other thing that I knew about face tattoos. I probably was one of the first to go crazy for sure. - And was that a professional tattoo artist at the time and amateur tattoo artist at the time? - My buddy, Darnel, did a deep visit at the time back in the day that he did. - And did you have your parents consent? - Your first face tattoo. - Yeah, no, I don't have parents any good sense of that. I'm gonna do that shit on my own and came back looking the other way. - What was their reaction when they first noticed it? - How did they know? - I was tripping. I should've said, it's on my own tripping, but I don't know, so shit, I'm gonna be a rapper. - And what's been the reaction to that, the fact that you are on this musical journey and when the music career out. You also mentioned that your father managed a recording artist or duo at the time. Because he managed a recording artist or a group at the time, does he play a role in your music career at this point, moving forward? Does he feel left out? Has he asked to be a part of it? - You mentioned your daughter's also tattooed on your face there. What is the meaning behind that name as well? - Yellow. - And did you tattoo this name on your face before she was actually born or after? Now when it comes to any. of these tattoos especially the names your daughter name your grandmother's name you mentioned Nick so on and so forth you could have placed these on other parts of your body didn't have to be your face why go for the face when it comes to any of these people or any of these other items you have on your face as well. I don't know that you know what I was on at the time I got out of this back-to-back on my face that's it was a point of time I'm going back to the tattoo now I got tattooed right here I still had space open on my arms shit I don't know that just when I was on at the time and do people mistake any of these face tattoos for something else but now they do be like in this department though but if you're from Atlanta you know what it is and same tattoo artist for all your facial tattoos except my buddy knew did I don't know and is that is that person located in Atlanta? Have you ever met a tattoo artist that wouldn't tie your face? Yeah a lot of them yeah I'd be scared now what about this because you have other tattoos on your body not just your face but for those in the audience that have never had a facial tattoo before what does that really feel like? 1 to 10 1 being a little pain 10 being a lot of pain where would you scale that one in particular the one that was the I ain't feel them doing these I ain't feel the God will rise I ain't feel God down the hawk shit I ain't feel that I feel this one right here because they was on my jaw bone but it ain't hurt though I just go feel a lot of vibration so okay if not the face that what part of your body that you have tattooed was the most painful were you though now obviously with the shin there's that bone there so that seems to be a common theme right something on the bone can be a little bit more painful but what about the stomach spying spying from the ribs all the way around to the middle of the bone spying chest spying all this shit spying got to go numb and cringing you gonna do it was was the pain ever so immense whether it was the shin or the stomach that you almost couldn't finish a tattoo yeah yeah my stomach I ain't finished Johnny Dump order not Johnny Dump but Boston George it's Johnny Dumped up but I ain't finished that order got that dead president's tattoo my another Korean wore off on this one and once it started wearing off on this one I stopped this one wore off when I the dead president shit that shit wore off when I first started give my tattoo like soon as he started he'd never put another frame on that but that's because he waited the time that they told him the way he went like 30 minutes I'd be telling them to put it on right me over about 10 minutes then start tattooing so that I feel it first the end of the numb or the rest of it yeah no that shit hurt worse worse when this shit got down be numb first and then they unknow oh my god but there are some in the audience wondering does numbing cream really work yeah yeah that shit work that way you got to do it and start early so to kick yeah don't start when it should already know it's gonna be hot so when it when it comes to the shin or the stomach what would you scale that one out of 10 or one through 10 and you know when you think about your body and all your tattoos do you think the face was the least painful or was air spot even less than that also when it comes to you know some of these tattoos we under the influence of any drugs or medication getting them have you ever gotten a tattoo have you ever gotten a tattoo with no drugs in your system and asking because just wondering if that helped or made the experience worse now speaking of high do you got to ask you these sets of questions while we're on that topic okay when it comes to your past history of drug use and this could be any substance you've experimented with do you have a horror high story a bad experience while you were high yeah but I was so hot telling god I ain't gonna take personal mode trying to come down yeah yeah about it you know so how I'm praying but I never do the business again but you let me come down I'm gonna take personal mode so you did follow up with that promise yeah but not right after but I thought wow that did the show wow do you remember how many you took why you got so high was it authentic percussette I probably made two different percussettes yeah it's two percusses I'm smoking trying to lean shit when you get too high now when it comes to you know your past history of drug use you mentioned that you quit percussette you no longer take that right is that the only substance that you've quit for good as well you no longer indulgent now when it comes to the percussette were you addicted to that once upon a time or how long has it been since your last touch one I don't know been a minute now I might take one here and I'll have a part so shoot like that but I'll take part for many years since I'll jail parts like I like two two years and I'll get all parts David I used to be on like ten parts a day and how are you able to you know get it down to the point where it may be a pop a half of one at this point and it sounds like if you do it's a social thing all the things I can't do that with is we can't keep the week for nothing listen to our probation listen shit that's the only way I can stop my last set of questions for you is this couple more personal ones and we'll be done here at this point in your life what is the biggest misconception of you what's a wrong or inaccurate idea people may have about bally baby people have gotten the two confused the female bally baby so you two have met you two have a song together publicly available or unreleased was that ever a topic of conversation what your name oh because at first it wasn't it wasn't bally baby at first well my name yes I thought it was bally wait hold on you thought it was bally baby I don't know what no no no wait I'll tell you what I thought it was hold on let me pull it up he also not war shit bally Benjamin see that what my name I just a shit they heard it in the song and they don't know how the fuck they were ever put there in the bio but I don't know about it baby since I started so it's okay got it it just be like alter ego is your life baby's right you got bally Benjamin you got got down past the Benjamin shit like that like the devil going on but the devil is just my official name my name while it's bally baby are you able to break down uh all these different nicknames here are aliases or the differences between them. No, no, Jebby Faises. That's what I was going through back then. I don't know. Jebby Faises passed the vision when I'd be talking to the folks. So, that was a pass to do, that was what you got there from. So, right now I'll be passing the train. So, shit, that was going on. Church. And when it comes to the confusion here, is it the fan bases at all? Like, is it people in comments that, you know, are on the wrong page or thinking this or? There's just been a lot of people, right? Icebox, Chris was doing the interview. Icebox, he said he had to sign up with me. That's the wrong focus. They popped her picture up there. Got down Bill Boer. They added her. Only got down Bill Boer, strip her, charge, they added her. So, it didn't be a lot of the shit, but I don't want to be mad about it though, they're my dog. And do you recall how you two first met? If I met her, I don't know how we first met. So, all that time, maybe I'll celebrate that Jackie studio with some shit like that. But, I know we started hanging around the game 'cause of T-hood. But, a lot of this is dead for real. But, I don't know how I first met her, but it might have been at the studio. I'll celebrate 'cause everybody used to pump me that bitch into the bridge. What about that collab? Do you recall who initiated that? Hey, I told you what it's doing. So, we got to do it. You my twin. We got the same name. And I met her and said my head lit up on them off. Okay, it's bad, it's bad. And what about this as well? Craziest rumor. You heard about yourself. Crazy as a whole, but I've heard about myself. It probably has to be on the fake air YouTube videos they be doing. About when I got locked up for that weekend, I got down gift cards, shit, I'm gonna net. They talk about we running bricks to the hall of food through the bluff with ride-low, and all type of dumb ass shit. But, they're proud of that. I don't really know what wrong with that. Now, is that something that you've, when public about and disputed that particular rumor there? Is this the first time here? I'm gonna go public about shit like that. I don't really too much entertain shit like that. I ain't gonna play that in that about shit. A lot of people get out here and play that in that about shit, but they just did. They set up a deeper hole. Have you always had this mentality, or is this something that you grew into? I know, I always know. I always know like that. It's everything I don't need a reaction. I used to be on that, and I used to go in, and it's got down, say some shit, but I ain't just on that right, and then going crazy and all that type of shit, things would be all, but I might say some little slick shit on Instagram shit like that, but I ain't just doing too much on Instagram like that. And when it comes to questions here, is there a question you receive? You dislike getting asked. Do it. No, oh. I don't think so though. I don't know. It might be one question, but I don't be trippin. No, people ask me about a shit on me, got down, say shit like that. I don't know, nobody. I ain't really trippin. Whatever, I'm dead. I know crazy questions. I'm trippin. That's what we do people saw on the trippin. What's the hardest part about being you at this point? Okay, what about go ahead? I don't know. I don't know. It ain't really hard to be me. I'd say wake up and do this shit. What about on the opposite end of the spectrum? What's been the, excuse me, what's the best part about being you? Do it. I want to do some shit. I have no other way. I don't know. Nobody else wake up and do so. I can't be like I want to be like it. Just curious there. All right. Well, just to tie everything up here in conclusion, you know, ask your variety of questions throughout this interview. Is there anything else you want to add on to what you said or maybe subtract or retract from what was said during this conversation? Thinking about all the different topics you were asked here. I don't know, I don't know. Any last words before you leave unless what you just said there. They really try to go on the way. Another one on the way about three months after that. Shout out to Smiles for having me. Shout out there right there. Follow my game room. I'll keep it going. Let's get into it. Fows are not negative shit fights. You dig. You