Nino Paid Breaks Down "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" Album, Wale, Shy Glizzy, OX, DMV (Full Interview)

can you explain to the audience everything they need to know about over the rainbow? I have a photo you sound like you in a movie. It started at the end of your study? Yes, yes, yes. We're rolling here. Break it down. Can you explain to the audience everything they need to know about this new project of yours? I'm just not putting it out because I feel like it's the right time to put it out. I got a few features on there. Like Wild H. I'm busy. Also a couple of BNV producers and D-makers. It's kind of just like the version of BNV with my sound and what I got going on. And you actually used the phrase album to describe this project. Why go that route? Because I know some recording artists will do a mixtape. Maybe something shorter? Okay. The album is easier to say. Got it. Okay. Got it. Okay. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. Got you. Now, speaking of the DMV, let's break that down a little bit. What does Nino paid mean to the DMV? Just curious, what does Nino paid mean to that area, that region? And if it's unanswerable, that's fine too, but just wanted to pose that question. No, bro. I don't know. I don't know. You guys might want to name it. Okay. Fair enough. Well, you know, when it comes to other people, I do want to ask you this set of questions as well. Now, when it comes to this base of yours, I know some recording artists refer to them as fans, supporters, so on and so forth. Some even have a specific name they call their base, or they refer to them as do you have one? Yeah, I call them the can't go back in. Now, when it comes to these can't go back in, right? No, no. This can't go back in. Are you Canadian? Oh, got you. Got you. Got you. When it comes to this base of yours, how much power do they have? What do you say to me? Well, just in case, you know, people say tomato, some say tomato, I just will just let it be. I'll just refer to it as the base, right? But how much power do they have on your career? Maybe more specifically. Do they dictate what you release? What type of music you make as you've been progressing in your music journey? Yeah, if fans thought it'd dictate what I would use, I guess what I'd be previewing. What's the most powerful thing they've gotten you to do so far? Is it just to excuse me? Is it just dictate the music itself or maybe something even deeper than that? What the fuck is he acting? Well, it's leading up to, you know, more questions about this fan base of yours, more or less. Oh. No, they didn't get me to know anything. Okay, no. The reason why I'm asking you this is because I know there's some recording artists, they say they make music for themselves. No, it doesn't matter what the world says, how the world thinks, whatever the trend is, they just do them. And then there's some recording artists, they actually take the feedback from their fans and they curate their music that way, right? They customize it for their base. So that's more or less the question here is like how you manage your base, more or less, if you get what I'm trying to say. Now I know you've already headlined your own tour and you're about to embark on another headlining tour, right? Your second one and care to share the name of that for those in the audience that are just hearing about this for the very first time. And where can they find the latest information as far as tour dates, tickets, so on and so forth for that tour? And just in case there's some misinformation online about you, maybe fraudulent profiles, scammy profiles, spammy profiles, what is your official handle on IG Instagram.com/NATOPE. Now when it comes to this base of yours, what's been your favorite encounter so far with any of these members here? This could be on tour, off tour. You said it was my favorite fan encounter. Yes, what's been your favorite encounter so far? If you have one. I think it's every time the fans get a tattoo for me, that thing in my face, but it's not just one like, well the last one, Nika did it, he got my autographs tied on. But before that, when the female's got it, they can't go back shit, that's what I'm saying. I think it was my most memorable. And when you see something of that nature, what goes through your head, how do you feel inside? Because the fans, they have their own feeling when they get that done, right? But there may be some that want to know what it's like on the other end, right? From the artist perspective. This maybe, okay, again, I'm psyched out, psyched out, but that should make me feel good on inside, but I'll be a little psyched out because I like, it's not my way. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, what's been your worst encounter? I said, I was the father of a, I think I was kind of known on some shit, but I mean, I'm in the mic just a little long, or occasionally, as little Nika was walking past, like, you know, let me get a picture, I said, it's here, but I'm trying to do it myself. I'm in a little, you know what I'm saying, foolish right now, like L mass, L mass, I'm like the fuck I was supposed to swim over there, so you, I don't believe in the middle of the joint heat all the way over there. That was probably the worst. I wanted to be that little Nika. Did he end up getting that picture? Yeah, he did. Now, speaking of fans, right, we've talked about the best encounter and the worst encounter, but what's the best way for any of these people to approach you? What are the rules, the etiquette, the guidelines, the dos and don'ts before someone tries to get that picture, tries to get that autographs, so on and so forth. I get the fuck on you, that's not your sign, that's not your pitch, that's not your sign, that's not your picture. That's the worst I can say, that's the worst. And just asking, because you never know, you know, someone watching this interview, they always wonder, you know, what are those rules, because sometimes their first encounter could be, you could be the first celebrity they ever meet, and they want to make sure they do it right and don't have any of those off-puttings there, because there have been some headlines in the media of some of those horrible celebrity fan encounters, so just curious, wanted to hear it from you yourself on how that worked. Right, but if you really want to approach a celebrity, you've got to remember to be the human sign, people too, so every time you walk on a celebrity, you always have to do one thing. Give me that fucking picture you bitch ass nigga, just like that, you'll be good, just like that, come from the hip, bone, give me the picture bitch ass nigga, you won't get the picture. Now, when it comes to this interview, you are sporting a variety of pieces of jewelry. Wanted to see if you could break any of these items down What's that really like being a recording artist as a career choice? I'm playing a dish that turns out I don't know what I'm saying I ain't even gonna be like, "No, I don't do anything." There's everything, there's shit, everything you dreamed of, big bro. You gotta get out here, you gotta get out. But there's ups and downs, you're from like we cannot have an interview and show like that. But then it's also close, like wants to strictly, wants to studio for an amp, for an amp for the holes you don't get. Well, I'd like to ask you, you know, both of these perspectives then, and breaking that down a little bit further. What do you think is the most challenging aspect of that career choice? Being a recording artist. Well, you know what? Let's break that down a little bit further. It seems like that's on your mind, I gotta ask you, some of these levels of questions then. Okay, when it comes to the females, is there a difference between a baddie and a beautiful woman? No, fuck out folks, there's a deep shit, no, bitch is a bad, she bad, you bad. Okay, now if there was a circle track, bitches do be beautiful though, bitches do be beautiful. But then bitches be bad, you see what I'm saying, you see what I'm saying? Bitches be beautiful though. Now, if there was a circle chart of 100%, what percentage are you shooting your shot versus someone shooting their shot at you so to speak? What? If there was a circle chart of 100%, what percentage are you shooting your shot at a female versus a female choosing you? How do you operate? He's cooking me down like, I swear I wish the camera could see you bro, I swear to God. No, no cooking here, just, uh, just asking you some straight up questions. What's the percentage of me making a shot? Yes, you making the first move versus maybe the female choosing you and making a first move on you. Or that should be 50, 40, 40, 60, bitches be chosen, 40, 60, 40, 60, but what it is that 40% and you do make that first move, how does Nino paid do it? Shit, uh, it's hard to really act it up, but it's not no bitch of man, you know what I mean? Understood. Well, moving forward then, at this point in your life, what is your relationship status? Married to the music, married to the money married with a wife, just in case those are tuning in for the very first time here. Care to share your official handle on Instagram once again, Instagram.com slash Nino paid, that's just in case there's some fraudulent profiles out there, so on and so forth. And speaking of that, do you want to share your handles to any of your other prominently use social media platforms, just so everyone knows the official profiles? Yes, are you on Tik Tok officially? Are you on X officially Facebook, so on and so forth, can't go back one on Twitter and on six. Now, wanted to see if you can break down two of these bios on each of these platforms, starting with your Tik Tok. Okay, in this Tik Tok bio, you have the phrase ox with an exclamation point and an emoji of an ox, and as a matter of fact, you have it around your neck in the form of appendent as well in jewelry, enshrined in diamonds. What is the meaning? What is the meaning behind this phrase for you? Trying to be a different answer that I gave away. Take your time. There really is no way out the way around it. It really is still for oxycoding, but PR did it and change its odds. And why is that so important to you that you have it in your bio or you have it in trusted and jewelry and so on and so forth? Yeah, why is what's the importance of that to you at this point in your life? Is it something you use? Is it something you quit? Is it has a deeper meaning than that than the actual drug itself? No, no, no, when I first came out with a ear at that point, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, when I first came out with a ear, at that point in time, I was like, oh yeah, yeah. Why is that stepping with that when it comes to drug use and things that nature, where are you at at this point in your life with that sort of thing? I'm going to be 7 and drink no more. I don't know, I would, I don't be don't break some of my, I might die with like, I do a little more, take one, ten, if I'm here. Compare it to what I was before, take like 300 million grams. What got you to slow down? Cause not every recording artist does. Sometimes it gets worse, right? Something that they can't even help and it takes a life of its own and may end up taking some of these people's lives as documented in history. What got you to slow down so just talk like people around me just thinking about only it's actually like I gotta stop and it's like, you're doing so many drugs at once, it's a, you can only expect the words to happen. When it comes to your previous drug use, I know you mentioned slowed down here, but is there anything that you've quit for good? You no longer touch, not even a once in a while. And how were you able to kick that habit there? It was to rush it up. Cold Turkey as they say. And when you were using that, at its worst instance, how often or how much were you taking. You were at every day zipper. And, and for how long would you say sipping every day. And how long have you been off of it for this at this point? Is there anything else with this interview you'd like to mention that you didn't get a chance to anything you want to add on to what you said, anything you want to subtract to what you said during this conversation. There's no wrong with being gay. I support the LGP community. So yeah. [BLANK_AUDIO]